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by Matt Low 
Sep 19th 2010 at 1:40AM
Interested in seeing what the Horde mount is? It is the Kron'Kar Annihilator (a scorpion), and you can see a video of it after the jump!
So after seeing both mounts, which one would you rather have? That question is assuming that you're not in any way faction-biased. Personally, I think the scorpion looks really cool. I wouldn't mind riding a lion around either, though.
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Reader Comments (Page 6 of 6)
Tink Sep 19th 2010 11:06AM
My question is for those in the beta, how big of a guild is it going to take in order to be able to get these? Or rather what guild rank will these take to get? Could a guild of only a few people get these?
kebosangar Sep 19th 2010 11:53AM
Yes get your Horde guild mount today! Guaranteed you will die from getting stab in the head by the poisonous stinger before any Alliance player will!
Gimmlette Sep 19th 2010 12:21PM
Excuse me, Blizzard, my cats do not sound like horses when they walk through my house. Many times I can't hear them until I step on one standing right behind me as I make lunch.
As for what they sound like when they run, it's more of a "tha-thump, tha-thump" followed by a crash because they have either collided with or attempted to jump onto something.
Other than the sound, I'll take one for every member of my guild please.
Bethontheharbor Sep 19th 2010 12:23PM
Ok I know we threw the lore out the window with Cata in a lot of ways but Lions are Native beasts of Kalimdor so the horde should have them rather than the alliance. The horde would be the ones to think of taming a lion.
Allies "should" be getting one of their native beasts, say WarCows or that proposed Manbearpig the worgens were getting. Or Some gnomish device?
I like the lions but honestly, it just seems off to see hundreds of Male lions running about where they are the least populated.
I do like the Scorpions but they need a Howdah on the back to stand in, depending on their size. Ala Clash of the Titans remake.
Ashby Sep 19th 2010 12:27PM
And now I wish my main was Horde
NeoCloud Sep 19th 2010 1:09PM
I'd be afraid to ride the scorpion, with that stinger pointed right at my back.
gabreil.the.undestined Sep 19th 2010 8:42PM
Yet another cat based mount for the Alliance side...really...wow what a surprise..
Luke Sep 20th 2010 1:19AM
/sarcasm
Oh no, the development team designed a mount fitting to the faction it was created for. It's almost as though Blizzard is just phoning this expansion in.
/e rolls eyes
vreck Sep 20th 2010 12:01AM
Anyone notice that in the lion video it sounds like a horse's hooves?
Lucrith Sep 20th 2010 1:17AM
Anyone notice alot of people dont read the other comments?
Yada Sep 21st 2010 2:11AM
Lion -- cool. Scorpion -- fugly. That is all.
Ulfric Sep 21st 2010 10:18AM
They could have been much more creative with a Horde specific mount. A scorpion is cool, but doesn't compare to a lion.
Nawaf Sep 21st 2010 10:27AM
Agreed. They should make a really cool wolf. A wolf with a completely different model.
warcracknerd Sep 21st 2010 11:00AM
How come alliance gets all the kitty mounts - LAME. WTB one horde cat ride - that's not impossible to obtain. srsly.
Evi Sep 21st 2010 9:59PM
I dunno, they're both kinda yawny for me. :( I am Alliance and we already have enough cat mounts. But I'm not overly fond of scorpions, either.
RavenJet Sep 23rd 2010 8:21AM
Considering that goatcrawler is also a biologist (though granted he was a marine bio) we have to assume he knows how many legs an earth scorpion has. Also that arachnids with chitin bodies couldn't grow to giant sizes without being to heavy to move.
So let's just conclude that the giant spiders and scorpions of Azeroth is a case of convergent evolution (it's extremely common for radically different evolutionary lines to converge on similar body plans even here on earth - spiders and octopi for example) but that they do not share any common ascent and thus need not have anything in common we don't want them to.
More specifically - we know that lorewise the giant scorpions are almost all a subspecies of the Nerubians (as are at least SOME of the giant spiders) - and notably found in places like Silithus and Tanaris which either are either Nerubian strongholds themselves or close to such. If we assume that the skitterers and other giant scorpions share ancestry with the Nerubians we can safely assume that ancestry is insectile. So they are not arachnids at all but insects that have evolved features similar to arachnids on earth - most likely to take advantage of the same evolutionary niches and probably long before the magical (and Old God) influences that lead them to grow to gigantic sizes (we know there are normal sized spiders on azeroth - we see them all the time in places like ICC).
Insects have six legs, so an insect that evolved scorpion-like pincers and a stinger-tail would also be six-legged no ?
...dam this is one seriously geeky conversation - even for wow insider ! We're seriously discussing the anatomy, biology and possible evolution of fictitious creatures..
RavenJet Sep 23rd 2010 8:56AM
Aaarch fail - this was meant to be a reply to a post on the first page :S