Illusions, Mounts and me upset.

[Vooz]

<p>Ok so i understand that while under a illusion you can't actually ride your mount. To many animations to do, etc etc etc. plus it would look stupid for a ... bear to be riding a horse...</p><p>But why can't you just leave the mount speed on and just "cancel" the mount? It totally sux that u can't enjoy your mount's speed while under a illusion... And we have so many of them... LoN, collections, quest rewards, class illusions, etc...</p><p>Can we(well you, the devs) just make a little mod to the game and allow us to benefit from the mount speed while under a illusion? Yes keep the mount hidden like it is now but let the speed buff on. We can bearly use the illusions anywhere... </p><p>Anyone? </p>

[Lithran]

I so agree. I would love to run at 48% run speed as a ice skelly!!

[Britefire]

that would be cool, (also ,you probably know but, there is a chodakai totem thats 45% runspeed. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Finora]

<cite>Twwig@Oasis wrote:</cite><blockquote>that would be cool, (also ,you probably know but, there is a chodakai totem thats 45% runspeed. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" width="15" height="15" /></blockquote>Totem is nice, but doesn't address that people who already bought mounts would have to buy the totems as well to be able to use the illusions & go their mount's speed =).

[Vooz]

They could do it so simple...Once you activate the illusion the visual part of the mount dissapears but you keep your run speed...They messed this up since eq1 where the same happened... you'd think in 8 years they learn...Devs, please adress this problem! you created 2 awsome things and made them pretty useless together...PLS!

[rosscoliosis]

The issue is that you have different movement mechanics while on a mount. So you'd either have to keep the same mechanics while the mount is hidden, which would probably be awkward, or you have the unmounted mechanics, which would kind of be an exploit...However, I don't see why certain illusions cancel while on mounts, such as the vampire one... The vampire illusion still lets you use all of the emote animations, and you even see it briefly mounted (apparently just fine?) when you activate the mount before it returns to your normal model.

[Vooz]

<cite>rosscoliosis wrote:</cite><blockquote><span style="color: #990000;">1)The issue is that you have different movement mechanics while on a mount. So you'd either have to keep the same mechanics while the mount is hidden, which would probably be awkward, or you have the unmounted mechanics, which would kind of be an exploit...</span><span style="color: #00ff33;">2)However, I don't see why certain illusions cancel while on mounts, such as the vampire one... The vampire illusion still lets you use all of the emote animations, and you even see it briefly mounted (apparently just fine?) when you activate the mount before it returns to your normal model.</span></blockquote>1) <span style="color: #990000;">Am... Not sure why it would be a exploit... whatever u can do on a mount you can do without a mount except the speed...<span style="color: #000000;">2) <span style="color: #00ff00;">Yes, i have the vampire to and in laggy situations i actually managed to use the horse and vampire at the same time before i changed back to my normal look and while in vampire form it was perfectly ok on the horse... It really looked like it fitted...They prolly cancel that to since they don't want a handfull of angry mobs cursing at LoN... <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" /><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #00ffff;">What i want to see is a bit of "we really care" instead of "we don't give a ...".Why can't they all be like Domino... She prooved herself... to me atleast...</span></span></span></span></span>

[-Arctura-]

(( Better idea yet.<b>Keep illusion on, keep mount working.</b><i>Youll be a skelly on horseback. Whats the big problem with that? </i>The Skeletons and almost every major player-illusion-possible (except gnoll and droag) have (i believe) almost every emote at their disposal, likely because they share the same Skeleton.<b>All they need to do is remove a line of code that blocks illusions and mounts to stack.</b>When you have skelly form on, and cast a mount, do you notice it works fine for about 0.5 seconds? You are a skeleton, on horseback, but then POOF it goes away and you are normal again on horseback.They CAN do it. They just need to fix the code blocking it from working.NOTE: Some illusions will likely never be made to work with mounts, like mechanical gnomes, gnolls, droags, Rustmonsters lol etc----<img src="http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g69/Arctura000/Skree-sig2008a.jpg" alt="" border="0" />

[Kitsune286]

I'm sure there has to be more than one line of code to change. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />However, I am still hoping that they fix the camera height before the next GU.

[rosscoliosis]

I mean that on a mount (other than a carpet/disc) you can't backpedal or sidestep as fast as you can unmounted. Also, you have to have a running start to jump, and you can't scale walls.