Coming Soon to EQII: Leapers and Gliders!

[Amnerys]

Later this month, we’ll be debuting two new types of mounts in EverQuest II.

Leaper mounts can jump up and forward in tremendous bounds before falling, moving at speeds similar to flying mounts. You can control how high you jump, and you can steer while jumping using the movement keys. Obviously, you don’t take falling damage when landing.

Gliders are similar to Leapers, but at any point in your jump, you can snap out your mount’s wings and begin gliding, using the movement keys to control direction, even being able to tip up and climb for a while before descending again. You can also fold your wings in to start plummeting downward, and snap them out again at a different altitude. Leapers require Level 30 to ride. Gliders require level 60. (And of course, Fliers still require Level 85.)

Mountain Saliraptor (Leaping)

Wind Komodo (Leaping)  

 

Wind Komodo (Gliding)

 

[Warpax]

Awesome!  I love these ideas for mounts and look forward to adding them to my collection!

do these new kinds of mounts play well with "appearance mounts"?

[GussJr]

Those are pretty neat!

[Aiirbornne]

love the Komodo Glider..

love it..

will it be appearance mountable for the gryphons.. 

the gryphons are great.. but i prefer this design

also will the antonican griffons be avail for questable release,  there is a quest at the towers to get them another egg.. so why not be able to gather and hatch one of our own as part of a quest.. as a reward per se  for gettign every tower a new egg !

the leaper, idk.. kinda jurasic parkish.. not impressed as i saw 2 headed speed gecko's over in eq1.. then chimera mounts.. an was like OMG>. then i found out there is now a tinkered spider mount  .. why,  just why  thats almost 3 full steps from chocobo's and clockwork  chicken mounts

there was a listing of rhino's an wargs being useable for lvls 1-29.. where at say lvl 25 can i quest for a warg and a rhino?  maybe the newbie quest series that grants the 25% run speed mount like in GFay could be altered to give a horse in gfay an halas, while a rhino in TD and a warg like the guards ride in Darklight.  to make your above statement true. 

Doing that would give people a reason to go quest in the other starter zones and add more mounts to there stables.

just a thought

[Powers]

Whatever happened to horses?  =)

Powers  &8^]

[Taymma]

This is totally awesome. Just wish people would dismount long enough to craft. lol

[Vellisse]

MY GOD I AM IN LOVE.

LIONEL RICHIE I FOUND YOU.

[Hisvet]

First of all I appreciate the creativity for this idea.  It is creative.  Fantastic work!

Second I like that its QUESTED

Third I like that is available for Crafters and Adventurers

Fourth I like that its available at different levels

While for me the choice of mounts is hit or miss in this selection, I enjoy the different locomotive methods and enjoy mounts that are NOT horses/wargs or flying disks.  It also shows that SOE here is providing what they promised: new artwork mounts that are not all marketplace that are more accessible and that have some rather fun and different mechanics.

Bravo, art, coding, etc.  (I don't mind marketplace and I buy stuff there often as I like it.  But I comb forums and timelines for quests that drop house items, plushies and titles all the time, they're more special.  Grind factions for recipes, craft for faction/items etc of all levels.  Old content is not dead content for some of us.)

(P.S. Vampire bat mount, tinkered dirigibles or ballons or mechas, badgers, predatory birds, gliding squirrels, flying fish, manticores, leaping battle frogs ALL cool mount ideas!  Keep up the creativity in art/quests/content its really making the game fun for me.  Everyone should like toys.) 

[illaria]

Amnerys wrote:

Later this month, we’ll be debuting two new types of mounts in EverQuest II.

Hahaha the first thing I thought when I saw this screenshot was Ttobey and his army of T-Rex's

[ttobey]

illaria wrote:

Amnerys wrote:

Later this month, we’ll be debuting two new types of mounts in EverQuest II.

Hahaha the first thing I thought when I saw this screenshot was Ttobey and his army of T-Rex's

You laugh now!

[Anaogi]

Amnerys wrote:

Later this month, we’ll be debuting two new types of mounts in EverQuest II.

Leaper mounts can jump up and forward in tremendous bounds before falling, moving at speeds similar to flying mounts. You can control how high you jump, and you can steer while jumping using the movement keys. Obviously, you don’t take falling damage when landing.

...

Mountain Saliraptor (Leaping)

...Leapin' Lizards!

OK, face it, you knew someone had to go there eventually...

[Cyliena]

I just looked around Butcherblock for the quests on Test Copy and didn't see them... are they going to be tested first?

[Eileah]

Just curious but why do those pictures in the OP have the everquest logo on them instead of the Everquest2 logo?

Oh and can we hide these mounts? No offence but they are pretty ugly, they are more for rough and tough guy types, not the prissy and sweet girl characters that I play.

I am hoping we can use ground mounts as appearance mounts for these, if not at least give us some optional appearance looks that are not so angry and mean looking.

I am looking forward to these addtion in travel, but I really don't want to have to look at them all day =/

[Alenna]

Eileah wrote:

Just curious but why do those pictures in the OP have the everquest logo on them instead of the Everquest2 logo?

it is very faint but I see the II crossing the middle of everquest in the pictures.

[feldon30]

Eileah wrote:

Oh and can we hide these mounts? No offence but they are pretty ugly, they are more for rough and tough guy types, not the prissy and sweet girl characters that I play.

You just got a PEGASUS and already bugging about these. *sigh*

[Seablade]

With regards to tradeskill quests in getting these mounts (since some of them are lower level), are they going to be made to scale (tradeskill level) with the player or are they going to to be low-level only? 

Currently I'm a level 90 adventure and tradeskill.  What I'd like is the ability to "chrono" my tradeskill level just as I can with adventure level.  That way I could get all those quests and get some credit for completing them.

Does anyone know if this is even on the rader?  Just a thought.

[Desna]

I do like these new mounts, but I would love to see existing creatures be mounts vs. just creating new species. How about a drakota mount, or one of the ostrich-looking things? Things like drachnid or spider mounts, elephants, lions, etc...or how about a ROK-inspired wyvern for a glider?

That said, can't wait!

[Cyliena]

Desna@Antonia Bayle wrote:

I do like these new mounts, but I would love to see existing creatures be mounts vs. just creating new species. How about a drakota mount, or one of the ostrich-looking things? Things like drachnid or spider mounts, elephants, lions, etc...or how about a ROK-inspired wyvern for a glider?

That said, can't wait!

Meatbeast. 'Nuff said.

[Morghus]

I would really like to see drakota, especially if they are kept in the spirit of the original models in-game. The possibility of a very interesting and involved quest to aquire one is there also.

[Chiyoiche]

i tell ya, you DEVs have dropped a wonderful mount week on us! yep. i Dub this "Mount Week"! i must say these are FANTASTIC ideas and their neet looking too!! cant wait until the quests are released!

[Shanak85]

[Removed for Content] Where are the sokokar?!?!

[Peogia]

Amnerys wrote:

Later this month, we’ll be debuting two new types of mounts in EverQuest II.

Leaper mounts can jump up and forward in tremendous bounds before falling, moving at speeds similar to flying mounts. You can control how high you jump, and you can steer while jumping using the movement keys. Obviously, you don’t take falling damage when landing.

Gliders are similar to Leapers, but at any point in your jump, you can snap out your mount’s wings and begin gliding, using the movement keys to control direction, even being able to tip up and climb for a while before descending again. You can also fold your wings in to start plummeting downward, and snap them out again at a different altitude. Leapers require Level 30 to ride. Gliders require level 60. (And of course, Fliers still require Level 85.)

Mountain Saliraptor (Leaping)

Wind Komodo (Leaping)  

 

Wind Komodo (Gliding)

 

 

Those all look really cool just wish they could all fly

[Mystfit]

Cyliena wrote:

Desna@Antonia Bayle wrote:

I do like these new mounts, but I would love to see existing creatures be mounts vs. just creating new species. How about a drakota mount, or one of the ostrich-looking things? Things like drachnid or spider mounts, elephants, lions, etc...or how about a ROK-inspired wyvern for a glider?

That said, can't wait!

Meatbeast. 'Nuff said.

MEATBEAST!!!!!!!!! I would die. Really, I would.

[Drumstix]

Thank you for at least keeping the style of these mounts more in the EQ2 realm. Tired of seeing things that look more like other games' style.

I really do hope there is more that is coming for this game in the way of non-fluff though. I can only run in circles so many times (and now fly in circles) before getting bored of doing the same stuff

WTB new factions, city-related quests and events, city raids???, okay just kinda throwing random stuff in the air now, but yeah. Nice mount-thingies.

[Eileah]

feldon30 wrote:

Eileah wrote:

Oh and can we hide these mounts? No offence but they are pretty ugly, they are more for rough and tough guy types, not the prissy and sweet girl characters that I play.

You just got a PEGASUS and already bugging about these. *sigh*

No, my level 90 got a pegasus, my lower levels will get these things which are nowhere near the look of the pegasus.

See Feldon, here is the thing, my level 90 toons can use these if they wanted to have this look, my lowbies will not be able to use the pegasus as appearance.

So while I see your point, you don't take into consideration that the pegasus does nothing for a low level who doesn't want the monster type mounts but would prefer something pretty or at least less mean looking.

So bringing it up is irrelevant to my point of lowbie mount graphics that are not pleasing to us girly types.

[Carpediem]

These are pretty cool and a great option for lower level players. I'm still waiting on dragon style flying mounts=)

[Morghus]

Eileah wrote:

feldon30 wrote:

Eileah wrote:

Oh and can we hide these mounts? No offence but they are pretty ugly, they are more for rough and tough guy types, not the prissy and sweet girl characters that I play.

You just got a PEGASUS and already bugging about these. *sigh*

No, my level 90 got a pegasus, my lower levels will get these things which are nowhere near the look of the pegasus.

See Feldon, here is the thing, my level 90 toons can use these if they wanted to have this look, my lowbies will not be able to use the pegasus as appearance.

So while I see your point, you don't take into consideration that the pegasus does nothing for a low level who doesn't want the monster type mounts but would prefer something pretty or at least less mean looking.

So bringing it up is irrelevant to my point of lowbie mount graphics that are not pleasing to us girly types.

I am pretty sure you are wrong. You just cant fly with the pegasus until 85.

[Midoriko]

This is neat. Love the raptor.Can't wait to see what other options you'll have for these.

Pleasepleaseplease no improvised quest length forcing, like the 5 day wait on griffon.

All these lizard mounts have me wishing for the return of the Drogmor(froglok lizard mounts in EQ)

[Midoriko]

Carpediem@Antonia Bayle wrote:

These are pretty cool and a great option for lower level players. I'm still waiting on dragon style flying mounts=)

+1 for dragons!

[Valentina]

Very nice! I hope there are some 'non-monster' options for these leapers and gliders too... I don't want to have to go until 85 before getting a pretty mount with more than just basic ground capabilities.