No advatanges or disadvantages.
Just an appearance change.
SK's got a nightmare, paladins got a unicorn.

my condolences

Talk about lame... SoE takes away a mount that already looked different than evry other mount out there, then slapped a 9 aa cost to go back to having a mount thats virtualy the same except a horn slapped on its head. no fuction, no purpose - you'd think we'd get something that could actually help us for 9 aa...how retarded is that?

All I can say is SOE hates us.... The shadownights get a sweet frickin horse, black with fire off feet and out of nose thats sweet, we get a unicorn, I can remember my sister playing witht these when she was young, why can't we get a white horse with a golden aura, or a white horse with some shining silver war armor. Any thing but a unicorn. Once I am high enough and have the aa's I am not going to spend them. I don't want to look like a pansy

The concept for the Shadow Knight horse is well done. The concept for the Paladin horse is quite off target. Unicorns are magical creatures, but very nature/forest oriented. A Dwarf Paladin on a Unicorn would look as if he/she car jacked a pixie or something. The new retail war horse bonus looks more like what a Paladin would have. Think Knights, jousting, armored mounts, colours of their homeland on the bridle. It would be nice if we could change to that model and still keep the speed of the Holy Steed.

Brickand Morter

Load quicker ?

huh... holy steed is instant..well as fast as the server receive command and ask my system to load the modele..

anyone calc the speed ?

weird I tought the effect of this Unicorn is like with a safe fall not like the Holy Steed. Ive been running around Kunark zones (yes they are the best place to train jumping hills) and i havent seen a single damage when i fell off cliff. On Holy steed i died twice one at Western Waste and the other at Eastern Waste toward Kael yah try to jump that gap hehehe

only thing these have over the first horse is the HORN,not any faster or graphic change or ?load time? these are just a status symbol which i wasted 9 AAs on and threw the hot key away and use my original mount which have the new graphics just the same without the freeking horn so unless you like the look dont waste your AAs cause theres alot more AAs worth getting i am almost at 1k AA and still wouldnt buy it.now the SK mount is a little better looking imo.i belive they either should have added more speed or how about a pegasus with lev or armor but a horn,only 14 year old girls still like unicorns this much

I hate using the word, but nothing else even comes close. This has got the be the gheyest thing to happen to EQ since...well, ever. What's next for the poor pally, a new heal with a rainbow effect? Glitter helms?

there are pegasus models in plane of sky

you can try with feedback and by posting about in the eqforums website but it's been in game so long now I highly doubt they changed it from a unicorn ever

I've had numerous people come up to me and ask if they can see my unicorn. I just look at them blanky and tell them that if i had 9 AA's to waste i'd find something better to spend it on, I wonder if SoE employeed a little girl, that would explain everything

I agree with most of the posters here. That comment about "dwarven paladins on a unicorn look like they car-jacked a pixie" - ROFLMAO! Ahem.

While my pally alt is a long way from his steed, I can think of some things SOE ought to change about horses, long a sore spot with me.

1. Although a unicorn looks good for female characters, both male and female characters should have (or have the option) of the 9AA horse looking like a heavy warhorse, clad head to hood in plate barding, just like the knights of old. This would certainly project a more noble and powerful image for the paladin.

2. Allow the mounts to have a minor role in combat - like a pet of sorts. Allow the mount to have about 1/3 the levels of the character. A 60th level pally would have a 20th level horse, for example, and would fight the enemy with the knight mounted on it, just like a real warhorse would. Perhaps AA's could raise the level of the mount?

I would think the first step I mentioned, at the very least, would make the 9AA paladin steeds a worthwhile and desireable item to gain.


While I'm thinking about it, I'd like to say that only small races look good on drogmors. A high elf chick on a drog reminds me of a preppy rich girl driving a rusted-out '76 monte carlo.

It's even worse with the clockwork boars. Gnomes and dwarves ONLY, please. If I see another elf (any kind) on one of these things, I'm going to go on a killing spree in Al Ak'anon.

Just my 2 cents.

year, 2 months and this topic is still running lol