Praise Elune, Blizzard is finally thinking about improving holiday mount drops

I have long since given up on trying to get holiday mounts — no Hallow’s End, no Love Is In The Air, none of it. I still remember the years I spent trying to get the Brewfest Kodo as a dark, wintry time of horror and lamentation, and so now, I don’t even bother. I’ve written about it before. I have better things to do with my time that drive myself mad trying to get a holiday mount. Especially since, as Blizzard themselves are fully aware, the best way to try and get one is to gather an army of alts and just run the encounter over and over again every day on every alt until it drops, which turns a fun holiday encounter into a stultifying chore that drains the player’s soul.

But now, at last, perhaps Blizzard is tired of that as well, because CM Chimes has… forgive me, I’m weak… chimed in with news that they’re looking at holiday mount drops and how to improve them.

Personally, I think they should just make the holiday mounts all purchasable. Put a currency on the event, let folks farm it up, and let them buy every mount with it. Bam, done. Make it ridiculously expensive if you want to force players to do every holiday quest and run the dungeon events to gather up all the tokens necessary. Let the players dedicated enough get the mount and call it a day. Now, if you’ll forgive me, I have to go ride my Kodo around Ironforge.