It's beautiful, and better-looking... but if it doesn't fly, then I am very disappointed.
Love the unicorn, just wish it could fly ;)
Now THAT'S a reward I can totally look forward to working toward! FINALLY! Glad it's for something like reputation, instead of RNG based drop. I'd much rather work forward toward a set goal over time than pray that an awesome barebacked steed like this will drop randomly. Plus having access to all the rep rewards like tabards, transmog, and profession patterns. There is no downside! :-D
If the phoenix had no armor and looked like the spectral saber (so basically a blue reskin of ashes of alar) I would've loved it. Or they also could've just used the Stormwing.I think Blizz is feeling the pressure of BFA at this point, cuz these aren't just all reskins, they're skins that were all datamined years before Legion (excluding this mount since it was discovered nearly a year before).
Ah, yes, boring rewards for extremely hard things. Blizzard has gotten good at that.
better, but wonder what becomes of the other 2 mounts.
Infinitely better than the phoenix. Not unique, but at least good looking and eye catching for the at-a-glance factor (it will be recognized). Would have been nice to be unique but I could understand why they didn't invest a ton of resources into something 1% of players will be able to get (even though I am included in that 1%).All in all, they need to get back towards making difficult and/or time consuming rewards unique and desirable. This is how you motivate people, through incentives. You don't want to give a consolation prize to people who were going to do it anyways, you want to inspire people to play the game in new ways to work towards something they want.
I love the new unicorns, I'm fine with this instead of the shadow phoenix copy.
vastly, vastly prefer the unicorn. moar unicorns, please!
I wonder why some ppl want a dark pheonix back. Are they dumb? From the guild (like from free) they can get the same dark pheonix with no armor.
Wasn’t the Phoenix mount supposed to be a rep reward all the way back in cataclysm really would have been nice to finally get it. But I do prefer the unicorn
Wow...another recolor......noice...
Oh &*!@, now I'm actually motivated to complete this achievement. This is by far the nicest legion unicorn and I'm so glad we can get access to it now.The spectral phoenix was really just the the dark phoenix again, so it went to the absolute bottom of my priority list. Now I'm going to have to start grinding reps to get that unicorn as soon as possible.
I must have it, have wanted the blue/white one as a mount since I saw it.*sigh* that's going to be a lot of reputation grinding
It's weird because i actually recommended they change it to this mount in the previous post :S
perso, im rlly upset because i've switched my main sometimes ago.. and my rep farm is all split between my chars. as many things in the game is already account-wide i dont understand why reputation aren't yet.
I don't prefer either!100 reps isn't exactly a walk in the park. I don't mind the mount for what it is if it were the reward for...something else, but I don't think 100 reps exalted should be a recolor of anything!
I think both of these rewards are dreadful. I'd rather they shoved the armored cloud serpent on this since it seems to have been removed from the island expedition loot in favor of a quilen, at least that was an old model with some funky armor strapped on.
How about a rainbow unicorn?