During the World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria panel at BlizzCon 2011, the developers were yet undecided on what the Pandaren mount could be.
Considering the Pandaren and Pandaria are themed around asian culture, the best option for a mount would be taking a look at the asian fauna.
There’s currently a forum thread with over 25 pages discussing possible Pandaren mounts. Taking a look throughout Chinese and Asian in general fauna, I narrowed some of them down to these:
During the art panel, they had this amazing floating chair they said was the mount, as a joke. But it would be pretty awesome, especially since everyone else would get it as well. 😀
I wouldn’t go with some type of cat cause it’s too much like the night elf thing, plus, they’re too agressive-looking for pandas I think, it should me something friendlier looking. From those, I’d say the Yak is the most likelly. They already have models in game from the screenshots so far, and they’re like, chill looking. A pandolin mount would be awesome too though. And Komodo dragon mount I don’t think would fit the Pandaren, but they’d be awesome in their own right.
I think Pandas should ride on other Pandas.
See this artwork I took a picture of at Blizzcon?
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-WF5SJIxtZxw/Tq2VbF8l-bI/AAAAAAAABGU/ddH9SqhtRig/s720/20111022_115533.jpg
There’s a baby panda riding in his backpack.
Yeah but that only works if you reroll a baby pandaren. Otherwise it’s slavery. ^^
But seriously, a tiger would be great, with a skin like Bangalash for example.
NE got tigers already…
I think it’ll be turtles… probably…
their home is a turtle, they have temple shaped like turtles, statues of pandas riding turtles…
it’ll probably be turtles…
I like turtles
I didn’t say it was likely, I just said it makes sense and it would be cool, especially since I play Horde and don’t have access to a feline mount (the ones in ZG don’t count, they never drop).
Another one that would be awesome is some kind of asian dragon. You know, with a long snake-like body, horns, whiskers, the whole Shenron look. 🙂
But I agree with you eitjayar: I think they’ll end up with a new turtle model.
They are doing a flying mount like that…
well not like that…
imagine that and now paint it with GOLD!
Yep, it’s coming!
Chromatic Dragon something…
Kuiniu in Chinese is a wild yak or buffalo. I’d go with a yak or the pangolin; though I think the pangolin would make a better pet than a mount.