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Summon a random location-appropriate mount. Supports new mounts automatically. Supports druid forms, Ghost Wolf, Running Wild and zone-specific mounts.

It is cleanly written, comprehensive, and is designed to work out of the box and not require frequent updating.

Supported Mounts

• Mount spell tab mounts (ground, swimming and flying)
• Druid Forms (Flight, Aquatic and Travel)
• Shaman Ghost Wolf
• Running Wild (Worgen Racial)
• Item-summoned mounts (Hallow's End brooms, Tarecgosa's Visage)
• Ahn'Qiraj "Battle Tank" Mounts
• Vashj'ir Abyssal Seahorse

How To Use

To use LiteMount, either:

• Drag the macro it creates, named "LiteMount" onto a button on your action bar.
• Set keybindings for LiteMount in the Blizzard "Key Bindings" options.

Left-clicking the macro button will summon a mount, right-clicking will summon a non-flying mount. Or press the keys you have bound to either option. If you are already mounted it will dismount you. If you are in a vehicle it will exit the vehicle.

Mount Selection

A mount is selected based on the following criteria (in this order), until it finds a mount you know and can use:

• If you are already mounted, dismount/cancelform.
• If you can fly, use a random flying mount (unless non-flying button/key is used).
• If you in a special zone (Vashj'ir, AQ), then use a random mount for that zone.
• If you are swimming, use a random swimming mount.
• If you are "outdoors", use a random ground mount.
• If you are "outdoors", use a random slow ground mount (ghost wolf, travel form).

In addition, if you are moving or falling it will only consider instant-cast mounts (druid forms, talented Ghost Wolf, and (during Hallows End) Flying Broom).

Prioritizing Flight Form

Druids probably want to always use flight form because it is instant-cast. To force Flight Form, start moving before you mount. Moving will cause LiteMount to only enable instant-cast mounts and use Flight Form.

LiteMount Options / Excluding Mounts

Open the LiteMount options panel from the Blizzard interface settings or by using the /litemount (or /lmt) chat command.

From the options panel you can see a scrollable list of all your mounts, and whether they are flagged as being appropriate for various situations.

• Enable or disable use of each mount with the checkbox at the left side of the line for that mount.
• Override where the mount should be summoned with the flags on the right side.

You can individually toggle these flags: Run, Fly, Swim, Ahn'Qiraj, Vash'jir. A flag you have changed from the default will have a red background on the checkbox. Most likely the only reason you want to do this is to ground-enable some flying mounts that are usable in non-flying areas, or to enable druid Aquatic Form in Vash'jir.

Setting the LiteMount flags does not change what the mount can do, only when LiteMount will try to summon it. LiteMount does not stop you setting incorrect flags, which can result in bogus "unable to mount" errors as it tries to use mounts you can't use. If in doubt, leave the flags unchanged. If you get confused click the "Defaults" button and then "Just this addon" from the dialog box that pops up to reset LiteMount's options.

Benefits of LiteMount

LiteMount does not rely on any external libraries or addons. It will not break because some version of LibMountJuggler-3.0 wasn't updated; or was updated. LiteMount automatically supports new ordinary (appear in the Mounts tab, don't require specific zones) flying/ground/swimming mounts without needing to be updated. LiteMount does not rely on hard-coded English names for anything and will work in any locale.

Limitations of LiteMount

Because Blizzard does not provide an automatic way to distinguish between flying mounts that can be used as ground mounts and those that can't, it will not use flying mounts in non-flying locations. (Actually I think this is a feature, since there's plenty of chance to see your flying mounts and not much chance to see your ground mounts.)

LiteMount cannot mount in combat. It has a default set of combat actions which can dismount you, exit vehicles, or cast Travel Form, Aquatic Form or Ghost Wolf. This is extremely restricted and can't use any of the addon smarts,

LiteMount does not let you prioritize mounts, group mounts, customize mounts per zone, or any of those other fancy things that Mounted used to do and more fully featured (but more fragile and likely to fall into disrepair) mounting addons do.

LiteMount does not show an icon for which mount you are going to get next: it has no idea until you actually push the button.

You Used The Mechanostrider Icon, Are You Crazy?

Yes I did, gnomes are awesome, deal with it. If you don't like the macro icon, you can change it manually. LiteMount will not change it back.

If This AddOn Seems Abandoned

If more than two weeks go by after a major patch and this addon isn't updated, I've probably been hit by a bus. In that case I encourage anyone with the necessary ability to take over maintenance of the addon. It is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, which means anyone can take it and do whatever they want with it, as long as they too release their code under the same terms.