LiteMount
Last Updated: Dec 19, 2018 Game Version: 8.1.0
Flexible and reliable random mount summoning, since 2011.
Supports journal mounts, Travel Form, Ghost Wolf, Running Wild, Tarecgosa, Moonfang, Flying Broom, Telaari Talbuk/Frostwolf War Wolf and other zone-specific mounts. LiteMount excludes flying mounts in areas where you can't fly.
How To Use
- Set key binding(s) for LiteMount in the WoW "Key Bindings" options, under the "AddOns" category
- Press key to mount/dismount on a location-appropriate mount.
- Hold SHIFT to force a non-flying mount.
- Press key while moving to force travel form, ghost wolf or other instant-cast mounts.
- Jump out of water and press key within 1s to fly/float instead of swimming.
Supporting LiteMount
If you are a rich person and would like to support me, I would love you to buy me a mount from the Blizzard store. You can see the mounts I am missing here, buy a mount I am missing from the shop and send it to me during checkout to my email address <mib@post.com>.
Otherwise, please continue to enjoy LiteMount for free and just have fun playing WoW.
Localization
LiteMount supports all languages. Please help with translations using this easy web interface:
Profiles
LiteMount supports profiles, accessed via the button on the top-right of most of the settings pages.
The following settings are per-profile:
- Enabled/disabled setting for each mount.
- Copy Target's Mount.
- Automatically exclude newly added mounts.
- Advanced action lists (for buttons 1-4).
The following settings are global:
- Extra mount flags (from the Advanced Options panel).
- Changes to mount flags (from the Mounts panel).
And these settings are per-character and not shared:
- Unavailable macro.
- Combat macro.
- Debugging enabled.
Action Bar Macro
To create a LiteMount macro you can drop onto your action bar, type into the chat box:
/litemount macro
One you have created the macro you can edit it if you wish, LiteMount will not change it unless you delete it and recreate it.
Copying Target's Mount
If you have a player targeted, LiteMount will try to copy the mount they are currently using. You can turn this awesome feature off in the settings.
In-Combat Actions
LiteMount cannot mount in combat. It has a default set of combat actions which can dismount you, exit vehicles, or cast Travel Form or Ghost Wolf.
Getting Out of Water
Jump out of the water and activate LiteMount within one second to fly, float or run away.
For Druids
Activate LiteMount while moving or jumping to activate Travel Form.
Go into the settings and set the unavailable macro to
/cast Cat Form(Shapeshift)
and the combat macro to
/cast [indoors,swimming][outdoors] Travel Form(Shapeshift); [indoors] Cat Form(Shapeshift)
For Shamans
Activate LiteMount while moving or jumping to activate Ghost Wolf.
Go into the settings and set the unavailable macro to
/cast Ghost Wolf
For Monks
Go into the settings and set the unavailable macro to
/cast Zen Flight
Reporting Issues
Mount Selection
For information on how LiteMount chooses mounts, see:
Settings
For information about customizing LiteMount using the settings interface, see:
Advanced Options
For information about doing really clever things using the Advanced Options settings, see:
- Advanced Options
- FAQ: Map-specific Mounts
- FAQ: Class-specific Mounts
- FAQ: Spec-specific Mounts
- FAQ: Single-type Action List
Slash Commands
For information about the LiteMount slash commands, see:
Using LiteMount in Your Macros
For information on writing your own macros that incorporate LiteMount as well as other actions, see:
If This AddOn Seems Abandoned
If more than two weeks go by after a major patch and LiteMount hasn't been 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.
LiteMount 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.
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Posted Apr 17, 2019Advanced warning:
In WoW 8.2 the Water Striders will be losing their water-walking ability, and a new system of "Mount Equipment" will be added. You can equip one piece of mount equipment to add an effect, one of which is water-walking, and it applies to all mounts.
In LiteMount the FLOAT flag will be going away, a new condition (not sure on the details yet) will be added for the mount equipment, and the default action lists will be updated appropriately.
Happy adventuring, X.
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Posted Mar 16, 2019Man I love this. Following the help pages you have up I figured out how to use one mount if I'm in Moonkin form and another when I'm in regular troll form. And I have other situational mounts depending what zone I'm in. It's great!
Only question I have is can I set this up so that the addon *never* summons a flying mount? I'm a druid so I don't need them. Ground mounts are still useful for anti-daze bardings or in battlegrounds where travel form is slow.
Like if I'm in Org, can the Litemount button/macro be set up only to do Travel (flight) form without having to be moving? I tried not picking a flying mount, and now it only summons those ground mounts in flying areas. Hopefully what I'm asking makes sense.
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Posted Mar 16, 2019In reply to solidus0079:
Thanks for your kind comments! I know it's not as easy as it could be, but it's the best I can do with the time that I have.
Probably the easiest thing for you to do is just disable all the flying mounts. Go into the mounts settings panel and choose only flying mounts using the filters, then use the select/unselect all check button to disable them all. You'll need to re-enable travel form after that I think.
Alternatively you can can probably do something like this:
SmartMount [filter=783][flyable]
SmartMount [filter=783/~FLY]
So it will always use spell 783 (Travel Form) in flyable areas, and pick from Travel Form and all the mounts without the FLY flag on them in non-flyable situations.
Happy adventuring, X.
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Posted Mar 16, 2019In reply to Xodiv:
Thank you for the reply! Before I asked about this, I first tried to figure it out myself by disabling any flying mounts. The end result is I summon ground mounts in flying zones.
For the sake of clarity/troubleshooting I have Litemount set up to summon Kua'fon if in moonkin (form 4), and Conqueror's Scythemaw if in caster form. Azure Water Strider if swimming or in certain zones I've determined it's not worth using a ground mount at all (like Tiragarde, too much water). It works flawlessly.
I tried adding the suggested Smartmount code in there. Tried moving it to a couple different places. The end result is that it summons the Scythemaw now in both moonkin and normal form, so the Moonkin filter is ignored, but no flying form. Is it an order of operation thing? Or am I missing a step? I tried creating a filter 783 too but that didn't help.
(AH is a filter I created to summon the auctioneer mount when inside the Great Seal, and WW is places I've set only to use Water striders for Water Walking)
LeaveVehicle Dismount Mount [filter=AH][map:1163] SmartMount [filter=783][flyable] SmartMount [filter=783/~FLY] Mount [filter=WW][map:895/974/907/942/863/1034/10337] CopyTargetsMount Mount [filter=VASHJIR][map:203,submerged] Mount [filter=AQ][map:319/320/321,noflyable,nosubmerged] Mount [filter=NAGRAND][map:550,noflyable,nosubmerged] Mount [filter=Moonkin][form:4] Mount [filter=230987][nosubmerged,extra:202477] Mount [filter=230987][nosubmerged,aura:202477] SmartMount [filter={CLASS}] Mount [filter=RUN][mod:shift,flyable] Mount [filter=WALK][mod:shift,noflyable] Mount [filter=FLOAT][mod:shift,flyable] SmartMount Macro-
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Posted Mar 16, 2019In reply to solidus0079:
I'm not sure. In general my advice is that if you are trying to do something specific start with an empty action list and build it up - particularly to remove the SmartMount from the end. Otherwise you can run into a trap of thinking that you've got it right but are actually triggering the default action.
I don't know a huge amount about druids. Druid forms are such a pain, Blizzard seems to seesaw back and forth about how they work every other patch. Is it possible you have some kind of glyph that adds a separate Flight Form from Travel Form? If that's the case you will need to list its spell ID rather than Travel Form.
One thing to note with your list is that Boralus is actually in Tiragard Sound. So where you have [map:895/...] that matches Boralus (1161) as well. I don't think it's a problem with your list though because you have the AH override first.
I got my druid through the intro questlines and tried your action list, and I think it works for me although I didn't test all the cases. I stripped it down to this which I think is the most minimal version:
LeaveVehicle
Dismount
CopyTargetsMount
Mount [filter=AH] [map:1161/1163]
Mount [filter=783/165962] [flyable]
Mount [filter=FLOAT] [map:895/974/907/942/863/1034/1037]
Mount [filter=Moonkin] [form:4]
SmartMount
Macro
Does that still cause you a problem?
Oh, also you don't need your WW flag, the inbuilt FLOAT flag already contains the two water striders.
On a personal note, I am really getting very envious of all the people writing in with their 5 million gold auctioneer mount problems. :)
Happy adventuring, X.
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Posted Mar 17, 2019In reply to Xodiv:
FIXED!
No I don't run any glyphs but thanks for pointing that out. Definitely will be useful info later (as I do get fickle and switch things).
Ok with your suggestion of removing Smartmount and looking through your trimmed code I was able to figure the rest out. I did notice removing SmartMount [filter={CLASS}] seemed to cause me issues when I was farting around in Dalaran, no mounts would ever summon.
It all came down to removing the final Smartmount at the end and adding additional arguments after the "form:4" line. Here's the rejiggled version of my code if you or anyone else is curious:
By the way, as far as Boralus is concerned, I'm sure the guards would take cause at my opening up shop there but good catch (might be handy with an alt). ;)
Ironically, Tol Dagor's outside island isn't considered Tiragarde Sound, but inside the instance is. Just a funny little tidbit (having a water mount is useful at the start to skip mobs during Mythic+)
Thank you for all your help! This is awesome!
LeaveVehicle Dismount Mount [filter=AH][map:1163] Mount [filter=WW][map:895/974/907/942/863/1034/10337] CopyTargetsMount Mount [filter=VASHJIR][map:203,submerged] Mount [filter=AQ][map:319/320/321,noflyable,nosubmerged] Mount [filter=NAGRAND][map:550,noflyable,nosubmerged] Mount [filter=230987][nosubmerged,extra:202477] Mount [filter=230987][nosubmerged,aura:202477] SmartMount [filter={CLASS}] Mount [filter=Moonkin][form:4,nosubmerged,noflyable] Mount [filter=RUN][mod:shift,flyable] Mount [filter=WALK][mod:shift,noflyable] Mount [filter=FLOAT][mod:shift,flyable] Macro-
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Posted Mar 17, 2019In reply to Xodiv:
In reply to solidus0079:
Oops it didn't work as well as I thought. When in caster form it'd default to land travel form in nonflying zones too. I had to re-add Smartmount but with the [noflyable] argument
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Posted Mar 14, 2019G.M.O.D. doesnt seem to be listed. I just got it in a LFR and no matter how many times i reload the UI, its not being updated, even tho its listed in the mount journal. All other new mounts are listed.
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Posted Mar 14, 2019In reply to Dajova:
It's definitely there for me. Is it possible you have the filters set in a way to exclude it?
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Posted Mar 16, 2019In reply to Xodiv:
Hmm, odd. I had "automatically disable newly added mounts" unchecked, so i thought it was gonna be listed...
However, after enabling "disabled", it got re-listed again.
Which is wierd cus it was fine with other mounts that i got, like the plaguebat and zandalari direhorn mounts, this was the only one bugging out.
Anyway, TL;DR, filter off and it re-appeared. Thanks :P
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Posted Mar 16, 2019In reply to Dajova:
Ah, yes this is a common misconception but not one I can really fix. The "automatically disable newly added mounts" option applies when you first log in after a mount is added to the game, not when you learn to use that mount.
Happy adventuring, X.
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Posted Dec 16, 2018This Add-on has been around since 2011, yet i only just found out about it.
Amazing work! Thanks a lot for freeing up my actionbar :D
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Posted Dec 13, 2018Please update your ToC ... the game is flagging this as out of date and gives a warning everytime you log in
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Posted Dec 13, 2018Make sure you update to the latest version. LiteMount 8.1.0 has an updated ToC.
You may also need to restart the game to get the client to re-read the ToC file.
Happy adventuring, X.
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Posted Dec 12, 2018I've updated for 8.1 including flagging the first of the new Island Expeditions as non-flyable.
I've been super busy lately so I apologize for not responding to everyone else. I hope to catch up in January when I have some holiday.
Happy adventuring, X.
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Posted Nov 22, 2018I'm new to using the advanced options and I'm trying to follow the Spec-specific guide to be able to use only certain mounts when in Shadow spec for priest. Following the two methods offered, the flagged mounts are still being selected when I'm in other specs (holy, discipline). I'm probably doing something wrong, can you help me out?
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Posted Nov 22, 2018In reply to glustin:
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Posted Nov 23, 2018In reply to Xodiv:
So I added the line and the action list looks like this:
LeaveVehicle
CancelForm
Dismount
CopyTargetsMount
Mount [filter=VASHJIR][map:203,submerged]
Mount [filter=AQ][map:319/320/321,noflyable,nosubmerged]
Mount [filter=NAGRAND][map:550,noflyable,nosubmerged]
Mount [filter=230987][nosubmerged,extra:202477]
Mount [filter=230987][nosubmerged,aura:202477]
SmartMount [filter=SHADOWY][spec:258]
SmartMount [filter={CLASS}]
Mount [filter=RUN][mod:shift,flyable]
Mount [filter=WALK][mod:shift,flyable]
Mount [filter=FLOAT][mod:shift,noflyable]
SmartMount
Macro
I created the SHADOWY flag and flagged a mount with it, so that the activated flags it has are Fly and SHADOWY.
I also enabled a control test mount with just Fly. If I understand correctly, whenever I'm in Shadow Spec, the mount flagged SHADOWY should be added to the pool, making it a 50/50 chance to be summoned. It does.
BUT, if I'm in another spec, it shouldn't be added to the pool, and the control mount should be summoned 100% of the time, but it doesn't. The SHADOWY mount is summoned 50/50, same as in Shadow Spec.
How you I get the debug output, if that would be of help?
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Posted Nov 1, 2018If I try to use "SmartMount [filter=AWS][map:863]" to summon the "Azure Water Strider" in Nazmir by using a custom flag called "AWS", LiteMount totally ignores this flag! I have to use "Mount [filter=AWS][map:863,noflyable]" instead. I think that could maybe be of interest for you.
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Posted Nov 11, 2018In reply to bezat22: