A personal WoW addon I made for myself to manage zone-specific mounts.
This is just a personal experiment of mine, so it's not on Curse and may never be. There's also no UI or any kind of in-game help, so this README file is pretty much all there is.
Download the repository and copy the Bstrd_Mounts folder to your AddOns directory. If WoW is already open, exit and restart the game. It should now appear in your list of Addons and you'll get some debug text in the chat window when you log in.
First thing's first. You're going to want a button on your action bars that mounts using your defined preferences. So create a new macro (any name or icon is fine) and type the following:
/MountUp
That's it. Save it and drag it to your action bars somewhere that you can easily click it or keybind it. It won't do anything yet (because you haven't set up your default mount), but once you have, this button will call up your preferred mounts when you are in a particular zone or situation, which you will set up next. If you are already mounted, it will dismount you.
To set your preferred mount in a given zone/continent, you have to be in the place where you want the mount to apply. So, for example, if you want to use the Mage class mount in New Dalaran, be in New Dalaran and type the following:
/SetMount Archmage's Prismatic Disc
You can also set a mount for the entire "continent" that you're presently in.
/SetContinentMount Arcanist's Manasaber
If you run that in New Dalaran, you'll mount Arcanist's Manasaber anywhere in the Broken Isles except in zones where you have set zone-specific mounts.
Keep in mind that continent is just what the game refers to as the continent.
Instances for example aren't generally considered in a continent as you'd expect
them to be. So instances generally won't use your continent-default mount, but you
can use /SetMount to set mount preferences for that instance.
You can also set even more general-purpose defaults on your character:
/SetGroundMount Ochre Skeletal Warhorse
/SetFlyingMount Armored Bloodwing
Those commands set two default mounts for your current character that will be used if there is no zone-specific mount as well as no continent-specific mount for your current location.
You can also set a mount to be used whenever you are in a party or raid group. This will override any other default mounts for the zone or continent, but if you have a two-seater, it's useful.
/SetGroupMount Obsidian Nightwing
Finally, you can set a mount to be used whenever you mount up while in the water. Unfortunately, I haven't figured out how to tell if you're underwater or not, so I have a hard time deciding between the following two mounts:
/SetSwimmingMount Azure Water Strider
/SetSwimmingMount Sea Turtle
To remove a mount preference that you previously set, you just need to type the same slash command, but without passing it a mount name. So for example, if you want to remove your zone-specific mount for a certain zone, and have it default back to your continent-specific mount, just type:
/SetMount
And similarly, if you wanted to remove your continent-specific mount preference:
/SetContinentMount
If you are under level 20, then the /MountUp command will always try to use the
heirloom chauffer mount if it can. Otherwise, it'll do nothing.