There are three types of Warsteeds available to you:
The Courser This is the light steed. It is built for speed and maneuverability and sacrifices armor for it’s agility.
Tooltip: The Courser is a lightly armoured War-steed. Fast and Agile, the Courser provides the greatest speed and maneuverability on the battlefield, trading Endurance and Armour to retain their nimbleness.
5.5 mps base Max Speed
+450 non-Combat War-steed Power Regen
+240 in-cCombat War-steed Power Regen
+450 non-Combat War-steed Endurance Regen
+12 War-steed Acceleration Rate
+100 War-steed Armour
The Rouncey This is the medium steed. It can be considered the “base model”, offering a compromise between speed/agility and armor.
Tooltip: The Rouncey is a moderately armoured War-steed. The Rouncey provides balance and stability without sacrificing or favouring survivability or maneuverability.
5 mps base Max Speed
+420 non-Combat War-steed Power Regen
+225 in-Combat War-steed Power Regen
-480 non-Combat War-steed Endurance Regen
-10 War-steed Acceleration Rate
+130 War-steed Armour
The Destrier This is the heavy steed. It trades speed and maneuverability for armor, increasing it’s effectiveness at tanking.
Tooltip: The Destrier is a heavily armoured War-steed. Stalwart and imposing, the Destrier is bred for battle. The least agile and slowest of the war-steeds trades speed and maneuverability
4.5 mps base Max Speed
+390 non-Combat War-Steed Power Regen
+290 in-Combat War-steed power Regen
+510 non-Combat War-steed Endurance Regen
+8 War-steed Acceleration Rate
+160 War-steed Armour.
When you first get your warsteed, you will be mounting up a Rouncey by default. After completing the tutorial quest, you may change your steed type by opening the Trait Panel by clicking your warsteed’s icon (or pressing [Shift]+[M]) and clicking the Traits tab.
Choose either the Light or Heavy steed by clicking the Enter button. The Traits Panel will now show the trait tree for that steed. Put 1 training point into one of the traits and click Apply. You will then be dismounted, and your warsteed hotkey will now be changed to indicate the type of steed you have chosen.
You can use the Trait Panel further to save trait specs and easily switch back and forth between steed types. More information will be coming about this in a future article about traits!
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What’s the best one for Minstrels? The Destrier I suppose?
That is sort of a tough question to answer for a couple reasons:
1. I know next-to-nothing about Minstrels besides the fact that they keep me alive.
2. A lot of it is going to come down to play style and current activity (group healing versus solo play)
Seeing that Mins is a light armored, tactical class, I would imagine you’re going to want to be quick, as to stay away from the mobs so they don’t hit you. I would think either the Courser or Rouncey. I think the Destrier is best suited for whoever is planning on taking the hits. Even for solo play — I’d still guess at least the medium steed for a Mins.
Good point. When I wrote that I was mainly thinking about solo play and being able to take damage especially since I’ve never liked kiting. The Courser indeed sounds better for group healing. I haven’t tried warsteeds yet so it’s hard to say but we’ll see it soon 🙂 Thanks!
I think the best advice I can give right now, to anyone who doesn’t know what sort of steed they want is: Go with the default medium steed to start. Play it some and then decide if you need a little more tankiness or a little more speed and agility out of it, and then choose accordingly.
If I switch my war-steed’s size from medium to light will I lose my horse’s current xp level?
No. you will not lose XP or level. See our Basic Traits guide for more information.