I created a new character and was taking her through the five starter zones. In a lot of the dynamic events, you get attacked by waves of bad guys. Rather than wait for the bad guys to come to us, someone with a mount, typically a raptor or skyscale, would rapidly move to where the bad guys spawned and kill all of them before anyone else got a hit in. This happened over and over again in event after event. In an event as simple as the Wurm Event in Wayfarer Foothills where they're attacking the door of the inn, some guy, over and over again, got on his raptor and attacked. Starter zones USED to have Champions but now they don't. I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that mounts should be prohibited in starter zones. Speaking of mounts, there needs to be a "Mute" option for the mount sound affects. The noise the Skyscale makes when it belches fire every few seconds is supremely annoying, annoying to the point I turn my speakers off. As for the Skyscale, it would be nice if you could disable the visual effects as well because when one is hovering over your head, all the garbage that gets thrown up from the ground, not to mention being hit in the head repeatedly by their wings, is annoying.