So to start with some feedback.
I'm going to preface this thread saying I know quite a bit about how the game works - I have a level 60 on the KR version of the game. I am aware that this version will certainly have differences, but at the end of the day they are the same franchise and they will be very similar. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this to sound elitist or superior, just to point out that I have experience with the post 30 content and a good idea of how the game is likely to pan out past 30.
Obviously, I'm quite intrigued with this version (I mean if you speak English you'd obviously prefer to play on a version in your language), and I would like it to do well.
Now my point of contention here is the Founder Pack mounts. Obviously, I've played the game as a brand new player, I know how amazing it feels to tame your first elites. Your first dungeon rare, your first elite that actually required the effort of gathering a recipe or a taming item, etc - all very exciting as a brand new player. I also however know that once you hit a certain point down the line, you are basically never going to be using rares. To a brand new player elites are amazing, to an endgame player they're just fodder. Period. Rares are not exciting, they're far too slow, too low on EP and they lack in their number of talents - the only time you'll be keeping an elite is because you happen to really like the appearance and you have slots to waste. I feel like a lot of players new to the franchise don't understand how easily their elite founders mounts will become obsolete as the game progresses, and it would be a real shame to let it slip through due to that inexperience.
Now I commend you on giving Karios that Fury Aura, that's a really nice buff for an elite... but at the end of the day he's still elite. He's going to become obsolete and nothing but a token trophy mount you will pose on in town (except you probably won't even do that as you could be levelling another pet). That means he's pretty much going to rot in peoples stables (same for the other founder pack mounts). I also feel the talents on the Diamond Wolf are pretty lacklustre - I would hope Gyreon's talents are better, but I can't comment as he's not available in CBT3.
On a side note, if you are keeping the weather debuffs for the post 30 zones, leaving the founder mounts elite will also render them almost useless in those zones, as only zone specific elites or heroic+ mounts are immune to them. I would hope that's not your intention.
So onto my suggestions.
I beg you, please, please, please upgrade the founder's mounts. The Amethyst Wolf, seems reasonable as an elite, as he's the lowest tier reward, but the others should be their respective ranks with their respective stats - Gyreon and Karios should be legendaries and the Diamond Wolf should be a heroic. Lets face it the mounts are the poster children of the founder packs, the other stuff is nice but people are buying them for the mounts - and we want to be able to keep using those mounts. Now I understand why you might be a tad wary giving out a heroic/legendaries at release, but is it really going to break anything? I assume you will be adding in the legendary 40 dungeons soon, if not at release, and by all means make them slightly worse than the 3 legendaries from those, but please don't make him so bad that he will be replaced by some common elite and certainly by heroics. I understand that heroics and legendaries are very uncommon/non-existent at level 30, but that shouldn't be an excuse to lower the quality of the founder pack mounts. People are going to play this game because they love collecting pets and mounts, we won't give up collecting them because the founder mounts are legendary/heroic - it's just a nice boost and a reward for pre-investing in the game. I really don't want to have my founder pack mounts sitting in storage because they're elites, and just downright bad once you've managed to tame a heroic; that would be extremely disheartening. Let people who purchase the founder packs have a taste of the heroic/legendary mounts, it's far more likely to get them hooked than an elite they could tame almost anywhere.
Secondly, if you're planning to either release/update the game to a Lvl60 player cap any time soon, I really feel that 25 and 30 is far too low level cap for the Diamond Wolf, Gyreon and Karios. I would personally suggest Lvl35/40 for the Diamond Wolf and Lvl50/55 for Gyreon and Karios. The mounts can't out level their players so it's not an issue if the level cap at release isn't 60, but changing this will allow their skills/EP/HP to scale with the player rather than becoming obsolete. IMO the Amethyst Wolf would be fine to stay as a level 30, being the lowest tier founder pack.
Hopefully I've adequately managed to express my feelings and reasoning for the elite founder mounts to be upgraded. I want the game to succeed and feel this is a small change that will make a massive difference in any founder players QoL at launch. :)
I'm going to preface this thread saying I know quite a bit about how the game works - I have a level 60 on the KR version of the game. I am aware that this version will certainly have differences, but at the end of the day they are the same franchise and they will be very similar. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this to sound elitist or superior, just to point out that I have experience with the post 30 content and a good idea of how the game is likely to pan out past 30.
Obviously, I'm quite intrigued with this version (I mean if you speak English you'd obviously prefer to play on a version in your language), and I would like it to do well.
Now my point of contention here is the Founder Pack mounts. Obviously, I've played the game as a brand new player, I know how amazing it feels to tame your first elites. Your first dungeon rare, your first elite that actually required the effort of gathering a recipe or a taming item, etc - all very exciting as a brand new player. I also however know that once you hit a certain point down the line, you are basically never going to be using rares. To a brand new player elites are amazing, to an endgame player they're just fodder. Period. Rares are not exciting, they're far too slow, too low on EP and they lack in their number of talents - the only time you'll be keeping an elite is because you happen to really like the appearance and you have slots to waste. I feel like a lot of players new to the franchise don't understand how easily their elite founders mounts will become obsolete as the game progresses, and it would be a real shame to let it slip through due to that inexperience.
Now I commend you on giving Karios that Fury Aura, that's a really nice buff for an elite... but at the end of the day he's still elite. He's going to become obsolete and nothing but a token trophy mount you will pose on in town (except you probably won't even do that as you could be levelling another pet). That means he's pretty much going to rot in peoples stables (same for the other founder pack mounts). I also feel the talents on the Diamond Wolf are pretty lacklustre - I would hope Gyreon's talents are better, but I can't comment as he's not available in CBT3.
On a side note, if you are keeping the weather debuffs for the post 30 zones, leaving the founder mounts elite will also render them almost useless in those zones, as only zone specific elites or heroic+ mounts are immune to them. I would hope that's not your intention.
So onto my suggestions.
I beg you, please, please, please upgrade the founder's mounts. The Amethyst Wolf, seems reasonable as an elite, as he's the lowest tier reward, but the others should be their respective ranks with their respective stats - Gyreon and Karios should be legendaries and the Diamond Wolf should be a heroic. Lets face it the mounts are the poster children of the founder packs, the other stuff is nice but people are buying them for the mounts - and we want to be able to keep using those mounts. Now I understand why you might be a tad wary giving out a heroic/legendaries at release, but is it really going to break anything? I assume you will be adding in the legendary 40 dungeons soon, if not at release, and by all means make them slightly worse than the 3 legendaries from those, but please don't make him so bad that he will be replaced by some common elite and certainly by heroics. I understand that heroics and legendaries are very uncommon/non-existent at level 30, but that shouldn't be an excuse to lower the quality of the founder pack mounts. People are going to play this game because they love collecting pets and mounts, we won't give up collecting them because the founder mounts are legendary/heroic - it's just a nice boost and a reward for pre-investing in the game. I really don't want to have my founder pack mounts sitting in storage because they're elites, and just downright bad once you've managed to tame a heroic; that would be extremely disheartening. Let people who purchase the founder packs have a taste of the heroic/legendary mounts, it's far more likely to get them hooked than an elite they could tame almost anywhere.
Secondly, if you're planning to either release/update the game to a Lvl60 player cap any time soon, I really feel that 25 and 30 is far too low level cap for the Diamond Wolf, Gyreon and Karios. I would personally suggest Lvl35/40 for the Diamond Wolf and Lvl50/55 for Gyreon and Karios. The mounts can't out level their players so it's not an issue if the level cap at release isn't 60, but changing this will allow their skills/EP/HP to scale with the player rather than becoming obsolete. IMO the Amethyst Wolf would be fine to stay as a level 30, being the lowest tier founder pack.
Hopefully I've adequately managed to express my feelings and reasoning for the elite founder mounts to be upgraded. I want the game to succeed and feel this is a small change that will make a massive difference in any founder players QoL at launch. :)