I love mounts, buy the Expansion if you want them plain and simple that's what all of us did. It's one of the main reasons I purchased. Don't whine if you don't buy it the way I look at it is lots of people pay monthly service charges for a lot of other MMO's with GW & 2 it has always been purchase core and expansion to receive new content. THERE IS NO MONTHLY FEE so I wish people would just be quite already buy it if you want the mounts if not don't play.