Another new exciting feature as been announced for the WoW Expansion Mists of Pandari – Account-wide mounts! This is hopefully the first of many account wide features that will be coming our way. You farmed FOREVER to get that Amani War Bear that almost no one has, but you only get it for that one toon? No longer! With this you can rock your fancy mounts on all your toons! A quick Q&A was posted on Wow joystiq earlier today to give everyone a feel for what they have to look forward to:

• Do rare mounts show up on all characters? Yes — as long as they aren’t faction-specific. You won’t be able to ride Alliance mounts on your Horde characters or vice versa. Faction mounts have always been restricted to faction-only status; since the profession mounts are still under their restrictions, I think we can safely assume the faction-restricted mounts will be, as well.
• Do TCG mounts show up? Yes. If you’re lucky enough to have a Spectral Tiger, you’ll see it on all your characters.
• What about mounts that have been removed from the game? My characters are all able to ride around on the original Amani War Bear as well as the Swift Zhevra from the original Recruit-A-Friend program. I think it’s safe to say that even if you can’t get something in game anymore, if you got it once, it’s yours on all the characters you play.
• Will the Violet Proto-Drake give me fast flying on all my characters? Currently, yes — but you have to actually use the Violet Proto-Drake on your character before it will acknowledge the fast flying. Likely this is because learning the mount is what triggers the auto-upgrade to flight speed on live. Will this behavior make it to live servers? We don’t know for sure.
• Are account-wide mounts account-wide or Battle.net account-wide? We don’t know — and we can’t find that out. When your account is flagged for the Mists of Pandaria beta, it’s flagged via your Battle.net email address. You can copy characters over from any game account you have under that Battle.net account. However, when you do so, you’re essentially copying over to a new account specifically created for the beta servers. There isn’t any switching between different WoW licensed accounts on the beta. It’s all under the same thing. So we’ve got no way to test this at all.
• What about class-specific mounts? At the moment, characters can ride class-specific mounts. So if you have a warlock with a Dreadsteed, your druid can ride that Dreadsteed around too. I don’t expect this situation to make it to live servers like this — I suspect we’ll see things changed to react the same way that profession-specific mounts work. You’ll see the mount in your list, but you won’t be able to ride it unless you’re a warlock.