During the Q&A Panel at BlizzCon, Blizzard surprised the audience by responding obtusely to the question of when mounts will be usable in dungeons. One of the most annoying things in the game is probably those times when you’re trying to cross a stream or something, only to get dismounted and have to summon your mount again after you cross. Well, Ghostcrawler — in a BlizzCon exclusive — says that will soon be a thing of the past. All ground mounts will be usable in water in the first patch following Wrath of the Lich King. It took us a bit to confirm that considering, well, it sounded like a joke. You all know how Blizzard loves to kid around.

This probably means you’ll be able to submerge with your mount. In one of the older patches in The Burning Crusade, flying mounts were adjusted so that you are no longer dismounted when coming into contact with water. That additionally made it impossible to dive into the water without manually dismounting from your flying mount. A different behavior will probably happen for ground mounts. Thanks to the change, we can happily cross that off the list of annoying things in the game.