Let us use other mounts as companions.

[Cabalabob]

I was talking with my friend about beast master class, and we thought it would be cool if instead of beast master as a class, what if they made it so we could use all our mounts as companions?

They could add different healer, Attacker and tank skills to each mount. So you could pick how to specialise each companion. Like have your Couerl as an attacker chocobo as a healer and Magitek armour as a tank.

With some tweaks to the companion system in general we thought it could work pretty well.

[Kamina33]

Oh man, great idea!

The thought that every mount you acquire could potentially be leveled in a different way would be amazing. I'm sure it'd be easy to implement too, since the attack animations are already in place for most if not all those mounts.

[chocomaid]

+1 to that. Having an active couerl/ahriman or even a unicorn companion with different possible trees/specific companion abilities would bring spice to the game.

Well, as long as they fix some of the companion problems first. e.g. summoning them while in queue/etc

[Eidolon]

LFBeast Master. Must have Nightmare Mount and i90. PST.

[myahele]

That would be very nice. This was talked about many months ago and the general concensus was that it would be a great idea. The general mechanics and animation is there. It should be easy to implement as well.

Although I think someone said that they don't plan on doing that. But don't take my word for it

[Enkidoh]

I think another problem is it would only make things worse with the exclusive mounts (ala, original 1.0 goobbue, Legacy chocobo, CE version coreul) would be either made pointlessly weak so as not to unbalance the 'normal' mounts that are freely available, or else be made 'special' and hence overpowered, and thus cause a ton of new bile aimed at players which have them. Not to mention the models would have to be redesigned to accommodate barding.

Instead of using the other mounts as companions, I'd more like to see SE add the option to actually use your mount in combat while mounted, FFT style. I mean, it wouldn't be too hard to program into the game - there is already mounted combat abilities in the game (during the Praetorium,

you have to use the magitek armour to destroy the robot arms that block your way, and hence extra commands to use the magitek armour's weapons are added to your hotbar temporarily.

Hence it wouldn't be too difficult to extend that further to all mounts. But I guess, balance probably has a lot to do with it.

Still, I can dream.

[lololink]

I think another problem is it would only make things worse with the exclusive mounts (ala, original 1.0 goobbue, Legacy chocobo, CE version coreul) would be either made pointlessly weak so as not to unbalance the 'normal' mounts that are freely available, or else be made 'special' and hence overpowered, and thus cause a ton of new bile aimed at players which have them. Not to mention the models would have to be redesigned to accommodate barding.

Or makes every mounts the same simply with different animations and ability names.

[Seif]

While that does sound good I hope they flesh out the current companion system more before moving on. Most people don't even use them as they are now.

The skill trees should have more actual skills to companions rather than filler +1 "skills" they have now.
Content aimed for companions would be fun to have.

[casker]

would rather have a straight up beast master to be honest

as for companions though, I would like to be able to bring my retainer to battle

[NeruMew]

Idk... I think it's a good idea, though doubt theyll do it cause implies a lot of work, they already want to make magitek a fight companion but they said it takes long (or something like that, they will do it but it's gonna take time to come in) lol.. So yeah I dont see much future to having too many companions, not in the foreseeable future anyway.

Plus I don't think they should leave aside a puppetmaster class for companions :P If anything we should have both!