Suggestions: Quality of Life Stuff and other suggestions

[Zenion]

Granted, most mounts in FFXI come from campaigns, except for the personal chocobo, the one you get from unlocking the mount command, and fenrir, so there isn't really any noteworthy accomplishments to show off. But I always say "you do you..."

And that flying machine from the other quest, Omega from Vana'versary RoE, and my personal favorite the spectral chair from Halloween.

It'd be nice to see more mounts that take effort besides logging in and trading in the points, though. This month's Byakko mount could have been nifty as a rare drop from original-recipe Byakko and guaranteed from Escha - Ru'aun's extra-spicy version.

[Pixela]

I would love if they added mounts with passive buffs like regen, refresh, tp gain while mounted.

Link them to MR rank to unlock or some RoE objective.

I would do near anything in the game to get a black armored chocobo as a proper collectable mount.

[Immortal]

I'm sure that isn't far off, they seem to be adding more and more. I am waiting for them to add the Delve NMs

[Alhanelem]

And that flying machine from the other quest, Omega from Vana'versary RoE, and my personal favorite the spectral chair from Halloween.

It'd be nice to see more mounts that take effort besides logging in and trading in the points, though. This month's Byakko mount could have been nifty as a rare drop from original-recipe Byakko and guaranteed from Escha - Ru'aun's extra-spicy version.

It seems I've missed a few....

[Alhanelem]

I would love if they added mounts with passive buffs like regen, refresh, tp gain while mounted.

Link them to MR rank to unlock or some RoE objective.

I would do near anything in the game to get a black armored chocobo as a proper collectable mount.

that stuff about buffs on a mount is silly, mounts are not supposed to be beneficial to combat in any way, particularly considering you can't fight on them.

That aside... I'm pretty sure they promised us being able to obtain those armored chocobos, but that never happened.

[Zenion]

that stuff about buffs on a mount is silly, mounts are not supposed to be beneficial to combat in any way, particularly considering you can't fight on them.

That aside... I'm pretty sure they promised us being able to obtain those armored chocobos, but that never happened.

Ooh, ooh, two birds with one stone! I know this is a super silly idea but what if mounted combat? Make combat mounts that are slower (because mount speed would be a major balance issue otherwise), maybe reduce but don't fully eliminate mob aggro, but have some kind of benefit - geo-style buffs for the rider, additional attacks, damage transference (you take 80% and your mount takes 20% or something like that?)

Also it would be cool setup for a new job, Chocobo Knight maybe? I mean, no, there's no way we're ever getting more new jobs but hey none of this is gonna happen so why not dream big. Not sure if you'd want to make combat mounts usable in dungeon zones, or use this to encourage more outdoor fighting. Given there are no outdoor areas worth doing content in I guess you'd have to allow it inside if there's a job based around it?

Oh yeah and you know while we're looking at a whole mount system to make it combat friendly, somebody could maybe, like, I dunno, maybe look at doing a thing where summoners can ride on their avatars' shoulders, maybe? Just, you know, just as a little bit of a fun thing? ... no? Shut up, summoner? Okay, I'll get back in the box now.

[Alhanelem]

Ooh, ooh, two birds with one stone! I know this is a super silly idea but what if mounted combat? Make combat mounts that are slower (because mount speed would be a major balance issue otherwise), maybe reduce but don't fully eliminate mob aggro, but have some kind of benefit - geo-style buffs for the rider, additional attacks, damage transference (you take 80% and your mount takes 20% or something like that?)

Also it would be cool setup for a new job, Chocobo Knight maybe? I mean, no, there's no way we're ever getting more new jobs but hey none of this is gonna happen so why not dream big. Not sure if you'd want to make combat mounts usable in dungeon zones, or use this to encourage more outdoor fighting. Given there are no outdoor areas worth doing content in I guess you'd have to allow it inside if there's a job based around it?

Oh yeah and you know while we're looking at a whole mount system to make it combat friendly, somebody could maybe, like, I dunno, maybe look at doing a thing where summoners can ride on their avatars' shoulders, maybe? Just, you know, just as a little bit of a fun thing? ... no? Shut up, summoner? Okay, I'll get back in the box now.

Mouinted combat would require the movement speed of being mounted to be negated during combat or it would require all monsters to run faster to balance the fact that we can now deal damage while also avoiding it by running around on mounts.

[Zenion]

Mouinted combat would require the movement speed of being mounted to be negated during combat or it would require all monsters to run faster to balance the fact that we can now deal damage while also avoiding it by running around on mounts.

Yup, that was touched on in the suggestion. You'd need combat mounts to be slower because you can't increase mob speed without it causing just all kinds of extra trouble (kiting would be all but impossible, to start; ranged actions and magic could be devalued due to things moving out of range. So you'd have to have fast mounts, that work the way mounts do now (no aggro, no fighting, no benefit besides fast and avoiding combat), and then fighting mounts, which move at player movement speed but facilitate mounted combat.

Oh, but you know what else would be really, really nice to see in a combat mount? No spell interruption for movement while mounted. Maybe another one that prevents "you moved and interrupted your aim". I'd do whatever nonsense it took to unlock those, for sure.

But again, this is daydreaming more than a real suggestion. So much would need to be revamped to make it actually worth the effort.

(... hey, what if instead of new mounts, it was like an augment slot thing, you pick one ability to give to any one of your current mounts and then it can do that thing but only if you're using it as a war mount instead of a standard one...)

[Pixela]

Buff mounts are mainly as a hook to do content, many mmorpgs use mounts in this way.

Giving so many mounts away from login points is kind of silly imo, they should be from roe rewards for doing easier content or something.

[Tekrave]

Currently there are 15 total mog safe/storage slots (Mog Safe -> Mog Wardrobe 8), they were able to add Mog Wadrobe 5 through Mog Wardrobe 8 so is there any reason why they are all still capped at 80? Please consider increasing the cap for Mog Safe, Mog Safe 2, Storage, Mog Locker, Mog Satchel, Mog Sack, Mog Case, Mog Wardrobe to 99 if possible.

Sorry for cutting in on the mount suggestions.