Mount Suggestion - Morbol!

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Originally Posted by Kotemon

Didnt they already address this with a quest or leve in game where it sated that it wasn't a good idea as a combat mount, let alone trying to tame one in the first place. Not to mention the fact Audrey II would likely eat the neighbors before we can give it anymore blood.

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Flying turtle...

hmm didnt expect that ppl already did suggest this. good that i used the search function first.

So im stepping into the line of ppl waiting for the morbol mount to be an actual thing.

I gave my morbol seedling so much love and cookies its time for it to grow up =).
(all those cookies i couldnt eat myself ='( )

http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...258cc1e803.jpg

"How will it fly?"

Reason why we won't be able to have maybe 50 possible mounts. Including this one.

Well we have a turtle who spins and shoots fire to fly (yes Godzilla ref i know) so... Why not have the tenticles weave together and spin like a prop blade? Or maybe as they has grass for bad breath use that as a kind of rocket.


Edit, not a Godzilla ref... Some weird turtle thing that loves children... Gamera i think?

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Originally Posted by Blackweaver

SE has made some fantastic mounts for this game. Some appearing on the mog shop. But I'd love for SE to consider making a non-flying mount for a patch. Something to bring us out of the clouds and more back onto the land. A Morbol Mount! It has, a relatively flat head, so it wouldn't be too hard to set it up similar to a goobbue and have us ride it. Maybe even include the whole breath attack as a special non-combat move.

Just something to consider!

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Let it have an action like some of the mounts do. Bad Breath animation please.

YES PLS

/lotsofcharacters

I wish it were called it's original name.

I would never use another mount again. Could we have this one carry us like a baby in its tentacles though? Or a chair made of tentacles?

Why can't there be one thread dedicated to new mount ideas o wait i think there is.

Will it be able to eat lala? I am totally down for it if I can devour through a crowd of lala *chomp chomp chomp*

Yep, PAC man skill for lala's!

I have thought about concerns from earlier posts:

How to tame a Malboro?
Someone said that they dont have a brain as they are a plant and as such cant be teached any tricks. That cant be true.

Reason 1: It has some form of surrounding awareness, else it wouldnt be able to notice the player and go over to attack it. The fact that (at least some) Malboros dont have eyes combined with that, leads to the conclusion that they actually need to have something similar to a brain or an actual brain to process such data.

Reason 2: It can move around. (Strange reason i know, bugs and bacteria moves aswell...). With more moveable body parts than a Gobbue (probably written wrong) It needs some mental centre to process all the data of the body parts. (like the current location or the feeling of things it touches and so on)

If thats not enought to remember not to eat mama, then the advances of Allagan and garlean technology sure has some apparatus ready to mindcontrol other beings.

Plants IRL don't have brains, yet it has been proven that they will grow towards sunlight. There are other similar examples where living organisms without a central nervous system respond to stimuli from the environment, like pheromones or vibrations. Things don't need brains to take action.

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Originally Posted by CrimsonThunder

Considering we have Twintania as a mount, they pretty much threw any logic behind not having a Malboro mount out the window.

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Yeah, pretty much all mounts since then have no real logic anymore, which I'm totally okay with. XD It would be interesting to see a Malboro mount, but I'd rather have all mounts be able to traverse sea and air, so we're not limited and can ride any mount we please. ^_^ We have a flying tortoise mount so I'm pretty sure anything is possible.

Tbh let's leave the realms of science behind as science can't explain how a flying horse doesnt loom messed up due to the muscles needed to even fly. It's magic and the same could be said for the taming of a morbol, maybe a whistle calms it enough to ride, there is any number of ways it can be done.

Lore... Well twin killed that yes. If there are enough people who want it then why not? They are an iconic final fantasy mob so they have the status which is all that matters (hell in the final fantasy 3ds game i have i have a morbol mob as a party member so I'm up for having it as a mount here)

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Originally Posted by Pakonitan

We have a flying tortoise mount so I'm pretty sure anything is possible.

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The flying tortoise may be a reference to Genbu, in which the player represent the snake, as long as we are constantly hissing each other in DF.

Yes please !
It could be fun to have some sort of taming process, like you get the mini malboro minion and it gives you a quest to take care of it and make it become a mount ^^

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Originally Posted by Celef

Yes please !
It could be fun to have some sort of taming process, like you get the mini malboro minion and it gives you a quest to take care of it and make it become a mount ^^

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Ooooooh. That could be fun. Though I'd want to grow it in my own garden, first.

I would name her "Mrs. Carrot" for maximum reference material.

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Originally Posted by Lukha

Ooooooh. That could be fun. Though I'd want to grow it in my own garden, first.

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The thing is because of housing restrictions most players don't have a garden :/

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Originally Posted by marewa

Let us ride in its mouth.

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this please. :)

it be funny to see lalafell in the mouths of these.

If it were a cash shop mount, I'd probably pay the $20 for it... X_X

I'd pay the standard amount, might even gift someone one to.

i'm totally for the big a** white carbuncle from the anima relic in idyllshire to be a mount. maybe she fed it too much and it grew too big.

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Originally Posted by Rinari

If it were a cash shop mount, I'd probably pay the $20 for it... X_X

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Shut your dirty mouth and don't give SE any ideas.

They really need to start making mounts account wide if they are going to charge more than a few dollars for a mount.

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Originally Posted by Celef

The thing is because of housing restrictions most players don't have a garden :/

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I'm kinda sick of hearing this, to be honest. There were plenty of free plots on my server, last I checked, and we're getting a whole new area with the expansion. Players without a house can grow plants in an apartment or FC room in planters, so even if you're foolish enough to stay on a critically overpopulated server, you're able to access gardening somewhat, though you'll rightly be at the pricing mercy of whoever's doing the crossbreeding on your server. That's the price you pay for staying where you are.

What it ISN'T, is a valid excuse not to have new housing-related content.

I mean, I guess if they wanted to make it easier on those without houses, they could make the seeds purchasable from a vendor somewhere, or given as part of a questline, rather than made via crossbreeding, then you just have to plug it into a pot in your FC room and you're golden. But if they did choose to make it a crossbreed seed, well, it wouldn't be the end of the world, and would likely even bring a nice jump to the economy on some servers.

Morbol mount with Bad Breath mount skill please.

I'd like an Ultros mount honestly.

Okay, lemme throw in the idea I just had:

A giant flan mount that you 'ride' not on top but floating around inside it.

Can we also get an animation for Bad Breath while mounting the Morbol?

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Originally Posted by marewa

Let us ride in its mouth.

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This would be a super cool thing also.

They actually added it to Final Fantasy XI. Unfortunatelly all 12 XI mounts except Fenrir didn't made it into XIV.

http://wakuwakudiabolos.sakura.ne.jp...orbolmount.jpg

damn that thing looks disgusting. what i always wanted in ARR was the tombery king as a mount where u sit on his crown or in the lantern

Tentacle mount that gains 3x speed in the vicinity of seifuku and bikini glams.

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Originally Posted by Bloody

Plants IRL don't have brains, yet it has been proven that they will grow towards sunlight. There are other similar examples where living organisms without a central nervous system respond to stimuli from the environment, like pheromones or vibrations. Things don't need brains to take action.

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Growing towards the sun can hardly compared with a morbols movements

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Originally Posted by YunnS

Growing towards the sun can hardly compared with a morbols movements

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Okay, would you like to discuss how carnivorous plants act to trap their prey based on external stimuli? The main point of my post was how central nervous systems (which the brain is a part of) aren't necessary for movement, so trying to use some pseudo-science (incorrectly) to justify a control device that justifies the mount was silly. I'm not arguing against a morbol mount (we have a spinning flying turtle, all bets are off), I was just pointing out a small error.

Morbols detect by sound and respond for a reason.

hmm ok, its true that i have actually no idea what im talking about =) and i first was like: nah ok lets not have that discussion, but now after i have thought about it for a day im very much interested where it would end up.

I still dont feel like im ultra wrong with what i wrote. If tentacle A doesnt know what tentacle B, C and D is doing there cant be any coordinated movement.

Tbh, i just want a morbol, bad breath animation, I'm happy.

=( looks like there arent many ppl who realy want to ride a morbol. It would make such a great mount

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Originally Posted by Erdgeist

If we get a morbol mount, I totally wanna see it fly, too.

Make its tentacles move like a helicopter or something.
A morbolcopter.

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Nah, using is breath as propulsion!

flying carpet mount would be nice. Don't even want see a morbol mount there so creepy looking.