can we get rid of.....!!!

I'm pretty okay with the mount cast time.

Not automatically dismounting when I attack drives me nuts.

Please let us do this, SE. Make it a toggle, even.

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Originally Posted by Jirah

I freaking hate topics that clickbait you in

"Guys we need to talk..."

"about Raid shadow legends!"

for gods sakes just say what u need to say in topic

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So you can have people like you and me react and post in it. Brilliant forum bait!

Ontopic: Completely indifferent to this request. The 2 seconds don't bother me at all.

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Originally Posted by Gothicshark

The two games mentioned prior in this thread are both Pay to Win games, sadly both started out as good MMOs but became Pay to Win trash. No, I do not want pay to win trash to hit FFXIV.

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Unless I am missing something in ESO, which I also play, it's not p2w, unless of course you are one of those that are of that camp that having to purchase the dlc to get access to the gear that drops from the content of said dlc makes it p2w, but if that's the case, so is xiv since you need to buy ShB to get items from ShB content.

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Originally Posted by M0rrigan

I wish we could talk to NPCs without dismounting

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That's probably more to do with how NPC interactions work. So many conversations are basically mini-cutscenes, with gestures and emotes and stuff, that it's easier and less confusing to disallow mounted conversations altogether than to let you stay mounted for some but not others (probably can't talk to NPCs while sitting for the same reason.)

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Originally Posted by Brightamethyst

That's probably more to do with how NPC interactions work. So many conversations are basically mini-cutscenes, with gestures and emotes and stuff, that it's easier and less confusing to disallow mounted conversations altogether than to let you stay mounted for some but not others (probably can't talk to NPCs while sitting for the same reason.)

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This has to do with the fact that most any interaction will dismount you or require you to dismount first. Talk to an NPC? dismount. Click on the 'wait here' action on the ground or try to perform an action such as using a dye or craft an item? It'll tell you 'can't perform that action now'. Until you dismount.

Only two things I remember that won't dismount you. Change jobs and eat food.

It used to be you had to manually dismount before you were able to talk to an npc or zone into an area were mounts were not allowed, like cities. The cast time for mounts, however, is so minor it doesn't really interfere with anything, including gathering, unless you are just super impatient and likely has to do the way the server handles the fact we can summon 1 of over 100 mounts at will, sometimes randomized by the system. That would be a lot of information to store. Most games with instant cast mounts that do not slow you down, only let you have one selected as your mount at a time.

The one mount animation I wish they would bring back, is the small cutscene we got in version 1 when we finally got our chocobo license, which took quite a long time, we had to slow run everywhere for about half that versions life cycle iirc since they were so slow to add mounts. It was short but cute.

Edit: finally found a link to the cutscene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XXVE4hPYYc