Disappointing Rank 8 Reward of Ananta Tribe

Rather had a outfit for beast tribe than another griffin mount. Wish if they wasn't going to add a outfit they added more glamour accessories. Like necklace, bracelet, earrings, and maybe fancy heeled shoes. Not sure why they needed to have two mounts for one beast tribe seems like a waste to me. Hope for next one they don't add any mounts and give more glamour items and housing items. Also Never asked for a white griffin mount wish ones would quit thinking that's what everyone wanted. If knew last reward was going to be another mount would not wasted my time getting to it.

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Originally Posted by hynaku

Rather had a outfit for beast tribe than another griffin mount. Wish if they wasn't going to add a outfit they added more glamour accessories. Like necklace, bracelet, earrings, and maybe fancy heeled shoes. Not sure why they needed to have two mounts for one beast tribe seems like a waste to me. Hope for next one they don't add any mounts and give more glamour items and housing items.

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I think that'd be more than fair despite the fact I'm quite happy with their rewards currently. Chances are pretty good that an Ananta themed outfit will be added though. They've done it before.

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Originally Posted by Claviusnex

The Bloodhempen set gives me more of a feel of a Mesoamerican outfit but a I agree the Ananta is very much an Indian influence.

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When I posted that I did want to say it had a Native American vibe, but upon actually doing a little bit of looking at Native dress for MesoAmerican stuff and Native American stuff, and then looking at some Mongolian outfits, I felt it was much closer to Mongolian stuff, which is where the Xaela stuff draws inspiration from. The shape is very different from the robes and stuff (which they included in a lot of other sets.) But the embellishments all look pretty accurate.

Also, on another note. Like the Ananta are all about beauty. Glamour items from them just made sense. Even if not a snake body or their exact outfit.

Fingernails was certainly not something I equated with the ananta >>;

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Originally Posted by alimdia

It's possible, though if that was the case I don't see why would they give it its own category, I'd assume they meant to add more quests to that category, and beast tribes have their own category.

https://i.imgur.com/z66IdYh.png

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True, but they did that for the doman adventuring guild too and that went nowhere

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Originally Posted by hynaku

Also Never asked for a white griffin mount wish ones would quit thinking that's what everyone wanted. If knew last reward was going to be another mount would not wasted my time getting to it.

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I was thinking the same, who asked for a repainted mount we already had?? I didn't saw anything like that xD

Also I didn't hope we would have a tail, but some glamour inspired? yes, like every tribe since they implemented this in HW. I feel this is a bit unfair, like wth they're the only ones without clothes?? not fair at all.

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Originally Posted by MorfineCeres18

I was thinking the same, who asked for a repainted mount we already had?? I didn't saw anything like that xD

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The original Griffin mount, that was a HW Collectors Edition exclusive. It's easy to say well we already had it, but in actual fact not everyone did nor do they still do, so how about we consider other players as well eh, they pay sub too.

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Originally Posted by Kurando

The original Griffin mount, that was a HW Collectors Edition exclusive. It's easy to say well we already had it, but in actual fact not everyone did nor do they still do, so how about we consider other players as well eh, they pay sub too.

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Apparently they didn't pay the collector's edition upgrade lol

The upgrade which, to my knowledge, is available at any time. I imagine when the poster says "We already had it" they meant it's available to anyone who wants it; ie, "We already have pony mounts." Not everyone has them, but they're available to be obtained at any time.

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Originally Posted by Dualgunner

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Yes but regardless of whether its accessable at any time (people can spend money how they want), why should anyone have to pay to obtain a mount when they can just get a free one from doing the Tribe quests. Just like with the Mystic Panda on MogStation it's essentially the bear mount just recoloured, so not everyone will see the worth in buying it when there is free ones to obtain in game. The Griffin was not available to everyone for free until the Ananta Tribe came, that's all.

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Originally Posted by Kurando

Yes but regardless of whether its accessable at any time (people can spend money how they want), why should anyone have to pay to obtain a mount when they can just get a free one from doing the Tribe quests. Just like with the Mystic Panda on MogStation it's essentially the bear mount just recoloured, so not everyone will see the worth in buying it when there is free ones to obtain in game. The Griffin was not available to everyone for free until the Ananta Tribe came, that's all.

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Of course, now, after the True Griffin was released as in-game obtainable, it's not entirely worth getting the HW CE mount. The mystic panda was released after the bear (and armored flying bear) mounts in-game, is a major difference. In retrospect though, it's weird they put it in the Ananta tribe quests instead of msq, because ananta already had the elephant mount.

You are right though. This is a rare moment of SE taking something one used to have to pay money for, and making it obtainable in game.

How about some reskins of Raid Mounts available to everyone for free?

They could made white true griffin mount like how they did for death claw mount. Buy it from achievement points. That been so simple to of done. Could see men wearing jewelry top. Seen in a lot movies back in BC time period rich men wearing it.

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Originally Posted by hynaku

They could made white true griffin mount like how they did for death claw mount. Buy it from achievement points. That been so simple to of done.

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imo it should have been an MSQ reward. We just liberated the city state with a white griffin on its flag, the resistance (or even Ala Mhigo proper) could have presented us with one as a symbol of gratitude.

Next Beast Tribe Quest: Namazu! With an ugly namazu beast tribe outfit! Ananta outfit? "Look foward to it!"

Hey, we wouldn't want developers and designers who's job it is to create content to feel awkward over having to alter armor meant for females to fit male characters! Heavens forfend Artists move out of their comfort zone!

Tbh I would be okay with SE firing the design team members (Probably all of them) responsible for the Collar apocalypse and the coat catastrophe and hiring artists that didn't squirm at the thought of good looking male outfits.

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Originally Posted by Kurando

The original Griffin mount, that was a HW Collectors Edition exclusive. It's easy to say well we already had it, but in actual fact not everyone did nor do they still do, so how about we consider other players as well eh, they pay sub too.

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People can still upgrade their version online if they want the mount. I mean if we argue like that, can we have all the other items that are not avaiable anymore as recolors ingame? (And yes that would be fantastic but only if we dont lose unique stuff for that) Because if something that can still be bought outside of it (and way more simple and cheaper than most merchandise) is put into the game as a recolor other items should get that too...

They could have easily given us that mount as part of the story line..kinda like a true thank you from Ala Mhigo. Its bad enough that the other mount is put into this with barely any work done to it. (That flying animation..) But to give us another recolor on top of that? I did not like the Kojin Glamour that much since it was so different from the HW glamour (had hoped that they would give us the beast man skin like they did with the Vanu) but at least it was something new. Now they are getting lazy with the beast tribes too. :/ Having some nice and unique glamour at the highest rank was always some kind of motivation to do these daily, now I am just like "well I will get there...sometimes.." because its just another recolor.

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Originally Posted by Bellsong

Hey, we wouldn't want developers and designers who's job it is to create content to feel awkward over having to alter armor meant for females to fit male characters! Heavens forfend Artists move out of their comfort zone!

Tbh I would be okay with SE firing the design team members (Probably all of them) responsible for the Collar apocalypse and the coat catastrophe and hiring artists that didn't squirm at the thought of good looking male outfits.

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Agreed, they really need to change things up.

Darn. I was hoping for an Ananta housing bed I could coil up into =/.

Any Ananta housing stuff would've been great, that Ananta bed was really cute :/

I'm down with more mounts instead of space-sucking Halloween costumes anyway, so yay.

About griffin i prefer that than pay with my money another griffin ._.

Oh, another thing:

The only complaint I have about this mount is that the game makes ZERO mention of it becoming available in the shop. Normally whenever anything is added to it, a message pops up saying so, but when I hit rank 8 all I got was the message about increased EXP from daily quests.

Really easy to miss out on it unless you just happened to check the shop again despite not getting any message for it, especially so considering that the tribe already gave you a marid mount and therefore you might not even be expecting another mount (as far as I remember, every other tribe up until now has only given one mount)

I like the griffin, I don't have HW collector's edition so this is a nice addition for me. :)

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Originally Posted by Fynlar

Oh, another thing:

The only complaint I have about this mount is that the game makes ZERO mention of it becoming available in the shop. Normally whenever anything is added to it, a message pops up saying so, but when I hit rank 8 all I got was the message about increased EXP from daily quests.

Really easy to miss out on it unless you just happened to check the shop again despite not getting any message for it, especially so considering that the tribe already gave you a marid mount and therefore you might not even be expecting another mount (as far as I remember, every other tribe up until now has only given one mount)

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thing is if you're really into mount collecting people in the know know that the Ananta would give two mounts. plus the npc's shop items can be seen on sites like garlandtools so it's all there out in the open.

It was a 'win' for me. Im pretty indifferent to the Ananta beast tribe armor. The griffin is cooler than the elephant. SO getting that at tier 8 was plenty fine with me. To each their own, though.

I really like the Griffin but beast costumes are cool too.

I was expecting a costume that looked more like the kojin and not a themed armor, but its something.

usually you get a mount of what you ride on for the quests, so technically it is mentioned... a lot (there has been an instance where we didn't get mount but the rest we always got what we rode for quests.)

Less disappointing and more offensive, since the mount is a big middle finger to everyone who bought the HW collectors edition

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Originally Posted by NolLacnala

Less disappointing and more offensive, since the mount is a big middle finger to everyone who bought the HW collectors edition

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I guess the Parade Chocobo must be a huge middle finger for those who bought the ARR Collectors Edition, too.
Depending on the type of Collectors Edition you got, it's not much of a middle finger (if physical, you got a bunch of stuff outside of the game). I'm willing to 'forgive' SE on making this griffin available for everyone, as I was pretty miffed about the physical collectors edition being around $300 in Australia.

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Originally Posted by Nestama

I guess the Parade Chocobo must be a huge middle finger for those who bought the ARR Collectors Edition, too.
Depending on the type of Collectors Edition you got, it's not much of a middle finger (if physical, you got a bunch of stuff outside of the game). I'm willing to 'forgive' SE on making this griffin available for everyone, as I was pretty miffed about the physical collectors edition being around $300 in Australia.

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It's good for people who didn't or couldn't get the collectors, but it's another case of SE giving zero fugs. I eagerly await the day cash-shop only items become acquirable in-game and the complaint storm rolls in

I would like to point out that it's also the least useful reputation ever, aside the one time buy, the only thing for sells are venture coins and the housing vendors.
At least you can buy some crafting materials with the earlier ones.

I get the feeling that they wanted to change a bit the rewards with the anantas, but I feel like they missed the mark and/or that they did not change enough.
I don't agree that they should given us clothes of the tribe since imho there's not enough to make a worthwile set beside the obvious problem of impersonating a tribe without tail, still there could've been different approaches like Jewelry as it is stated that anantas are great at metalworking they could have given us unique accessory glamor and/or weapon glamour and let's not forget that they could've allowed us to buy their beds.

Don't get me wrong I enjoyed the story ride and I really like the idea of changing the world but I think that the rep as a whole is disappointing because as I said earlier it doesn't really give much about anantas at least for my taste and the rewards are, still in my opinion, on the poor side

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Originally Posted by NolLacnala

Less disappointing and more offensive, since the mount is a big middle finger to everyone who bought the HW collectors edition

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...I got the HW CE (and the griffin mount included in it) and it really doesnt feel that way to me...?
I never expected it to be exclusive - and I dont care about it being exclusive either.
Havent gotten the white griffin yet (missed a couple of days) but I'm looking forward to it! I prefer it over the HW-one - and I didnt buy the CE for the mount in the first place...

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Originally Posted by NolLacnala

Less disappointing and more offensive, since the mount is a big middle finger to everyone who bought the HW collectors edition

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Originally Posted by Nestama

I guess the Parade Chocobo must be a huge middle finger for those who bought the ARR Collectors Edition, too.
Depending on the type of Collectors Edition you got, it's not much of a middle finger (if physical, you got a bunch of stuff outside of the game). I'm willing to 'forgive' SE on making this griffin available for everyone, as I was pretty miffed about the physical collectors edition being around $300 in Australia.

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You can get the griffin by just upgrading to the digital CE, it's not a physical exclusive. I'm not really upset by it. It's not like it was a preorder bonus item.

I just wish that if they wre just gonna give us a bunch of reused assets for rewards, we would have gotten more.

It's not even the only item exclusive to the CE. And, it's a recolor. By all accounts, the Griffin is still locked to the CE.

Good lord, they put an alternative to a Mogstation/CE exclusive purchasable item in the game for anyone to earn just by playing the game.

Isn't this literally the exact thing we want to see happen more iften, verses funneling more items to the cash shop? It's the same thing as the Red Devil verses the MSQ Magitek mount.

My problem with the true griffin mount isn't that it's any sort of "middle finger" to people who bought the CE. It's fine, whatever, I rarely use it and will rarely use its recolor. My issue is we got it as a reward from the ananta's beast tribe as opposed to perhaps some glamour. I know glamour isn't important to everybody, and I'm not saying it should be: my personal disappointment is we got none, and I wanted some.

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Originally Posted by Dualgunner

My problem with the true griffin mount isn't that it's any sort of "middle finger" to people who bought the CE. It's fine, whatever, I rarely use it and will rarely use its recolor. My issue is we got it as a reward from the ananta's beast tribe as opposed to perhaps some glamour. I know glamour isn't important to everybody, and I'm not saying it should be: my personal disappointment is we got none, and I wanted some.

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Exactly, people is focusing in the mount and that was not the problem since the start, is the fact that there's no glamour like in the other tribes, I don't really care if we get one or two mounts, or if one is a recolor of another, I just wanted and waited for my ananta glamour, even if I knew it was not gonna be with a tail, and we got none, that's sad and a bit unfair for me :/

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Originally Posted by MorfineCeres18

Exactly, people is focusing in the mount and that was not the problem since the start, is the fact that there's no glamour like in the other tribes, I don't really care if we get one or two mounts, or if one is a recolor of another, I just wanted and waited for my ananta glamour, even if I knew it was not gonna be with a tail, and we got none, that's sad and a bit unfair for me :/

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Like I said earlier in the thread, it's still possible (and highly likely imo) that they'll add some Ananta glamours to the vendor. The same thing happened with HW beast tribes. Maybe they ran out of time and/or resources? It's hard to say. I'd give them till at least the next patch though.

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Originally Posted by MorfineCeres18

Exactly, people is focusing in the mount and that was not the problem since the start, is the fact that there's no glamour like in the other tribes, I don't really care if we get one or two mounts, or if one is a recolor of another, I just wanted and waited for my ananta glamour, even if I knew it was not gonna be with a tail, and we got none, that's sad and a bit unfair for me :/

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While I understand the desire for Ananta-glamour the "like the other tribes"-statment doesnt really hold true - out of the 10 tribes we have, only 3 (Vanu, Gnath, Kojin) recived glamour-options that are giving you the apperance of those tribes.
The Moogles got the slippers and in a sense both Ananta and Ixal are offering some glamour for the hands.

I'm not saying people are wrong asking/wishing for an Ananta-glamour (even though: tail is not gonna happen, kiss that goodbye - at least thats my assumption), but the beast-tribe-costume is not as definite as some of you seem to think it to be.
Look at how all HW and ARR beast tribes gave us two pets instead of one - even if one was only a recolour-version. They're trying new rewards for the beast tribes from time to time - so yeah, probably a good idea to let them know that the costume one was a good idea, but I wouldnt consider it "unfair". Wouldnt be surprised if they thought the Ananta-outfit wasnt intresting enough - seeing how we're having similar tops, skirts and headpieces already and wanted to avoid the "its just a reskin! I want my tail!"-outcry.

Ananta Gear with Medusa Hair.... I would've been soooo happy. As for guys.... um... Idk.. *Inner me* (Screw the guys, Lamias are all female only anyways! *evil laugh*)

I'm disappointed that it was labeled as "Ananta" when it should have been labeled "More of the Resistance that just so happens to feature Ananta"

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Originally Posted by rjspencer4

I'm disappointed that it was labeled as "Ananta" when it should have been labeled "More of the Resistance that just so happens to feature Ananta"

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It was more like "general Ala Mhigo populance" really, though the rank 7 quest does have a bit more focus on the Ananta atleast.