[dev1082] How about a mounted class?

Instead of chocobos as mere transportation, why not have them as a class of their own that can ride around and do battle. Your weapon would be reigns or a chocobo flute. When you equip it, you are put on top of a chocobo and you can run around with it and use it in battle. Your chocobo would have it's own special attacks like kick, peck, and choco meteor.

To go along with your chocobo you'd have a crafting class just for it. To "repair" your bird, you'd feed it greens. The choco-crafter is the class you'd switch to to do so. Maybe he'd also build equipment for your bird or things to breed or evolve your bird.

I'd love seeing Chocobo Knight as a LNC job. I can just imagine it...you being able to fight with chocobo as pet or mount it and fight mounted! Would be very interesting you having actions for both knight and chocobo that can only be used if mounted or not! ^^ Even the auto attack could change...while mounted you attacking twice and having much stronger high TP cost WSs or staying separated and they both having their own light TP WSs.

Would be cool and all but I find it really hard to believe that some people would really want to bother the devs with something like this when they have so many more important things to worry about.

I'm all for a class/job-specific mounted class such as Chocobo Knight. I really think it could work as a pet class that u can mount in battle. Plus, NOW would be the time to mention it to SE since they are at this very moment getting the new jobs realized.

I'm wondering if they will have the Magitek/Terra FF6 style mounts that Tanaka had in mind. That'd make for an awesome engineered mount. Hell, that could spawn an engineer class (steampunk style of course) too.

Anyway, back on topic... I think some ppl have also proposed chocobo jousting (pvp?) and chocobo raid battles/caravan protection quest scenarios. I mean, why else would they be wearing armor if not to ride INTO BATTLE with them!? And don't even get me started on how cool archery would be while mounted.

This is a great idea! You can have a choco pet to help you attack, OR you can mount it! That's sooo fun!

Same with DRG. LET US MOUNT OUR DRAGONS AND CARBUNCLES :D

At 1st I thought this would be better of as a LNC Job but then I start to think of the other classes mainly ARC and GLA.

not been following much as im preoccupied playing the game, but will there be a Musketeer class seeing as there a guild in LL for it? if yes then I want mounted marksmen (dirty jokes aside)

A thought, they could make the chocobo take up a party member slot(like adventuring fellows did) then they would be balancing the class/job/extension or w/e against 2 party members instead of 1. Also could make gyshal greens/dried peppers have an effect on them during battle.

Alaltus, wasnt it Dead Peppers not Dried Peppers?

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Originally Posted by Alaltus

A thought, they could make the chocobo take up a party member slot(like adventuring fellows did) then they would be balancing the class/job/extension or w/e against 2 party members instead of 1. Also could make gyshal greens/dried peppers have an effect on them during battle.

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or allow us to call our NPC from the storyline to help us in battle? i think that be a better idea then allowing a chocobo attack with limit attack and can't be set as healer lol.

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Originally Posted by Skeloton

Alaltus, wasnt it Dead Peppers not Dried Peppers?

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probbably lol

I'm totally with you. Just actually commented on this in the Other forum in a Chocobo post. I was originally hoping for this in FFXI WoG based on the concept art. Since they are considering job specific mounts, my thought was that maybe a possible job stemming from the Lancer class could be Chocobo Knight. It could act as a pet job. When pet was called the player would automatically mount their Choco and then would fight with a lancer weapon from their mount. The job could have added pet equipment slots for Choco breastplate and helmet armor. I think this would be a killer concept! Maybe since the job is mounted and the Choco would have it's own armor it would be reasonable to make it have lower damage but a great deal of defense. The result could be a second true tank class. Also "WARK!" would be the equivalent of provoke. ;)

chocobo Knight are you kidding?? Does he peck the mob and get Super Buffs when eating greens!?!?!?!

whats with this stupid chocobo knight terribleness. do ppl honestly think they will let ppl fight on a choco while xping with others get real, and if they did add that job then i think id shoot myself cuz it sounds so retarded, i mean think about how stupid it sounds just saying it, "Chocobo Knight" wut kinda retarded moves does this class have. and tell me where in the world it has a place in xp pts.

So nice seeing trolls using their mule accounts now that character info is linked...

Anyway, chocobo knight is a real class incase you don't know. It is a pretty strong melee/buffer. Try out FFTA2 and you might change your mind about it.

dont worry about my character, I have 4 different characters leveled. so it would be logical to use the one that matches my account name and my killingifrit name. go back to bed.

In the JP forum Yoshi-P commented on how he was thinking of reason why we would be fighting on mounts. Someone asked them specifically that they wanted to be an archer on a mount I believe. When I read this for some reason it "implied to me" (not confirmed just me) that if we did have mount fighting (i want chocobo fighting but he's set on mounts), it would be in content designed where everyone is on mounts, and not content where one person is a chocobo knight and another is a lnc or something like that, we'd all enter the instance and be on mounts and fight upon mounts. If they would develop new jobs for that who knows.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...425#post236425

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

Yoshida did have a comment about mounted battles when the discussion came up, too!

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Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida

It would be very difficult to feature mounted battles on every field. Therefore, instead of creating mediocre content for every area, we would like to make these battles special. This will be far ahead in the future, but if we were to implement mounted battles, we would like to make this specialized content. This way we can focus our resources to create the most interesting and optimized content.

The road is very long, so we would greatly appreciate your patience and support. m(._.)m

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Felt this should be put up here. No specific class, just mounted combat in specific encounters.

zenaku ur an idiot! if u want something like that then play TOR when it releases. i think a choco knight class is a dumb idea lol!

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Originally Posted by vageta666

zenaku ur an idiot! if u want something like that then play TOR when it releases. i think a choco knight class is a dumb idea lol!

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Did you even read my post? i said "or allow us to call our NPC from the storyline to help us in battle?" Which come from FFXI when they allow us to get a NPC i think that how they got the idea to give us a npc to do mission with.

i did not say i want a choco knight.

Following Yoshi-P's comment, a instance where we have a Cavalry battle against Garleans might be nice.
"Mounted" class is something like say...shield, a sub-class that can be added to any existing class.