Job Specific Mounts for Everyone!

Any hope the rest of the classes are going to get a job specific mount. White Mage, Warrior, and Paladin all get them which I understand is incentive to play those roles. However, I don't think a mount is enough to convince someone to play a class they are not interested in, especially when there are dozens of mounts to get anyways. So why not just give us all one please.

Tanks incoming in 5....4.....3.....2....1

I was honestly about to say that it'd be so awesome if WHMs had their own mount... then I suddenly remembered my pretty unicorn that I haven't ridden in a long time.

To be fair though, the tank mounts are more unique than ours. :P The ex primals drop pretty re-skins of the unicorn.

been asking for this for months nows.. every class should have thier own specific mounts... people say its to get more people playing tanks n healers in dungeons but the unicorn mount at level 30 just says otherwise lol

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Originally Posted by Spawnie

been asking for this for months nows.. every class should have thier own specific mounts... people say its to get more people playing tanks n healers in dungeons but the unicorn mount at level 30 just says otherwise lol

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Why would the unicorn be an exception to that? I'm not against the idea of all classes having a unique mount of course, I'm just genuinely curious. I mean you do need a lvl 30 WHM to get the quest.

U mean can we get a # of duties complete mount acievement for each job. Story mounts are only unique for a few days/ a week.

The unicorn mount is not a WHM mount. It can be done as a CNJ even before you unlock the WHM job quest. The point of the unicorn was to entice people to level up CNJ so they have a basic understanding of how healing works in this game and to help populate the lower level dungeons.

Actual healer mounts (there would be one for WHM and one for SCH) would require similar achievements to the tank mounts and require running endgame content to obtain.

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Originally Posted by Miya_Carbuncle

Why would the unicorn be an exception to that? I'm not against the idea of all classes having a unique mount of course, I'm just genuinely curious. I mean you do need a lvl 30 WHM to get the quest.

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cause u can fate grind to 30 pretty easy n not even enter a dungeon XD if it was to encourage more people to join high/low level dungeons as a healer it would of been similar achivement requirements to tanks mounts :P

While I would like having a personal mount would be awesome, I see it being more along the lines of: SMNs and BLM share one; Monk, DRG, and Ninja share; Bard and Machinist; SCH and AST (whatever the astrologian blah would be).

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Originally Posted by Skeith-Adeline

While I would like having a personal mount would be awesome, I see it being more along the lines of: SMNs and BLM share one; Monk, DRG, and Ninja share; Bard and Machinist; SCH and AST (whatever the astrologian blah would be).

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even if the DPS melee roles shared one it would be a nice incentive to have players play and learn every class

say melee DPS a tiger or something
ranged dps eagle
Magic offensive some sort of conjured beast
Magic healing a celestial beast (like a ursa maojr, with the stars on it)

something basic for each main role, that way we will have people willing to learn other roles to get those mounts :D

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Originally Posted by ZhycranaDranix

Tanks incoming in 5....4.....3.....2....1

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Tank here! I for one am all for everyone getting their own mounts. Why let Paladins be the only ones to get some weird looking monster to carry us around. The lion still has the chimera talons ffs >.>

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Originally Posted by Miya_Carbuncle

Why would the unicorn be an exception to that? I'm not against the idea of all classes having a unique mount of course, I'm just genuinely curious. I mean you do need a lvl 30 WHM to get the quest.

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The reasoning behind that, I think Yoshi-P explained during the closed beta, was that at the beginning of the game up to level 30 the Conjurer would be the one and only Healer class available. There wouldn't be any scholar before level 30 (and astrologian wasn't even a thing, of course), thus potentially creating a role unbalance in the early levels. The special mount was put there so more people would be encouraged to level conjurer at least up to level 30, so they could get their special mount for collection and go back to their main job.

Nowadays the problem is basically solved, especially thanks to the low-level roulette, but in the first months of the game it could have been potentially game-breaking.

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Originally Posted by RaineAmorie

Tank here! I for one am all for everyone getting their own mounts. Why let Paladins be the only ones to get some weird looking monster to carry us around. The lion still has the chimera talons ffs >.>

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Hey hey hey hey...

Warriors get a glossy bear. Let's not forget about us Warriors.
But I do like the idea of every class having a mount, and I like the idea of people playing roles outside their comfort zone. The best way to become a better tank is to know what a healer and a DPS needs to do in the fight. The best way to become a better DPS is to know what a tank has to go through, etc.
I mean, hey it might not improve your damage but it'd certainly improve your synergy with pickups.

So if every job has it's own mount, I think more people (at least the mount collectors) would strive to go out and learn how all the other classes operate. In the end, the player would better understand what can be expected of those classes when he's back on his main.

I love mounts and wish that all the roles had their own. I can understand tank and healer getting mounts, but I'd like to see DPS get their own as well. I'm a collector and they don't take up inventory space. :)

Also would love to see more barding for my chocobo. Love to play dress up with my chocobo. Some very unique combinations have come from what I've gotten so far.

I love the Lion, but I wish the Paladin Barding looked more like the Paladin AF the way the WHM and DRG one does.

A piece of the floor for dragoons, imagine, floor tanking while traveling.

BLM : Arhiman
SMN : Primal ponies
DRG : New DRG mount
MCH : Magiteck armor

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I have no problem with each class or job getting its own mount, except I play Elezen and that silly sidesaddle form makes me not use the unicorn or even want a pony type mount. So, if it was something I could ride without looking like I was going to fall off, I would be all for it.

Also, why does it look like I am picking my undies out of my backside when ever I am summoning a mount?

The initial reason the job-specific mounts were rewarded is to encourage people to play those classes. PLD and WAR received their job-specific mounts only after completing a certain number of 'difficult' duties as that class (aka, not just hard modes, but extremes or coils...). WHM (technically CNJ) did not have a defined reason for receiving the unicorn, and to be honest... the quest was kind of lackluster. It may have been to encourage people to level healer, but possibly no. I imagine that other jobs may received job-specific mounts in the future, but it won't be a priority because there's no functional reason to 'entice' people to play dps classes like there was to entice people to play tanks and healers.

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Originally Posted by Spawnie

been asking for this for months nows.. every class should have thier own specific mounts... people say its to get more people playing tanks n healers in dungeons but the unicorn mount at level 30 just says otherwise lol

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Are you saying there are no dungeons before level 30?

Giving people reasons to farm t4 endlessly is not really a "bright" idea :/

There might be other ways to do it

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Originally Posted by Ryans

Are you saying there are no dungeons before level 30?

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i you read my 2nd post i said you can level to 30 without even entering a dungeon o.O

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Originally Posted by Spawnie

i you read my 2nd post i said you can level to 30 without even entering a dungeon o.O

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You can level to 50 without entering a dungeon. What the hell is your point? It doesn't change the fact that the reasoning behind all the job specific mounts was to get people playing those jobs.

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Originally Posted by Ryans

You can level to 50 without entering a dungeon. What the hell is your point? It doesn't change the fact that the reasoning behind all the job specific mounts was to get people playing those jobs.

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I believe that their point is that the CNJ/WHM mount is lower level and doesn't require you to enter a dungeon even once to get it. The WAR and PLD mounts do however, as they're tied to achievements you can't even begin to get until you hit 50, (if I'm not mistaken at least), and that require you to do grouped content even then. That indicates that the Tank mounts are more of an incentive for players who actively play as a tank in high level content, while the CNJ/WHM mount is more of just a "bonus" for players who get to level 30.....

Not quite as functional as some other options but I'd like to see Dragoon get a jump transportation ability xD. Could see it as a very far range target ground ability, or if they can detect ceilings (probably can't, perhaps detect cave) then have it launch the Dragoon into the air and let them sort of plummet back down (very high into the sky, like the game trailers show, but minus caves cause -bonk- KO, floor tank).

At least for the flying zones I can't imagine it breaking any pathing. Then a ground targeting version in ARR areas would help prevent that, can't target non-reachable areas. Talking about movement abilities, fix the other abilities too~. It looks like you are jumping or blinking to a target area but you're actually doing more of a "slide" (specially the ninja ability).

Not opposed to each job having a mount, I think it would add encouragement to level everything and I love collecting stuff (also gives SE a lot of player hours), but they should probably still encourage tank/healer more (so perhaps tanks and healers get an upgraded version to their current mount, as part of a new achievement?)

Edit: Forgot how easy it was to get the healer mount, well - make the new achievement not like that :P lol.

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Originally Posted by Spawnie

been asking for this for months nows.. every class should have thier own specific mounts... people say its to get more people playing tanks n healers in dungeons but the unicorn mount at level 30 just says otherwise lol

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Not quite. You just need a 30 CNJ. I flagged this quest and the WHM quest at the same time. I completed the WHM quest first. I couldn't even turn in the unicorn quest with my job crystal. I had to switch back to CNJ.

WAR - Bear
PLD - Lion
WHM - Unicorn
SCH - Tonberry/Butterfly
DRG - Drake/Wyvern
MNK - Tiger
NIN - Frog
BRD - Eagle(zu ..)
BLM - Snake
SMN - Big Carbuncle
AST - Carpet
MCN - Gazelle
DRK - Rhino

While i do love the idea of every jobs get their own mounts, the reality would be that there would be a mount that is looking better from the rest.. The next thing that would happen is, the party at large is going to be unbalanced with 4/4 dragoon dps as noone prolly want to use monk to get their monkichi mount (just an example).. Then another problem would arise with dps gets as much incentive as much as one would play a tank whereas the tank has more weight to perform which is the current issue even up until now..

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Originally Posted by Amelia_Pond_Behemoth

Not quite. You just need a 30 CNJ. I flagged this quest and the WHM quest at the same time. I completed the WHM quest first. I couldn't even turn in the unicorn quest with my job crystal. I had to switch back to CNJ.

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thats my point ;/ why make healers mount so easy to get while tanks 1 takes x amount of dungeon runs.. imo every class should have a mount available but all the same requirements to get it, 500 dungeon runs for example

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Originally Posted by Spawnie

thats my point ;/ why make healers mount so easy to get while tanks 1 takes x amount of dungeon runs.. imo every class should have a mount available but all the same requirements to get it, 500 dungeon runs for example

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because in 2.0, there was only CNJ as a healer for lv15-30, creating a huge imbalance in the duty finder. thus putting there the unicorn to give incentives to the players to level that up and fill dungeons. the low level roulette solving the problem only came in 2.1.

On the other hand, the tank shortage is everywhere, and was a big problem at end game (Ex primals and coil). that's why they put tank mounts there.

Hovering carpet for AST.

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Originally Posted by Ryuko

WHM (technically CNJ) did not have a defined reason for receiving the unicorn, and to be honest... the quest was kind of lackluster. It may have been to encourage people to level healer, but possibly no.

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Originally Posted by Wilan

The reasoning behind that, I think Yoshi-P explained during the closed beta, was that at the beginning of the game up to level 30 the Conjurer would be the one and only Healer class available. There wouldn't be any scholar before level 30 (and astrologian wasn't even a thing, of course), thus potentially creating a role unbalance in the early levels. The special mount was put there so more people would be encouraged to level conjurer at least up to level 30, so they could get their special mount for collection and go back to their main job.

Nowadays the problem is basically solved, especially thanks to the low-level roulette, but in the first months of the game it could have been potentially game-breaking.

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Um... You guys here to take part in a conversation, or to just state your opinion ignoring all that's been said up to that point?