Ground mount

Why does everything has to fly?!!??!

Why can't you just make ground mount fast on heavenward area?

If you guys do just that.... You could start bringing vehicle in already... Not everything has to fly you know.....

Can't get to Alex area? Fine build a bridge or something lol

Let me guess? Too lazy to get the currents?

OR! Hear me out!

You can take your flying mount and walk.

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Originally Posted by Zari

Let me guess? Too lazy to get the currents?

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I have all the current but they could also make it a requirement for ground mount speed buff to be applied only after all current has been activated like a haste buff for them

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Originally Posted by Greedalox

OR! Hear me out!

You can take your flying mount and walk.

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Flying mount should not be allowed to run fast on ground so this will make ground mount more exclusive to ground speed

Because the animations are designed with the current speed, and increasing the speed will make some, if not all mounts look incredibly ridiculous. Picture a Behemoth running 2-3 times as fast as it does now, or hell even a Goobbue.

They could make varying mounts have different speeds but that comes with its own cons, people might not be able to use their favourite mounts anymore because it's slower, and then they'll complain about their mounts not being able to run ridiculously fast. To give you an example from WoW, this turtle.

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Originally Posted by Colorful

Because the animations are designed with the current speed, and increasing the speed will make some, if not all mounts look incredibly ridiculous. Picture a Behemoth running 2-3 times as fast as it does now, or hell even a Goobbue.

They could make varying mounts have different speeds but that comes with its own cons, people might not be able to use their favourite mounts anymore because it's slower, and then they'll complain about their mounts not being able to run ridiculously fast. To give you an example from WoW, this turtle.

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That looks great I giggled ;):rolleyes::rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Colorful

Because the animations are designed with the current speed, and increasing the speed will make some, if not all mounts look incredibly ridiculous. Picture a Behemoth running 2-3 times as fast as it does now, or hell even a Goobbue.

They could make varying mounts have different speeds but that comes with its own cons, people might not be able to use their favourite mounts anymore because it's slower, and then they'll complain about their mounts not being able to run ridiculously fast. To give you an example from WoW, this turtle.

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Okay, now I want to see Goobbue mounts running at mach speed. Would be glorious. XD

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Originally Posted by Colorful

They could make varying mounts have different speeds but that comes with its own cons, people might not be able to use their favourite mounts anymore because it's slower, and then they'll complain about their mounts not being able to run ridiculously fast. To give you an example from WoW, this turtle.

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To jump on your example, even WoW had examples where a turtle mount didn't increase your ground speed; it's only purpose was for water traveling. As far as asethetics is concerned, the overall environment and presentation of WoW I'd say is "cartoony" compared to a "realistic fantasy" like FFXIV, especially in relation to character models and animations (specifically crafting animations and their dances). There was also a bit of a thing where if your character model was smaller (or larger) due to buffs, your movement animations would speed up (slow down) in relation. We sorta see that right now with how "slow" the behemoth and magitek animations are, and even feels slower despite moving at the same speed.

There's also the aspect where the environments are not designed with flying speed in mind. The heavensward areas are signicantly much larger than 2.x. Even with flying, it'd take forever to get anywhere if it remained at ground speed in the air.

And lastly, with the plans they have in store for mounts, I'm not sure why they just do away with ground-exclusive mounts and make them all fly in some sort of manner, honestly. They already went for the tortoise, fenfir, and now planning for tank mounts (lion, bear and a black coeurl) to fly as well.

yeah good luck walking around churning mists on a ground mount lol mayb they should put steps to each island? :P

1) Mount up
2) Don't take off or unkeybind the take off bind (normally spacebar)
3) ?????
4) Profit

As for the speed, a faster running speed has been requested soooo many times, but it won't happen. Not in HW nor in the ARR areas.

This here is the primary reason I doubt between buying HW and ARR collectors edition. Get HW for gryphon, or ARR for Coeur which ill only use on jobs that aren't 50

Can't a man ride his horse on the ground like a real horse? It's so slow it's painful why do I have to fly!

SE likely doesn't want to spend development time on content that they KNOW ahead of time only a small number of people will care about. For most, the practicality of being able to fly with a mount outweighs the aesthetics of a cool-looking mount. So, in all likelihood, all future mounts are going to be flying mounts.

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Originally Posted by LineageRazor

For most, the practicality of being able to fly with a mount outweighs the aesthetics of a cool-looking mount. So, in all likelihood, all future mounts are going to be flying mounts.

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Wouldn't the more logical step be to emulate the practicality of flying on the ground? We could save a lot of dev time if future zones had no ground obstacles/collision models, mobs and were much smaller to boot. The biggest appeal of flying seems to be the ability to reduce the zone to nothing but a pretty background that can be traversed through swiftly after all.

If they introduce swimming, I hope that every mount also gets it, priority on the ones that don't make sense. Swimming Magitek = sink for example.

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Originally Posted by Niamh_Rillemaugh

If they introduce swimming, I hope that every mount also gets it, priority on the ones that don't make sense. Swimming Magitek = sink for example.

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I could see it became a submarine though.

Griffin and Avian mounts on the other hand...

It would be pretty cool to have a fast ground mount. It would be kind of odd with it going slower in ARR areas though. Maybe something at the HW choco stables you could rent once you completed the msq or have unlocked the currents, that could only be used in that area.

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Originally Posted by Niamh_Rillemaugh

If they introduce swimming, I hope that every mount also gets it, priority on the ones that don't make sense. Swimming Magitek = sink for example.

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Originally Posted by Neri

I could see it became a submarine though.

Griffin and Avian mounts on the other hand...

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The Manacutter already resembles a boat and would be cool if it could go sailing mode on water.

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Originally Posted by Janhyua

Why does everything has to fly?!!??!

Why can't you just make ground mount fast on heavenward area?

If you guys do just that.... You could start bringing vehicle in already... Not everything has to fly you know.....

Can't get to Alex area? Fine build a bridge or something lol

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You do realize many HW maps have huge areas that are literally inaccessible unless you fly, right?

Sea of Clouds in particular would be pretty lolsome.