Idea: Malboro mounts!

I think these would be awesome. and maybe have a breath action!

Edit: to clear up any confusion I mean these guys

https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net...20090822092409

I mean, I wouldn't want to sit on one of those, of all things...

However, I always support more choices and content.

Why would I mount a Cigarette

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Originally Posted by Baci

Why would I mount a Cigarette

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you can ride a floating head. I don't think a plant monster is the oddest mount one can have XD

Not sure if OP means a branded cigarette or a morbol....

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Originally Posted by Bloody

Not sure if OP means a branded cigarette or a morbol....

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Malboro is what those big ugly tentacled plant monsters have always been known as in the English-language versions of the FF games - 'morbol' is the literal Japanese-to-English translation (and was also used for the English version of FFXI). Confusingly, speaking of FFXI there was an actual version of the malboro in FFXI that was specifically called a 'malboro', of the morbol enemy family. Confused yet? :p

Funnily enough a malboro morbol mount is actually available in FFXI, so there is precedent for it. :)

No, I'm not confused. I was just poking at the various forms of the name for said mob. I've played Tactics enough to see Malboro/Ochu mobs and know they are the same. :p

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Originally Posted by Atlaworks

I mean, I wouldn't want to sit on one of those, of all things...

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Who said you'd sit on top of it?

You'd lie sideways in the mouth of course, your face a pale green with a forced smile on it.

10/10, would ride to terrorize friends lol

I can't see riding on top of one of those, but a mount themed after the creature might work well.

http://i68.tinypic.com/xpaq7a.jpg

Even the game lore hates them.

please no, i need to be able to breathe.

Only if they have the "Really Bad Breath" skill from Final Fantasy X!... ;)

All CMs need a mount designed after their avatar.. ;3

Snurble... OH SNURBLE!!!! lol (Slepnir is pretty great for Odin (thinking of Primal CMs), but Bayohne will need an improved mount cause he deserves a really boss one too! Sicycre is Shiva, so basically if a CM picks a primal - primal gets a new mount :P. Also I know Camate is no longer a CM, but his soft Snurble heart can live on lol).

FFXI, as someone else mentioned, also had a Malboro mount so we can sort of sample a style of what it may look like already.

While I'd caution this next thought.. I think some abilities that have player interaction can be pretty fun, WoW has some of these but a few can be a bit detrimental (like the train toy lol).. But a longer cooldown ability on the mount to pace a series of joke/fake buffs could be fun :D. Like players animate a coughing action and get a visual effect that makes them look affected, maybe wave their hand like someone dealt some cheese (this hopefully would make it not so bad, since it would be simply an animation that doesn't cancel any action - unlike some of the WoW toys haha).

Goobbue sneeze could be a blast of wind and the bracing against the wind while covering face (although loud/obnoxious/character effecting abilities on mounts imo should then be put on a slightly longer cooldown, just to make them less spamable).