New Tank Mounts Reskined

With 5.0 right around the corner what’s everyone’s prediction on the new tank skins. SE wants To keep 14 Fantastical so a megatech Lion,Bear,Panther is probably out.

Honestly, I'm more annoyed that all of the other ground mounts get to fly while the tanks had to go through additional duty completions to have their mounts fly.

The big question is, what animal mount will it be for Gunbreaker? Well I'm hoping it's an animal at least, perhaps a mechanical bird, hell maybe even a mecha-chocobo why not...

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Originally Posted by JunseiKei

Honestly, I'm more annoyed that all of the other ground mounts get to fly while the tanks had to go through additional duty completions to have their mounts fly.

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No other jobs even get their own mounts...

I hope we get a third re-skin for doing Shadowbringers content and that it has a glow or flame effect.

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

No other jobs even get their own mounts...

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White Mage has had one since 2.0.

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Originally Posted by Krojack

White Mage has had one since 2.0.

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Oh right, the one no one uses and hasn't been upgraded like the tank mounts.

Actually the Unicorn mount Does fly now. But nobody uses it because everyone has it.

Will we even get tank mounts this time around?

We got them in the past to incentivize playing the least popular role, but in ShB the least popular role will have a fancy new gunblade job.

we got tank mounts in 2.0 we got drk in 3.0 which got its own mount added, we got flying tank mounts in 4.0, GUN is coming 5.0 other than it getting a mount or mounts i don't see anymore happening till 6.0 earliest and by then it would be nice to have mounts for every job won't happen but be nice to have

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Originally Posted by Jandor

Will we even get tank mounts this time around?

We got them in the past to incentivize playing the least popular role, but in ShB the least popular role will have a fancy new gunblade job.

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In HW the least popular role got a highly requested job with a badass sword... and people still wouldnt play it.
Or rather: They did, but they only leveled their DRK and their AST to 70 and then returned to their DPS-main, if they were a previous DPS-main.
Their reason for not giving us a new tank and healer in SB was that giving us DRK and AST with HW didnt actually increase the overall number of tanks and healers. And I seriously doubt that Gunbreaker is gonna be any different in that regard - most people are gonna try it out, maybe level it to 80... and then return to whatever DPS-class they were playing before. People wont suddenly enjoy tanking, because they can now do it with a gunblade. And they definitly wont enjoy tanking the more difficult duties like EX-primals and Savage (where tanks are even more in demand than normal dungeons - luckly they changed the achievements and you get mount-points for dungeons and roulettes aswell, but its pretty clear that the original intention was to get tanks into endgame-content).

Just the gunbalde wont be enough of an incentive for DPS to play a tank (more often). It will be enough for tank-mains to consider switching their tank-job, probably. But there is a reason that we have a thread requesting to turn Gunbreaker into a DPS: Most people dont want to play a tank and they wont even do it, even if its the job they wanted to play since 1.0.

I doubt there will be any new. The incentive was to make people use the duty finder more often as a tank, not people joining PF tank-mount farm groups.
Maybe gunbreaker will get its version, but that will be it. (My assumption)

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Originally Posted by Vidu

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Tank mounts clearly aren't getting people to tank either though, using the logic the devs worked to in SB that means they should stop doing them.

Don't get me wrong, I want a cool Gunbreaker mount, but a lot of people just seem to be assuming a new set of tank mounts for 5.0 is inevitable. I'm not so sure.

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Originally Posted by Jandor

Tank mounts clearly aren't getting people to tank either though, using the logic the devs worked to in SB that means they should stop doing them.

Don't get me wrong, I want a cool Gunbreaker mount, but a lot of people just seem to be assuming a new set of tank mounts for 5.0 is inevitable. I'm not so sure.

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They're getting me to tank.
I want that panther mount and I do every 70 and Expert roulette as a DRK for it. Which has in turn made me a more proficient DRK.

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Originally Posted by Kurando

The big question is, what animal mount will it be for Gunbreaker? Well I'm hoping it's an animal at least, perhaps a mechanical bird, hell maybe even a mecha-chocobo why not...

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How is that a question? Just give them Cloud's FFVII bike.

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20080628022043

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Originally Posted by Jandor

Tank mounts clearly aren't getting people to tank either though, using the logic the devs worked to in SB that means they should stop doing them.

Don't get me wrong, I want a cool Gunbreaker mount, but a lot of people just seem to be assuming a new set of tank mounts for 5.0 is inevitable. I'm not so sure.

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I'd say you're both right and wrong by saying this - you're right in the sense that tank-mounts wont get many people who dont play tanks in the first place to tank (just how the gunblade wont do that).
But I do believe that the tank mounts are an incentive for people who already like playing tanks, to take them into content more often.

Speaking from personal (and with that anecdotal, granted) experience I can tell you that both me and some friends (all of us actually like tanking, some even main a tank) are more likely to take our tanks into content because we're still missing tank-mounts. I main a paladin, but I enjoy playing bard aswell - and as long as I didnt had my lion, I was eager to tank EX-primals! Now that I do have that lion, I'm looking more for groups that need a DPS - dont get me wrong, I still enjoy tanking, but if I have to pick between bard and paladin, it will be my bard from now on.

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Originally Posted by JunseiKei

Honestly, I'm more annoyed that all of the other ground mounts get to fly while the tanks had to go through additional duty completions to have their mounts fly.

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Which was a good thing because the point of the tank mounts was to get more tanks queing up for roulettes.

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

No other jobs even get their own mounts...

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Originally Posted by Fhaerron

Which was a good thing because the point of the tank mounts was to get more tanks queing up for roulettes.

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Right, because running 200 Garuda EXs totally enticed people to actually play the classes in roulettes. Just like running 300 of the easier EX unsynced for 5.0 will be super enticing for players to play tanks and stick with it.

(Neither of you are wrong, but my point was it was easily bypassed. People that only want the mounts are going to find the easiest, fastest thing to farm that's not locked to a once-a-day stipulation.)

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Originally Posted by JunseiKei

Right, because running 200 Garuda EXs totally enticed people to actually play the classes in roulettes. Just like running 300 of the easier EX unsynced for 5.0 will be super enticing for players to play tanks and stick with it.

(Neither of you are wrong, but my point was it was easily bypassed. People that only want the mounts are going to find the easiest, fastest thing to farm that's not locked to a once-a-day stipulation.)

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The most low effort way to get the mounts is actually just tanking content you were going to do anyway. It costs you no time at all, which is better than waiting until the next expansion to unsync farm.

As a lazy efficient person I did exactly this for almost the entire expansion and so far I have accumulated over 600 runs towards those mounts. Working as intended I think. My favorite is tanking the current normal 8 man raids as they contribute to both achievements while I also collect some alt gear and tomes.

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Originally Posted by Crushnight

we got tank mounts in 2.0 we got drk in 3.0 which got its own mount added, we got flying tank mounts in 4.0, GUN is coming 5.0 other than it getting a mount or mounts i don't see anymore happening till 6.0 earliest and by then it would be nice to have mounts for every job won't happen but be nice to have

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This.

I doubt the existing tanks will get a new set of mounts in Shadowbringers. I don't anticipate a 3rd achievement mount for each tank until 6.0

Just joking here but would be funny if they made Gunbreaker mount:
Angelo
https://www.finalfantasyunion.com/charimg/angelo.jpg
Legit a best friend.
http://66.media.tumblr.com/9ab236f61...so08d3_500.gif

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Originally Posted by JunseiKei

Right, because running 200 Garuda EXs totally enticed people to actually play the classes in roulettes. Just like running 300 of the easier EX unsynced for 5.0 will be super enticing for players to play tanks and stick with it.

(Neither of you are wrong, but my point was it was easily bypassed. People that only want the mounts are going to find the easiest, fastest thing to farm that's not locked to a once-a-day stipulation.)

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that doesn't count for the flying mounts and it won't count if there's a new set.

i do 24 man raids, normal raids and Expert on tank all the time right now because of these flying mounts (i'm a healer main otherwise). i already have the PLD one and pretty close to finishing the DRK one.

i finished all 3 ground mounts doing Wondrous Tails, not some lame EX tank point farm.

if people want to be doing Lakshmi EX 900x to catch up to the 700+ runs that i already have that's fine with me, i'll be over here leveling jobs to 80 and doing 71+ content for the newer set of tank mounts (as long as there's a 3rd set).

and purely mechanical mounts sound great, i'm down for that.

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Originally Posted by Mirakumi

Legit a best friend.


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Angelo should have been the mount you'd get when you get all the wolf mounts. They could also make him sprout angel wings to fly, as a nod to Rinoa

I want my normal bear to fly too.

How about healers get mounts and tanks get nothing?

I hope GUN gets the puginax things as their animal mount.

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Originally Posted by ErryK

How about healers get mounts and tanks get nothing?

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When healers are consistently the most in demand for duty finder, sure. The reason they added the tank ones was to get people to sign up for things as tanks to earn them. I doubt they're going to add them for other jobs unless the ratio alters long term.

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Originally Posted by JunseiKei

Right, because running 200 Garuda EXs totally enticed people to actually play the classes in roulettes. Just like running 300 of the easier EX unsynced for 5.0 will be super enticing for players to play tanks and stick with it.

(Neither of you are wrong, but my point was it was easily bypassed. People that only want the mounts are going to find the easiest, fastest thing to farm that's not locked to a once-a-day stipulation.)

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Which is something they should have prevented.


Anyway, the only reason I'm still doing roulettes is for the tank mounts on WAR & DRK, the PLD I got long ago since that's always been my main job. I don't spend hours & hours farming like a a mad man for them, I just do the daily roulettes.

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Originally Posted by Bright-Flower

When healers are consistently the most in demand for duty finder, sure. The reason they added the tank ones was to get people to sign up for things as tanks to earn them. I doubt they're going to add them for other jobs unless the ratio alters long term.

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That won't make them sign up more, simply because they'll either wait for the content to be unsynced or just do it with friends. The only people actually enjoying the rewards 'deservedly' is tank mains.

If they wanted they should make it where you have to random queue ( no premade) into roulettes inorder to get credit to get the mounts. Who knows they might even reskin the existing tank mounts and make the lvl80 ones two seaters.

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Originally Posted by Derio

If they wanted they should make it where you have to random queue ( no premade) into roulettes inorder to get credit to get the mounts. Who knows they might even reskin the existing tank mounts and make the lvl80 ones two seaters.

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They could just make an 'adventurer in need' mount too. Give credit when you queue for a roulette with 'adventurer in need.' Except even then I guess people would spam Trial roulette to get it faster.