Wanted: Dismount on attack.

One thing I miss from WoW is that you automatically dismount when you attack something. It's especially useful in things like hunt trains, where you can't easily tell that you're still mounted in the crowd..

Y'all are trying too hard at this point loooool. (Was funny I should add)

agreed, having to manually dismount is just unecessary design wise, if i press an attack button than obviously i want to attack.

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Originally Posted by RobynDaBank

Y'all are trying too hard at this point loooool. (Was funny I should add)

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op still has a valid point though.

You can just press the unsheathe button, immediately unmount you. Default on keyboard is X

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Originally Posted by RobynDaBank

Y'all are trying too hard at this point loooool. (Was funny I should add)

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Trying what? This is something I've wanted since I started playing. Having to manually dismount then attack as two seperate actions is irritating.

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Originally Posted by SamSmoot

One thing I miss from WoW is that you automatically dismount when you attack something. It's especially useful in things like hunt trains, where you can't easily tell that you're still mounted in the crowd..

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yes please

Yeah no, I gotta agree on this one. Would be amazing for those epic fate farms. Cosign 100%.

Yet another QoL feature the community thought of (and modders implemented) early on, but the devs have yet to bother with. /sigh

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Originally Posted by RobynDaBank

Y'all are trying too hard at this point loooool. (Was funny I should add)

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To be fair this wouldn't change the game in a bad way at all. There is no gain from being unable to attack while mounted.

How I get around it is key-binding my mount so it's very quick to mount and dismount.

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Originally Posted by RobynDaBank

Y'all are trying too hard at this point loooool. (Was funny I should add)

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What is exactly wrong with OP's request? FFXIV Would benefit from a lot of QoL improvements, to be honest. For example, the number of confirmation windows we have e.g. 'Do you really want to use this key that can't be used anywhere else and will vanish once you'll leave the instance? Are you sure, yes?'.

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Originally Posted by SamSmoot

One thing I miss from WoW is that you automatically dismount when you attack something. It's especially useful in things like hunt trains, where you can't easily tell that you're still mounted in the crowd..

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I support this. Been asking for this ever since I started playing back in HW, will continue to ask until gets here.

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Originally Posted by icrot

What is exactly wrong with OP's request? FFXIV Would benefit from a lot of QoL improvements, to be honest. For example, the number of confirmation windows we have e.g. 'Do you really want to use this key that can't be used anywhere else and will vanish once you'll leave the instance? Are you sure, yes?'.

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Gods, I've always hated this.

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Originally Posted by SamSmoot

One thing I miss from WoW is that you automatically dismount when you attack something. It's especially useful in things like hunt trains, where you can't easily tell that you're still mounted in the crowd..

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Throwing my vote in to the pile. 100% agree.

Nah. Just dismount. Stop being lazy.

How about if we can attack when mounted?

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Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra

How about if we can attack when mounted?

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Now there is a good idea. I've wanted more companion content for a while now. I would love to see a special set of attacks that can only be done while mounted.

It would only work with your companion though, for obvious reasons.

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Originally Posted by Veliaire

Nah. Just dismount. Stop being lazy.

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Next up: "Don't want to have to click through three levels of menus to get to what could have easily been accessed with a single step without cluttering other menu categories? You're clearly a lazy waste of flesh and should find another game."

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Originally Posted by Shurrikhan

Next up: "Don't want to have to click through three levels of menus to get to what could have easily been accessed with a single step without cluttering other menu categories? You're clearly a lazy waste of flesh and should find another game."

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Nah. Nothing like that. Just stop being lazy is all. It takes nothing to dismount. I suppose next people will just want to jump out of the air and start fighting instead of needing to land? There are more important things to worry about than trying to appease lazy people.

Can I also talk to NPCs while remaining on my mount.

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Originally Posted by Cithaerias_pyropina

Can I also talk to NPCs while remaining on my mount.

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It would be useful, but I don't think it would work. Often times, talking to NPCs triggers cutscenes or events that would not make sense while mounted.

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Originally Posted by Triggers

Yeah no, I gotta agree on this one. Would be amazing for those epic fate farms. Cosign 100%.

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Actually,attack dismount would kill my fate arrival macro, which I have on my mount/dismount button:
/merror
/micon "Ironfrog Mover" mount
/mount "Ironfrog Mover"
/levelsync on

This autosyncs me with the fate when I dismount.
Of course, attacking any fate mob should automatically sync you to it.

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Originally Posted by Veliaire

Nah. Nothing like that. Just stop being lazy is all. It takes nothing to dismount. I suppose next people will just want to jump out of the air and start fighting instead of needing to land? There are more important things to worry about than trying to appease lazy people.

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People are only asking for the same appended function already attached to Draw Weapon to be attached to all combat actions.

Such does not allow for arial leaps. Such does not stop one from needing to land. Rather, it performs the exact same function as Ctrl-Space (Descend) and then automatically dismounts upon landing without incurring the brief additional animation lock caused by a separate dismount action.

I would also like to throw in "execute an action at the same time as sheathing your weapon."

Notable in dungeons and alliance raids, if your weapon is drawn when you go to open a door or pick up a key, you first have to put your weapon away, then carry out the action.

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Originally Posted by Veliaire

Nah. Nothing like that. Just stop being lazy is all. It takes nothing to dismount. I suppose next people will just want to jump out of the air and start fighting instead of needing to land? There are more important things to worry about than trying to appease lazy people.

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This is how it works in WoW. If you're in range to attack, it instantly dismounts you and carries out the attack while you're falling to the ground. However, since FFXIV doesn't allow airborne dismounts, the attack would just have to fail if you weren't in the landed state.

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Originally Posted by RobynDaBank

Y'all are trying too hard at this point loooool. (Was funny I should add)

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You didn't read the OP.

He didn't say you should get dismounted when attacked.

He said you should dismount when you attack.


Everyone replying to you seems to have not figured out this is what happened.

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Originally Posted by Cithaerias_pyropina

Can I also talk to NPCs while remaining on my mount.

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No thanks. It's hard enough finding a busy NPC to talk to when surrounded with players, let alone players on huge mounts

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Originally Posted by RobynDaBank

Y'all are trying too hard at this point loooool. (Was funny I should add)

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I've been playing FF14 for years and this is the one thing I think WoW did better

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Originally Posted by RobynDaBank

Y'all are trying too hard at this point loooool. (Was funny I should add)

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I agree with the OP and have played on and off since ARR beta. I always wished this was the case.

Yes please. It's been months and I still try to attack mobs while being mounted on occasion. It's such a minor but constant annoyance I wish we didn't have to deal with.

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Originally Posted by Penthea

There is no gain from being unable to attack while mounted.

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Forcing you to dismount before attacking is a safety feature so that you don't dismount unintentionally by grazing an attack button in an area with hostile enemies, because once you engage an enemy you can't remount, and the de-aggro distance is obscene. They want you to be certain that you want to engage the enemy and willing to lock yourself out of re-mounting. Just press the draw/sheathe button.

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Originally Posted by SamSmoot

Actually,attack dismount would kill my fate arrival macro, which I have on my mount/dismount button:
/levelsync on

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/keybind > System > General Duty Key

During FATEs, the GDK is a sync toggle.

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Originally Posted by Cithaerias_pyropina

Can I also talk to NPCs while remaining on my mount.

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That's the epitome of rudeness, though. It's something a Garlean would do (unless they're higher rank).

Ya hell no if anything it should let us attack while we are mounted..

Also that really stupid of wow even worse considering warcraft 3 knights,priestess, raiders, even mages fought on mounts. So hell no, for multiple reasons

If it's an option? Sure

If it's not an option, HARD pass.

Also it's honestly kind of tiring with 'Something I want/Miss from WoW'... this isn't wow. Please don't try to turn it into it.

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Wanted: Dismount on attack.
One thing I miss from WoW is that you automatically dismount when you attack something. It's especially useful in things like hunt trains, where you can't easily tell that you're still mounted in the crowd..

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Ahhh the dazed mechanic, that forces you to continually dismount when faced with speedbump mobs that drop garbage.

No.

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Originally Posted by SamSmoot

One thing I miss from WoW is that you automatically dismount when you attack something. It's especially useful in things like hunt trains, where you can't easily tell that you're still mounted in the crowd..

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Yeah, this is a good QoL feature. They should try to implement it.

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Originally Posted by VelKallor

Ahhh the dazed mechanic, that forces you to continually dismount when faced with speedbump mobs that drop garbage.

No.

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You literally just quoted, right before your reply, something that made very clear that it was not asking for a dazed mechanic.

"When you attack something" =/= "When something attacks you."

Do people really find it so hard to press x to dismount? Instead of starting your attack combo with 1 press x then 1. Not that hard.

Didn’t we used to have a dismount animation? It led to people jumping in the air to dismount because it skipped the animation, lol. That was awful.

I think the slowness is deliberate. Mount up. Dismount. Then attack. It’s like using commands in an old school Final Fantasy game. The longer this game exists, the more it will cater to the MMO crowd and it’s going to lose its identity as a Final Fantasy game first.

So I wouldn’t be a fan of changes like this. It’s going to cause the game to lose some of its JRPG feel, which is what it was founded upon.

Just a casual reminder that once upon a time, you had to manually dismount before you could talk to npcs. Nobody threw their arms up in the air when they modified it to auto-dismount upon conversation.


Why is everything such a mountain out of a molehill for some people? Because WoW was mentioned? Holy...

100% AGREE, we should auto dismount when we attack from a mount.
I fully + whole heartedly agree.

They listened to player feedback and changed things so we now auto dismount when interacting with quest npcs, so it is certainly possible.

Please add this SE.
As it functions currently, it makes the game needlessly clunky and dated because of it.

ty ♥