Most impressive mounts in your opinion?

Simple question; what mounts do you guys like to pull out to impress your friends? What mounts do you consider to be the best bragging rights rewards?

I've been thinking about this one since I saw it yesterday.
My answer is that I don't find any of the FFXIV mounts to be that impressive. There's not a single mount I'd go out of my way to farm for or obtain in general. Some mounts drop into your hands while just playing and that's how I get my mounts.
The mounts I use myself are mainly Ginga and Raigo (if I'm not in a Chocobo fase). The main reason for those are that they have NO glow effects and maintain the same style and feel on the ground as in the air.

All in all I think people use mounts they like more than they use ones for showing off.

The vast majority of mounts are easy to get so there's no point in bragging about having one.

The few mounts locked behind long grinds are less than impressive looking for the most part. The players who have them rarely use them, preferring other mounts they think look better.

Mounts really aren't the way to impress others in this game but if you fancy yourself a rare mount collector, you can go to sites like Lalachievements to find lists of the rarest.

https://www.lalachievements.com/rarity/mount/global/

Keep in mind some of the mounts near the top of the list are new this expansion and will start dropping in rank as more players farm them as the expansion continues.

The Morbol mount. :cool:

There's no waiting for these fights to get easier. You have to be at your best for all fights.

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Originally Posted by Deveryn

The Morbol mount. :cool:

There's no waiting for these fights to get easier. You have to be at your best for all fights.

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Can't you do Gavel skip in A8S with a full BLU party now?

If im riding a mount to flex/showoff(so... almost never) im probly pulling out my Night Pegassus. Its a little flashy without being too much and its a bit hard to earn or expensive to buy. But Jojoya is right, mounts arent really the way to impress others.

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Originally Posted by Aurida

Can't you do Gavel skip in A8S with a full BLU party now?

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I wouldn't know. That was my final fight shortly after the 70 cap and we still had to go through gavel. Maybe after the stat squish it can be skipped, but there's still a lot you have to do right to get there.

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Originally Posted by Frizze

If im riding a mount to flex/showoff(so... almost never) im probly pulling out my Night Pegassus. Its a little flashy without being too much and its a bit hard to earn or expensive to buy. But Jojoya is right, mounts arent really the way to impress others.

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i only pull out my "impress others" mounts when i'm showing off to a new player friend haha... but otherwise yeah. just ride a mount you like lol.

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Originally Posted by Travel

Simple question; what mounts do you guys like to pull out to impress your friends? What mounts do you consider to be the best bragging rights rewards?

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Mostly when I hangout with friends or FC mates, they always impressed with ADS balls :)

Probably Pteranodon? If only because of how grindy Hand of Creation is to get?

Mount are all easy to get design wise i would say Demi Ozma special when u fly whee u can see Hydatos. I think it most beautiful mount

Rathalos for me, since some people dont know where it is and when I help them farm the mount I can show my epic dodging that I learned from Monster Hunter!

I don't really like to show off and have more modest sensibilities. That said, my Onsal Hakair mount or other PvP veteran stuff seems to turn the most heads.

I don't pull out any mounts to brag.

That being said, one of the more impressive for me is the Centurio Tiger. I never was a big fan of hunts and oh boy do I regret it because I would absolutely love to have that tiger.

There are a few mounts though that are now forever unatainable so those who do have them do have bragging rights for having them (as shallow as it is) - the Legacy Chocobo, 'original' gobbue, and the PvP-specific mounts gained through PvP modes now shut down (like the FFXIII Dreadnought from The Feast) are just a few of those.

Having said that, my favourite is still the Griffin - my character is Ala Mhigan by birth headcanon wise, and it suits her even more so as a PLD wearing the latest AF set which is resplendent in Ala Mhigan griffin imagery. And the griffin is so well animated it just looks right.

Yes it's not entirelly difficult to get (it was gained through purchasing the Heavensward Collector's Edition or just paying for the 'Digital Upgrade' for an existing account for HW.), but I love it anyway. :D

While I was grinding for it, I would have thought Pteranodon. In reality, I think it's an ugly mount and I've learned to hate the mount music for it so I've only used it like twice :p

Other than that, I don't think I have any mounts that are 'impressive'...

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Originally Posted by Metdevil

While I was grinding for it, I would have thought Pteranodon. In reality, I think it's an ugly mount and I've learned to hate the mount music for it so I've only used it like twice :p

Other than that, I don't think I have any mounts that are 'impressive'...

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I wouldn't say it's ugly. I'd call it uninteresting and out of place. It's just Aswang (Rank B in Azim Steppe) repurposed and has no relation to crafting/gathering. It would have been better as a hunt mount.

For a mount that took over 600 hours of effort when the content was current, you'd think they could have given it something unique to its appearance and made it relevant to the content.

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Originally Posted by Dikatis

Probably Pteranodon? If only because of how grindy Hand of Creation is to get?

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I second that.

There are times when you wind up in an A-train wait, S-rank wait or FATE wait (waiting for people to start, pull, etc). And people break out their impressive mounts. Usually one person hops on < insert impressive mount name > and then 10, 20, 50 other people hop on the same mount.

The most Pteranadons I've seen in one place was 3. That's not to say it is the rarest mount (it isn't). But, I'd say it is one that you can't just grind for days and finish it up. It takes months and months. I'm not knocking raid mounts. Those are hard to get, but for different reasons. Week 1, you'll have that 1 guy on the Phoenix/Serpent mount. And by week 2 or 3, you'll have about 50 of those out there. I used to see maybe 1-2 Hand of Creations around my server. Now there are dozens at all times, let alone those that just don't choose to use the title since it is more commonplace.

The only part of the Pteranadon mount that got easier was the Hand of Creation part. With higher iLvls, the expert recipes can be mostly cheesed. It still takes time, but it takes a lot less time than it used to. Similar to how certain raid mounts or trial mounts might be rare at the end of 6.0, but by 7.0, with the ability to unsync, lots of people will have those mounts.

But no amount of iLvl can save you from grinding 1.5M skyward points in Diadem.

https://ffxivcollect.com/mounts

You can see exactly what is the most impressive, technically speaking.

Just have to keep in mind that mounts released in 6.X will inherently be more rare than other mounts simply because less time has passed for players to earn that mount. For comparative purposes, the Pteranodon has an ownership rate of 0.6% (FFXIVcollect) vs the Sun-Forged that has 0.4% ownership rate. However, Pteranodon was released ~900 days ago in patch 5.21 whereas Sun-Forged was released 43 days ago.

Demi-Phionix (P4S) has an ownership rate of 15%. That's roughly 15% of the population that raids and completed it. Statics likely will cycle the mount around to all players. Give a few months, Sun-Forged will probably be at 8% followed shortly by 15% when the gear tier increases again.

I think Astrope (2000 mentor roulettes). is a great comparison to Pteranodon. It's been out over 2000 days and only 0.8% of the population have it. Astrope, like Pteranodon will creep up slowly. Some newer ones like Demi-Phionix and Sun-Forged will shoot up much more quickly.

Probably the no-lifer mounts because it takes enormous time and dedication to finish

Astrope
Pteranodon
Centurio Tiger
Victor
Tricerotops
Magicked Card
Amaro
Frontline/Rival Wings mounts
Armoured tank mounts

Pteranodon sadly was botted. There were even links from the bot forums where they openly discussed it. While some players definitely obtained it legitimately, you can never tell. Not that it matters if you only obtained it for personal satisfaction, but I wouldn't be as impressed by seeing one.

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Originally Posted by Liam_Harper

Pteranodon sadly was botted. There were even links from the bot forums where they openly discussed it. While some players definitely obtained it legitimately, you can never tell. Not that it matters if you only obtained it for personal satisfaction, but I wouldn't be as impressed by seeing one.

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Botters ruining players hard work trophies are probably the biggest grievance I have with them.
I almost never ride my pteranodon because of this. Sad times.

Problem is that there are many achievements, mounts, titles, etc that could have been bot-assisted. Hell, so many aspects of this game are probably able to be botted or assisted in some manner, then we might as well not recognize any achievements at all. It really is a sad state of affairs.

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Originally Posted by dspguy

Problem is that there are many achievements, mounts, titles, etc that could have been bot-assisted. Hell, so many aspects of this game are probably able to be botted or assisted in some manner, then we might as well not recognize any achievements at all. It really is a sad state of affairs.

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Why players should go after achievements for personal satisfaction instead of trying to impress others.

Speaking as a relatively new player (11months), I can't say that I've ever been "impressed" by a mount until after I've gone through the slog to get it myself. For example, I have no idea which mounts are from savage, because I've never done savage. I am impressed when I see some of the others that I do have, such as the dire wolf or (soon) namazu mount, because I know what it takes to get them.