Job Mounts!

I had the idea last night when on my RPR. We have I think like, one or two job mounts? WHM gets Unicorn but I don’t remember if any other job gets one. It’d be so great if each job got a mount. Here’s my ideas for some, feel free to add your own!

RPR: Our voidsent. We ride on its back like a magic carpet. I need to see my voidsent more. PLEASE Yoshi-P.

BLM: Maybe a small meteor we ride like a surfboard? I was gonna say broom but that may be too cliché.

AST: Transforms us into a comet.

DRK: A dark ethereal horse with spiky black armor.

All tanks have differents mounts too i think. I see PF about farming them sometimes.

DRK already has two - coeurls.
WAR gets the bears.
GNB gets tigers.
PLD gets lions.

The tanks have an armored and non-armored versions.

WHM gets the unicorn.

Early in ARR's development it looked like SE indeed were planning on having each Job get their own special mount, but apart from CNJ/WHM getting a unicorn via an easy quest after getting CNJ to 30 and completing all the CNJ class quests, that never eventuated (the tank achievement mounts came much later). Alas I think that airship has long since sailed.

Instead, just set up certain existing mounts based on their theme to each Job (it's something I've done myself). :D

DRG already got Middy. What else do we need

Sage with a Neulith Barrier mount: Uses the neuliths to create a barrier under foot to surf around the sky.

Machinist with a Queen mount: Queen Automata carries you around either on its back, shoulders or in its arms princess style while it runs around the ground or flies around in the sky with rocket thrusters either on its back or under its feet.

Summoner's Proto Carbuncle Mount: Summon an oversized Proto Carbuncle that carries you around in its teeth or wrapped in its long grotesque tongue as it runs and flies about the place. Has an emote that can eat you, roars and then spits you out.

I love this idea, iirc they gave whm and tanks mounts to incentivise people to play support roles as most would shy away from, but now since we have “enough” of each role they could totally give each class their own mount!

Always had the impression that the job specific mounts were introduced because their was a lack of people actually playing the jobs. But yeah, at this point every job should at least get one.

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Originally Posted by Meowdyj

Always had the impression that the job specific mounts were introduced because their was a lack of people actually playing the jobs. But yeah, at this point every job should at least get one.

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IMO, it is to encourage people play tank more. The problem is that SE sets the grind so easy that people just do whatever less than one minute unsynced.

In any case, I want to see more chocobo bardings too. There are still many classes that don't have their class-themed chocobo bardings.

Scholars could either get a Tonberry or a Kuribu... maybe a scholar Chocobo...

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Originally Posted by Soge01

Sage with a Neulith Barrier mount: Uses the neuliths to create a barrier under foot to surf around the sky.

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Suppose that would be more "appropriate" than the way I'd do it and just have them ram your character in the butt and fly off with you experiencing 10,000 years of death... >.>; lol

1.) The idea of the tank achievements + mounts/titles was to encourage people to play tanks in a time when we had a tank shortage that was not attributed to tanks being massively boring.

2.) The fact people just do Deltascape 3.0 (Normal) as an 8-man group to farm through these achievements defeats the purpose of these achievements (not sure if all are affected). I have no respect for people who do this.

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Originally Posted by Reinhardt_Azureheim

1.) The idea of the tank achievements + mounts/titles was to encourage people to play tanks in a time when we had a tank shortage that was not attributed to tanks being massively boring.

2.) The fact people just do Deltascape 3.0 (Normal) as an 8-man group to farm through these achievements defeats the purpose of these achievements (not sure if all are affected). I have no respect for people who do this.

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I dont think they are doing it to get your respect, I think they just want the tank mount which can only ever be an achievement of endurance, not of skill.

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Originally Posted by Jettinson

Scholars could either get a Tonberry or a Kuribu... maybe a scholar Chocobo...

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Just give us the fae wing and let us fly with that.

Our fae wing fashion accessory already flaps when we jump down, might as well make us actually fly. :D

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Originally Posted by Saraide

I dont think they are doing it to get your respect, I think they just want the tank mount which can only ever be an achievement of endurance, not of skill.

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Let me rephrase my choice of words then, since you liked to cherrypick that phrase.

I think the tank achievements were a good idea to encourage tank play in duty finder or duties that were in need of tanks. I also think being able to "endure" them by spamming the easiest duty available was a bad choice.

Luckily we have no issues now so it isn't a problem, but it is objectively a bad design choice.

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"I have no respect for X" was merely an expression I used to underline my disdain for this being possible. Im well aware noone cares about me.

I don't know how doable this is, but I'd kill for a BLM mount that makes you ride whatever staff you're using like a broom

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Originally Posted by SylvAlternate

I don't know how doable this is, but I'd kill for a BLM mount that makes you ride whatever staff you're using like a broom

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You could also just pick that one up from the Online Store. ;)

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Originally Posted by RukoBoshi

All tanks have differents mounts too i think. I see PF about farming them sometimes.

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All tanks get 2 each actually. Which is really, really weird. And yes because they're achievements and require tanks to queue for "high end" duties I believe, tanks will often do farm parties which is usually level 70 unsync'd content to farm their counts for it.

Scholar, a giant opened magic book we fly around on.

wings mounts [they look like your your flying from wings out your back, they already have the animations when you jump fashion accessory wings]

for all the healers much like how tanks get achievement mounts.

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Originally Posted by Gralna

Scholar, a giant opened magic book we fly around on.

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...wait, so... if you take a Miqo'te or a Hrothgar, does that mean we can...

https://ddragon.leagueoflegends.com/...sh/Yuumi_0.jpg

I forgot to mention the achievement mounts, though I'm not sure I'd count them since WHM's Unicorn is obtained pretty easily by a quest around their trainer. If anything, I think either mounts or at least bardings would be a great way to further enhance class fantasy. One of the only things I miss from WoW are some of the mounts.

Each job does need there own job mount. Then ones would play more than a few jobs to get all the mounts. That give ones something to do on down time between patches.