Simple question--Can a solo only character get a mount?

[Altheras]

Yeah, I'm fairly sure you can get the lvl 30 conjurer unicorn mount purely through soloing. Once obtained it's usable on all jobs/classes at lvl 1 just like the chocobo. ^^

Also to get your chocobo, it's either no dungeons, or only the initial 3 dungeons which you can easily do through dungeon finder and just never even talk to the people in your group. They are really super easy dungeons. When done through the dungeon finder they go by pretty fast, I think all 3 of them took about a total of 2 hours, maybe a little more? They go by pretty quick and really for the difficulty of them you may as well be soloing. It's basically if you're a tank, grab some mobs and do your rotation, DPS, do your rotation. If you're a healer, heal people and also do some DD. The first 3 don't offer much in the way of a challenge. If you are a DD, just blow things up and stay out of red zones the same as with soloing. If it helps, pretend the other group members are NPCs.

Aside from the mounts, the way most people travel around is with teleports anyway. The mounts get a lot less use than you would think.