I'm not the only one who's thought about this ?

[ruskie]

Yes I did.

And the achievement reward is given out to tanks because there is a lack of tanks overall in the game(and the community is part of it - I've had some bad experiences myself but heard a lot from others as well).
A mount was an interesting idea but players being players will just farm the 200 runs and then stop doing so. And no more tanks again. It doesn't really help things in the end. What would help is reducing some of the grind or removing some of the locks on the grind(i.e. not needing to be specific job with a specific weapon).
What I'm saying is make it easier for us to do our personal stuff(like animus, nexus, etc....) in some way and more people might want to try other things. Novus was fine since you could do both the drex and the map without needing your animus weapon equiped.

Before nexus and with novus I actually queued up in all DRs as a tank or healer - since the nexus light grind... I go I could go tank but I want the light so will go dps... and that's one less tank to go around to help people(and same for animus - I could go healer but need to do that thing with my atma weapon to count for it).

Don't lock the grind or reduce it to something more manageable and maybe more people will do a run as something else.

And WHM already gets a mount. If anything SCH deserves one as well I agree on that. But then all the DPS will want one as well because you know... any run will end badly if there is a) bad tanking b) bad healing c) bad dps

[Jamillion]

I tank, DPS, and heal and you can definitely see the lack of tanks in the game, if you don't believe me queue something like ST as a tank and queue as a healer and see which one has the shortest wait. So that being said, I think it's a good thing tanks get those mounts seeing as to how conjurer gets a unicorn at 30.

[NorthernLadMSP]

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Lol did you actually read what the OP said?

Annyway yeah i think Tanks obsessive need to be rewarded to do anything is kind of annoying. His majesty gets a mount for his troubles while everyone else gets nothing. Healers often deserve equal praise to the Tank if not more for saving a run and they get nothing except personal pride. I guess since they don't deem the Healer supply to be as low they don't deserve a mount.

Agreed. There's already enough of that, "I'm better than everyone else because I'm a tank," mentatlity in this game. We really don't need more of a reason for inflated egos.

[Quinnie]

It's a difficult one. While I agree the arrogant tank mentality is seriously annoying should be discouraged, if giving them an extra mount means more people might try it then that's great! We need more tanks, plain and simple. The job itself technically isn't harder than any other but there's added pressure because if you aren't good it's very obvious and can make the run much more complicated. Many players are rude and impatient if that happens, which puts some people off taking up the job. Or at least, that's what puts me off.

Giving all the classes mounts after a certain amount of end game runs is a pretty cool idea in itself. There should be other ways to encourage people to try tanking, as the mount reward is a little flawed.

Irrelevent: what mounts for each class?

[Thistledown]

Beggars can't be choosers. Tanking is the least preferred role in almost any games. Any incentive to play it benefits everyone equally.

The sheer fact that people are complaining about this instead of playing a tank speaks for itself. People just don't want to play it.

[Leftychaun]

I think you missed the point... tanks are harder to find. incentivising tank involvement make it easier for the rest of us to get into a dungeon. If you incentivise everyone else suddenly getting into an instance will be even harder than it is now.

[Pots_Talos]

The sheer fact that people are complaining about this instead of playing a tank speaks for itself. People just don't want to play it.

Exactly this.
If you want the lion or bear mounts, start tanking. If you want healers to get a mount then the answer is to also start tanking, if all healers start going tank SE will have to add a reward to start healing

[Rhea2223]

I personally do not mind a tank only mount because tanking is the most thankless class in my opinion. If you screw up, even in a minor situation tanking, people can be so mean. I hated leveling my PLD due to DPS yelling at me when they crit two spells and a mob I wasn't hitting at the time goes and punches them in the face.

Observation/experience from my many years in MMOs:

Tanks = Thankless, you either aren't pulling fast enough or struggle with aggro slightly and get screamed at
Healers = Invisible unless the tank dies
DPS =

[Ceodore]

I think every class should have a class specific mount at Level 30, and that there should be no favoritism towards any role for any reason what-so-ever. (This is coming from a tank too) If you need to be bribed to perform a job, then I don't want you to perform it, because you're just going to put in minimal effort for the reward and then once you have it, abandon it for something else. Give me my lion and bear at 30, and give the other classes something else to hump along on. Just because you dangle a pretty lion in my face doesn't mean I'm going to be more enthusiastic about my role. It just means you seem to trivialize the real effort being a good tank requires, and personally, I take and took offense to such a demeaning sign of ultimately useless temptation. I will perform my role to the best of my ability because it reflects on my character. And no offers of grandeur will get a better performance from me because I'm not a bandwagon tank putting in a half-assed effort like all those that suddenly picked up tanking JUST because the mount helped them to make up their minds. It's about taking a little bit of pride in your work.

[Rufalus]

I guess since they don't deem the Healer supply to be as low they don't deserve a mount.

Basically yes, these mounts were only created to encourage more players to tank as a way to fill out a role in need. Will be interesting to see if they make a Dark Knight mount just to be fair since Warrior and Paladin have one. I expect DRK will be popular enough anyway just because it's a 'cool' job like dragoon and ninja.