So no that I have the Griffin, first thing to do is...

[BreathlessTao]

Hello!

After talking to the development team about this suggestion, they mentioned that they will look into making it possible to ride other mounts while your companions is out; however, we can't make any promises at the moment.

While I'm grateful and thank you for having brought this up to the devs... I have to say I'm utterly baffled that it only happened now. Has truly nobody ever thought that "well hey I have all these mounts, it would be nice if I could have my companion out and actually ride my direwolf at the same time"? I do think it's been talked about a few times on here as well... I'm just baffled.

Can you please also:
1. Stop getting off mounts while talking on NPC's.
2. Please PLEASE PLEASE let us Queue with Chocobo out in dungeons.

1) How long had we been asking to be able to talk to NPC without having to manually get off our mounts... and well we can - with a system that just auto-dismounts you when you click on an NPC. Still better than nothing. But now we're flying, and the same thing repeats again: just off the ground, almost meshed together with the NPC - but no, you can't talk to the NPC while in air. It doesn't even kicks you off your mount, it doesn't even make you actually land, nothing. You just can't talk to the NPCs whilst airborne.

2) YES, I really don't know why it can't be treated as a SMN pet for example, tbh. I think it's been explained once, but I guess it didn't sound convincing even then, else I'd remember and could recite. :/ Oh well.

[bettomendes]

make it where you can choose which mount you have will be your companion

I'm expecting this for a long time, actually. Someday...

[Moonleg]

Hello!

After talking to the development team about this suggestion, they mentioned that they will look into making it possible to ride other mounts while your companions is out; however, we can't make any promises at the moment.

It works with the beast tribe quests that put you on a mount, like the Goobbue or Sand Drake. How can it possibly be ANY different with our own mounts?!

[Mintyfresh]

I do think that this is getting ridiculous. For the amount of time that this game has been out, this issue of companions and the inherent inability to queue and all the little things that come along with it have really gone too far.

Please, people at SE, you make huge huge complex games. Invest some time in this and fix it, it's gone on wayy too long. Either say that "this is how things will be because we don't know how to code around it" or fix it, but enough with the excuse of "soon" or "sometime soon" or "sometime in the darn future".

Put together a small team and address this issue once and for all. Been a bloody issue since day 1.

[Jonnycbad]

Being able to have my companion out while queuig would be the single most QoL update that i could ever "look forward to".

Additionally, let us queue when in a preformed party in open world, because sometimes i want to join queue for dungeons but while i'm waiting 30-40 minutes to queue, i'd like to do Hunts, which require parties for A and S ranks.

[Slirith]

While on topic of mounts...can I dismount while flying without having to land first :/

[Doki]

Gyshall Greens are super cheap, inventory space is plenty... I'd rather devs spent their time working on things that really mattered.

[magdahmhara]

I'm glad we have to dismount to talk to npcs. I would hate to have to try to click on one while some idiot thinks it's funny to park his behemoth on top of it. :P

[Roda]

I'm glad we have to dismount to talk to npcs. I would hate to have to try to click on one while some idiot thinks it's funny to park his behemoth on top of it. :P

You know this can happen now, right?


Also because this thread is about the griffon mount and I don't want to make an entirely separate thread:

Why did they not give the griffon footprints in the snow? You'd think that an expansion that features snowy locales would have its CE mount be fully polished for those areas.

Also, turning while flying NEEDS banking.
This:

Looks REALLY weird.

[BreathlessTao]

You know this can happen now, right?

Not only can happen, it does happen. It does happen all the time. In fact, yesterday I could barely talk to Moglin because there was a Roe on his Griphon mount floating right in front of that fluffball pretty much all day. And let's not even talk about how flying isn't even needed to completely obstruct summoning bells....