Quote Originally Posted by Knahli View Post
Other than that... I really, really wish they just stuck to their guns and didn't allow every single mount to fly (and swim). I find it obnoxious, an eyesore and a bit lazy on the player's part - but that's just my frustration talking since I doubt said people even care about those details in the first place. I'd much rather they'd have divided the various mounts into the categories defined in their tooltip and you could select you preferred mount for land travel, air travel and sea travel. So for the sake of making it easier, if you're running along the ground on your chocobo and decide you hop into the water, it ""transforms"" into a Syldra or whatever it is you chose without you having to dismount first and then you don't have actual bird mounts flying through the water.
While that might make some amount of sense for jumping into water, having your land mounts transform into a flying mount whenever you fly would just be extremely off. Land mounts are quite simply inferior to flying mounts from now on. Outside of pvp, there's no reason for me to ever have one no my hotbar, as flying mounts are quite capable of running on land. This limits future design of mounts, and makes all previous non-flying mounts more or less obsolete.