New Tank Mounts Reskined

[Vidu]

Will we even get tank mounts this time around?

We got them in the past to incentivize playing the least popular role, but in ShB the least popular role will have a fancy new gunblade job.

In HW the least popular role got a highly requested job with a badass sword... and people still wouldnt play it.
Or rather: They did, but they only leveled their DRK and their AST to 70 and then returned to their DPS-main, if they were a previous DPS-main.
Their reason for not giving us a new tank and healer in SB was that giving us DRK and AST with HW didnt actually increase the overall number of tanks and healers. And I seriously doubt that Gunbreaker is gonna be any different in that regard - most people are gonna try it out, maybe level it to 80... and then return to whatever DPS-class they were playing before. People wont suddenly enjoy tanking, because they can now do it with a gunblade. And they definitly wont enjoy tanking the more difficult duties like EX-primals and Savage (where tanks are even more in demand than normal dungeons - luckly they changed the achievements and you get mount-points for dungeons and roulettes aswell, but its pretty clear that the original intention was to get tanks into endgame-content).

Just the gunbalde wont be enough of an incentive for DPS to play a tank (more often). It will be enough for tank-mains to consider switching their tank-job, probably. But there is a reason that we have a thread requesting to turn Gunbreaker into a DPS: Most people dont want to play a tank and they wont even do it, even if its the job they wanted to play since 1.0.

[xbahax92]

I doubt there will be any new. The incentive was to make people use the duty finder more often as a tank, not people joining PF tank-mount farm groups.
Maybe gunbreaker will get its version, but that will be it. (My assumption)

[Jandor]

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Tank mounts clearly aren't getting people to tank either though, using the logic the devs worked to in SB that means they should stop doing them.

Don't get me wrong, I want a cool Gunbreaker mount, but a lot of people just seem to be assuming a new set of tank mounts for 5.0 is inevitable. I'm not so sure.

[Seraphor]

Tank mounts clearly aren't getting people to tank either though, using the logic the devs worked to in SB that means they should stop doing them.

Don't get me wrong, I want a cool Gunbreaker mount, but a lot of people just seem to be assuming a new set of tank mounts for 5.0 is inevitable. I'm not so sure.

They're getting me to tank.
I want that panther mount and I do every 70 and Expert roulette as a DRK for it. Which has in turn made me a more proficient DRK.

[Alacran]

The big question is, what animal mount will it be for Gunbreaker? Well I'm hoping it's an animal at least, perhaps a mechanical bird, hell maybe even a mecha-chocobo why not...

How is that a question? Just give them Cloud's FFVII bike.

[Vidu]

Tank mounts clearly aren't getting people to tank either though, using the logic the devs worked to in SB that means they should stop doing them.

Don't get me wrong, I want a cool Gunbreaker mount, but a lot of people just seem to be assuming a new set of tank mounts for 5.0 is inevitable. I'm not so sure.

I'd say you're both right and wrong by saying this - you're right in the sense that tank-mounts wont get many people who dont play tanks in the first place to tank (just how the gunblade wont do that).
But I do believe that the tank mounts are an incentive for people who already like playing tanks, to take them into content more often.

Speaking from personal (and with that anecdotal, granted) experience I can tell you that both me and some friends (all of us actually like tanking, some even main a tank) are more likely to take our tanks into content because we're still missing tank-mounts. I main a paladin, but I enjoy playing bard aswell - and as long as I didnt had my lion, I was eager to tank EX-primals! Now that I do have that lion, I'm looking more for groups that need a DPS - dont get me wrong, I still enjoy tanking, but if I have to pick between bard and paladin, it will be my bard from now on.

[Fhaerron]

Honestly, I'm more annoyed that all of the other ground mounts get to fly while the tanks had to go through additional duty completions to have their mounts fly.

Which was a good thing because the point of the tank mounts was to get more tanks queing up for roulettes.

[JunseiKei]

No other jobs even get their own mounts...

Which was a good thing because the point of the tank mounts was to get more tanks queing up for roulettes.

Right, because running 200 Garuda EXs totally enticed people to actually play the classes in roulettes. Just like running 300 of the easier EX unsynced for 5.0 will be super enticing for players to play tanks and stick with it.

(Neither of you are wrong, but my point was it was easily bypassed. People that only want the mounts are going to find the easiest, fastest thing to farm that's not locked to a once-a-day stipulation.)

[Reinha]

Right, because running 200 Garuda EXs totally enticed people to actually play the classes in roulettes. Just like running 300 of the easier EX unsynced for 5.0 will be super enticing for players to play tanks and stick with it.

(Neither of you are wrong, but my point was it was easily bypassed. People that only want the mounts are going to find the easiest, fastest thing to farm that's not locked to a once-a-day stipulation.)

The most low effort way to get the mounts is actually just tanking content you were going to do anyway. It costs you no time at all, which is better than waiting until the next expansion to unsync farm.

As a lazy efficient person I did exactly this for almost the entire expansion and so far I have accumulated over 600 runs towards those mounts. Working as intended I think. My favorite is tanking the current normal 8 man raids as they contribute to both achievements while I also collect some alt gear and tomes.

[Rowde]

we got tank mounts in 2.0 we got drk in 3.0 which got its own mount added, we got flying tank mounts in 4.0, GUN is coming 5.0 other than it getting a mount or mounts i don't see anymore happening till 6.0 earliest and by then it would be nice to have mounts for every job won't happen but be nice to have

This.

I doubt the existing tanks will get a new set of mounts in Shadowbringers. I don't anticipate a 3rd achievement mount for each tank until 6.0