Quote Originally Posted by Vesperia View Post
I feel like anything other than a hooved mob, or a dragon of some sort would just be tacky, and even the ones I mentioned are stretching it.

Chocobos are really the only viable one, and an in-depth breeding/taming system would assuage any calms people have for want of diversity in their mount options.

Furthermore, mounted combat should be an option. I would rather have one mount and a range of things I could do on the mount than a million species of mounts that I can only "ride around on".
I'd much prefer this myself. Same mount, but ways to customize it differently. Like equps, enhancing speed (for those using it as a mount for travel, ex. Racing Saddle) Defense (those using it for combat, ex. Choco-Armor) or perhaps even equipping one with Pouch Saddle, increasing the amount of items you can carry while you are DoL farming for items.