[dev1082] How about a mounted class?

[Zenaku]

zenaku ur an idiot! if u want something like that then play TOR when it releases. i think a choco knight class is a dumb idea lol!

Did you even read my post? i said "or allow us to call our NPC from the storyline to help us in battle?" Which come from FFXI when they allow us to get a NPC i think that how they got the idea to give us a npc to do mission with.

i did not say i want a choco knight.

[Zenaku]

A thought, they could make the chocobo take up a party member slot(like adventuring fellows did) then they would be balancing the class/job/extension or w/e against 2 party members instead of 1. Also could make gyshal greens/dried peppers have an effect on them during battle.

or allow us to call our NPC from the storyline to help us in battle? i think that be a better idea then allowing a chocobo attack with limit attack and can't be set as healer lol.

[Kwisatz_Haderach]

I'm totally with you. Just actually commented on this in the Other forum in a Chocobo post. I was originally hoping for this in FFXI WoG based on the concept art. Since they are considering job specific mounts, my thought was that maybe a possible job stemming from the Lancer class could be Chocobo Knight. It could act as a pet job. When pet was called the player would automatically mount their Choco and then would fight with a lancer weapon from their mount. The job could have added pet equipment slots for Choco breastplate and helmet armor. I think this would be a killer concept! Maybe since the job is mounted and the Choco would have it's own armor it would be reasonable to make it have lower damage but a great deal of defense. The result could be a second true tank class. Also "WARK!" would be the equivalent of provoke.

[Albela_Killingifritcom]

chocobo Knight are you kidding?? Does he peck the mob and get Super Buffs when eating greens!?!?!?!

whats with this stupid chocobo knight terribleness. do ppl honestly think they will let ppl fight on a choco while xping with others get real, and if they did add that job then i think id shoot myself cuz it sounds so retarded, i mean think about how stupid it sounds just saying it, "Chocobo Knight" wut kinda retarded moves does this class have. and tell me where in the world it has a place in xp pts.

[Lienn]

So nice seeing trolls using their mule accounts now that character info is linked...

Anyway, chocobo knight is a real class incase you don't know. It is a pretty strong melee/buffer. Try out FFTA2 and you might change your mind about it.

[Albela_Killingifritcom]

dont worry about my character, I have 4 different characters leveled. so it would be logical to use the one that matches my account name and my killingifrit name. go back to bed.

[zaviermhigo]

In the JP forum Yoshi-P commented on how he was thinking of reason why we would be fighting on mounts. Someone asked them specifically that they wanted to be an archer on a mount I believe. When I read this for some reason it "implied to me" (not confirmed just me) that if we did have mount fighting (i want chocobo fighting but he's set on mounts), it would be in content designed where everyone is on mounts, and not content where one person is a chocobo knight and another is a lnc or something like that, we'd all enter the instance and be on mounts and fight upon mounts. If they would develop new jobs for that who knows.

[Arcell]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...425#post236425

Yoshida did have a comment about mounted battles when the discussion came up, too!

It would be very difficult to feature mounted battles on every field. Therefore, instead of creating mediocre content for every area, we would like to make these battles special. This will be far ahead in the future, but if we were to implement mounted battles, we would like to make this specialized content. This way we can focus our resources to create the most interesting and optimized content.

The road is very long, so we would greatly appreciate your patience and support. m(._.)m

Felt this should be put up here. No specific class, just mounted combat in specific encounters.

[tymora]

Following Yoshi-P's comment, a instance where we have a Cavalry battle against Garleans might be nice.
"Mounted" class is something like say...shield, a sub-class that can be added to any existing class.