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    Tank Mount

    This thought came to me while I was asleep (I don't know why this is what my brain resorts to when I sleep... but I digress).

    For the tank mount, instead of making it 200/200 for the mount, what if it was incentivised a bit more. In the case of BOTH the WAR and the PLD mounts, what if:

    50/200 You get the base mount, as it currently appears.
    100/200 The mount receives visually upgraded in some way. Perhaps a more ornate saddle or something.
    200/200 You mount receives yet another visual upgrade. Perhaps armor of some sort.

    I feel with more of a tiered approach, people would be inclined to continue tanking longer, and you could actually inflate the numbers a bit.

    Perhaps make base 100, secondary 300, and top 500 (like the commendations). This would give Tanks a bit of a break, but yet keep them in the Tanking business even longer overall.

    Tanks get a mount, and a reason to continue tanking... and everyone wins.

    Now please tear my idea apart, and make it better.
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    Sounds fine to me.

    How about a lion/bear themed chococbo barding for doing some number of low level roulettes? That's where tanks are most desperately needed.
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    I agree that tanks are needed in the lower level dungeons.

    Inclusive with my original concept, we could go further to include ALL dungeons, and massively inflate the numbers.
    400/800/1200

    Something of that sort.
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    I wonder if the Wyvern that they're talking about for the Drg's is gonna be just a mount - that would make me happy just to see those smug pole monkeys' faces drop
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aeora View Post
    I wonder if the Wyvern that they're talking about for the Drg's is gonna be just a mount - that would make me happy just to see those smug pole monkeys' faces drop
    By this layout, potentially every class could get a mount in this archetype. Milestones might change... perhaps lower for DPS to get them out of the grind (since we don't really need more of them).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cspr_Answrth View Post
    I agree that tanks are needed in the lower level dungeons.

    Inclusive with my original concept, we could go further to include ALL dungeons, and massively inflate the numbers.
    400/800/1200

    Something of that sort.
    I can't support this idea enough!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cspr_Answrth View Post
    I agree that tanks are needed in the lower level dungeons.

    Inclusive with my original concept, we could go further to include ALL dungeons, and massively inflate the numbers.
    400/800/1200

    Something of that sort.
    Cut the numbers in half and make only solo DF count for the achievement and you have less tanks leaving dungeons.
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    What we should do, is grab all the tanks that do leave and send them for behaviour correction therapy. Because they obviously weren't taught to consider other people :P then Squeenix wouldn't have the stress of creating all this stuffness :P

    Edit: ^ Not just tanks, anyone really!
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