Job Specific Mounts for Everyone!

[Laerune]

A piece of the floor for dragoons, imagine, floor tanking while traveling.

[Kaaylryn]

I have no problem with each class or job getting its own mount, except I play Elezen and that silly sidesaddle form makes me not use the unicorn or even want a pony type mount. So, if it was something I could ride without looking like I was going to fall off, I would be all for it.

Also, why does it look like I am picking my undies out of my backside when ever I am summoning a mount?

[lololink]

BLM : Arhiman
SMN : Primal ponies
DRG : New DRG mount
MCH : Magiteck armor

[Ryuko]

The initial reason the job-specific mounts were rewarded is to encourage people to play those classes. PLD and WAR received their job-specific mounts only after completing a certain number of 'difficult' duties as that class (aka, not just hard modes, but extremes or coils...). WHM (technically CNJ) did not have a defined reason for receiving the unicorn, and to be honest... the quest was kind of lackluster. It may have been to encourage people to level healer, but possibly no. I imagine that other jobs may received job-specific mounts in the future, but it won't be a priority because there's no functional reason to 'entice' people to play dps classes like there was to entice people to play tanks and healers.

[Wilan]

WHM (technically CNJ) did not have a defined reason for receiving the unicorn, and to be honest... the quest was kind of lackluster. It may have been to encourage people to level healer, but possibly no.

The reasoning behind that, I think Yoshi-P explained during the closed beta, was that at the beginning of the game up to level 30 the Conjurer would be the one and only Healer class available. There wouldn't be any scholar before level 30 (and astrologian wasn't even a thing, of course), thus potentially creating a role unbalance in the early levels. The special mount was put there so more people would be encouraged to level conjurer at least up to level 30, so they could get their special mount for collection and go back to their main job.

Nowadays the problem is basically solved, especially thanks to the low-level roulette, but in the first months of the game it could have been potentially game-breaking.

Um... You guys here to take part in a conversation, or to just state your opinion ignoring all that's been said up to that point?

[Kuwagami]

Giving people reasons to farm t4 endlessly is not really a "bright" idea :/

There might be other ways to do it

[Ryans]

i you read my 2nd post i said you can level to 30 without even entering a dungeon o.O

You can level to 50 without entering a dungeon. What the hell is your point? It doesn't change the fact that the reasoning behind all the job specific mounts was to get people playing those jobs.

[Gamer3427]

You can level to 50 without entering a dungeon. What the hell is your point? It doesn't change the fact that the reasoning behind all the job specific mounts was to get people playing those jobs.

I believe that their point is that the CNJ/WHM mount is lower level and doesn't require you to enter a dungeon even once to get it. The WAR and PLD mounts do however, as they're tied to achievements you can't even begin to get until you hit 50, (if I'm not mistaken at least), and that require you to do grouped content even then. That indicates that the Tank mounts are more of an incentive for players who actively play as a tank in high level content, while the CNJ/WHM mount is more of just a "bonus" for players who get to level 30.....

[Shougun]

Not quite as functional as some other options but I'd like to see Dragoon get a jump transportation ability xD. Could see it as a very far range target ground ability, or if they can detect ceilings (probably can't, perhaps detect cave) then have it launch the Dragoon into the air and let them sort of plummet back down (very high into the sky, like the game trailers show, but minus caves cause -bonk- KO, floor tank).

At least for the flying zones I can't imagine it breaking any pathing. Then a ground targeting version in ARR areas would help prevent that, can't target non-reachable areas. Talking about movement abilities, fix the other abilities too~. It looks like you are jumping or blinking to a target area but you're actually doing more of a "slide" (specially the ninja ability).

Not opposed to each job having a mount, I think it would add encouragement to level everything and I love collecting stuff (also gives SE a lot of player hours), but they should probably still encourage tank/healer more (so perhaps tanks and healers get an upgraded version to their current mount, as part of a new achievement?)

Edit: Forgot how easy it was to get the healer mount, well - make the new achievement not like that :P lol.

[Kahnom]

WAR - Bear
PLD - Lion
WHM - Unicorn
SCH - Tonberry/Butterfly
DRG - Drake/Wyvern
MNK - Tiger
NIN - Frog
BRD - Eagle(zu ..)
BLM - Snake
SMN - Big Carbuncle
AST - Carpet
MCN - Gazelle
DRK - Rhino