Quote Originally Posted by Alberel View Post
This has been answered before and it's deliberate. Anyone that's played WoW knows how infuriating it is when people on mounts talk to NPCs and no one else can even see the NPC because they're lost inside the mount... Forced dismounting to interact with things is a very good design choice.
The easy fix to this would have been a command line but SE still haven't implemented the awesome commands XI had.