Mounts as Companions?

[Seraphor]

OH! I've completely forgot about that and now it makes me sad because that Magitek Armor makes complete sense as a Companion.
Other companion that make sense: Anima.

We really should have got a Companion for each expansion.
Chocobo as default.
Magitek Armor for clearing ARR.
A Moogle or maybe a Dragon for HW.
The Yol for SB.
And an Amaro for ShB.

[Soge01]

We really should have got a Companion for each expansion.
Chocobo as default.
Magitek Armor for clearing ARR.
A Moogle or maybe a Dragon for HW.
The Yol for SB.
And an Amaro for ShB.

For Heavensward, that one could be the Midgarsomer mount. :3

[ItMe]

For Heavensward, that one could be the Midgarsomer mount. :3

Oh my god I'd never used anything but him <3

[Seraphor]

For Heavensward, that one could be the Midgarsomer mount. :3

I thought that but thought it might be weird to have Middy fighting alongside you through SB and ShB, especially given his involvement in Omega.

[hobostew]

I've wanted this since ARR when we got the Magitek Armor mount. It probably isn't worth putting in all the work to make it happen given how little overworld content we do, though.

[Vatom]

As much as that would be cool. too much work wouldn’t be able to fit that even in an expansion like patch. Though if they added like 1 or two options that wouldn’t be too bad but then again that’s why they make barding “Your just gonna have to get creative with that”

[ItMe]

Theoretically, if they did something like this... would you have to level each of your companions separately? Or would they level together like SMN/SCH?

[SilverObi]

Theoretically, if they did something like this... would you have to level each of your companions separately? Or would they level together like SMN/SCH?

I imagine it'd be much easier to have it be a universal level and you'd essentially just be swapping out the model unless they wanted to make it filler content like leveling Trusts. Rename the abilities to remove the Chocobo flavor text to more generic terms and use mounts that have corresponding models with pre-existing battle animations (drake, elbst, wyvern, all the tank mounts etc). I haven't counted but I bet it'd actually be less animations to work with as well since I think companion chocos have one or two more unique animations than monsters do.