I would like to see all roles get job specific mounts.

[astrabun]

I would like to start this post of noting that yes I know that its most likely at like the very bottom of their priority list but I would still like to make the post in the hopes of them seeing it and maybe doing it.

With that out of the way I, and many others would love to see mounts for each Job. It honestly feels kinda bad that the only role in the game that gets this are tanks, Even as a tank this sucks I really don't understand why they haven't created mounts for DPS and healers yet it makes no sense. Here's the weirdest part though they made a new one for GNB its not like they just stopped doing it all together they added a new one for a new tank. I'm one genuinely curious as to why and two honestly am sad to see that the other classes are neglected on this front. Imagine being able to get a dragon mount as a dragoon, or the lava frog as ninja the list goes on and on for possible mounts. I think everyone should be awarded for the time they put into a job add a special title in there for them as well so they can show off how many duties they've done with the class.

However I don't wanna just complain about this and not try to help either so that being said if you have an idea for mounts that have something to do with your job or connect to it in some way, Please post it in the comments and maybe if this gets seen they will have some ideas to work with on what we want.

[Xia_Thas]

I think job mounts are a pretty good conversation starter on the "Exclusive or nah" topic when it comes to content. On the one hand having an Armored Sabertooth Tiger that no one else but the members of the GNB club have gives the mount a special feeling of rarity to it. You EARNED it, you didn't buy it off the Market Board, You didn't happen to get lucky with a loot drop, you put your effort in and now have something tangible to show for it.

If every class had a mount that feeling would go away and I personally enjoy having exclusive items / mounts that give you a goal to see accomplished. Plus if they did I'd imagine they'd tone down the requirements to get said mounts and that would just diminish the sense of pride a player would have because now you can get 17 different mounts (Not including BLU) and they are all varying degrees of easy.

Right now the Tank Mounts serve as an incentive to play Tank. "Look guys we know some people have X Y and Z reasons for not wanting to tank but look at this dope mount!" Which I don't think is a bad thing. As I said I am all for getting a reward for commiting to playing a low pop role, feels nice.

A middle ground I could see is like "SHB Role Type" Mounts. Get All your Magic Ranged DPS to lv cap and let's say w/e number of Commendations / dungeon runs per job and you get a "Magic Mount" same with Physical Range, Melee, and Healers.

[astrabun]

I agree that it has a sense of exclusivity but as I said I don't think its quite fair to only have that for tanks if a dps puts in the same amount of time as me why not give them something special for it. As for incentive to play tank I don't think that aspect of the tank mounts would go away just because all the other jobs got their own specific mount. I would just become a case of hey I wanna play this job now to get this mount. I think all should be rewarded for putting a good bit of time into their jobs. It feels less like oh i'm special and more like oh I happened to enjoy and play a class that has a reward for playing them alot. Worst of all IMO is if someone doesn't enjoy tanking then they just get shafted for not having fun with tanking. I am going to have to go with naw and I also assume they would simply tack on the same instance req as tanks so honestly it would be just as time consuming.

[Enkidoh]

Technically healer gets a mount too, or rather, CNJ/WHM does (the unicorn), and not as an achievement, by completing a very quick and easy quest, which was for a very good reason. It was to encourage players to start the game as a healer, as CNJ was the only healer class available at the start (yes I know ACN gets SCH as a Job upgrade option, but from the very beginning only CNJ is available), and hence the unicorn was a carrot to attract new players to start as CNJ and so be able to fill the healer requirement in early duties (this is why the quest to get the unicorn can only be undertaken as a CNJ, not a WHM).

The tank mounts are an extension of this kind of thinking, in that they're incentives for tanking high end duties/end game stuff. It's not for 'bragging' rights or exclusivity, but simple pragmatism, to attract people into that role in harder content that players might otherwise overlook. Hence it's pretty clear that other classes and roles will not get similiar mounts I'm afraid.

P.S. it's not too hard to associate individual mounts you already have to individual Jobs/classes, as it's something I've done myself - I only use a certain mount with a certain Job in most cases (like, the griffin for my main, PLD, due to my character's association with Ala Mhigo, Midgardsormr with DRG, the magitek armour with MCH, witch's broom with BLM etc etc). It's really not too difficult to do yourself.

[astrabun]

Ok but wouldn't the incentive for picking CNJ at the start already be there considering someone who is starting would one most likely not even know you get a unicorn at level 30 and two if someone's picking a class for the first time they most likely went "oh I wanna CNJ is a healer ok I'm picking CNJ" even then that's only CNJ what's the incentive for the other healers.
Going back to that point if tank mounts are an incentive for doing high level duties what is the incentive for dps and healer?

As for your last point you have completely missed the point yes you could just decide which mounts go with which class but you could say the same thing for job sets who needs specific job sets for level milestones cause you can just make a glam yourself that fits the character with items in the game.

The point is we could have a mount for every class giving said incentive to play all the jobs if you want all the special mounts while also rewarding dedicated players to said jobs. You cannot match what a dev could do if given full creative freedom to create a special mount made for each class. For instance with Reaper say that had a class specific mount what if that mount was a voidsent that would be way cooler than anything in the game rn.

[Enkidoh]

Well, to be fair the reason why they wanted players to start the game as CNJ and thus rewarded players who did with a mount was more a launch concern, that there would be an imbalance right at the start of ARR of too many DPSes and not enough healers (again, from the very start of ARR CNJ was the only healer available until ACN players reached level 30 and could unlock SCH - AST after all wasn't added til Heavensward). I remember during the later stages of the Beta test there was a lot of discussion about SE announcing that CNJ would get a unicorn mount, and so players then assumed all classes would get one. Alas, that never occurred (tank mounts were added much later as part of achievements for tanking high end content, not simply for starting the game as that class).

Of course it would be great if SE gave a special mount to every class, but it's clear they're simply not interested in doing that, as class imbalance in parties is already a problem and SE are trying to get players to do content as tanks and healers not DPS which is considered the easiest to play as (this is why the 'adventurer in need' bonus in roulettes for instance is usually a tank or healer, rarely a DPS). Giving mounts to specific classes/Jobs that are roles that are considered less played is an incentive to do that.

[astrabun]

that is fair but you can't start as astro and most don't play healer or tank due to anxiety alot of people feel that its a larger responsibility than DPS.

As for Square not interested in doing it they may not be right now but they also said they wern't going to do male viera but here we are. I feel that if we as a community tell them we want it enough we can have it and that has been proven true most of the time.

[Laerune]

Healer got a mount, because during ARR, CNJ was the only healer from level 1 to level 30. They needed something to convince the players to play as a CNJ.

Tanks get one, because they are the least played role. Only way for the others to get it is, if SE sees that people avoid the class/role. You want Dps classes to get mounts, make it so they are the least played role. Until that happens, I don't think SE will do anything.

[DarkMasamune]

I would love that, unfortunately, I don't think it'll be done since tanks mounts were added mostly to encourage people to play the job.

That's why I do what Enkidoh suggested ; I use certain mounts for certain jobs. Not the same thing but it works out.