Can we please stop getting tiny, undersized Trial mounts?

[YukikoKurosawa]

As we had in ShB, where trial mounts were these little baby dragons that were horribly undersized for anyone besides lalafels, we seem to be repeating that trend with Endwalker. The new lynx mounts from the 2 extreme trials are woefully small in scale compared to our characters to the point of looking extremely goofy. Along with having disproportionately small heads.

I've been of the opinion that the art direction for mounts in this game is very poor as almost everything is some sort of goofy creature, especially when we have month long beast tribe grinds for something like a tiny little flying piglet. Or it will be something cool, but it's a mount that looks absolutely ridiculous flying (like the Ananta Elephant). Seriously when we've had flying for several years now it's silly that we keep getting ground mounts that can just magically fly without wings or anything.

But as far back as Heavensward we had the lanners which were very large and very cool looking, along with obviously making sense as flying mounts, but it since then the mount design has only gotten worse. The Gwibers and winged lynxes would be perfectly fine though, if they weren't so absurdly small. I'm not sure if this is just them continuing their trend of making mounts look goofy (for whatever reason), but I don't really care to grind for some mount that looks stupid. Please scale up mounts to properly be sized for our characters. I'm not saying change the gwibers or the lynxes now since I'm sure people who already have them like them as they are, but going forward, can we please at the bare minimum have mounts properly scaled up for our characters. And please stop making ground mounts. Every single new mount that's not from an extreme or savage is some sort of ground creature. We've had flying for several years now, the mount design should be reflecting that. It makes zero sense to keep making dogs and pig mounts that have no logical ability to fly and just slapping flight on them, it looks beyond stupid.

At this point though, zero of the new mounts, save for the new savage mount (which I won't be getting this expansion because I don't do savages), interest me at all for these reasons and I'm sure I'm not the only one who isn't bothering to grind for them.

[NegativeS]

Once again, Gang Magitek Armor reigns supreme.

Kind of funny that a good portion of the decent mounts in the game you get for free just by playing the MSQ.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I prefer smaller mounts, personally. It lets me see more of the world around me. Ironfrog Mover, Rose Lanner, and Ehli Tou are my go-tos.

[seraseth]

I prefer smaller mounts, personally. It lets me see more of the world around me. Ironfrog Mover, Rose Lanner, and Ehli Tou are my go-tos.

Same, small mounts just *feel* faster. The broom from the halloween event way back when is still my favorite.

[Avatre]

As a max height Raen, I find the gwibblers not too bad a size. The lynx...well, the heads are a bit small from what I've seen(not gotten one myself yet). But the majority of the trial mounts I find to be a decent size.

[YukikoKurosawa]

Kind of funny that a good portion of the decent mounts in the game you get for free just by playing the MSQ.

Yeah, and I'm not really interested in going to the ingame store and paying $30 to buy:


A fat cat

A fat moogle

A fat bear in a santa costume

Or a freakin carpet.

[NegativeS]

Yeah, and I'm not really interested in going to the ingame store and paying $30 to buy:


A fat cat

A fat moogle

A fat bear in a santa costume

Or a freakin carpet.

That's one thing WoW has over FFXIV: The magic carpet is a low level craft.

[Krokov]

Yeah, and I'm not really interested in going to the ingame store and paying $30 to buy:


A fat cat

A fat moogle

A fat bear in a santa costume

Or a freakin carpet.

Should be noted that the santa bear mount was free as part of the in-game Christmas event a few years ago. I.e. just saying it wasn't originally a store mount.

[Powercow]

A fat bear in a santa costume

Wow, rude.

Skybear spends all winter chucking exploding presents at children for the amusement of its rider, let him gorge himself on cheese-whip every once in a while.

Also small mounts are best mounts. I love my little cloud.

[Krokov]

It's explained why the ground mounts can now fly they they utilize a aether wind currents to be able to do so just like you have to get aether wind currents to be able to unlock flying for new zones