Tarantula Mount

[Krotoan]

What is a phobia?

A phobia is an uncontrollable, irrational, and lasting fear of a certain object, situation, or activity. This fear can be so overwhelming that a person may go to great lengths to avoid the source of this fear. One response can be a panic attack. This is a sudden, intense fear that lasts for several minutes. It happens when there is no real danger

If you have controlled it it's not a phobia anymore or it potentially never was. It is an aversion or simply a fear.

People use phobia wayyy too lightly nowadays.

I'm not gatekeeping your problem you overcame, that's awesome and it's cool you're dealing with it. But saying "I have arachnophobia, but bring on the spiders" is .... a very strange comment to make.

[Soge01]

If you have controlled it it's not a phobia anymore or it potentially never was. It is an aversion or simply a fear.

People use phobia wayyy too lightly nowadays.

I'm not gatekeeping your problem you overcame, that's awesome and it's cool you're dealing with it. But saying "I have arachnophobia, but bring on the spiders" is .... a very strange comment to make.

Thank you.

Though I do still think I have a phobia of spiders, again, I just learned to keep the fear and distress down so I can deal with the freaking creepy crawly so it doesn't go skittering off somewhere where I can't see or reach it. As a little kid and even a teenager, that would keep me up at night until I'd finally pass out from exhaustion. Though if a whole dozen of them came out of nowhere, I'd be the first person in my house to abandon ship and go running across the street in my underwear. xD

I only brought up my phobia because I knew people were gonna start coming in to this thread and saying "no" in droves because of said phobia. Everybody has fears, traumas and whatnot, but something shouldn't be denied to be added in a game just because of a few people have problems with it. Make some sort of censor option for them and call it a day. But let everybody else have fun.

Guild Wars 2 almost did exactly what you described (spider mount that could climb cliffs), but early during beta testing some people complained about being scared of spiders, so the mount was replaced with a giant bunny that could leap up cliffs.

That's just sad. Would have been nice if the devs gave players the option to pick between either the rabbit or spider and the people who still didn't want to see the spider mounts in game when other players use them could have had some sort of censor option that changed another player's spided mount into a bunny on their end.

Lol, would be hilarious though see a rabbit crawling up the side of a wall or shooting webs out of its backside that kind of option on. x'D

Only if I am given a giant rock to smash your mount with

Actually, that wouldn't be a bad idea. Having certain mounts be intractable with eachother would be a great way to have players interact with eachother.

A flaming meteor mount smashing another player's spider mount would be both awesome and hilarious. xD

All hail the Tachikoma!

Tachicoma mounts forever!!!!

[SweetPete]

NOOOOOOOO! For the love of eorzea nooooooo please noooooooo. The closest we have is the omega mount and let it stay there. Will literally quit the game over it. No thanks.

[hagare]

Let the rider web someone to carry them as a passenger.

by dragging them on the ground? YES! PLEASE!
Hell, make it a 4 seater

Only if I am given a giant rock to smash your mount with

here, have a rolled up newspaper

[ReynTime]

Sure.

After they change the SGE icon back to supposedly being a problem to trypophobic players.
Which was a vastly less common phobia compared to fear of spiders.

[CienFleur]

If They Make It Look Cute Yes Otherwise Spooky O_o

[Bukachu]

Btw, I have arachnophobia, but I still would love to ride on a big hairy spooder. :3

Suddenly, Im a big hairy spooder

[Momo_Kozuki]

One that is big enough that we can have eight people riding each of its legs.

[Soge01]

One that is big enough that we can have eight people riding each of its legs.

Clinging on to the legs like how our characters do on the Paissa mount. :3

Suddenly, Im a big hairy spooder

Did Lahabrea do this to you? xD

[Reinha]

If it's extra hairy. The ones with long needle legs are gross.