Why Casual content gets so many animal mounts as rewards?

[AntoniusQuil]

I’ve been looking at mount list and I’ve noticed a weird thing. It seems like for some reason most mounts available trough casual content seem to be animal/beast mounts.

For example

Casual DT content - mostly animals

Island sanctuary - mostly animals with one exception being garlond bike

Isghard restoration - only animal mounts

Beast tribes - once again mostly animals

In comparison, raiding (with exception of extreme trials) has a wide variety of mount types while PvP gets mostly machine based mounts.

Is there any particular reason behind this? Or does SE simply think that those particular mount types will appeal the most to the part of the playerbase focused on that content.

[BigCheez]

Most of the mounts in the game are animals.

PVP has the horses. All 3 of the Endwalker savage mounts were animals. And you're ignoring a lot of the casual mounts that aren't animals, like the all the magitek mounts, beast tribe mounts, Bozja mounts, special FATE mounts, the chairs/beds, the Hildy UFO, the MGP airship. Island sanctuary had 2 motorbike mounts too.

[St0rmy]

I definitely dislike the high amount of animal (and magitek) mounts in this game and would like to see some more ones with different themes. I'd really like some plants and magic based ones. Something as simple as a floating flower, similar to the Moogle tribe mount.

[Kaurhz]

This is because usually the mounts provided in the harder content typically fit the theme of the raid/encounter (with the exception of the Axolotl) with which they are from. Like, it wouldn't make sense for E12S to drop an Alligator mount, for example.

[Bonoki]

I'll take animals over flying beds and chairs.

[TakoyakiLala]

Furry Supremacy

[Oizen]

Why u hatin on animals?

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

This is because usually the mounts provided in the harder content typically fit the theme of the raid/encounter (with the exception of the Axolotl) with which they are from. Like, it wouldn't make sense for E12S to drop an Alligator mount, for example.

Probably just me: but I personally think the Axolotl fits Athena perfectly, given that they're a species that doesn't metamorphose to its intended adult form without specific conditions that normally do not occur in nature. It's like a direct reference to her ambitions and method in achieving so.

[Rokke]

Animal/creature mounts are usually recolors or reused skeletons of existing models. Theres a spattering of them of them across all content because theres a ton of models to choose from so its very easy to pick a couple that are related to the content in some shape or form.

Tank mounts were originally animals that represented the tanks, lions - pld, bear - war, evil spooky bigcat - drk. Went kinda weird with gnb cause they had a set theme going that didn't really suit gnb.

Island sanctuary mounts are predominantly animals because you're literally running an animal farm.

Beast tribe mounts are usually creatures that are associated with the specific tribe.

Eureka's mounts are mostly creatures because you're regularly fighting with creatures.

Bozja's mounts are mostly robots because you're regularly fighting with magitek.

Savage mounts are usually something recycled from the raid, be it a mechanic (Gobwalker, Air force), an add (Sunforged), or the literal boss itself (Omega, Eden, Phoenix etc).

PVP mounts are kinda weird in that they started very themed (pvp was meant to be the grand companies running skirmishes over allag ruins, og pvp mounts are GC war horses and allag nodes and the original feast mounts were demon wolves to match the wolf theme) and then became garlean.

[Mawlzy]

It could be because humans have traditionally used animals as mounts, rather than vegetables, chairs, and triple triad cards.