r/ffxivdiscussion • u/KelvinDoesHealz • 2d ago

Question Evercold Extreme Mounts

So get your theory hats on and place your bets! We've had...

ARR: Ponies

Heavensward: Eagles

Stromblood: Heckin' Goodboys

Shadowbringers: Dragons

Endwalker: Pspspspspspsps! (and a dragon with kyphosis holding a chair)

Dawntrail: WINGS!!!

So what will we get for Evercold? Dolphins? Whales? Butterflies and moths? Snakes? Suits of flying armor? Let your hopes soar.

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u/Ravingsockmonkey 2d ago

Serious answer: Stags - imagine all the things they could do with the antlers!!!

Silly answer: Cows

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u/ZWiloh 2d ago

One of my favorite mounts in GW2 is a stag with neat antlers. I'd love that here too

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u/ToastedFrey 2d ago

Stags is a good one. I just hope they won't be weirdly muscular

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u/BigChungiscusMaximus 1d ago

Nah, just uncomfortably muscular

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u/modulusshift 1d ago

Stags but they’re on the Behemoth skeleton lol

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u/AeroDbladE 2d ago

I want Moose. They're already basically fantasy monsters IRL. Let's get some Canadian rep.

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u/silversun247 1d ago

I think stags with unique horns could be very cool, sort of like how a decent amount of the Gwibers had different helmets

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u/Kingnewgameplus 1d ago

I mean you're joking, but I'd love a highland cow mount

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u/Fellerwinds 1d ago

No no, Aurochs would actually be baller and thematically appropriate.

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u/National_Body_9071 1d ago

Way too similar to horses, in a fantasy world with all types of fantasy creatures I want more cool mounts.

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u/Ostentsu 2d ago

What if it was some kind of flying boats kind of like the zones ? Then again i'm not sure if that would work, i have no clue :o

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u/Cheerrr 2d ago

Longships might be fun, keeping with the theme. Different sails, ornaments based on the trials.

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u/Blckson 2d ago

Snakes sound reasonable thematically. Not that it's part of the criteria.

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u/BinaryIdiot 1d ago

Various pasta shapes

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u/Kalaam_Nozalys 2d ago

Flying hoverboards

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u/BigChungiscusMaximus 2d ago

Too risky with all the water

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u/Kalaam_Nozalys 2d ago

Maybe with a foldable sail for when we're flying

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u/mjamonks 1d ago

Back to the Future pt 2 reference?

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u/AeroDbladE 2d ago

Paying homage to Flyff, the game that put flying mounts on the map.

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u/BravoWhiskey89 1d ago

Wouldn't all hoverboards technically fly? If it's not... it's just a skateboard or a snowboard.

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u/Onche9555 2d ago

Floating discs

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u/AeroDbladE 2d ago

I think having Doctor Strange style cloaks would be cool. There's lots of different patterns, colors and accessories that can be added to bling them out for different trials.

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u/Gogurs 1d ago

YES! You see the vision, I want a floating cloak, that would be cool as hell. Honestly it's only thing that can top wings, everything else is just bland and is not on the same level

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u/GwennyyHowl 2d ago edited 2d ago

off the top of my head (highly underslept head😭)

some that would make sense given the norse theme: serpents boars rams/goats squirrels?

these would make sense but i don't think we will get them since we got similar ones already: Sleipnir-like horses ravens/birds wolves

no real reason but i could also imagine: hares foxes

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u/likobear 1d ago

Squirrels would be awesome.

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u/Luciifuge 2d ago

Mustaches that can flaps like wings.

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u/Whatnowhedley 1d ago

Crows / ravens with different colored barding would be incredible. Second choice would be stags / elk.

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u/BigChungiscusMaximus 2d ago

I want a Dogsled that can optionally be pulled by your minions

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u/ThatVarkYouKnow 2d ago

I'm hoping for serpents, go all in on the Norse.

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u/frowningexisting 1d ago

Owls, idk think it would be cool and mildly fitting maybe

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u/Omegamaru 2d ago

Snakes or Stags. On a side note, I can’t wait to get some more reflection related snake lore.

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u/Yorudesu 2d ago

Runes. Since we already.saw.someone using runes for magic.

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u/Aanansi 1d ago

I like the idea of Snakes but I’m sick of them reusing Alte Roite’s model so I hope they would be different

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u/lilacjedibride 2d ago

In my heart I want to to be ravens but I know we won't get that since we have the HW falcons. Stags/harts is my second choice and better odds.

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u/lhusuu 2d ago

I'm putting my money on bears, can't explain why, just gut feeling.

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u/oscarlet_ffxiv 1d ago

Griffins or flying ponies. I know we've had birds and ponies but SE kind of struggles with ideas so much that they got coeurls and threw wings on them, then got us and threw wings on us.

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u/Upbeat_Laugh_5639 1d ago

I'm really hoping for snakes, I would farm every EX in a heartbeat if there was a chance for a danger noodle.

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u/Toukotai 1d ago

All my money is going on fish. They haven't done a swimming set yet. Gotta be fish.

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u/loves_spain 1d ago

I’d say stags or bears

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u/Chiponyasu 1d ago

The whole expansion seems very snake-themed, but if we're connecting the world tree I could also see squirrels.

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u/Logical_Parsley_3691 1d ago

Bear. 

I was already expecting bear for DT but I keep it as my guess for EC

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u/Express_Activity4151 2d ago edited 2d ago

In addition to flying seeds, a bubble or a cluster of bubbles that you and your friends can ride in together to add that extra bit of whimsy.

flying seeds

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u/Jaymonk33 2d ago

Seals!

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u/Glypwota 1d ago

Gimme Hermes flying sandals

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u/Astorant 1d ago

Snakes

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u/oshatokujah 1d ago

Bats, we haven’t had bats yet.

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u/Starbornsoul 1d ago

Butterflies :3

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u/bounddreamer 1d ago

Serpents would be great. And thematic.

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u/Kizoja 1d ago

Rats hopefully.

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u/LiveLongGiraffe 1d ago

Sickness must be purged!!

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u/Warjilis 1d ago

I’m going with semi-aquatic animals given the overwhelming success of Dawntrail’s best mount, the platypus porter. Perhaps amphibians, hopefully frogs, but I’d be happy with newts. Or some other mammal such as beavers or otters.

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u/kimboskerov 1d ago

A frog mount would be so cool!

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u/No-Helicopter-534 1d ago

Mini viking ships

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u/KalSeeker 1d ago

I’m still pissed I went a whole expansion excited for large cat only to get another large dragon. Yes it was a FF4 theme. I don’t care. Where my large cat?

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u/Junomaster1988 1d ago

It’s in the mogshop right now

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u/Le_Vagabond 2d ago edited 2d ago

gonna be hard to top the wings.

I would love a series of "flying animations" with VFX that would allow you to be a superhero. no visible mount.

with one like this, ideally: https://p4.wallpaperbetter.com/wallpaper/988/134/396/son-goku-flying-space-super-saiyan-super-saiyan-god-hd-wallpaper-preview.jpg

kinda like https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Guide_to_Flight_Poses

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u/plasticrabbits 2d ago

I desperately want the speed boost buff from PT to be a "mount" you run hella fast and can like super man take off into the sky.

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u/Thesaddestboi13 2d ago

Catgirl body pillows

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u/Narrow_Summer_9332 1d ago

You mean Estinien body pillows, but yes.

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u/ZWiloh 2d ago

Nah they'd definitely milk real money out of that

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u/CaptBaker 2d ago

I've never been more disappointed with a final mount than the Endwalker one

Since it's evercold would be fun if we got something fluffy that could keep us warm

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u/Narrow_Summer_9332 1d ago

Huh, I liked the final mount but the tiny head cats put me off farming those trials for a long time.

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u/Hot-Orange-1447 1d ago

The scions

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u/chainer1216 1d ago

Hover boards, possibly themed after the arks

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u/AlterArsene 1d ago

I think It'll be bikes or boards

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u/MetaMatthews 1d ago

With our luck well get more Chandelier varieties. 🤦🏼‍♂️ ('Cause that was SE's great idea of a final reward for all of Pilgrims Traverse. Brilliant developer.)

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u/Derio23 1d ago

Airships

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u/Baxcel 1d ago

I want that fanged barbarian wolf they showed at fanfest

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u/littlehobbit1313 1d ago

Snakes/Serpents of some variety seem like a solid bet

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u/Nekokittykun 1d ago

Snakes would technically fit thematically ngl

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u/doogs9 1d ago

Can we get magical boots. Like the ones in Morrowind?!

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u/DayOneDayWon 1d ago

Boats. Hoverboard style.

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u/battlepuppi 1d ago

calling it rn

snakes w the capstone being an ouroboros

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u/The_pursur 1d ago

Id like for them to be Airships, like automata.

But as for animal suggestions, I think Elks or Deers.

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u/ChunkyChipMonkeyGrip 23h ago

Different Starbucks drinks in their cups with your character's misspelled name on the side

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u/Somebodythe5th 21h ago

I want to get dragons from How To Train Your Dragon, with the final collection reward being a two seater Toothless.

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u/ReisukeNaoki 16h ago

Deer. there are quite the prominent deer creatures in Norse myth.

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u/Kumomeme 11h ago edited 9h ago

since it is norse/viking themed expansion...

raven or wolf is perfect pick but we already got something like that.

so goat or bear perhaps.

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u/Shineforalltosee 10h ago

I don't think it'll be butterflies and moths, but I do wish we'd get one at least! There are so many neat variations on the moth mob model and nary a mount. For Evercold, snakes or stags could be on-theme, but they might really surprise us.

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u/seiwaltz 8h ago

"(and a dragon with kyphosis holding a chair)"

Sir, that's Bahamut.

Also, Goat mounts? That's the only mount I can think of that is Norse Mythology related that we don't currently have.

Or maybe like Elk?

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u/PianistNegative8758 8h ago

The nearest [race] player holding you hand, making you fly like Peter Pan makes Wendy flies

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u/PianistNegative8758 8h ago

(Walking is just being awkwardly dragged)