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I like that this Bahamut is based off the spite from FF4 but I can’t get over how silly it looks to have him just carry you in a chair. Truly magnificent.

I will hold firm on this. The super mount for all the lynx's should have been a Couerlregina mount. This was even the expansion when they brought her model back in Elpis! So that could have easily been how we got the mount!

Nice to see Drak has made the full journey from E7 Normals full tilt rage mode to Serial Rescuer.

Hard to believe but in a far off land, that gout-riddled dragon is their deity of summoning beasts

I love the mount. But I love seeing anything lifted from Amano's sketch pages and faithfully recreated in 3D in this game. I know there are people who don't appreciate or otherwise care of the whimsy in that man's art, but as someone older; someone who grew up with the games that things like the MagiTek Reaper, Lunar Whale, and this particular Bahamut are lifted from, it's a dream come true to see them realized in XIV.

"Thanks I hate it." or "Upgrade, F*** go back" comes to mind.

Shimada getting his art featured in a NEST and Friends video, he made it!

Can agree. Kamuy of the Nine Tails is the best 'full set mount reward so far (Landerwaffe is a close 2nd being 2 seater) but I still take issue that its called 'of Nine Tails' but only has seven Tails showing

Me and my FC have started refering to the Bahamut as "The Scoliosis Dragon"¨

Congrats on the completed grind and I also share the opinions about the anemic Bahamut but what took me out more than anything, to the point of tearful laughter was the art of Drak holding up Nophica like from the anime. That actually got me so good

It would have made for such a good BLU-mount for clearing Omega and Eden on Savage tbh

Considering Scribble's cries for help in the text of the video, I feel we should all give them more love for what they do. (And let them play JackBox with everyone like they asked for!)

I personally don't mind it, but the last couple of ritual mounts have had this feeling of "how did we go from these to THIS?" I would’ve loved getting a Great Wyrm last expansion. Landerwaffe is still cool, but I certainly didnt expect a mecha-dragon

Gonna be honest, this fricking FFIV mount make me quit my EX mount runs w/ all 6.0~6.4 for 99 totems already in my bag when they announced it.

"How can I make you suck without making you- OOOH!! YESSS!!" sounds like all he had to do was ask

Love the Scribble cameo! Would love to see her on the channel ^^

i farmed the mounts for hydaelyn, zodiark, and barbariccia. I thought about going back for endsinger mount and said nah i will just wait and see what the final mount is. I am so glad i didnt go back to farming mounts for that stupid looking bahamut. I thought we would get maybe a voltron type mount with them being cats. I mean we even got a power ranger themed summer event this year. It just felt like a missed opportunity.

"ribbed for your displeasure" yeah. that actually sums up the whole shtick...

After ShB's cyber dragon, I was really hoping for a Voltron-esque mech-cat. Or a winged Coeurl. Or something related to Endwalker, like a giant Starbird. But apparently CBU3 just cannot let FF4 go and gave us this abomination.

14:25 glam question, what's the glowing gem on Drak's forehead? i don't think I've ever seen it before

Grats on the mount! I feel your pain with the grind, though my loot rolls aren't as bad as yours seem to be. I have all 7 except for Golbez, and I've got totems for that. I'm helping some friends through that fight for them to get the mounts, and when one drops, I'm always sorta tempted to need on it, but then I remember that the faster they get their mounts, the sooner I can be *done* with that fight.

The Raid mount is a silly lil axolotl, and the omni-mount is a silly bahamut carrying a chair

I got my on content final mount was the Mecha Dragon from SHB. I was so mad that this was the final mount as I love OG Bahamut from FFIV but not with the lynxes. We should have gotten like some of the OG Giant Couerls that we see in Elpis or in the Phys DPS job quest in SHB.

Also congrats on getting the mount Drak😂❤

The squeaky toy rescues brought a smile to my face

I normally have the final ex mount by now but ive been going so slow about it after seeing what awaits me. 😢 It makes no sense to me, going from cat to dragon, and not even a powerful looking one like landerwaffe

Good Drak. Goooood. Let the rescue hate flow through you! Sucks that Keaton is the preferred target but she does make for a great squeaky toy. Not speaking from experience on this at all.

Every other trial series theyve somehow managed to do the thing that makes me the most disappointed so i really should've expected that they would take away my giant cat since i wasnt too fussed about the funny turtle not getting a trial this time around. I just want to apologize again to my static members for stealing the golbez mount. I wouldn't've rolled if i had known

I love this mount, but yes it should have been a reward elsewhere and a proper unique mount made for the Lynxes

The flight "animation" if you dare to call it that looks so unfinished I thought I was looking at an f2p mmo from 15 years ago..

the acorn sketches hahaha wtff 😂😂😂 im wheezing too hard 🫖💨💨💨💨💨

Congratulations on finishing all the EXTs! 🎉🎉🎉 Your feelings mirror mine exactly lol. I’m the minority in my group of friends for this mount - I really don’t like it. And I’m usually a big Bahamut fan. More could have been done with it or it could have been a special mount given at the end of the MSQ. I really was hoping for a super galactic car or Coeurlinga. But my friends who really love FFXIV are stoked so happy for them there. :) Also really love your content! Can’t wait to see more ^_^

Did you do it? Did you get the all of the Endwalker trial mounts? Drac: Yes. What did it cost you? Drac: Everything.

At least it's not as bad as the cruise chaser. Try to fly anywhere and you just get a face full of fire and exhaust.

I looked up bahamut's earliest iteration... oh God he was shrimping but not that badly! XD Congratulations on the mount!

I was definitely hoping to see something lynx/cat related as the overall mount this expac...but after seeing this, I'm glad I didn't grind hard for the cats. I'll live with my zoid dragon

Please tell Dhaos that I absolutely adore him and Tales rules pls.

That 20k Critlo, tho.

Poor Keaton is the Drak to Corey while Drak has become Corey. He's drunk on the power.

I love the Bahamut mount so much. I wish I had time to actually get it.

I mean, I kinda love how you sit on the mount (in the mount's claws? Whatever), but...yeaaaah. I mean, maybe if you pretend it's Ridley from Metroid, it's better?

Let Scribble in the club! Play some JackBox!

Jokes aside @DrakGamestein how does SCH feel to play on controller. I tried it the other day and I felt I had buttons on buttons. I haven't played it seriously since HW arguably but still 😅.

Wow...I don't even want to complete Lynx collection for that....

The dev team really needs to step up their game with these final EX mounts, because half of them have been really disappointing. The only one I farmed for when it was new was the Kamuy one and man, was I disappointed by that ugly Fenrir with more tails. At this point if the ex mounts of Dawntrail don't look cool enough themselves, I don't think I will farm them until the final mount is revealed and if it doesn't look good either, I will farm them in the expansion after DT.

It's so derpy. I LOVE IT! Time to get off my ass and get those cats.

I'm glad someone else hates the way this mount looks. Absolutely atrocious reward for all the Lynxes.

i saw its reveal and stopped farming 100% agree with the m'lord vibe haha but maaaan like 7 or something space dragon cats couldnt combine to make a shiny small space kitten that sits on your shoulder and lets you fly leaving stars behind?

As someone who is a ffiv whore, i love the ffiv bahamut being a mount. But i will concede it is a strange choice for the lynx's.

Compared to a cyber dragon or a kyubi yeah 😊

Yes, Mi'Lord?

i cant wait to desynth the 370 totems it took to get this lynx

Nice to have a group of friends to do the extremes with, I had Party Finder 😢 Mostly cos my friends arent playing much atm... I have all 6 except for Golbez, which i have 100 totems for and finally Zeromus, but PF has been really bad so im just gonna wait until my fc gets back on lol

Slimy, yet unsatisfying.

Why does the Bahamut mount have scoliosis?

ARR: Farm horse to get a dragon-horse ( kinda make sense HW: Farm birdies to get a phoenix SB: Farm kamuy to get a nine-tailed kamuy ! ShB: Farm little dragon, to get a mecha ?! (Ehhhh) EW: Farm lynx to get… A dragon holding a chair ?!? WHAT THE &€@*+[+ 😭

I actually really like it but then again I like dragons

Just going to quickly fangirl over how Iruku's portrait is literally just a FFXIV version of best boy Dhaos.

WE ARE FREE FROM THE WHEEL

I know the fatter cat mount is a mogstation but even that would have made more sense as the reward over this and then make this idk an achievement award

They could have given us ra-la and I will never forgive them for this :|

THAT is a FFIV Bahamut. I love it.

As someone with zero attachment to the sprite the mount is referencing I also don't like it, especially as a reward for doing all the extremes. References are a double edge sword in that their great for people who are attached to the References, but end up as complete misses to those who don't. The mount really should of been obtained a different way. I'm sure many other people besides myself was looking forward to the traditional final mount being a cooler version of the ex mounts in this case a cooler lynx.

Honestly... its nice that they made the special mount a remake of an old mount from anoth FF game... but this... ... I dont know how much work got put into it but it looks out-of-place...

As someone who started playing the FF series with the psx version of FFIV i love its design but as a whole package it looks so bad. The lazy/boring wing animation while flying reminds me of diablos. It should drag you around like the magitek claw or have you riding its hunchback, even sitting on its hand like the Monkey mount would look better than him carrying you in a chair like a butler. Fitting ex trial mount for such a lackluster expansion though.

The mount is the artbook dragon. It does not translate real well too 3d or anything besides the artists work.

Enjoy your Tryhard Wyrm.

If its a bunch of cats it needs to be a mega cat. Huge miss and L on this batch of mounts that i stopped chasing.

Wow they managed to fuck up a dragon mount. That takes a special type of effort

I'm so glad I got a good one forever ago and have never wanted to do those on content. My Firebird is sweet as hell and that ugly ass FF4 model looking ass dragon looks goofy as fuck

I thought the displacer beasts, with wings, were as bad as it was gonna get... Then I saw this mount. Should've been a standalone in the store.

I'll just wait for them to become buyable... I have 100 totems for the last two. This doesn't interest me enough to warrant bashing my head against lol.

so glad im not alone in disliking this thing

OOOF thanks for the pre-warning. Do not farm this expansions mounts.

your wol looks all cool siting on the chair and then you look at the rest of it and its just so baaad;;;

Oh my GOD why did they do this to Bahamut?? That's just not okay.

Ok raia i feel attacked by you basically saying dps aught to set the pace of dps pulls....

I love how stupid this mount looks and therefore I love that it's the reward for all the lynxes personally. Being carried around by a derpy Bahamut never gets old.

yea this mount killed my desire to grind EX this expansion. Last expansion the cool mecha dragon was brilliant. Definitely the worst culmination mount.. I'll just wait for moogle events on these.

Easily the worst collect-them-all mount. I am a hopeless completionist and I'm thinking of skipping this one, that's how bad it is. I felt happier with the ARR beast tribe "wolf". That anemic, many dog that looks like it hasn't been fed, ever. I never used it again. The robo-dragon was a weird one but at least that was some weird out-there idea, and a two-seater to boot. This is just a randomly picked ugly FFIV reference that doesn't translate.

Yah. This was a bust. This mount should've been obtained a different way or not put in the game at all. Its just ew

Wow, they did FF4 Bahamut dirty with this.

Honestly just another example of Endwalker slipping again...i hope against all hope dawntrail comes out back on shadowbringers level form but i won't be surprised if endwalker is exactly the mark of the beginning of the end it felt like even in 6.0 and 7.x keeps slipping

Personally, I think it's fitting enough, but I know I am most likely in the minority in that regard.