Rip to your father. Just remember he’d be so proud of you taking care of your mother and going this far in life. Bringing happiness and joy to people. Keep it up bro

I'm a sucker for top 5 or 10 lists and this was a wholesome one. Glad you pushed it out!

"i rolled a 99, and then i left!" absolutely beautiful given the circumstances. i actually had the same happen with an FC run of "limitless blue EX". no scummy merc stuff, but i was a new player at the time and they wanted their "one last run" before calling it so i got invited since there were no other takers at the time. my first experience got me the white lanner and to this day its my favorite flying mount.

I love this vid Hap! Its great hearing the sentiment behind your favorite mounts.

Great video. Thanks so much for sharing your stories about your mounts. That's gotta be one of the coolest things about playing an MMO for years--all the memories, all the stories, all the connections to what was going on in your life at the time.

Been a casual viewer of your channel for years, but I subbed today because of this video. This isn't a video about mounts. It's a slice of life. I appreciate you sharing your story and, as someone who lost his father a few years ago and still struggles with it sometimes, I think it's great to share and remind us all that it's ok to not be ok about it. Thank you

Eureka chads. Eureka is life, Lose yourself in it.

Loved this video. Thanks so much for sharing some story of your gaming/RL life journey. Keep putting out great content, and I'll keep consuming them all. Take care MrHappy!

Genuinely my favorite Top list ever! Thank you for sharing your stories and thank you for doing what you do in the FFXIV community!

The Nightmare Story was great! lol I think for me living the Lala life I'm a huge fan of the small mounts and they just make you feel like you are seriously ZOOMING as a lala! I'd say my favs would be Witch's Broom, Direwolf, Gobwalker(for the music) and my top mount is Big Shell! Seriously, as a Lalafel just hop on the Big Shell crab mount and run around for like 2 minutes. You feel like you are CRUISING and the little clicky noise the feet make as they patter around is so satisfying! hahaha

Great personal list. Thank you for sharing your stories! ☺️

Hey man, everytime i use the Fat Chocobo i remember it was through you and the event that I got that mount. I'm glad that I helped you even if just a little in tough times.

FBC!!! I remember that stream last summer, that was amazing to see (and hear).

I very much understand preferring mounts with stories attached to them. I don't buy mogstation mounts primarily because there's nothing interesting attached to just buying something with money. The unlockable mounts almost always have a story, whether it's the grind, an immense scavenger hunt, or the overcoming of a challenge. I like collecting mounts for this reason, so whenever I press mount roulette, I can be reminded of what it took to get it and show others what I've been through, in a sense. Thank you for sharing your mount stories.

Great video! Love to see the emotional side of you playing FF

Simple video idea but still high quality! More stuff like this would be cool to see

Omg Mrhappy rolling 99 on nightmare is such a funny story

The Tyranosaur story was very sad. Love that mount. Thank you for sharing and RIP

Thanks for all your hard work! and thanks for the black chocobo it's also my favorite.

i really enjoyed this video, Haps! I'm a sucker for list videos so this was nice! Would love to see another video like this! Like favorite dungeons or something!

Loved this video. It's also relevant as I've transitioned from casual MSQ player only to discovering the myriad amount of things you can do in this game; like collecting cool mounts. Thanks for sharing your stories.

I recently lost my father (2 years) I don’t know if it will ever not feel recently….i also help my mother a lot right now and have gotten some really lucky deals along the way. All I can say brother that’s you father watching over your family and with all his energy is doing what he can from where he is to help you mr family out. You deserve everything you have keep it up I’m sure he’s proud of you 👍

I like your ways of saying story or reasons, it's always grab my attention, good job and keep it up.

Way more interesting than a list choices because they look cool. Thanks for sharing all that.

It does seem like you are broadening your scope of content on this channel a bit👍 Been a fan for years but liking this new style you are bringing and challenging yourself to bring more options to the channel. Cheers!

What an awesome video. This is probably the nicest serious personal list I’ve ever watched. I mean obviously I’m a nobody so my qualifier is worth crap. But yeah, I just wanted to add my appreciation for making, editing and releasing this video. There are a lot of youtubers, even those who are already absurdly famous and rich, who. whore out and embellish their personal life for views. This on the other hand wasn’t clickbait, had no clickbaity image or crop of your face crying or sad, stuck to the topic and launched into it almost right away, and yet was a take on the topic that really is personal and heartfelt and could’ve only been made by one person. So thanks for having dignity and being vulnerable yet pragmatic about life. I hope you and your loved ones stay happy and healthy!

Goood, gooooood >:3 Use your platform to generate interest in the Demi-Ozma mount so more people will learn of Eureka and partake thus making it easier for me to find parties!! 😈💖

thats a nice video to go through, thanks for sharing

I did Eureka with my friends just for Demi-Ozma, made the experience a lot more bearable. I dunno if it's still one of the more rare mounts in game but hey, it was certainly worth it to get it. It also helped that we were all working on a relic weapon at the time

🫂 I lost my father right before starting FF14 last year. It was definitely something that helped me get through those first few months myself. I'm glad the Tyranosaur gives you something positive to reflect on. Much love, my dude.

Glad you have the memories. It's a good reason for liking any mount or minion. For me, I *had* to get the Starbird mininion. The story affected me so much over so long. Took me 78 runs, but I have it.

Beautiful video emotionally, thank you for sharing it

Sir, I always enjoy listening to your stories of the "why". I have many memories of playing this game during dark times in my life since 2.0. The beauty of it all is that no matter what happens irl this game is a safe place where I am the WoL, where I have friends to play with, and an adventure waiting. The black chocobo story was by far my favorite. It's a good story and you deserved that lifeline to take care of you and your family :) -Euphos Kotarek(Exodus)

I’m glad you made this video

Excellent video, nuff said

a wonderful video, and wonderful stories! Thank you brother for sharing with us. o/

I also have the fat black chocobo, but mine came from buying Kingdom Hearts 3 on Amazon. I didn't even play FF14 at the time, but once I started playing it became my default mount over the company chocobo on my first travels of Eorzea. 😊

Oh wow the number 2 I get you. When my dad passed away we where still into Shadowbringers and I clung to the song Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Listened to it on loop and even now that song makes me feel a lot.

Model O from O12S has been my favorite mount since it was added simply because Omega has allways be a favorite superiors of mine. Getting to hear "From the Heavens" any time I get on the mount is a nice bonus as well.

My favorite mount is a toss between Warrior of Light Dragon and the Triple Triad Card. Warrior cause I got it on my first clear. Triple triad symbolized just how much of the game I had to go through such as Eureka, Bozja, BLU Mage. Recently however I also got the Cerberus mount and it was such a joy to get after all these years.

Nightmare was my first extreme mount years ago, but my favirote mount has to be my Ramuh mount was the first time I was with a solid group of friends and earned in patch drop, just something I was really proud of doing it at the time, people doing it unsynced will never know the horors of light rampant prog.

Pft love the Nightmare reasoning.

Mine is my good trusty black ADS (Logistics System). Simply because it was quite the work to get and female Lala has the best riding pose on those ADS mounts.

Thanks for the great content haps

Ozma is by far my fav mount, having the current savage and extremes are cool achievements but give it a year to unsych and it takes away some of that wow factor whereas ozma will always be a hard mount to obtain, from doing the whole grind in eureka to desperately trying to find a group to push through the arsenal and not trying to die once was a great experience and probably one of my favourite activities, also the design is stunning and always catches people’s attention my only complaint is the generic mount music but I never have my mount music on anyways (would of been fun to have turmoil as the song)

ah the black fat chocbo event, i remember that, omg your chat was just FLOODED with tier 1 subs. I'm glad that event helped you out :)

My favorite mount now and forever is my POD-Mount ❤️

hi there how hard is to farm Ozma Mount?👀 and my fav mount is Omega love the ost and it was the hardest to get to me so far

I got twintania the same way xD Back when ARR went on sale for $5 i recruited myself lol

1st one's story made me very happy.

For someone who never did Eureka, how horrible/complicated would it be to get the Ozma mount today? I really want this mount, but have no idea how deep into Eureka you have to go to get to the point of doing the content where it drops.

man eureka was great with the little 11 reminiscent

Did you do an Endwalker melee VS? I can't find it

My favorite mount is probably Ramuh. He looks silly yet cool and he was the last Pre-Endwalker savage mount I had to get. The fight itself was fun too so it felt really rewarding. Nowadays if I'm on a specific mount its most likely Ramuh

Top 5 in no particular order~ Flying Cumulus~ This one is pure aesthetic, with a touch of exclusivity. Simple and clean mount that has been my default pretty much from the moment I got it. Bomb Palanquin~ I started playing sometime during 3.3, so Ga Bu's story was one of the first bits of new patch content that was added after I caught up. It was what spurred me on to doing beast tribe quests, and the Kobolds were naturally my first pick. Magitek Predator~ I farmed this one in StB for ages with no luck. A few hours pretty much nightly under a PF "To Catch a Magitek Predator", through which I met tons of players, which was kinda important, because up until this point I had mostly played solo. Unfortunately, this farm also introduced me to the pain of losing with a 98 need roll. Bonus points for being the FF6 in game magitek armor model. Rathalos~ A super fun crossover event between two series that I adore? Yes please. Iirc, I managed to finish the mount farm for this before predator's. Although I never saw a whistle drop until I was only like 4 scales away >_>;; Company Chocobo~ Maybe I got more use out of my combat chocobo than some since I spent a lot of time solo fating to level up and just exploring the terrain in general. They still have a home on my hotbar, and the bits with Seto in ShB absolutely resonated with me. Bonuses~ The omicron beast tribe reward is absolutely going to join this list, it is perfection. Sadly missing~ I can only hope that one day the Dreadnaught mount model is recycled. They were some of the more memorable enemies for me in the 13 games, which I actually enjoyed for the most part (13-2 in particular), and ever since I first saw this model in... coils? I'd been waiting for it to be a mount. Now I'm waiting for it to be a mount not gated behind ranked pvp which just isn't my sort of thing.

Sorry for your lost! On another note I'm from Jersey born and raised in old bridge!!

That fat black chocobo is the first and last time I ever had the ability to gift subs, and I did that on your channel, so it makes me feel good knowing picked the right person to gift to.

i want ozma

you seem like such a genuine guy. +sub

Hm, this was a bit more emotional than I thought it'd be. My own top 5 would be 1. Kamuy of the Nine Tails, simply because it looks amazing and I also like the lore behind it. 2. Alte Roite, because it was the first Savage mount I ever got and Deltascape Savage was the first tier I ever cleared. 3. Air Force, because I get Dancing Mad on demand, that alone makes it one of the best mounts in the game. 4. Regalia Type- G, because it's a car, and I'm a bunny without a drivers license, but who's to stop me? 5. Ceremony Chocobo, since I share that with my significant other whom I love dearly.

the nightmare mount story is dope

Great video haps

/pat you are awesome bro. Ty for the list.

my favorite mount, total cop out of an answer but it's my companion chocobo. Reasons: 1.) Raised my chocobo since it was a little chick. 2.) Went on THOUSANDS of adventures with him. 3.) He protected me, I protected him! 4.) The only mount that is connected to combat. 5.) The only mount, that you can customize their appearance. Even now when I'm maxed out and he's maxed his levels, I still take him out all the time on fate runs or just general questing.

Rest in peace papa happy

So, I pull up this video, see #4 is the Nightmare mount and I think to myself 'Huh, I don't have that one yet!' so I queue up, unsynced as a Lv. 90 DRK for Garuda (Extreme) and get the Nightmare whistle on the first run. Thanks for the good luck, MrHappy! :D

I have the Fat Black Chocobo but I think I got it from an Amazon event. I don't go on Twitch.

13:13 Flexing on Byrne again with that Apkallu :v Nah but great vid, loved it

THE best favorite mount video ever.

Nightmare was the first mount I got back in ARR (outside chocobo and magitek). My first Garuda Ex clear and I confused it with Xantos. Fast forward few patches, I thought I had all mounts to get Kirin. I was confuse because I thought I had all EX mounts. Having to go back and fight Garuda for another mount was mildly frustrating 😆

My Favourite Mount is the Original Cumulus Mount (not the Yellow Mogshop one). Here in EU we are always screwed when it comes to Collaboration Events with differend Brands. For the Cumulus it was a Collab with Dr Pepper here were you had to bought special cans....and of course no Shop in my Area sold this special Event Cans only the regular ones. I drove 80km in the nearest bigger sized City just to buy 25 Cans of Dr Pepper 😅

you do have some interesting mounts, some that i wish i had, but I will say, that my own #1 is my Extra Spicy FC, Aka my Legacy Chocobo

Me having variation of mounts, but yet still riding my Pink chocobo with different barding. Just when can you cast meteor.

Be strong Haps! ❤

For me it's Rathalos (I want more MH ones to be honest! People on this game would love a Mizutsune as a mount.), Regalia, Twintania, Phoinix, and company chocobo that is dalamud red with demonic barding. No particular order. I was really hoping Proto Carbuncle was going to be a mount.

Goobbue and Legacy Chocobo should had been honorable mentions. They started this all.

Demi Ozma: because it's the coolest Firebird: because it's the most visually spectacular (also one of my least favorite because I often can't see when roulette picks it) Rose Lanner: because it's the prettiest Dodo: because it's the dorkiest Eldthurs: it's cool, visually spectacular and yet somehow also dorky

I’m all emotional now!

I'm sorry to write this, i felt it since i have discover your content, many years ago, but... you're really a good person, Mr^^" Take care of you too ;)

And now everytime the Fat Black chocobo will come up in mount roulette I will think of that I gifted that 4 subs to you that day. Glad I could help 😊

I recruited myself for twintania too xd . But I was all of my friends

My S.O. got the nightmare mount before he got the damn titan mount. 🤣😂🤣

lifeline gift from God playa

The karma for the horse. 😄

I got twintania in a similar fashion. ARR was free in the ps store. Created multiple dummy accounts

number 3 is the best mount no doubt

Good choices/stories for each mount ♥ (Got the Fat Black Chocobo watching your stream back then ♥♥♥) P.S: Damn i have 40 mounts more then that (Store mounts included) and you still have 4 i dont have >,

More videos like this ❤😊

Since ShB they remove possibility to flex mounts in endgame areas ... Mounts dont matter anymore

Cool video. Personally, as a FF game, it feels wrong to use anything other than my chocobo.

Man, I played the heck out of Anemos. I've opened over 1000 of those stupid lockboxes. Still no Tyrannosaur mount. >_

I love blue mounts as we rarely get them, but then I noticed I never use the bluish emerald carbuncle mount watching this........oh yeah my EX got me that hahahahahahaha *sobs*

I'm not crying, you're crying.

All my favourite mounts are because of memories, what's playing XIV with friends for?

My top 5 are Silkie

don't quit

1:35 #5 - Twintania 3:21 #4 - Nightmare 5:28 #3 - Demi-Ozma 7:20 #2 - Tyrannosaur 9:03 #1 - Fat Black Chocobo

2:50 its so funny how you rant about coils and then proceed to talk about twintania, a mount that has nothing to do with the coils besides its modell xD

You dont out grow eureka. Eureka lives well within your heart kek.

I just got to pagos, and have three anmeos weapons having defeated pazuzu three times now. It took me like over 1000 lock boxes or more kinda lost count to get the trex. Im not kidding last time I opened a stack of 600 from teo 3 hour sessions. I love the t Rex because its a dino obvisously. But Eureka is very frustating, every time you get to a new area it sucks because your weaker than everything and if ypu wander off you can get killed by a higher level mob. And then u have to shout for a revive otherwise youll lose a level, and its really fruststing shouting rez please and nobody revives you and your just lying there dead and then have to grind the level back you lost. Like Im doing Eureka cuz I want the rewards of the mounts, minions, weapons but Im not loving it. Its only fun when your the max level in an area so your actually tough, like Im level 23 so Anemos is finnaly fun, but now Pagos sucks now. And I have to grind to level all over again.