There is literally so much you can do in a game like Final Fantasy 14. It has everything from running dungeons and trials to completing beast tribe quests, but one of the best things to do has to be showing off your hard-earned mounts. It’s not uncommon to see other players having a ‘whose mount is better?’ contest.
There's a repentant buffet table of glorious JRPG mounts out there, but, as is usually the case, some are rarer and more sought after than others.
Updated March 29, 2022 by Cat Bussell: Endwalker is here, and there are new mounts aplenty for any savvy warrior of light looking to get their hands on a flashy new ride. With our updated guide, we'll help you become the envy of your friends through 6.0 and beyond! What's more, with Shadowbringers being longer in the tooth, we've revisited a couple of the more obscure mounts from that era, adding them to our list so that you can acquire the fantastical steed of your dreams. So, get out there and become the envy of your friends with our freshly updated guide to the most elusive mounts in Eorzea.
Get ready for the 20 toughest mounts to obtain in Final Fantasy 14.
20 Nightmare
While the act of getting this mount isn’t hard on its own, the amount of time it can take to get Nightmare is what landed it on this list. It drops from any of the following three Realm Reborn trials: The Bowl of Embers (Extreme), The Howling Eye (Extreme), and The Navel (Extreme).
The same method of pony farming is used to get the Nightmare Whistle, but the drop rate is ridiculously low. It can take a long time for it to drop, with some having played for years and seeing the whistle once or twice.
19 Forgiven Reticence
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Sin Eaters are the existentially upsetting and deeply creepy monsters that make up many of Shadowbringers’ most iconic baddies. With that in mind, what better way to make a statement than by having one of these horrors as your mount?
Forbidden Reticence can be obtained by acquiring 3,200 Wolf Marks through hunts in Shadowbringers or Endwalker. It’ll take a while, but you’ll soon get there so long as you’re persistent and make sure to take out those weekly hunt targets. Hand these to Xylle in the Crystarium or Ilfoy in Eulmore and this unsettling abomination can be yours.
18 Rathalos
Final Fantasy 14 and Monster Hunter collaborated together to give players some awesome new content, where not only can adventurers fight a Rathalos, but they can also nab their own Rathalos as a new mount.
The Rathalos mount drops from The Great Hunt (Extreme) trial, but the thing that makes this particularly tricky is that it plays by Monster Hunter World rules. This means if you or any of your other three party members die more than three times, it's an instant fail. Players best hope that their team is up to the challenge of staying alive.
17 The Landerwaffe
To grab this absurdly cool two-seater mecha-dragon, you’ll need to clear a lot of Extreme Trials. All seven Shadowbringers Extreme Trials have a small chance of dropping a Gwiber mount when you clear them.Once you have all seven Gwiber mounts, you can accept the quest "The Dragon Made'' in The Lochs. From there, sit back, watch some cutscenes, and enjoy your new dragon.
The Gwibers — gorgeous, sought after mounts in their own right — have a low drop rate and acquiring them can be a slog. However, thanks to the increased level cap in Endwalker, this is no longer nearly as tough as it once was. Go into the Extreme Trials unsynced, and watch as those health bars melt away.
16 The Level Checker
Who wouldn’t want to be trapped in a TV?
If you want to get your hands on the Level Checker, you’ll need to go to Ultima Thule and complete the “Omicron Recall: Killing Order” FATE. This is a large scale boss fight and you’ll want to go in with a large group. There are often Linkshell groups and mobs of players camping the FATE’s spawn point, so use them to find a group if you don’t have one already. Complete the FATE to a gold level and you’ll receive 6 Chi Bolts. Take 12 of these to Nesvaaz in Raz-at-Han and the Level Checker will be all yours.
15 The Endwalker Extreme Trial Lynxes
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As is tradition, Endwalker’s crop of extreme trials each offer their own unique mount. These challenging fights require practice, teamwork and determination as you revisit some of Endwalker’s most iconic and dramatic boss fights.
Be warned: the drop rates for these gorgeous lynxes are low, and you might need to run each Extreme many times over before you see one of these coveted kitties drop. Still, if you find a dedicated group through Party Finder or your Free Company, you may well be able to add one of these fierce beasts to your collection.
14 Parade Chocobo
Just like Nightmare, the process to get this one isn’t necessarily difficult. What makes Parade Chocobo a pain is that it needs 3,000 player commendations to get the achievement that is traded in for this mount.
Since running dungeons and trials with a pre-formed party don’t reward commendations, you have to run them through the Duty Finder and hope that you get a commendation. It’s even more tedious if you’re a DPS main – everyone knows how player comms as a DPS goes.
13 Construct VII
Added in Patch 5.15, the Construct VII mount is obtained when players earn the achievement "One Steppe At A Time V." Players receive this accolade when they have a total of 100 victories at Onsal Hakair as one Grand Company, meaning you need all 100 for the same Grand Company.
Onsal Hakair (Danshig Naadam) is part of the Frontline PVP challenge, where players face off against one another in three teams, each representing a different Grand Company. Each team has a total of 24 players, meaning there are 72 participants in total for each bout.
12 Morbol
The Morbol mount can only be obtained by players who truly wish to master the Blue Mage job. It's no easy feat to earn this mount as you need to obtain the following two Blue Mage specific achievements, "Blue Unchained" and "Masked Conqueror."
Essentially, you need to complete the Binding Coil of Bahamut — Turn 5, the Second Coil of Bahamut — Turn 4, and the Final Coil of Bahamut — Turn 4 as a party of blue mages, with Silence Echo turned on, and Undersized Party turned off. Additionally, you need to complete Alexander - The Burden of the Father (Savage), Alexander - The Burden of the Son (Savage), and Alexander - The Soul of the Creator (Savage) as a party of blue mages, with Silence Echo turned on, and Undersized Party turned off. Good luck.
11 Amaro Mount
This mount was introduced with the Shadowbringers expansion. This not-quite-a-Chocobo is featured throughout the storyline of this expansion, so it’s no surprise that a mount based on it was also created.
Not just anyone can ride the Amaro, though. It’s another achievement mount and requires players to reach level 80 on every single Healer, DPS, and Tank. However, if you love playing different classes and don't mind a bit of multitasking, this might be the mount for you.
10 The PVP Warsteeds
There are three variations of these mounts and they’re all the same level of difficulty to obtain. They are the Flame Warsteed, the Serpent Warsteed, and the Storm Warsteed. Just like their names suggest, they are linked to achievements that pertain to the Grand Companies.
To get one of them, you have to win 100 battles in Frontline with the Steed’s respective Grand Company. The difficulty comes from winning 100 instances of PvP, as you never know how a fight’s going to go and it's a seriously large number of battles to
9 Demi-Ozma
If you’ve cleared Wiping – Er, Weeping City, then you’ve seen the boss fight with the silver shape-altering form of Ozma. It’s a pretty cool boss on its own, but the fact that you can now use it as a mount is pretty awesome.
What’s not so awesome is the method of getting Demi-Ozma. You have to run and clear the Baldesion Arsenal – a dungeon found within Eureka. Described as “brutally difficult,” it’s an open dungeon that can have up to 56 people at a time. Good luck!
8 The Magicked Card
This giant Triple Triad card is easily one of the toughest mounts to acquire in Final Fantasy 14. There’s no way to sugarcoat this: you’ll 312 Triple Triad cards. You can collect these in the Gold Saucer in exchange for MGP as well as through challenging NPCs out in the world.
With all the different game rules modifiers that take place, you’ll need a set of powerful, varied decks. You’ll also need a lot of persistence, since extracting cards from NPCs isn’t a guarantee, even if you do win. However, if you keep your head down and get all 312 cards, a quest called “The Adventurer with All the Cards” will appear at the Gold Saucer. Finish this quest, and The Magicked Card will be your reward.
7 Sabotender Emperador
This is quite possibly one of the best mounts in the entire game. Who wouldn’t want to ride around on a miniature version of The Gold Saucer? Despite being a miniature, the mount is quite large and a lot of fun to use. It’s also possible it could be considered fun trying to get this mount, assuming you love trying your luck at the Eorzean casino.
To get the Sabotender, you have to save up 2,000,000 MGP. Ouch. Maybe it’s time to play some Triple Triad and try your luck with the Cactpot.
6 Jeudi
This rather majestic looking steed can be obtained by players earning the "Dressed For Heaven" achievement. This particular accolade requires you to speak with the cast-off Confederate NPC while you possess all four of the empyrean accessories.
This essentially means that you need to clear floor 100 of Heaven-on-High four times, which is not as easy as it sounds. Heaven-on-High is procedurally generated and changes every time, plus, players begin at level 61 when they enter this dungeon and must level up within.
5 The Tank Mounts
There are four in total, as there are currently four tank jobs you can play. These mounts are yet another kind that requires an achievement to get and each achievement is specific to the tank job played.
To get the achievement, you have to meet one of the following: Complete 300 dungeons, extreme trials, leveling duty roulette duties, or level 50/60 roulette dungeons – all at level 61 or higher. This also means that if you want all four of these mounts (the Battle Bear, Lion, Panther, and Tiger), you have to do this on all the tank Jobs.
4 Astrope
You may have seen this mount here and there in all of its white, unicorn glory. If you haven’t, that isn’t entirely surprising either, considering how much of a pain this one is to acquire. This is the Mentor mount, meaning you can only get it if you’re a mentor and on top of that, Astrope also requires earning an achievement.
Said achievement requires you to complete 2,000 (yes, you read that right – 2,000) duties through the Mentor Duty Roulette. With the coming changes to the Mentor requirements, it’s about to be even harder to get this sucker. One can dream.
3 Black Pegasus
This mount is pretty well-known in the Final Fantasy 14 community for being nearly impossible to get and for a few good reasons, too. First, you have to run Palace of the Dead. Next, you have to make sure you have a fixed party, and third, you have to get to floor 151 to even have a chance at this mount dropping.
Those who run Palace to these floors are usually looking for the Gold Trimmed Sacks that the Night Pegasus Whistle can drop from. Yeah, that’s right – You’re not even guaranteed the mount; you have to hope you get lucky and do it all over again if you don’t. Fun, right?
2 Triceratops
This beasty looking Triceratops mount can be obtained by earning the "Nuts For Nutsy" achievement. The name of which should clue you in - this mount is from hunts, specifically hunts relating to the iconic Shadowbringers areas.
Players need to earn the "Shadowbring Your A Game III", which is defeating 2,000 rank A elite marks in Norvrandt, as well as the "Shadowbring Your S Game III" achievement, which is defeating 1,000 elite marks of rank S or higher in Norvrandt.
1 Centurio Tiger
This is probably one of the hardest mounts to get in the entire game. Why? It’s from doing the Hunt Marks, but it’s not as simple as knocking down a few Gaelicats. You have to take down 3,000 A Elite Ranks and 2,000 S Elite Ranks, bringing the total to a whopping 5,000 difficult and randomly-spawning marks you have to hit.
You’ll probably want to join a Linkshell that’s focused on Hunt Marks. They’ll let you know if one has spawned, but keep in mind there’s always the risk that it’ll be dead by the time you get there.