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I have never regretted spending feats and cash to make my build work. That's wtf the cash and feats are for.
If you want to be a mount you need someone to ride you. Your feats will matter little but you still need the rider to take the same feats you disagree with to be good while riding you.
But a druid with wildshape can be some ones mount. Then you need a good class to ride you. The rider should look at cavilier, paladin, or ranger. A paladin with divine bond weapon and a mount that can shift into different animals would be doing quiet well for himself.
Ok, here is what you do:
Play a druid with a tiger animal companion and have your friend be a small race synthesist summoner with eldritch heritage (arcane) and improved familiar. At lvl 7 the familiar is riding the synthesist who is riding you who is riding the large tiger.
Everyone takes mounted combat.
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Profit!
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Except dragoons or soheis. If you're always going to be playing with your counterpart, one of those classes could benefit from a druid mount. Especially a sohei who takes mounted skirmisher as a bonus feat. You take a form with pounce and at level 6+ you both should be able to full attack almost every round. Plus the sohei can give you a ton of abilities (evasion, AC bonus, ki strike etc.). Now this being PFS, I'd say expect table variation on whether this works, not because anything says it doesn't, but because this is a great combination and GMs probably won't like it.
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Youd need to be strong enough and fast enough to make It worthwhile.
So I'm thinking like a Monk is probably the best choice with a Barbarian coming in at a close second.
Definitely take Fleet and plan to buy a flying carpet and boots of springing and striding when you can.
For race, Nagaji works because of their snake like appearance and history in Golarion as slaves. As a bonus they get natural attacks iirc which you'll need.
Also your friend should look into the Castellan archetype for Cavalier since they get higher ground bonuses that would be great for being horseback but they have to give up the mount to get them.
The issue with making a humanoid mount character is that the rules for what you can and cannot ride are not very clear. Usually 3.5 and pathfinder leave which animals are useful as mounts up to the DM and since this is PFS we want to try and reduce DM fiat as much as possible. The only rules in any 3.5 derived system is dragon magazine 304. That being said, if you had to be a core race I'd make the argument for dwarf due to the slow and steady trait. You won't be as fast as most medium creatures, but it will be easier to convince any DM's to let you be a mount since having a rider can't encumber you.
As for the mount character, you need a high str to carry someone, but due to mounted combat you can have a lower ac. If you insist on being a humanoid that screams monk to me (you don't have to focus on dex so you won't be as MAD and you can make good use of the dwarf WIS+Con). Bonuses are fast movement and attacking without using your arms (in case the DM rules you have to use your hands to piggy back ride them). The other route you can go is synergistic with your rider. Characters that get bonus feats for picking up teamwork feats can do really well together. And as eddv mentioned, barbarian is another good choice (unless DM rules your hands are busy giving them a ride :-/ )
For your rider, might I recommend barbarian again? Ferocious mount and a couple other rage powers can boost both of you very well and most of the archtypes that boost mounts don't really give decent mounts (like burn rider). I would say pack rager but raging tactician comes a little too late in a PFS career. One avenue this opens up is an overrun build if your partner takes ferocious trample.
Otherwise, Rough Rider or dragoon are excellent options.
