The Amaro mount...

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Originally Posted by Nora_of_Mira

think of it as a Veteran reward where you get rewarded for investing a lot of time in the game. Idk why people are really upset about this.

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Its not that there is a mount behind getting all battle jobs to 80 that is the problem. (And I really wished that you would get mounts for doing the same with crafters and gatherers) The problem is that we do not get a single mount for free by playing through the MSQ like we did in the last expansions. (Some expansions even had more than one free mount) and at the same time the Amaro is just the most common animal you can get on the first.

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Originally Posted by Alleo

Its not that there is a mount behind getting all battle jobs to 80 that is the problem. (And I really wished that you would get mounts for doing the same with crafters and gatherers) The problem is that we do not get a single mount for free by playing through the MSQ like we did in the last expansions. (Some expansions even had more than one free mount) and at the same time the Amaro is just the most common animal you can get on the first.

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im not really suffering from a shortage of mounts, so not getting a free one from the MSQ is fine with me. We'll still likely get 2 mounts from beast tribes, theres a craftable one atm as well. I didn't see people really excited about the Yol mount until ShB didn't give a free mount.

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Originally Posted by SamSmoot

I only have 11 mounts now, and the Amaro is just another that I will never get. There's no way I'll grind all those jobs to max. I can barely stand working on leveling my crafters, let alone tanks and healers.

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this is actually impressive. I have 68 mounts and yet you have the frog mount before me... I cant seem to have the luck to have that fate pop when Im online.

What I gathered from this entire thread this that it's kinda bunk that DOW/DOM magic have a special mount for players into the hardcore combat side of the game, and Tanks further have a special mount and that gathers and crafters , which are equally as popular are just straight shafted.

I just wish leveling wasn't so damn boring. I'm already burned out of grinding dungeons and roulettes. I need a break. I really want this mount but it's literally making me want to do something else.

Meh, It's not that I'm opposed to leveling different jobs. I'm more opposed to leveling different jobs I don't like and will never play again. Maybe if the achievement was two of each type to 80 two heals, two DPS, two tanks.

I was hoping for the Amaro to be a quest reward I really adored them and the story.

But like Savage mounts if you want them you have to work for them. It sucks but it is what it is!

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Originally Posted by Nora_of_Mira

this is actually impressive. I have 68 mounts and yet you have the frog mount before me... I cant seem to have the luck to have that fate pop when Im online.

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You can actually get the frog and the pet in like a day, but I don't really know the optimal way to do so. A friend of a friend did, and got my friend both as well, but I don't really know exactly how he knew when they were up cross world or whatever. I think he had timers or something, I don't do hunts that often though, so I don't really have that down..

Where's the "it's just an optional mount, you get plenty of mounts via other rewards" crowd at.

I personally am glad it's a mount you can work towards. No RNG drop like in EX trials, no paywall in mogstation, no grinding in Eureka. Getting all jobs to 80 may sound harsh but it's something you can slowly work towards over the coming weeks/months. Everytime you earn XP on one of your DoW/DoM you contributed towards getting the mount

I was sad when it was not the reward for the MSQ or doing all the class quests like I thought... It will be time for the next expansion before I get mine if my pattern for leveling holds up.

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Originally Posted by MajinSoul

Where's the "it's just an optional mount, you get plenty of mounts via other rewards" crowd at.

I personally am glad it's a mount you can work towards. No RNG drop like in EX trials, no paywall in mogstation, no grinding in Eureka. Getting all jobs to 80 may sound harsh but it's something you can slowly work towards over the coming weeks/months. Everytime you earn XP on one of your DoW/DoM you contributed towards getting the mount

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that crowd has been defeated by those of us who think a truly optional mount should be more impressive than something that's seen all over the MSQ and that it's super cheap of them to not give us any story mounts for the first time in an expansion.

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Originally Posted by Mistyregions

What I gathered from this entire thread this that it's kinda bunk that DOW/DOM magic have a special mount for players into the hardcore combat side of the game, and Tanks further have a special mount and that gathers and crafters , which are equally as popular are just straight shafted.

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Well there are at least two mounts that can be crafted; the Flying chair and the Magicked Bed.

There's always a possibility that they can always release a slightly different Amaro mount that's obtainable by other means? It could end up a reward for Il Mheg tribe questline.

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Originally Posted by myahele

There's always a possibility that they can always release a slightly different Amaro mount that's obtainable by other means? It could end up a reward for Il Mheg tribe questline.

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or thrown on the mog station.

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Originally Posted by SturmChurro

You can actually get the frog and the pet in like a day, but I don't really know the optimal way to do so. A friend of a friend did, and got my friend both as well, but I don't really know exactly how he knew when they were up cross world or whatever. I think he had timers or something, I don't do hunts that often though, so I don't really have that down..

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It's a matter of being lucky enough to be in Kholusia when it spawns, killing it, then switching instances and killing it two more times. I got the mount and pet in the same day.

people are forgetting this is a game that never ends technically. you have forever to get everything to 80 and get an amaro. it's all a matter of perspective. do you want it now or later?

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Originally Posted by Umsche

If you do 1 level per day past lvl 50, that's around 1,5 years...

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As someone who works a real job, 10-13 hours a day, on call, with a six hour commute (in the same fucking metropolis even), and who gets 1hr a day to myself....

Miss me with that shit. I would be getting an Amaro mount in ten years.

Fuck that noise.

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

people are forgetting this is a game that never ends technically. you have forever to get everything to 80 and get an amaro. it's all a matter of perspective. do you want it now or later?

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I mean, until they shut down the servers cause the game didn't make 5 billion dollars.

Remember when Tomb Raider was called a commercial failure and then they rebooted the reboot because it only made like 500 million in its first month of whatever? That was Squeenix being stupid, can easily see them being just as heckin' stupid here.

This won't be here forever. Just look at the countless "sunset" MMOs.

It's ugly. There should be a much better reward for the achievement.

just run MSQ roulette every day for about a week or so and that should get you to 80, provided you always get praetorium. also here's a bonus hint: you can gain the xp bonus of your aetheryte earrings when you're synced to 70 or below. it might not be a whole lot extra, but it adds up

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Originally Posted by Nora_of_Mira

im not really suffering from a shortage of mounts, so not getting a free one from the MSQ is fine with me. We'll still likely get 2 mounts from beast tribes, theres a craftable one atm as well. I didn't see people really excited about the Yol mount until ShB didn't give a free mount.

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I have a huge amount of mounts too but that does not change the fact that we (for the first time) did not get a single free mount from the story and that the one mount that made the most sense is now stuck behind a achievement, when we could have gotten that mount for free in the story (make it even part of it) and have a much better one for the achivement. Win Win for everyone.

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

people are forgetting this is a game that never ends technically. you have forever to get everything to 80 and get an amaro. it's all a matter of perspective. do you want it now or later?

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And it still does not change the fact that we got not a single mount for free this expansion. This is not about having a mount behind that achivement at all. Its about getting no mount reward at all in the MSQ while that animal is so common that it should have been a given that we would get one as a thank you. The reward for the achivement could have been something special.

For me at least it was always awesome to get some story mounts. They always felt like they belonged to the story, to the lore unlike those primal drops or savage mounts. These mounts hold a connection to us. The magitec one saved our lifes, the chocobo was a companion from nearly the very start and thus has been with us for quite some time while fighting on our side. The black chocobo was a well meant present from a good friend and raised by him too. The Yol was a symbol for us winning the rights to take part in the tribe fights. Middy, an old powerful dragon, likes us enough that we earn the ability to ride on his back.

The Amaro could have been another one of those. Maybe one that we save from death in the story, maybe one who disliked humans but found new trust in them through us. Yet the Amaro we get there will have nothing like that. He will just be there in our pocket. No background story, no connection at all. Somehow after getting all of the jobs to 80, he comes to us.

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Originally Posted by Barta

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FFXI is still going after all these years. Even though it's not quite forever I think the point being made was that you have lots of time to obtain something (not just this mount), there is no urgency to get whatever it is immediately other than to gloat probably.

Well, I don't need it today or tomorrow. I'll get there in time eventually as I want to level up all jobs to 80 anyway.

If you think the mount is lackluster and not worth the work, then why do you care it's hard to get, you likely wouldn't use it anyways.
If you think the mount is great and really want it, then it should be worth going through the trouble of leveling everything and gives you something to work towards, which is kinda a thing mmos need. It's not like leveling jobs is some impossible grind like the hunt mounts even.

I personally really wanted this mount ever since seeing it in the benchmark and while I also assumed it would be an msq reward and was a bit disappointed I didn't get it, ultimately I'm glad it's an achievement reward. The issue with msq mounts is that even if they look great(I love middy from HW for example), the fact that literally everyone has them, diminishes their value and makes me less likely to use them. With Amaro, a mount I really like, being locked behind an actual achievement, I will feel satisfaction and accomplishment once I finally get it and can proudly use it without feeling unoriginal.

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Originally Posted by Satarn

If you think the mount is lackluster and not worth the work, then why do you care it's hard to get, you likely wouldn't use it anyways.
If you think the mount is great and really want it, then it should be worth going through the trouble of leveling everything and gives you something to work towards, which is kinda a thing mmos need. It's not like leveling jobs is some impossible grind like the hunt mounts even.

I personally really wanted this mount ever since seeing it in the benchmark and while I also assumed it would be an msq reward and was a bit disappointed I didn't get it, ultimately I'm glad it's an achievement reward. The issue with msq mounts is that even if they look great(I love middy from HW for example), the fact that literally everyone has them, diminishes their value and makes me less likely to use them. With Amaro, a mount I really like, being locked behind an actual achievement, I will feel satisfaction and accomplishment once I finally get it and can proudly use it without feeling unoriginal.

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It's still a substantial grind. I don't mind that there's a mount reward for leveling all jobs. My issue is that the basic Amaro seems like it doesn't fit the grind required. Because getting alljobs to 70 is still a big undertaking and time sink, for....the basic mount that everyone in the expansion uses. If was soemthing like say, the mechanical frog mount, or somethign special like that it wouldn't bug me.

I'm a bit late to all of this but to me it would make more sense to get this mount once you've done all 4 job quests instead of leveling up every single freaking class in the game. It would fit the story and theme too and still be a bit of work. Initially this is how I thout it was going to be. Level up a tank, a healer, 1 ranged dps and one magic dps and you get the mount. I do NOT enjoy certain classes and I refuse to do something I hate doing just for a @#$%%^ mount. If I wanted to do all that then I'd go back to wow. Just ridiculous.

I don't mind, I like that the game is rewarding long-term play with something like that. Gives a bit of a goal that can't be accomplished in a few hours.

I personally didn't mind it. It was something I wanted enough for this to be my fastest time in getting to all combat to max level in an expansion. If you count in the first few days of early launch when I couldn't play due to an eye injury, it barely took me 2 months to do.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...48/unknown.png

He's so damn majestic~

Gratz,fellow Amaro um... user ?
Anyway,I wish we could get the black one with white high-lighted feathers from Cul,Alc quest.
Its a lot cooler.

Yeah I'm playing pretty casually compared to Stormblood coz of work and I have most the jobs done in 2 months. It only took me 6-7 weeks in Stormblood.
So its pretty possible I'll have it by 5.1

Im so close...but...Ast

its not that bad of a grind, i had it after 6 weeks of 5.0 release.

I don’t get some of the responses in this thread tbh.

How can one say both of these at the same time?

“It’s only an Amaro? We should get a flashier reward!”

“The Amaro is locked behind getting all DoW and DoM? That’s unfair!”

If you don’t think the reward is worth the time then the answer is to decide not to put the work to get it and then be happy.

As someone who levels all their classes to max. I do feel like it would of been better as a MSQ reward. Could of been introduced to it and given it after the rescue quest. Maybe even develop it a bit as a character in the Amaro fae quests.

Could of even had it customizable like the Chocobo. And getting max DoW/DoM would reward you with armour for the Amaro.

For many it's not worth the grind just for that, but everything lately is a grind for one thing or another. Only once in awhile we may get an event mount, but seems that is getting rarer these days.

Oh you have level every job? I thought you only had to complete each role quest. Bummer

As someone who had everything at 70 when Shadowbringers started, I personally don't mind it. I'm slowly getting my DPS classes to cap (still need to do so for Bard, Samurai, and Dancer). I probably won't do Tanks and Healers to 80 until Shadowbringers' version of PotD comes out, though.

That being said, I know there are players who probably only play 1 - 3 jobs and haven't touched many if any of the others, and I can understand why they would be upset. That's kind of a tall order to be given suddenly, leveling 9 or so jobs from 1 - 80, then seven more from 30/50/60 - 80.

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Originally Posted by YatoShishi

its not that bad of a grind, i had it after 6 weeks of 5.0 release.

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6 weeks jobs from 1-80 each?

The total time over years is what counts. Not people who have all classes at 70 then to 80.

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Originally Posted by IntrovertAnt

I don’t get some of the responses in this thread tbh.

How can one say both of these at the same time?

“It’s only an Amaro? We should get a flashier reward!”

“The Amaro is locked behind getting all DoW and DoM? That’s unfair!”

If you don’t think the reward is worth the time then the answer is to decide not to put the work to get it and then be happy.

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I mean it wouldn't be that unfair if the mount was actually pretty unique and interesting

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Originally Posted by IntrovertAnt

I don’t get some of the responses in this thread tbh.

How can one say both of these at the same time?

“It’s only an Amaro? We should get a flashier reward!”

“The Amaro is locked behind getting all DoW and DoM? That’s unfair!”

If you don’t think the reward is worth the time then the answer is to decide not to put the work to get it and then be happy.

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It makes sense to me. They're essentially saying that a world-shifted chocobo is too mundane to be worth the grind of getting all jobs to 80, and something flashier would seem more appropriate as a reward to such a task. Something as setting common and essential as an Amaro seems like the sort of thing handed out in MSQ or an easy side mission (like the Yol, or the company chocobo).

Getting every job to 80 to unlock the same mount you can ride on from porters is... bizarre.

When I get my porter bird from Kugane doh? I've wanted the Hawk birb mount ever since they introduced it. We got Black Chocobo Porter in HW too. Just never gave us the hawk...