Simple question--Can a solo only character get a mount?

Yeah, I have a good idea where this conversation is eventually going...but some have asked me about certain comments I've made regarding ARR and I'm trying to back up statements I've made.

So is there a permanent mount that is available to (true) soloers?

We had the goobbue in ver 1.0--but that is no longer available in ARR even to Legacy soloers that acquired it then (unless I'm missing something).

Yeah, I'm fairly sure you can get the lvl 30 conjurer unicorn mount purely through soloing. Once obtained it's usable on all jobs/classes at lvl 1 just like the chocobo. ^^

Also to get your chocobo, it's either no dungeons, or only the initial 3 dungeons which you can easily do through dungeon finder and just never even talk to the people in your group. They are really super easy dungeons. When done through the dungeon finder they go by pretty fast, I think all 3 of them took about a total of 2 hours, maybe a little more? They go by pretty quick and really for the difficulty of them you may as well be soloing. It's basically if you're a tank, grab some mobs and do your rotation, DPS, do your rotation. If you're a healer, heal people and also do some DD. The first 3 don't offer much in the way of a challenge. If you are a DD, just blow things up and stay out of red zones the same as with soloing. If it helps, pretend the other group members are NPCs.

Aside from the mounts, the way most people travel around is with teleports anyway. The mounts get a lot less use than you would think.

Won't help as you need the license to ride the unicorn I guess (at least you need it to ride the CE mount), so you need to get your lvl 20 personal Story done and that won't work without the 3 dungeons on lvl 15,16 and 17.

So my understanding is: You can get a mount, but you can't use it if you try to play "true solo"

If you are legacy you should have access to your gobbue, if you got it in 1.0. I had access to mine right away along with my legacy chocobo.

Check the Calamity Salvager to see if your Goobue Horn is on it.

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Originally Posted by mpmp0

Yeah, I have a good idea where this conversation is eventually going...but some have asked me about certain comments I've made regarding ARR and I'm trying to back up statements I've made.

So is there a permanent mount that is available to (true) soloers?

We had the goobbue in ver 1.0--but that is no longer available in ARR even to Legacy soloers that acquired it then (unless I'm missing something).

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No. You'll have to do Satasha, Tam-Tam Deepcroft, Copperbell Mines and Story Mode Ifrit in order to get a mount. You *must* have a chocobo license from your Grand Company to ride *any* mount. If you didn't get one in 1.x, you're going to have to do those storyline Duty Finders to earn a license here.

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Originally Posted by Altheras

Aside from the mounts, the way most people travel around is with teleports anyway. The mounts get a lot less use than you would think.

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And then those people come on the forums to complain about how they never have any money...

Lisertan--I should have been a bit more careful about the way I worded my initial question. Thanks for making me see that.

Yes, you can "get" a mount solo--but you can't "use" the mount until you fulfill some requirements that force you not to solo. I have a goobbue that I used in 1.0 (he's in my Mounts area and I can drag the icon down to action bar) but I can't summon him. And the Calamity Salvager had nothing else for me.

But I'm not even referring to my specific situation (cuz when I do, flame comes from my ears...).

(True) soloers cannot use mounts--that is what I responded in a review to some potential new players. I'm just double-checking (after the fact unfortunately) that that is true.

While true that die hard solo players cannot use mounts, doing the first three dungeons and ifrit story really isn't that hard and is pretty fast for what you get.

A couple of hours in dungeons max and then your next 30 levels are mounted. Huzzah?

Time travel, go back to 1.0, solo your chocobo License, then come back to 2.0 and use your unlocked mounts.

I solo'ed my main job (Monk) all the way to 50. Aside from two levels I got in 1.0. It's easily do-able. I didn't have the story completed in 1.0 and I never unlocked a chocobo or a license in 1.0. I honestly just walked everywhere. When I started ARR I used porters to get everywhere and just walked. Well this past week I took my Lancer through the storyline and unlocked my license by getting 2,000 grand company seals. Easily done with doing Fates. It's easy. Solo'd it all except the needed dungeons. I used duty finder, got them over with and did everyone else alone. So yes! You can solo most of it, everything else is duty finder!

Yes, I've soloed exclusively till now as well. (...crossing my fingers, hoping that a possible FATE XP nerf does not occur...)

But I didn't want to pass along any specific misinformation about the mounts.

While some parts of the game would be considered solo friendly (like the aforementioned FATEs), not allowing soloers to use mounts definitely would not.