How close are you to your Astrope mount!!???!!??

Its been out awhile now, still have yet to see one, wondering if anyones getting close?

And you likely won't see one for quite a few years. You need to do 2000 mentor roulettes to get one. 1 mentor roulette a day, every single day, will take 5 years.

I heard that one Japanese player has the Astrope, but I haven't seen any proof. It might be 'possible' if they had done quite a lot of Mentor roulettes before they even added the mount I guess.

You'd have to do quite a lot per day to get it within a reasonable amount of time :/

My calculation: to get it in around one year's time you would need to do at least 6 successful mentor roulettes every day for 365 days.

6 x 365 = 2190

5 x 365 = 1825 (5 leaves you a bit short but would only take you a bit longer than a year)

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Originally Posted by Miste

I heard that one Japanese player has the Astrope, but I haven't seen any proof. It might be 'possible' if they had done quite a lot of Mentor roulettes before they even added the mount I guess.

You'd have to do quite a lot per day to get it within a reasonable amount of time :/

My calculation: to get it in around one year's time you would need to do at least 6 successful mentor roulettes every day for 365 days.

6 x 365 = 2190

5 x 365 = 1825 (5 leaves you a bit short but would only take you a bit longer than a year)

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This looks like very conclusive evidence to me: http://ff14net.2chblog.jp/archives/49009678.html

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Originally Posted by MihaelB

This looks like very conclusive evidence to me: http://ff14net.2chblog.jp/archives/49009678.html

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If that's not test server screenshots then that's ridiculous. I just don't understand some people. For the record I'm at 77.

I'm not sure I've understood it so ... here's my question:
Can't you queue more than once a day? I mean ... nobody would do it since it would be tiring and devastating but theoretically, one could just farm Mentor's roulette until he has cleared 2000 instances, right?

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Originally Posted by MihaelB

This looks like very conclusive evidence to me: http://ff14net.2chblog.jp/archives/49009678.html

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Not conclusive. It has Golden Japanese text in one of the images so if I were to guess it is screenshots made by SE.

If there was a character name to lookup on the Lodestone to see the mount in their mount list that would be conclusive evidence; otherwise no that's not conclusive evidence and looks like SE's screenshots.

Minion Menagerie scans the lodestone to find out who has minions and mounts and still shows Astrope at 0 as of this post, while another mount added the same patch "Dark Lanner" from Nid EX has 1,377 owners as of this post. It's not 100% proof either but its likely no one has it then.

http://www.xiv-minions.com/mounts/astrope.php

Yes, you can do as many per day as you're able to. You just only get the roulette gil + tomes once per day (although role-in-need gil can also be claimed as many times per day as you're able)

If I do the roulette twice in a day, the second time I seem to get an extreme primal 90% of the time (synced to 50 and no matter how much we go over strategy, we never complete it, so it basically wastes 40 minutes).

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Originally Posted by Andres_Lonegrief

I mean ... nobody would do it since it would be tiring and devastating

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This just makes me smile. Sorry. Have you seen how some people approach each and every grind that comes out? ;-) Guaranteed, some people are doing exactly that.

I've heard it's been spotted on Ultros, but I didn't see it myself.

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Originally Posted by MihaelB

This looks like very conclusive evidence to me: http://ff14net.2chblog.jp/archives/49009678.html

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My Japanese is rusty but that tweet says roughly "I finally got the Astrope mount, I've passed Yoshida's final test!" & I believe the thing at the bottom says they did it 133 days. Which if the math is right is about 16ish roulettes per day


Edit: After google translate double checking myself I can confirm that is what is says. They started February 23rd & got it July 5th.... o.O

I have a friend really gunning for that mount, he's at over 500 roulettes. Buuut he's also the type of mentor that "d/cs" if it's not a Guildhest for 5-10 minutes until he is kicked and tries again until he gets a guildhest.

I only do about 1-5 a day so I'm sitting close to 200, but not quite there yet.

I think I'm at... 1.
I'm not a roulette kinda gal :(
I also thought we only need 200, so... I thought... that... T_T
I should stop thinking all together >.>

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Originally Posted by Selli

I have a friend really gunning for that mount, he's at over 500 roulettes. Buuut he's also the type of mentor that "d/cs" if it's not a Guildhest for 5-10 minutes until he is kicked and tries again until he gets a guildhest.

I only do about 1-5 a day so I'm sitting close to 200, but not quite there yet.

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Wow, what an amazing "mentor."

Proof positive that the mentor system is a complete joke when all it attracts are people like this.

I'm at 74/2000, not really gunning to have it done anytime soon but I'm taking my time with it, helping the newbies along the way and dealing with the stupids.

I'm at 0/2000 D:

My sister and I like to do first runs of things together... and we still haven't got around to doing any Coils or Alex runs. Also missing a bunch of the primal fights needed to unlock the roulette. So... it'll be awhile.

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I'm at 0/2000 D:

My sister and I like to do first runs of things together... and we still haven't got around to doing any Coils or Alex runs. Also missing a bunch of the primal fights needed to unlock the roulette. So... it'll be awhile.

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Me too. Got my mentor crown via crafting, so I'm a long way from even being able to queue for Mentor Roulette.

once some of myfriends saw the mount they went crazy and are now starting to run it all the time

Its just WAY TOO MUCH. Even if it were lower to 1000, it would still be a lot and like 3 years.

I'm at 280/2000. The worst one is Odin, haven't finished it ONCE in DF since mentors thing started. Not only half hour wasted every time but also no roulette credit because of disband. And can't really 'mentor' undergeared new people how to do higher dps when Zanetsuken ends at 20% boss's HP. They need to add echo to this if they want to see any results.

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Its just WAY TOO MUCH. Even if it were lower to 1000, it would still be a lot and like 3 years.

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Again, you're pretty much meant to run this more than once per day if you want to finish it in any reasonable timeframe.

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I'm at 280/2000. The worst one is Odin, haven't finished it ONCE in DF since mentors thing started. Not only half hour wasted every time but also no roulette credit because of disband. And can't really 'mentor' undergeared new people how to do higher dps when Zanetsuken ends at 20% boss's HP. They need to add echo to this if they want to see any results.

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Every time I've gotten Odin on this the DPS wasn't the problem; lack of skilled healers were. It's a fairly healing intensive fight.

I'm at 0 and it ain't ever gonna change <3