The Amaro mount...

[seida]

I feel like it should be either MSQ or beast tribe tbh. Seems a shame we didn't get an MSQ mount this time.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

They probably should have, yeah. I'm half expecting them to change the achievement though to require only one of each role. Wouldn't be the first time they altered an achievement or 2 like that. To be honest that would be the only way they could get me to suffer through leveling a healer.

Perhaps if enough noise is made, they will change it. This was one of my only major disappointments with the expansion - all that work for what is basically a First version of the chocobo? It doesn't seem right at all, on either side of the coin. Especially since, surely they knew people would want these mounts after seeing so many around in the First and after [spoilers]?

I truly don't mind something special being locked behind leveling everything to 80. But an amaro, of all things, doesn't feel that special to lock behind it. Nor fair.

[MOZZYSTAR]

Oh nooo. I've been looking forward to getting an Amaro. I thought it was strange we didn't "adopt" one at a certain point in MSQ because it seemed like a fitting time...There is no way in Hell I'm levelling all those classes to 80. I don't enjoy most of them. XD If it was like "one healer, one DPS, and one tank at 80" that's one thing... but all the classes? For something like that, I'd expect a giant, brilliantly glowing Seto that took up my entire screen and I'm not even fond of the glow. /Slight exaggeration

[Duskane]

and of course the expansion i really didnt want to level everything again this happens..

Potd 5.0 when i guess

[Nyxn607]

You can get from 60-70 in a day of a 6-8 hour session or so on rested xp if you do nothing else other than HoH. Or take a few days at an hour or two. Level from 70-80 on side quests, beast tribes, dungeons, raids, and roulette's. Yes it will take time, but you will eventually get everything to 80. I might take some months where others will have it done within a month, point being you will get it done if you really want the mount. If leveling them all is to steep of a burden, don't level them. You will live and be able to play game just fine without that mount.

[Kasmiya]

I don't really care for the mount personally but tbh it doesn't seem like it'd be a mount for an achievement like that. I seriously thought it'd be part of the MSQ kind of like how we got the bird in Stormblood and the airship in HW. I would love to get all DoW/DoM to 80 at some point anyways but yeah the mount definitely isn't the reason why lol.

[Alleo]

So I'm just the littlest bit salty that what is essentially the First's version of a chocobo is locked behind getting all DoW and DoM classes to level 80. Shouldn't it be a little easier for us to get? I assumed it would be a mount we got through the MSQ, since it seemed to be one of the two mounts that were shown off the most (the other being the pre-order mount). Am I justified in being a little upset at this? I have other responsibilities outside of this game (as I'm sure many others do too), and I don't really have the time to grind all the classes to level 80. Do you think there will be another way to get this mount?

I dont like this either. Give the amaro as a quest reward (maybe a thank you for saving the zone) and maybe make the triceratops mount the "all jobs to 80" mount instead of that being behind 1000 S hunts in the new zones..

[Kurando]

I believe the achievement should be trimmed considerably.

When have achievements ever been trimmed? Still so many of them that are ridiculous to complete but still go unchanged....

[Jaywalker]

I'm pretty strict about keeping my main and alts limited to certain classes for storytelling, so no amaro for me. :I

Saw some people in this thread who don't want folks to get mounts like this as basic MSQ rewards in-general because of the idea of it being a handout.

Going to raise a counterpoint--there are certain kinds of mounts where that is the case. Savage and extreme mount drops, gold saucer mounts, even beast tribe mounts players all have to work for. There are only a few mounts that come as standard MSQ rewards.

This is a pretty extreme wall to lock a mount behind for a lot of people. The idea of a mount being behind a wall like this isn't a problem, but I think people are more frustrated that it's a standard Amaro that's locked that way. In principle, it should not be harder to get a standard Amaro than a primal mount when everyone and their mother has an Amaro on the First. If it was even a funny colored Amaro it would be more understandable for it to have this level of obstacle to acquiring. As things are it just comes across as bizarre and frustrating.

[HyoMinPark]

I doubt I could make enough Armory space to hold gear for all jobs. It's bad enough with just the DPS and crafting/gathering ones.

I’ve had my classes at max for HW and SB—in terms of armory chest space, it’s only annoying while leveling (and that usually only applies to the rings and weapons slots). But that’s why I tend to level jobs according to role so that I get rid of the leveling gear faster (e.g., I level the three healers, then I level the (remaining) ranged, then casters, then tanks, for example—this expansion, I leveled DNC first, and now I’m leveling healers to get rid of all the healer leveling gear I’ve accumulated). Since tanks, healers, MNK/SAM, physical ranged, and the casters all share gear, you end up with plenty of space once you’re done. Even with crafters/gatherers leveled, since they should also be sharing gear.

With that requirement, and the 1-2 years of grinding needed to accomplish it. the mount should do FAR more than just run and fly.

As someone who leveled all jobs (including crafters and gatherers the manual way—not through levekits) from 1 to 60 in HW when I first started (and at a fairly casual pace), it did not take me a year to do this; it certainly did not take 2. I just did roulettes, little bit of PotD spamming for the jobs that I was not that good at in a traditional setting, and beast tribes. It’s entirely feasible to level them all from start to finish in less than a year even if you play at a super casual pace.


I’m not defending or berating the decisions behind the Amaro Mount—just providing some insight on misconceptions you have.