The Amaro mount...

[Ardeth]

If you are a decent player all you actually need is ronkan, though some party finder groups demand 443+ to enter. What I mean by decent player is, can pull good enough numbers if you are a dps to clear the boss at an efficient time (before enrage); hold your own. Heal adequately, or tank (mostly just knowing when to mitigate). Tanking innocence is actually very easy, even though I had high anxiety while doing it since I really only tank dungeons.

I just generally avoid that kinda stuff. I'm more a fan of doing it like an expansion later with a group of friends. That's me though. I just find grinding gear pointless when I can get the best gear for me at the end of the expansion. It's easier for me to just wait. I know that's not what you're supposed to do, but I'm not on forums complaining that I need the best gear for doing nothing. I kinda leave you guys to that lane and I stay in mine. Sure it's casual, but I like it.

But not to derail the discussion about having to level 17 things to 80 for a mount.

[SturmChurro]

I just generally avoid that kinda stuff. I'm more a fan of doing it like an expansion later with a group of friends. That's me though. I just find grinding gear pointless when I can get the best gear for me at the end of the expansion. It's easier for me to just wait. I know that's not what you're supposed to do, but I'm not on forums complaining that I need the best gear for doing nothing. I kinda leave you guys to that lane and I stay in mine. Sure it's casual, but I like it.

But not to derail the discussion about having to level 17 things to 80 for a mount.

Just don't think about it like that. You can gear your main class in full ronkan passively while wearing green accessories from dungeons (roulette) and your artifact gear. You can actually clear the extremes in that gear too, I just generally would advise to think about the group and wear more appropriate gear for the trial. When you hop into an Innocence or Titania farm (assuming you can hold your own) you can also passively get your upgraded 450 accessories, or your weapon. You don't even have to care about drops just wait 10 clears and there is your weapon! The edengate raids are laughably easy as well, I effectively solo healed one last night and did more damage than every single dps apparently. There are enough drops that it should drop something yo uneed, don't wanna grind? Don't. Just do them sparingly and you will be geared up adequately eventually. You can fully meld yourself from just doing adventurer in need, and even if you don't you can passively earn materia through dungeons as well, among other ways.

Gearing shouldn't be that much of an issue, I think people just overthink it, or it looks like a big hurdle, when it really is not. You don't need to have bis to do all the content adequately.

It's actually effectively 16 classes since sch/smn would level together, but I actually think it is a great idea to tie an achievement like this to a desirable reward, such as a mount. I wish they would do it more often. The problem is the amaro sucks, and should be a MSQ drop not a achievement mount. Even if it wasn't tied to the story, the mount just looks too dumb to be worth it, and not in the good way. All it would be, would be a fleeting status symbol.