The Amaro mount...

[GenBroadaxe]

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.

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

[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.

[Bixillarla]

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.

or thrown on the mog station.

[TheMightyMollusk]

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..

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.

[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?

[Barta]

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

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.

[Barta]

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?

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.

[Ilyrian]

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

[grinkdaboy]

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

[Alleo]

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.

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.

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?

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.