MelodyCrystel | Final Fantasy XIV - Cecilia Shirone got the mentor mount Astrope @MelodyCrystel | Uploaded March 2017 | Updated October 2024, 3 days ago.
Edit November 2017: My character walks now around as a Lalafell named Doom Rabbit
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Edit June/July 2019: My character walks now around as a Viera named Anemone Blanc'rose
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First things first: The mentormount in FFXIV – it still seems to be unknown for many players. And as much as I have heard in the last weeks, worldwide are (so far) not many players known to have completed the challenge of obtaining the Astrope. Considering a report I had read ca. two months ago, the known mentors with the Astrope had been worldwide 53 players – mostly located in Japan.
Quote of my project: “Ich möchte eine von den Bekloppten sein, die auf ihrem Riesen-Gaul durch die Gegend gurken.” ('I want to be one of those loonies, who cruise on their giant-moke through the region.')
Well, while I tried to do these 2.000 mentor-roulette-runs needed for the mount, I met several co-mentors who were as eager as me to get it before Stormblood comes out. (So, the number will surely increase a bit.)
For example, I'm sure my buddy from Cerberus – Raida Sameluck – owns it since a short timespan (because we haven't met anymore); my fellow-sufferer Aranwe Gyrhan soon completes the last remaining runs; and Zelyphia Arkanas whom I adore for her cute monk-outfit plus skills will not stop until she has succeeded. Also, my friend plus fellow player from Shiva – Nik Matsumoto – was a huge motivation for me to do this, since he owned the mount already when I, having barely more than 70 runs, met him for the first time in Idyllshire.
Although I had done a few runs starting with the 10. December 2016 when I unlocked my mentor-roulette, the project itself started truthfully around the 27. December and took time until 03. March 2017, 16 o'clock. Whenever I could, I did every day 20 runs as a minimum – sometimes I got 30 runs, rarely almost 40, and a single day, I was lucky to get 50 runs completed. Doing the mentor-roulette means to be forced to face whatever you get – and this can be like 90% of content from the whole game. As I'm not picky, I love doing dungeons, but I got to see more low level dungeons than anything else – Sastasha being for sure the one I have seen at the most, so I started to suffer slowly under disorientation there. :chuckle:
The Lv50 EX Fights were a huge problem, though, and despite beating a few of the primals, Ramuh EX was the only exemplar which I could never beat with the random players in my parties; not a single time. This may or not be so because of the french players I got, but the mainproblem here is probably rather the fact, how many newcomers rush the game.
This is a harsh personal opinion, but let's face it: Many newcomers take no time to get to know the game – and often, important cross-skills from other classes than their mainclass are missing like Gladiator's Provoke for the other two tanks or Thaumaturge's Swiftcast for the healers. Things which you definitely need for these fights, synced.
Additional, some people walk blindly into the EX fights and THEN ask innocently about the strategy – a fact, which annoys me in spite of my wish to help out, since everything you have to know stands around in the internet (in your native language). Either you try blindly or you inform yourself when you DON'T have a time-limit in your neck, because stress is no good teacher at all.
I also don't say new ones should do everything unsync in LV50, because it's positive for the personal experience to try stuff out the way it was meant to be done, yet it's important to do these things NOT alone with random groups via the Dutyfinder. End up as English/German player with a group of 7 french persons and be not able to communicate with them properly – classical situation for me who can barely talk this language. Je ne parle pas francais.
I'm still surprised my very last run was an ordinary guildhest instead of a dungeon or bossfight --- had been very sure to get Sastasha, since it had also been my 1.800 run. The feeling it left was quite odd, and my first thought was a clumsy “I'm free.” instead of anything epic. That phrase echoed for 10 minutes in my mind, and I'm aware of the fact how Aladin- or rather Genie-/Dschinni-like this is, but it was surely not intentional. Although I started to feel right on the next day, that something is missing now for me – got too used to my mentor-routine, wherefore now an empty feeling is left in the place where the personal duty lay before.
Still, I thank all the players who accompanied me on my way through the roulettes – no matter if they knew it or not, and if they were juniors or seniors.
I also thank my friends from Shiva – at the most those who are/were in my FC Heavenly Strike and stay in contact with me. You helped me surviving this personal task with all your conversations in the chat.
Song used in this video: Rune – Rune Factory Opening by Lil'
Recommands earned in this project: over 1.500
Edit November 2017: My character walks now around as a Lalafell named Doom Rabbit
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Edit June/July 2019: My character walks now around as a Viera named Anemone Blanc'rose
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First things first: The mentormount in FFXIV – it still seems to be unknown for many players. And as much as I have heard in the last weeks, worldwide are (so far) not many players known to have completed the challenge of obtaining the Astrope. Considering a report I had read ca. two months ago, the known mentors with the Astrope had been worldwide 53 players – mostly located in Japan.
Quote of my project: “Ich möchte eine von den Bekloppten sein, die auf ihrem Riesen-Gaul durch die Gegend gurken.” ('I want to be one of those loonies, who cruise on their giant-moke through the region.')
Well, while I tried to do these 2.000 mentor-roulette-runs needed for the mount, I met several co-mentors who were as eager as me to get it before Stormblood comes out. (So, the number will surely increase a bit.)
For example, I'm sure my buddy from Cerberus – Raida Sameluck – owns it since a short timespan (because we haven't met anymore); my fellow-sufferer Aranwe Gyrhan soon completes the last remaining runs; and Zelyphia Arkanas whom I adore for her cute monk-outfit plus skills will not stop until she has succeeded. Also, my friend plus fellow player from Shiva – Nik Matsumoto – was a huge motivation for me to do this, since he owned the mount already when I, having barely more than 70 runs, met him for the first time in Idyllshire.
Although I had done a few runs starting with the 10. December 2016 when I unlocked my mentor-roulette, the project itself started truthfully around the 27. December and took time until 03. March 2017, 16 o'clock. Whenever I could, I did every day 20 runs as a minimum – sometimes I got 30 runs, rarely almost 40, and a single day, I was lucky to get 50 runs completed. Doing the mentor-roulette means to be forced to face whatever you get – and this can be like 90% of content from the whole game. As I'm not picky, I love doing dungeons, but I got to see more low level dungeons than anything else – Sastasha being for sure the one I have seen at the most, so I started to suffer slowly under disorientation there. :chuckle:
The Lv50 EX Fights were a huge problem, though, and despite beating a few of the primals, Ramuh EX was the only exemplar which I could never beat with the random players in my parties; not a single time. This may or not be so because of the french players I got, but the mainproblem here is probably rather the fact, how many newcomers rush the game.
This is a harsh personal opinion, but let's face it: Many newcomers take no time to get to know the game – and often, important cross-skills from other classes than their mainclass are missing like Gladiator's Provoke for the other two tanks or Thaumaturge's Swiftcast for the healers. Things which you definitely need for these fights, synced.
Additional, some people walk blindly into the EX fights and THEN ask innocently about the strategy – a fact, which annoys me in spite of my wish to help out, since everything you have to know stands around in the internet (in your native language). Either you try blindly or you inform yourself when you DON'T have a time-limit in your neck, because stress is no good teacher at all.
I also don't say new ones should do everything unsync in LV50, because it's positive for the personal experience to try stuff out the way it was meant to be done, yet it's important to do these things NOT alone with random groups via the Dutyfinder. End up as English/German player with a group of 7 french persons and be not able to communicate with them properly – classical situation for me who can barely talk this language. Je ne parle pas francais.
I'm still surprised my very last run was an ordinary guildhest instead of a dungeon or bossfight --- had been very sure to get Sastasha, since it had also been my 1.800 run. The feeling it left was quite odd, and my first thought was a clumsy “I'm free.” instead of anything epic. That phrase echoed for 10 minutes in my mind, and I'm aware of the fact how Aladin- or rather Genie-/Dschinni-like this is, but it was surely not intentional. Although I started to feel right on the next day, that something is missing now for me – got too used to my mentor-routine, wherefore now an empty feeling is left in the place where the personal duty lay before.
Still, I thank all the players who accompanied me on my way through the roulettes – no matter if they knew it or not, and if they were juniors or seniors.
I also thank my friends from Shiva – at the most those who are/were in my FC Heavenly Strike and stay in contact with me. You helped me surviving this personal task with all your conversations in the chat.
Song used in this video: Rune – Rune Factory Opening by Lil'
Recommands earned in this project: over 1.500
