Help on mount purchase?

If at all possible, I'd like to have one mount of each type of reasonable quality - 'reasonable' being 'equivalent in strength to my horse, which used to be a 35/35 Chestnut and is now 1.1k Potential'. I've looked at the wiki guide on how mounts work now, and from what I can tell, the system is now extremely fluid; instead of being dice rolls, breeding involves purchasing Fruman crafting materials, stuffing them in the enclosure, and checking back every six hours for about a week until limits are maxed. There are no clean, differentiated ranks.

...so, what should my criteria be for Buying A Wyvern And (Later) An Adasaur. I know there's scams on the market. Should I just check for items identified as having 1-1.2k Potential? What's the pricing here?

 

Two things-
You don't feed them crafting materials, rather gathering materials (grain, oil, wood, etc.) which each buff the limits 2-3 state up to the max, and you can only feed them materials that are less than or equal to the limit (limit of 44 can be fed a a material to raise it that is level 1-40, but not a level 50 material).
You get the actual buffs to the mount itself, such as speed and jump height by riding around and collecting power ups that cost 2 energy each. These raise the level.

The second thing is that a single breeding cycle mount (around 480 potential (240 base potential parent +240 base potential parent)) costs a little bit less than a stack of LE rn, so you can guess the price of a 1k potential mount from that. This level can be reached by feesing 28 level one gathering materials (14 per parent; the exact ones are on the mega thread) and less than a week of feeding them once a day and a day to breed. TLDR for buying: mounts are very expensive right now, breed your own. And you'll save upwards of 200k emeralds even if you buy the gathering materials.

 

...Wow, the prices shot up. I should definitely find a price for my old converted Black Horses, then.

You only need to level one mount for breeding, right? You feed them both but only level one?

 

Yes 10chars