My fellow Lorians . . . today marks the first day I have made ANY progress on the Gauntlet's Mirror, Mirror achievement. I am now sitting at a whopping 1/10 battles where two of my party's companions are also on the enemy team. Only 99 more to go until I have the achievement completed 5/5 levels. Going at my current rate it should only take me about . . . the rest of my life.

(Until more companions are released, of course. Then it'll take me two lifetimes!)

. . .

But yeah! I shall enjoy my tiny victory while I slog my way through the rest of the Gauntlet achievements.

Also, real talk . . . has anyone managed to make it past the first level of the achievement? If so, how many battles are you averaging a day to be able to pull that off? The RNG is killing me here-

EDIT: I wanted to come in here and kinda update my post with some stats now that I'm halfway through the achievement. It looks like I'm averaging one instance every 2-3 days. Some days I'm even managing to get multiple encounters (usually 3 in a day when this occurs, though I have gotten up to 4).

I'm still just using the Snowloon-Thrasher duo. I tried other combos before them but had no luck. I'm sure if you stick something out long enough then it's possible to get others. There are some companions that seem to appear much more frequently, though it's difficult keeping track of what companions, if any, that they spawn with more often. I was originally planning on compiling data on companion mobs to see which ones did spawn in more often than others, though it's very likely it's all random RNG with an equal chance for any of them across the board.

Right now, companions from the last two seasonal events are not appearing in the Gauntlet, and it's unclear as to when they will be added, so I really recommend getting your grinding out of the way before they're added into the pool and make things significantly harder!

EDIT 2: As of this day of Tuesday, January the 28th, I've completed the Mirror, Mirror achievement in its entirety! It's been 7 months and 4 weeks since I got the first instance of my companions appearing on the enemy team. 242 days of battling and feeding, winning and failing, and trying. An average of one encounter every 2.42 days. My 491st achievement completed, and I managed to do it just a few days before my goal of the end of January.

I know in the grand scheme of things this might seem like a silly thing to make a fuss about, but this game has come to actually mean a lot to me, and this achievement was a lofty goal I was determined to achieve. I'm going to celebrate with my new title, and I wish all others luck in pursuing their own goals and achievements. No matter the goal, none of them are unreachable.

Have fun, and keep playing, Lorfolk!

My poor Kit, Kit, Snowloon, Jocol, and Thrasher can finally rest. . .

MIRROR, MIRROR PROGRESS CHART

INSTANCES ACHIEVED IN A SINGLE DAY

(Added two little tables here for my own reference so I could mark my progress as I went! Just a little something for myself and my fellow stat nerds.)

I managed to finish one tier! So I'm at 10 rn.

gods bless, congratulations!!!

- i have marked this one as "Literally Actually Impossible" and thrown it in the trash.

@Stellori - Dang! I haven't been paying too close of attention to people progressing with this achievement, but that might be the most I've personally read/seen from anyone. You may very well be one of a handful of people actually making significant progress on this one, so congrats!! I can definitely try the Crystalpins, since I have noticed an increased in them lately, too. Not as much as the Frostspinners, though. Them and the Thrashers, Dredger Mullvad, Magic Monstropod, Plains Machaira, and Pale Echecara. That group makes up the most common majority of companions I encounter, so I really should try more combinations of them.

The combination I actually used to earn my first Mirror, Mirror was the Crested Snowloon and Abyssal Thrasher. I'm attempting a specific team formation I saw in a Gauntlet thread, but I'm not having significant success with it. . .

@Puff - Woah, small world! Here's to hoping you and I get more moving forward!

@kytkat - Thank you!! I have honestly largely done the same. I was fully expecting to finish almost all the other achievements save for some of the Gauntlet ones. Like, I know the level cap on wolves and companions will be raised in the future to help with some of the other hard battle-oriented ones, but the Mirror, Mirror one seems largely impossible, especially factoring in all the new companions being added to the Gauntlet. . .