SoA Mission: Arciela appears again

Sorry for double posting but I finally got it to flag. I kept going back to check to see if I could figure out what flagged it. After getting my Couriers' Coalition rank to 3, it didn't flag. I went out to do more quests and after completing both Don't Clam Up On Me Now and A Stone's Throw Away, it flagged. These were my 39th and 40th quests, but also my last survival skill besides the new "Climbing". So my theory is either a do a crapload of quests or acquire all the pre-update survival skills.

It almost sounds like you need at least 2 coalitions to be at rank 3; as I have done everything else.

Welp, it's not just fame alone, as I hit Fame 5 tonight and still can't get the CS. Given people's answers, I suspect it's some combination of fame and coalition ranks. I know some people who don't have more than one coalition at rank 3 who got it, but they do have a rank in more than one coalition. Rank/fame combo would explain why some people seem to be able to do it sooner than others.

At this point, the only quests I don't have done that I know are doable are A Shot in the Dark (active but unfinished), Flowers for Svenja (active but unfinished), Thorn in the Side (active but unfinished), One Good Turn (active but unfinished), Vegetable Vegetable Evolution (can't trigger even though I have Vegetable Vegetable Revolution done; maybe requires the missions to have advanced?), and Courtesy Crustacean (probably need to do more Mog Garden work).

Time to start ranking up, I guess.

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Originally Posted by Luscia

It almost sounds like you need at least 2 coalitions to be at rank 3; as I have done everything else.

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Well he didn't give it to me until after I completed the quests. I checked after I raised my rank and got nothing. Maybe it's a combination then where you need ranks and quests or something. My advice for you would be to try and raise your ranks and see if that does anything. The thing that really aggravates me about this quest is there's pretty much no feedback so it's impossible to figure out what works and what doesn't. Brenton and Levil just keep giving you the same lines and never acknowledge your progress until you fulfill all the requirements. I'm used to things being kind of cryptic and hard to figure out in RPGs but it would be nice if they would at least give you a hint.

This is nonsense! As if it weren't hard enough finding people eligible to enter battlefields already, now they have to do a hundred quests too?

Ok I seem to have been able to trigger the cutscene and move past this mission. Here's what I did.

In response to this listing at BGWiki, I spoke with NPCs Berghent and Masad prior to receiving this cutscene. Dunno if that was necessary, but I'm just telling you what happened.

I did almost no Adoulin quests. I have barely touched Adoulin. Finding my way constantly blocked by reives turned me off it. I think the only one I completed was the one that gives you Watercrafting or whatever it is you need to move around Hennetiel.

I spent 48 imprimaturs doing Gather: Rala Waterways delivering Bloodthread to the Inventor's Coalition. I don't THINK this is necessary. I just did it because I wanted to spend imprimaturs the easiest way possible and throwing money at the problem seemed like a good idea. But this is expensive, so I would avoid it.

After that and 2 more imprimaturs spent on Support: Ceizak Battlegrounds for the Courier's Coalition, I still couldn't get past the mission, "Life on the Frontier". So I just kept doing 3 imprimatur runs of Support: Ceizak Battlegrounds over and over until I got past Life on the Frontier" a few months ago and up to "Arciela Appears Again". Even after that I did an occasional run at Support: Ceizak just to rake in some bayld (I thought I might get that Trunkleaver Great Axe for my modestly geared Abyssea red-proc whore Warrior).

Yesterday I couldn't get past "Arciela Appears Again", so I wanted until after today's conquest tally. Still no luck. So I just kept doing more Support: Ceizak runs. I banged out a full 15 imprimaturs today, checked in with Levil, and he gave me a cutscene that started with him saying "I have something juicy for you". Double checked my mission log to make sure this was not a different quest, and I definitely moved on to chapter 2.

Meant to post this yesterday; I finally got my CS. I started by talking to Levil, thinking maybe my game had glitched and I needed to wait for the conquest tally, but still no luck there. I decided to do some quests instead of assignments cause there was only so many of those I could do before I completely lose interests and did 2. One I started by accident as I talked to the NPC and not the waypoint, but I finsihed that and went to talk to Levil again, nothing. I then try the Flowers for Svenja quest as I have seen a few people mention that it might be a prerequisite for the new missions. Sure enough once I finished that quest Levil gave me the mission CS.

Since my last post, I finished off One Good Turn, Courtesy Crustacean, Order Up, and Flowers for Svenja. Still no mission CS. I then burned 15 tags at the Pioneers' Coalition, checking in with Levil after each completed assignment, and after the 13th/14th/15th tag assignment was complete, he gave me the CS. So... I don't know. Seems like doing a full tag burn might have been it all along. I had done absolutely no Pioneers' Coalition assignments up until now, so I'm still just a Petitioner there (and everywhere else except the Couriers). I give up trying to make sense of this. ;p Hopefully the next set of missions will be less cryptic with their start conditions.

Also, I finally got Vegetable Vegetable Evolution, so I suspect being at a certain point in the missions is required in order to unlock it.

Now to get past that reive in Cirdas.