Forever Taken = impossible quest!!!

Yio!! How can they put this quest to only rank 34?!?! It's impossible to get to Mor Dhona!!! Can anyone give me tips on how to get there or it would be better if I wait until I get high lvl to do it?!


For info on the quest: http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Forever_Taken

best thing to do is pay or ask a friend to teleport you i gone there without doing that but it like hard with all the mobs ; ;

Zam has a guide for one way of getting there http://ffxiv.zam.com/en/quest.html?ffxivquest=110016

When I did it I went the long way around through Coerthas into Mor Dhona.

It was possible to get there before the mob placement adjustments. (Not that the quests were implemented then..)

Its just another thing they will need to "patch" again.

(due to lack of staff and any sort of clue about the over-all direction and "fixing" of the game...)

err. yeah.

I did it at 36. The hardest part is the suicidal river run. It's actually rather simple you just have to have some luck on which way the vultures are looking. The first time I tried it, I had agro'd one and taken some damage, and instead of stopping to heal when it lost agro.. I kept going and agro'd a second + a eft. (the efts chase you a little farther but they rarely range attack and are easy to out run.) Ended up dying to 2 ranged attacks from the second bird.

My second attempt to run through, I only agro'd 2 efts (which did no damage) all the birds were looking away and I ran behind them. Vultures = Sight. Run behind or to the side and they won't agro.

Get passed the water and you're in the clear.

I ended up getting there around level 8, there were a few of us going through the Black Shroud directly into Mor'dhona. xD I was lucky the mobs noticed them and not me and I slipped through. xP And I've had the port ever since!

You guys are lucky! lol

I give up! This quest is impossible to do! How can they let us do an impossible quest like that! I feel like quitting this game!! %$!#$!#@

It's not impossible. From gridania there is a path completely void of hostile enemies. your Path parther shows you it, its the line marked from camp crimson bark.

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Originally Posted by Reika

It's not impossible. From gridania there is a path completely void of hostile enemies. your Path parther shows you it, its the line marked from camp crimson bark.

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Where?? Where is it?

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Originally Posted by Reika

It's not impossible. From gridania there is a path completely void of hostile enemies. your Path parther shows you it, its the line marked from camp crimson bark.

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My path partner showed me no such thing D: though she delights in making life hard for me.

Guys! I made it!! I'll post pics on my lodestone tonight!

You can get there at any rank... people been doing it since beta. It is just a waiting game.

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Originally Posted by Xatsh

You can get there at any rank... people been doing it since beta. It is just a waiting game.

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Agreed, one day I ran a huge circle around Mor Dhona getting at the camps/sub camps up there. Just have to be patient and wait for mobs to move if they are in the way. We actually had a LS Race running around the whole area, I was only archer 32 and made it from Brittlebark all the way around and back to Brittlebark, never dying once.

can do it as a rank 1. just wait till mobs turn or move into walls. o_O patience

Go north from camp crimson bark. the first open area, take the west path. At the fork, go the northwestern path. at the next fork, take the west path.

There are absolutely no agro mobs along this trail.

Knowing how Efts agro helps alot, they agro by sound.

Efts have 2 stances, there passive walking stance and then an "Alert" stance they enter when you enter there agro range. They will not agro when not allready in "Alert" mode. When you enter there agro radius by walk/running near them they will pick there heads up and start to "Listen" for you.

If you stop moving and remain still for a few moments they will lower there head and continue on, at that point you can start running past them and leave there agro radius before they can sense you again. It's a very nice agro system and I think I'm one of the first people to ever report it. Some monsters seem to have certain AI actions they take different than others.

Funguars: Inflate before using Queasy shroom and you can actually avoid trigering it if you don't attack them when inflated.
Efts: Agro by sound
Marmots: Tend to flee when you use Weaponskill or critical hit.
Does: Tend to flee your presence

I entered Mor Dhona from the south, Since I had access to camp Blue fog, I avoided the Peistes, and fought the few Hyenas that were in my way. Once in Mor Dhona, I pretty much turned into the cowardly fool and ran from everything on my way to Brittlebark. It was then a final stretch to the area in my journal. Oddly, I ran into an r8 archer who stalked me until I gave him a tele back to Gridania.

i just used quick stride from archer and ran through all the aggro.

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Originally Posted by Bomp

The hardest part is the suicidal river run.

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Whoa, I remember that one. Tricky and requires patience and luck.
I was, back then, always hoping for a random party who coincidentially would farm these very mobs.
Never happened of course. (^-^)
Took me 1-2 hours (probably more) in total to get to Mor Dhona and Coerthas.
It was fun, but I'm glad I won't have to do it again for some time.

I think the others answered your questions perfectly already so I won't say anything else. (^,^)

you all made this quest way harder than necessary ^^

I recall just walking my way there. There IS a fairly safe path in Mor Dhona itself, but the problem is getting there through Coerthas which is FULL of aggro mobs.

All I can say is good luck lol.

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you all made this quest way harder than necessary ^^

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Pfft any XI veteran would call this "Suicide run" a stroll in the park compared to some situations they were bound to have been found in the past. Only difference is that everything has a blasted ranged attack!

I have no idea how you say "It's Impossible".

I did the Rankquests when i was able to accept them. And there was only one which was "a little hard", since that time there were no Tips around. Quest was Futures Perfect. At a range from 1 - 10, where 1 is easiest and 10 hardest, all the pre-quests before Futures Perfect were between 1-5. So nothing i would call "Impossible".

And some quests were just a little harder cause it took a while due a lot of running, which i dont care about.

I just ran up to the point from Brittlebark in Mor Dhona. Ran right past those Evil Eyes like a thief in the night.

This quest was great fun as it was really the only one to contain any sort of challenge. I managed to get there on my own after dying a few times going through the Black Shroud route.

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Pfft any XI veteran would call this "Suicide run" a stroll in the park compared to some situations they were bound to have been found in the past. Only difference is that everything has a blasted ranged attack!

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This is true, but it's balanced somewhat by mobs having a very short aggro time before they give up chasing.
I also found getting to the Sylph village in the northeast of the Black Shroud was difficult to get to alone, though I managed it in the end after dying 3 or 4 times.

Pfft you think that is impossible, try and get some of the aetheryte gates, like wyrmkings perch (still haven't got it after many tries) or verdant drop and lynxpelt patch (finally got these two after a good number of deaths). I took the south way of mor dhona to do this quest since I had trekked all over when I was in my low 20's to explore the world. Agreed with many of the people here, its a game of patience with a bit of luck at times.

crap lol im on this quest well i always love a challenge

That quest can be somewhat annoying, but it's just a waiting game.

Be lucky you're not a Botanist. The R36 quest is pure suicide.

I made a blog post about the quest which includes the map with the easiest way to get there from the black shroud and tips and stuff o: ... granted I did this back in December so I don't know if the monsters changed on the route that I took.

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...entry?e=100407

Hope that helps

Man how is it hard lol all I did was throw up protect + stoneskin and run, mobs will hit me once if im lucky and then just return to their spawn point. Game is so easy!