Sastasha main story quest.

So I JUST bought the game, and I'm starting to regret this decision as I just got to a point where I can't go further with the main story, because noone seems to be doing the main story at the same time I am. I sat in the queue for 40 minutes once already with no results, and I'm almost 20 minutes in now and still noone else has been found. Has anyone else had problems with this? Or am I doing something wrong?

No, you're doing nothing wrong. The que times for the dps role in this game take a very long time due to how disproportionate the three classes are distributed among the player base.

The only advice I can give you is to make a healer or tank if you want dungeons to que faster. Outside of that, you'll have to join a free company or request help in the chat box if you want to remain a dps.

In duty finder tick all the languages and it can be generally faster to get a party going. Duty finder will gather players from the same datacenter(i.e. chaos etc...). Sadly DSP queues can be slow. Also time when playing might affect your queue times. Best thing to do really is queue up then go do stuff like fates or just something else in game like another class etc...

Really, I was leveling a tradeskill, and ended up filling my inventories, and decided I should sell the items... low and behold I can't even sell the items because I need to progress the main story which I can't do yet. Just very frustrating not being able to play the game after paying for it, or else I have to make a new character to go do this quest and then level the class I want? Silly really.

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Originally Posted by PinkRiots

Really, I was leveling a tradeskill, and ended up filling my inventories, and decided I should sell the items... low and behold I can't even sell the items because I need to progress the main story which I can't do yet. Just very frustrating not being able to play the game after paying for it, or else I have to make a new character to go do this quest and then level the class I want? Silly really.

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Well, I'm sorry you're having trouble. I would suggest looking into the game a little more before you buy it. Mmos are notorious for having group only content tied directly into main story progression.

If you felt mislead into thinking that this game was a single player experience then I'm sorry, that kind of sucks. But the trouble you're describing is common among mmos. They are designed to be social in nature.

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Originally Posted by Stihllodeing

Well, I'm sorry you're having trouble. I would suggest looking into the game a little more before you buy it. Mmos are notorious for having group only content tied directly into main story progression.

If you felt mislead into thinking that this game was a single player experience then I'm sorry, that kind of sucks. But the trouble you're describing is common among mmos. They are designed to be social in nature.

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It's more that you have to complete this very specific quest, that requires waiting for a party for hours, and it's still prior to being able to do anything really.

There is no need to make a new character, you have access to all the main cities you can unlock all the classes while you wait, as well as do all their intro quests, there are a lot of cross class abilities to get. You can also do fates in the area of aleport and swiftperch to level the job up so when the queue pops to enter you have a little more leeway for mistake.

Low level content is still run, and the way that SE incentivized this was by giving rewards for people entering a Duty via a Duty Roulette. Basically, what that will do is roulette them into your instance of Sastasha when you queue up. In addition to this, relic weapon quest lines require people to do certain low level dungeons to complete their relic weapon - so people are certainly encouraged to go back and do the low level dungeons. Just don't expect a full clear, or a leisurely ride as most people want to speed run them, unfortunately. :(

Unfortunately DPS queue times can be quite long - however stick at it, and you'll get in eventually. I had to wait quite awhile in the queue to get into some dungeons as a Summoner.

I'm not sure I understand why you can't sell items from your inventory. Just talk to any merchant, in any location, and drag and drop the items from your inventory menu to their shop window to sell.

As you're over level 10, I'd suggest switching to another class, as others have suggested, and level it while you are waiting in the queue for Sastasha. :) You can unlock other classes by talking to their respective Guilds, and then changing to that weapon type.

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Originally Posted by PinkRiots

So I JUST bought the game, and I'm starting to regret this decision as I just got to a point where I can't go further with the main story, because noone seems to be doing the main story at the same time I am. I sat in the queue for 40 minutes once already with no results, and I'm almost 20 minutes in now and still noone else has been found. Has anyone else had problems with this? Or am I doing something wrong?

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You're not on my world, but I usually try really hard to run a few low level dungeons (I'm primarily Paladin). This reminds me that I should purposely queue in the lower dungeons since there still is a a large backlog of DPS'ers. (I also have a WAR in the 30's that I am working on too, before there are TOO many tanks, lol!)

As others have stated, explore other parts of the game while waiting around for a dungeon to pop.

Try shouting (/sh) and asking for help running Sastasha. Western La Noscea has some higher level areas in it and is a popular area to fate grind classes, so there are usually people around. I've helped a few people on Malboro that way.

And you have to have beaten Ifrit and joined a grand company before you can pick up a retainer, which is how you sell items on the market board.

DPS classes typically get somewhere around a 20 to 30 minute queue time even during peak hours. If you play at off-peak times, it can be longer, even exceeding an hour occasionally. You can deal with that either by making that wait bearable (i.e. finding other things to do in the meantime while you're waiting on a group to form) or by shortening the wait (either finding a friend who is a tank or healer or becoming a tank or healer yourself).

Are you in a Free Company? Or have any friends who play (and are on the same server)? Just queuing in Duty Finder will get you a group eventually, but if you can ask people to party with you and run it together, that can be quicker in many cases. You can either put together a full four person group, or you can pair up with another player or two and queue in Duty Finder to get the remaining people you need. (If you're queuing as a duo, though, you'll want either a tank or healer as your partner. Two damage dealers can party together and queue through DF, but it wouldn't shorten the queue time any from what you see as a solo DD.) This solution involves making friends with people, at least to the point where you can ask them to run content together with you, and making such friends isn't a bad goal to have anyway.

Or, if you're going with the fill in the queue time with other activities option, there are FATEs, sidequests, leves, hunting log, etc, that you can do with your current class, or you can unlock other classes and start their quests and hunting logs. For now, I'd stick mainly with combat classes (DoW or DoM). Gathering and crafting classes will be a good option while waiting on later dungeons, once you're past this first trio of them and can unlock retainers. Until then, as you've already noticed, crafting is rather too hard on your limited inventory space.


Oh, and Sastasha is the first of a trio of three dungeons that come nearly back to back in the main scenario quest chain. (There's a single quest in between each that's just there to send you to the area where you'll find the next dungeon and explain the story reason for it.) Usually, after getting past one of these roadblocks in the story progression, you'll get another lengthy string of soloable quests you can do at your own pace, but at this point, you're going to have to get through that waiting game three times in a row for Sastasha, Tam-Tara, and Copperbell.

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Originally Posted by Sagittarian

And you have to have beaten Ifrit and joined a grand company before you can pick up a retainer, which is how you sell items on the market board.

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No, you just have to complete the first three dungeons and do the next quest. Retainers are unlocked by the Scions of the Seventh Dawn quest.

Chocobos (and mounts in general) is the feature you're probably thinking of that has to wait until you join a Grand Company.

what data centre are you??
did u check all languages for quicker queues??
do you play during peak hours??

i ran satasha on my noob ninja last night n had 10mins wait in queue ;/

dont get discouraged if the wait is longish u can switch class n do other things while waiting for the queue its advisable to save ur gear sets b4 hand tho so u can quick change back to the class u registered for the dungeon without having to reequop everything :3

Thanks for the replies,

I don't really have anyone to play with, and am not in a free company. I'm on during peak hours and after. But I just decided to level up conjurer instead and just deal with it I guess.

You may want to check your world forum for free companies that are recruiting that are willing to help. I'd be happy to help you if we were on the same server.

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Originally Posted by PinkRiots

Thanks for the replies,

I don't really have anyone to play with, and am not in a free company. I'm on during peak hours and after. But I just decided to level up conjurer instead and just deal with it I guess.

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I wouldn't recommend just to "deal with it". If you are not doing what you want to do, you may end up hating the game. There are other things you can try as mentioned on here. I would try those things first before going with dealing with it. Look for a FC that is new player friendly, shout out in the areas where the dungeons are for help, if only a tank or healer parties with you, you can use the DF to get in more quickly, or start a PF asking for help for a new player.

When you level a DPS you find long wait times for dungeons. Once you have the Low Level Duty Roulette, the more dungeons you have unlocked, the quicker the time waits are.

The first class I leveled was Gladiator so I did not have that problem, but when I leveled the BLM I started to craft during the wait times.

The Duty Roulette and the Guildhest Roulette are very useful to level up. You can do FATEs while you wait too and you will level up quicker (and earn GC seals too, you will need them to geat higher GC rank.)

The best would be have a tank friend that is leveling at the same time, that would be a big luck.

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Originally Posted by PinkRiots

Thanks for the replies,

I don't really have anyone to play with, and am not in a free company. I'm on during peak hours and after. But I just decided to level up conjurer instead and just deal with it I guess.

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as i said b4 u can enter duty finder queue with 1 class n switch to another while waiting so its more or less killin 2 birds with 1 stone leveling conjurer while waitin for duty to pop :3 aslong as u switch back to the class u joined queue with b4 clicking commence :3

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Originally Posted by PinkRiots

Thanks for the replies,

I don't really have anyone to play with, and am not in a free company. I'm on during peak hours and after. But I just decided to level up conjurer instead and just deal with it I guess.

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I'm sorry you're having a bad experience so far. :( As others have said, DPS queue times can be pretty bad, but they are rarely more than an hour. You can do other things while waiting in the queue, such as craft or level up a new class. I recommend, if you are interested in cutting down your queue times in the future, you queue for the dungeon as PUG and then switch to CNJ to level. When the queue pops, you can switch back to PUG and accept it. Note that every combat class except your highest one gets a +50% bonus to all experience points gained, so leveling up a second class isn't so bad.

To switch classes fast, you can set up gear sets for each class, and you can drag those gear sets to hotbars to create buttons you can click to switch classes.

If you were on my world, I'd help you out, but I see you're over on Zalera. You should be able to find people you enjoy gaming with there though - being in a Free Company, besides the obvious bonus of whatever buffs they are running, gives you the bonus of having people who can help you with the early dungeons. The game actually gives nice bonuses to people who are at the endgame and decide to run early-game content. That isn't the problem. The problem is, as others have said, about 75% of the playerbase are playing primarily DPS, 15% are playing primarily healers, and 10% are playing primarily tanks. It doesn't help that there are more DPS jobs than others. The expansion will help there, taking it from 6 DPS, 2 heals, 2 tanks to 7 DPS, 3 heals, 3 tanks.

I am in the same position as well... been waiting for ages and there is still no team to go. This is my first character and I am not in any free company (I think you need to be of certain level to be able to join one?) I am already level 17 and I was wondering if I can still do the quest if I exceeded the level? Like if I am at level 20 can I still go back to attempt the quest? Ideally I would rather not have it this way as I'd be way behind on the main storyline quest; it'd be better to be able to do Sastasha at my current level, and this is my first attempt doing Sastasha as well. I know others in the replies above have mentioned training another character while waiting but I don't want to be training a bunch of low levels while my main character is still stuck at level 17. T_T

P/S: Just to add on, do all my classes need to do the Sastasha quest? Or just the main one?

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Originally Posted by -Masaru-

I am in the same position as well... been waiting for ages and there is still no team to go. This is my first character and I am not in any free company (I think you need to be of certain level to be able to join one?) I am already level 17 and I was wondering if I can still do the quest if I exceeded the level? Like if I am at level 20 can I still go back to attempt the quest? Ideally I would rather not have it this way as I'd be way behind on the main storyline quest; it'd be better to be able to do Sastasha at my current level, and this is my first attempt doing Sastasha as well. I know others in the replies above have mentioned training another character while waiting but I don't want to be training a bunch of low levels while my main character is still stuck at level 17. T_T

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You can join a free company at any level. (The Grand Company requires doing a quest, which is gated by a level, but that's another thing entirely). A newplayer friendly FC will help you clear as DPS because they'll have volunteer tanks/healers.

And yes, you can do this quest at any level. If you're high level, it will "sync" your gear down so you don't end up overpowered.

And you can train another class to get in faster - but you don't need another character. Your character can go to the Conjurer guild to train as a healer. A single character can level up all the classes in this game! You can also go to the Marauder or Gladiator guilds to train as a tank.

What I did at first was have a DPS (BLM), but the queue times got to be too long for my liking, so for a while I would do the story quests and side quests on my DPS, but only do dungeons (and dungeon story quests) on my CNJ - same character, just a class switch.

For reference, the guilds for the healer/tank classes are:
Conjurer-Gridania
Gladiator-Uldah
Marauder-Limsa Lominsa
(There is another healer in the game currently but you can't queue with it until it's level 30+ as it's a JOB, not a class, so it's useless for your current situation)

You just go there, accept a quest ( it won't show up on the map, but you will see an NPC with a quest icon). Do the quest to learn, the next quests asks to equip the new weapon, then ta-dah. Your character switched! To switch back,just reequip your weapon for your other class. (You can save your gear set up as gear sets in the Character window)

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Originally Posted by Squintina

And you can train another class to get in faster - but you don't need another character....

What I did at first was have a DPS (BLM), but the queue times got to be too long for my liking, so for a while I would do the story quests and side quests on my DPS, but only do dungeons (and dungeon story quests) on my CNJ - same character, just a class switch.

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Thank you so much for your advice!

From your post above, does it means I can train a level 15 CNJ for example and use it to do the Sastasha quest? Does it mean that the quest would be cleared for my character regardless of classes and I don't need to do Satasha anymore even if I train up another new class? (Or do I have to do the Satasha quest for each class I train?)

Sorry about the noob question. I really appreciate your help! :o

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Originally Posted by -Masaru-

Thank you so much for your advice!

From your post above, does it means I can train a level 15 CNJ for example and use it to do the Sastasha quest? Does it mean that the quest would be cleared for my character regardless of classes and I don't need to do Satasha anymore even if I train up another new class? (Or do I have to do the Satasha quest for each class I train?)

Sorry about the noob question. I really appreciate your help! :o

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The quest only needs to be done by your character once.

Of course in the future you might want to redo that dungeon on a different class as a way to farm exp or gear or whatever, but as far as that quest goes, once is all you need. Apart from levequests, and other rare repeatable quests, once a quest is done, it's done.

There might also be future quests that will ask you to go back to older dungeons (relic quest for relic weapon requires farming dungeons), but that's a ways off so you won't need to redo Sastasha for a long time, unless you choose to.

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Originally Posted by Squintina

The quest only needs to be done by your character once.

Of course in the future you might want to redo that dungeon on a different class as a way to farm exp or gear or whatever, but as far as that quest goes, once is all you need. Apart from levequests, and other rare repeatable quests, once a quest is done, it's done.

There might also be future quests that will ask you to go back to older dungeons (relic quest for relic weapon requires farming dungeons), but that's a ways off so you won't need to redo Sastasha for a long time, unless you choose to.

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That's a relief to know! Thank you so much for your help! I guess I'll take a break from my current class and train up either a tank or healer to clear Sastasha first. Hopefully I won't need to wait too long again. :o

Thats exactly what I did Masaru, I leveled Conjurer / White Mage just to clear the story quests the first time with a short wait. Up until the 30+ range Healing is incredibly easy, you barely even have to pay attention to it. and who knows unlike me you might even find you enjoy it :D

I was invited randomly by someone to a Free Company. Not only do they keep a 10% EXP buff on which is great.. They have people to run low dungeons with..

I would highly recommend you find one.. Even if you don't really want one there great for EXP and instances

The 10% combat experience boost is really nice for a first character, and the reduced teleportation costs is great if your FC keeps it up. My FC keeps both up pretty much all the time (except when someone requests something else for a little bit). You can turn off FC chat when you feel like it if you don't want to interact with others all the time - just leech the FC buffs and occasionally bug people for dungeon-running slaves assistants :D Also, being a low level character with the "new adventurer" icon can result in random people from your FC handing you gil/items just because. There really isn't much of a reason not to be in an FC, except people there being jerks. But, if that happens, just leave and join the next one that comes along. Just don't join an FC, take everything from the Company Chest that you can, and then leave. That gets people pretty upset.


Regarding quests and classes, your character is your character. Your current class's level determines what quests you can turn in or take, and you must be a certain class to do that class's class quests, but that's pretty much it. So, if you do a quest (main story or not) with one class, you've done it and can't do it again (btw, if you want to watch the cutscenes from a quest or dungeon again, you can do so in an Inn room using the Never Ending Journey or whatever it's called). You can switch classes in the middle of a (non-class) quest, and you can take it on one class, do it on another, and then turn it in as a third class if you want to. None of that affects the quest (but keep in mind that the class you turn it in as gets the experience). Heck, you can even use a Fantasia to change your race and gender and the Name Change service to change your name and that won't affect the quests you've done, are doing, or can do.

Your starting class is just that - the class you are when you start the game. It doesn't impose any restrictions on you once you hit level 10 and can freely switch classes.


There's only one thing that is really separate for each class (other than the class quests) - the "first time" bonus on the Guildhest duties. The Guildhests are designed to introduce you to game mechanics like pulling or dealing with adds or dodging AoEs or suffering/curing debuffs or whatnot. The first unlock at level 10 (you have to talk to an NPC, I think, to unlock them), and there are 2 Guildhests for every level multiple of 5 from 10 to 40. You have to do each one to unlock the next one. The first time you do each with a given class, you get a nice exp bonus.

Note that the weekly Challenge Log bonuses are NOT separated by class. So, if you finish a challenge on one class, it's done for the week. If you finish it on a class you didn't want the bonus experience on (or a class that's at 50 already), you lose the bonus experience for that week. So, be sure to check how close you are to challenges before doing dungeons or guildhests (or before you do a crafting binge). If you don't have the Challenge Log (or know what it is), look for the level 17 quest "Rising to the Challenge" in Limsa. It unlocks a new feature that gives you bonus experience and money every week for doing a certain thing a set number of times, like running 5 dungeons or commending 5 people.