Chocobo forest quest line...

This is the most tedious thing I have ever done in an MMO. A rare miss for XIV here.

I have pretty much spent more than an hour running in a triangle for three hunters that could have done all this stuff themselves -.-

50-60 hours for the main quest line? 45 of it seems to be running from one NPC to another...

are you like me and spent 12 hours wondering how the heck to get to that one guy up on the steep cliff?

Yes... The hills are a pain >.<

It's so you know the terrain.

Ya i absolutely hated that quest chain with that female miquote hunter. The whole thing was get quest, run across the map to an obnoxiously annoying place to climb to, then return to the camp. And this was like the longest quest chain in the game. They just kept adding more and more to it. Every spot you had to go to you couldnt go straight to it but all the way around past it then climb up and back track to it.

I would strongly advise you to largely ignore side quests until you absolutely need them to continue leveling to unlock the next step in the MSQ.

If you skip them initially it is much much easier to do them when you come back with a flying mount. There are a number of quests that are possible to do without flight but are incredibly tedious if you cannot traverse the terrain easily.

Do you like Easter egg hunts? Because that's what the side quests in the next zone are; 5 moogles hidden in a large 3D area. After the first 20 find the moogle quests, you'll be longing for the days of tedious running back and forth quests.

It's funny, they make these quests that make you wish you could fly so badly but by the time you get it you really don't need it anymore. I feel like the quest designers were a little sadistic this expansion.

IIRC, those hunter quests are not required to unlock flying in that area, so it's better to do them after you can fly.

Those hunter quests actually ARE required to unlock flying, because they unlock the ability to get one of the quest Aethers with a subsequent quest that gets unlocked for running around for those three.

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Originally Posted by Alberel

I would strongly advise you to largely ignore side quests until you absolutely need them to continue leveling to unlock the next step in the MSQ.

If you skip them initially it is much much easier to do them when you come back with a flying mount. There are a number of quests that are possible to do without flight but are incredibly tedious if you cannot traverse the terrain easily.

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This side quest with the hunters was required to unlock the aethercurrents in Dravonian Forelands, so coming back later with a flying mount wasn't as much of an option.

Edit: Terrini beat me to it!

Forget that I spent a good portion yesterday trying to get all the quest currents for this area but I still have 3 to go. Its worse when you do a chain that's about 5 quests long but it turns out it doesn't give you 1.

I think they should have worked it so that once you get all the field currents that it lets you fly for at lest 1 minute earth time then it forces you to land with a 10 min debuff that grounds you. Then once you do have all the quest ones it unlocks unlimited flight for that zone

You know most of those are not MSQ, right? You can just skip most of them so to have something easy to exp up your other classes.. Just do the Aether Current quest and go on.

You can't skip most, or even any of them unless you want to grind dungeons and fates for hours, since even doing every sidequest isn't quite enough to get you to the next main story level requirement.

Try to put off as much as possible until you can fly though. Especially for the Churning Mists sidequests, which will make the Chocobo Forest quests seem like a short walk in the park.

People keep saying to skip the sidequests and only do the ones that reward a current. But how are you supposed to know before hand which quest chains will reward one? Most of the time you have to do a few quests to unlock the quest that rewards it? Is everyone supposed to google this info and use a guide to play?

I did skip some quests at West Coerthas, skip a lot of quests in Dravania forest, and nearly did everything in the Churning Mist cause they felt weirdly easy o.O I did every new istances 2-3 time to help later friends and drops and I'm more or less one and half level higher than the next MSQ lv request. I know the hype tunnel makes you want to do everything and now but rationalising a bit makes you enjoy the game more as many of those quest are even nice but you'd be less prone to read them if you are stressed by the amount of them, just do some more instances.

To find out which quests to prioritise follow these general rules:
- the important NPC of that zone that gives you the first current will probably give you more so do his/her its quest
- the quests that have an image presentation, like the one where you start playing hide and seek with that cute little dragon or the one where the girl miqo'te hunter is looking for a partner, usually don't give you currents. Skip them.
- all the dungeons quest gives you a current
- check all the quest on the map as many of they tell you right away if they'll give you a current.
- Once you find all the currents abandon all the remaining secondary quests

Some good samaritan wrote out somewhere, even in the forum, which quests gift currents and where they are on the maps.

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Originally Posted by Ulathskullsplitter

People keep saying to skip the sidequests and only do the ones that reward a current. But how are you supposed to know before hand which quest chains will reward one? Most of the time you have to do a few quests to unlock the quest that rewards it? Is everyone supposed to google this info and use a guide to play?

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http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Aether_Currents

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Originally Posted by Terrini

Those hunter quests actually ARE required to unlock flying, because they unlock the ability to get one of the quest Aethers with a subsequent quest that gets unlocked for running around for those three.

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For the most part they arent. I still had a huge amount of quests left after I got flying.

The only side quests I've done are the ones to unlock flying, hunting, sightseeing log, etc...
Really you can skip all those and save them for another class layer on. You're gonna need something to do while waiting for duty finder to pop.

I actually quite liked that quest line specifically. Not the quests themselves mind (on the off chance SE is reading this, please take note I do not endorse random trekking across the world as quests), but the characters were all relatively interesting and likable. I quite hope I'll get to hear more on the misadventures of Q'yantaa in the future.

The only quests I really had an issue with so far were the moogle quest that were "find the npc/enemy" ones.
Particularly the expedition team at Tharl Oom Khas (ruins with purple crystals around it).
They had like 5 hide and seek quests back to back.

Having flying didn't help. Well, I don't think you can do those without flying in the first place.


I didn't mind the Hunting quests and, honestly, that's my favorite zone thus far.
The Miqote quest was slightly tedious but it wasn't a deal breaker for a zone that was incredible otherwise.
I've done all but the last zone so far, pretty thoroughly.