Level 35 Paladin quest is literally impossible

I have to defeat these Leapling Ringtails and it is literally impossible to do at level 35! I have failed like 15 times! The most that I was able to slay was six, but after I slayed the sixth, three more instantly show up! By then you are less than 10% health and absolutely NO heals.

Using my mitigation does not help as it has a really long cooldown! During cooldown, I take normal damage. I cannot use Reprisal either because whenever I use it, it aggros a bunch of surrounding non-aggressive monsters and I go down in a hurry so that is off the list.

Four or five of those bastards is enough! How TF do you expect us to kill SIX and THEN deal with three more at once?

Literally impossible at level 35.

I feel that some of these job quests require you to over-level before doing them.

How come you're always the one saying job quests are impossible?

Anyway, here I am again to say it isn't "literally impossible", because I and many others have already done it, and without being overleveled. Try to be more varied with your trolling, it's getting a bit obvious.

I am NOT trolling. I am very frustrated with this quest because I have failed numerous times!

Been trying to complete it the last two hours on my Xerneas character and it is as I say. Kill 6, less than 10% health, three more mobs show up, die in a few hits. They make you do too many for that level.

What is your iLV?

I recently did that quest and didn't have any issues (mind you, I'm not particularly good at this game). Are you using your chocobo? They make open world quests a LOT easier.

Three suggestions:

1. take along your chocobo companion, since that part of the quest is in the 'open' world. If the chocobo can heal, all the better
2. take along healing potions ... when you drop to 2/3, use one. They are in-game for a reason. There is no shame in self-healing.
3. after each wave, move back and wait for the next group to come after you, rather than standing by the burner all the time

< Tips provided by someone who has passed that particular test on at least 3 alts over the last 6+ years >

No I am not. Surprisingly that never crossed my mind and it usually does. Maybe my frustration made me forget about it. I'd have to make a trip to the FC house to get my chocobo and come back.

I failed so much, I put Camp Overlook the home point so I wouldn't keep wasting gil

I will give my Chocobo a try reql quick

Also, 'technical support' is a really bad place to tell SE anything other than stuff like:

1. I can't log in
2. My session keeps dropping
3. My game doesn't work after the last update

et cetera

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

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^ this tbh fam

Trolling aside, some job quests are more difficult than others. I haven't done PLD yet, but I struggled a bit with the SAM level 54 quest. The guy you're supposed to kill hits like a mack truck while hardly taking any damage from you at all. The only way I'm ever able to beat him is to run away from him, use potions, and keep the DOT up on him. Otherwise, he can kill you in a two or three hits.

Every other job quest I've done, which is most of them, I haven't really struggled. I have DRK at level 80 and have seen some people complain about some of the quests, but I honestly don't even remember them aside from the reveal that...

You are fighting yourself.

Other than that, I have found the job quests are pretty simple. And I do them as soon as they are available.

First RDM, Now PLD? Everyone else who has a max of each of these jobs, and there's a lot - have done it.

Find a video on youtube and do exactly as it says.

The only quests that I struggled at were rogue quests and that one sam quest on the ship. I even had to upgrade my gear when usually I pass quite easily with whatever gear I'm wearing.

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Originally Posted by MoltresRider

Level 35 Paladin quest is literally impossible

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It is, quite literally, possible.

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Originally Posted by MoltresRider

I have to defeat these Leapling Ringtails and it is literally impossible to do at level 35! I have failed like 15 times! The most that I was able to slay was six, but after I slayed the sixth, three more instantly show up! By then you are less than 10% health and absolutely NO heals.

Using my mitigation does not help as it has a really long cooldown! During cooldown, I take normal damage. I cannot use Reprisal either because whenever I use it, it aggros a bunch of surrounding non-aggressive monsters and I go down in a hurry so that is off the list.

Four or five of those bastards is enough! How TF do you expect us to kill SIX and THEN deal with three more at once?

Literally impossible at level 35.

I feel that some of these job quests require you to over-level before doing them.

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It is literally possible. You probably aren't keeping your gear up to date again.

Also make sure you're equipping gear that specifically lists your job on it (GLA/PLD either by itself or in addition to DRK/GNB/MRD/WAR). That is tank specific gear and has increased Defense/Magic Rating compared to ordinary Disciple of War/Disciple of Magic gear. That's going to reduce the amount of damage you take from normal attacks even before you use any of your defensive cooldowns.

Everyone has healing available to them. It's called Hi-Potion, Mega-Potion, etc. They exist for this very type of situation where you're taking damage faster than you can kill what's attacking you. Have some on hand ready to use if you feel you're taking too much damage. They're usually super cheap on the MB (like 10-20 gil a piece) and very helpful through lower level content when you're solo.

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What is impossible is how stupid and annoying some people are with their illogical and nonsense protests.

Goddamnit I am tired of trolls.

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Originally Posted by LaughingBanana

What is impossible is how stupid and annoying some people are with their illogical and nonsense protests.

Goddamnit I am tired of trolls.

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I truly wish we had moderators with free rein to identify and act on patterns of behaviour that never actually meet the threshold for moderation in a single post.

How about go level up some more if you think higher level is needed? It's not like you can't get to lv80 without doing this quest.
I've never done job quest right on level... I even got commented on being lv40+ Lancer (during duty run) that I'd be much stronger if I became DRG.
(They stayed 5 mins commenting on it after we finish the duty... talk about friendliness)
Leveling is so easy these days, and if you feel anguish from failing something so many times, switch to do other things.

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I truly wish we had moderators with free rein to identify and act on patterns of behaviour that never actually meet the threshold for moderation in a single post.

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Most days it seems like the mods are doing this...

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I don't put much faith in their ability to keep this place even remotely orderly.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

Most days it seems like the mods are doing this...

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I don't put much faith in their ability to keep this place even remotely orderly.

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I mean, how many mods does this forum have?

Its quite sad when you are bad at a hobby and crying about it in the forums, rather than finding a solution to said problem.
Either you didn't understand the mechanics of the fight or your gear is super low. The gear scales significantly early on. The monsters do a lot more damage with a gear below 10 levels already. This includes all type of content, your dungeon runs wont be different if you dont gear up properly.

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I don't put much faith in their ability to keep this place even remotely orderly.

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To be fair, they have strong track record of stepping in and removing anything that is outright illegal.

Any site is likely to attract those who want to cause trouble, be it in an obvious or subtle manner. Eradicating people based on patterns of behaviour will just lead to the truly committed to change their patterns to reflect the updates rules and enforcement of them.

I still, personally, find this place to be a lot friendlier and more tolerable than certain other places where players seek to discuss the game. Reddit and Twitter, for example, are much more outright aggressive.

Personally if someone is suspected of not posting in good faith then the best approach is...to just not respond to their posts or threads. In which case, said threads would fall off of the front page rather quickly.

The other side of the coin, of course, is that there's some players who belief someone to be a 'troll' simply for having a different opinion or posting style to them. Add in the potential language barrier and culture shocks as applicable and...well, it'd be pretty hard to identify 'patterns of behaviour' and ban people on that basis.

Red Mage at 50, I bought.
Paladin at 35, nah. You're too obvious now.

The rest will catch on when you do "Level 15 Summoner quest is literally impossible"

The ringtails are monsters in the overworld yeah? If your chocobo fails you, you could ask a high level friend to come one shot them for you :P

So even if it were impossible for PLD by itself at 35, you could ask for outside aid, since it's not even trapped in an instance.

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Originally Posted by xbahax92

Its quite sad when you are bad at a hobby and crying about it in the forums, rather than finding a solution to said problem.
Either you didn't understand the mechanics of the fight or your gear is super low. The gear scales significantly early on. The monsters do a lot more damage with a gear below 10 levels already. This includes all type of content, your dungeon runs wont be different if you dont gear up properly.

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The thing is, I am 100% perfectly sure that the person creating this thread is not serious at all. This is all just a thread created to troll. They just want to piss people off, because they don't have anything better to do in their life except seeking some misguided acknowledgment about their trolling.

I do remember some GLA/PLD stuff being a bit hard, but that was me IIRC, not the quests per se. I may not have been so well geared, it was my first tank, etc. Am going through same story on an alt at the moment, and keeping my gear nice(ish, the levelling goes so fast it's not always a big deal) and not running into any problems I had the first time. My experience did indeed teach me well, as the shrine in Diablo II used to tell me.

I struggled a bit when I started to play and found some ARR job quest difficult (Was first playing as WAR.)
Gear up will solve the problem, getting a chocobo will solve the problem, it's an MMO there's many tools at your disposition, use them.

Kinda wish I could find some story quests difficult these days. It's always good to struggle a bit against something epic, always leave a good memory.
Man, I miss SB epic finale.

Suggestion: After failing, read the chat from start of the duty to the point of fail.

Failing a job quest mostly happens because you did something not as intended.

When there is something to pay attention, the NPCs will say it and this will be stored in the chat log.

I'm curious as to how you're having so many problems. If I were to hazard a guess either you're not doing it right or your gear is not sufficient, but it doesn't require you to over level. I mean there is no shame in being new and inexperienced and people can of course help, but it is not that they game is too difficult or at fault. And seeing that you have SMN at 80, I expect you'll have already done harder content than this, so either your gear is not in check, you misunderstand something about the quest (or paladin) or you're trolling.

It’s most likely gear. The rate at which would reach 35 now it would be hard to be relatively geared for 35 content. I reran the MSQ on an alt and I think I hit 35 while still using the 17 dungeon set, and even then it was piecemeal because I barely had to do dungeons.

Op, if you haven’t already cleared it, understand that the 35 quest was very likely tuned to the lv 32 dungeon set (Calvary, iLv 34, from Brayflox).

That and I can not understate how chocobo regen trivializes open world content.

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Originally Posted by Doozer

How come you're always the one saying job quests are impossible?

Anyway, here I am again to say it isn't "literally impossible", because I and many others have already done it, and without being overleveled. Try to be more varied with your trolling, it's getting a bit obvious.

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Skill level need to improve I assume. I never had issue unless I'm serverly undergeared.
But OP, there is a difficult selector if you happen to wipe on a solo duty.

First time playing tank in FFXIV started last week...

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Not sure where OP is having issue with.

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Originally Posted by MiniTofu

First time playing tank in FFXIV started last week...

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Not sure where OP is having issue with.

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They aren't having an issue. They're trolling.

I do feel like this is a troll.

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Originally Posted by Shibi

The rest will catch on when you do "Level 15 Summoner quest is literally impossible"

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Actually that's more believable than this one, if the player doesn't swap to topaz.

Because emerald will hit everything with 1 spell, and you get the threat, meaning you're instantly bombarded with 20 mobs in your face hitting you hard. I did that with an alt and even on very easy I couldn't do it without changing pets just due to the sheer incoming damage.

Of course if you just used topaz you never get hit.

I remember from back in the day a couple of GLA/PLD quests could be spicy, but the most important thing is making sure your gear is up to par. If 6 ringtails are getting you down that low, then you may need an upgrade. Also as others have stated, use the chocobo with regen as an ability. They will use it even if they're still to freestyle and will help damage when you don't need them healing.

Damnit, I guess someone should have told my PLD at 35 that the quest was impossible and couldn't be done.

No one ever sends the memos to me. Like a fool, I went ahead and completed that quest.

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Originally Posted by Greyhawk

Damnit, I guess someone should have told my PLD at 35 that the quest was impossible and couldn't be done.

No one ever sends the memos to me. Like a fool, I went ahead and completed that quest.

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You should report this as a bug. Clearly something is wrong if most people can do it.

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No one ever sends the memos to me. Like a fool, I went ahead and completed that quest.

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I did send you that memo.

Ask your secretary about it...and then ask him about the three bottles of Lominsan Ale he "borrowed" last week, will you? That was a good vintage. :mad: