Puzzles?

Does anyone know if there are any puzzles or anything in the game? I'm getting pretty tired of just combat and fetch quests. The only things I've found that kind of scratch that itch are the triple triad challenges and the sightseeing log, but the first doesn't connect with any quests or special rewards besides more cards, and the second is so uber specific it gets old fast.

There are jump puzzles in the Gold Saucer, Kugane, Shirogane (no reward) and a couple other locations.

Real puzzles? There is one in the MSQ in Rak'tika in I think 5.2 or something. There's also the Faux Hollows little board for which you have to do an extreme trial first.

Basically every difficult combat encounter boils down to some sort of puzzle.

There is a really cool riddle questline in ARR, very difficult. The Variant Dungeons also have riddles in them that are quite difficult to solve on your own.

Beyond that uuuhhhhh.

There is actually a riddle sidequest in Endwalker too (see the mysterious box somewhere in Old Sharlayan).

There is S rank spawning, if you don't know the conditions.

But not really a puzzle type game mostly, aside from challenging battles.

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Originally Posted by DakirAdriamae

Does anyone know if there are any puzzles or anything in the game? I'm getting pretty tired of just combat and fetch quests. The only things I've found that kind of scratch that itch are the triple triad challenges and the sightseeing log, but the first doesn't connect with any quests or special rewards besides more cards, and the second is so uber specific it gets old fast.

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I'm not sure if this is the kind of thing you'd be interested in, but I would consider many of the raid and extreme trial bosses to be puzzles. If you go in to these without watching a guide, you'll need to figure out how various mechanics function, how to counter them, and how to counter overlapping mechanics as well. If this interests you, you'll probably want to explicitly try to form a group with others who want this same experience, since most players seem to prefer watching guides before doing content, and even players who don't may have already learned the content you're aiming to tackle.

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Originally Posted by DakirAdriamae

Does anyone know if there are any puzzles or anything in the game? I'm getting pretty tired of just combat and fetch quests. The only things I've found that kind of scratch that itch are the triple triad challenges and the sightseeing log, but the first doesn't connect with any quests or special rewards besides more cards, and the second is so uber specific it gets old fast.

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Puzzles/Riddles don't generally fit in MMOs for a couple reasons:

1) The internet! *flourishes toward the internet like the price is right models showing a prize*: One person solves it, everyone knows it.

2) If you go deep on an actual puzzle (the questline in ARR for example), it can't really gate anything too important because then you're looking at a vast majority not putting the effort in and the thing gated by the puzzle thus has to be unimportant.

Everyone can do combat, so combat is the gate of things.

There are a few examples of "puzzles" that people have mentioned here, but you're never going to do have essentially the sphinx gating the MSQ because... I mean lots of people won't finish the MSQ, and that's not intended.

Basically, the core of the game is to be won, not "maybe you're stumped and you're just done." So you're never going to find a prominently placed "maybe you're just done" moment in, say, the MSQ.

There's a level 50 quest in Western Thanalan called "The Greatest Story Never Told" which is a series of really brain-busting riddles.

There's one in an early dungeon. Sunken Temple of Qarn has an optional puzzle with scales and items(that I skip the majority of times).

Honestly, I always think about how dungeons are straight forward with nothing more complicated than this in them.

Yes, I know one. Its called "Make ur stupid portrait to stop resetting"

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Originally Posted by Remolia

Yes, I know one. Its called "Make ur stupid portrait to stop resetting"

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This is the true Savage content.

There is also a literal puzzle as a minigame that you can play in your room at the inn

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Originally Posted by NekoMataMata

There's one in an early dungeon. Sunken Temple of Qarn has an optional puzzle with scales and items(that I skip the majority of times).

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That reminds me that there are variant dungeons and figuring out all the different paths. If you don't look them up, you can figure it out from the clues in different routes and journal entries you get from each route, but you have to read them carefully to extract the right clues and then apply those clues to the objects around you in the dungeon.