Great Fun with the "Living on a Prayer" Mission, thanks devs!

Greetings.

I would like to take a few minutes to write this post about the new “Living on a Prayer” quest and my main passion of Exploration, thanks if the community reps could forward it to the dev team.

This week I was planning a “final” exploration of Eorzea to find The Twelve's symbols, but with the quest asking to find them it was easier. Nevertheless, it was a Great Adventure.

Starting from Gridania I went to look for the marks just using my feet, and thanks to that I could feel the real Adventure.

It was a pleasure to revisit certain places like the Sandgate area or Pixie Falls. While I was in Thanalan I also saw the new aurora borealis weather condition: I started to admire it for a while, when I felt some rumbling and noticed imperial warships behind me!

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So now those flying monstrosites can be seen near our city-states as well.
It was really unexpected when I got out of Limsa Lominsa's Adventurers' Guild and heard the rumble: I waited a few seconds and the warship appeared from the top of the Mizzenmast.

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When I later arrived at Bluefog to reach Mor Dhona, I could also see Atomos.

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I'll definitely talk more thoroughly on the whole Adventure in my journal in the next few days, but in the meantime I wanted to show some appreciation for the dev team's work in full summer time. Patch 1.23a was Great! I had already requested in the past to have new contents for us Explorers, and I hope more long missions like this will be added in A Realm Reborn. :)
The Dalamud Horn was also a nice reward for participating in the Seventh Umbral Era one-year long event.

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And it's not over yet, as I still believe we'll battle Darnus in Weapon form before the end, like I predicted in the past.


For now, off to do the proper Atomos quest, while saving the “hot” ones (Hildibrand) for last. :D

Cloudio Onizuka, satisfied explorer

Nice subligar! :3

nice subligar

Nice Subligar ;D

It could become a fad ;D

The quest actually makes you appreciate the copy/paste landscapes because there is some really nice scenery out there.

It was a nice experience and got some nice screenshots while traveling. Thanks SE for a good job.

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The quest actually makes you appreciate the copy/paste landscapes because there is some really nice scenery out there.

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I was shocked when I stumbled upon an honest to god Saharan style desert, I had no idea we had something like that. I'm extremely satisfied with this quest, and I really hope it is the end of the story (for this era that is). It made for a very poignant conclusion.

Nice write up. It was fun going to some of these areas as I haven't fully completed the exploration achievements yet. I liked the secluded water area northwest of Crimson Bark the best I think.

I loved this quest too!

In particular, little details like this were a lot of fun to come across:

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Great job, devs!

Ah, I'll completely agree with this.
I've spent the last few weeks getting all camps and nodes with a few close friends while on mumble - yelling "adventure!" at people. We even got a 4 year old joining in, it was fantastic. We had a few rules to it; no normal equipment! Only special event gear or stuff that looks good, but will get you killed in one hit.
Needless to say, the whole thing was a great laugh. The aim of that was to get all the nodes and such before it's too late to get the achievement - I'd really recommend doing it. Don't just go for the nodes though, explore and discover! Places like Dragon's Aerie, or Hengr's Crucible, and other dungeons like the ones in the ant's nest or the toto-rak looking one south of Nine Ivies, you can see a lot of thought has been put into Eorzea and a lot of time has gone into making it.
So, I'd say go out there - leave the walls of Ul'dah and experience the beauty that the world has to offer!
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And the obligatory Taru jumping shot!

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Adventure!

My only hope is that the DOL treasure hunt maps will bring us far out into the """Forgotten""" reaches of the world, and not feature static chests but roaming ones whereby no two maps are the same. And why not have treasure in the towns as well!
As an avid explorer too, I'll agree with what has been said and also offer my thanks to the team for such a rewarding quest. Here's hoping for an adventurous future rich of exploration!

How do you get Mark of the Scholar at 7-15 Mor Dhona GRRRRRR ~.~

There's a ramp down, it's kinda underneath.

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Nice subligar! :3

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Thank you! After our synced Subli-dance, Atomos got scared and disappeared.
I'm proud of my Tiger Subligar, I only miss the Coliseum one to my collection, and I bet I'd have it if only I hadn't forgotten to open the treasure chest at the end of the leve (oops!)...!


In the current Eorzea there're actually several unique locations, and I'm glad the devs created a quest like this so that other adventurers could see some of them before the end.

I think I've seen them all and I'm eager to revisit these places in A Realm Reborn, so like Kirol I also hope the treasure maps content will be well-though for us Explorers.

I hate this quest.

So much. I love it conceptually, but holy shit I'm just fed up to no end with SE's Trolling. I couldn't even get to the 2nd shrine last night, every fucking turn there are high level aggressive mobs that you can not solo, and no one wanted to party for this...


Seriously why Yoshi? Why do you have to choke off virtually every pathway with ridiculously high level, aggressive mobs?!

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There's a ramp down, it's kinda underneath.

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Thank you kind sir

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I hate this quest.

So much. I love it conceptually, but holy shit I'm just fed up to no end with SE's Trolling. I couldn't even get to the 2nd shrine last night, every fucking turn there are high level aggressive mobs that you can not solo, and no one wanted to party for this...


Seriously why Yoshi? Why do you have to choke off virtually every pathway with ridiculously high level, aggressive mobs?!

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Anyone have any tips for this one? I'm having the same problem... every path filled with hoards of lvl 60 anoles, guivres, diremites and others. I've tried sneaking past them, but with the narrow paths in gridania and a good 5-6 enemies at every intersection, there's just no way to get through them all. I just want to finish this before 2.0 and be done with it but it seems impossible.

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Anyone have any tips for this one? I'm having the same problem... every path filled with hoards of lvl 60 anoles, guivres, diremites and others. I've tried sneaking past them, but with the narrow paths in gridania and a good 5-6 enemies at every intersection, there's just no way to get through them all. I just want to finish this before 2.0 and be done with it but it seems impossible.

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If you have some of those really hard to get to nodes, just teleport to them. It will save you a lot of grief. If not, then you'll have to resort to a patience game with the mobs, wait until they're walking out of the path to a point to where you can sneak by and beat feet past them!

Or, bring a sacrificial buddy with you and have them get all the hate as you try to run through.

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If you have some of those really hard to get to nodes, just teleport to them. It will save you a lot of grief. If not, then you'll have to resort to a patience game with the mobs, wait until they're walking out of the path to a point to where you can sneak by and beat feet past them!

Or, bring a sacrificial buddy with you and have them get all the hate as you try to run through.

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I don't have the nodes unfortunately... if I did I'd gladly teleport and avoid this headache. The problem is there are so many choke points with piles of 60+ enemies at each one that there is never a clear path no matter how patient you are. I'd need a whole party of sacrificial buddies probably to get all the way through to the end. :(

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Anyone have any tips for this one? I'm having the same problem... every path filled with hoards of lvl 60 anoles, guivres, diremites and others. I've tried sneaking past them, but with the narrow paths in gridania and a good 5-6 enemies at every intersection, there's just no way to get through them all. I just want to finish this before 2.0 and be done with it but it seems impossible.

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Guivres and other drakes are sound aggro (efts too), so you can just walk right past them. Don't run. Don't go by chocobo. Don't take out your weapon. Just walk and they will completely ignore you.

Anoles and raptors are sight aggro, you need a little patience for them to turn and look away before running past on chocobo. But even if they come after you, you should be able to outrun them.

Diremites and hogs are a bit of a pain, but they are slow so you can usually just run past.

A friend and I got to all of the locations with just the 2 of us. Didn't have to fight our way through anything.

It took a little bit of time, but it is quite doable even without a large party or people sacrificing themselves for you to pass.

Good luck with the quest.

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Guivres and other drakes are sound aggro (efts too), so you can just walk right past them. Don't run. Don't go by chocobo. Don't take out your weapon. Just walk and they will completely ignore you.

Anoles and raptors are sight aggro, you need a little patience for them to turn and look away before running past on chocobo. But even if they come after you, you should be able to outrun them.

Diremites and hogs are a bit of a pain, but they are slow so you can usually just run past.

A friend and I got to all of the locations with just the 2 of us. Didn't have to fight our way through anything.

It took a little bit of time, but it is quite doable even without a large party or people sacrificing themselves for you to pass.

Good luck with the quest.

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Thanks for the tips! I got close once and then ran into the level 73-74 Morbol's just south of the spot while fleeing from another group of enemies. They killed me in one hit... I don't mind spend hours running around exploring the far reaches of Eorzea to complete this quest, I just don't understand why they had to make it so extremely painful to reach this one.

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Thanks for the tips! I got close once and then ran into the level 73-74 Morbol's just south of the spot while fleeing from another group of enemies. They killed me in one hit... I don't mind spend hours running around exploring the far reaches of Eorzea to complete this quest, I just don't understand why they had to make it so extremely painful to reach this one.

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Ah, the Morbols. My friend was playing as Paladin and used Hallowed Ground before running through. Once you reach the crystal you are safe since the Morbols return to their territory.

Cloudio!! I love your posts! Always make me smile! ^_^

I loved this quest as well! It just seemed like we were all giving this world a final goodbye in preparation for what's to come. And I was so excited to get Menphina's Ring! ^^ I am glad not everything is just about stats. To me, the ring has meaning. I don't know why, it just does! These are the touches that give this game soul and why I love it so much.

Btw - nice subligar! ;3