L15 and no quests to do

I'm a Thamaturgie, and I do have active the L15 quest for that guild and "Oh Captain", from the main questline. But I can't do any of them as I need to gain a few more levels first.

My problem is that I can't find any more quests to do. There might be some low-level quests back in the city, but I doubt they would be worth doing exp-wise now.

Where can I go to find L15-quests to do? Are there any quest hubs around that lvl for me?

if you have no quests
F.A.T.Es
if you still have you hunting log stuff to do, do that
just kill mobs the same level or over yours for chains exp
that is always Leves (not the best use of allowance, but is still exp)
re do some guildhest (no alot of exp but is still some)

there are many why to get exp other then quests

Assuming you've done the Hunting log, there should have been enough quests inside Ul'dah, in Western Thanalan and Central Thanalan to bring you over 15 by the time you have to do the level 15 story mission.

I know about all those. I have done some leves. Grinding mobs to get from L15 to L18 does not seem like a fun thing to do.

Does that mean there are no quests for me around this level?

just do some F.A.T.E Grinding
it one of the best ways to get exp

With level 15 you get access to the other city states. Have you done all of their quests as well? Unlocking leve quest grants you a nice bonus the first time as well

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Originally Posted by AutumnAfternoon

I know about all those. I have done some leves. Grinding mobs to get from L15 to L18 does not seem like a fun thing to do.

Does that mean there are no quests for me around this level?

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Why would you want to wait with doing your story mission?
Go in with an Antidote and use it when you get poisoned and it should go just fine.

I'm waiting because so far I haven't been able to beat the boss. :)

I still have more side quests than I can handle at level 25; you just need to find the right map.

Have you been out to Drybone?

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Originally Posted by AutumnAfternoon

I'm waiting because so far I haven't been able to beat the boss. :)

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At second stage when masked dude appears with gargoyle (or whatever it is), do not attack the masked dude until the gargoyle is down.
You will get poisoned at one stage, which you should use Antidote to get rid of.
After that, just stay alive long enough and you should win the fight.

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Originally Posted by Mezolitik

I still have more side quests than I can handle at level 25; you just need to find the right map.

Have you been out to Drybone?

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Drybone is useless before level 18 as you can't hand in the quests there until then.

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Originally Posted by Mezolitik

I still have more side quests than I can handle at level 25; you just need to find the right map.

Have you been out to Drybone?

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Hm, I've been there, but can't remember if I've seen any quests. I can head out there again and have a look. Thanks!

Nekoda: Second form? Not sure I've survived long enough to get to second form.

Autumn,

Retry the boss fight. When you engage in combat, run as far as you can to the left side of the screen away from the mage. Kill the gargoyle at that point. The mage will not attack you from that distance. Bring a high potion or two. I managed to beat the encounter fairly easily on my JP server thaumaturge doing that.

You can also get a CNJ to level 2 or a ACN to level 2 and get Cure/Physick so you can heal yourself.

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Originally Posted by Nekodar

Drybone is useless before level 18 as you can't hand in the quests there until then.

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Yeah, that makes sense.

Don't listen to me :D

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Originally Posted by Nekodar

At second stage when masked dude appears with gargoyle (or whatever it is), do not attack the masked dude until the gargoyle is down.
You will get poisoned at one stage, which you should use Antidote to get rid of.
After that, just stay alive long enough and you should win the fight.

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Yeah I just did this last nite as I played for a few hours from 14-17

Just fight the Garg, then then the masked guy.

But doing those quests and only farming the fates I encountered running to and from my quests I went from 14-17 (almost 18) in about 2hours.

There are 2 levels to this fight 1st level is with npcs fighting along side you just attack lower tier mobs with the npcs and try not to get hate there will be a final boss you have to beat with then npcs . On the 2nd part with the masked mage pull the gargoyle over to the left and kill, kite and survive.

Good Luck

For the first phase, make sure you keep the healer NPCs alive and enemy healers dead. Also not which monster has the lowest health and help the NPC kill that one. Then go to the next one, the NPC will follow that target and you'll have a whole NPC party killing one mob in the end.

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Originally Posted by mythicrose

The mage will not attack you from that distance.

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It won't attack you at all, the mage is passive. Look at the icon lol

How in the hell does this happen to people? Seriously, how do you end up with no quests to do at level 15?

Either you're not looking hard enough for quests, or you're just not looking at all. do you ever do leves? those are quests. What about your hunting log? To many people ignore their hunting for some reason. Every time i've started a new character, I manage to hit 17 or 18 before even starting the level 15 adventure's guild quest, and that's solely off of doing regular quests, a few levels, the hunting log, and FATEs.

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Originally Posted by Slatervonjager

How in the hell does this happen to people? Seriously, how do you end up with no quests to do at level 15?

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If you had read the whole thread, the OP hasn't been able to beat the main story quest with the Gargoyle/Masked Mage. That's the bottleneck and they're trying to find something to do to increase their level to trivialize the fight rather than trying a different tactic to win. There's no reason why a level 15 cannot beat that quest, especially after how much they already nerfed it.

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Originally Posted by Orophin

If you had read the whole thread...

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I did read, and even as i said, i'm level 17 or 18 before that point, and i STILL have stuff to do. the problem is, people don't manage activities in the game properly. I bet if anything, he hasn't really touched his hunting log, at all.


And OP, if you're having that much trouble with the gargoyle, here's how you beat it.

Stand still, and just attack. Don't sleep him or stun him, ever. just stand there and attack it. If you run and try to kite, he'll poison you. If you sleep or stun him, he'll poison you. if you stand there and just wail on him, he wont poison, at least never more then once. Very easy fight, Just do that, and when he's close to death, help will arrive and kill him, then it's you and your help against the mage by himself.

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Originally Posted by Slatervonjager

I did read, and even as I said, i'm level 17 or 18 before that point, and i STILL have stuff to do
And OP, if you're having that much trouble with the gargoyle

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Sorry, but it seems the OP is still stuck at the Ixali part of the fight:

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Originally Posted by AutumnAfternoon

Second form? Not sure I've survived long enough to get to second form.

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About the level15 quest being the bottleneck: unless you clear that, you don't get official access to the other city states, which in turn also means that all quests past level15 don't show up.

No need for all the hate, OP is clearly a new player. Few things to know: there are various ways to get EXP and they're all explained by the storyline. At your level, you have a few options available to you: guildhests (you get two every 5 levels and they give huge exp/gil the first time you do them), FATEs (which you probably know about already), and hunting log (you'll be assigned monsters to kill which give a nice EXP bonus). After a few more story quests, you'll unlock the first dungeons and a lot more world to explore.

Now when it comes to the story quest you're stuck on. As others have said, keep the Gargoyle away from the Masked Man, and the latter will not attack you. When fighting the Gargoyle itself, you need to know a few things. First, sometimes he'll use an AoE (area of effect) ability. You'll see a red circle appear at his feet. He won't move while it's casting, so get out of that circle ASAP, or you'll take unnecessary + big damage. Also, he can be slept! If you need a breather, feel free to sleep him and back up and rest up for a bit. Sleep has diminishing returns, but the first two casts will net you 30s and 15s of peace respectively. That's a lot. Once you have it hurt a certain amount, an NPC will come and provide backup, and you should be fine.

Basically with the Mage fight.
Ignore Mage.
Focus the thingy.
Spam all day everyday.
Fire fire till MP dry, Transpose, Blizz Ice whatever all day.
AS SOON AS HE POISONS YOU, POP AN ANTIDOTE.
They nerfed this instance actually, you only need that one antidote and you're done.
I tried this as a CNJ and never had to heal.
You will get "Friends" to help you with the mage and he's cake. Good luck.

And for future reference i am a complete noob to this game and I did the quest using only 1 (80hp) healing pot.

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Originally Posted by jcw005

You'll see a red circle appear at his feet. He won't move while it's casting, so get out of that circle ASAP, or you'll take unnecessary + big damage. Also, he can be slept!

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That AoE you mention, doesn't do jack for damage, unless you're still using starting game equipment. And sleeping him, will force him to poison you, running from him, will force him to poison you.

Stand still, and just attack, that's all you need to do.

Get used to this, when you level your 2nd class you will have no quests since they can only be done once per character, so better get used to gridning fates or doing leves if you actually wanna level a 2nd char. This game is not a quest hub game, it seems like one at first, until you get a char to 50, then decide to level something else up. When you do this you will relize there is no more content, since square never really thought ahead. SO yeah join a fate party, fate grind, because damn, its all your going to be doing on the 2nd combat class you decide to level. The fact the game is like this makes me not wanna level a 2nd class, fate grinding is horribly boring, I'd rather have some random quests from npcs for every class just to do in between a fate or something, insted of just running from fate to fate.

Also the endgame sucks, all you do is farm the same boring as hell dungeons over and over for stones to get gear.

Overall the hardest thing in this game is probally finding people are aren't complete braindead morons to actually do stuff with, I see so many level 50's that are just so damn bad at the game, that it blows my mind how its even possible. Its all common sense stuff to: Stay out of the red, focus fire targets, try to stun dangerious attacks, and well play your class right, 90% of monks and dragoons for a prime example have no idea what they are doing on their class, if you have a monk or drg that is just standing there hitting the mob in a party, they aren't playing it right, since they need to constantly weave from the targets side to back for positionals to do their real dps, and most just seem too lazy to bother.