Chocobo forest quest line...

[Catwho]

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.

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!

[Dererk]

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

[Greven]

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.

[Takfloyd]

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.

[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?

[Greven]

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.

[Evangela]

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?

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

[Aeyis]

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.

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

[lordoftheapes79]

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.

[Hulan]

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.