JUST GOT TO ISHGARD WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! what now?

[Luvbunny]

I literally just started doing MSQs last night been up all night and I'm just now at 2.3 MSQs *sigh* I left when i90 was the highest item level.

Congratulations!! It will go by fast if you do the following:

1. Spend only no more than 90 minutes max on MSQ, mostly are fetch quests + talk to npc + check things out. But doing them in long stretch will make you want to hate this game. You should be able to clear them in about a week or ten days doing this. Each patches is about 5 hours long or less. Up to you if you want to burn five hours a day to clear each patch though.
2. Unlock the other 15 dungeons. You should mix this up, clear 2-3 dungeons if possible a day, grab any friends or FC members along with you for the first time bonus.
3. Ilevel bump tips: ask any of your FC members or friends, who have access to Ishgard, to buy you normal quality accessories level 115 ASAP now from vendor in Ishgard stores. Yes you will get level 110 weapon, gears, and accessories down the road on MSQ, but you still have to clear those dungeons, etc, by getting normal quality stuffs earlier, it makes doing them so much easier. Do not pay inflated price in the market board, but do check the gears + accessories, sometimes undercutter may put things below vendor prices.
4. To avoid massive burn out, mix it up with doing daily roulette stuffs, leveling other lower level jobs that you may overlook for your cross class. And doing your crafting and gathering. Plus the usual weekly challenge on FATE, levequest, etc...
5. You will have to do those Hard Mode original three primal for main story quest, yes they will not let you get away from this, so may as well unlock your Relic Weapon quests, and get them all done for level 90 glamour weapon
6. Make sure you max up your grand company standing and able to unlock Hunt Board. You will use this feature more in 3.0. so get that done if you have not done it yet.

[Terribad]

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Thanks for the tips!
You mentioned unlocking the other 15 dungeons, will I need to successfully run these before accessing HW? Or is that just to have them unlocked?

[Luvbunny]

Thanks for the tips!
You mentioned unlocking the other 15 dungeons, will I need to successfully run these before accessing HW? Or is that just to have them unlocked?

You do want this unlocked, for duty roulette high level, which will be a good source of XP later on for level 50-51, as well as farming Law tomes. Basically at level 50, you want get your level 170 starter gears to do most other things. You can get Law tomes doing daily roulette on: expert, high level, leveling dungeons, PvP, and trials.

Also the other reasons, you already paid for this contents. Some of the dungeons are gorgeous. They give gears you can convert into grand company seals. You want achievements. As well as getting used to mechanics, learning them as you go, and memorize them. All the mechanics will be reused later on with some variations. So it will be good to know how to deal with them. On another note, level 51-59 dungeons are rather easy to figure out the mechanic for first timers. At least two of these dungeons will be part of the main story missions, so yeah might as well get them done.

You also get poetic tomes, which is still the best gears for level 120, and will last you till level 53-55 dungeons. So it is a good investment to run the endgame stuffs, farm the poetics, get the gears for any of your alts jobs at level 50.

Also make sure you register the expansion on your Mog Station account to be able to get past level 50