The Effect of Your Starting City

[Lambdafish]

The city you start in does not prevent you getting anything. All side quests, achievements and fates are accessible to everyone. Its only the MSQ that is different.

Edit: You miss TWO achievements, "Leaving Limsa Lominsa", "Gone from Gridania" and "Out of Ul'dah" are each of the achievements when you leave your city-state. However, the other two do not appear in your achievement log, so they are basically different names for the same one achievement that everyone gets.

[Rowde]

The city you start in does not prevent you getting anything. All side quests, achievements and fates are accessible to everyone. Its only the MSQ that is different.

Edit: You miss TWO achievements, "Leaving Limsa Lominsa", "Gone from Gridania" and "Out of Ul'dah" are each of the achievements when you leave your city-state. However, the other two do not appear in your achievement log, so they are basically different names for the same one achievement that everyone gets.

This is still incorrect.
There are some side quests that are unique to each starting city. They're all low level, iirc level 8 and below.

I don't have an exact list, but I could probably put one together by isolating the completed quest names between all my alts' journals.

I know Limsa starting city has a couple unique quests in Middle La Noscea at Summerford, and a more comprehensive quest line from Red Rooster Stead culminating in a fight with some Kobolds in Lower La Noscea.

The Gridania quests aren't nearly as exciting, and mostly involve some "extermination" quests where various NPCs have you go around the Central Shroud and eliminate pests. For example, one NPC asks has you go to a location and click on a tree which spawns a bunch of funguars to kill and another NPC asks you to destroy diremite eggs.

Can't remember unique quests in Ul'dah atm.

[mduncan50]

Rowde, if it wouldn't be a big hassle for you to come up with the list of those low level side quests, that would be exactly what I'm looking for, so that I can grey out quests based on the user's starter city, I've already done so with the Main Quests, lvl 1-15 up until they merge. I've still got another week of work to do on the checklist at least, so it's nothing I need in a rush, but I sure would appreciate it and will cite your contribution. Also, the one other thing that I seem to recall from playing previously is that each area has 1 Battlecraft Levequest that you will only receive if you start in that city, I believe it's a lvl 10 or 15.

[mduncan50]

Lambdafish, thank you for the info on the achievement names, very helpful.