LOL, I can feel ya. The entire concept of the Ixali quests is HORRIBLE speaking of Convinience/Comfort and time consumption. Let's have a look at how these last Tier quests work on a daily base.....
- You port to North Shroud. Oh, all quests are in red - Change to a DOH to obtain them
- Get your six quests through clicking hell and short waiting times for the NPC's to respond
- Pray that not all six quests are connected to Fisher, Botanist and Miner or else you will be screwed by RNGesus
- Do not forget to look at the NPC Tataramu because otherwise you need to port back from Coerthas to North Shroud and back to Coerthas.
- Port to Coerthas and then:
a) either switch back to your combat class and wait till your skills are ready before you kill the enemies you have to kill
b) switch to any of your DOH you need for the quest and be annoyed from the amount of fails you experience before you get your items. Your DOH are well equipped and all the Miner and Botanist Nodes are Level 1? Well, screw you nevertheless! Our Little RNG routines take care that you will have an indefinite amount of tries till you have collected what you need.
- Return the items to up to three different people and again, lots of clicks to point at each item.
- Switch again to your DOH and do not forget to put your Ixali gloves on
- In Coerthas, you have various debuffs so after each item, check that you have the right one and ONLY the one you have to have and click the other debuffs away. Best way is to accept only one craft quest, craft the items, click the debuff away and get the next one. WOW.
- Port to Mor Dhona and options a) and b) from Coerthas and the returning ceremony of items are repeating. Switching characters 1-3 times and waiting for cool downs included. Good Thing: all three quests use the same debuff so at least here a few clicks less.
- Woohooo, almost done! Port back to North Shroud, switch your character AGAIN to a DOH and again, experience a clicking hell when you return the quest items and be sure, if you have two times the same quantity of an item, you WILL choose the wrong one on your first try to give them to the NPC.
So SE designed it this way, tested it thoroughly and thought it is a good idea having to do a thousand clicks, ports and character changes (Little exaggaration, I know but still)? LMAO and WOW at the same time.
The other beast tribes quests in comparison: Port to the map they are in, accept them, ride to the enemies, kill them, go back and in 20 minutes you are done with your six quests.
I actually enjoyed the beast tribe quests so far. Have max friendship with them all and if I had the time, I still did them although there was no reward other than a bit GIL and tomes. And I switched the tribes almost each day for variety. But they made the Ixali so mandatory if you have DOH and DOL, I can only do them now and for the next months. Annoying not to have a choice anymore because they reward you with items of high demand suddenly and not just tomes (where there are several other ways to obtain them). Balance is not SE's strongest skill for sure lol.


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