rank 34 mission problem.

[Meimei]

Not to mention they seem to have taken away the ability to teleport from an Aetheryte camp to an Aetherial Gate. (Did anyone else notice this?) Not sure if it still works vice-versa, but the point is I can't avoid the Evil Eyes packed in the tight tunnels by teleporting from Revenant's Toll to Singing Shards.

Outrunning the Evil Eyes via chocobo also doesn't work since they still haven't removed mob ranged attacks.

The level 34 mission was always daunting but prior to 1.19 it could at least be completed with relative ease. (If you had Mor Dhona Camps accessed.) As you could simply traverse the less dangerous area of Mor Dhona inhabited only by non-aggressive toadstools with the occasional isolated toad that was easy to avoid. What is the point of putting high level Ahrimans in tight tunnels, making them impossible to avoid...?

Until this is adjusted, the difficulty of this mission is needlessly high. Remove the stupid eyes, already. :/

[MariyaShidou]

Just saying that there is the northern most route from Crimsonbark as suggested before, and only Vultures there. As long as you can get to Crimsonbark, you can go to Mor Dhonna. There is only a Diremite occassionally spawn there but I don't remember it being over lvl 55+.

[Meimei]

Just saying that there is the northern most route from Crimsonbark as suggested before, and only Vultures there. As long as you can get to Crimsonbark, you can go to Mor Dhonna. There is only a Diremite occassionally spawn there but I don't remember it being over lvl 55+.

Nope, there's level 70+ Lindwurms and level 90+ efts packed in tight tunnels in the areas leading from Crimsonbark to Mor Dhona.

My point is I used to be able to do this with relative ease going from Camp Revenants Toll. Now I can't. Why did it need to change?

[MariyaShidou]

Nope, there's level 70+ Lindwurms and level 90+ efts packed in tight tunnels in the areas leading from Crimsonbark to Mor Dhona.

My point is I used to be able to do this with relative ease going from Camp Revenants Toll. Now I can't. Why did it need to change?

No you're going the wrong way. I went through Crimsonbark as R36 Goldsmith sometime around October 2010, Lindwurm route is the wrong way, you are not going through the lowlands, take the upper level with Vulture.

Here's the route:
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[Sothis]

I just did this mission earlier today, and I attempted the Crimson Bark route first, following the maps here. It wasn't a problem, even sneaking past Diremites, up until I hit a spot with three Pteroctraps and an Eft. Even with the eft out of the way, the traps made short work of me as a 34 Lancer. Two more attepts yielded the same fate, even with a chocobo. So yeah, that route didn't work too well for me.

I ended up going a completely different route, using the Brittlebark teleport I had gotten a while back - achieved through a somewhat hilarious naked level 1 dash to Mor Dhona with friends through the Thanalan route, but anyway. The Evil Eyes make this path pretty dangerous too, but I discovered by going northwest from Brittlebark and heading close to the lake to start with, you can avoid a good part of the Eyes. (Unfortunately, there's still an enormous amount of Truffle Hogs to worry about, but you have far more space to dodge these out in the open.) There was only one spot with Eyes I had to deal with, and they only seem to aggro sight, so I waited till they were looking the other way and flew past on chocobo. For reference, here is the path I took.

It took several deaths (it got to the point were I stripped down and used an old spear so I wouldn't damage my actual gear) and a Brittlebark homepoint (to be safe) to get to the quest points, but I consider myself lucky. I have to agree that this is, overall, too difficult a mission for its level. Mor Dhona is pretty much a death trap.

[Ull]

Finished this morning, not to difficult through Coerthas route.

I was only awarded 15,500 XP of the supposed 27k though.

[Cycloptichorn]

Did you switch to some job much higher or lower than 34 to complete the quest? That can affect SP awarded.

I think it's a GOOD thing that it's very difficult to get to Mor Dhona. It's supposed to be a highly dangerous place. It would be silly if you could just waltz in. It took me two-three attempts to make it back in the day as well, it's a healthy thing.

[neorei]

it's really tough to do this quest.................WTF SNEAK AND INVIS