Question about Dungeons

[DiasFlac]

Truth to be told, the dungeons are not quite required for the Main Quest aside from the first 3 dungeons, which serve as a tutorial on dungeons and gimmicks.
However, dungeons need to be unlocked through side-quests (which are ultra-short, it's normally an NPC in somewhere in town near wher eyou turn in a main quest that tells you "dungeon over there, go check it" you go over there and unlock the dungeon). Some of those (example: Halatali) are main-quest locked, you can't open them before certain points in the story.
Others (like Aurum Vale and Qarn), however, are level-locked and you need a minimum level before the quest for them appears. These quests tend to appear in towns, though.

Oh cool thanks for the info! I'm level 19 now actually. Will the quest that open up new dungeons be mark any special way?

[Spawnie]

u can get atheril stuff from chests in leves also.... ive gotten almost full 20+ heavy armour set just from level chests.... i hate playin tanks but guess ff really wants me to :P

[Arriverderci]

I just wanna say Hatali is not through Storyline. I think everything else but Uldah has a Lalafell NPC person who you need to talk to to begin Hatali.
I dunno the name or where he's at though.
I think it's like Eastern Thanalan or something.

[UBERHAXED]

Truth to be told, the dungeons are not quite required for the Main Quest aside from the first 3 dungeons, which serve as a tutorial on dungeons and gimmicks.
However, dungeons need to be unlocked through side-quests (which are ultra-short, it's normally an NPC in somewhere in town near wher eyou turn in a main quest that tells you "dungeon over there, go check it" you go over there and unlock the dungeon). Some of those (example: Halatali) are main-quest locked, you can't open them before certain points in the story.

Actually, if you continue the story, you can see that you can't unlock dungeons such as Toto-rak by talking by someone, and that is because they are also part of the story. It's misleading to not complete the story and then tell someone that the dungeons after the first 3 are not required as part of the main scenario.

[Skies]

Actually, if you continue the story, you can see that you can't unlock dungeons such as Toto-rak by talking by someone, and that is because they are also part of the story. It's misleading to not complete the story and then tell someone that the dungeons after the first 3 are not required as part of the main scenario.

Hrm, yes I appear to be wrong, I apologize deeply.
It is simply that having seen certain late-game dungeons avaiable as simple sidequests I presumed that the completion of dungeons was not part of the main quest.
Mind I did still refer to certain dungeons being locked by story progress.