Monsters Location Maps: Rank B Clan Hunt

Link to my Google Drive folder of Monsters Location Maps: http://goo.gl/iPEYox

I made these maps because I am terrible at spotting places using the coordination, I would have to fumble about for a long time, trying to hover my mouse everywhere on the map to find the correct pos. By marking the pos onto a visual map, it helps me a lot when I need to scout for these Clan Hunts. The maps were originally intended for my personal use, but then it became useful to a few friends, then to a few strangers in the game. Eventually one of them said I should post this on the internet. So here goes…

Note: I’m not going to come back to edit the .jpg pics I post here. However, the Google Drive link will be updated as soon as I notice any unlisted spawn spot or confirm anything new.

Coerthas Western Highlands: http://goo.gl/PYjjnF

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The Sea of Clouds: http://goo.gl/wYZ9AO

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The Dravanian Forelands: http://goo.gl/kWuIVq

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The Dravanian Hinterlands: http://goo.gl/eikZki

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The Churning Mist: http://goo.gl/U50mPq

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Azys Lla: http://goo.gl/7AK6Ek

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My Weekly Progress: November

*possibly spoilers of level 37 – 39 main quests and sidequests in Coerthas* 

Ah, so I didn’t wake up early enough to sneak on and play a bit before server closed. Time to tidy my screenshots, then. And now I realized I could use some of them to update about my game progress.

Last week I’ve been busy trying to get my Arcanist to 44 (and now still 42) in order to try to max out for level cap in Garuda fight that will come up soon. The Stone Vigil quest requires level 41 and I was guessing it is capped at 44. Garuda is after Stone Vigil, so I should at least be 44 to be max level allowed.

Apart from joining FATEs, I did all the sidequests available for my level, in order to catch up to the level required for main scenario quests. These main and side quests brought me through a lot of painful acknowledgement of various situations and events in Coerthas. It is so far the second worst part of the main scenario quests’ story. (Of course, if you have gotten this far, you KNOW what’s the worst part.) Before, I got upset by the story before Coerthas and took a few days break to level up ALC, ARM, BSM, and WVR to 50 and to do the class quests (or pick up the class quests) for them, but that’s another long story so I’ll put it aside for now LOL.

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Anyway, the people in Coerthas are, in short, in a pinch. And I met young lord Francel who is righteous and just, yet was faced with a brutal accusation and trial that puts the name of his House to further shame.

Then, I met this NPC, a patient in an infirmary, who said thank to me for my concern, but his injury was caused by slipping and falling, not from a battle. I first laughed at how funny it was and thought SE has great humour even in trivial things like this, but then it turned out to be a key event in the story!

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One of the sidequests here has an NPC who creeps the hell out of me. This prisoner is a total nuts! Talk to him and you will hear nothing but extreme madness.

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In the cell opposite to the mad prisoner, I saw this Roegadyn exercising. Then after taking another sidequest, this new NPC popped in the same cell. His was a tale that made me feel deeply sorry for him. But of course, justice prevails. Also, his quick wit was what saved her in the first place, the Chirurgeon upstairs told me so with her deduction.

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Sometimes the quest made me dig for corpses.

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Or pick up a piece of dragon’s bone as a token (and proof) of dragon slaying for a knight (or sentry, I’m not sure).

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Again, digging for a corpse. I tried to cheat my way in this quest by using WHM50 to walk the errand instead, but the Croc still tried to eat me anyway. Duh! This digging quest at the ice wall (Snowcloak) was difficult just because it’s hard to climb if you don’t know the way. Well, I didn’t know the way but I am good at climbing. See that other person down there? He was probably there before I arrived, because while I was killing a Croc down at the bottom, he was one ledge above me. And when I got to the quest spot, he was still down there, trying to jump up via an impossible spot.

I walked around and repeated my climb just to show him where to climb, and he took a long while to pick up my message and finally started following my track. He never talked, and what I said in /say, he never replied. So, meh! I felt that I should have just hurried out and leave him to his fruitless attempts. Too late to regret though, because by the time I left, he already found his way to the last jump to the spot.

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Before leaving the Snowcloak, I stopped and fished at this icy hole. Got a Lamp Marimo to fill in a spot in my fishing log, yay. ^^

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Exploring maps as Crafter

Explore the maps as a class with lower level!

Friends!!!! If your main class is level 50 already, please remember to ride the chocobo (and run errands in towns) with your other class that hasn’t hit the cap yet. I was riding my legacy chocobo using my Pugilist (50) and soon realized I was wasting the free EXP I should have gotten. So I changed class to Armorer (40) and now raking in a lot of experience points.

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I am not sure how the EXP gain is calculated, but as a level 40 Armorer, I am getting 1620 EXP whenever I discover a new location, and 16200 EXP for covering the whole area in one map. This is juicy, yummy freebies you shouldn’t miss! It’s a shame I didn’t get on earlier and discover this soon enough (and exclaim about it in-game) to let people know. Corn was going all FFFF#!$%^#@%^#$&! in the linkshell last night when I said my Armorer is eating free EXP along the way while I ride my chocobo, because he has already gone everywhere and opened the map far and wide due to his explorer’s nature. TAT

Anyway, I am now playing on Ragnarok on my old character, with new look! I really love this new color system in character creation. So now my Miqo’te has purple hair instead of blue. I had been wanting it purple since I started playing FFXIV, but had to settle with blue highlight instead because the creation didn’t allow too many colors!

New Aleczan(Alec, standing in the light of sunset near Hammerlea)

And now I am still riding my chocobo everywhere in Thanalan to explore and get the free EXP, as I cannot continue on main scenario quest now. I am stuck at the level 5 quest (at the Sultantree) because Duty Finder server is having a lot of turbulence now and cannot be connected. (It seems all special instances, even the solo ones, are on the same server with anything using Duty Finder.)

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Anyway, see you later! Today I can’t play because my big sister and bro-in-law brought the nieces here for a visit. Gotta go play with the kids, woot~~~~!!! Miss them!