Efficient Windurst Starting Guide 1-11

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Hello and welcome. Here is an extremely streamlined leveling route for beginning Windurst citizens on the Horizon server. By the end of this guide you will have:

• Level 11
• Completed the first three nation missions and be Rank 2
• ~25,000 gil worth of items, our nation ring, and a ring that doubles experience for a time.

The guide is geared both towards brand-new and returning players. Even if you are not new to the game, you're going to value this guide for its efficiency. All of these things are accomplished--at the same time! If you are a new player, I've tried to give you everything you need to know right here in one place. You'll be gradually introduced to the game's various concepts and challenges while exploring it's vibrant world.

As fitting to this game I've tried to retain a little mystery and discovery. You'll benefit from paying attention to what NPCs say, experimenting, and and thinking things through. That said, if you get stuck, try a /shout ingame or ask on the discord server. Help is never far away.

At the end of the guide you'll have been introduced to the three major gameplay loops of the game: advancing the story, making gil, and leveling up--and you'll be ready to take on party based play with others. From there it is your destiny. Please enjoy.

config solo or with a player or 2 trade get stuck: discord

-Yam, Sept. '24

The Adventurer Coupon

To begin, open the map and proceed to the point labeled with a green and yellow "beginners'" arrow. Your first task is to learn how to trade your Adventurer Coupon to the NPC located there. Trading is the main mechanism in the game to complete quests or give NPCs the items they desire. You'll be doing this often so make sure to learn it well. Next, proceed to Windurst Woods

Tip: To efficiently travel around Windurst there are "Warp Tarutarus" positioned around the city. Their locations are shown here

Tutorial Quest #1 In Windurst Woods find the Tutorial NPC, Selele, located beside the gate at K-10 Proceed through the Tutorial Quest until she asks you to get a Weapon Skill. Harara, W.W. is a Conquest Overseer, which means she can give you Signet. Always try to have Signet when fighting monsters Now that we have the Signet buff, it's advisable to set your Home Point here before you leave. To do this, inspect the huge cyan-colored crystal.

East Sarutabaruta

It's now time to leave the city and begin your first foray of combat. Once outside, figure out how to eat a strip of your Meat Jerky. Your primary goal is to stay in this close vicinity and slay easy, level 1 monsters until you reach level 5. Your second goal is a Rarab Tail. Keep slaying until you find it. We will need this for an upcoming quest. If you stray too far you will absolutely be ruthlessly slaughtered by a monster. Once you reach a high enough skill level with your weapon, a Weapon Skill will appear in the menu. Practice using it. Level 5 Once you have reached job level 5, successfully executed a Weapon Skill, and obtained a Rarab Tail, it's time to head back into the city.

Hint: Only one type of monster in the vicinity drops Rarab Tail, but which type may surprise you... Tip: Weapons are the most important way to improve your damage, while food is the second most important--even moreso than armor

Windurst Woods

Tutorial Quest #2 Talk to Selele and advance the Tutorial Quest. She'll instruct you how to craft an item. Do so, then progress to the stage of the Tutorial Quest where she asks us to visit the Auction House Let's get started on the main story. Speak with the nearby Gate Guard, Rakoh Buuma. She will assign you Windurst Mission 1-1: The Horutoto Ruins Experiment We must head to the Orastery in Port Windurst (E-7) You can walk there if you prefer to get your bearings around the city, but somewhere nearby us is a Warp Taru if you prefer quicker travel... Tip: You can obtain Nation Missions by speaking with a Gate Guard stationed at any of the city gates, or at the center of the city, outside the entry to Heavens Tower Port Windurst Once at the Orastery head inside and speak with the mages until you get a clue to the whereabouts of the minister. (cutscene) After the cutscene, take a detour down an alleyway and behind a warehouse to G-5 You will encounter a gang of children. Speak to their leader. (cutscene) Once you've handed over your Rarab Tail, you can continue to speak to them for another quest. Return to the Orastery and speak with the Warp Taru up on the roof Windurst Walls You'll be whisked away to to the roof of the Auction House in Windurst Walls. Proceed below and inspect the Auction Counter to try it out. If you would like you can sell your reward from the previous quest for a nice chunk of change. If you happen to have found any beaten-up pieces of wayward mail the nearby postman Ambrosius will be interested to see them returned. Walk South from the Auction House & enter Windurst Woods Tip: Usually on the Auction House it's most efficient to sell items 12 at a time, in stacks. Listing single items is very time consuming so consider hanging onto them until you have completed a full stack. Windurst Woods Continue walking south until you can take a detour West (right). This path leads to your Mog House, your ingame residence. Continue inside. Take a break here to store all items that you aren't using in the Mog Safe to free up inventory space. Later, after we've reached level 11, you may find this is a convenient place to set your Home Point. Head back to the Eastern gate to complete the Tutorial Quest with Selele. We're rewarded with a free, incredibly useful item from the Conquest Overseer. There is a difference between the three rewards, but don't concern yourself too much with which you choose. Recharging is the same price as a new ring so once you've used it up it is completely safe to dispose of and try one of the others. Take a look at the other items the Conquest Overseer offers. Some are quite good, and many are in demand on the Auction House for tidy profits. If you can afford it purchase an Instant Warp scroll from the Overseer. You should always have a warp in your inventory--don't leave the city without it! Sooner or later it will save you a long walk. Windurst Mission 1-1 Exit the city YAM QUEST #2: WILD ONIONS -Look I’ll just fucking tell you, It’s dropped by goblin thug -explain check -if you can, kill monsters as you go -practice dodging Proceed to: Inner Horutoto Ruins (#5 J-7) E.Saru -Use chariot band @ exit city -Kill goblin thugs on the way & crawler -We are going to start encountering dangerous mobs, start checking each mob before you fight (ctrl C or the menu) -should get to level 6 on the way -Might want to talk to cat on way in for some intel ENTER -Somewhere in here is the minister, where is he? My memory has been wiped and they must figure it out -dont proceed if you enter a rocky cave area “beetles burrow” -dont tell them but crack is @ H-9 (cutscene) then you are tasked to inspect each of the 6 gizmo -explain “zoning” -it’s random for each person. -team up with someone if theyre here often theres other players -no monster higher than L6 here -TIME FOR THE ONION TALLY. Anybody have 4? (there will be more opportunities..) -should be level 8 now Return to city, tele @ roundabout & complete mission @ Orastery (port) -Complete SOB if anyone has 4x onion This is a good stopping point NATION MISSION #2 -Gate Guard -Buy warp scroll? If you can afford.. -try to always have warp. -Manustery, Windurst Woods (H-9) and talk to Apururu. -Horu Ruins #4 (e.Saru J-11) -MUST talk to Pore-Ohre @ entrance for KI ENTER: -BE VERY CAREFUL OF BALOON-TYPE MOBS (they are hidden inside) they’re stronger than other mobs and will aggro so we should fight them together -the single bats aggro here, but not trio -Try to get 4 wild onions (goblin thug) before returning. -There’s 6 mana orb spots but 2 are hidden… -Once youve touched all 6 go to crack on eastern wall & complete -Must retrieve all 6 now. -by now you should be level 9/10 -Exit for cool cardian CS -Warp/walk back -Return to the Manustery (woods) and talk to Apururu -Turn in star onion brigade #2 (give them onions if necessary) NM#3 is Giddeus Making Money: the two R/EX items from W. Saru (don’t say but its Torn epistle from savana rarab +meterorite from starfall hillock crawlers) gives a really good item worth 5k (compound eye circlet) -Gathering? -Gardening Show them starting players’ guide Future items/quest: - MH exit - Evasion circlet - Aspir (two leaf bud R/EX & test answers)