Quests: Experience Point Scrolls

OK Michael, this one's for you. :-)

I try to do these three quests every week for scrolls that give experience points. There are several others that can also grant such scrolls, but they tend to be a bit harder to do on a regular basis.

First off is A Chocobo Riding Game, which anyone with a chocobo license can do. I only do the Bastok->San d'Oria or San d'Oria->Bastok route, simply because I can't win the longer rides to Windurst. This grants a Dragon Chronicles page, which can be read on any job level 4 or higher, and grants between 500 and 1000 exp. The race schedules can be found at MithraPride. It took me a few failures to get my route down pat, but I haven't failed it once I got the hang of it. You really do have to find the most direct path through the zones. We also believe that a fast PC zones quicker than the PS2 - Elboron started really zooming ahead of us once he switched from PS2 to PC.

The second one that's easy to solo has a pretty high barrier to entrance - you need to have Sacrarium access (on CoP 4-3), and have completed Spice Gals in order to pick up Secrets of Ovens Lost in the Tavnazian Safehold. For this quest, you need to find a ??? spot in Sacrarium, which will give you a page from a cookbook that you bring back to Jonette, the quest giver, and she will reward you with a page from Miratete's Memoirs. This can be read on any job at level 20 or higher, and will grant between 750 and 1500 exp. This is level capped at 50, and I make sure I have zero Fomor Hate, and usually do this as PLD/RDM. The reason for this is that I can run to Sacrarium aggro-free as PLD75, and I need Sneak from my RDM to get past the mobs in the maze as I make my way back to the classrooms where the ??? can be. I use the ffxi-atlas map of Sacrarium to make my way through the maze (walls shift based on the day). If there's a Stegotaur blocking the entrance to the maze, I hit it with Gravity and zone it to despawn it. Then I quickly head back, sneak up, and get through the maze. Since I have no Fomor hate, I don't worry keeping sneak up around them. If I have to get to the back class rooms, I wait for the Teratotaurs to turn their backs and run behind them.

The third one I like to do, but pretty much requires at least one other person (some jobs could solo it, I think I'd have a hard time as PLD75), is one of the escort quests, usually Escort for Hire - Bastok, which involves safely escorting an NPC through Crawlers Nest. The fastest way to do this is with a couple of high level BSTs, though Grymalkyn and I had really good success with our BST60 subbed on our THF75 and PLD75 (charm ability seems tied to the level of your BST, even when it's subbed). This way we can charm the aggro mobs and use them to keep other aggroing mobs away from the NPC. We used to go with Elboron and Itera when we were in our 60s, and killed everything that would aggro. She has 4 different paths, and one goes down to the basement, past all the coffer key mobs, and that can be really difficult if you're not high enough level to kill them quickly. (You have a 30 minute time limit for the quest.) Lately, I've been leeching, erm, I mean, going along with Lucrezia and Ranzz when they do it. They're BST75s, and we complete the quest in just a few minutes, since we don't need to kill anything. This quest also gives you a page from Miratete's Memoirs.

Other repeatable exp scroll quests that are less convenient, but can be fun:

Dragon Chronicles:
Eco-Warrior: Bastok
Eco-Warrior: San d'Oria
Eco-Warrior: Windurst
Garrison (possible drop)
The Big One

Miratete's Memoirs:
Spice Gals
Uninvited Guests