The 12-mission sequence as ffxi gil is not half bad either. Somehow, the development team managed to make huge strides between what happened in the other two add-on expansions, which consisted of bothersome fetch quests with no challenge until the final mission.

A Shantotto Ascension still has some strange quests: one requires you to synth your own rare/ex item (fortunately, no crafting skill is required), and others leave you to collect Cheap ffxi gil amd key items at spawn points in certain fields. The mistake they made with the previous add-ons was that they made these key item hunts mandatory, and they put them in zones that were large, but easy to navigate without facing any enemies.

While some may argue that it is more irritating to put key items in, say, the Den of Rancor, where anything will attack you on sight, I would argue that it is more irritating to have to run through the entirety of Delkfutts Tower, where I can feel safe, but know that what I am doing is just some annoying prerequisite ffxi gil for sale to enter a battlefield.

As you might have guessed from my complaint above about previous add-ons, they made collecting the key items largely optional in A Shantotto Ascension. You only need one of eight for the second-to-last battle, and one of sixteen for the final battle. And if you do not have the expansion, or have not reached the mission as Buy FFXI Gil, or have already completed the mission and merely wish to help a friend, you can still participate even if you collect zero of the key items.

But there is a purpose to collecting those things: for the fight related to the eight key items, you gain an elemental proficiency (offensive and defensive) based on the items you collect. In that fight, you face eight wizards who each represent one of the game eight elements. Depending on your strategy, you may not need to grab all eight items, but each one you snag will give you an edge against a wizard. For the final fight, the sixteen key items give you various absurd strengths: base stats +150, max HP or MP multiplied by 3, a free unweakened reraise, elemental defenses, and more Final Fantasy XI gil sell. Granted, you really need most (if not all) of those buffs to survive the extremely difficult final battle, but if you want to cut corners, no one is stopping you.