Optional Dungeon below Level 60 in “Heavensward”
Heavensward has only 1 optional dungeon below Level 60. However, there are 8 dungeons that you can unlock at Level 60. Here too, the Sunset Watch is suitable for leveling from Level 51. You will gain a lot of EXP and appropriate gear for your class.
Sunset Watch
- Unlock Quest: In the Blood Red of the Evening
- Quest Giver: Wealdtheow
- Location: Western Highlands of Coerthas (X: 16.9 / Y: 22.8)
- Level: 51
- Prerequisite Quest: The Eternal Circle
- Item Level 100
- In-Game Description: The Sunset Watch was an important bastion of Ishgard against the dragons. However, even its mighty walls could not withstand the Seventh Calamity. The Watch and the proud knights who served within it were first weakened by the cold and then overwhelmed by invading monster hordes. Now, the proud fortress has become a den of evil, yet its walls still harbor a valuable gemstone: the Ice Lance Sapphire. The priest Wealdtheow has asked you to secure the stone – not only because of its religious significance.
Optional Dungeons for Level 60 in “Heavensward”
The optional dungeons for level 60 serve the same function as their level 50 counterparts. They provide you with Allagan Stones of Poetics, so you can purchase powerful level 60 gear from the NPC Hismena in the Crystarium (X: 5.8 / Y: 5.3). Therefore, unlock them all as soon as possible and collect the stone bonus for the first completion.
The Tordana
- Unlock Quest: Expulsion from the Tordana
- Quest Giver: Sanu Vanu
- Location: Abalathian Cloud Sea (X: 11.7 / Y: 14.9)
- Prerequisite Quest: Toward Heaven
- Item Level 145
- In-Game Description: The Zundos owe their independence from the warring Vundo mainly to the authority of their chief. He demonstrates his power with an impressive mask that needs to be regularly renewed. For this, the Zundos need a scale from the sacred serpent Waukkeon from the Tordana, but the Vundo are trying to prevent this. Now the hopes of the Zundos rest on you.
Fractal Continuum
- Unlock Quest: Back on Track
- Quest Giver: Notrelchamps
- Location: Engine Works in Ishgard (X: 14.6 / Y: 12.2)
- Prerequisite Quest: Toward Heaven
- Item Level 145
- In-Game Description: Wedge shows his good heart as always. With your help, he wants to restore the guidance system from Azys Lla. For this, he needs a new casing. Wedge hopes you will find one in the Fractal Continuum, a museum ship filled with allagan technology. No one has set foot in the corridors for 5000 years. What awaits you there?
Saint Mocianne Arboretum
- Unlock Quest: What Awaits Us
- Quest Giver: Matte Treasure Hunter
- Location: Dravanian Hinterlands (X: 12.3 / Y: 19.6)
- Required Quest: Heavenward
- Item Level 170
- In-Game Description: Myriads of plants from around the world thrive here in perfect symbiosis with a variety of insects and strange botanical beings. The Saint Mocianne Arboretum once represented the pinnacle of botanical research in Sharlayan, but since the Great Exodus, no one has been here to maintain order in the overgrown garden. It is through this thicket that treasure hunters wish to carve a path: something of great significance for the future of Ishgard lies within. But to retrieve it, they need your help…
Pharos Sirius (hard)
- Unlock Quest: Renovate or Demolish
- Quest Giver: Trachraet
- Location: Upper Decks (X: 12.7 / Y: 12.8)
- Required Quest: Heavenward; Dreadful Revelation
- Item Level 170
- In-Game Description: The still-under-renovation Pharos Sirius has been taken over by goblins! From O’Ghomoro, they have dug in unnoticed by the Maelstrom right beneath the lighthouse. The panicked technicians report large amounts of explosives. You have already saved the tower from the siren once – now you must do it again with your comrades. Enter the lighthouse from above and take control of it!
Historical Amdapor (hard)
- Unlock Quest: Return to the Ruins
- Quest Giver: E-Sumi-Yan
- Location: Old Gridania (X: 6.0 / Y: 10.6)
- Prerequisite Quest: Heavenward; One Night in Amdapor
- Item Level 180
- In-Game Description: After Diabolos was defeated, the ominous aura vanished from the crumbling city of Amdapor, and peace returned to the Darkwood. At least, it seemed that way. But when the Seedseers entered the ruins to entrust the stones of the forest’s protection, the accompanying lords suddenly fell into panic and fled. From their agitated whispers, the Seers learned that a dark presence still lurks within the damp walls of Amdapor. Unable to complete their cleansing ritual, the Padjal have once again asked for your help. Return once more to the depths of the ancient ruins and free them from this unknown evil…
Shipbreaker Isle (hard)
- Unlock Quest: Storm on the Island
- Quest Giver: Denston
- Location: Upper Decks (X: 11.0 / Y: 10.4)
- Prerequisite Quest: Heavenward; Rauschebart’s Secret
- Item Level 200
- In-Game Description: After you had put an end to the rumors some time ago that the immeasurable treasures of Rauschebart and his pirates still lay on Shipbreaker Isle, the Maelstrom now wishes to use the idyllic island as a training ground. Your willingness to participate in the inauguration battle of the facility has attracted a large number of ambitious fighters eager to cross swords with you in a friendly match and gain glory and honor.
Great Gubal Library (hard)
- Unlock Quest: Book Hunt in the Ghost Castle
- Quest Giver: Night’s Dew
- Location: Happy Hill (X: 5.5 / Y: 6.6)
- Prerequisite Quest: Skyward
- Item Level 210
- In-Game Description: The news of your spectacular break-in to the Great Gubal Library, to acquire Matoya’s records on an Aethercompressor, has also reached Night’s Dew. She wants you to storm the deserted library once more and retrieve a specific book from the rare manuscripts section on the top floor. However, the halls and corridors of the library are inhabited by sinister guardian beings left behind by the Sharlayans during their great exodus. Can you fend off their attacks and retrieve the sought-after book?
Sohm Al (hard)
- Unlock Quest: The Tranquility of the Sacred Mountain
- Quest Giver: Fluff-Mog
- Location: Happy Hill (X: 4.6 / Y: 8.4)
- Prerequisite Quest: Skyward
- Item Level 230
- In-Game Description: Nidhogg has fallen, the thousand-year war is over. Nidhogg’s horde has left the nest of its leader, the Sohm Al mountain. The absence of the guardians of the sacred dragon site is noticeable. All sorts of strange beings, attracted by the massive crystal formations inside the mountain, have taken up residence and are disturbing the peace of the deceased dragons. Enter the mountain and drive away the intruders!
On the next page, we continue with the optional dungeons in Stormblood and Shadowbringers.
