

It sometimes looks a little different from others in the area, but often not. Most zones will have one particular monster marked with a title of "Ancient". The fourth component is ancient monsters. Even if you don't do most of the Star's Tale, I recommend picking up the hidden boxes that you happen to find. This isn't like Guild Wars 2's jumping puzzles. If you see one, getting to it to click on it is never difficult. Some of them are just laying out in the open, while others are tucked behind something, such as a tree or a crate. The treasure chests for hidden boxes all look exactly the same. You have to accept the achievement completion to have this show on Star's Tale. Finding all of the hidden boxes within a zone gives you some zender from an achievement, and for all of the zones in a region, some more zender. Click on a treasure chest to get some ancient fragments, as well as completing an achievement that gives you some asper. Most zones have two to five treasure chests scattered around the zone. If you look around, you'll likely find a lot of notable things laying around that look like they're some step of a Forgotten Story chain, but if they're not the first one, it can be a little tricky to figure out what they go to. You also lose the buff if you click on an item for a different line or one of the hidden boxes, or for approaching certain spots with storyline significance. The Forgotten Story parts can be hard, precisely because they have to be done in order, and with the five minute timer. The text sometimes gives you hints as to where to go. The parts must be done in order, and the buff that you get from finding one component is required in order to be able to get the next component. Each region has eight such chains, and they generally have two to four parts each.

If you click on it, you'll get a five minute "buff" that enables the next part, but doesn't affect your stats. There are various places that you'll find something laying on the ground, such as a scroll or book. For example, the first one, Kiyo Behind the Cave, asks you to find a basket of fish. Each quest has two to four steps after acquiring the quest, in which you have to find some particular item and click on it. The quest giver himself might be hiding, and isn't marked on the map. The quest text might tell you what zone to check, but there's no quest marker to say exactly where to go. What makes the blue quests unusual is that they don't tell you where to go. Each zone has four blue quests (that is, quests where the giver is marked by a blue question mark, rather than the usual green or orange), and those four quests count toward Star's Tale. There are nine separate parts to Star's Tale, and I'll detail them here. It's completely optional, and I suspect that most of the people who say that they briefly tried the game and hated it didn't even notice that Star's Tale is part of the game. All of the rewards from it except for those used to complete other portions of Star's Tale are obtainable by other means, such as farming dungeons. You don't actually have to do Star's Tale if you don't want to. Star's Tale items are always in the open world and never in instanced dungeons, other than the dungeon completion part itself. You can readily catch a lot of pieces so long as you're looking around as you play through the game.

I recommend trying to find them on your own, and only looking them up if you give up. You generally can look up the location of Star's Tale components if you want to. In addition to achievements that grant you asper (the in-game currency), you get various rewards at each 10% threshold for completion of a zone, including a three star or higher astel at 50% and 100%. Each region has a list of things to find, except that Lentuth is split into two region for Star's Tale purposes. Collectively, it's called Star's Tale, and there are nine parts of it. But most MMORPGs implicitly discourage that, as there's nothing out there for you to find.Īstellia took a different approach, and made exploration into a major game mechanic. If that means go look at the artwork but don't get anything for it, then there's nothing wrong with that. I've seen various people on this forum say that they like to go exploring in MMORPGs.
