SMN Quest Confusion. Please Help!

[Snowball]

I'm a bit confused about the SMN advanced quest.
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For each of the colours you have to collect to get the cutscenes, it tells you to visit different places. Do you have to go to all the places for each colour or just one of them?

For e.g. - (quoting one of the colours in the llist)

# Yellow - Sand - Valkrum, Tahrongi, Konschtat

Do I have to get the yellow cutscene from all those 3 places, or do you need only visit for e.g. it might be just Valkrum Dunes or Konschtat Highlands?

Do you get the idea?

[neighbortaru]

only need to visit one of the places that has that weather to collect the color/cutscene. some places have the weather more often than others so be sure to check the weather NPC in the towns.

[Snowball]

Thanks a lot for the help.
I got the idea in the end on what to do and have now completed 5 of the different weather elements and collected the cutscenes.
I'm still having a problem collecting the red heat one and it is taking ages to come round. /sigh.

Do you know of any website links or can tell me the positions of the NPCs which tell me the weather for each of those places. That would be helpul I think.

[Taskmage]

Here you go: http://ffxi.somepage.com/npcdb/list.php?type=30

Double Post Edited:
I should mention that those guys aren't 100% accurate (realistic representation of real weathermen?)
If you have access to Altepa Desert, fire weather shows up there more frequently than in Valkurm, but it's still pretty rare. It doesn't help that fire is a daytime only weather effect. I got completely lucky. A friend told me there was fire weather in Valkurm and I immediately warped to my hp by the outpost NPC and popped to Valkurm. Fire weather faded before the cutscene was over, but I still got it.

[neighbortaru]

yeah, fire is a pain. i'm still looking for it...

[bikkebakke]

I just used VD for Fire...

Can you get it from Ifrits Cauldron?

[Taskmage]

Technically, fire weather occurs in Rolanberry, Valkurm, Meriphitaud, Altepa East/West, Yhoator/Yuhtunga Jungle, and Terrigan. Never seen it more than once anywhere except Valkurm and Altepa in three years of playing.

[Icemage]

Ifrit's Cauldron can have fire weather, but it's an indoor zone so it doesn't count for the SMN quest.

I've seen fire weather in all of the following places:

Valkurm Dunes (uncommon)
Rolanberry Fields (very rare)
Yuhtunga Jungle (uncommon)
Yhoator Jungle (uncommon)
Meriphataud Mountains (uncommon)
Sauromugue Champaign (uncommon)
Eastern Altepa Desert (somewhat common)
Western Altepa Desert (somewhat common)
Pashhow Marshlands (very rare)
Cape Terrigan (uncommon)
Valley of Sorrows (uncommon)


Icemage

[Kafeen]

Some zones only get weather effects during certain seasons, and even then its rare. I've seen it snow in Battilia Downs but it doesn't happen often.

[Snowball]

Yeah, I'm finding it a real pain to find this Fire heat weather effect too. It's Really annoying!

Yesterday, I went over to Meri Mountains and sat for a while waiting for it to appear, but it never turned up. The only one I DID see, was the yellow sand weather effect, but I was there in the evening and didn't wait around for too long. (about 2 hrs at the most)

The sand one I had already completed. I have done 5 of them already.
The only ones I need now, are the fire heat one, and the indigo ice weather effects.

~Icemage~ wrote a list and said that Altepa was the most common. (even if in the least bit comon) Is this the best place to go to at anytime to get the red heat effect?
What do you think I should do?

Okay, now for the indigo ice effect.
Is this one easy to get? If I complete this one first, then I can worry about the red heat one afterwards. Is this the best option?
Does anyone know please?

Double Post Edited:

I just used VD for Fire...

Can you get it from Ifrits Cauldron?

VD? I presume that is a shortened version of Valkrum Dunes.
Is that correct?

[neighbortaru]

yeah i'm gonna run my little taru butt to altepa to (hopefully) catch fire weather. i've had no luck in valkurm nor meriphataud mt.

for ice, i'm going to try Beaucedine Glacier

[Icemage]

I'd say Altepa is the best bet to acquire Fire for the quest, yes. Just hang out in Rabao and step outside when the fire element icon appears. It's still not super-common, but it happens much more frequently than any other zone in the game. If getting to Rabao is a problem, travel through Korroloka Tunnel and just hang out at the tunnel entrance and zone into Korroloka and back when you see the fire icon appear.

Violet (ice) is very easy if you can access Xarcabard. Take a step into Uleguerand Range - it's almost always perpetually ice weather there. Failing that, Xarcabard itself is often under ice weather effect, as well as Beaucedine Glacier. Watch yourself in those zones if you're low level - there are aggressives and magic-aggressives everywhere.


Icemage

[UnnamedGalka]

Here's how I did it:

Orange (Clear Skies): Incredibly easy. Got this in South Gustaberg.

The next four were all fairly simple:

Violet (Lightningstorm): Konschtat Highlands.

Indigo (Rainstorm): La Thiene Plateau.

Yellow (Sandstorm): Valkurm Dunes.

Green (Windy Weather): Tahrongi Canyon.

The last two, ice and fire, were definitely the hardest:

Blue (Cold Weather): Beaucedine Glacier. Difficult only because I was fairly low level at the time and needed an escort.

Red (Heatwave): Yuhtunga Jungle. Got lucky. I was partying there when the fire weather came up.

Word of advice: always keep your ruby on your person. You never know when you'll run into a weather effect that you need.

[Taskmage]

Ice is tough. Not because it's uncommon (it's almost always snowing in Beucedine and Xarabard), but because it's a pain to get there if you'v never done it before. You need to go through Ranguemont Pass to get to Beaucedine Glacier, and it's easy to get lost with no map.

[bikkebakke]

I can vouch for getting lost without a map >.<;