This tier is actually completely unnecessary for those who wish to merely advance the plot, and is very odd. You can skip this tier entirely by just traveling to Dundorma and starting on High Rank.

For those who wish to have a little more fun, though, this tier is also chock full of Advanced Quests. This is also the tier in which the Shagaru Magala quest will sit, and whenever it appears it is worth your while to farm.

Almost all of the quests in this tier are also tied tightly to your progression in the Gathering Hall. Many quests will only be unlocked once you reach a certain Hunter Rank there.

As a result, some of these quests are Low Rank, and some are High Rank. I know, complicated. Check the Online Campaign section of this guide for the key quests in the Gathering Hall so that you can advance Hunter Rank.

Also of interest is the fact that many quests in this tier are prerequisites for many late-game Elder Dragon quests. If you choose to stick around, it is worth your while to take care of as many quests as possible.

This guide will try its best to provide the correct quest chains to show you what unlocks what.

Talk to the lady at Val Habar to unlock this quest. Once you complete this quest, talk to the Caravaneer at Val Habar.

Talk to the Caravaneer again for the next quest.

Then you will unlock an Elder Dragon quest you can do offline by yourself.

Then you will unlock yet another Elder Dragon quest.

Completing this quest will also unlock an expedition urgent for Kirin in the Everwood.

To progress to the next quest in this quest chain, you must be HR5 in the Gathering Hall .

You must be HR7 in the Gathering Hall for the next quest, which ends the quest chain.

The next chain starts with a dreaded egg delivery quest, which is also part of its own independent quest chain that will get finished in postgame village.

I hope you’ve been doing all the Egg-straction quests, or else you can’t finish this chain!

This is the final egg delivery quest, and it will be very taxing on your spirit. Why should you do this quest? It upgrades your ingredients.

Rathalos and Rathian will both show up to guard their eggs, which you fetch from Area 8 , and what’s worse is that they are both also infected.

I highly recommend you take the time to defeat them both so that you can deliver the 3 eggs without worry. Areas will get blocked off as well, so here’s the paths you should take.

The first egg, go through areas 8, 3, then 1. After this, there is a blockade. To deliver the second egg, go through areas 8, 5, and then 1.

After this, another blockade is added. To deliver the final egg, go through areas 3, 5, 6, 2, and then 1. Congratulations, you never have to do this again.

Talk to the Smiling Youth in Cathar for the other quest in this quest chain:

Oh, you thought you were done with delivery? That was just a bluff here’s another delivery. Mistentoe can be collected from areas 2, 4, and 6.

Maximeld at Cathar will ask you to do the following quest:

To get the next quest, you must be HR4 in the Gathering Hall. After completing “Howling for Blood”, talk to Maximeld again.

Then he will bring up visiting the shrine sometime, which is the game’s way of very conspicuously telling you to go talk to the man at the shrine.

After talking to him, speak to the elder of Cathar and he will give you your next quest.

To get the next quest, you must be HR5 in the Gathering Hall.

To get the next quest, you must be HR7 in the Gathering Hall

This Elder Dragon will end this quest chain.

The next quest chain actually begins the moment the Cowardly Palico begins to submit requests for you. Thus, it starts with The Smell of Fear , and also requires that you complete Advanced: Khezu Chaos.

Afterwards, talk to the Cowardly Palico again for the following quest.

Then you will unlock this next quest:

To get the next quest, you must be HR4 in the Gathering Hall.

To get the next quest, you must be HR5 in the Gathering Hall

To get the next quest, you must be HR7 in the Gathering Hall

Akantor ends this quest chain. The next quest chain begins with the following quest:

After this, you will unlock:

After this, you will unlock:

To get the next quest, you must be HR4 in the Gathering Hall.

To get the next quest, you must be HR7 in the Gathering Hall

To get the next quest, you must be HR7 in the Gathering Hall

This ends that quest chain, and now there is a hidden quest at the end of this tier.

If you complete every single quest from 1-star to 6-star (excludes Weapon Training), the Caravaneer will approach you with the ultimate challenge.

Zinogre will be perpetually fully charged, and yes, you have to face all three at once.

The best strategy to use for this quest is to bring Smoke Bombs. Use them the moment you enter, and it will prevent any monster from spotting you save the one you attack.

After 45 seconds or so, the bomb will wear off. Right before it does, use another one. This will keep the other two monsters you are not attacking forever unaware of your presence, so you can take them down at your leisure.

If you can’t do this quest with your high rank gear, go to G Rank and come back with some G Rank armor and weapons. There’s no shame in doing so.

Completing this quest will do one thing that will definitely make the suffering worth it: You now will have the full rainbow spectrum of colors to pick from when dyeing your armor. Previously you could only select presets.

If you complete the Gathering Hall urgent quest to slay a Dalamandur, you can also get rainbow colors.

And that finishes off the 6-star Caravan Quests! Whew! You are now officially allowed to take a nap.