Why Clear the Hunting Log?
Apart from those of us who hate leaving a job half-done, FFXIV Hunting Logs are a huge source of early-level 
EXP. Add to that the fact you get practice learning your combat skills and its usefulness is clear.
And you can’t not start it, because the first combat quest given to you by your combat guild usually involves killing things from the log!
Lancer Hunting Log Rank 1 Targets
Reward: 2,500With that out of the way we can now focus on your reason for being here, clearing your Rank 1 Log!
Reward:
75Little Ladybug (Black Shroud)
Number Required: 3
As these ladybirds (as we call them in the UK) share a name with their Thanalan counterpart, you’ll find these Little Ladybugs as soon as you leave Gridania, either into the Central or North Shroud. Ground Squirrels are mixed in with the Ladybugs. The primary information here is for the Central Shroud.
However, if you exit for the North Shroud, the Ladybugs and Ground Squirrels can be found:
- North Shroud: Treespeak
- Around: X:30.2, Y:25.5
- Nearest Aethyrite: New Gridania (take the Yellow Serpent Gate)
Region/Area
Central Shroud: Jadeite ThickNearest Aetheryte
New Gridania: Take the Blue Badger Gate
Coordinates
Around X:23, Y:16Database Entry
Little Ladybug (Black Shroud)Reward:
180Ground Squirrel
Number Required: 3
Ground Squirrels are mixed in with the Little Ladybugs and this is true for both the Central and North Shroud groups. These critters are so cute! I think the reason given for being asked to kill animals in the Twelveswood is something to do with a population explosion that can destabilise life in the forest. Blame the Calamity, it seems to be the easiest get-out clause when you start FFXIV.
Anyway, if you exit for the North Shroud, Ground Squirrels can be found:
- North Shroud: Treespeak
- Around: X:30.2, Y:25.5
- Nearest Aethyrite: New Gridania (take the Yellow Serpent Gate)
Region/Area
Central Shroud: Jadeite ThickNearest Aetheryte
New Gridania: Take the Blue Badger Gate Coordinates
Around X:23, Y:16Database Entry
Ground SquirrelReward:
360Forest Funguar
Number Required: 3
You can find them around the corner after you’ve dispatched the Little Ladybugs and Ground Squirrels
Related FATE
Region/Area
Central Shroud: Jadeite ThickNearest Aetheryte
New Gridania: Take the Blue Badger Gate
Reward:
410Miteling
Number Required: 3
Mitelings are spider-like critters with a gazillion eyes. As you progress through the Black Shroud, they only get bigger. Eventually you’ll end up taking on a huge one in the Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak dungeon during the 
MSQ. But for now, these “little” Mitelings are all you need to concern yourself with. As they are required for three different classes, they are also in plentiful supply.
Depending on characters in the area, finding your target of three could be as easy as this:
Region/Area
North Shroud: TreespeakNearest Aetheryte
New Gridania: take the Yellow Serpent Gate
Reward:
530Opo-opo
Number Required: 3
Ah, the fuzzy creatures that spell doom if you’re a fan of Mun-Tuy Beans. Finding an Opo-opo will not be difficult, but if Lancer is your first class, just be aware that these Opo-opos are Level 9 so don’t go much under that level. There are loads of them too.
Note: I always forget that there are some Level 2 Opo-opos. These can be found around X:25, Y:28 in the North Shroud.
Involved in FATE
Region/Area
North Shroud: TreespeakNearest Aetheryte
New Gridania: Take the Yellow Serpent Gate
Reward:
980Microchu
Number Required: 3
Microchu area vicious plants that can stab you with barbs, bite you with a sort-of mouth and give you poison damage. But you’re a Lancer, so practice stabbing them with the pointy end and you’ll be fine!
While I have provided the North Shroud information here, Microchu can also be found in the Central Shroud around X:29.5, Y:19.5.
Region/Area
North Shroud: PeacegardenNearest Aetheryte
New Gridania: take the Yellow Serpent Gate
Reward:
1,100Black Eft
Number Required: 3
The Black Eft is the first of its kind you’ll come across doing Hunting Logs. The Bark Eft and Salamander are related species.
You’ll find your Rank 1 variety in the Central Shroud along the river called the East Vein. It runs North to South (or the other way around, for the pedantic) and you’ll find the Efs all along it. Beware its AoE attacks and you’ll do just fine.
Bog Yarzons are nearby, if you haven’t cleared them yet.
Involved in FATE
Region/Area
Central Shroud: Jadeite ThickNearest Aetheryte
New Gridania: take the Blue Badger Gate, or Central Shroud: Bentbranch Meadows
Bog Yarzon
Number Required: 3
There are many Yarzons in Eorzea, but as a Lancer, this is the first one you’ll come across. The Bog Yarzon may be in a river, but is not a River Yarzon! You can find plenty down the river marked on the map. But there are also some Yarzons in the cave passageway I’ve outlined too.
So, if another player is questing or hunting at the same time as you, go defeat some different ones. Black Efts are nearby too.
Region/Area
Central Shoud: Jadeite Thick and BentbranchNearest Aetheryte
Central Shroud: Bentbranch Meadows
Reward:
1,300Hoglet
Number Required: 3
The first thing to point out is that you only need to purposefully hunt a Hoglet if this is not your first class. This is because the MSQ quest “Butcher of Greentear” includes them.
They can be found in a “bump” in the map just East of Spirithold.
Region/Area
Central Shroud: GreentearNearest Aetheryte
New Gridania: Take the Blue Badger Gate
Reward:
1,600Anole
Number Required: 3
The Anole, along with its higher-level cousin, the Lindwurm (which is in Sorrel Haven in the Central Shroud) is a type of Raptor, known usually for breathing fire. There are many of them at Naked Rock, which is North-East of where “Greentear” is labelled on the map.
Involved in FATE
Region/Area
Central Shroud: Greentear (Naked Rock)Nearest Aetheryte
New Gridania: Take the Blue Badger Gate
Diremite
Number Required: 3
Diremites, along with all their extended family, like Banemites, make me think they’re a Spider-Scorpion cross species. These spider-like critters weave webs but have poisonous tails.
You can find them heading towards Tam-Tara Deepcroft in the Central Shroud. Just stay outside and you shouldn’t be able to miss them.
Region/Area
Central Shroud: Tam-Tara DeepcroftNearest Aetheryte
Central Shroud: Bentbranch Meadows
Reward:
1,700Tree Slug
Number Required: 3
These oozing flubs of grossness just need culling. Blame the Elementals if you want! Or just your own aggression, dear Lancer! Tree Slugs can be really annoying to take out if they’re in groups of three or more due to their AoE attacks. At least these ones are called slugs – elsewhere they’re called “hares”, and there is absolutely nothing cute and fuzzy about them. Take down three, tick it off your log.
Then go have a bath.
Region/Area
East Shroud: South of the Honey YardNearest Aetheryte
East Shroud: the Hawthorn Hut
Total EXP Available
- EXP from Log Entries: 8,235
- EXP for Clearing Rank 1: 2,500
- Total EXP: 10,735
When Can I Start Hunting Log Rank 2?
Once:
- You have cleared Rank 1, and
- Reach at least Level 10 as a Lancer.
TL;DR Ease into FFXIV with the Lancer Hunting Log Rank 1
The FFXIV Lancer Hunting Log Rank 1 is a gentle introduction into the basics of both this FF14 feature and of combat. Most can be cleared not far from Gridania itself. But you have a range of enemies too: some have AoE attacks, others give you debuffs and some are ranged attackers. So it’s a good warm-up. Do remember to have fun as well as clearing checklists, okay?
