Mandatory - Normal campaign through Act 9
Why it matters: unlocks the current post-Normal route. Status: official progression notes plus community Cthulhu clear reports.
Quest Guide
Hero Siege Mandatory Quests
A Season 10 quest-priority guide that separates mandatory campaign progress, high-value optional rewards, optional quests, and verification-sensitive quest details.
- Target keyword
- hero siege mandatory quests
- Page type
- Quest Guide
- Version focus
- Season 10 / current version
Quick Answer
Answer first
Mandatory in Season 10 means progression-blocking first: finish the Normal campaign route through Act 8 Odin and Act 9 Ebontharn before expecting Nightmare and later systems to behave like old guides.
Soulforged Ring and Crow's Feather are high-value optional rewards, not confirmed universal gates. Soulforged Ring is valuable because Season 10 changed it into a stronger below-level-100 experience item; Crow's Feather is community-recommended early utility because of movement speed and broad stats.
Daily, farming, and build-specific side quests should be treated as optional unless they unlock a required system, difficulty, or persistent reward for your current character.
Definition
What counts as mandatory?
A quest is mandatory when skipping it blocks campaign progress, difficulty access, or a current progression system. A quest is high-value optional when the reward is strong but does not appear to unlock the next required game layer.
This distinction matters in Season 10 because the full campaign is now concentrated in Normal, while later difficulty play leans harder on waypoints, Ether, Incarnation, farming, and endgame bosses.
Priority List
Season 10 quest-priority table
Mandatory - Act 8 Odin completion
Why it matters: official Ebontharn notes say Act 9 becomes accessible after defeating Odin. Status: official.
Mandatory - Act 9 main route
Why it matters: Season 10's new act sits at the end of Normal progression. Status: official for access and act existence, community-reported for exact Cthulhu route.
High-value optional - Soulforged Ring
Why it matters: Season 10 changed the ring into a stronger below-level-100 experience item. Status: official item change, community quest path.
High-value optional - Crow's Feather
Why it matters: community guides recommend it early for movement speed and broad utility stats. Status: community consensus with older wiki item baseline.
Optional / situational - farming and daily quests
Why it matters: useful for materials, efficiency, or builds, but not confirmed as campaign gates. Status: verify per objective.
Needs verification - exact reward quests
Why it matters: quest starts, page drops, boss lists, and reward values can drift across patches. Status: manual review before exact walkthroughs.
Checklist
Use this order when you feel blocked
- First, clear visible campaign objectives through Act 8 Odin and Act 9.
- Second, check whether the blocked feature is tied to difficulty access, especially Nightmare or Hell.
- Third, do high-value reward quests only when the reward solves a current problem, such as leveling speed or movement.
- Fourth, use daily or farming quests when you are optimizing, not when you are trying to unlock the next campaign stage.
- Finally, if two current sources disagree on a quest trigger, keep playing from the in-game tracker and mark the exact trigger for manual review.
Reward Quests
How to treat the two first-batch reward pages
Old Guide Filter
When an old quest guide is probably stale
- It sends you to repeat every act on every difficulty.
- It describes Act 9 as missing, optional, or not part of the Normal completion route.
- It gives Soulforged Ring the older generic experience wording instead of the Season 10 below-level-100 wording.
- It gives exact Crow's Feather NPC or drop instructions without any current-version cross-check.
- It treats every useful reward quest as mandatory.
Related Guides
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Sources & References
What this page relies on
Hero Siege Steam announcements
Official Steam announcement feed used for current-version and Season 10 context.
Season 10 Official Patch Notes spreadsheet
Official Season 10 patch-note sheet linked from the Steam launch and Ebontharn announcements.
HS Tracker Season 10 patch-note mirror
Community mirror of the Season 10 patch-note spreadsheet, used for searchable change categories and current item/system changes.
HS Helper quest database
Community quest database used for quest objectives and locations, with its own warning that quest grouping may be incomplete.
T-Pose Gaming - Season 10 difficulty unlock walkthrough
Current community walkthrough used to cross-check practical Act 8, Act 9, Nightmare, and Hell unlock flow.
Vortex Gaming - Soulforged Ring walkthrough summary
Community walkthrough summary used for Soulforged Ring quest flow and player-value cross-checking.
Mobalytics Season 10 starter build references
Current community build guide used only to cross-check that Crow's Feather is still recommended as early utility gear.
Needs Manual Review
Before publishing exact details
- Exact Act 9 objective order and whether any party or patch-state edge case blocks the Normal -> Nightmare transition.
- Exact Soulforged Ring page sources, drop behavior, and whether the quest is worth doing before or after level 100 for a first character.
- Exact Crow's Feather current trigger, because current community guides describe an early quest path while the older official wiki item page frames it as a general item.