Originally Posted by Lasereth

Sorry if I was a little complicated!

You can hunt anything and at anytime, it's just that hunting monsters in the game is useless unless you have the quest for them. Do they give exp? Yep! Do they drop loot? Yeah. Are you getting the quest item you need from them? NOPE!! Like I said before, hunting monsters that you don't have the quest for is literally useless. When you finish a quest, you get massive amounts of EXP points. Fighting monsters that don't go towards a quest you have is just a waste of time...and I wish it wasn't.

-Lasereth