Originally Posted by Snowball  |
I actually got a little started on doing it..... and I think it was either yesterday or the day before. I got so far down the hallway of the caves in there, (where I passed what looked like a group partying there at the time) and reached the end where there was a drop at the right hand corner there. (with an antican mob stood near it)
Now, I was trying to follow the instructions for this from the "alla" link I noted earlier, and I didn't really understand it. It says something about falling down the eastern or western side of the drop, and I'm rather confused, because it's not like a round hole.... its rectangular and the only way to go down it, is to just drop straight down! You can't drop East or West, so I don't know what on earth "alla" is going on about! |
It makes sense when you look at it calmly. Look at the first map (on ffxi-atlas.com) for the Quicksand caves at I and J-7. You see a red arrow pointing south then two others, one pointing east and one pointing west. You can first only fall down at the middle at the first arrow, but then you choose to go east or west. So when they say drop West, they mean choose the path going west.
| Originally Posted by Snowball |
I'm quite certain that I had something casted on me from a mob somewhere in the vicinty, (most likely antican) so without knowing where to go next, I just decided to drop down..... then decided to warp back to Eastern Alteppa where I set my hp. Was too scared to continue on from there unfortunately!  |
You're going to hear a lot of casting. If you don't see an effect hitting you, they probably aren't casting at you. If you keep sneak up at all times you're going to be fine.
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Oh....okay.... do you SEE any ??? marked on here?
Quicksand Caves
I certainly don't!  Unless I need glasses. |
You could add them, they are listed with every guide for the quest.
All this quest takes is the ability to read a map, stay calm, keep sneak up and run to a few points on the map until you find the ??? you're looking for. It's not difficult, only time consuming but if you don't stay calm you're going to end up dead.