RDM AF coffer 3 (Warlock's Tabard) Woes..

[Arli]

After my second keyhunt in Castle Oztraja for this blasted key, i'm at my wits end. I've spent a total of 7 hours on the staircase killing Yagudo Assasins, Prelates, Conductors and Flagellants and none have dropped a single key. We've had all kinds of drops from level 70+ BRD songs to ancient magic scrolls - but no key.

To add insult to injury, my last trip, the freakin' coffer was sitting ON the stairway while we killed mobs for key - only to have it snatched by a high level THF 2 hours into the trip. Mind you my LS DRK needed one too, but not a single one fell.

Is it just me, or is this key drop bugged, or am I just phenominally unlucky? The fact that these mobs rate Tough and Very Tough, and are a total PIA to kill with a single PT levels 58-60.

Should I keep up the effort or just screw it and get myself a carapace breastplate at level 61. Even papyrus for Genkai I wasn't this aggravating. Any advice or reassurance would help as i'm beyond annoyed at this bloody coffer quest.

[frogurtx]

Took me 2 days, 9 hours to get 1 key drop... hang in there, it will drop eventually...

Unfortunately... then you get to hunt for the coffer. best of luck :sweat:

[Deodorant]

Well, at least you've gone key hunting? I've been bugging all my friends for a week now to go oz keyhunting. The closest we got I had an rdm (me) whm brd and thf, lvls 58-74, but no tank, even with /sh in Jeuno, so after about an hour everyone went off to do other stuff

[frogurtx]

You shouldn't have a hard time getting a group together for key hunting in Oz. There are many inscentives including:

Stealing Gold Beastcoins from Conductors
Obtaining a dropped Minuet4 (100k on my server)
Great skillup opportunities
Obtaining Carnage Elegy (70k on my server)
And various other frequently dropped 2k items
Various seals, kindred and beast

Just advertise some of these, and you should be able to grab a nice party together rather quickly. And don't forget to bring your thf sub!

[Jei]

I found coffer key to drop easier on the upper floor (around monk's AF3 NM) Whenever I drop down to high priest spot I rarely see any coffer key at all.

[Fanatic]

Wow I guess I must have gotten very lucky when getting my key, it took about 2-3 hours for it to drop. My ls was also willing to help me get the key for the brd scrolls and gold beast coins. The area I got the key from was around the 4th floor of the castle i think where there are 3 possible coffer pops. We camped right infront of a brass door.

[Arli]

That's where we've been hunting, pulling mobs from the room with the final brass door (right before the High Priest pitfall). The droprates on items in general have been pretty strange since the patch IMO. Anyone else notice any strange drop frequencies when farming/hunting?

[Weezingpipes]

I joined a Oz key group for 2 hours one day, got 3 keys in an hour and a half before the group broke up (only 2 actually needed, the last the whm took for his brd's af that he was gonna do eventually). Its pretty random. I had bad luck camping a Kuftal key, only ever saw 1 drop in a group there then spent 4 hours camping one at 60. All keys are like that really.

I never found the monsters really annoying to kill at all really. Kind of wish I had exped there in a level up party because the loot is decent and they aren't really that hard. Good luck with a coffer though =/

[Solistam]

Oh boy, and I head to do this one in a day or two..

I'm with ya Arli :sweat:

[Altruist]

Took me about 5 hours for my key. Now as for finding a coffer good luck. Make a key macro and either run around or camp a spawn for a day.

[Deodorant]

Mmmmm well I got mine rather effortlessly.

2 of us needed the key, and we got both in 15minutes. Stayed longer to kill stuff for fun though. Took me about 3 hours to find my coffer, even with 3-4 other thf's running around (actually I found one in the leech pond about an hour after looking, but I hesitated and ran to a corner to sneak/invis, and in that time some other thf named Arden ran by and got it -_-).

In my opinion, camping a spot sucks. Oz is easy because layering invis on yourself is effortless and unless you seriously fuck things up you shouldn't get aggro at all.

[Gaunt]

Took a while for key to drop for me. Probably just bad luck :/

[Discordian]

Sorry you've been having problems with that coffer key. We went there for Bard, Thf, and two rdm's keys. Went in a small alliance and teamed with "The Big Poppa Bear" Matteo and plowed through the upper tier yagudos. Took about 50 minutes per key. If you and when you get the key go in there solo and light the torch system to open the door to genkei3, a Coffer spawns there behind the statue. TAB around every so often because you can highlight thing outside the room. I was in there for about an hour and the coffer appeared in the torch room in the NW (great screenshot of me pulling the Warlock Tabard while being flanked two feet on either side by level 68 yagudos.

Keep at it. It took me 40 hours to get a Coffer Key for Eldemine Necropolis and Garlange Citadel dropped like rain, 7 keys in two hours.

[Jonnyram]

Originally posted by Deodorant
Well, at least you've gone key hunting? I've been bugging all my friends for a week now to go oz keyhunting. The closest we got I had an rdm (me) whm brd and thf, lvls 58-74, but no tank, even with /sh in Jeuno, so after about an hour everyone went off to do other stuff

Don't forget you can tank yourself pretty well. Especially with the combination you mention!

Cast blink, stoneskin and phalanx on yourself (and refresh of course!), maybe use seal + lv2 magic to keep the mob on you for a while, have the thf use you for trick attack, bard can use acc. and ballad, whm can cure you when you need it. Just make sure you keep blink, stoneskin and phalanx on. It will take ages for each fight, though :sweat:

Mind you, you've got the key now, so you don't need to worry. My main concern for this AF is getting the coffer, not the key.

[Menamino]

It took me a while to get mine .. me and a BRD friend needed it, first time we went none dropped in 5 hours of killing. Second time, one dropped in 3 hours which BRD got. Third, we got one in about an hour. I figured that since Oz was so crowded with THFs at the time, that I wouldn't have a chance to get coffer yet. But to my surprise the coffer had spawned on the staircase behind us no earlier than 5 minutes before the key dropped. Talk about luck!