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Low LeveL Bastok Farming

admin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:46:01 +0000

Head out the gates in Bastok mines and you will see some huge hornets. The gate in South Gustenburg has no less than 20 hornets. They’re pretty close to the gate even during peak hours. This place is an ideal spot to start leveling and farming. You can average about 2-3 stacks of wind crystals and will continue to drop thru level 6. Each stack should sell for about 1500 gil or more. They also drop honey pots and wings for some additional cash.

To start you need to be around level 7-10. You get signet cast on you at your local town gates, then head out to North Gusterburg where there are a lot of Vultures. You should only kill the vultures, and nothing but the vultures, until you have a stack of fire crystals. Very good money and you can get a stack and a half of fire crystals in about an hour.

Amaryllis Quest

admin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:45:37 +0000

This quest is ideal for level 12, but the higher the better. You’ll need to solo a level 9-10 crab that does shell and def boost.

Buy a stack of Quus (under food in the AH), it sells for 1-1.5k per stack. Then go to S. Gusta Lighthouse in the SE corner. Around back is a bush with a ??? when you target it. Give the bush 1 Quus and a named crab will spawn. Kill Bubbly Burnie, a lvl 9-10 mob, and loot the Steam Clock. He also randomly drops land Crab Meat (which sells for 250 gil at vendor or more at AH) and Water Crystals.

The Steam Clock is marked Lore so you can only have one in your inventory at a time. Take it to Bastok Markets and give Malene the clock and she will give you 500gil and some fame. You can find her in the house next to Sororo’s Notary shop.

To make this quest faster, do the Backalley quest by buying an Amaryllis from the AH for 400gil and give it to the little girl just outside the residential area in Port Bastok. She will teach you how to use the back alleys and you can enter the mog house in the mines and exit from your mog house in the markets. It saves a ton of time doing this, the only faster way is to be a lv17+blm and warp, or a 25+ thief and /flee.

This quest is repeatable and I’ve done it over 1000 times so far. My character’s fame is maxed in Bastok and I get quests that I can’t even find info on from almost every NPC. Not bad turning 1k into 6k and it only takes a lvl 12+ character for it to be really easy, less if you have decent equipment or duo it.

You can also get a group together and we did this for faster exp. Give all the Quus to one person. Have that person go to the lighthouse and spawn the fish. Have everyone pass on it except one person. The Fighter at the lighthouse just passes every time and the other 5 of us ran back and forth. We made about 10k each in an hour using this method.

If you don’t want to be trapped in price changing of Quus, you can try fish Quus at the jetty near fishing guild in Windurst. Make sure you use the right bait and rod. I recommend Sabaki rig and Carbon rod.

If you are extremely lazy, you can also just buy the Quus in Windhurst and San for 1k a stack and sell them in Bastok for 2k a stack.

Justice Badge Quest

admin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:45:15 +0000

The Justice Badge Quest is located in Windurst and require 1 rabab tail and 4 onions to complete. You can buy a stack of rabab tail in the auction house for 50-100 gil. In the docks of Winhurst you will find an NPC that you can give the rabab tail to. In exchange he will give you the Justice Badge. The Badge sells for 500-2000 Gil in the auction house. Once you get the badge, give him 4 wild onions and you’ll receive a scroll that sells up to 5k gil in the auction house. Again you can repeat this quest by creating a mule character and transfering 1k gil. This should be a very easy and fast quest to do.

Warp Quest

admin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:44:39 +0000

The Warp Quest is located in Bastok. You can get you around 7-10K gil depending on your server. You will need 1k gil or a slime oil to start the quest. You first start by taking the slime oil to an NPC named “Unlucky Rat” in the Metalworks district of Bastok in exchange for a warp scroll which sells for about 7-10K gil in the auction house. Unfortunately he probably wouldn’t accept your slime oil because you don’t have enough fame built up. You will be required to run around town doing low level missions.

Here are the quests you’ll need to complete.
The Quadav’s Curse
Buckets of Gold
Brygid, the stylist
A Lady’s Heart/To Be Stylish
A Flash in the Pan
Mom, the Adventurer?
The Wisdom of the Elders/Grandma’s Wisdom
Groceries
The Bare Bones
Minesweeper

This part should take about an hour. Once you get the scroll you can easily sell it in the auction house. You can repeat this quest by creating a mule character and transfering 1k gil or the slime oil to your character.