The Opo-Opo and I  

To break the Mithrian Rod, I found that it was a very quick fix to take the sinking minnow lure and head to The Boyahda Tree, since you have to go there anyway. In any of the ponds there, we did it at (D-4), just fish and wait for the !!! Impossible message and try and reel it in, it'll break every time. I broke 2 rods here within 5 minutes while I spent hours on the boat trying to break them. I had no fishing gear on, and fishing still is 19.3. Good Luck ^^

nvm....about my last question, i guess the monkeys dont hav to ask for the next item for you to give it to them

Edited, Oct 29th 2006 at 5:01am PST by imcherish

To the question of those who do not recall which Opo-opos they have given items:

If you have already given an item to an Opo-opo (correctly), they will greet you with "Opopopopo! Opo-opo! Oppo! Oppo-opo!" and a bow. Those you have not given an item to will ask you a question w/ a prompt.

Hopefully this will help some people :)

I just activated this quest at level 62.

The post below is correct. Break the rod by casting off of the south cliff in Qufim Island using sliced cod. You will need about level 25 fishing though.
The fish you are after will come with 3 exclamation points and be very difficult at 25+4 to pull up. The first one of these you wear down is just about guaranteed to break your mithran rod.

Edited, Mon May 8 07:09:18 2006

Easiest way I found to break it was using sliced cod by the first cliff in Qufim. Rod broke in 5 casts.

Really easy for me, had level 0 fishing skill. Grabbed a Mithran rod from the fishing guild and a stack of little worms and headed out to Kazham. Fished up maybe three Pamtam Kelps and then rod broke. While it would have been nice to fish up something worthwhile, it didn't take me long to do.

Now for a ten of coins...200k on Shiva *sigh*...

Well, based on some of the posts here, I've been lucky. I got the sands of silence and the wandering bulb last night with my husband and a friend who also needed the items. (He got his crown last night. {Congratulations} Bigby!)

I couldn't find a broken rod on the AH and besides, it was going for 100K on Odin and, for that price, it reminded me that I like to do some things from scratch {/grin}.

I was fishing lvl 1 and I hopped on the ferry with some crayfish balls and tried my luck. Several hours, .5 skillups, a bronze box, a lost shrimp lure and several caught nebimonites later, I still had one intact rod.

My husband, who is fishing lvl 26, tried for three days straight to break that rod on the ferry. .1 skillups (what is up with the fishing leveling?), a bronze box, lots of caught fish and some aspririn later, he still had one intact rod. At least he doesn't curse out loud anymore about losing his catch under the updated fishing system.

We decide to go to Sea Serpent Grotto to get our Damp Scrolls for the NIN scroll quest. We've each got a Mithran Rod now and crayfish balls. I'm now fishing level 2. :P The lake is located at J-12.

Fourth cast, I get a Damp Scroll (40K each on Odin). Run to Norg to list it. Meanwhile, my husband, Deanmond, is catching and "regretfully" releasing Damp Scrolls right and left. It seems that mid-20's fishing level is ideal for catching Damp Scrolls, or he was just incredibly lucky. But I digress.

In less than a half hour, I had broken my rod (you get a message about the catch being too heavy, but no other indication until you try to fish again). Dean breaks his less than five minutes later. He doesn't want the crown, so he sold his broken rod (100K - 25K cost of rod = 75K profit minus fees).

So in about 2 hours, we both got the chest keys and the Grotto map, fished one set of Damp Scrolls to sell and one set to finish the quest, and broke both mithran rods. Good times and not bad gil considering all we got done.

For you Clue fans, it was Stravia in Sea Serpent Grotto (at J-12) with the crayfish balls. Fishing level doesn't make a difference. Good luck, everyone. I hope you have as much luck as we did ^^.

My perma and I have been slowly gathering pieces for this crown (since our bard needs it anyway we all decided to get one... there's 5 of us)

So far everything has went fairly well... with some outside help we got the drop on the ten of coins... about 1 per hour. Sands of silence were impossible for us to get for some reason... 0 in 1 1/2 hours... but we bought on AH for 4k each afterwards XD.

The real @#$% was the Wandering bulb... only 3 of us got the drop the other 2 decided to camp AH and pay 120k+ for it... we were there fighting uttukus for 1 1/2 hours with THII + about 6 hours with 2 TH1s ... 3 bulbs ... what a nightmare. x.x Just figured I'd tell anyone expecting a quick in/out operation... not happening

if you trade in the wrong order you do have to start all over again and you don't get the items back. You'll need to get them all over again. I just did it by accident on the second last item and I lost everything.

so don't be an idiot like me and make sure you get them in the right order :P

Edited, Tue Sep 20 22:39:19 2005

I've seen a couple people ask but no one has responded: What happens if you trade one of the items out of order? Are your items lost for good?

hey when u get the smell then activate the quest, do you need the smell during the whole quest or can u activate it then do personal hygene, get smell removed, then actually do opo opo and I quest?

Me and a friend of mine recently finished this quest, and i must say it's the must grueling quest i have yet to come across - at least for an impatient taru like me =P I thought i'd describe my experience with the quest and hope it helps with a few questions or so.

We both had our Lucky Eggs already from just messing around fighting Knight Crawlers camping Aquarious one day, you can easily get this partying in Boyahda Tree levels 53-57 i guess. You can eat it so careful =\

The Wyvern Skull i thought we'd have the most difficulty in getting, found out just the difficult part was just gathering people willing to go and actually getting to camp. Ifrit's Cauldron is pretty intimidating, but if people know what to do and where to go (plus carry prism powders and silent oils please!) it's not such a bad place. We took a party consisting of 5 level 70+ members a NIN, WHM, BLM, BST, and BRD. We got up to camp around H-6/H-7 I-6/I-7 on 3rd map and found the only real safe spot to pull Hurricane Wyverns and fight them... should be a ledge where a raptor and a bomb is in the back, so i guess watch your back and keep your distance. I'm so glad our BST friend could come a long cause this is somewhat of a must need, they would charm Nightmare Bats and cast invis since BST can sic their pets and no come un-invis'd. So they'd pull back a wyvern to camp safely. Vouivre was also up at the time but we didn't really bother with the NM no true sight or anything. Nice to have the ninja or any tank face the wyvern away from mages cause of radiant breath if you have never fought wyverns before his move can scare pretty much anyone - i suggest mags carry echo drops with them for radiant breath, and for BLMs light nuke please - don't want to get a lot of hate with wyverns =P The skulls dropped fairly easy i thought they'd had bad drop rates but didn't so we got enough skulls for everyone.

The Ancient Salt wasn't too bad, took awhile for them to drop. You want to make your way to i'm guessing D-12 in Western Altepa Desert through hidden tunnel entrance to Quicksand Caves. Through here you'll need some people to help with the weight sensors to get through a couple doors. If anyone has done Zilart Mission 12, you'll want to head to the ??? where you fight the NM Pot. You'll enter Quicksands and you want to make you way to a weight sensor at L-8(?) go through the doors and you'll come to a square pathed room. Keep going till you come to another weight sensor and go through - at the end of the room will be well quicksand with a hole to go down, drop down at I-8, should be a ??? (WARNING: If you are currently on ZM12 and don't have a suitable party for this don't click it!). This will be your area to camp the Sand Diggers. There are about 4 in the whole area here 3 of which aren't surround by antica or scorpions, the other one should be hanging around with them. Not so much strategy... i mean they're worms.

We then headed to Temple of Uggalepih for some Giant Fish Bones off the Tonberry Stalkers. Out of all the times i've been here and fought a lot of tonberries i've never seen these drop so i was kinda wary about the drop rate. Some people on other posts say they've got them rather quick but it took us a nice while >.< took my friend another day to get her's as we were both tired near the end of the day. We can confirm that we got the bones near the entrance of temple and up a level on temple with Stalkers (near Temple Gaurdian).

Next stop was Outer Horutoto Ruin in West Sarutabaruta entrance at F-10/11. If you've done Windurst Mission 6-1 you'll know the next area to camp. The Ten of Coins card can be bought but i'd figure i'd rather camp it. First time i camped it was sometime ago just to have for quest and sorta gave up on it cause it wouldn't drop. This time i came there were a couple people camping it, i decided to log there and camp next time i logged in. I log back in and camp probably close to 6 hours with TH2 and no drop >.< finally i beg my friend to come help me with these and as she is on her way one drops, and then another as she enters lol i swear she is good luck. Each card takes about 15 minute spawn or 6 hours Vana'diel time, probably won't get a Ten of Coins pop every group though =\ so that kinda bites.

The Sands of Silence was pretty easy to get, dropping off Demon Magistrates, we fought Chancellors as well but, both drops we got off Magistrate. You might have to be pretty good with your pulling unless you fight through every demon in the room, thre is however a lone Demon Magistrate pop if you drop from the Yagudo side of the castle in th tunnel. So you can fight that if you have trouble handling 4 of the demons all at once.

As i went to Sea Serphant Grotto to try and purposly break my Mithran fighing rod (Was never successful) with another friend, decided to get a Blackend Toad off a Brook Sahagin - couldn't believe it dropped off first one, i've also seen them drop pretty commonly before so shouldn't be too hard.

The Broken Mithran Fishing Rod was probably the most frustrating part... none up in Auction House so thought we could break our own. We were told that using meatballs on the boat ride/ferry Selbina-Mharua - Mharua-Selbina would be best. Don't even try to fish it up just when a fish bites press the command to reel it in. We tried that a few times with other bait in another area and only our lines kept breaking. When we went to go to the boat, we checked AH one last time and found to our surprise 3 Broken Rods in stock so we bought them quickly. So the damn fishing patch almost pissed me off quite a bit cause i couldn't break this damn rod. So if you can't find in AH try meatballs or the boat ride or a high level fishing friend to try and break it, only advice i got =(

At this point i was kinda frustrated so i decided to buy the Wandering Bulb from AH wasn't too bad cause i wanted the crown so much ;-; Utukku in Fei'yin should drop this fairly commonly i'm assuming like Demon's with Sands of Silence.

And of course Workbench probably easiest out of them all to obtain, low level woodworking craft plus pretty cheap on AH.

I wish anyone good luck with the quest it gets really frustrating at times, takes from a couple days to months for help but i must say it pays off =) Oh and and please be careful with the quests you have going on at the time just to make things run smoother... if you have Personal Hygiene going at the same time as the Opo-opo and I, don't finish Personal Hygiene - just gotta do more running around =\ quest and completion order should be: Gullible's Travels > Even More Gullible's Travels > Opo-opo and I > Personal Hygiene. If i have giving wrong positions or something i'm sorry =( feel free to correct me, Good luck! ^^







Edited, Sat Jun 25 00:12:34 2005

I am Rank 7 Bastokan with "hero" status in Windurst and Kazham, and I've finished the Gullible's Travels and Even More Gullible's Travels quests to receive my dreaded stench. I then moved next door to talk to the Mithra to receive the Personal Hygeine quest, thinking that had to be finished before I flagged The Opo-Opo and I quest. I rid myself of the stench and a couple friends and I killed the leeches while we were there for fun. Went back to Kazham and got my Mithran Stone for Personal Hygeines' completion. Went to talk to the Opo-Opo Lulupp to receive my quest and nothing. Just annoyingly shouts "Opo-Opo!". I have tried everything from trying to kill the Jammer Leeches a number of times to desperately going around Kazham and speaking to every NPC. If anyone has any clue as to what I need to do to get this quest flagged, please send me a message. Before insanity takes me...

Edit: I've found out what to do if any of you ever wash the stench before flagging the Opo-Opo and I quest: Each Blue Rafflesia can be successfully examined, (you get a message saying you find nothing inside, or you get a jar of rafflesia and the flower spits the mist out at you), each in-game day. It took me about 8-9 succesful examinations to regain the stench. I hope this info helps anyone with the same problem I had.

Edited, Sun Jun 19 19:16:06 2005

(Note: Sorry, I was too lazy to read all the posts but...)

Lucky Egg just dropped from a Water Elemental in Boyahda Tree for the heads up.

OK, I accidentally washed the scent off before getting the Opo-Opo crown quest... I fought all three leeches solo to reset the flowers (75BLM Sleep > Nuke > Sleep) --- however, now only ONE of the flowers will give me nectar, although ALL THREE will spew blue crap on me... none of the monkeys will love me...

what am I doing wrong? any help would be great, just wasted 3hrs traveling the globe for nothing.

EDIT -- I had to deafeat each leech twice for some reason... but all is ok now.

Edited, Wed Jun 1 05:30:27 2005

Edit to walkthrough:

P.S. Thanks for the correction Princess cherrysweater! (: LOL Cherry Sweater! :)

Edited, Tue Jul 5 19:15:50 2005

just a short info when you trade the last item, Lucky Egg:

the monkey "Nenepp" is behind a house, you have to wait until he moves towards you and then trade quickly. if you get the message "you cannot obtain the bunch of pamamas. try sorting your inventory and trade again" then make sure to get 4 free slots in your inventory, as you will receive 3x 1 pamama and the crown :)

I'm not sure if the level requirements of 65 are to wear the crown, but it is most definately not what level you can flag it at. I will send an email explaining this also ^^. But in the meantime...

I was in Kazham LFG as my 29 blm (main is 57 rdm) fishing off the docks and decided to talk to the Opo-Opo. I had finished Even More Gullible's Travels a few days before and I was amused by the responces I was getting from Mithras and Opo-Opo. So I decided to talk to the one on the docks between fishing casts. I was amused to find out that I had just unlocked the quest!

What happens if you go out of order?

You lose items?
You start again and do what?

Yes, I would also like to know exactly how one can find out the items and the sequence other than by desperate trial and error! If anyone knows, please speak up!

I only found this: you can talk to Magriffon and he will give different replies most of the time. One word stands out. For example he says furnishing; a reference to the workbench? Or another: one of my cards -- ten of coins? I tried talking with the opo-opos and asking Magriffon right afterwards. Unfortunately he does not give a direct hint which item goes to whom. And the hints are vague at best. Furthermore, Vuih Steccopah (quest giver) is nowhere to be found.

I find this very frustrating! I am very grateful for that list. But I don't like quests that leave me completely in the dark....


-Albion

The sh*t RDM asked me for 30k gil on first quest and 35k on second quest >.<

I am rank 10 ; ;

Question --> do i have to trade all item at same time, or i can get some (in order) and trade them and later trade the others (in order)?

Do the required items all have to be turned in at once, or can they be done seperately? I already turned in the Fishing Rod, but it will take me a few days to get the rest of the items.

Also, how are you supposed to know what the other items are to give to the Opo-opos without looking up the solution? When you talk the NPC, she only mentions what the first item is that needs to be given to the first Opo-opo.

I JUST COMPLETED THIS AND GOT MY OPO OPO CROWN!!!!! YAY!!!!!!

I tried for like two hours last night, but I can't get the sands of silence to drop from the demons.

I've got everything but the skull & the sands. Everything else was simple except for the Fish bones. Those took like an hour. Everything else took 10-30 minutes. I went in with a DRK, DRG, WHM & RDM lv. 65-67. We were killing everything in sight.

Sands of silence is my only problem. Any help?

Where can you get to the Sand Diggers solo?

just for sk, but if i kill the utkku in eldieme necropolis i'll get te item too?
or only fey in?

Ok for sand diggers, you have to go to the area where rank 8 for bastok took place (was just a cut scene i think) there is a big hole in the ground, so drop thru and there are 4 spawns. Took me ~3-4 hr for two drops and we had a thf knife ><; ( the entreance is west altep, go as far and as south as possible and you will go off the map)

I had a hard time with these till thf took us there. Con ep-em at 65, i could solo all as galka bard

The name of this quest is really "The Opo-Opo and I".