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Sit tight and wait a few when you trade the QUU. It can take a good minute or two for the crab to appear.

where do you find the Adventurer who gives you the clue about how to lure bernie out?

Sorry... double post.

When I first started FFXI last january, a friend told me that Bubbly was a good way to make gil (Note: it was when I first started =P) Anyways~ I probably made about 20-30K on Bubbly, so I did the quest 40+ times, anyone know how much fame it gives~?

idk what ur doing subbing mnk with rdm try flipping that around hit shot and this is a lvl 9-10 mob so so so sos very hard >.>

i trued to use this quest as a means of source fo gil but i could never stay focused enough to get enough gil. i could only do about 20k worth of kills. theoretically you can do this and end up making 30k a day if youre high eough with warp. a drk lv 40+ would be preferable, when you can use warp twice. of course a blm sub would be necessary. you really cant put up withthis quest for longer than that

How do you get the clock multiple times? I have done this quest twice in a row and the second time didn't receive the clock. The only way to get the clock again is to take it to Malene and go back after him again.

I did this quest 24 times in one sitting, and got a profit of 9400 gil. Would I do it again? I would rather kill to weak to be worthwiles for the rare crystals. Unless you have flee/warp, prepare to see Final Fantasy XI at the hight of tedium.

Now that brings to mind. Theoretically, a party of 5 could make 36000 gil in one sitting, where a sitting could consist of 360 kills.

The ideal party (5 PCs) would consist of a very high level PC who is wearing no armor and no weapons, their inventory is absolutely free of nothing but quus (12-stacks) for a total of 360 quus. This PC would be the puller/slave who does nothing but pulls and kills Bernie, and as mentiond is a high level PC who can withstand attacks from Bernie without suffering any damage for not wearing armor.

One PC would camp the gate, two PCs as runners (A1 and A2) between the gate and AH, and two PCs as runners (B1 and B2) between MH and Malene. The PC camping the gate and the two runners between AH and the gate doesn't matter as far as job goes. But ... the two PC's running between MH and Malene would best be suited to the BLM who have learned the Warp spell and have their HP set at the MH in Bastok Markets (closes to Malene).

Ideally, camper would hand a clock off to runner A1 who runs to AH and delivers clock to B1. While A1 is running to AH, A2 is on his way back to the gate (or already at the gate). camper then hands a clock off to runner B1 who runs to AH and delivers clock to B2.

Once A1 delivers the clock to B1, B1 removes it from the delivery box and runs to Malene. In the meantime, B2 has already delivered his clock to Malene and has warped back to MH and entering by the time A2 has delevered the clock.

Slave would have to be sufficiently high in level to whack bernie in one blow, and set up a macro to select the clock in the treasury and pass on it so that camper can lot and take the clock, run in and pass it off to A1 and A2.

To be even more efficient, add one more member to the PT who does nothing but drop quus while the slave does nothing but whack. But then youd have to divide it between 6 (360quus X 500ea = 180,000gil / 6PC = 30,000gil per PC), where with five you'd be making 36,000 gil each.

Now the question is, how long would 360 whacks take, and how much running (non-stop) would the runners A1/A2 and B1/B2 be doing?

Something to ponder over ...

Nagarjuna

Edited, Mon Jun 7 17:06:51 2004

I know you all have heard this before, perhaps a hundred times or more ... but ...

To farm the clocks, you need to go to your MH (Moog House) to make sure your delivery box is empty. You need have plenty of Quus. I usually purchase them in 12-pack stacks. And lastly, and this is for the new players, you can only carry ONE clock at a time. If you have a clock on you and you kill Bernie, you will not get another clock until you get rid of the one on you. Same goes for carrying the clocks between MH and Malene, only ONE clock on your person at any given time.

Here goes:

1) Go to the lighthouse, trade a Quus to the ???, fight Bernie, get the Clock.
2) Run immediately to Gawful at AH and deposit the clock in the delivery box to yourself then return immediately to the lighthouse.
3) Repeat steps 1-2 till your delivery box is full.
4) Once the delivery box is full run immediately to your MH and open the delivery box but DO NOT take anything out of it ... just open it. Leave MH and go back to the lighthouse and repeat steps 1-2 till your delivery box is full (again).
5) Return to the lighthouse for one more Bernie kill. The clock you get from him you will carry as your delivery box is full.

This method will put 16 clocks in your delivery box, and the one you're carrying will make 17.

6) Run to Malene (Bastok Markets I-5) with the clock, listen to her story then trade her the clock for 500 gil.
7) Run to your MH, get a clock from your delivery box and repeat steps 6-7 till your delivery box is empty.

You will come out of this time consuming process with 8500 gil.

I've found that when doing this run solo, it takes approximately 1 earth hour to collect 8 clocks. That's just the collection process.

If you have one other PC you can party with, one can camp at Bastok Mines exit to South Gustaberg while one camps the lighthouse. The one at the lighthouse kills Bernie 17 times while the one at the exit takes the clocks to his delivery box. Once the box is full (16 clocks), they switch positions so the second person can fill his delivery box ... carries the 17th clock to start his fill. This means the second person has to kill Bernie 18 times to give the camper at the gate a 17th clock, and a 17th clock for the one left at the lighthouse.

There is also another method for trading the clocks that removes a bit of the boredom factor from all the running between Malene's place and the MH, but only for a 2-party run. Here I will refer to them as member A and member B of the party.

A takes his 17th clock to Malene, cashes it in, runs to the Zone point (in front of portal to Bastok Port) and zones (portal to Bastok Port, then turn around and reenter Bastok Markets), by this time B should be at the Zone point. When A returns, B trades A his clock. Once the trade is complete B returns to his MH to get another clock while A returns to Malene to cash in the clock.

A then zones, B is waiting at Zone point, A returns, B trades A a clock, B runs back to MH for another, A returns to Malene to trade ... A then zones, B is waiting at Zone ...

Once B has taken his last clock from his delivery box, rather than trade A this clock A and B swap positions, B takes the clock to Malene, listens to her story and trades her the clock and the entire process repeats until A has traded ALL the clocks in A's delivery box to B.

Why ALL the clocks? When the process began, B traded A his 17th clock ... if A did not give B ALL the clocks, B would be short one clock and A would have 500 gil more than B.

Lastly, if the Quus do sell for 1k a stack, spend your first 8500 on 8 12-pack stacks. This will give you a potential of 48,000 gil provided you don't mind all the time put into the work to get the gil.

Hope this doesn't sound as boring as it looks.

Naga

Edited, Tue Jun 1 07:24:08 2004

My friend (20BLM/10WHM) keeps chattering about how easy this quest is, and yet how profitable it is. I see why now.

Quus is 1k a stack in Bastok AH on Lakshmi, two runs from Bernie pays for that.

8 does seems a little low, since it's listed as a 9-10 NM in most other places I've seen, and NM hit harder then their normal equivalents anyway.

I'd say 15 just to be safe. But then again, I'm a thief. Little def + little hp = Tough battles. ><;

I used a fishing rod for catching small fish (carbon or glass rods are recommended) and use the sibiki rig or lugworms to catch the quus. If your fishing lvl is low you run the higher chance that the rod will break, so keep that in mind especially with the choice of using bait or lures.