Borghertz's Stalwart Hands  

I believe that its not your AF1 that's required (namely your weapon), but your boots (AF2).

If you don't have your boots done or at least started on, you don't get this quest, I'm pretty sure of it.

My friend, a RDM, had his boots buried and ready to be picked up when Guslam offered him this quest. He was level 50, so I'm pretty sure that if your boots are started or near completed, it should be enough to start on this one.

Well, after a month of being level 54 I decided to finally try to find help with the Eldieme Coffer Key. After 3 hours of searching in Jeuno here is the party I was able to assemble:

60PLD/WAR (needs key)
54PLD/WAR (me & also needs key)
54PLD/WAR (needs key)
54BLM/WHM (needs key)
61PLD/WAR
68BLM/WHM (needs key)
62WHM/BLM
54RDM/WHM (needs key)
56PLD/WAR (needs key)
54DRK/THF (needs key)

Overall I thought there was no chance of me getting a key when practically everyone needed one. We make it to the Hume Bones room, and start pulling. After one hour 2 keys have dropped, and I lost both lots. Another hour pasts, and another key drops (lost again). People start leaving one by one. I finally get my key after 5 hours of constant killing. Out of the eight keys we needed to get we got 6 total (only the other 54PLD was left w/o one). I felt bad for him, but I could not stay up any longer.

Also about halfway through a 58THF/NIN joined and the drops seemed to speed up so TH2 did seem to help.

I'm a level 55 paladin and I'm stuck without these. I am on the Ramuh server. If anyone lvl 65+ is willing to help please put a post up here or message me. The name is Hythla. I am on a lot so please some one help me out!

Okay I tried doing this tonight. I was down there for maybe 3-4 hours can't really remember. Anyway it sucked. We had one lvl 70+ person with us and he was a JP PLD. We had almost a full alliance with mainly lvls 54-62. Nine ppl needed the key (including me). Only 3 ppl got one. About half the alloiance left and eventually we got wiped out by a tomb warrior, tomb mage and a haunt. I had to HP and lost a little over 1k xp. (Thank God for Moghancement Experience)

What a pain in the *** this was... just getting the coffer key was hard enough had to pay some chump 40k gil to get it for me. but the rest of the quest is easy enough with a good pt of level 55+ killing the NM dark sparle. but I will never do this again AF is hard and a pain. lol hee hee

omg 5 hrs later in a lvl 75 pt and i STILL have not gotten a drop... this is BS we havent stopped killing in the past 5 hrs and i think at this rate ill end up hitting 57 before i get this key with the 2-8 xp im getting a fight....

Edit: i finally got my drop lil after this post...

Edited, Mon Jun 28 12:05:11 2004

There are several places to camp for the Tomb Mages and Tomb Warriors that are the easiest to kill for the Eldieme Coffer Key... I'm gonna be referring to spots on the following Map of Eldieme Necropolis so you might wanna have that open in a seperate window.


What to bring with you:
- Map of Eldieme Necropolis (duh)
- No less than two pt members who can Sneak/Invis
- A couple of ppl with Curaga and Blindna
- Party of 5-6 54+ preferably (too many and the AoE drain special from the tombs will be annoying as hell)
- Good damage, preferably a MNK or two, but SAMs and DRKs work well too
- A person w/ SMN subbed to pull w/ summon if you want to save time


Camp: Tomb Camp Ledge *NEW!*

On entering Eldieme, sneak up make your way to point (C) on map #1. You may need to hit the East Plate once to get the passageway open, but only once should be needed because you should have a clear path to the large West Room.

When in the room, drop down one of the square graves to reach point (C) on map #2. Reapply sneak if needed then head to ledge located in (K-11) on map #2. There are 4 tomb skeletons available here for pull, and the mobs below the ledge shouldn't be a problem as long as you keep your hp out of the orange-red. If there is an emergency, the zone to Batallia is also behind you off the ledge and is easily accessible.

I used this camp the other day and we got 3 keys in less than an hour. I think it had less to do with where we were camping and more to do with the fact that we were extremely lucky, but this was a great camp nonetheless.


Camp: Hume Bones Room

To get there, you need one sneak/invis person to go to the door switch @(H-8) (East Plate) (Map #1 in link). Have the rest of the pt sneak up and break for the door at the SE corner of (G-8). Have the door switch person hit the East Plate as many times as it takes for the others to get into the (G-8) door and then your pt will need to use the switch inside (G-8) to allow the remaining member free passage to the pt.

When the entire pt is in center room at (G-8), drop down the through the floor (square of gravel) to (L-10) on map #2. Get to the room @(M-10) w/ the hume bones and you should be able to camp here safely. Kill the lich and the 2 fallens in the room east of you (unless you brought a SMN) so you can pull Tomb Mages and Tomb Warriors safely from tunnel in (N-8) through (N-10). There are also Dark Stalkers around that your WHM will need to kill for their AF so you can pick those off while waiting for Tombs to re-spawn.

Sidenote: If your pt can take them, haunts and Sprrigans also drop the key and spawn in the tunnel w/ the Tombs


Camp: Ahtu Tunnel

There is an alternative camp that provides access to 4 more Tomb spawns. There are less spawns, but it is very close to a zone in case something goes wrong and your pt needs to run. Have that person go to the East Plate at (H-8) in map #1 while the pt breaks for the junction @(H-9). Hit the East Plate until the entire pt has access to the large southern room on map #1. Then have 1 person use the South Plate at the north side of the room to allow the East Plate person free passage to the party.

Once everybody's gathered in the south room, drop through the center grave and you should be at (L-12) or map #2. Head east until you end up on map #3 then head to the stairs @(I-6). The four tombs spawn in the rooms you passed at (I-7). Be careful, there are possible adds at this camp, but the zone to Batallia is just past the top of the stairs (J-6) and is quick to get to.


Be patient, this key is an awfully infrequent drop so don't bring too many ppl who need it along and expect everybody to leave happy. I have a PLD buddy who has camped this key off and on for 6 weeks and still hasn't seen a drop ><.

Hunting the Coffer Chest
Good news is the chest isn't too hard to find, and you can use the followingTreasure Map to find the chests. The two places that I have seen it spawn before are at the switch in (G-9) and the spawn off Beaucedine Glacier (where I got mine). Unless you're going for through the glacier, make sure to bring two ppl who can sneak/invis to operate the door switches. And also, the spawns on map #2 are accessible by dropping through the floor in the north and south rooms of map #1.


Good luck hunting!