Sorcery of the North  

Went as a 70 rdm/ 15 thf. Got the key on the second shadow. Was Psyched as I'd just been working the Ivory Lizards for the Yhoat Marble and figured this would be more of the same... The chest took a bit longer... popped twice but both times there was someone there to grab it. Third one was mine. :) Was a little iffy abut the lower level as some of the mobs /checked as ep but nothing aggo'ed me. Fairly straight-forward quest.

just did this as 71thf, super easy. ran in, found the chest and poped it with a living key. i feel sorry for all you suckers who have to farm keys, thf > all

I have max fame in Sandy, have done almost all the Quest here but Eperdur will not give me the quest just tells me "May Paradise open it's gates to you."any help or ideas would be appreciated.

Hey, I want to do the Vazhl quest but he gave me the holla quest, and now he won't give me orders for the vazhl quest what do I do?

this may souund stupid but do you have to do the other tele quest or have a certian amount of fame to get the quest from this guy.. i've done like 25 different quests in sandy and i cant get this one or the one for drain and the one for the maps of the northern region.. i've talked to the guy in south sandy and he says i'm not famous yet.. what am i supposed to do??

I helped out a Lvl 42 whm with this today,(got the key on the second Shadow). Found the chest the same time as other campers did. The whm was slow in trading it. Just wondering what else this chest drops? As there was about 10 other ppl camping chest.

I bought Teleport-Vahzl at lv42 because I knew I couldn't do this quest at my level. So, one day in Jeuno I found a RNG74/THF37 (thanks Pedroucant ^_^) shouting for a little help on the quest. I took the opportunity and he and I (WHM50/SMN25)went out to Fei'Yin and started huntin the key. After an hour or so, we had 2 keys and started lookin for the chest. Unfortunately, someone got to the chest before us, and the RNG found out there's a 30min respawn time on the chest. So, we agreed that I'd log and find the chest myself.

When I got back on the next day, I printed off the first map of Fei'Yin, not realizing you had to go through the second map to get to one section of the first map. I searched all through the first map, then realized I couldn't get to one half of it unless I went through the second half. So, I try to wing it through the second map, and soon give up. I logged out for safety and printed out the second map. I log back on, and a trio of bats are staring me in the face.

So, I say a little prayer and manage to summon a half-level Earth Spirit. The Earth Spirit, by some miracle, managed to hit the bats on its first attempt, and I start casting Reraise. The Earth Spirit goes down in 2 hits, when I'm at 60%... then, the bats hit me. I was waiting for the dreaded "Matjlav's casting is interrupted" message, but it didn't come, and I casted the spell! ^^

One hit later, my face is on the floor. After waiting for the bats to fly a little bit away, I reraise, cast Sneak, cure myself, and go on my way. I find the stairs; and while going up I lose Weakened status. I don't cure myself or rest, thinking: "Auto Refresh is covering my MP; if I keep sneak and invis up I won't get aggro anyway, so HP doesn't matter." Wrong-o. At the top of the stairs there is a pair of Specters, they blood aggro me, one comes over and critical hits me, and I die. I try to reraise, same thing happens.

With no RR this time, I had to wait for a kind RDM75 named Uriah to come and Raise me. His DRK friend kills one of the specters, and the other one is kinda far away so we all figured it wouldn't aggro me. The RDM raises me, and then I see "The Specter starts casting Thunder II." I wave goodbye and die again. Then the RDM and DRK clear the entire room of Specters for me, and the RDM raises me again.

This time, it works. Back among the living, he cures me, I sneak and invis, and start resting. (I wasn't gonna let that un-weakened blood aggro happen again). After weakened wears off and I'm at full HP and MP, I run to the next room and bam! There's the chest. I trade my key and happily receive my Magic Tome. I teleported out to Altepa and outpost warped to Sandy, talked to Eperdur, and he gave me my scroll. I sold it for a nice 320k, making my death-fest worth all the effort.

Hello Holy Shield and Lilith's Rod!! ^^

I completed this tonight with no real difficulty as a 60PLD/WHM. The only things close to problems I had were these: I could only kill the Shadows slowly and it took three hours to get a key drop. Finding the chest is easy; use ffxi-atlas.com.

My advice to others is to take along someone with TH, or go as /THF yourself. It'll probably be worth it to sacrifice the healing ability gained by being /WHM.

Good hunting!

Was is in Fei'yin doing Body AF piece & finished that with help of 74SMN (Thanks Stephen).
So he says he can help with the key for a bit and we get key from first shadow drop.

I spent maybe 20 min, checked all the chests and nothing. I took a 5min. break and checked the Ore Golem room (K-9) and there it was. Good thing it was there too so no aggro from losing sneak.

Last night a couple of LS members came with me to help get the key. Only took about 30 minutes to get two keys off of the Shadow. Well, I spent a good solid 3 hours hunting that damn chest down. I was running through all rooms, looking at spawn points on internet and running from one part of the map to the basement to the other part of the map. I could not get it. There were so many people camping the chest. After about 3 hours I finally got killed by a Golem and a Ghost. I was so pissed I was almost willing to just pay the 500k for the scroll.

Tonight I traveled from East Ronf. to FeiYin (my first run to it solo and no map). Finally got to FeiYin and checked a couple of areas. Only 4 other people were in there other than me and 3 looked as if getting ready to do BC run. I did a quick shout for help and within 10 seconds I spotted the chest. So what took 3 hours last night with failure only took 3 minutes tonight.

Dont lose hope if you are having problems getting the chest. Just go when not many people are there.

Just soloed this at a 65drk/thf.

Only problem was I could only kill 2 shadows before I needed to rest. Also fought some Ore Golems as I could drain those for health.

Key finally dropped from a shadow after about 40 mins. Not a soul in Fei'Yin and found the chest 1 minute after getting key.

If you have a whm or rdm willing to tag along it will save you some time. Scroll is upto 800k on Caitsith.

http://www.ffxi-maps.com/feiyin.htm

I helped 3 whms at different times do this quest (plus for myself), DRK 56, they were easy to kill with a whm healing me after they kept using dimensional death. Anyway the key took me forever to get the first time; The chest, however, was in the first location i checked everytime except with the third WHM. Had to go through the basement to the harder part of the first floor to get the chest, what a pain, at least we all got it and now i've been trying to find the chest again so that i can try to get the item in it...wish me luck ^^

while soloing these shadows, i got treasury gold ingot thingy for a quest in san d'oria. i got my key on my first trip. i guess this quest isn't so hard if you're a high lvl. i think i was lvl 66 or something rdm. =P

Tele-Vahzl goes for 230k now on Phoenix....