Healer's Cap  

If you already managed to acquire your key, and are just having difficulty getting enough people to get through all those banishing gates, there's an alternate method to getting to the all the coffer spawn areas in G.C. solo now. See link to post in the thread for this AF quest at


Hunting Down Your GC Coffer - Solo Style

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/quests.html?fquest=326;mid=1217587613251006629;page=1;howmany=50#m1217587613251006629

Edited, Sep 5th 2008 10:35am by Baddaboomz

I'm on Pandemonium and I finally got enough people to help me open the gates yesterday. many thanks to darkstalker, erik and andrewmd for being willing to help not only open the gates but help to hunt for the coffer. /bow

It's pretty safe to assume you need the quest "Borghertz's Healing Hands" quest to obtain this hat. You need it to obtain all Artifact Piece pertaining to the job that come from coffers. The hands part of the quest involves opening a coffer, getting some old gauntlets, and fighting an NM in Castle Zhval Baileys to finish the quest. However, you must have this quest active to get other pieces of artifact from other coffers. This is because within this quest Guslam tells you of the artifact pieces found throughout Vanadiel. You can't find something you don't know about.

You must activate the quest for each set of AF you intend to get. Even if you're 6/6 AF for Whitemage, you need to activate the quest AGAIN to get the Artifacts for Ranger.

Talk to Guslam in (H-8)of Upper Jeuno in the Durable Shields store to obtain this quest.

i got this today ^^ had a BLM lvl 60 and a lvl 75 ninja who subed thf the ninja did all the work for the coffer drop i just had to haste her and the blm nuked the crap out of it when needed then we found a 4th to tag along which was a mnk and that was for the banishing gates becuase you need 4 to get passed them ran arround and finally found the chest i love it really cool looking
>=) tho i must say ill probably switch back and forth with my gold hairpin for the mp boost

I was very lucky with this one - I raised a character in a party at banishing gate #1, and the party opened the gate for me to get through. Once inside, I ran into a party including a few people from my own LS. They very kindly took me through to banishing gate #3 and opened it for me.
If you are camping the coffer, this is the one I would recommend ... once in through the gate there is a short hall to the left with a haunt in it - spawn #1. Back past the door again there is a hallway off to the right - follow this till it ends but do NOT turn the corner (there is a drop off there that you can't get back up). This is spawn point #2.
Back to the junction again and turn right - just before the steps is spawn point #3. Continue up the steps, there is a left turn, and at the top there is a zone out to sauromugue and a safe place to rest while you wait.
I went back in and checked every 15 minutes and found the coffer on the third try.
Don't forget that the skeles and the haunt only aggro to sound so you only need sneak. Also don't forget that when you open the coffer, sneak WILL drop so be ready to resneak or warp quickly!

As a final comment, a special message to the designers of this particular hat: don't give up your day job! It is one of the ugliest pieces of equipment I have ever seen in my life - my character looks like a cross between a mandragora and a sherpa wearing it! It only comes in one size and is too big for a galka so my small hume female looks like a mandragora! I'll reserve my comments on the rest of the clown suit to the relevant items but after several conversations with others I'm not the only one that doesn't like the style!

Hardest thing by far for me was the actual finding of the coffer and organizing a party to go and open the banishing gates with me.

The actual getting the key was a piece of cake. I shouted for a skill up party in Jeuno, and within an hour I had 5 people ready and willing. Once I got the key everyone left, I though, "Okay, no biggie, I'll come back with a few friends and we'll find me a coffer!" But boy did I have no clue what I was getting into...

First try I set out with a 50WHM, 60DRG, 51DRK, and 53WHM(me). We were going alright, and decided to hit the Gate #2 first. We get there, and 2 of the 4 didn't know what to do. That had dire consequences...the DRG lost sneak, and died since all the skeletons aggroed to her low HP. We knew we couldnt' Raise her so she HP'ed while we waited around with Sneak up. Next the PLD didn't pay attention or didn't see what was going on and got aggroed by a Citadel Bat. She died, and me and the other WHM died as well. x_X

By then the DRG had already made her way back up in to Garlaige, so we HP'ed and set out again, this time minus the DRK(she almost de-leveled) and with someone else, a 53RDM, and a 49SAM(he needed Papy). We got through the banishing gate and lo and behold a BST released his pet in front of our DRG and MPK'ed her(the b*stard) because she took a bomb from him(she thinks). ^^;

Anyway, she HP'ed and we proceeded with our 4 to try and atleast open one gate. Then...the SAM lost his sneak and decided not to say anything...leading to all of us dying again.

All i got out of this was that through the entire first try I was a lone man with 3 women, which wasn't bad. Other than that, I *highly* recommend either briefing extensively the party you are with, or finding people who know what to do.

At this very moment I'm writing this I'm past banishing Gate #3 all alone, as I had helped a THF friend get her AF Bonnet done(the part in Sauromugue Champlain). I hope I have the coffer pop here soon, too bad it only has 3/7 possible spawn points...good luck^^

lvl 53 whm. I have quest activated just need some help to get coffer key and coffer chest if u can help give a /tell to finalcure.


Server: Kujata
Charcter: Finalcure
Rank: 4
Jobs: Whm 53, Rdm 30, Smn 21, Blm 17, Nin 15,
Rng 15

o boy, lots of fun here....

Lucky got mine today before maintenace. Was in Banishing Gates #3 and the server message came up to log off now so I looked one more time and there it was sitting next to the Wraith so I quickly got it but died from the Wraith. Who cares, got my Healer's Cap! :)

Make sure to bring a party with you for the AF armor... otherwise this can happen...

http://hometown.aol.com/reubinalexander/dswhmaf.html

When I talked to Guslam, I got the quest for the healer's mitts, not the cap. I talked to him again and I can't get the cap quest. I am a little confused, anyone have a suggestion?

You talk to Guslam* in Upper Jeuno Durable sheilds and you only need ot have the AF2 quest activated. You talk to this Galka for ANY jobs Coffer AF once you have completed AF2