You obtain a Map of the Quicksand Caves!

Only 13 months ago I got my last coffer key for the Quicksand Caves, and opted to use it for DRG AF. I never bothered going back for the map, because I didn't really need it but now with MKD you actually need that map to complete the missions.


After a jolly 2 hours of farming, I finally get the key to drop, and of course the coffer I've been farming around all that time has been opened, so I have to look for another.


Mog expansion is terrible. It seems every quest is either a really long tedious fetch quest, or forces you into a bottleneck to compete with other players for limited resources, or both. The cardian one is probably the only exception to this, as you can at least team up with other people so everyone can get the key items at once.


The story is better than ACP at the very least, but it doesn't take much to beat that nonsensical drivel.


I also had a go at the new weapon augment quest with a pick-up group that were shouting in whitegate.


The main guy is a bit annoying, because he's built like a brick wall and is unsleepable from the looks of it, so you have to kite/tank him (pld/nin with atonement is pretty nice for this) while the other DDs take down his wivre adds (which can be significantly slowed down by aoe attack down). He goes into a nasty headbutt-spam mode when he uses invincible (multiple times) which somehow one-shotted our pld on the third try. We still recovered and kited until weakness wore off, as it's incredibly easy to kite but it did lead to hate problems toward the end as I had to spam dispel along with being the only healer.


We did 3 runs, because there were other groups showing up, and we were already taking it in turns with 1 other group to do the fight (only 1 can go at a time) plus I had to go to dynamis, so that was cut short. As usual, I get junk augments until the 100th time, but this can get up to +5 damage and +3 STR/DEX which should beat my Thalassocrat. Obviously the best I get only matches a thalasso in DD stats, but is actually inferior due to the lack of evasion down additional effect. At least the DRG weapon is cheap.