All by Myself

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Start NPC Marin - Bastok Markets (E-10) Requirements Bastok Reputation 2 Repeatable Yes Reward 1,500g

Contents 1 Walkthrough 2 General notes on Escort quests 3 Game Description

Walkthrough

• Marin wants you to tag along and watch over her brother Ken, who has applied for the military academy, and needs to survey a part of Dangruf Wadi as entrance exam. Ken however insists that he doesn't need your help.
• When Ken asks you not to interfere, select "I wasn't talking to you, squirt!" to start the quest.
• The whole quest will be capped at level 10. Change to a curative job (or any job combination that allows you to cure at level 10). You will probably have to cure a lot, so keep that in mind.
• Zone into Dangruf Wadi and you will get a cutscene in which Ken will tell you to leave him alone.
• To start the escort, talk to him again. He will tell you that if he sees you, he'll go home, so you have to stay out of his sight for the whole trip while making sure he doesn't die.
• You are then capped at level 10 and Ken starts moving.
• Follow him without being seen and keep him alive. See notes below.
• Once he's back at the zone he'll say something and zone out. That's when Marin will appear. Talk to her to obtain a Ken's escort reward and to remove your level cap.
• Go back to Bastok and talk to Marin to receive your reward, 1500 gil.

Notes on the quest:

• Invisible status will wear off instantly, be it by someone else casting it on you, by using Prism Powders or even Tonko: Ichi.
• Ken has HNM sight radius, which means if you can see him, he can see you.
• He has the natural 90 degrees area of sight in front of him, but he turns and moves around a lot.
• His HP will drop, and he can (and most likely will) be killed if you don't cure him, so ignoring him is not an option.
• When you're running low on MP try to cure him to full HP fast and rest. It takes a while for his HP to drop again, which gives you time to rest and catch up with him.
• His trip is one set path (see [1]). He does a loop on the left-hand side of the entrance of Dangruf Wadi and goes through a few regions.
• When he engages a monster, he will run off to fight it, but will return to the point where he left off before continuing his path. This means that he will turn around abruptly after the battle ends, unless there's another mob he needs to fight first. Be aware that he ignores terrain while returning to the point he left off from and takes the straightest line, even if that involves running straight over normally impassable rocks.
• The only time that is really safe to cure him is while he's in a battle. But keep in mind that he might turn around right after the battle ends.
• Outside cures won't have any effect, only the escort can cure him.
• Alliance members won't be capped, but can't heal him either.
• From time to time he will stop and look around, so make sure you're out of sight by hiding behind the surrounding rocks.
• Other players cannot engage Ken's targets, even though they don't appear claimed.
• A higher level player not in the party can run ahead of Ken and kill most or all of the mobs in his way. This will drastically reduce the difficulty on this quest.
• You have 30 minutes in total to complete this quest. The countdown starts as soon as you enter Dangruf Wadi, not when you talk to Ken. Also you need to talk to him within 5 minutes after zoning into the area or he'll leave and you have to rezone to start.

General notes on Escort quests

• Any of the escort quests can be easily deactivated by talking to the same person who gave you the quest.
• If the escortee dies, you only have to zone out and zone back in to restart the quest.
• This quest can be completed once per Conquest Tally.
• You can not sneak or invisible the escortee.

Game Description

Client

Marin (Kulatz Bridge, Bastok Markets)

Summary

Marin wants you to watch over her little brother Ken, and make sure nothing happens to him during his military academy exam. Hopefully, this does not count as cheating...