This quest is no longer broken. I completed it last night for the full set of caster armor. Be patient. The spiders need to be within a certain area or they will not attack.
Three things to know:
(1) The spiders ALWAYS win and they will only engage one spider at a time, even if you try to pull more. Avoid killing these spiders at all costs.
(2) Unless you are standing or sitting directly underneath the hind section of that scarab when it dies, it will NOT drop a pristine scarab case. It won't drop anything. Be careful not to aggro the spiders by getting too close. If the scarab's thorax just hits your toon's head when it falls to the ground during the fight, you are standing in the right spot.
(3) I wouldn't try to do this quest without a mount; and I would suggest using a faster one. I used the claim mount that runs at 135% of run speed and stayed pretty even with the mobs. Running back and forth on foot would get pretty tedious in a hurry.
There are two spiders that will fight the skittish scarabs. One circles just north of the larger of the two rocks in the valley and the other walks a long loop along the southwestern edge of the tarantula valley from the dune at the bottom to 2/3 of the way to the rocks in the north.
The spider in the south will engage the scarabs while it stands or walks along the eastern lip of the valley. The spider in the northern end of the valley loops between the northern dune wall and the larger of two rocks on the valley floor. There is a green area just north of the larger rock where the beetles and the spiders will fight.
Scarabs can be pulled from two locations: two next to a rock (surrounded by cobras) located just east of the entrance to the tarantula valley, and the others, which spawn from the area southwest of the tarantula valley. To move the two beetles near the cobras, I zapped them when they were north of the rock on the sides of their bodies away the snakes (one at a time) and they moved straight west.
If scarabs from either area miss the spider along the edge or the one above the rock, they will circle around the rock and head back to the area from which you pulled them. Once they get around the rock it can be pretty hard to get them turned for another cycle.
Lastly, this is a long quest. The last three acts in the quest require 15, 18 and 25 pristine scarab cases for each armor piece. You can't skip around. It has to be done sequentially.
Happy Herding!
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- Quests
- The Sinking Sands
- Beetle Herding - Act I
Beetle Herding - Act I
| Grants AA | |
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| Category | Sinking Sands |
| Level | 47 |
| Sharable | No |
| Difficulty | Solo |
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| Related Items: | |
 a bug zapper |
| Rewards: | |
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| Min Coin: 66s, 19c Max Coin: 73s, 32c |
| Players reported in July 2011 that this quest may still not give updates for the tarantulas eating the scarabs. |
This quest is given by Xilla Beetlebinder on the path that leads from the ocean to the deset area -923, -145, -343
It should be noted that this series does not reward armor, but instead each unlocks a piece of armor for sale by Xilla Beetlebinder.
The first step is to frighten a skittish scarab into the tarantulas to obtain a pristine carapace with a Battle Prod that he gives you. You do this by simply brushing against them while you have the beetle prod that Xilla gives to you. Just nudge them to the tarantula area at -1038, -112, -577 and the tarantulas will eat them.
After they have eaten the scarab it will leave a carapace that you can take to advance the quest. After this return to Xilla Beetlebinder. This opens up the Beetle Herding - Act II quest.
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This page last modified 2011-07-18 09:15:17.
Xilla Beetlebinder in the Sinking Sands has asked me to help her gather materials to make her special chitin armor. The armor can only be made if the scarab carapaces are in pristine condition. Killing them in any normal fashion would result in damaged shells that would not work for the armor. Xilla however knows a trick to gathering undamaged carapaces. Xilla lent me one of her special bug zappers, and explained that there is a certain type of scarab southeast of the tarantula valley that are highly reactive to the shocks. I need to seek out these scarabs and herd them with the bug zapper into the tarantula valley. From there the spiders' poison should do the rest of the work.
I was able to fulfill Xilla's request to gather pristine scarab carapaces.
I returned to Xilla Beetlebinder and now have access to a new piece of her special gear.I was able to fulfill Xilla's request to gather pristine scarab carapaces. I should now have access to one of her special items.
Stage 1
I need to use the bug zapper Xilla lent me to frighten skittish scarabs into the tarantula valley. From there, the spiders' poison should do the rest of the work to obtain a pristine carapace.| Start: | Frighten a skittish scarab into the tarantulas to obtain a pristine carapace. |
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| Complete: | The tarantulas left me a pristine carapace. |
Stage 2
I need to return to Xilla Beetlebinder at Sandslide Passage in Sinking Sands.| Start: | Return to Xilla Beetlebinder. |
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| Complete: | I returned to Xilla. |
| Name | Level | Type | Relation |
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| a bug zapper | 0 | Item | Given at beginning of and removed at end of quest |
| Name | Type | Low Level | High Level | Expansion |
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| The Sinking Sands | Outdoor | 45 | 60 | Desert of Flames |
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Middling Druid Co-Founder and Elder
Clan of the Wulf
Scholar
22 posts
Quest still broken or rebroken. Skittish scarabs do not cross paths with any tarantulas.
Edited, Dec 30th 2013 2:28am by stacnbake
Edited, Dec 30th 2013 2:28am by stacnbake
after some effort I was able to herd the beetle into a tarantula, who ate him but I did not get a carapace nor did the task complete. Will dump this quest as it could waste of lot of time trying to get it to work.
34 posts
Saw that these quests were going in and out of working and I just did the first three today on 1/21/11 with no problems.
27 posts
This quest was fixed in a recent patch
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Guru
6,786 posts
YAY!
I herde the beetle to the tarantula area but the spiders ignore them and the beetle makes a path around a pile of rocks and won't let me herde them deeper into dune tarantulas. Is this thing bugged???
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Guru
6,786 posts
reports are that yes, this is bugged because they moved the spiders and you can't herd the beetles there. We haven't verified it personally yet.
2 posts
Confirmed, the same exact thing is happening to me. I even got the beetle to sit about 5 feet from Siphon, who happened to be up and patrolling that middle area near the rock. Makes me want to punch something =(
Once you have bumped them into the tarantulas they will kill them.
After the kill there are two objects, the corpse of the beetle and the questitem itself. You can right click it to get the option 'take' and put it in your inventory.
Even on level 41 I never got aggro from the tarantulas.
After the kill there are two objects, the corpse of the beetle and the questitem itself. You can right click it to get the option 'take' and put it in your inventory.
Even on level 41 I never got aggro from the tarantulas.
Anonymous
Make sure when doing your beetle herding that you have the bug zapper in your inventory and that you are approaching the correct beetle.
You need to approach the 'Skittish' Beetles (The ones that fly around) and you will see a nice electrifying graphic and the beetle will move!
This works .... just did this in September of '06
You need to approach the 'Skittish' Beetles (The ones that fly around) and you will see a nice electrifying graphic and the beetle will move!
This works .... just did this in September of '06
Anonymous
I did this herding and well...how are you supposed to even retrieve this carapace solo with see invis ^^^ spiders?
That was not the main problem for me though. When the beetle died, the body disappeared quickly.
What a waste. I don't think I will waste my time on this quest for armor that is substandard when I am a T6 armorer.
That was not the main problem for me though. When the beetle died, the body disappeared quickly.
What a waste. I don't think I will waste my time on this quest for armor that is substandard when I am a T6 armorer.
Anonymous
I am torn in doing this quest as I hate to leave a series of quests unfinished. Just completed part 5 and had been collecting the armor pieces which are unusable by me and no trade. My thought is that they would sell for some gold when I returned home. They sell to Freeport merchants for 1C. So, aside from worthless armor to non plate classes, minimal exp and a huge time sink with people steaking the skittish while you work hard to kill the regular scarabs to spawn them....it is a quest completed.
Anonymous
After completing quests, she will sell armor for 1c. So far, nothing useful to my class. Would be nice if she sold items Wizzies could use.
Anonymous
Got this quest at 43
Anonymous
After finishing the quest, she'll sell you an appropriate armor piece for 1cp. I think this one was the Gauntlets:
Desert Chitin Gauntlets (Plate)
Treasured Lore No-Trade
+12 str +30 health +25 power +188 vs disease +188 vs heat
Mitigation 211
Class: Warrior Crusader Cleric (44)
Slot Hands Wt 3.5
Desert Chitin Gauntlets (Plate)
Treasured Lore No-Trade
+12 str +30 health +25 power +188 vs disease +188 vs heat
Mitigation 211
Class: Warrior Crusader Cleric (44)
Slot Hands Wt 3.5
Anonymous
As part of the quest a beetle prod gets placed in your inventory.
Move close to the skittish scarabs and they get a little electric shock and start moving. You don't need to do anything with the prod, just get close to them.
Close by there is a valley with tarantulas in it. Steer the beetles into the valley and the tarantuals attack and kill them. Then you can loot the carapace which appears on the ground.
Then you return for your reward, this is some +strengh armour which after you have hailed the npc, you can buy for 1cp.
There are Act II and Act III versions of this quest, possibly more, where you have to get three and five carapaces respectively.
Move close to the skittish scarabs and they get a little electric shock and start moving. You don't need to do anything with the prod, just get close to them.
Close by there is a valley with tarantulas in it. Steer the beetles into the valley and the tarantuals attack and kill them. Then you can loot the carapace which appears on the ground.
Then you return for your reward, this is some +strengh armour which after you have hailed the npc, you can buy for 1cp.
There are Act II and Act III versions of this quest, possibly more, where you have to get three and five carapaces respectively.
Anonymous
As soon as you come out of the valley area where you get the quest look right and there should be a beetle flying around just walk up to it towards the spiders and it will keep flying until it gets attacked by a tarantula. Let them finish fighting and it will die, pick up the carapace. After that she starts you on Act 2, now you have to do the same thing 3 more times.
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