Garlaige Citidel, Banishing gate banishment

[EricBiggs]

I am sure that most people are like me and get supremely depressed when they get a job to AF levels that requires a coffer in Garlaige Citidel. You can count on shouting endlessly in Jeuno and Whitegate for help and not receive any unless you offer a substantial gil reward. Even linkshell members shrink back in fear of venturing forth into that bat and beetle infested derelict keep. SE please help us. We need a way to prop those infernal doors open, I see stones easily the size of 2 large Tarutaru sitting by the pressure plates, please get a galka to move them onto the plates so that the screaming in the cities can end once and for all.

[Kjara]

As far as I'm the first one to agree that help has got harder and harder to come by, SE has already done something to help people with your problem, and you can in fact solo past door 2 and 3 to reach the coffers now^^

To check past door 3: Retrace, enter Garlaige Citadel (S) and follow the left wall up to the fork in H-7, then turn right and follow the left wall again. This will soon bring you outside back in Sauromugue Campaign, where the cavernous maw is. Go across it, and back in the present. Now, enter Garlaige Citadel by the door near the maw and you'll be past gate 3!

To check past door 2: If the coffer isn't behind gate 3, don't leave just yet! Follow the only possible path, down some broken stairs. After you drop, simply bring up the map and head to G-10, where you will find yet another broken stair, and a sparkling light. Trade a flower to the sparking light to be warped above the broken stair's ledge, giving you access to all the coffer spots pasta Gate 2! (Note: To be able to be warped by the light, you must first get a cutscene in Garlaige Citadel (S) by talking to a Lycopium NPC. Its position should be the same of the sparking light, behind a door.

Hope this helps you find all your AF. It really helped me on mine!

[Volkai]

Banishing Gates are just a reinforcement that FFXI is a game about working with your friends to achieve your goals.

[Gropitou]

Used to hate all AF quests in that zone till they came out with the Maws and Lypocodium npcs, now love being able to solo them. Maybe one day they will extend this to The Eldieme Necropolis gate system also.

[Kingofgeeks]

yeah they already solved this using the past... (as stated above)

[thefinalrune]

Except in the cases where your AF quests specifically require passing through the gates, such as the quest for the THF artifact feet. There is no way to complete this test if you don't have four people to allow you access through the gate.

[Kuvo]

They should make it like the quest where you can get the KI to open the 3 mages gate in the ruins. Make a quest where you can get a key item that will open the banishing gates in GC and another quest for EN.

[RAIST]

Not trying to troll, I'm seriously curious about this....does no one make friends and join linkshells with the intent of doing things together any more?

Just seems like there is a growing number of threads like this...."omg this can't be done solo and no matter how much I shout I can't get anyone to team up with me, so SE needs to change it to make it soloable".

[bungiefan]

Not trying to troll, I'm seriously curious about this....does no one make friends and join linkshells with the intent of doing things together any more?

I don't know anyone in my time zone that plays, much less on my server in my time zone. My LS is on EST, and I'm in Alaska, so I'm 4 hours behind them. I play mainly in the evenings and nights, and my LS has usually gone to bed by the time I get home from work. If I'm lucky, I can get one person from the LS to help me with something, and I have a few things that need a full party.

[RAIST]

Don't have any on late during the weekends that you can make plans with? ...may be time to get another pearl from people more in your time zone. There are a LOT of West Coast players. Have a lot in my main shell that don't get on till 11pm or later my time, and they routinely hop to other shells once everyone on our side goes to bed. It doesn't prevent us from setting up times to do stuff with them.