Beetle Herding - Act I

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Sinking Sands Timeline [edit] Solo Series Kallon Ebbtide 1.1. Kallon's Vengeance Numair 2.1. Cooking Crocodiles 2.2. Diggers for Dinner 2.3. A Terrible Crime 2.4. Scarabs and Spiders Aliyyah the Embalmer 3.1. Unravelling the Mummies 3.2. Grisly Gathering 3.3. More Mummies? 3.4. Osseous Investigations 3.5. Undead Investigations 3.6. Sul'Dal Studies Xilla Beetlebinder 4.1. Beetle Herding - Act I 4.2. Beetle Herding - Act II 4.3. Beetle Herding - Act III 4.4. Beetle Herding - Act IV 4.5. Beetle Herding - Act V 4.6. Beetle Herding - Act VI 4.7. Beetle Herding - Act VII 4.8. Beetle Herding - Final Act Repeatable Quests 5.1. Mender Mending 5.2. Noxious Roundup 5.3. Sand Thing Special Heroic Series El'Khazi, Purveyor of Fine Carpets 6.1. Threads of the Desert 6.2. Scouring the Sands 6.3. Rocky Correspondence 6.4. The Spirit of Ab'Zheri Fahad Nuhayd 7.1. Stopping the Flow Ghassan the Trader Timeline

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EverQuest 2 Quest Information

Journal Category	Sinking Sands  (AA)
Journal Level	47 (Tier 5)
Journal Difficulty	Solo
Starting Zone	The Sinking Sands more
How to Start	Talk to Xilla Beetlebinder, who is found on the beach path, just before it reaches the desert. ( -920, -140, -340 ) /waypoint -920, -140, -340
part of: Sinking Sands Timeline Preceded by: none Followed by: Beetle Herding - Act II
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What does this information mean?

This is part 1 of 8 in the Beetle Herding series in the Sinking Sands Timeline.

[edit] Steps

All of the quests in this series work the same way:

1. Xilla gives you A Bug Zapper.
   • When the bug zapper is in your inventory, any a skittish scarab that you approach will automatically herd toward the tarantula field ( -1061.92, -114.92, -589.22 ) /waypoint -1061.92, -114.92, -589.22. Tarantulas kill scarabs on sight, with a huge aggro radius.
2. Herd a skittish scarab to its death.
   • You must stay fairly close to the scarab, to keep it moving toward the tarantula field.
   • Skittish scarabs spawn throughout the flat area north of Xilla (between her and the chimney). You can spot them from a distance because they fly non-stop.
   • There are a max of 4 skittish scarabs. If no one has been hunting them when you come along, all 4 will be up. They do NOT share spawn points with the normal dune scarabs.
3. Retrieve the dead scarab's carapace. You have to stay almost next to the scarab to get the carapace.
   • When a tarantula kills a skittish scarab that you herded, a carapace will appear on the ground. Right-click the carapace to pick it up.

   Note: You can pickup carapaces from a long distance away. There is no need to be attacked by tarantulas. They normally walk away after killing a scarab.

4. Return to Xilla to receive your reward.

[edit] Rewards

• At least 2g 99s 47c
• Purchase the following from Xilla for 1c:
  • Desert Chitin Gauntlets