Talk:Beetle Herding - Act I

The quest is very picky about when the shells will appear. If you scare the scarab into the pit with the tarantulas and the tarantula sees it and kills it after the blue glow has gone away from the scarab you will probably not get a shell. I lost 3 chances at getting a shell to this problem. It is also a good idea to kill anything aggro in the area, like ghouls or dune spiders, so that you don't get attacked while zapping the scarabs.