f'ed up thing was we had a clipper built by next morning but it was more the lets see if we can do it than anything else. Me and another guildmate started off swimming. The following happen (both of us in our mid 20's).
1. Jellyfish attacks by range about 8% of the way there. We had our mounts out swimming next to us in a chance to grab agro. It worked thankfully because after getting smacked, dropping to 10% health, the jellyfish went on to tag our mounts allowing us to dash swim out away from it.
2. About half way there, 20 to 30 mins of swimming maybe, we had to shake and bake a whole line of sea bug / beetles
3. Whew almost there we can see the Western shore line. At least four to five large ships or clippers go by and a row boat here and there. We dip under the water. Here is where I fucked up. I started suffocating out of oxygen. Thought I was fine just under the surface riding the water but no you need to be head fully out of the water. Still in the deep part of the ocean my pack dropped all the way down. My buddy had a outlaw buff on him, as I stayed on my corpse watching him, he was swimming over to a empty rowboat when one of our own eastern faction peeps, Obsidian Fear, rolled up on their clipper dropping him thus sending him directly to trial and 28 mins of jail time.
4. I released back on the Eastern continent but made the swim again to my pack. Remember you can see your grave site of your most recent death on the main map. Once I got there I had to swim down, pick up the pack, and move it over to a hill / knob under the deep waters suffocating probably five times, moving it 20 meters each time or so, till I had it on a high enough underwater hill to pick it up and still reach the surface with out drowning. Thankfully I was respawning on the closer western side or I would have gave up.
5. Finally make it to the Western land. I was south of the Throne of the Crescent / quest turn on the docks. Of course I get jacked in the water cove there by a glider pker from the Western faction after already dodging sharks and other players on boats
6. Ok almost there, you dont have to turn in the pack to get the large scarecrow quest completed, just swim with the radius of the quest line. Some Nui sorc blasts me from the docs just a hair away from completing. Came back one more time, got the pack, swam in the radius to complete it and said fuck the gilda star.
So it can be done but I would advise waiting on a clipper.
Can easily rush through the quest to get rowboat while bananas are growing and don't have to worry about radar or anything at that point. Real cockblock is going to be when everyone and their mother is trying to get 100 lumber to build that large farm and all the secret tree farms that will be everywhere, criminals will be making bank.
