To address your specific "complaint" you can't get that stuff until you talk to him, so it makes it pointless to tell you to go after the items prior to. Even if it were feasible, you might want to go through the entire guide to ensure you know the requirements. This guide is at the top. The idea of RS gold blaming other people and blame the other for your lack of shrewdness makes it easier to transfer the responsibility of the quest onto other people.
If you follow the quest log here and the guide, the task isn't that difficult. If you find the quest to be confusing or too hard for you, then please submit suggestions and suggestions for improvements.
If you aren't satisfied with the guides here, then go be a forum member somewhere else. It doesn't hurt to buy OSRS gold actually think through what you need to do instead of just depending on a guidebook to get you through. It's not Sal's or the guide that's failed you; it's you.
