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Pod of Seawater from Faydedar
Was the pod of seawater drop from Faydedar (untriggered) a guaranteed drop? I did a quick search and didn't come up with anything that said one way or another. At present on p99 it is not 100%.
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I've done some looking into this, just doing date specific searches and using the way back machine and here's what I pulled up if any of it can be helpful. Sorry if this is all a mess.
First, establishing our era to pull relevant info from: Epics released September 19, 2000 http://everquest.allakhazam.com/hist...es-2000-2.html "The first Druid epic (1.0) was obtained on the Mithanial Marr server by Sobe Silvertree of the guild Afterlife." Wednesday November 15, 2000 (just weeks before velious came out) http://www.afterlifeguild.org/templa...ndex_jun_dec00 March 14, 2001 3:00 am "As part of the Plane updates, we've made several adjustments to Epic quests for a number of classes." So basically, there's a window of September 19th 2000 to March 14th 2001 to search for any mention of the pod of seawater or how often fay dropped it. (would they have changed the regular fay after adding the triggered one?) Now here's a somewhat messy jumble of EVERY single link I could find in that window referencing Faydedar/pod of seawater http://web.archive.org/web/200104211....shtml?id=4470 - beastiary reference on fay, mentions pod dropping during gm event, etc http://www.100megsfree.com/ktcrhp/hints/druid.html http://www.legacyofsteel.net/Archives/Post/2000-11-20 http://thedruidpages.tripod.com/Ques...epic_quest.htm - era relevant epic guides and a post from a guild page https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q...-C-7RwA8gyGc3g - some essay or whatever. skip to page 9 "the epic quest" for fay. kinda boring. Basically, these links all mention the pod dropping 100% or otherwise suggest that a druid would just have to get a raid for fay and that was that, no multiple attempts. The only difficulty was getting fay before it got killed by the iksar master an hour or 90min or so after it popped (taken from later but less relevant links). | ||
Last edited by Zapatos; 01-29-2012 at 01:40 AM..
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I recall Faydedar always dropping the pod of seawater but couldn't really find any info one way or another. I don't see any reason why it wouldn't drop 100% of the time unless evidence is presented otherwise.
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Last edited by Fountree; 01-30-2012 at 04:58 PM..
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I've been trying to research this on and off, but I am having difficultly finding anything pre-revamp Faydedar. It is a shame that eqdruids and The Druids Grove didn't maintain archives of the 1999-2000 time period.
This is purely anecdotal, but from my recollection the epic guides at the time just said wait for Faydedar and kite him until you can get a raid force in TD to kill him (to prevent him from pathing into the Iksar Master). I personally sat a level 1 character on the spires while I xp'd on raptors and waited for the toon to get eaten. I then proceeded to kite Faydedar for 2+ hours while I got a raid force over to TD, and he dropped the pod. | ||
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Bumping this thread because right now Fay is on a cold streak of 1 pod in the last 2 months. of the last 8 Fay kills, FE has 6 and TMO has 2, the only pod dropping for TMO on 1/13. While I understand that this is just a string of really bad luck with random numbers, and that over a long period of time it is bound to happen, it is just too annoying to not post about it. Especially since I have heard of fay dropping two pods at once on p99 and recently he dropped two frost books, which was pretty funny in an ironic sense.
So from what Zapatos posted, September 19th 2000 to March 14th 2001 is the window for relevant info. This link http://web.archive.org/web/200012032....shtml?id=4470 makes mention of fay dropping pods at the Halloween gm event. Most other posts that talk about fay's loot are from before Sept 14, and so they do not make mention of the pod. The other three links about how to get a druid epic from above http://www.100megsfree.com/ktcrhp/hints/druid.html http://www.legacyofsteel.net/Archives/Post/2000-11-20 http://thedruidpages.tripod.com/Ques...epic_quest.htm all mention just going and killing Fay. I only see a date for the middle link, but that one at least fits the timeline. At first this link seems promising http://thedruidsgrove.org/archive/eq/t-13210.html (nov, 2000) until he mentions being lvl 70 and VS remains, so it was clearly edited later. but I think some of the replies to this post are unchanged because they talk about how hard fay is to simply find up (after the revamp, he was trigger-able, and thus not hard to find, only 'hard' to kill). another post very soon after the revamp also urges the OP to talk about spawning fay wtih the froglok esscense, so we can assume the OP was edited. These comments below I believe to be unedited and relevant: Quote:
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The last point I want to make is that the druid epic quest involves many drops from corrupted mobs, with Fay being the hardest, most epic one to kill. ALL of the other corrupted mobs drop their loot 100% of the time. It would seem natural that Fay does the same. This isn't the best argument because all the other mobs a) are called Corrupted XYZ and b) all the corrupted spawn from killing a Tainted XYZ not always with a 100% chance of spawning. Anyway, this is my argument that Fay should drop his pod 100% of the time, or at least more often than once in two months. Comments? Questions? Other research? thanks. | ||||||
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Fixed, pending update.
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grats druids
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