This quote from Allakhazam (
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=5608) would seem to contradict my memory:
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If you kill a big tar goo the ones that spawn from it will gaurd your corpse, I speak from experience. No they dont stay at the spot you spawned them because I moved from that spot. I also died a second time trying to retrieve my first corpse, they gaurded that corpse as well. Like most things in WL they will track you down from across the zone if you are on their hate list, even if you root by kael and run to SS zone with sow, they will find you. CR sucks when you dont have sow, are naked, and two mobs double hitting you for 107 each. I dont know how long the goos will gaurd your corpse or even if they will despawn after time. They stayed on my corpse for atleast an hour I am sure of.
P.S Though its hard for me to believe I could swear they tracked me down even after I zoned out and back in. Maybe someone trained my same goos back on me but I didnt see anyone run past nor did the grp I was with. Messes with you psycholigicaly when stuff like that happens [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
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... but it seems highly suspect. Nothing in EverQuest corpse camped you for hours!
What seems far more likely is either A) the guy was bound nearby, and came back to find the goos hadn't despawned yet (within a reasonable time of a few minutes), but then they exaggerated it to "an hour", or B) there was some kind of legit Verant bug in the despawning code.
As the following comment puts it:
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LMAO
shoo goos
sorry you had a bad time, but they *prolly* didnt track you after you zoned =)
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Meanwhile, I have a strong memory of racing to get back to a goo before its mini-goos despawned (because the mini-goos had all the good drops). I think this probably happened multiple times: I'd beat the main goo, but not have enough hp/mana to take the small goos, and have to gate/die.
On live I was NOT pots-bound, and as a Shaman I tended to bind near where I was soloing. If it actually took an hour to despawn, even if I was bound in Kael or something, there's no way I'd have to rush to try and get back before they despawned.