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:
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Tristinn Wolvesbane
11-22-2000, 08:24 PM
Its not really that hard...
One of the easiest really. Cept for Faydedar, cause of his spawn situation and zone he is in.
HaroTTM
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11-23-2000, 02:01 AM
Believe me, I work 40 hours a week, even on weekends. Most of the mobs I camped during the week at my free days.
If you are in an Uberguild the only hard thing to get is Faydedar. The rest is cake and only a question of time if u have someone that can come fast to help you for a few parts.
Haro Doomwolf
57 Preserver of Karana
Darkwind / Solusek Ro
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What is really interesting is that searching for "pod" in all of these links yields almost no results. that is because, imo, killing fay was equivalent to getting a pod. if the pod was not a 100% drop, people would have mentioned "kill fay and hope for a pod" or "i killed fay twice before i got my pod" or "i killed fay but where is my pod?!?!?!", etc.
another long post from the most recent link..
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Feyn
01-17-2001, 10:15 AM
I write this summary in the hopes that it will aid you in your fight with
Faydedar. I do not claim that this is the only way to battle him. I do
hope that my advice will help improve your odds of being successful when he
finally does spawn. I would also like to thank those that have done such notable work in the initial research of our epic quest.
I have been involved with four fights with the elusive Faydedar, and this is
a compellation of what I have learned in those encounters. If you have not
yet printed yourself a map of Timorous Deep I strongly recommend you do
before going any farther. Next, I recommend that you have an "assister"
available who can help you on short notice. This person can be a fellow
druid, a bard or a ranger.
.....
There it is. I believe I've covered everything, though I'm sure someone
will add to this. I personally sat at the spires for 308 hours waiting for Faydedar. In all, I spent 418 hours before I was finally able to complete the druid epic quest, and receive my epic weapon. I have read others that completed it in a few days (cough), but would suggest that you can expect to spend some 'epic' time to complete this, probably
around 200 hours.
May Tunare guide you in your journey,
Feyn Windwalker
Solusek Ro
Playing since March 16, 1999
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Caon
02-02-2001, 11:51 PM
Thanks for the great info Haro. I just got Faydedar tonight !
Caon Fleetwood
TALISMAN - TUNARE
PS: bump : p
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Again he says he got fay tonight, not "i got my pod tonight".
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.