NPC Spawn Issue: Thistle underbrush - should be super common?

[Jimjam]

You mean the fairy maiden one? We did that for quite some time but with no luck. Whats his spawn % meant to be?

Later I hooked up with someone else and just killed loads and loads of scouts (based on a zam post) but only had more scouts spawn.

Might have to try just repeat AoEing all the newbie stuff and seeing what happens.

[Erati]

Did you try killing that one brownie which paths to the pixie tower a couple times and see if anything pops from that cycle?

[wycca]

In my experience his spawn rate seemed to be above 5% but under 20% with his old info.

[Jimjam]

Originally Posted by Erati [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Did you try killing that one brownie which paths to the pixie tower a couple times and see if anything pops from that cycle?

I'll check next opportunity I get [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.].

I remember thistle and ivy being up ALOT of the time on live, not sure about the time frame I am remembering this from, but the thread I linked it sounded like he was practically guaranteed to be up in 2001.

[Erati]

well part of the problem with Thistle etc is no one is ever really in LesserFay killing random shit that causes him to spawn and then be subsequently left up when he posed to much of a challenge

he was literally a terror and a beast to see in the area for any character 35 and below ( I think hes what lvl 34? lvl 37? )

thats why people from live servers recall seeing him so much, there was over 2K people in each server and players killed lame random shit for fun even tho it yielded no phat lewtz

on here tho, Thistle used to be way more common 2-3 years ago when I was trying to complete my broken druid quests in the zone, I farmed quite a handful of the shoulder pads ( used some myself ) and even saw Bracken a few times

Have not seen either Brownie in a long long long time.

[Jimjam]

Fair enough.

One that thread there seemed to be people saying they spawned him five times in a row before they got their braided ivy chord, so it might be more than the newbs newbing around before being newbed by a named brownie.

[Masen]

I've killed him three times in two days.

[Jimjam]

I managed to find him in the end, got my ranger his ivy etched tunic (and the guy that helped me got some braided ivy chords!) still no idea how to spawn him, though.

[jadefoot]

I spent many hours trying to spawn Thistle yesterday to no avail. Tried the wiki method of killing the roaming faerie maiden a zillion times over, that didn't work. I started killing everything that roamed covering the entirety of the forest running around and still nothing. Does anyone know precisely what the PH's are?

As the OP has stated, Thistle/Bracken used to be up constantly on live and not just due to more people playing on the server, he used to spawn back to back to back. The December patch mentions he can spawn in multiple places now but it seems to have compromised the spawn percentage. It shouldn't be this difficult for rangers to acquire the Ivy Etched Tunic.

[WarlordAstro]

Reviving this thread.

as of 5/3/2015 this is still screwed. I've been tracking and killing faerie maidens for hours and I haven't seen thistle a single time.