a fungus mutant  

It is a druid caster.
Kept trying to snare me.

After months of camping the fungus mutant on and off since getting the platinum ring, I finally managed to finish this quest today. I didn't get either the copper ring or the gold ring until today, since at the time I was occupied with stuff outside of EverQuest. However, I can say that I had killed the mutant a total of 10 or 12 times before today and he dropped none of the quest components needed for the rings. With that out of the way, here's the actual log of how the camp went. I killed the fungus mutant once upon logging on after the Ykesha patch today, spent some time playing as a froglok, then went back to this camp for the remainder of the day. Note that I'm only logging quest components here, and that the fungus mutant would drop random gems/spell components/rusty weapons sometimes.

Postpatch - Bracket Mildew
7:41PM
7:57PM
8:24PM
8:40PM
9:00PM
9:16PM
9:32PM - Bracket Mildew
9:52PM - Bracket Mildew
10:08PM
10:26PM
10:44PM
11:00PM - Degenerated Guk Weed

I killed the mutant a total of 13 times. The bracket mildew was dropped on three occasions (3/13), the weed dropped once (1/13), and the faerix spores did not drop at all. The spores aren't that big of a deal, though, since the silver ring can easily be obtained from Blackburrow if you come at the right time. For information on the platinum ring, see the post under Gynok Moltor in Befallen that I made a few months back.

"Tackball? Who would want to put a tack on their balls?"

Fungus Mutant dropped Sarcoscypha Fungus today - stackable.

Killed this thing 20 times now and still no guk weed dropped, i got about 4 bracket mildews though. I just sit there, kill it, then camp for a 15 minutes and wait for the next one to spawn. A friend and i camped it for a long time again last night and still it didnt drop. the rarity on this item is just stupid, might as well go buy the paw of opalla, i could get 1kpp by the time i get the guk weed.

Bagend Proudfoot
Lvl 39 Druid of Tunare
Rodcet Nife

The gold ring for this quest also drops of the same mummy in Befallen where you get the Plat ring and sometimes copper ring from.

I couldn't help but notice that there are non-wisdom casters camping this thing for hours on end. One warrior even mentioned that he was camping for the sole purpose of selling the ring. Granted that Verant has ganked the spawn and drop rates, it seems kind of out of place for a class that would have no use for the actual quest items to camp and loot those items for pure profit. I am heading to Guk tonight to get my weed and brackets to complete my quest. I sure hope that there isn't some level 45 bard or rogue camping there just so that he can loot an item that would help another player much more. I certainly hope that he never needs the white dragonscale and I win the roll...then it will force me to turn to him and say "wanna buy a dragon scale?"....not a good example of gamesmanship. I am not saying that you can't kill or loot, but bear in mind that killing hill giants will probably get you more overall cash than camping Mutie Fun-guy for quest components since there are those of the classes that would benefit from actually performing the quest.

what is GEBs?

2 hours.. Try camping 14 hours once and having it KS'd from you. Selling the Gold Ring on Tunare server for about 750pp. Send a /tell to "Xylum" or "Tonnorre" if you are interested.

I have camped this fool for 20+ hours and still no weed that is why the paw sells for so much. I would consider paying for it after the mindless hell of waiting I have done

I am a 50 wizard and camping this guy for some money (from the Paw) just posting that his spawn time is exaclt 17 minutes.

this is the last part of the quest i have to do i came into Beffallen and a guild mate helped me - the camp was about 3 hours he spawned and he died in under a minute - now i have all but the copper and gold rings and i just wanted to know how much they r worth becuse i have heard a lot of horror stories of the camp on this guy and am kida worried that i will have to sit on my hands for 12 lvls (i am 24 now) - becuase i had all but the last page for vanear and my friend wouldn't help me becuase i was lvl 8 and it was an 8 hour spawn - so i had to wait 8 lvls but when i get the paw i will have a wis of 162 i dont think that is half bad any way the point is i want to know how much these last 2 rings r woth on Tarew Marr if i can aford em then i am practricly dont now andyway thanks...(oh and BTw can i do this at 24 or do i have to sit on the container and my 2 rings?)
Trelan Spirytcaller <Star Travelors> 24th druid of Tarew Marr
May Tunare bless you...

If you're level 30-ish or below--
In the battles where the mutant friends end up helping, you may find yourself handling 2-3 additional monsters, plus even a froglok worst case. That pretty much means you're going to be out of mana at the end of the battle.

Battles like this happened about 1 out of 3 times for me, and I wouldn't have enough mana to gate out. To make things safer, I bound myself in the swamp. I'd gate out to the swamp and keep sow up at all times. Staying buffed wasn't a big deal-- it gave me something to do between spawns.

Then I practiced getting back out, in case I needed to run out when I didn't have enough mana to gate.

Another interesting thing I did during my camp here. I powerlevelled a friend who has a level 17 enchanter (well level 19 now). I'd do pulls for him from the room full of frogloks up the ladder. It turns into a far more interesting and productive camp when I did this. Also he was even able to help with some of the adds when things got dicey.

Silver ring can also be looted in Runnyeye off the Sporali's. I am not sure which one in particular, and it is a fairly rare drop, but camping there for it will give you a chance at a Sporestrand shield or Defender blade, both are rare loots off the Sporali's. If you are camping with a group you can take out the Moldmaster, but you need to be really smooth about it and a full group of average level 25-28 or higher, we did it but everyone but me died, we were mostly lower 20's though. Moldmaster drops Defender blade common, and sporali something or another gloves rare which are a haste item worth upwards of a 1K on any server, possibly 3K on some servers, I think they are 7% haste or there abouts.

when i first entered the room Mutant was up/uncamped so i whacked him and spun around and wacked him somemore.he dropped the weed.i thought i was lucky.
then i continued to camp and killed him 16 times no mildew.what a rub-sleeping in guk is depressing.
anyway i am a level 41 warr.stun spell is annoying but doesnt do much harm unless you dont have hp.
good luck and BTW on Saryrn /ooc Mutant Camped(until further notice)

Ok, here's how to get to the Mutant.
First, get a map of upper guk, one that you can read easily. Study the map carefully so you can get from the entrance to the fungus room without having to look at the map.
The safest way to get to the fungus room is to take the first right in guk that leads to the spider rooms. From here there is only one path to the Fungus Room. Once you get near the fungus room, you can either walk around through the room where the warder spawns or you can jump off the path straight into the fungus room. If you have bad faction with frogloks, you should be able to get into the fungus room at level 30 easily without being attacked, just as long as you don't stop moving. You can also do this a couple of levels lower if the spawns on your path are green.

Holding the spawn.
Staying safely in the room at the level 30 will vary in difficulty depending on your class. Everything will be high green/low blue. Fungus drones will heal anything you are attacking if they are in range. You can hold the room if you carefully clear all the blues out of the room, and letting respawns live if they are green. Once everything is green the fungus ancient will be your only worry. The mutant casts Clockwork poison, which makes you spin around for about 6 seconds, it casts this spell every 6 seconds....Add two and two together, and this thing can stun you for an entire fight. With endure poison I got stunned every four spells (save vs poison was at 27 i think). With resist poison I resist every time(save vs poison at 45) At lvl 34 nothing should aggro you, unless you stand next to it for awhile or sit next to a mob, so this is probably the lowest safe level.

Remember this was written from a cleric's point of view, so some clasess may be able to camp the mutant at lower levels.

More info: I still get xp from the fungus at 34 even though it cons green.
The Mutant spawns every 16 minutes, plus a few seconds(30 i think). You can use a stopwatch for this. If you've camped gynok moltar already this spawn time will be very familiar to you. The mutant has no place holders and spawns in the corner to right of the corner with ladder in the west side of the room.
The mildew is the common drop. It drops about every four kills (1 hour). I haven't see the weed yet and have 4 hours(15kills) of camping time (not consecutive).

Good Luck

Linea Lifebringer
Level 34 Cleric
Prexus

well I camped this guy for 7 hours last night, got 3 brackets dropped..when I get a message "servors will be down for patch in so and so hours" so I camped this guy all night...just to have the servor come down before I could get the guk week. Already pissed because I camped Narra Tanith in SK for 18 hours just to find that my best friend had managed to kill her the moment she spawned right under my nose. and my dog ran away! oh the torture! ..I need a hug



Dewshyne Treewhisper
33 druid
Xev

Yesterday I camped this guy with my enchanter friend. He is around 10-15 min timer no placeholders, but we usually killed the room anyway because we were bored. He seems to me that he drops the mildew one out of 4 times he spawns considering I killed him 20 times and he had the mildew 5 times. The weed dropped finally on the 20th kill. Don't know what happened before me it wasn't camped. Was very happy to get the final 2 rings. The weed was very trying so prepare for at least 3-4 hours for it. Also got real lucky when I bought the platnum ring for (get this) 346pp. Talk about luck. The paw rocks and my wisdom is 197 now. Time to save up for the GEBs. Yeah that will only take me a month of hill giants for them 6K my God. Good luck everyone on this. A lot of patience and the paw will be yours.

Zuldrue Stormcaller
35 (IN HELL) Druid
Luclin Server

I can't believe what i just read. How many zones are in this game? There has got to be at least 50+. Now how many of these zones could a person around your lvl hunt? ( Guessing at this one because you never stated your lvl ) You seem to be in your mid to upper 20's. There are more zones in this game than i can count on both hands where you would be able to rake up all the experience your little heart desires. Now...please tell me of any other place and any other spawn that the Degenerated Guk Weed drops from? This item is a SUPER rare drop off the fungus mutant in Upper Guk and is part of a very LONG and BORING quest. If someone has the time and patience to try and do this quest then they dont need a sniveling little punk like you bugging them to let you PLEASE HAVE SOME EXPERIENCE. Go out to South Karanas...go out to Lake of Ill Omen...go out to Lake Rathetear...just go anywhere and leave the freakin druid alone and let him finish his quest. Peace out.

Froh Noginbonker
41st Season Druid

If the corpse had been leying there for 2 min and no one looted it, its not ninja looting you idiot. ninjalooting is when you loot when they are still fighting the monsters off of em, and if they can kill gynok, i dont think they would be in too much trouble with the mobs there.

recently i went into befallen, and i saw someone anon there, was just me and him, i shouted if he was camping, and he said yes, but i could camp it for a bit while he took a break. i was there for bout an hour (just hoping to get lucky on the spawn timer) but i left and gave it back to him.

32 Ranger Tunare
(dont worry, im not camping the fungus mutant, i hate guk >/ ;p )