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In Crystal Caverns, Fragment of Fear: Known to spawn at -550, -250, -332 (geonid caves). Switches "Focus" buffs every 60 seconds. While in Ruby Focus, casts "Fear Flame" every 15 seconds on a random target. While in Sapphire Focus, casts "Shiver" every 15 seconds on a random target.

Category: EverQuest
This page last modified 2012-11-30 04:41:01.

Level: 37
Expansion: Scars of Velious
NPC Added: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
NPC Last Updated: 2022-08-10 12:54:18

Known Habitats:
  Crystal Caverns
Factions Decreased:
  Geonid Collective -1

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Faction Adjustment
# Aug 10 2022 at 6:34 AM Rating: Excellent
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[Wed Aug 10 08:17:07 2022] Logging to 'eqlog.txt' is now *ON*.
[Wed Aug 10 08:17:08 2022] The brambles fall away.
[Wed Aug 10 08:17:09 2022] Zamrwen bashes a focus gem for 52 points of damage.
[Wed Aug 10 08:17:09 2022] Zamrwen slashes a focus gem for 118 points of damage.
[Wed Aug 10 08:17:09 2022] Zamrwen slashes a focus gem for 88 points of damage.
[Wed Aug 10 08:17:09 2022] Zamrwen slashes a focus gem for 136 points of damage.
[Wed Aug 10 08:17:09 2022] Zamrwen slashes a focus gem for 107 points of damage.
[Wed Aug 10 08:17:09 2022] Your faction standing with Geonid Collective has been adjusted by -1.
[Wed Aug 10 08:17:09 2022] You gain party experience!
[Wed Aug 10 08:17:09 2022] You receive 3 platinum, 7 gold and 7 silver as your split.
[Wed Aug 10 08:17:09 2022] A focus gem's corpse rumbles and shakes as it goes through its last death spasms.
[Wed Aug 10 08:17:09 2022] A focus gem has been slain by Zamrwen!
[Wed Aug 10 08:17:10 2022] You begin casting Legacy of Spike.
Better Loot
# Mar 03 2005 at 9:04 PM Rating: Excellent
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If you are interested in making cash, then do not hunt these guys. If you are high enough level, you should farm the orcs. Collect vast amounts of velium and sell in bazaar. The spawns are endless, lots of velium, and good loot besides velium. I sometimes find I can make more cash killing orcs than these guys when I sell to merchant. In the long run, orcs are much better cash. I am not saying that the geo's arent, because I have made tons off of them as well. Also, orcs get you faction with town.

PS: The music in the coldain town in CC is Jamaican Music. WTF??? LOL!!!

no blue ?
# Aug 13 2003 at 5:29 PM Rating: Decent
don't they also drop chipped blue diamonds>? i coulda swore i got one b4.. havent been there in awhile.. am i mistaken?
RE: no blue ?
# Aug 21 2003 at 3:56 PM Rating: Decent
i've hunted here for over 40 hours and not 1 blue
Prices for gems
# Jul 22 2003 at 9:25 AM Rating: Excellent
This is my list of money which I got selling gems looted on Geonids - Focus Gems and Gems Collectors. I sold them with Charisma 132 to Elisha Dirtyshoes in Plane of Knowledge.

Maybe this lsit will help a little someone to make decision which he should keep which just throw away.

Chipped Ruby - 119 platinum
Chipped Sapphire - 95 platinum
Chipped Fire Emerald - 80 platinum
Chipped Star Ruby - 61 platinum
Chipped Fire Opal - 47 platinum
Chipped Black Pearl - 19 platinum
Opal - 16 platinum
Golden Pendant - 14 platinum
Chipped Emerald - 12 platinum
Emerald - 12 platinum
Jade Ring - 11 platinum
Flawless Aquamarine - 11 platinum
Jade - 9 platinum
Chipped Peridot - 9 platinum
Peridot 9 platinum
Crystal Fiber 5 platinum
Jade Earring 4 platinum
Pearl 4 platinum
Topaz 4 platinum
Chipped Wolf's Eye Agate 3 platinum
Jade 3 platinum
Mithril Earring 3 platinum
Pearl Ring 2 platinum
Amber 2 platinum
Silver Amulet 2 platinum
Chipped Amber 2 platinum
Gold Ring 1 platinum
Chipped Star Rose Quartz 9 gold
Pearl Earring 9 gold
Chipped Jasper 7 gold
Chipped Hematite 1 gold
Shimmering Velium Ruby 9 silver
RE: Prices for gems
# Sep 04 2003 at 8:50 PM Rating: Decent
Chipped Black Sappire 167pp with 120cha
RE: Prices for gems
# Aug 18 2003 at 11:56 PM Rating: Excellent
Chipped Diamond sells 190 pp with 150cha Ally Faction with Frostone
RE: Prices for gems
# Aug 10 2003 at 10:28 PM Rating: Decent
I do believe you left off chipped diamond. Which sold for 160pp for me to an amiably merchant with no charisma bonuses.
Gem info
# Mar 21 2003 at 8:13 AM Rating: Good
These guys drop chipped versions of every gem out there from what I've seen.

The chipped gems are worth about the same as a normal version - difference being that they don't stack and aren't useful for anything to date - just merchant bait.
How Many Gems Are There
# Jan 26 2003 at 10:55 AM Rating: Decent
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Ive been n CC 4 a bit hunting the Geos. just have one question , How many Different Gems r there? i currently have 12 different ones, r there more? plz someone , anyone?
good loot
# Oct 31 2002 at 10:35 PM Rating: Decent
It sounds like a good area but is there other areas that have great loot for a 40 bst to solo?
$$$
# Aug 23 2002 at 5:46 PM Rating: Good
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Whenever i want money i come here, very easy for me to clear now, and even with light blues, i can still pull off a fair amount of exp as a bonus.
Last time i came here this is exactly what i ended up with as far as loot goes. Was here for a total of 7 hours. Listed loot is in order from what i saw to be most valuable.

2 chipped diamond 170-200pp
4 chipped black sapphire 150-180pp
2 chipped ruby 90-120pp
2 chipped flame emerald 90-120pp
3 chipped sapphire 90-120pp
3 chipped star ruby 50-80pp
4 chipped fire opal 50-80pp
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^^enchanter guildie of mine sold each of those for over 50pp and these above ONLY dropped from named geos (collector/focus gem)^^^
(not listing numbers but also dropped from regular geos and sometimes with nameds along with an expensive gem)
chipped onyx
chipped hematite
chipped cat's eye agate
chipped peridot
chipped opal
chipped jasper
chipped jade
chipped pearl
chipped black pearl
chipped bloodstone
others i'm sure but this is all i can remember at this time :)

Definitely worth hunting here, as theres minimal chance of failure and drop rate is very high.
Hope this helped for info. Happy Hunting!

Abanon Soulstealer 51 heretic Luclin
Quickto Stickya 26 future blackguard Luclin
faction?
# Jun 27 2002 at 9:41 PM Rating: Default
do the geonids(i prolly spelled it wrong yes) have any kind of faction? and about how much pp is their average drop? could a 34-40 mage take these on wit a 31-35 ranger?
RE: faction?
# Jul 15 2003 at 10:47 AM Rating: Decent
Yes, Geonids have an unwritten faction. This faction works together with the Geonid Collective faction (Phenocryst, named geonid in WL is in those factions).
There's an INT caster quest involving both factions. If you killed only once a geonid and are not an enchanter, I'm not sure you can complete it.
quest: The Velium Focus
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=931
reward: Phenocryst's Focus
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=4033


Edited, Tue Jul 15 12:06:23 2003
RE: faction?
# Jul 10 2002 at 7:14 AM Rating: Default
Yes, 1pp-10pp, and No.
RE: faction?
# Feb 03 2003 at 9:24 AM Rating: Good
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I solo the regular Geonids with my 36 Monk, I dont see why you cant kill them with two people. Good exp too, half a blue each. Only thing that sucks about this camp is that they run and the other Geonids assist, and it is pretty close quarters. With a snarer you should have no problem.
Money
# May 05 2002 at 11:18 AM Rating: Decent
This is the best zone to make money if you can get the geonid camp to your self. The orcs are good as well if you can get frozen weapons from the orc foremans.Im a level 54 monk so for me the geonids arent too difficult and i really like it when a focus gem or other named type geonid spawns.
?
# Apr 09 2002 at 9:03 PM Rating: Default
i am a lv 44 enc and looking for a zone were i coudl get good money is this the place to do it or is there a better place?
RE: ?
# Jul 29 2002 at 11:20 AM Rating: Decent
Sure, this response is coming from experiences on my lvl 33 Druid alt, so keep that in mind. The evening I spent 1-2 hours helping a 42 cleric and 37 Ranger (yes, Druids can help higher-ups, especially after taking off the healing penalty...) the loot was pretty crummy. In clearing out the Geonids (even taking out the Focus Gem, twice, and Gem Collector...) we split about 150p. That's only 50pp per. In Rathe Mountains you might have this after 3 HG kills.

Now, our kind ranger pointed out that SOMETIMES he has seen chipped diamonds drop, and they sell for 160p to a vendor. That would have helped my image of camping the Geonids, if we saw one of those babies drop...
Jewel crafting
# Feb 28 2002 at 5:04 PM Rating: Default
I was wondering if these can be made into jewelry that benefits from the added stats. I have a chipped black pearl (+2dex +2agi) and if that could be worked into a ring that would be awesome, i could in theory get a chanter to make me a +8dex/agi ring to replace the +6 one im using right now. Im not sure if it works like that with these though. Any thoughts?
RE: Jewel crafting
# Apr 09 2002 at 7:55 PM Rating: Default
Nope, you need a bar of metal (Silver, Electrum, Ect;) and the gem, nothing else ( to my knowledge...) but I know you cant make other items into the EXACT thing you need, and you cant change Creature dropped items (discluding gems... and other things).

But I have NO CLUE if i'm 100% right, so dont flame me if i'm not

Naten Shadowchasing
Gnomads
Seventh Hammer
the gems
# Feb 13 2002 at 9:22 AM Rating: Default
with high enough cha you can sell the chipped diamonds for 225pp... And that was on my druid. Should try it on my chanter who has higher cha sometime to see what I could get off one of them.
Chipped gems
# Dec 24 2001 at 4:14 PM Rating: Decent
SELL THESE!! Go from 15 to 170pp! Chipped diamonds go for most and usually drop off focus gems and gem collecters
level
# Nov 05 2001 at 6:31 AM Rating: Default
The given level of 47 is wrong, i killed one last night that conned blue to me being 42th level.
RE: level
# Nov 05 2001 at 6:33 AM Rating: Default
Heh, me again...
Just saw that it's not the level that is wrong, but the min and max level are screwed.
RE: level
# Jun 09 2002 at 4:26 PM Rating: Decent
No these are in both cc and wl i think. He might be higher in wl.
Loot isnt bad
# Oct 04 2001 at 10:06 PM Rating: Good
Overall if you can get into the Geo tunnel and keep killing rockheads (Geos) so that the Focus Gems and Gem Collectors spawn you end up with pretty decent loot. Your faction will eventually become so bad you are KOS to them (Myself and a ranger friend of mine cannot sit next to them and med anymore they take great delight in smacking us for that)so you will start to see them agro to you after several levels of killing nothing but Geos.

Conversly it runs approxamately the same amount of loot as killing Hill Giants in RM does, is just a tad bit safer and you can also run to the bank anytime you need to and stash away your loot. There have been some nights I have made several thousand plat off of the chipped gems I looted from these guys (benefits of having 115 CHA and a sweet guildhall to sell them at =') ) and I plan to hunt them any time the opportunity presents itself.
ok here goes
# Sep 30 2001 at 12:22 AM Rating: Default
spending most of my time in CC i learned lots of stuff here. first of all these names geos, focus gem and gem collector both drop gems from 55pp-190pp. chipped star ruby is the worst and chipped dimond is the best. u only sell these to the store and nothing more.
sell it to a merchant
# Aug 23 2001 at 11:10 AM Rating: Default
i am a necro and when i equipped my frostone stein i had 70cha and i sold it to a merchant for around 133plat it's a nice loot to sell to merchants.
Gems
# Aug 23 2001 at 8:05 AM Rating: Decent
Okay, I have killed 2 of these and each has dropped a different kind of gem. 1 Chipped Ruby and 1 Chipped Sapphire each adding +2 str and +2 other stat. Here's the deal tho, they are not equipable, they are not lore, not no-drop, but have stats... So, any idea where a gem with stats could be used? I have an Enchanter friend, if I cannot find some use for them I might allow her to try jewelry with them, though I seriously doubt that they would be usable in her jewel kit. I can find no info on what these gems are for, any information would be greatly appreciated, Thanks

#Anonymous, Posted: Dec 16 2001 at 3:20 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Unless im quite mistaken, you use them by putting them in your first inventory slot (or first slot in your first bag). This works with food that raises stats, so i would assume it works for them also.
Jebler123100
# Jul 23 2001 at 12:01 PM Rating: Default
What is the Chipped Black Sapphire for? I'm getting all sorts of Chipped gems from these guys.
Max level too low
# Jun 29 2001 at 10:17 AM Rating: Default
One of them conned blue to me at 50, so they must be at at least 36 at max. Drops super nice money loot, though.
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