a small mushroom  

Also drop Words of Restraint and Part of Yaeth's Compendium Pg. 65 (right) side. Dropped tonite in Fungus Grove. Trying to get Pg. 65 Left side to drop but so far no luck. Also dropped Words of Annihilation.

Finnyiniel
62 Arch Mage

Edited, Mar 6th 2007 1:22am by santosud

Edited, Mar 6th 2007 2:26am by santosud

Also drops "Hearty Mushroom Spores".

This item can be used in tradeskills.
WT: 0.1 Size: SMALL
Class: ALL
Race: ALL

Not bad for easy XP grinding for a Necro at 60 with EoT (level 59 pet): Monk pet might work, but there were a couple of times when EoT got down to 40% health and the Monk would probably be dead.

I just set up in the Tarmok village near the first shroom spawn from Echo: the Tarmoks were green cons and apprehensive to me, so no worries there. Arch Lich for mana regen, single pull with Vexing Mordania, send in the pet when the mushroom ran over to the village, Shadowbond to heal the pet and recast both spells as required. With 160 disease resist the pet resisted all the stuns and slows, but got hit by the Curse spell now and again.

XP was OK for a safe solo spot, probably about one and a half hours a yellow killing them about as fast as they spawned, loot was worth a few plat and I got a whole bunch of resarch components. All in all, not too bad a place to grind through 60 if you don't want to head to the planes before getting the level 61 pet.

Edited, Thu Feb 19 19:01:22 2004

These mushrooms hit in the low 120s, but they have 3 nasty disease based spells/procs that they cast:

Shrieker Slow
Shrieker Stun
Shrieker's Curse - very hard to resist (-100 to DR check)

The first two effects listed are cast as spells and are fairly easy to resist at a DR of 75+. They can also be interrupted. The Shrieker's Curse is a proc and is very difficult to resist, even with high DR (note the -100 penalty to the resist check).

They can be single pulled by a level 60 or higher.

They have an aggro radius of about 10-15 feet, so unless you run close to or through a camp, you shouldn't have any trouble avoiding them.

Most are immune to snare/root, but some are not. You just have to cast to see if you get a "This target is immune to changes in its run speed" message. The ones that are immune will not run when almost dead.

They can be slowed and mezzed.

Mages should use earth pets against these, as they are totally resistant to all of their spells/procs.

Here's a list of loot, which I'll update as people post more info (I don't think allakhazam lists research components under a mob's loot list):

Fungus Clump
Mushroom Veil
Vial of Shrieker Essence
Chunk of Shrieker Flesh
Rune of Vortex
Rune of Incendiary
Rune of Current
Rune of Gale
Words of Covert
Words of Restraint
Words of Knowledge - No link
Words of Annihilation
Words of Anguish
Coin of Xev
Card of Bristlebane
Part of Yaeth's Compendium Pg. 61 (left side)
Part of Yaeth's Compendium Pg. 61 (right side)
Part of Yaeth's Compendium Pg. 65 (left side)

Sturdy Mushroom Stem:
MAGIC ITEM
WT: 1.0
Size: MEDIUM
Class: None
Race: None
Stackable

Pristine Shrieker Cap:
MAGIC ITEM
WT: 1.0
Size: MEDIUM
Class: None
Race: None
Stackable




Edited, Sat May 17 18:10:51 2003

These drop trickster's aug very rarely for enchanters.

these things are GREAT xp, im a monk and at level 60 with average monk equipment for the level (fungi+tstaff+epic+fbss at least) and some decent disease resist, easiest xp you will ever get in your life. your prolly thinking "well it cant be that easy" and your right, it can't. its in luclin, luclin = lag unless u have a 3000 dollar computer =(

Sorry guys forgot to tell you ..

i am 60 .. and exp at 60 is cake.. so maybe those lesser than 60 wont get 2 blues but still it's worth a try

and we had 200+ MR 100+ resist for all the rest.. and we still get snared..

shrooms are cakes.. beasts are harder.. bandits slight harder.. never pull bugs though.. they suck

Have talked to people in zone and read posts trying to figure out what resistance to use. Have been told Magic, Disease, and Poison. Does anyone know for sure which resist to use against the mushrooms? Please no guesses, want to know for sure once and for all. Thanks for any info :)

47 Rogue, 44 Cleric and myself a 46 Ranger did the loop from Shadow Haven to Katta via Teneborous, then came back via Fungus. After going through the Stargate I lost camo. Made it part way and the mushrooms began foraging up a Ranger and eating him for lunch. I died, but our Rogue was able to get my corpse to the outpost for a rez. It is no problem from the outpost to Echo zone, but between the outpost and Twilight zone, run hard and run fast. Everthing was Black, Yellow, and Red to me.

Best comment last night: "So do Mushrooms eat Ranger soup?"

These drop no cash at all. They do drop 3 stackable items worth 5 to 20pp each: Chunk of Shieker Flesh, Sturdy Mushroom Stem and Pristine Shieker Cap. Yet another reason this zone was just made for monks.

After some patches verant has made these harder to solo. The shrooms alternate on being able to be snared ( get immune message ) not to mention while you DONT get an immune message for root , it is resisted 90% of the time even with Mal and Tash on..... so dont plan on this being a casters favorite solo mob. Though I do know some druids who full speed kite these things =)

On the other hand , these things are looking to have around 8k or so HP ( guess ) and with a slow on they are easy as pie. With a chanter partner , using his pet ( gasp! ) and mine ( lvl 60 necro ) we are able to take out 5-6 shrooms before repop. The only thing to keep in mind is for the necro to use his high aggro spells ( keeping mob off chanter ) since the necro can lifetap his HP back up. This of course means the necro is playing the role of main tank , not pets! With chanter using Beserker Spirit , the XP moves right along. There are a numer of easy areas to pull the shrooms to for easy fighting , just keep en eye out for train pullers ( people who are pulling everythign they can find back to thier group to be mezzed and diced, usually OVER YOU )

It gets very tedious, however I can solo these as a 60th level monk for alternate experience. I think this may be the best solo experience in EQ. My gear is moderate: Imbued Fighter Staff, epic, Fungus Covered Scale Tunic. 2100 or so HPs, AC only 1000 or so. I've heard the effects are disease, not magic-based. With svDisease at around 100, I still get nailed occasionally with the slow, stun or occasional shroom morph.

Small mushrooms will aggro lotuses and dregs. They probably aggro the chakta fungusbeasts as well. Other creatures, such as the bug men and the neanderthals, don't get aggroed from them.

lv 60 nec solo it Full mana + SP pet VS it =
20 mana pet 20 hp

I was w/ a monk friend of mine last night. A lotus killed him (dumb arse didnt attack it right away, let it DD him 3 times to begin w/) and I was dragging his corpse to a cleric to get him a rez. Just as I exited the cavern w/ the lotus and the left, I went straight and passed by 3 shrooms. Wrong answer. They started up my beatdown w/ 2 of them casting some type of stun. The 2nd one didn't overwrite the 1st one. Lasted like 6-8 secs. Also DD. Resisted them all. Am a 51 dru w/ 65 sv magic at the time. With the bastards chain stunning, they made quick work of me.

I've fought here and against these things a couple days. All so far conned blue to me at level 54. My pet which i belive to be around level 45 cons light blue. So is the listed level Correct. If so must be a misscon then.


Conano Draconis
54 Shaman
Morrel Thule

Okay am I the only one that see's this picture and things how cute? Although I've not fought one yet I kinda like the advancements that they have done with the cute little critters.