The Great Saprophyte  

Went to EC last night to get the Remove Curse spell. TGS was up but dropped only the gloves and spore. Went back this afternoon. Up again. Dropped gloves, spore and spell. So 1 for 2 for me. Hope this helps.

Spotted him on my lowbie mage, called guild to help. cleric came, powned and left. dropped spell and eye.

k this guy really bugs. My 46 pal went in, took out the boglings, and after medding attacked. Didn't bother to cast haste as my temp was fading (ended halfway thru fight), and with 81/84 pr/mr he still landed 20+ procs of 130ish thru the fight. After using LoH and a failed attempt to use a DS pot midway, I died, oom, with him at 20%.

Then he got me a second time after I tried chain-stunning him per the posts here. Had all self-buffs up this time, plus the DS, and the chaining worked except that my timing got off and I didn't heal myself in time. Died -again- with Saph around 20%. With right timing, and the DS up (or LoH prob woulda worked too), he coulda fallen.
Think I'll wait for LOH to repop and save the potion cost.
Other info: 45 (after deaths) pal with Argent Defender 1988/814 133str
GL on this guy... for melee once you attack, you're committed

Edit: 3rd time's a charm. looted eye and spores


Edited, Wed Sep 14 06:10:32 2005

The actual Respawn time is 2 Hours and 45 minutes. Confirmed today 6/11/2005 at 10:25PM EST on the Firiona Vie Server.

I killed it twice to get the Remove Curse spell. First time it dropped the spores and gloves.

Second time it dropped the eye, the spores, and the spell.

Hope this helps someone :)

Any chance a 34 necro with 1300hp can take the shroom?????????

OK good thing i read up on this guy, Im gonna heed your warning and make and buff my pet b4 i kill him. Im a 53 shaman with kei and V. My pet will only have standard 53 shammy buffs. The cultist near him cons green, and he (IT?) cons LB. I dont think i will have much of a problem with it, but we shall see. Just stoppin thru on my way to do turn in for earring of solstice and thought id kill it.. needlite queen wasnt up. but mebbe on the way back
Whatever the outcome, i will post again when one of us is dead. Somehow i believe that making a pet is overkill.

Has about 3500 hp, most of it's spells won't land if you have ok resists. Seems to have no magic resists, but I can't be sure of this.

EDIT:K, he doesn't always drop anything. I


Edited, Thu Sep 1 09:50:25 2005

i was first time in little echo so i saw this huge thing and thougt well well u gotta die now.
took him with a 56 monk in 10 seconds out the 2 adds nearly just dieds by riposte when i looted.
had the spell and the gloves gave it to a friend.

does anyone know the spawntime?

worked the toadstool twice , no remove curse.Everyone is correct , repop every 3 hours or so. I'm a 51 pally , brought a 51 cleric , took next to no damage , even with the greenies mobbing us. Lots of toons in and out of room so if ya want to camp here and not be on f or a loong time you have to time the repop 's pretty well(meaning logging offf then back on).Good luck be safe .

Killed him with a 31 war and a 31 cleric... decked out pretty good but still pretty easy dropped spell and earring first time :)

whats the usual spawn time for this guy??

Well I finally got the remove curse spell after watching others try it and not get it. I tried a while ago with help from a level 52 Druid but only got the gloves - tried solo after I reached one yellow bubble into the level and got the gloves again. I had cleaned out the outer room then pulled out the cultists to save mana but for the last one I used cancel magic to stop the burn spells. I stood in the entrance when the Great Saprophyte spawned - used cancel magic on it the charged to get to the back wall - he knocked me back a couple of times and summoned, but no big deal I just stepped back or up and had him in about a minute. 2 hours and 52 minutes later I was ready for the next pop but moved to the back wall after a bog agroed me from behind and paid the price for that sneak attack. This time I decided to cast reckless strength on myself then cancel magic on the shroom -- of course he was whacking me by the time my Cancel Magic was in progress but I finished it then proceeded to take him down stunning with stun and holy might. I had Ethereal Cleasing memed but I think I only used it in the first kill. I also used the Flame of Light once or twice. Just before the shroom arrived I used a null potion to boost my dex to 142. I had Valor of Marr for haste plus the FBSS and was using a great 2H piercer the Two Tined Corpse Pitchfork - it did the job. My AC was 824 and HP buffed about 2300 and I ended with 33% mana and 88% HP left. Not very difficult but boy waiting for it to pop is a chore - but timed it for the second pop and arrived about 1/2 hour early to clean out the cultists in the room which are still light blue to me. When done I had the spell and gloves again. Medded a bit then took out a couple of bogs on the way out.

By the way hanging around echo so long also paid off as I got three Shissar Organs off the Taskmaster on the other side so I think I can get an EB item soon.

Good luck to the next one to try this.

Darttoma
Level 50 Pally
Vaezelle Server

I soloed this guy with my lvl 54 druid today. I buffed myself with all buffs i found useful, skins, DS, regen and all resist shields, then invissed me and waited at the south wall inside the main cave where he spawns.

When he popped, i started with a lvl 44 Nullify Magic, then tried a root which he resisted. He summoned me twice, casted Thunder Strike at me which i resisted, and a poison spell which took me down to 81 % in addition to some hits. Then i just continued to Scoriage him until he was down.

He had the spores, the spell Remove Curse, and a saphrophyte eye. First pop - lucky for once :)

Auldaian, 54 druid of Tunare

Took him down a few minutes ago with a 55 shaman. He is easy. Just sic the pet on him and cast a couple of cold based DD. Didn't drop the spell though. It is more useful now because of the traps in the new LDoN dungeons. Oh well. Guess I have to wait another 3 hours.

Easy solo for a 53+ druid with their epic, or possibly ES Vambraces. Root rot the boglings in the area around the shroom, then invis up, move to the wall in the south side of his chamber, and buff yourself with everything you've got (resists, HP, regen, DS, in order of priority). Open the fight with Winged Death, get summoned, cast your epic/vambraces dot on him while he wastes all his mana trying to dot/nuke/debuff you, then sit back and watch him die a slow, painful death. Good luck with getting him to drop the scroll.

This Shroom owes me. 5 kills, 15 hours, and no spell. No wonder it goes for 4k in bazaar.

Spawn time over 5 kills has averaged 2 hours and 50 mins, give or take 5 mins. He has never skipped.

He is at loc pos 1145 and pos 447, on the Huge Green lilly pad in the room just off to the right before the Fungus Grove zone line.

It is soloable by a 53 paladin. I cleared the room while camping it and then med back up. Load Flame of Light, Desist, Stun, Holy Might, and Force.

KEEP CHAIN STUNNING HIM. That is all there is to it. He will go down inside a minute, with you standing over his dead rotting corpse. Make sure you keep the room cleared about 20 minutes prior to the fight so you dont have to deal with greenies adding and possibly interrupting your stuns.

I used entirely self buffs and had no KEI. I am not super twinked. I use a Black Acrylia Halberd and my AC is 970. My self-buffed HP was 2825.

Loh never used. Never went below 93% health. Used about half mana. Who cares if he summons, I want to kill him.

Its a really fun fight in my opinion, and I even get a little xp off of him even though, so its not a total waste of time, barely.

I am here to get 3 spells. One for me and two for guildies, so this is going to be a long, long, wait. /doh

Skratchemhard
53rd Paladin of the Axe
BristleBane

Edited, Fri Aug 15 14:04:23 2003

I play a level 65 enchanter, 111 AA's atm, this mob made me run away, I got overcomfident and my pet died. So I had to gate.

It doesn't hit hard, and the nukes it casts are weak, but its knockback AE spell is killer, once its oom it chain casts its AE spell over and over until you are OOR and then summons you, this is done fast enough so casters can't nuke, I have spell haste 4 and I couldn't get almost any spells off.

The second time I was just more careful to keep my pet alive =P

I don't know if the AE is resistable but I would say that it isn't because neither my pet or I ever resisted it. It dropped the spell on the first kill so its probably a common drop or some ppl just have bad luck...

Rooting your self will not stop you from being summoned. it stops you from moving your self not someone else pushing u or summoning you. so if you were to root your self he would summon u and you would not be able to move away

Camped him for about 9 hours today. Spawn rate seems to be right around 3 hours. (clocked it at exactly 2 hours 52 minutes the final time) Killed it easily three times, no LoH needed. First two times it dropped the Saprophyte Spore Gloves and the third it finally dropped Remove Curse spell. All three times it dropped the Spores.

The four Boglings in that room respawn in about 1 hour 9 minutes, so keeping the room clear is not very difficult. If you get bored and don't want to leave the camp unattended, there's an area just outside the hallway that's deep enough to fish. The very first merchant in Fungus Grove sells fishing supplies, so more bait/poles are just a short way away.

Edited, Sun May 18 01:35:20 2003

I have killed him 12 times now and not once has the spell dropped for me and it really sucks!

Loc is pos 1145, pos 447 in Echo Caverns. From Shadowhaven take zone entrance near the Soulbinder and follow route toward Fungus Grove. There's a right turn shortly before the FG zoneline that leads to the spawn point for the Great Saprophyte.

Data point: Easy solo for 54 Paladin. Did not need to cast spells or lay hands. Just melee. Wore high resist gear and even with lower AC, it landed very little melee damage. The mob did manage to land some poison spells.

Kamgar

I soloed this guy today with my 49 Pally, to be honest, i was a little afraid to go solo, having read the posts, but to my surprise i had no problem at all, he summoned and knocked back twice, 2 minutes later he's dead and my LoH intact, got my 49 Remove Curse spell, like i said, quite easy

Lanys Server
Nearrwin Dayspring
Flame Keepers
Paladin 49

Dropped him today solo (lvl 49 paladin) and recieved my Remove Curse spell. Chain stunned him into submission after single pulling each of his cultists and offing them separately. Make sure to debuff him and the cultists as they have a fire-based damage shield. He died while I still had 2 bubbles of health and LoH still not used. 75pct mana left also. Stunning meant I never got knocked back once.

I was wondering if you could help me out by letting me know exactly which line of spells is in the curse catagory. I have tryed to cast this on different effects, but I have not found one that is removed by this spell. I have also not found any information that indicates which line of spells would be classified as curses. Any information you have on this would be appreciated.

Thanks
Metrika

Three of my guild mates and I took this down last night. Got the spell, gloves and spore. 41 druid, 40 shammy, a mid-30s tank and 52 warrior did it without too much trouble. Would be a close fight for group of 35's though lol

--EDIT-- Did this again last night with my 36 warrior and group consisting of 31 pally, 31 shammy and a 35 warrior. Slowly cleared bogglings then went in charging. very close fight. Pally hit me as MA with LOH and even then we were all around 20% health when done. We did forget one cultist in the room which was a minor annoyance to our shammy though. Great fight in the 30's. Have fun.

Edited, Tue Mar 18 10:10:49 2003

OK I see alot of people talking about how they can, or can't solo this guy. Some things to note. He summons, casts a nasty knockback and a 300point poison DD. He is also immune to changes in run speed (not that he ever moves anyway) and fear. For you melee's that want him, set up between him and the wall, he can't knock you back there. I know, it's where I put my pet.

Now as for the firepower you'll need. I'd like to think that any melee over 50 could drop him. He doesn't have that many hp. My monk pet can solo him, most of the time without a shadowbond (750HoT). My pet is at best a 48-49 monk, and can drop him solo in 15-20 seconds tops. And at lvl 57 I can easily pull the Boglings from around him first (there are 4).