Summoning Beasties  

This kicks *** with AOE. Heavy melee is a drag. This is how to do it and get the good stuff.

Give the caller 3 bottles and three of em will walk down together, but the other 2 will poof. However they will continue to call :)

Get a couple people to whack the caller so you have agro so he faces you rather than attacking the mobs as they go by.

You get 9 mobs per spawn this way. Have a beefed up tank / monk / sk agro the mobs and bring em to their death with a massive AOE.

We waited for over 27 mobs to be up once and it was a total rush. Got heart of fungus etc.

Enjoy.

I believe he meant rapture or dazzle. Gonna try it tonite, let you know if rapture is needed.

Caller Groo - South
Caller Torgal - East
Caller Murkin - North

We did this last night and everytime I turned in a bottle to one of the callers.... this was the direction they called.

Bonezcrusher Deadlyfist
45th iksar monk

Our guild did this quest the other night and the only problem we had was that we could not trigger the Caller to begin the quest at first. After turning in a container of Blagrot, we realized that "dubious" was not high enough to trigger the quest. We had to have a monk sneak in order to become indifferent to the Caller and trigger the quest.

Keirith Karukeion
Hegemony of Rodcet Nife

i did this with my guild, not exactly sure which difficulty we did, i do know we had 2 groups though, wasn't too much of a problem, sorta high lvl people though, main tank was 60warrior and we had a 57+ cleric in both groups, also had chanter couple druids(me being one) and a bunch of other melees, i got a mootogo focus staff, pretty nice item...

Can anyone list the level ranges of the fungus creatures that are summoned?

The cost of the blargrot is a bit lower with good cha - about 37, 68 and 98 I believe - they are bought from the vendor in a hut in the Tarmok area nearest the outpost.

The Callers, Groo, Murkin and Torgal are in the next Tarmok Village, near a big cave opening leading down to an open area with 3 ramped caves going to the East, the North and the West off of it. The caves go in a bit and slope down before they end.

When you give one of the callers a container of Blagrot, you get a contract back and he then tells you to gather up your group of hunters, and a minute later he heads down the big tunnel towards the smaller ones. If you inspect the contract, it will tell you which tunnel he is going to.

He will path down to the tunnel listed, go inside a bit and after a pause "call" out an emote, which summons 3 fungus critters. These will spawn either just outside the tunnel in the open area, or down at the back of the tunnel, or at both locations - but the total is 3 mobs. (Note: sometimes I have seen a 2 pop, but never a 4).

The size of the container - small bottle, jug or keg - does NOT affect the levels of mobs spawned - it simply adjusts the timing of the spawns, with the bigger containers having less time between spawn "calls".

small bottle = 3 minutes between calls
jug = 2.5 minutes between calls
keg = 2 minutes between calls

The caller will spawn mobs 5 times in a row, and then call for a 5 minute "break". This starts immediately after the last call, not when he emotes it. Med up and rebuff during this time. Occasionally a call gets "skipped" for some reason, usually right when starting the quest. No clue why this happens.

The types of mobs that are spawned are:

Fungusfiends: small mobs, hit VERY fast, but not too hard (100ish) - low hp
Fungusbeasts: big mobs, hit hard and fast - decent amount of hp
Fungus Priest: shaman mob, dispells, heals - Tot works on these
Fungus Healer: cleric mob - DOES CHEAL - Tot works on these
Named Mob

Named mobs are pretty rare, but they are the ones that drop the cool stuff. Each named mob is pretty tough, lotsa hp, hit hard and fast, and most seem to be casters as well.

All mobs proc a lure-based snare - nasty - that can be resisted, but usually isn't. DR seems to help with resists, but most people end up having it stick to them. Note: this proc dispells CHA buffs (lure)

Mobs spawn at the bottom sides or back of the tunnel and outside the tunnel on either side out a bit. All of them path towards the caller.


How to END the Quest - Three Ways

1. During a break time, or at any time when none of the fungus mobs are in aggro range of the caller, hand him the note.

2. Let the caller die - the mobs are aggro on the caller, and will attack and kill him if they are not intercepted. Note, in a pinch, you can ROOT the mobs by the caller to cause this :)

3. Get wiped out. This is kinda like #2, as the fungus mobs will kill the caller. After all aggro is gone, they depop in about 5 mins or so. Easy CR. You CAN train them up to the Tarmoks in the camp, who will kill them. Hard to do when snared, tho.

4. You cannot mez, charm or otherwise prevent the caller from calling - he WILL aggro on illusions (WW, Imp, wolf but not bear) but CAN be blurred to clear aggro.

You will get a "reward" which seems to be a loot gem of increasing value for the longer you have had the quest going. Got a 20 plat jade ring for about 3 hours of questing. Not sure of the upper limit on this.


General Notes:

Go melee heavy on this quest - it is imperative that you have the capability to take out ALL the mobs that spawn in LESS than your allotted time - otherwise you are looking at a wipeout.

The small bottle can be done with a good single group.

The jug can be done with a GOOD single group or 2 decent ones (1 up top, one down)

The keg is definately a 2 group affair - IMO. Possible with a GREAT single group, but... no room for error.

Recommended that you have a good chanter (54+ for C2) a talented healer, and some serious firepower, probably melee for this. Casters tend to run out of mana by the 4-5 wave, and < 5 mins is not enough time to get it all back.

Chanter tactics - use allure to hold mobs, then root (immobilize works well) them before breaking it. Aggro for mezzes is INSANE in Fungus Grove. Blur useless, seems to rarely work.

Make sure someone is timing the spawns - nothing worse than a unsuspected spawn to ruin your day...


Other Items Dropped:

Cloak of Tiny Shadows - clicky invis range slot item for BRD ROG - lvl 55+ to use

Tarmok Focus Staff: 12/28 1HB 8 wis 8 int 25 mana 8 DR 8 PR 5% Channeling CLR DRU SHM NEC ENC MAG WIZ (looks like a big can opener :) )

Swollen Fungus Beast Gland - 10 chg clicky snare item - all/all

Pod of Blue Fungus - LORE NO RENT ammo slot item - 90 pt instant heal - 1 chg

Pod of Red Fungus - NO RENT ammo slot item - 250 pt instant mana - 1 chg

Fungus Beast Eye - sells for 9 plat with good charisma

Fungus Beast Brain - sells for 23 plat with good charisma

Fungus Beast Scales - junk, don't stack, less than 1pp


FINAL NOTE:

For the suicidal among you, let it be known that if you give a caller MULTIPLE containers of Blagrot, you will spawn MULTIPLE callers who will path down and call up MULTIPLE spawns of Funguscritters. Gawd-awful train potential here.