I have been meaning to post the strategy for this mission for sometime. It is by far one of the easiest, especially with a full group. Six players is best, five isn't too bad, you want four at least. Everyone must be able to listen and auto-follow without question.

1) After hailing Kathi, select one of two monsters, either a ranger, or druid. Four people should choose the ranger option and two should be the druid because dps does help speed things along in the end.

2) Port in and get your skills and AAs inline. The rangers should use the Lesion and Stinging Swarm spells as this increases their dps quite a bit. The druids should have their heal, immolate, and snare up. Nothing else really makes a difference.

3) There will be two eggs up initially. I know this for a fact as I have had both in the first two spawn points where I can see them at the same time. The eggs have specific spawn points that they will randomly spawn in, including one just down in front of where you zoned in. After checking that spot, I start a racetrack pattern heading west. The general spawn points and order are as follows:
-The first orc camp you come to
-First group of inns
-Second orc camp
Turn left here (edge of zone) and head south
-Open area ahead and to the left of where you just made your 90 degree turn
-Next to small group of trees right before you hit the desert area
Turn left here again
-Immediately up a small green hill next to desert area
-Just past this hill in an open area right where the desert area starts
You should be heading east over the desert area now
-The broken down druid rings
-Just north of the druid rings next to a tall tree
Keep going east
-Over the fisrt hill past the druid rings, one next to a large tree and one just south of the tree half-way up the next hill
-Start vearing about 30 degrees to the north and make your way back to the green area (a group of inns and guard hut will be on your left)
-Right next to a large tree that has a small branchling growing out of its base
-Open spot just west of where you are
Turn about 45 degrees to the right and start heading south-east again
-Next to a tree that sits on a small hill just south of the next set of inns
-Just north of that same set of inns (need to head north again to see it)
Make sure you are heading due east with the third set of inns passing on your right
-Right next to a small single inn straight ahead
-Slight northeast of that same single inn, in the sandy area just short of the Freeport zoneline.

4) There is a special way to collect the eggs that make this much quicker. With everyone auto-following one person, the leader should fly just to the right or left of the egg in what appears to be about 30ft to the side. Once the leader loses sight of the egg on their screen, they should swing around towards the egg. This should bring the group of 5 directly over the egg at the same time. If done correctly, you only need to find the first two eggs on the racetrack. I can sometimes get credit for six at a time by bringing my leader back to the egg very quickly.
Note: If any player or group of players has aggro from something, ie skeletons or zombies, they will not get credit for the egg. What typically happens is that I will trail my group too close to a skele over the desert area and they will get aggro, but my leader will not. Thus, only my leader gets credit for the egg (1 out 10).

5) After looting the second egg, whether you get full credit for it or not, the first group of four "newbs" will spawn and begin trying to collect eggs. The next two eggs will also spawn somewhere in the zone on the racetrack pattern. The newbs are yellow con, and they always seem to know where the eggs are as they start walking/running directly for them. They will also aggro to you if you get too close. One of the two eggs will also have a mob/mobs spawned with them. These can be either a curious spider, kodiak, griffin, snake, group of skeles, or group of orc gatherers. All but the orcs are KoS and will cause the aggro problems mentioned before if you try and loot the egg that they are on. The other egg does not have a mob with it. If I need a third egg, I simply retrace my race-track pattern looking for the egg without a mob. The newb group will always go the one with the mobs so we all stay out of each other's way in this manner.

6) Sometimes it takes four eggs to get credit for all ten. In this case you need to start worrying about a second newb group or "kos group". This group will spawn around the 15 minute mark and head straight for you and try and kill your group. They can be tough as a whole as they are also yellow-con mobs.

7) After getting all ten eggs, Guard Tygus will spawn with an emote. He spawns in front of "Inn 1" at /loc P200 P60. He is non KoS. Pull him with whoever is the designated tank using Stinging Swarm and run him to the nearby inn that has a plague flag up (/loc P640 P980). Gang up on him and kill him here. Rangers should use stinging swarm and druids should use immolate on him. Druids snare and heal tank. He hits fairly hard and fast so druids need to be focused with heals.

8) after Tygus is dead, Merchant Wendell spawns immediately inside the small inn next to you. Hail her to aggro her, then cast stinging swarm and run her east back up the hill to where you spawned next to Kathi (this is a safe area that the KoS group of newbs will generally not follow you to). Kill her here and then loot shards of wisdom. Once everyone has a shard, hail Kathi to get credit and exp, and then say "leave" to get out.

I have done this mission at least several hundred times gaining about 10-15 levels for many of wife and I's toons and several hundred AAs. The fastest I have done it is 8 minutes, the slowest about 25. Sometimes the collecting just doesn't go well and I end up needing 5-6 eggs with the second newb group chasing me around the zone. Hope this helps others use this mission.

We did this mission on 01/28/2007 with a group of six and we did not get any XP. Kathi will not take egg and so no XP is received upon zone out. It may be that the task assignment in bugged: the quest status shows all steps completed but we have not yet turned the egg in.

I believe this MM is broken Kathi wouldnt take the egg... and i dont know what the shard of wisdom does....

Says you can solo this mission, but when I went to this chick to get the mission, it said I didnt have the required number of party members.

Anyone else find this to be true? if so...info above in the write up needs to be changed.

Just finished this MM Necklace dropped
Step 1: find 10 of your missing eggs, sometimes people shout they looted one have to track down fake PC's kill them and loot egg.
Step 2: Find Guard Tygos
Step 3: Kill Guard Tygos
Step 4: Find Merchant Wendell
Step 5: Kill Merchant Wendell Loot Egg for turn in, Shard of Wisdom and Gear drop, give egg to Kathi Norman.

5% regular Xp at level 69.

I've done this MM twice so I'm hardly an expert, but in terms of finding eggs, they tend to spawn in places that are not totally random and out of the way. For instance: near the undead ruins to the south, or in the orc camps to the north, or near inns to the east. I also seem to remember them spawning further east near the zone to FP.

Eventually, you'll see red mobs appearing on track. They'll have names like "enraged grizzly bear" and such. They spawn in a place and don't wander, and there's always an egg under them. You don't have to kill them to loot it, you can pull them away.

When the groups of players "camping" eggs appear, try to gang up on them. They come in groups usually of 2 or 3, but generally have casters and are difficult to kill unless you have at least as many griffins as there are players.

Both times I did this MM it took something like an hour and a half, and the EXP (pre-PoR nerf) was I think a bit less than one AA, so it's really not worth doing for the EXP, but if you know someone who wants the arms it's fairly easy and anyone who was playing EQ "back in the day" should play it just for the ability to kill newbs with stupid (hence realistic) names like "Healzalot" hear them shouting about how stupid Verant (yes they mention Verant) is to put griffins in the zone.

Heard a rumor that this MM is bugged. Can anyone confirm or disprove?

If you find the orc's they won't aggress you if you loot the egg. Found that out for the fun of it. Make sure you have 2 healers and be best to have 2 melee's at least. Somewhat close on the Guard Tygus who spawns near the INN 1 spot.
You have to kill the final red spawn mob "a rival griffon" to get Kathi Norman to spawn.

I looted this off of the vendor's corpse at the end of this MM.

Fiery Ornate Neckguard
Slot: NECK
AC: 9
STR: +7 STA: +7 WIS: +7 INT: +7 AGI: +7 HP: +70 MANA: +65 Endurance: +65
SV COLD: +7 SV MAGIC: +7 SV POISON: +7
WT: 1.0 Size: SMALL
Class: ALL
Race: ALL
Slot 1, type 7: empty

Mission starts in West Commons, but takes place in East Commons. You have the choice of Griffon Druids (Snare, Heal, Skin, Small nuke) or Rangers (Thorns, Dot, Tankage).

Three stages:
Collect 10 eggs (just run over them)
Kill the guard who stole an egg
Talk to (and kill) the merchant the guard sold it to.

The eggs do not start on the map. They spawn, and I couldn't detect any sequencing. Just keep running around and looking. Mark known spawn points on your map for repeat missions.

Red mobs or "orc gatherers" will spawn. The gatherers are nonagressive, but the red mobs are mean. Both are good indicators of egg positions so use your tracking. Gang up and kill the reds or use a decoy and loot the egg that they guard (just run over it.)

As time passes, dark blue NPCs start spawning at the Freeport zone line and begin searching for the eggs and you. If possible, use someone to drag them in a circle about the zone, so that the the rest of your team can get the eggs. You can kill the NPCs as they spawn at the Freeport zone line, but they respawn, so probably not worth it.

The NPCs talk in ooc. They'll tell you when they are camping an egg, and when they are taking it to Freeport. Don't let them get to Freeport. Too many eggs taken away loses the mission. If you kill them, you can loot the egg they carry.

After 10 eggs are found, you must kill the guard (red) and then the merchant (yellow). Use track to find them. The NPCs should still be chasing you. Try and keep them away from your fight.

The guard is tough. You'll need 3 players, at least one ranger on him. If he kills your attack force, he heals fully. Aftyer the guard, the merchant is cake.

Reward I've seen:
Decorated Plate Arms (level 65+ version)
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=89159

Noted egg epawn locations:
Orc 2 (NW corner)
Hidden Inn (near north wall)
Undead Camp (near south wall)
Ponila (weapons merchant near Freeport)

I have not seen any inside the tunnels to North Ro.


Edited, Fri Oct 28 18:07:48 2005

" happy " is first word to start dialogue... "trinket" is key word to start mission. after nerf of when u could solo it , found best is full group , 2x healers (druid) and rest as tanks(rangers) , stick together and go around as group , can get anywhere from 2--5 eggs before newbs show up saying they're camping the eggs. keep an eye on spam going thru chat window for hints and clues on where to find newbs camping the eggs as the now can have them on corpses forcing u to loot them to go towards your collection. Newbs will have to be killed by group similar in fashion to how Fairy mission is done in regards to rats. is also 3 new mobs..curious xyz , hungry kodiak , and a snake cant rem name atm , they also only appear in tracking window and have been known to sit at an egg spawn site. Once u have all 10 eggs is time to kill guard tygus , he can be found usually near inn 1 on map , change to him is he is now capable of flurry hits in 120 range , no changes to merchant and still spawns at guard huts near nek zone in. I know is not what u prob wanted but this is basic layout of what to do and where it happens , can also take up to an hour to do since u now have to wait on eggs to pop.