Just here to confirm it is still dropping as of 30 July 2013. At a rough estimate of 250 mobs in the zone, I cleared the zone 10 times on the first night without any sign of the mask. Went back the next night and it dropped on my first pull.
Finaly got after 21 instances 4 hard rest normal, got the mask from a normal mission from a werewolf (forgot the name) first tower first floor, spend about 4 days (4 hours a day).
Made a comment to a friend about this clicky! So I thought lets do the instance and try get the mask! anyway we died as we tried to pull a massive train! except for my rogue :-) so anyway my friend has to go out after ress to pick up his gf so I start soloing a few on the rogue.
This dropped to solo 85 wiz with merc after 4 hours of sheer slaughter. Completely wiped the zone first time, got another instance the next day and an hour in dropped from a Champion in very bottom floor of first tower. Now I remember why I hate camping stuff like this...
i have cleared this zone about 8 times total with not a single drop, yet my friend logs on and gets 2 in one day!!! this thing is dumb, unless you really want it i dont suggest farming it. i am medding atm and about to clear some more out but pretty much this is rediculous.
Yeah...this god damn farming sucks. I've been hear hours now, killing everything in sight; undeads, spiders, werewolves, orcs. Nothing. /sigh... They don't call it EverQuest for nothing. My main is a monk....snaring is a problem, or the lack thereof. If i'm not paying attention, i start training myself...like now. had like 50 orcs kill my merc lol. another fabulous camp...:P My suggestion: If you're after this mask, make sure you have a snare class with you, or some way to snare for yourself. Especially if these mobs are a challenge for you.
---------- Brother Rakazik Honorfist the Steamslayer 85 Monk Iksar <Alliance of Hope> Xegony Server.
Finally got today on 3rd attempt...never completely cleared each zone as only have 2 hours to play a sitting. But very happy indeed it dropped, stay at it as you'll get yours also.
Had 2 punk-azz guildies get this today first attempt.. Both in the same day. I been at this for months and months anywhere from 1-3 times a day after raids. I guess I want it too bad for my own good.
I decided to clear the whole zone, and went down one tower, cleared to the other and working my way back up, and a drachnid champion dropped it. I am soo sick of the Hive,,,
After 24 tries over 4 days i got the mask to drop ..... I cleared the field and both towers each time .. on the first go . i cleared the whole zone of every creepy crawly in the place ...
i love this thing, used to use it everywhere i whent, shopping, traveling raiding and grouping, even when afk lol,
looking at all the comments this thing is mainly just a random drop. total time i spent in this zone farming it could probably come up to 1 mayby 2 days total.
so than whem me and my bro got bored we whent in with our pocket cleric, and second kill in his first mission it droped.
Solo'd the mission 5 times over the course of two days as a 75 shadowknight. Had two friends help me request it and stay in the task so I could enter. Finally dropped for me on the 5th run right before I was going to call it. It dropped from one of the shadowmane werewolf looking guys on the top of the second obelisk/tower/whatever those buildings are. Didnt see them on the loot list, seems to be true that it is a zone wide drop.
it took me 8 orb dod [normal] missions to get this to drop. i didn't go deep in the hive to kill. all i did was zoned in and cleared the field, exited mission and re grabbed and re killed the field mobs only. i didn't go into the towers, i didn't go on the bridges, i even didn't go to the undead or in the basement. just killed the trash in the field and re-got mission. the masked droped off the first 3 drachs you run into after you zone in at the campfire. good luck. any questions i am on teh trib server.
Took about 3 1/2 hours to get on normal difficulty setting with two people and 1 box. We finally got it to drop in the third tower on the living bridge.
The best way to do this is to have someone AOE and someone else tank. The tank I was with is uber so he was able to heal himself while I threw AOEs all over the mobs.