The Great Saprophyte  

Spawn time is between 2 hours 45 minutes to 5 hours. Been camping this spawn for several weeks with a 60 Rogue. Easy kill for a level 60 Rogue as my dps (damage per second) is far greater then the GS. Resisted all nukes except for poison dot once. High Magic Resist would be neccessary. Mine was 214 MR and 113 Poison resist. Camping this guy for such a long duration I've noticed he is on a random timer with a minimum of 2hours 45minutes. I believe it is due in that period of time with a random timer of an additional 2 hours approximately spawning anytime in that random time of 2.45 to 5 hours approx. For a 60 Rogue it was cake. Even the ghey cultist were a joke. Dropped this guy and 2 cultist adds everytime I logged on my camped rogue in the room and ended up with anywhere from half life to 80% health left at end of battle.

Solo'd him today as a level 50 Paladin. Tough battle but came out ahead. Did have to use my Lay hands though, but oh well. He threw everything he had at me, nukes, knockbacks, summon, bonds of force, and hit me of course. Tryin to get the spell and he of course didn't drop it. Guess im goin to have to keep tryin.

The first thing you need to do is get 2 people because i know for a fact that you cannot solo him if your a melee class. 2 paladins would be ideal, get one basher/stunner and another stunner/damager. you need to soothe the followers because if you attack the saprophyte and they see you they will also agro and this is annoying at best, deadly at worst. if your a melee once you get involved dont try to run just kick the living crap out of him, he has decent magic resist but still stun from a 45 paladin lands about 1/4 of the time, whenever he starts casting bash him, he wont try and run ever, just keep kicking the crap out of him and his fungral regeneration wont matter. as long as the boglings are lulled and you have bash/stun and a good DPS this wont be a long fight.

If you can do it wipe out one side of the room first. then med up, resist magic, fire, poison, regen, thorn, then atack him
I found that an opening attack with your biggest Dot works best, followed by your fastest nukes, as you wont get in another good spell. Took him down today 2x 53 , one 51 druid. Wasnt eay but issue was never in doubt. This follows an inquisive, whats this on track, oh a hi greenie, lets see what he has!.....thwap!...loading......please wait....

I am a 44 wiz and have not much difficulty with this guy.

first thing I do is enter the room and kill each and every boggling in the room. Then I kill as many of the mushroom sporelings as i can before medding.

When medded up enough I kill the other sporelings and then med to full mana. I make sure i have a fresh Diamondskin up.

Nothing fancy from here on in just hit him with conflagaration as an opening shot. Then start pounding on it again you may get lucky and get off a second shot before getting summoned. If not start hitting a low level quick cast spell till he starts tryin to boink you as soon as he tries to boink you stand your ground and cast another conflag at him then quickly move out of his boinking range and get your diamondskin back up. When you have the sheild back up move in close enough that he starts trying to boink you again and conflag him again. Rinse repeat until dead.

If you are a caster and start to run as soon as you see your health bar move you are one dead duckling.

This shroom is a lot of fun for casters. when do we ever get the oppotunity to stand toe to toe with a mob. Try it you will like it. And at the same time learn that you are not as frail as you think you are.

With sheilds on I only have 930hp

Why do i even mess with this guy?

An old story. In my youth (early 20's)I ventured in here and saw him and his pals, decided that i would take on a small sporeling well that was a mistake i was dead so fast I had to read about it to see what killed me. Now that I am so much stronger I make it a point of coming here just to kill it. If i am in the neighborhood (anytime i come to the moon) i always make a detour over here to see if it is up. Someday I may reach the point where I have forgiven the shroom but that is not today. As a matter of fact think i will head over there right now and kill it again.

I am a level 55 warrior, at the time I tried this *level 35 mob*, I had 919 AC and 2500hps, and I was weilding a 10/18 and a 14/27.
And btw I solo light blues np, which are from 40-45 mobs.
But it took this **** about 30 seconds to kill me, with the help of his little poo goblin friends although they werent much trouble, I slaughtered dozens shortly before.
He had like 30% of his hp left.
So I got a cleric to rez me, and she and myself had a second attempt at the shroom.
This time we won, but during the fight, I recquired 2 or 3 CHeals, and I even though I only looted a Saprophyte eye, i'm damn proud of it :P its on my wizzi now
When you wanna hit him up front, he knocks you back, when you run, he summons you. And he stuns. This is officially the most annoying mob in the game.

After my experience the first time, I saw this guy up again the other day, and decided to solo him. I am a level 56 wizard. I loaded up ice comet, tears of solesk ro and draught of fire and got to full mana. I stood just outside of the room and nuked the guards one at a time with the ice comet and finished them off with a small spell. after clearing all the guards(there were 3) I started off the fight by hitting the mushroom with the tears of solesk ro, it summoned me as the 1st wave hit it, and I got hit in the wash. I started casting draught of fire, and it hit me with a knockback which pushed me out of range of druzil and the 3rd wave hit it as well as my draught. After the knockback I hit it with another draught while it cast on me and was resisted(150+ MR). It had the gloves, the earring and the spell.

Edited, Thu Sep 12 15:44:58 2002

Just adding some information,

I just killed this bugger with my 56 wizard, however I had to gate out at %8 health and %85 mana the first time I attacked it, since I didn't know about the knockback I just loaded up Ice Comet for first hit, summon and finish with draughts.., well.. that didn't work.

So I went there again, this time thought up a strategy that did wonders. Open with ice comet, then immediately use the level 51 2.3 sec cast time stun, as soon as it's stunned drop an ice comet if you have the time for it, otherwise use a draught and then the level 49 stun and another draught. He takes around 2 draughts and one ice comet to kill, this strategy worked perfectly. I did however find odd that the stuns seemed to work even though I got the "immune to a portion of the spell" message.. maybe I was just lucky.

Loot was spell and gloves :)

-Zapdaboom Kataplufete, Tallon Zek

Another Body on the Heap.

I was bored,and decided to try and kill this guy,plus I needed remove curse anyways.So I buffed up with SLN and resist magic,fire, and
cold(not disease or poison,for some reason I thought he was a Druid.)I trained all the bogling guys to the guards,then hit him with drifting death from outside the room.He summoned me,but i kept nuking him.He only had a sliver of health left,but the ******* kept chain casting that damn poison knockback spell,and wasn't able to get one last wildfire off.By the time i got rezzed and the effects wore off,some bum had already finished him off. :(~

First Off I am a (or was a) 39 pally
Alright U may not Belive this but I have soloed the Sage in Lguk I started the fight at half life simply multi stunned/bashed ever damn spell that came at me the only damg I took was from me trying to pull him up too or at least near ***/sup and he was Nuking me for massive damg when he finally rooted me at the top of the sec set of stairs the 52 monk in the group was no wear to be found, so I said what the hell LoH is up lets do this, I was 37 at the time only buffs I had where self spells only and I wooped him with out using LoH (left me with 37hp's).
Now I hit 39 soloing in Lguk and I was out getting my new spells when my guild start complaining about a big mushy on the moon. (this is where I get real stupid) I brag up my solo fight wit The sage and start saying hey that shroom is got to be easy...... well friend came and got me I buffed me self to about 2k hp and ran on in after attempting the long range stun, to get a bash in well I was pounding him for about 5-6 secs (maybe less) when I start seeing U have been hit and I wasseeing this alot, Iknow I was dead so I looked around and there was a hole tribe of marshins beating the puss outa me, my guildie sent in a heal too me (stupid basterd) and they all killed him and came back for me, I got the shroom to 2/3 life LOL and LoHed and ran like hell when I got round the corner spells stopped but the lil buggers beat the hell outa me so I did not make the zone (lost 39), but I learned the he is stationary and I think u can safely pull the guys with in as long as u run out to near the Mesquito room. I belive a good group of high 30's low 40's could take this if the group worked well together. That is just my 2 cents.
druzzlo Ro
Pallidious Maximous
38 Pally
Funki Munkey
33 Monk
Niterake Soultaker
22 Necro

Can anyone tell me what the spore is for?

I tried to take this guy down (55 ranger) and died pretty fast. I had my buffs on, snared him and got summoned. He nuked me a lot and when I tried to run he summoned, even if I was fairly far away. I got a rez from a very nice 60 cleric. She wanted a spell that drops off him so she decided to join me. She kill him instantly! It was awesome. Three of her nukes and its dead. He nuked her a few times but with aego she barely felt it. She was awesome and let me loot the gloves I needed. So if you are a 60 cleric, cast aego on yourself and you are good to go! *giggle*

P.S. Outrider of Quellious, not pathfinder hehe.


Edited, Fri Jun 14 18:33:36 2002