Beguile Plants  

This is ridiculous. I hate to say I have the spell, decided to try out the abilities and it says ( FOR EVERYTHING PLANT LIFE ) This creature is too high a level for this spell...CONSISTANT RESISTS !!!!!!! Please give us something of use. I respect the fact you give us an ability that nobody else can use, but to make it so WE DRUIDS CAN'T EITHER ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!? WHAT A WASTE OF SPACE AND TIME.

The dust you need off of the tsu shaman also drops off of the NOK shaman, i just got it in FV after killing these TSU's for a good hour...

is the spell a druid only spell or can a ranger use it also? if you know plz post. thnx

I have completed this quest yesterday. Notice the Powder of Tsu that comes off the Froglok Tsu Shamans in Firiona Vie is actually called Shaman Powder. It is the same so don't be afraid to give it to the halfling :)

I got the Farsight Crystal off the Sarnaks in Lake of Ill Omen. It's not NoDrop so you can buy it for couple of pps from the people there, as vendors won't pay them nothing for it.

The Pouch of Dust (aka Sarnak Night Dust) I got off a Partisan near the Iksar Statue in Frontier Mountains, location is about -200,1200. Note that this place is on a mountain and is rather close to the Giant Fort, so it was a very risky camp, as almost every minute a mob aggroed on me, whether it was a Giant, a Burynai or a Brute. Also, when I first came there were no partisans around the statue, so needed to clear their camp for one to spawn. The first one I killed had it, so I could take off that horrible zone to Lake of Ill Omen :)

The Healer Silk is indeed off Strathbone Healer in Kaesora. I killed about three before it dropped. It looks like an ordinary Spider Silk, so don't accidently destroy it or give it to someone else :) A wizard helped me pull them to the entrance with his Eye, so it was pretty easy. I assume camping in their spawn is not too horrible either.

Note that the Shaman Powder also came off the third Tsu Shaman I killed, so don't give up. The area of the Tsu Shamans in Firiona Vie is also very risky, as it is packed with some Froglok Knights, Guk style, that can see through invis and camo. I suggest camping near the zone to Swamp of No Hope and then kiting them towards that direction, or pulling them there if you have a group.

The Partisans, Tsu Shamans and Strathbone Healers were all Blue to me at level 36.

After getting all components, you need to hand them to the Halfling in the hut near the small dock just behind the Bank in Firiona Vie outpost. He will hand you a scroll called Fertile Crop, and once you scribe it into your book it will change its name to Beguile Plants.
I have tried using that spell on a cactus in The Overthere, and I was not too impressed as the blue to me cactus resisted it three times. Haven't tried it since then, so I can't really say whether it's worth the effort. Anyway, I just like to have all my spells in the book :)

To the guy that tried to charm Treants - I think it's reasonable to assume that this spell has a duration much like the charm animal spells, so that means if you try it on a Treant you will either have to kill it or run to zone after it expires. Killing a treant will hurt your faction horribly with the Druids of Norrath, and will disable you from teleporting or being teleported to any Druid ring with Druids around it, such as West Commons, East Karana or North Karana. Therefore I strongly recommend against it.

I just did this quest the other day and I must say it is an awesome spell. The only thing that came to mind is with the current creatures in Norrath is it good for much. The BIG one I was wanting to use it on was Treants. A druid with a Treant for a pet would be AWESOME! However I tried it several times on treants. It never gave me a message saying it was wrong type of creature to cast it on, however I would get a message saying the NPC's lvl is too high for this spell. I am not sure if it means the spell itself, or my lvl. I am lvl 40 so I can't imagine that. If this is true other than a few random scattered zones this cool spell is pretty much worthless.

Fourpaws Waggintail

The quest is fairly simple to do, and yields a god awful spell. I only used it once, and to my dismay had the hcarm spell break in a matter of seconds. The healer silk is an ultra common drop off strathbone healers in KAesora (located in the field of bone near the Warsiliks woods zone) The tsu shaman powder is dropped of froglok tsu shamans in Trakanons Teeth (common drop as well) The puch of sarnak dust is always dropped by sarnak partisans in the frontier mountains. (There is a camp of 4 sarnaks near the Burning woods zone) Lastly the sarnak farsight ctrystal drops off sarnak revelers in the Lake of Ill Omen in the Sarnak fort. (it is NOT the gem of yet to come, that is for the monks shackle of scale quest). Take all 4 of these items, turn them into shrub marwood in FV, and presto you have your crappy spell. (not worth the time or effort) Even with Velious, there are no new plants to charm. Its easier to do the dark oak shillegh quest and use the staff's 5 charges of beguile plants instead of trying to get this spell. Good Luck if you want it though. It's easy to get, and hey might impress the ladies. :)
Kazooie Swiftfoot
Druid Sol Ro

once you get the piece of paper from the halfling have any of you tried to scribe it since that is actually the spell :)

It's been previously stated that any Tsu shaman is dropping the shaman dust (Firiona Vie, Swamp of No Hope, Traks Teeth, etc). Don't know if it was nerfed recently, but it's definitely not dropping off of Tsu Shamans in Firiona Vie. I'll try Traks Teeth and report back, but there's at least one confirmed report of it dropping in TT here.

A lvl 35 grouped with either a tank, ench or bard could probably blow through this quest pretty quickly and easily, but at 29, every mob required would be red (not to mention the places you have to hunt you'd end up with adds agro'd on you and your group).

[Tue Aug 22 19:08:31 2000] You say, 'what about fertile crop'
[Tue Aug 22 19:08:31 2000] Shrub Marwood says 'Looking to get hold of my family druid spell, ehh? It doesn't come without a price. Lucky for you all I need is for you to run a small errand for me. Go fetch me a Sarnak farsight crystal, some Sarnak nightdust, some strathebone heal silk and some powder of Tsu. Do that and I will give you a copy of my family secret.
[Sat Aug 26 00:15:00 2000] Shrub Marwood says 'If you want the [Fertile Crop] druid spell than I must insist that you complete your small task.
[Sat Aug 26 00:15:00 2000] Shrub Marwood says 'If you want the [Fertile Crop] druid spell than I must insist that you complete your small task.
[Sat Aug 26 00:15:00 2000] Shrub Marwood says 'If you want the [Fertile Crop] druid spell than I must insist that you complete your small task.
[Sat Aug 26 00:15:00 2000] Shrub Marwood says 'Great work. I wish I had the coin to hire you on permanently. Maybe I will when I find the lost trade city of Torsis. Here is the spell I copied for you. Careful, the ink is still drying.
[Sat Aug 26 00:15:01 2000] Your faction standing with FirionaVie got better
[Sat Aug 26 00:15:01 2000] Your faction standing with EmeraldWarriors got better
[Sat Aug 26 00:15:01 2000] Your faction standing with StormGuard got better
[Sat Aug 26 00:15:01 2000] Your faction standing with LegionOfCabilis got worse
[Sat Aug 26 00:15:01 2000] Your faction standing with PiratesOfGunthak got worse
[Sat Aug 26 00:15:01 2000] You gain experience!!
[Sat Aug 26 00:15:02 2000] Alyana saved.
[Sat Aug 26 00:15:48 2000] Beginning to scribe Beguile Plants...
[Sat Aug 26 00:15:59 2000] You have finished scribing Beguile Plants.

I'm guessing Verant has fixed the quest now as the healing silk dropped almost immediately off the healing spiders in kaesora for me. The farsight crystal came off a Sarnak Revealer in the Chancellor's room, but it was about 3 hours of camping before he spawned. I found the Sarnak Nightdust off the very first Partisan I killed at the fort at -2200, 1500 in FM. I was able to get the Powder of Tsu off the first Froglock Tsu Shaman we tracked down in TT.

All in all I don't see how even a well oiled group of 29's could do this.

-Alyana
46th Druid on Povar

Got the healer silk today off the second stratebone healer i killed in Kaesora.
Went to FV and completed the quest and the spell is NO DROP so no use trying to do it for any druids who could possibly benefit from it. At 52 its more or less useless. <sigh>
Almost 4 months waiting for this quest...
Here is the log of the quest:
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You say, 'tell me of fertile crop'
Shrub Marwood says 'Looking to get hold of my family druid spell, ehh? It doesn't come without a price. Lucky for you all I need is for you to run a small errand for me. Go fetch me a Sarnak farsight crystal, some Sarnak nightdust, some strathebone heal silk and some powder of Tsu. Do that and I will give you a copy of my family secret.
Shrub Marwood says 'If you want the [Fertile Crop] druid spell than I must insist that you complete your small task.
Shrub Marwood says 'If you want the [Fertile Crop] druid spell than I must insist that you complete your small task.
Shrub Marwood says 'If you want the [Fertile Crop] druid spell than I must insist that you complete your small task.
Shrub Marwood says 'Great work. I wish I had the coin to hire you on permanently. Maybe I will when I find the lost trade city of Torsis. Here is the spell I copied for you. Careful, the ink is still drying.
Your faction standing with FirionaVie got better
Your faction standing with EmeraldWarriors got better
Your faction standing with StormGuard got better
Your faction standing with LegionOfCabilis got worse
Your faction standing with PiratesOfGunthak got worse
You gain experience!!
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I couldnt trigger him to say anymore about this lost city. =(

Loopi is one of those ppl that just has to add some pointless thought that usually makes others intelligence drop just from reading it he has no idea where another "strathebone healer silk" drops I mean think about it, this whole quest is stupid. Level 29 spell and close to a 35+ quest those spiders need 3-6 ppl in a group to kill them at about 35. This is a 29 level spell not 35+ I'm a level 51 druid and after trying this quest for over 1 month have given up, its not worth stressing over, only 3 zones that the spell is worth anything anyway... "The Overthere, Emerald Jungle, and Trak's Teeth". Another thing, if there is this supposed "Other" spider why doesn't all the lvl 50+ guilds with druids NOT have this spell...something to think about.

Spent alot of time killing spiders and no silk. My guess is the tump stump that the spiders drop should be this silk as the tump stump makes no sense what so ever on the healers. I suggest everyone file a bug on this.

Well after ruining my overthere faction several times over to help my spouse complete this quest, I must say it was a complete disappointment and aggravation to find the original information about the Healer silk incorrect. The 2nd tump stump for the shilaleigh is on the Strathbone healer, but NEVER a healer silk. Maybe after this 20 hour patch job?

The Crystal being referred to is NOT, repeat NOT, the gem of yet to come. It is actually called Farsight Crystal. I have one in the bank, and the updated information has it right -- found in the Fortress in Lake of Ill Omen. Just to clear that up. =)