Gotonur #3: Give my creation. . . Life!  

There seem to be three static places where the coherent growth spawns: near Daegus, near Excrug, and near Adeenas.

From 7 hours camping the mob to get 3 shards I can tell you the following with all certainty:

1. Any slime (various earth and spore slimes) can be a PH for the Coherent Growth mob.

2. The shard seems to drop every 7 to 10 coherent growth kills. This means an incredibly long camp if you are trying to get more than one of them. Or you could be really lucky and get them right off the bat. -- I was not lucky. The zone even had 3 Coherent Growths up when I came in, one in each area, and none of them had the shard. I didn't get my first shard until two hours into the camp.

3. Most of the trash won't join in the fights ... the snakes and beetles don't seem to really care, even if you are fighting on top of them. The recluse spiders, however, want to be all in the fight.

I parked next to Excrug and pulled every slime in the area to his ledge. There was a static pop on the ledge near to Excrug that rotated through Coherent Growth spawns every few kills, however, the Coherent Growth did spawn in other slime placeholders in the area. Usually ones very close to the ledge on which Excrug stands.

7 hours (pluse change) later, I got my 3 shards and beat a path out of the zone.

This should really be a group task instead of a solo task. The spawns are so few and far between, and the shards so not common, that it makes sense to make this a group task instead of solo. Probably Sony won't do that, but for a task you have to have to get to the mission for the zone, this was a real pain in the *** to complete.

Adrin

How do you spawn the Coherent Growth?

[Tue Apr 06 15:09:13 2010] You say, 'Hail, Gotonur'
[Tue Apr 06 15:09:13 2010] Gotonur says 'You have mastered the manipulation of both the physical and magical, and now it is time to put these two together and add the final ingredient of life. I warn you that continuing on from here is dangerous and only those who are are serious should attempt this [final] test.'
[Tue Apr 06 15:09:20 2010] You say, 'final'
[Tue Apr 06 15:09:20 2010] Gotonur says 'The process of adding life involves imbuing an incorporeal soul with a physical body. This requires a portion of your own life essence. Doing this takes absolute concentration and if failed will result in a twisted homunculus that is doomed to walk this plane for eternity. Knowing this do you still [desire] this task?'
[Tue Apr 06 15:09:28 2010] You say, 'desire'
[Tue Apr 06 15:09:42 2010] You have been assigned the task 'Give my creation. . . Life!'.
[Tue Apr 06 15:09:42 2010] Gotonur says 'If you are ready then please proceed to find the components needed. Return to me with your results. We are counting on you.'

a coherent growth was already spawned at: -330, +788, 179. The nearby 'a recluse' aggro'd on me, nothing else did.


rewards:
[Tue Apr 06 18:17:15 2010] You say, 'Hail, Gotonur'
[Tue Apr 06 18:17:15 2010] Your task 'Give my creation. . . Life!' has been updated.
[Tue Apr 06 18:17:16 2010] You receive 105 platinum .
[Tue Apr 06 18:17:16 2010] You have gained an ability point! You now have 3 ability points.
[Tue Apr 06 18:17:16 2010] You gain experience!!
[Tue Apr 06 18:17:16 2010] You have been assigned the task 'Fire In The Hole'.
[Tue Apr 06 18:17:16 2010] Gotonur says 'I can see that you failed at your task which is what I was expecting. You see only a god can truly take that final step of adding life to a body. The last test was merely to see how willing you were to find out the truth. You passed my friend and now you are ready to enter the Vault of Stone. Hail me again when you have gathered some friends and are ready to take on this dangerous mission.'

Getting the a coherent growth to pop seems the only hard part in this. It does not drop the quest piece every time. PH for a coherent growth seems to be the ooze type mobs. At least a motile earth is what repopped when I killed the only one I have seen.