a fungus mutant  

Respawn time was consistently 16.5 minutes on Yelniak today.

It is a druid caster.
Kept trying to snare me.

After months of camping the fungus mutant on and off since getting the platinum ring, I finally managed to finish this quest today. I didn't get either the copper ring or the gold ring until today, since at the time I was occupied with stuff outside of EverQuest. However, I can say that I had killed the mutant a total of 10 or 12 times before today and he dropped none of the quest components needed for the rings. With that out of the way, here's the actual log of how the camp went. I killed the fungus mutant once upon logging on after the Ykesha patch today, spent some time playing as a froglok, then went back to this camp for the remainder of the day. Note that I'm only logging quest components here, and that the fungus mutant would drop random gems/spell components/rusty weapons sometimes.

Postpatch - Bracket Mildew
7:41PM
7:57PM
8:24PM
8:40PM
9:00PM
9:16PM
9:32PM - Bracket Mildew
9:52PM - Bracket Mildew
10:08PM
10:26PM
10:44PM
11:00PM - Degenerated Guk Weed

I killed the mutant a total of 13 times. The bracket mildew was dropped on three occasions (3/13), the weed dropped once (1/13), and the faerix spores did not drop at all. The spores aren't that big of a deal, though, since the silver ring can easily be obtained from Blackburrow if you come at the right time. For information on the platinum ring, see the post under Gynok Moltor in Befallen that I made a few months back.

"Tackball? Who would want to put a tack on their balls?"

Fungus Mutant dropped Sarcoscypha Fungus today - stackable.

Killed this thing 20 times now and still no guk weed dropped, i got about 4 bracket mildews though. I just sit there, kill it, then camp for a 15 minutes and wait for the next one to spawn. A friend and i camped it for a long time again last night and still it didnt drop. the rarity on this item is just stupid, might as well go buy the paw of opalla, i could get 1kpp by the time i get the guk weed.

Bagend Proudfoot
Lvl 39 Druid of Tunare
Rodcet Nife

The gold ring for this quest also drops of the same mummy in Befallen where you get the Plat ring and sometimes copper ring from.

I couldn't help but notice that there are non-wisdom casters camping this thing for hours on end. One warrior even mentioned that he was camping for the sole purpose of selling the ring. Granted that Verant has ganked the spawn and drop rates, it seems kind of out of place for a class that would have no use for the actual quest items to camp and loot those items for pure profit. I am heading to Guk tonight to get my weed and brackets to complete my quest. I sure hope that there isn't some level 45 bard or rogue camping there just so that he can loot an item that would help another player much more. I certainly hope that he never needs the white dragonscale and I win the roll...then it will force me to turn to him and say "wanna buy a dragon scale?"....not a good example of gamesmanship. I am not saying that you can't kill or loot, but bear in mind that killing hill giants will probably get you more overall cash than camping Mutie Fun-guy for quest components since there are those of the classes that would benefit from actually performing the quest.

what is GEBs?

2 hours.. Try camping 14 hours once and having it KS'd from you. Selling the Gold Ring on Tunare server for about 750pp. Send a /tell to "Xylum" or "Tonnorre" if you are interested.

I have camped this fool for 20+ hours and still no weed that is why the paw sells for so much. I would consider paying for it after the mindless hell of waiting I have done

I am a 50 wizard and camping this guy for some money (from the Paw) just posting that his spawn time is exaclt 17 minutes.

this is the last part of the quest i have to do i came into Beffallen and a guild mate helped me - the camp was about 3 hours he spawned and he died in under a minute - now i have all but the copper and gold rings and i just wanted to know how much they r worth becuse i have heard a lot of horror stories of the camp on this guy and am kida worried that i will have to sit on my hands for 12 lvls (i am 24 now) - becuase i had all but the last page for vanear and my friend wouldn't help me becuase i was lvl 8 and it was an 8 hour spawn - so i had to wait 8 lvls but when i get the paw i will have a wis of 162 i dont think that is half bad any way the point is i want to know how much these last 2 rings r woth on Tarew Marr if i can aford em then i am practricly dont now andyway thanks...(oh and BTw can i do this at 24 or do i have to sit on the container and my 2 rings?)
Trelan Spirytcaller <Star Travelors> 24th druid of Tarew Marr
May Tunare bless you...