Sarcoscypha fungus for misty glazing?

[iluani]

Anyone know where i can find this? Thanks for you help

iluani

[Yalum]

Check the <a href=http://www.eqtraders.com/secrets/recipes_dyes.htm>smithing dyes</a> page. This fungus is how I ruined my uppger Guk faction. :roll:

[iluani]

Woot back to upper guk, it's been a while=P Thanks for you help i would have never found that in the dye section.

iluani

[Nowun Yewnough]

I believe I've seen it drop in unrest also.

[Kazim]

I cleared the mushrooms in uguk about 8 times yesterday (around 50 kills) and I only got 2 of these things! I also killed about a dozen fungusman trackers in innothule swamp and got zero.

Anyone have a source of this annoying stuff which won't take a month to farm a couple stacks of it? I did manage to find a few on venders, so I'm guessing it actually drops somewhere in higher volume.

Please, please, someone reveal the secret!

[Kaidian Blade]

Found in:

Upper Guk (Shrooms)
Unrest (variouis mobs)
Lesser Faydark (ground spawn in Faerie Village)

[Kazim]

I only found one ground spawn in the faery village when I went there and it had the other kind of fungus that spawns there. I'll check back there again. Maybe someone grabbed all the ground spawns before I got there or something.

The Uguk shrooms have a miserable drop rate.

How's the drop rate in Unrest? And what specifically do I kill to get the fungus? I guess I can just go there and demolish the zone, but that seems kind of unfriendly to the newbies hunting there....

Thanks!

[Zallarenya]

I've had the best drop rate from the fungus men in Innothule Swamp, and doesn't kill your Upper Guk faction. Drop rate is probably pure luck, though.

[Kravitz]

I've gotten quite a few from the little Fungus Spores in Innothule. It may be bad luck but I've never gotten one from a Fungus Man.

[Unmei]

The mobs you want in Unrest are the Jack O Lanterns. They're sissy easy (like level 16 or something) and spawn in the lawn area outside, but they're the uncommon lawn spawn (as opposed to tormented dead and death beetles) and they don't drop the fungus real often. I'd only suggest doing this if you are also farming zombie skins for poison vials.

Also of note, this stuff drops off Scarecrows in WK, with the same sucky arse drop rate as Unrest.

Also, there are several (4 ish, I think) ground spawns in the faerie village in Lfay, but there are 2-3 (I forget) different types of fungus that can spawn there, so this method isn't exactly fast either. =/

[Kazim]

Hmmm, this is looking like a seriously sucky way to get skillups. I think it would be less time consuming to just farm cash somewhere and skill up on star ruby steins. I'm amazed anyone actually has a crucible of escape if the potter needs to waste this much time to get one goofy ingredient.

Oh well. Guess I can always eat the 4 stacks of seb fish I fished up the other day....

[Unmei]

/sigh. Please think these things through before you post stuff like that.

You don't need the fungus to skill up on these things any more than you need iron oxide to skill up on the old imbued idols.

The Sarcoscypha fungus is used as part of the Misty Glazing, which is used in the firing step of the creation process. You don't -ever- fire things during the skill up process unless you intend to sell them, because firing is invariably trivial at any appreciable level of skill.

All you need to skill up on crucibles is heavy clay, celestial essence, and some store bought stuff like sketches and lesser succor scrolls. Which means, that, really, all you need to skill up on crucibles is heavy clay and money.

[Kaidian Blade]

And before you ask.....

Heavy Clay is found on Mudites in the Gorge of King Xorbb (Beholder's Maze).

[Kazim]

Wouldn't it bum you out to spend time farming a rare-ish ingredient (the heavy clay), then not firing the result (which is a very cool item)? I just can't see myself not cringing when I just tossed the unfired items rather than firing them. Of course, I've been trying to farm sarc fungi for like a week and only managed to scrape together 10.

But you're right that you could do that if you wanted to. I still maintain that unless there's some source of sarco fungi people aren't admitting to, I'm amazed that there are any crucibles of escape at all available. This stuff is annoyingly rare. I seem to get about one fungi in 3 or 4 clearings of the guk fungus men. That's a LOT of time spent for a single combine, since the respawn rate there isn't fantastic.

To focus this discussion back on skillups though, about how many heavy clays would you say you can get per hour farming them? For me, whether to do the unfired crucible route or the star-ruby stein route comes down to simple math. If the heavy clay is as rare as the sarco fungi, I'm fairly sure I could farm money for steins faster.

By the way, how much do the crucibles of escape sell for on your servers?

[Kaidian Blade]

*On average*.... and depending on how fast you can kill the mobs.... I'd say around 10 per hour. Sometimes I've gotten more, sometimes quite a bit less.

Crucibles are uncommon on Sol Ro Bazaar traders, but they are being sold. A few folks seem to crank them out regularly, but only have one or two in inventory. Then again... they could have always had those same one or two and not even move them.

/shrug

[Obina]

I've gotten a few off the fungus men that live near the fire pit of the Unrest basement. I've gotten more from people (in Unrest) who are curious what I am doing, and give me theirs for a few pp when I say. Next time I'll start with a WTB when I get to Unrest.

I have fired up a few finished crucibles. They have not sold yet at 100pp (Karana). I have given 4 as gifts to my guildmates and they have been very appreciative. We are all friendly of course, but one wizard went out of his way to give me a lvl 53 spell I've been wanting soon after. humm.

Obina
Cleric of the 52 Light
Potter of the 222 Dirty Hand

[Tudani]

Back when the recipie first came out I spent a couple days farming pieces for these. I got my sarc fungus from innothule (took my mid-20's druid there and tracked, not the greatest drop rate but not horrid either). The heavy clay is kinda a pain in the ass, me and a friend farmed it for a couple of hours to get like a stack of it. Also, it took me till about a month ago to get rid of the last of the about 12 that I made. I ended up having to give most of them away, and dropping prices on the rest to what I thought was rediculusly low for the amount of time I spent on them just to get rid of them. They're nice items but nobody seems to see the real value of them. All in all, I wouldn't advise skilling up on them, especially not if you're expecting to be able to sell them to get money back.

[Candiil]

When I was experimenting with Crucibles of Escape, I made a twink bard and leveled him up to 6 (or whatever level they get the run song) and ran him down to the faerie village in LFay. Then I would log him in several times a day until i managed to score all the ground spawns there (sarco fungus and jack-o-lantern, don't remember how many of each). After that I would check back every 12 or 24 hours, loggin in before going to work, during lunch, etc, and grab them again. Eventually I had 2 stacks of sarco fungus. Probably not the fastest way to get them but it involved the least amount of work and getting killed by the corrupted unicorn is fun!!!

[Emelyn]

Wouldn't it bum you out to spend time farming a rare-ish ingredient (the heavy clay), then not firing the result (which is a very cool item)? I just can't see myself not cringing when I just tossed the unfired items rather than firing them.

Nope. These are the cheapest things you can make in the 210+ range. And on my server, they just don't sell (which I don't really understand, beacuse they are cool, and both my wizard and druid have one in a main slot all the time). I've sold perhaps a total of 4 in 2 months.

Its similar to the shadowscream stuff in smithing. Its a time consuming farming way to level up, that has a low cost to make, but a correspondingly low sellability value.

Find out if there's any market for them on your server before you go nuts on the fungus.

I do find fungus from time to time when I do vendor mining runs. Seems lots of folks have no idea what its for or don't care.

[Kazim]

2 things to report:

1. There's almost no market for crucibles - no clue why - I've sold 1 so far

2. Despite fungus drops being ultra rare, if you throw enough newbie frogs at a problem, it gets solved. I just mined every merchant in the new froggie version of grobb and merchant mined a lifetime supply of fungus. (10 stacks should be enough...)

Got 4 stacks of spiderling silk too....

[Yalum]

2. Despite fungus drops being ultra rare, if you throw enough newbie frogs at a problem, it gets solved. I just mined every merchant in the new froggie version of grobb and merchant mined a lifetime supply of fungus. (10 stacks should be enough...)
It wasn't the drop rate that was the problem, but there are only 6 or 8 shrooms in Guk, and not many more than that in Innothule (who were much harder to find), so there just weren't many opportunities to drop. With the Innothule revamp, shrooms are much more prevalent, and so are the sarc fungus.

But crucibles sell for 150pp on my server now, and that's not worth the time to run out to Seb to fish. I can sell nightmare cichlid bones for more than that with half as much work, and those sell much better than crucibles anyway.

[menssia01]

Since LoY and all those frogs appearing this fungus is fairly easy to find.
Have a look at the merchants in PoK or Frog city.. if not /auc for it.. You are bound to get a few responses..

As for the CoE.. the are a very cheap (but time consuming) way to raise pottery..

I have chosen this way, with the odd 1 stack of steins attempts (225 + 5% and still avg only 3-4 per 20 tries..bleh...poof 1.5k..

Where as the CoE cost 0 for the clay (just your time to farm)..say 35pp for a stack of Celestial essence and 110 odd pp for scrolls and a few pp for odd things..Total..less than 200pp per stack of tries. Thats 20p per attempt... not bad I think.

Just gets a little frustrating when it takes 100-140 attempts per skill rise..oh well always tomorrow to hope for a skill rise.

[Kazim]

I feel your pain. I did 4 stacks of karana idols and about 10 crucibles of escape the other day and only got 1 skillup from 222 to 223 (255 wis). I'm really hoping to average better than 1 skillup per 90 combines on my way to grand mastery. This start does not fill me with confidence. On the bright side, I never have to make another stinkin opal encrusted stein again!

[Moonlilly]

Anyone know the respawn on these at the LFay camp?

[Kaidian Blade]

Forget all previous posts...

This stuff is dropping like MAD in Innothule Swamp. You can literally buy STACKS of it off the Gukta merchants since all the newbie Frogloks are descimating Innothule right now. Just the other night I walked away with 7 STACKS of the fungus.

Do yourself a favor and hit Gukta. You'll save a ton of time.