Faydedar  

I have had my druid parked in TD for the last 9 days. Faydedar spawns in the southwest corner of the map by the underwater wizard spires. Fay has spawned every 25th hour for the first 7 days but on the 8th day Fay spawned on the 27th hour.

No longer cons as a raid encounter.

Molo'd this guy as a 66 Necro.

Killed a streamer before engaging, popped Wake the Dead and Swarm of Decay, resisted everything except Lifetap so I just chain tapped. Around 25% popped Lifeburn for 10k and the kill.

Found him in the south-east corner of the zone. Dropped a bunch of spells, 2x treasure hunters satchel, bracer, scale, pally book and pod of seawater.

Pretty trivial fight all in all with todays gear and AA's, ended it with about 50% mana and merc at about 60-70%.

Couple things of note ...

First, Faydedar is on a 11 hour and 15 minute spawn (as someone previously said). I tried killing Ulump to get Faydedar to spawn (multiple attempts), and I can tell you with all certainty that it doesn't work that way.

Second, you need to be ready for battle As Soon As you hand the Froglok Essence to Dolgin. I didn't realize that part and got my ass handed to me the first go round.

Third, as previously mentioned, have as many junk spells as you can on before you put your real stuff on. Same for your merc if you are using one. Faydedar dispelled me to my 12th spell consistantly.

Fourth, I was able to land Winged Death and Moonfire repeatedly upon Faydedar (there was some failure involved, but more hits than misses). Nothing else non-melee seemed to work, and definately not root or snare.

Fifth, I had to kill Faydedar three times before I could loot him. The first and second times I killed him, his corpse was underwater, *seemingly* inside one of the pillars of the pier. When I petitioned about this, I was told if it happened again, to petition under "Stuck" so that a GM could summon the body out. The third time I killed Faydedar, he went from the water to the walkway over the water. I have no idea how this happened. I was chasing him and fighting in the water and then he wasn't there. At first I thought he despawned (and was about ready to take an axe to my computer), but then I got the message that my merc had killed him. I looked everywhere and was all set to petition again, when I got the bright idea to go look on the walkway. Lo and behold, there his lil dead self was. Looking back, maybe the first two attempts he popped up there as well. I honestly don't know, but if you "lose" his corpse, it would definately be worth checking out the pier itself just to be sure.

Hope this is helpful,

Adrin

The Nameless Server
Guild: Chaotic Apocalypse

Just took the regular version down 20 minutes ago on Drinal. Was roaming around the spires, found me before I found him, he was pretty easy lame for a 74 warrior. Fight took me a couple minutes because I had to chase him down in the water while he was fleeing. He dropped a bunch of spells, RBB, shield of white dragon and the torn frost book for the pally epic (still drops. Was fun to relive old adventures

as a 71 druid my spells wouldnt stick on faydedar i was summoned and nethier him or me moved so i was directly under him not a single spell would stick though...so i died.

Okay, been farming the crap out of Faydedar for awhile. The spawned version pops in the far southwest corner, around the old Firepot Gate room. And unlike the other dragons, he pops every 24-26 hours like clockwork. He's the best cash cow I have ever seen. He always drops enough vendor trash to pay for a gate pot, and sometimes the magic bags. I LUBS me some Faydedar!

I noticed that the 10 minute (raid) timer till resting has been removed. It is now the same as a normal mob.

I don't know exactly when this change was made, sometime during one of the April - June 2008 updates.

This morning a duo of a 71/200 ranger and a 56 druid bot took down the druid epic version rather easily.

Druid did turn in, Faydedar popped in lake and started making his way toward us. Ranger started firing arrows until he got closer. Then started melee. AoE fear hit, and ranger was sent toward the bridge to the bar, which turned out to be good. At that point I popped fearless on the ranger and started meleeing faydedar down. Druid never really did much but got hit by 500hp AoE a few times, and ran around alot feared. Ranger used one HoT pot over the whole fight.

When mob started to run, being that I was meleeing on the up-ramp of the bridge to the bar, he started heading toward the bar on the bridge. At the bar he turned around and headed back out on the bridge. So he never got close to the tunnel area. I tried to get snare to stick one or twice, but then just gave up on that.

So after one cup of coffee my druid bot has her epic 1.0.

Over all an easy quest, but very time consuming. I duo'd the quest from start to finish with ranger doing most of the work.

Does the Frost Covered Part of a Book drops off the triggered Faydedar or just the spawned one? Any info on this? Thank you.

Edited, Nov 23rd 2007 9:15am by Rescra

One point that isn't mentioned here is that every single melee attack of this mob will interrupt your casting. (I would just love it if Sony, once in a while, would introduce a mob that is "melee-proof" instead of Magic Proof all the time. It seems they are obsessed with making their raid encounters proofed against magic, making casters as useless as possible, as often as possible.) Unless you have instant cast nukes/dots, you will be wasting your time attempting to solo this thing.

Faydedar was up at 0100 hrs EDT on 19 July 07. Very soloable dragon; I had AC=2413 HP=11K had to use 2 HoT potions and 2 self heals. My tracker had the Dragon up and I was located at the Spires. Dragon attacked me and caught me off guard. He aggros very easy over a large range. He dropped the Frost Covered Book and Pod of Seawater. I've killed it twice and each time it dropped the Pod of Seawater.

He de-buffed several of my spells and none of my spells would land (even though I was right under him). I used Fearless discipline, but after wore off I was feared for a few seconds.

Once he begins to flee, it will be hard to keep up with him in the water, so have a SoW potion ready to use to catch him (if you have SoW on when the fight starts, the Dragon will likely have de-buff it before it flees, as happened to me).

Good Hunting,

Ariestarchus
Paladin 73

Just killed him and he dropped the following spells not listed on his loot table.

Manastorm MAG(59)
Greater Voceration: Air MAG(59)
Sha's Ferocity BST(59)
Spiritual Strength BST(60)

Edited, Mar 3rd 2007 12:24am by Adita

where is this guy and how do i spawn him

just soloed this guy
im a 73 ranger was at 11K with ten and self buffs
he hit for at max 203 normally around 120~150 double attack but always missed one
just fyi before you start damaging him pull him to the bottom of the water or else your going to get summoned and twisted around it happened to me and he was beating me for a while then i pulled him to the bottom and pwned him popped 1 pot
all in all hes an easy dragon compared to gorenaire.
dropped : Treasure hunter's satchel, selo's drums of march , sea dragon meat, water dragon meat, water dragon scales , spell: Dictate , Spell: spiritual strength, spell: Greater vocaration:air , pod of seawater, and Torn Frost covered book
good luck

PS if your a beggining dragon hunter id suggest start here he was eaaasssyyy compared to the other dragons ive killed

Killed Faydedar on Stromm at exactly 22:44:48 MTN, Wed Jan 10, 2007. He was hanging around the southwest corner. From the OT translocator, it was a loooong run...

Had about 31,000 HPs; DPS of 40. Easily soloable by a level 65... but don't forget your enduring breath like I did the first time.

Still, the death was more than worth it, as I officially received BOTH book halves on the same day (the first was looted from Tal this morning).

W00T!

What or where are these fire pots....?? havent been in ALL of zone.. but is it far from the Lagune where i atleast know the " triggerd" Fadedar comes..??

Swimming to the pot room with my 15dru on The Sleeper. Dead before I even knew what hit me. No way to get my corpse now. Easy porting is not free.

Killed last week. Dropped pod of water, shield, 2 sea dragon meats, dragon bone bracelet, water scale, and 4 different spells. Be ready as she has a huge agro range and will agro long before you get to the firepot room, at least she did for us.

Edited, Sep 18th 2006 at 2:55pm EDT by SirExor

I am wondering...i explored the firepots for the first time today and zoned to akanon...anyone have a breakdown of the cities for the different firepots?

Here's how the sequence with triggered Faydedar goes:

If you've killed Ulump Pujluk in SoNH and looted Froglok Essence, then take that essence to Dolgin Codslayer in Timorous Deep. Dolgin Codslayer is a semi-rare spawn on a one-day respawn timer. In what most call "piece of paradise", the southernmost island in Timorous has an underwater tunnel on it's east side. When you go through that one, you swim around to the underwater tunnel on the west side of the middle island. When you go through that west tunnel, you run up on a beach and into "piece of paradise". Dolgin Codslayer will be on your RIGHT, fishing at the edge of the water. Hail him and he says something to the effect of 'You scared me! There's a nasty beast in this pond!' Hand him the Froglok Essence, then Dolgin despawns and hands the essence back to you. The triggered Faydedar will spawn in the water in front of you immediately. He has an AoE fear and debuff which also nukes for 500 dmg. Our group of five wiped him out quick and easily. We had a paladin, beastlord, magician, wizard, and a druid that got feared over and over again while the other four whacked him(that druid was me ><) - he dropped a Pod of Seawater, and nothing else.

I'm not sure how hard he hit for, but the paladin tanking him only went down to about 60%.

Woot, another piece of my epic done today! (Got all turn-ins done for ancient pattern, powder, clay, which produced my Runecrested Bowl. And then of course, our wittle fishy Faydedar.)

As tough as you may fear Faydedar is, he's not so tough at all.

We were with a large group of people helping a druid friend with this part of her epic last night. She did the turn in, got it back, the little guy despawned then nothing....we were there for 20 min and no spawn. Was kinda frustrating, and when someone in the group got ahold of a GM and SOE, they basically said sorry, can't do anything to help you. Petition about the bug has yet to be answered.

Edited, Thu Apr 27 10:05:40 2006

Just took this guy out with me tanking 70 Clr 7k hps, 70 wizzy and a 63 dru...had PoV on and never got hit for more than 150 Dru almost died cause he chained snare and got agro...took about 3 mins to kill him hope this helps