Awaken

[Thraxas]

Usage: cast 'awaken' [number] <name>
Accumulative: No
Duration: 8hrs + 1hr per level above minimum level
Level: Druid 10
Save: N/A
Spellbook: a stack of earthtone notes
Stratum: Mental
Min Mana: 20

eqlist does not list a sb as being for awaken
It does however list the Stack of Earthtone Notes teh sb referred to in the awaken help file as:

Stack of Earthtone Notes Wandering Druid Thalassas Town Druid 10 Nature's Familiar

I have now hit this mob 35 times over the past week with no pop.

This to my mind seems an excessively low pop rate for a lvl 10 spell, analagous to supplication, summon undead or animate dead, all of which are far easier to obtain.

Can anyone:
[list:3m79uj0g]confirm that this is the right mob to hit
let me know if there are other mobs that pop this spellbook
let me know if they've had more luck, i.e. if I've just been incredibly unlucky[/list:u:3m79uj0g]
If as it currently seems to me this is a hard pop, perhaps the pop rate could be reviewed.

[Thraxas]

Upto 47 hits so far no pop.

I've heard suggestions in game it pops on fish / swan in BH Garden, or tree vines in arbo on ss.
I've also heard from a different perhaps more reliable source that it only pops on wandering-druid in thal town, and that yes it is a rare pop.

Does anyone else have other suggestions to add, or can substantiate any of the above.

I still don't understand why if it is this hard to pop, thats the case.

[Tap]

Got mine from the druid in Thal-town... it was fast repop and it seemed it took 7-8 tries before I got it... but that coulda been a fluke.

[Mace]

The druid at the fountain does have a horrible rate.
When I last checked with Clef there were no other load locations, but that was like.. 3 years ago at least.

[13]

try killing irap, it seems like all those mobs pop random tard sbs

[Yinao]

Ahem, awaken - Lvl: 10, Mana: 20, Learned 95%.
Not quite a tard spell

[13]

ahh sorry i thought there was a bigger one

[firebrand]

i can understand making an sb a wee bit hard to pop but what i don't understand is putting low-lev spells on impossible (for that lev char) mobs and/or an insanely low-to-never poprate. let's just suffice it to say that with school, work, family, or whatever non-sloth activities there are in every single player's lives that not everyone has 25 hours a day to sit on those mobs and cycle for them. besides sb cycling, there are groups to join, autoquests to run, eq to cycle for, cr's and other fun sloth stuff to do. not only that but there are sometimes other players who want/need that sb too and bottlenecking happens. viciously low poprates are NOT adding to fun gameplay for anyone except the sadistic imm who decided to see how much carnage, frustration and general dissension he/she can cause by it.

"i have been told that the best crackers in the world can do this under 60 minutes but unfortunately i need someone who can do this under 60 seconds." -gabriel -->swordfish

[Tap]

"She is good, isn't she?" -gabriel -->swordfish

[Thraxas]

Awaken spellbook: current score is 68 kills 0 pops.

I can understand making a pop for a newbie book "a wee bit hard", but thats 41 hours of cycling, ok I've been afk most of that time, popping back at repop time for the seconds it takes for the kill, or logging on for a kill then off again but still it seems ridiculously low for a lvl 10 spell.

Does anyone know if spellbook does actually still pop?

[Thraxas]

kill 75, finally it pops

no crumble
only 300 rent

I'll hang onto if if anyone else needs contact me in game or mudmail me