With advanced looting, this mob is outstanding. If you're a caster then bind yourself at Undertaker Schell, just south of him facing northeast (towards the dragoneater spawn area). You fight dragoneater many times, "storing" his two valuable lore items in the advanced loot system. Then once you're out of mana you gate, sit, and sell. Then while you're selling you just pull all the extra items from the advanced loot window and sell them too. This allows you to sell many Lore items in one trip to the vendor. Then when you're full mana you just run forwards to start over again.
This mob appears to, in its current state, be its own placeholder; respawning 1 to 2 ticks after its death. Since it respawns so quickly, it's actually a decent mob for a bit of experience and plat in its level range. Since its guaranteed to drop either the mask or dagger and a pattern each kill, it is a guaranteed 50 plat or more.
Of course the dagger and mask are both lore, but there are several vendors very close to the camp. As much as this sounds exploitable, the constant running back and forth slows it down enough that it really doesn't warrant a nerf. There's much better plat to be made only a few levels higher elsewhere. It's just a nice, reliable way to make some quick plat if you're just coming back or starting on a new server and need plat for spells and/or your merc.
Confirmed, he does drop Mask of Snake Leather and Bonehilt Dagger EVERY time. I think I've killed him a good 70+ times and evertime he droped both, as well as a patter and the eye.
Currently, he always seems to drop one or the other, but never both. The mask seemed to drop slightly more often than the dagger, roughly 60% vs. 40% in my observation. Magelo suggests an even higher disparity, but I suspect that it may have been adjusted since its original inclusion in the game.
I've killed him probably 10-15 times and he may have dropped the dagger 3 of those times. If I recall he does normally drop the mask, but I don't think it's been every time.
Dragoneater is a sporali mushroom named mob. To spawn him you simply have to kill the regular sporali around the dead dragon and he will eventually pop. He looks just like them except his name is obviously Dragoneater. For me he dropped the eye, and a mask, a blightfire legging pattern and 1 blightfire-infused silk. Hope this is helpful.
Can confirm, all of the sporali at the camp are placeholders for him, had him spawn on each of the 2 spawn points on the wall, and a few times down around the dragon itself.
Was doing Fallen Dragon quest when he spawned. Killed him and received an Eye of Dragoneater. A no trade quest item. Was wondering if anyone knew what the quest was for this item.
The dragon's corpse is located at p978, p34, p20. It is just North and slightly East of the quest camp at the center of zone.
Both times that Dragoneater spawned he was almost directly on the path/road that runs nearby the camp. Several Sporali Decomposers are at the camp so it is easy to identify correctly.
Both times he was Dark Blue to my lvl 29 Paladin.
*** This is the 3rd time I've tried to post this info. Alla's had maintenance yesterday. Not sure if this will post once or 3 times. So far, it's not showed up for me at all. Sorry if it's in triplicate for you.***
Edited, Sep 27th 2006 at 10:54pm PDT by Nililanoa
Edit by Fleven: nuked your other two posts. Apologies for the instability.