“Love is like a poisonous mushroom — you don’t know if it is the real thing until it is too late.”

–Bill Balance

Agaricus mushrooms were introduced in Final Fantasy XI’s Wings Of The Goddess update.  They are an unremarkable drop in and of theselves.  However, if you’re (A) a Paladin, that (B) knows a high level (94+) cook, and (C) can farm up the ingredients, you can get (E) Rabbit Pies.

I have A-C covered.  I just need to  (D) make the time time to farm.

What’s the big deal over Rabbit Pies?  Rabbit Pies are the best Paladin food — ever.  They raise Attack by 25%, Defense by 25%, plus give Strength and Vitality bonuses.  This food generates enmity through damage, and keeps it from ablating.

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Online sources says the Brasscaps in Grauberg have a 8.3% drop.  I think that’s a bit optimistic.

Last night, I marched into Grauberg as PLD/thf, and proceeded to off 52 Brasscaps — which should have given me 4-ish Agaricus.

I got exactly 4′ish less than that.

The night before I spent about the same amount of time doing the same thing, to get one.

So, hours and hours of mindless, soul destroying repetition to get one freeking mushroom.

I understand wanting to keep things rare’ish, but when an item is required in 4 recipes, and possibly needed to complete 2 quests — making it have a lower drop rate than the Bounding Boots off Leaping Lizzy is just f’ing retarded.

Clearly someone at SE likes to mess with players and probably thought this was amusing. I hope they develop a pair of kidney stones.

In the mean time I need to kick my own ass for falling for this trap.

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