Thistle underbrush - should be super common?
 

I used to play a ranger on test server and I remember there being an underbrush brownie up basically all the time in Lesser Faydark.

I recently rolled a ranger and I've been looking for this guy but no luck.

I understand the spawn for this mob has recently been changed?

I read the following zam thread http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=1021

It seems to me the Underbrush don't have PHs and they spawn more or less five minutes after being killed (perhaps even instantly?).

I've been killing wasps, fairies and brownie scouts and none of these seem to be making thistle spawn. He is far more rare than that thread implies.

Spent better part of an 8 hour work shift farming Lfay for these guys too with no luck.

I killed every roaming pixie, fairie, wasp, orc, fae, pretty much everything I saw that was roaming. No underbrush guys but a ton of mina glimmerwings and the guy who drops the treeform illusion clicky a few times too. Maybe there is something about spawning him we don't know, though?

I followed the directions on the wiki (Highsunned faerie maidens on my bard til i found the correct one) and got him very quickly.

http://wiki.project1999.com/Thistle_Underbrush

I used to kill the brownie that would path to the pixie powder and a named brownie would pop

he paths by the fairies at some point to, might have been Bracken's PH tho

When did you do this? A December patch message says thistle's spawn mechanics changed.

About a week ago, can't precisely remember if it was before or after the patch though tbh. I did see him up again yesterday, though I did not spawn him.

He used to be:

[Tue Jan 29 16:45:47 2013] You have slain Thistle Underbrush!
[Tue Jan 29 17:19:02 2013] You have slain Thistle Underbrush!

This was tracking from steam zoneline and killing him a few times when he got in range
while waiting for a mob..(a mob that I later found out wasn't in game yet , a week of tracking wasted!)
so he shouldn't be that rare

I can confirm easy Thistle spawns using Wiki - farmed a few sets of ivy etched np.

Did you do this recently Wycca? The December patch message says his spawn has changed and he now spawns in more than one place.

Not since Dec 2014 no, yes since Dec 2013. Did you check his old spawn mechanic?