[Sunderfury]

Started looking into this, first hit thus far, can edit as more is discovered:
1/23/00:

that is the type of thing they are trying to stop.....
its such an overpowered item its pathetic...it makes the people who own one
soo powerfull that others are willing to spen hours upon hours getting that
one item just to have it....
it is getting to the point that you arent a good caster without it...you need
it to keep up with others who have it....and so everyone camps for countless
hours just to get one..... and really..... is it *that* much fun to camp for
20+hours.... they are trying to make the game more balanced and fun....

I'm sure many people right now would pay 3000p or camp for 20 hours for
like some people said they did for their old Manastones

Mention here of a severely nerfed drop rate 'a few patches ago', not sure of exact date stone was removed.
11/9/99:

The Bag of Tinkerers now holds extra large items, as of two patches ago.
Additionally, although I am not sure about the box (conflicting reports...it
may now be very rare, or it may have been removed altogether), I do know
manastones are still dropping. However, the drop rate has been nerfed
*badly*; expect no more than a couple per day of camping.

11/23/99:

From the EQ_Clerics site..
http://www.kmrcs.com/eqcleric/

Last weekend I received a reply from GZ on a few questions I asked him. To
paraphrase:

a.. Manastones have been removed from the drop table and will return as a quest (I
did not ask him when).
b.. The conversion rate on Manastones is 60 Hit Points for 20 Mana (not the widely
reported 60-30).

manastone isnt gone. its just so F___KING rare now because poor and unplanned
verant finally realized how badly necros can take advantage of them (skilled 50
necros that can utilize their manastones can solo some of the toughest MOB's
such as ice giants and ambassadors and vampires in MM and also the frenzied
ghoul and most of the other named ghouls in lower guk )

8/31/99:

Manastone is dropped by an Evil eye in lower guk. the common drop on
this eye is the bag of sewn evil eye, rare drop is the manastone.

10/6/99:

My suggestion would be to head down to Lower Guk and find people
camping the eye and ask them if you can have a bag when it drops.
Most of the people there are for the manastone, and by the time
anyone is done with a camping session, let alone the four or five
that's frequently necessary to get the stone, they have more bags
than they know what to do with. When we were camping the stone we
would typically just /shout that we had yet another bag and it was
up for grabs if someone could come get it before the corpse decayed.

10/20/99:

Dear Brad, Verant, John, anyone [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Is the stoppage of manastone spawn (1) a bug? (2) an
intentional change? (3) a temporary change? Since Wednesday the 13ths
patch nobody on any server that I have friends on has seen a manastone
drop off the Evil Eye in live side lower Guk. I personally camped the
EE for 24 real-time hours, going through 30+ evil eyes (not including
placeholders) and not one single stone was dropped. Everyone I've
talked to has said for the longest time the ratio is about 1 in 8.
Would somebody address this situation, because manastones at my level
(46) are very necessary. And by stopping the spawn, be it voluntary or
bug you encourage those who've camped and harvested and now allow them
to reap insane rewards and punish those who just never got the chance
to adventure and get the item.

12/1/99:

Manastones still occasionally spawn on the Evil Eye in Lower Guk. A group
got one the other day while we were down there.

Some spawn rate mentions:
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/i...5&p=1#comments

Jul 15 2001
All you have to do is sit on the lil island in the middle of the water. I could take this solo at level fourty or so. A group could easily take at thirty-five. Place holder is a froggy shaman with pet (if you let him summon it). Bag always drops. EE spawn is pretty common...Maybe two or three frogs before it spawns. Around a seventeen minute spawntime I believe.

Sep 25 2001
The eye itself is rather easy, getting to the spawn is harder than the eye itself. If not done properly a host of green mobs can be a rather frustrating end to your journey. These green mobs can grow like ants on a piece of dried fruit. Dont recall what lvl i did this at again but maybe around the low forties and the mino's loved to gang lynch, but after getting to the spawn every eye dropped the bag with maybe a 15 or 20 minute spawn rate. Everyone left with a bag and a few others who were there did also

Oct 23 2001
I took this guy out yesterday. 1 35 bard 1 45 pally and a 40 shadow knight! the spawn time was 29 minutes exactly(give or take a few seconds)we all 3 got bags the ee always drops them...good to get a cold restistance buff... hope you get it..its CAKE

Oct 26 2001
Falc is right we were in the EE room last night and killed him 3 time and all 3 times the bag dropped and the spawn time was 29 mins...