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 Okay I've done a bit of digging on this.Drops Timeline:
At zone launch: 
ALL class armours PLUS lustrous russet dropped in Fear originally. Yes even the Plane of Hate kinds dropped there. However, Indoclite and Woven Shadow did NOT drop, those were added only on Plane of Hate release. Mob details below on what dropped what.
 
Here's a long post with class drops info for Fear at release (from the Onelist archives I scraped before Yahoo took them down):
 
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 Message ID: 802
 Date: Wed Aug 4 21:21:10 BST 1999
 Author: Rob Berryhill
 Subject: RE: fear plane
 
 
 Okay *************** SPOILER ******************
 
 
 This info is from the bards list about the plane of fear, you have been
 warned that it contains spoilers.
 
 
 
 ******
 THIS IS GONNA BE JUST CHOK FULL OF SPOILERS. DO NOT READ IF THIS SORT OF
 THING RUINS YOUR FUN.
 ******
 
 Alright, i fancy myself some sort of veteran on the fear plane after quite
 a few expeditions. Its hard. I die frequently being a bard of the 48th lvl.
 Most are stupid deaths like the expedition splits up and i get ganked. A
 few are just bad luck where 3 things show up and you get nailed too fast
 for even a loh. When you zone in you will be on a hill top. 90% of the time
 nothing will be near you and you can safely sit there for an hour. ONE time
 i zoned in and got backstabbed for 400 by a scareling who then teleported
 me away from the hill (never that far, but if you havent been there you can
 run the wrong way and get into a lot of trouble). I died shortly after when
 i got back to the hill and he ganked me from behind again with another
 incredible backstab. My team zoned in right as a died. Ah well, after at
 least 30 zone ins, thats only happened once.
 
 Right after you get into the fear plane and everybody is there, i recommend
 heading south ( i think south) to the corner of the zone. Its just down the
 hill and instead of running the risk of being hit from all 4 directions,
 you only have to worry about one and a half. Then have some adventurous
 soul pull to there. Haromony or the bard lull or a high lvl enchanter can
 really help with pulling, otherwise you might get more than one which is
 bad. Two sucks. Three you better have three full groups. 4, start thinking
 evac. All of my fear plane expeditions have involved three full groups,
 with everybody 40+. This makes it fairly safe, though at least one person
 dies every hour. personal gates and evac all have the same chances of
 succeding as everywhere else. I have witnessed no wierd behavior from
 spells or songs, everything works as before. I especially loved it when i
 used appaling screech on Cazic Thules fright henchman and he ran.
 Delightfully ironic.
 
 A quick mob run down and some tactics :
 
 Spiders drop cryosilk which is for the magi classes. The robe is incredible
 and like nothing you have ever seen. Plus they drop a mage shield thats
 like the shimmering orb.
 
 Scarelings teleport you randomly around and like to backstab for outrageous
 amounts of damage. The teleport is never that far, but if you get
 disorientated and run the wrong way.... They drop nothing special that we
 have found(besides high lvl words and runes, which are super common in the
 fear plane, our lvl 50 necro just got her 49th lvl pet spell, and all the
 wizs have their ice come runes).
 
 Phantasms fear you which can cause all kinds of problems. They drop nothing
 special
 
 The little toads drop grey shaman armour and fear you also.
 
 The worry wraiths drop the purple cleric armour and do something called
 gravity flux. If you have levitate then you get thrown up like 10 feet and
 you float down. If you DONT have levitate then look forward to upwards of
 600 pts of damage from the fall. Bards are AWESOME for these because we
 just turn on the group levitate song and nobody gets hurt and you dont ahve
 to worry about the visible levitate bug.
 
 Glare lords. Avoid these at all costs, they have a rain spell that can wipe
 out an entire party in no time. if you are getting rained on by a glare
 lord MOVE. Otherwise you will die, and die fast. They drop nothing special
 that we have found
 
 Boogeymen. My personal favorite [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.], they drop the gold bard only armour.
 Boogeymen will fear you, but other than that they are a pushover. So far we
 have found arms, gloves, and boots (boots i got myself).
 
 Shiverback gorillas. my second favorite cause they just hit hard and dont
 do any crazy stuff like all the other mobs. They drop monk only armour like
 gloves that give serpentsight and a very visually unigue set of greeves. We
 got 1 monk in our group that has almost the entire set and it looks great.
 
 Amgdylan warrios drop the russet armour which is usuable by all plate
 wearing classes including rogues and rangers. It looks like a sort of
 copper or bronze sheen. Great stuff.
 
 Amgdylan knights drop the black shadow knight armour. They ht so watch it
 
 Gorgons drop the green chain armour for druids. Got almost an entire set
 already for one druid and it looks great. These guys stun for a long time
 so carefull pulling them.
 
 Tentacle Tormentors. Drop the green plate for rangers. These guys are just
 like the ones found in najena, have your back to a wall when fighting them
 
 Dracolich. So far he has dropped the bone razor (awesome rogue only dirk),
 staff of undead legions (necro only staff), and some other staff that i
 forget which only ogre and troll shamans can use.
 
 Cazic Thule. Havent killed him yet cause the zone keeps crashing for us
 everytime we almost have it cleared. Mass deaths always cause everytbody
 logs in one at a time and gets slaughterd.
 
 So is it worth it? Definatly, the items are just incredible there. If its
 armour, its no drop though. Thats all i can think of right now [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
 
 Gendal Concorden, lvl 48 bard of tunare.
 
 
 Astur il'Ayan, Cleric of Brell
 Solusek Ro
 
 
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Mystik [mailto:mystik@...]
 > Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 2:59 PM
 > To: EQ-Clerics@onelist.com
 > Subject: Re: [EQ-Clerics] fear plane
 >
 >
 > From: Mystik <mystik@...>
 >
 > ahhh...i know the gorgons drop the druid armor, the worry wraiths drop the
 > cleric.....not sure about the others....i think the fetid fiends drop the
 > blue pally armor.....not really sure about the rest...all common
 > mobs tho (:
 >
 > Sean.Stephen@... wrote:
 >
 > > From: Sean.Stephen@...
 > >
 > > what drops such sweet armor on that nasty plane then ?
 > >
 > > Mystik <mystik@...> on 04/08/99 05:32:11
 > >
 > > Please respond to EQ-Clerics@onelist.com
 > >
 > > To: "EQ-Clerics@onelist.com" <EQ-Clerics@onelist.com>
 > > cc: (bcc: Sean Stephen/UK/PSYGNOSIS)
 > > Subject: [EQ-Clerics] fear plane
 > >
 > > From: Mystik <mystik@...>
 > >
 > > OMG that place is kewl!!!!! (: and the cleric only armor is nice...only
 > > gotten one piece so far, and was lucky to get that....but other than
 > > that, it's very fun....the armor is a deep purple...i took tons of
 > > screens, and i'll send them out to you guys when i weed thru em in a day
 > > or so...will get a pic of me in the armor so you can see it for
 > > yourself...the stats on the bracer i got is like 9dex, 9cha, and 20
 > > mana....no drop, as is all armor in there...BUT it's cleric
 > > only...<sweeeeeet> don't know the stats on the bp or the sleeves, boots,
 > > helm, etc, but i do know the legs add like 9 wis <drools>...anywoo, just
 > > wanted to share my adventure for the night (:
 > >
 > > (\/)ystix Spellchaser
 > > lv 46 human cleric of The Rathe
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Another mailing list post corroborating the class drops all at once in PoF:
 
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 Message ID: 4700
 Date: Sun Aug 1 18:49:12 BST 1999
 Author: Garramone, Michael (CCI-Las Vegas)
 Subject: RE: Yellow?!?
 
 
 Bunch of my friends went a couple nights ago, warrior who is our guild
 leader got the BladeStorm off the dracoliche. i think another guild on some
 other server got this same sword off CazicThule himself. ranger got thorny
 arms and bracer, warrior got russet arms, cleric got the pruple boots,
 enchanter got that sand-colored robe with the eyes on it. good night, i
 missed it was asleep, luckily no bard items were found. i think i am at
 work and as i type this my wife is playing and in fear, told me they got a
 cryosilk cap for a wizard. i really don't want to be at work right now =(
 
 Shada
 
 >
 > We didnt get any bracers, just arms. My friend tinen (lvl 41
 > bard) got the
 > arms since we where randoming everything that was obtained between the
 > classes that could use them. Me and tinen nearly fell over
 > laughing when we
 > found the first bard only item since we where the only 2
 > bards. But alas,
 > he got the first item, and we didnt find anymore for the
 > night since we
 > gated out shortly after that. All of this was on the first
 > day, before they
 > made it supposedly harder.
 
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 |  And a newsgroup post for good measure:
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/al...AiM/discussion
Fall of 1999 Changes 
* Lustrous Russet was changed in the September 14th 1999 patch to be warrior only:
 
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		| Message ID: 6479 Date: Tue Sep 14 17:24:25 BST 1999
 Author: Rokenn Swiftsong
 Subject: More changes in last Patch that were NOT listed **Spoiler**
 
 
 It appears someone with access to the Guild message board posted this to the
 EQVault general board today.
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 Here are some additional changes which occured in the patch that were not
 announced. I know you all are probably getting
 petitions on alot of these so hopefully this information will allow you to
 inform players that it was a change and not a bug.
 
 If there are any others we may have missed please report them to your server
 GM so that we can verify that they were indeed
 intentional changes and not bugs.
 
 Thanks,
 Solist
 
 Normal arrows (item 8005)have had their range reduced from 50 to 25. This is
 because fletched arrows are range 50 and a
 flectcher making his own arrows should have better arrows than generic
 storebought ones. No other arrows were affected
 
 -The Box of Abu-Kar has had the itī┐Ēs weight reduction greatly reduced.
 (donī┐Ēt have exact reduction specs)
 
 -The item Glowing Stein has been changed to Stein of Moggok
 
 -The Lustrous Russet Armor is now warrior only, a previous error had caused
 it to be used by several other classes despite the
 fact it was always intented to be warrior only
 
 -The Fletching kit now has 8 slots. This is to allow more items added into
 the process to make new bows.
 
 -New tailoring items have been added. Tailors can now make the silk series
 of armor. The books on how to manufacture these
 are also in the game, but are spawn drops and not vendor sales.
 
 -Vendors who previously sold just arrow nocks now sell all of the fletching
 materials.
 
 Reported by a Player (Remf the Troll)
 
 -nobles crests from the npc paladins in swamp are nodrop now
 -kolandi fish now nodrop
 -erud tonic now nodrop
 -honeyjum now require high faction to acquire
 -egg shaped pumice now casts dispel magic instead of pillage enchantment
 -monster frenzy AI tweaked
 -crafted armor now sells to vendor for 10x lower prices
 
 "bugs"
 -fishies still swim in the air
 -items dropped on ground become permanent fixtures, at least client side
 -teleporting monsters play leapfrog when the appear, keep jumping on top of
 you
 -new arrow range overrides bow rating (25 arrow + 150 bow = 25 arrow range
 :/
 
 
 Rokenn Swiftsong - Karana server
 Master Craftsmen of Societus Argenti
 
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 |  Corroboration from the newsgroups:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....A/tbAu-b7jpmAJ 
* Finally, when Hate released, some of the class armours were moved (basically to what things are now), and presumably Lustrous Russet was removed completely:
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/al...WqM/discussion |