No, it's not Phriday (and I don't run that feature anyway), but I just love this item so much I had to share it with you. The Everlasting Underspore Frond is an item that, when activated, conjures up 10 Underspore Pods, which you can eat for 4410 health and mana over 30s. That's slightly more than Conjured Crystal Water (though not as much as Conjured Mountain Spring Water), and has the added bonus of not disappearing when you log out and not requiring you to bug a mage friend all the time. In other words, totally free food/water. The Frond has a 12 hour cooldown, and you can only hold 20 Pods at a time, but even still, I haven't run out yet (Shadowf(r)iend is helping immensely). It's very convenient when questing never to have to go to town (or mage) for water; furthermore, seven out of ten mana-users prefer the taste of genuine Underspore Pods.

It's not terribly hard to get, either. It's a quest reward from "Oh, It's On!", a Sporeggar quest that asks you to steal a frond from the Underspore (this quest is not to be confused with "Bring Me A Shrubbery!", another exclamation-point-laden Sporeggar quest for plant parts). The Underspore happens to be a millennia-old "very special" plant that Hungerfen, the first Underbog boss, is rather fond of. So all you have to do is go to the Underbog (in Coilfang Reservoir), kill the first boss, interact with the Underspore (which is on a wall near him), and you're done. You do need to be friendly (I think) with Sporeggar to get the quest, but that isn't very hard to achieve. Hungerfen himself isn't too hard either, but be careful of the mushrooms he drops, which emit spores that do some nasty damage. Also, when he gets down to about 20% or so, he'll root himself (looks like Druid roots) and heal from everyone around him, so everyone run back and stop attacks until the roots wear off.

To summarize: get friendly with Sporeggar, get quest, kill boss, grab fern, finish Underbog if you want to (you should; it's fun and has some nice drops and quests), return to Sporeggar, get awesome Frond. But what's up with Blizz's spelling? The actual boss's name is "Hungarfen" in-game, but he's called "Hungerfen" in the quest description. This isn't the first typo people have seen, either. It's not a big deal, but it feels a bit un-Blizz-like.

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