Faydedar is a dragon. A small one, but a dragon none-the-less, and is probably the toughest mob in the druid epic quest.

Lucky for druids, he's a forced spawn. Which is to say, I give something to someone and he spawns. That's the nice part, it means you don't have to wait around 2-9 days after he got killed the last time and *hope* you find him.

On the other hand.... he's still a dragon.

If you're going to be chasing down Faydedar (or Fay for short) here are some cute tricks to keep in mind:

1) it takes about fifty years to get there. I'm not kidding. It's middle east/west at the very south end of the zone, and it's a big damned zone. Be prepared for it to take upwards of three hours to get your raid all together in the right place.
a) some helpful hints - do not bind in this zone. You can, but Fay will just summon you and kill you eight or nine times.
b) stock up on fish scales or get an EB item
c) the "secret" entrances are hard to find, and located halfway up from the ocean floor to the surface. If at all possible, position one person at the entrance to the first tunnel and another at the entrance to the second tunnel

2) You've been there for three hours. Half your raid is still lost in the ocean. Don't start casting your buffs yet, they won't last long enough

3) Raids are like wars, they're not run by committee. Pick one raid leader, and everyone listens to that person. End of discussion. Get your raid plan together and DO NOT ask advice. It's safer.

4) Do not have a complete heal rotation. What will end up happening is this: Main Agro gets wounded, cleric complete heals, Fay summons and kills cleric. Repeat until all clerics are dead. At this point, everyone else dies. The cleric who bound in TD will get summoned back and killed another 4 or 5 times for good measure.

5) If you have a complete wipeout, the best thing to do is get a necro to the Elven docks and start summoning corpses. Fay will not despawn for a while, and he will toast you if you try and get your corpse back. He's vindictive that way.

6) If you're not going to make a second attempt at him that night - or people have already told you they don't have time for 2 rounds (a "round" against Fay takes about 4 hours) then just camp out and get corpses later.

Having done all that, if you're still dead....

1) do not drag your corpse back to the elven docks when your connection is bad. Your corpse will slide under the world.

*collapses from exhaustion*

12 minutes left on my rez timer before I got my rez. Close shave.