The Research on Plant Fossils part of the quest is bugged for me, as I can't get plant samples to drop from any of the plants in Ellinia. This isn't a case of the usual no-drops quest bug as the plants are dropping junk items (tree branch, red pot, mesos) just fine, so either the drop rate is insanely low or for some reason the quest items have stopped dropping. (I noticed that they dropped ok for ManSlut (see Bugged Quests sticky), but yea, no such luck here. Job Class (in case that's relevant): Cleric
I think he must have been talking about another quest or something. Because I have checked the database and the Plant Samples are not set to drop from any monsters for any quests. We will fix this for the next server check hopefully.
They don't drop from any monsters. They drop from this plant, and yes, the drop rate for me was also insanely low, around the same rate that the Empty Potion Bottles drop from crates around Orbis. But the weird thing is that they dropped for me on my Cleric, but the Quest Glitch was activated by it (meaning no drops from killing monsters).
The drop rate is ridiculous. I just hit 60 plants and have not gotten a single one (note: I need 20). A minor quest of low priority, but perhaps the drop rate can be tweaked.
Not sure if the drop rate has been fixed but I would like to hear back on whether it has or hasn't so I can close this thread.