Bofor wrote:
I remember hearing that by killing the bixies, you could get the wisps to spawn so that you could hopefully get a greater lightstone and a whopping 9pp, woohoo, rich times :)
There are multiple mobs on the same spawn table in most outdoor zones. So killing a roaming mob would cause another roaming mob to spawn, but not necessarily the same type of mob.
I have no clue what was actually on which table, but it does seem reasonable that griffins did share a table with potentially multiple other mobs. It does seem reasonable that griffins, wisps, and bixies might all be on the same table (but note that not all of them spawn in the same zone though!).
What was probably more of a made-up myth was that lions and such shared a spawn table with griffins. I'd wager that all the calls to "don't attack the lions cause they'll spawn griffins" were attempts to get other people to not attack the mobs that dropped what was by far the most valuable roaming mob drop in that level range in the game at the time. I'm also pretty sure everyone basically ignored them anyway... ;)