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I shouldn't complain since I have had a lucky couple of weeks with tames.... Karkin, Banny, Deth....but...

I almost NEVER see Skarr. He's beautiful, but I've never had a character that really fits him. Still, I want to try and get him on Tala. Cats and Night Elves go so well together and his skin is beautiful...

Well, today, I see him. No one else seems to be around so I'm tickled!

I get all set up...start the tame and suddenly...some fracking troll trains a bunch of the stone elementals onto me. They AoE, my tame gets screwed, I'm dead from Skarr's fireball.

Frustrated, I rush back only to see said troll running off with Skarr.

*Sighs* I'll get him eventually I'm sure, but man...it was just so frustrating.

This is not a rant really, more of a "everything turned out OK in the end" kind of story.

I got a guildie with silence to help me tame Skarr the other day, but before I started to tame, another guildie (frost mage with elemental) jumps to him suddenly and kills him. There was no flame on the guildchat, because that would just be pointless plus he apologized, but I was really frustrated that evening. My own guildmate f*cked up my rare tame attempt. The next morning, however, I got lucky and managed to tame him by myself. Which turned this whole thing into a funny story in the end .

People can't help killing a rare mob when they see one, because they believe it is a part of some achievement or it will at least drop something nice. "The desire to serve as a loyal companion, coalesced into a single priceless crystal" says it all .

If a guildie did that, they would've gotten Gkicked for it.

I choose to believe it was just an accident due to his ignorance . Turns out nobody except for hunters cares for rare spawns too much...

As some of you know, early summertime I was hoping to get green Madexx.

My subscription lapsed at the end of June due to financial concerns, with no luck in what I sought before then.

Still not back in the game. It pains me to think how many, MANY chances to get him I've since missed...

I did have this one time where someone ninja-killed a rare that I was standing next to while waiting for a friend to come. This was before Lich King's time but not long before. At the old guild I used to run at the time, I had a guildie whom I had a place in my heart for for many reasons. This also includes helping her tame rares or just plain pretty pets on her hunter. So, when she mentioned she had a thing for tallstriders, I mentioned Mazzranache first. Then one random night when I decided to check and see if that flamingo was around in Mulgore after landing in TB, there she was (however gender you look at for Mazz). Mazz striding (nice pun there) conveniently among the rolling plains. I instantly told my guildie and she was well on her way. Unfortunately, she was a lowbie so she did not have a flight path to TB, a mount, or the cheetah aspect. It took her awhile to try to come while I was walking next to Mazz but not too close. Then, all of a sudden, a lowbie tauren hunter came by and slaughtered the poor bird in front of me. After the bird was dead, I asked him why he did it. I was saving her for a guildie. No answer. I either suspected that player was on a trial account or plain griefing. My guildie was disappointed, whether she was there or not.

On a high note, she did get Mazz the second time I found that flamingo for her and before that (I wasn't around at this time), she also got the clutchmother. I forget what she named the clutchmother but Fiesta was for the flamingo.

It really is cruel for players to ninja-kill rare pets hunters are trying to tame to massage their ego or someone else's. I, myself, used to make a small business by informing any hunters in the area if they want this certain rare pet that I am staring at. Either I would be calmly watching them make the tame, use a Freezing Trap if they didn't have the spell, and/or attack any adds or stray mobs the rare might attract (like Dishu for example) so the hunters themselves don't die.

EDIT: On my case, I must have been lucky because throughout the time I tamed my creatures, especially for my draenei hunter and a orc hunter I hardly used before I ended up quitting WoW after 4.0.3 hit Azeroth. Never had anyone even showing up to steal or gank my rare tames, although I did have a close call when I was about to tame Vile Sting and saw a warlock mount on the main path. Never got up to a high enough level to give myself a real challenge like taming a spirit beast or Krush like a boss. Every time I do see a rare I want, however, I do freak out a bit from both the excitement and the worry that someone might come to hurt them. If it was another hunter that got the pet tamed first, I would've had no problem with it. I'd be a bit disappointed but happy at the same time. This also related to how heart giving out to hunters that wanted certain rares.

Have another small story. When I was at the Barrens just checking out to see if Humar was around (not that I wanted him; I had Araga instead ). He wasn't but there was a hunter who built a temporary treehouse near his spawn point waiting for him to appear. At first, the hunter thought I wanted Humar, too, but I said I wasn't interested and I (and a guildie later) ended up keeping him company while we waited. We must have waited about a couple hours. Then a level 62 orc hunter showed but only for a few minutes (we were all horde, btw). Then all of a sudden, our buddy hunter DC's...and at the worst time, too. Humar showed up shortly after. Me and my guildie prayed for him to come back on as the lion was sleeping peacefully next to the tree. He never came back and the same orc hunter we saw earlier ended up taming Humar. The next two nights, the buddy hunter logged on and I whispered him Humar showed right after he DCed and another hunter got him. The rest of my experience with this hunter is fuzzy after that, but I think I was able to help him tame Azzere. I don't quite remember if it was him I helped but I remembered letting someone know Azzere was around if they wanted him.