After swearing not to camp any of the new pets until the newness wears off for everyone, I found myself in the Molten Front earlier looking for Skarr. He wasn't up, so I decided to wander around a little and see if any of the other rares had spawned. I made my way over to Deth's spawn point, and my NPC Scan screamed through my speakers.
Now I'm terrified of spiders. Absolutely TERRIFIED. I found a huge, ugly black spider in my bath tub a few weeks ago, and since my fiance was asleep, I had to deal with it myself. I couldn't even get close, I just grabbed a bottle of bleach and frantically sprayed it (all while screaming at the top of my lungs >.>) until the stupid thing curled up and died. So the idea of taming a spider has always freaked me out. When I saw five of the new pets were spiders, I was thoroughly disappointed.
I stood there for a few minutes, just staring at him. There were no other hunters around. I never read up on how to tame him since I wasn't interested, but since he looked so lonely, I figured I might as well look it up and try. So I tried. And tried. Sometimes I'd screw up my snake trap and he'd make a b-line for my face and promptly slam me into the dirt. Another time I backed up too far and fell off the ledge. I went from not even wanting the damn thing to getting so angry that I kept screwing it up. The more I stared at him, the more I wanted to tame him.
A night elf DK came up and (I think) tried to help, and then another hunter showed up. I thought it would be just my luck that once I decide I actually want him, someone else had to show up. xD But I was wrong, he asked me if I wanted help! I told him yes and explained how I'd kept screwing up. He invited me to a group, and we switched off pet sacrifices and he used a spider (his own Deth, actually) in order to help slow him even more while I revived my pet. Finally Deth's health got low enough and the hunter told me to tame him, and I did.
I thanked the hunter for being so helpful, and we parted ways. I went back to Orgrimmar, and the more I watched my new little purple friend, the more he grew on me. I decided to name him Phobia, in hopes that he will help me conquer my arachnophobia once and for all!
Then about a half hour ago, I found myself sitting in a tree in Hyjal waiting on Ban'thalos. He didn't even appeal to me at first (never been a fan of birds), but the more screenshots I saw people post of him on here, the more I realized that he's actually quite pretty. :3 I sat there for about ten minutes, and finally decided, "Meh, I'm not going to camp. I'll just wait until I get lucky and he spawns while I'm here," and of course, I forgot where I was and jumped off the tree.
Right as I landed and almost died from fall damage, the drums of my NPC Scan roared at me and my screen flashed "Ban'thalos found!" I proceeded to freak out and frantically try and get back in the tree. He circled me once, and I couldn't remember how to get him down before my trap disappeared. So I took a breath and looked around; not a single hunter in sight. I laid another trap, flew straight up, and shot an Arcane Shot at him after dismounting.
He didn't even Moonfire me, he just landed in my trap. In my hurry, I forgot about my Ancient Hysteria+dismiss pet macro, and just started mashing buttons. I managed to dismiss my pet, and pop a haste potion before taming him. Seconds later, his name became friendly, and he started happily flapping his wings on top of me. xD
I still have no idea what to name him.
He really is gorgeous. He started growing on me after seeing loads of screenshots, but screenshots really don't even do him justice. He has this beautiful little glowy essence around him, and the way he looks as he flaps his wings is incredible. :3
