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by Dragonpuff » Fri Jan 15, 2010 11:05 pm
Loque is most definitely my favourite out of them all. Ghostly pets like Gondria and Arcturis have never really interested me (except for the slime, but... It's a slime!), and I really don't like the northrend wolf models, though Skoll is still pretty cool.
I managed to get my Loque out of sheer dumb luck. At first, I wasn't too interested in taming Loque for myself. He looked awesome, yes, but the horror stories of his spawn time and all the trouble one had to go to get him made me shy away. A little while before Gondria came to be, I had a scary thought. I knew that since the Spirit Beast family only had one super special pet so far, I knew more would be introduced later. What got into my head though, was the possibility of Blizzard retiring the Loque pet when they introduced a new Spirit Beast. I was like, "Oh my god, what if that happens? Then I'd never have that awesome cat for myself!" So, my quest began.
I hit the internet, did all the research, and mapped out a spawn point route for myself. At the time, I did not have my epic flying yet, so I was tottering around SB, watching other Hunters blow by me through the sky. I was a very sad Blood Elf. I got my brother (who had his epic flying) to try looking around the spawn points too, but after a few days of not seeing any of the rares in the area, I was getting disheartened. So, thinking it would be my best chance, though it would take longer, I decided to log out at a 'hot spot', the point in the trees near the gorillas and wasps, and check back every hour to see if I would get lucky. After another day of that, I was an even sadder Blood Elf.
On a whim a couple days after, I logged in early in the morning, just to check, you know? I wasn't expecting anything. But right in front of me, the big, beautiful kitty beast of my dreams was sauntering around with his monkey friends. My heart skipped a couple beats. I started to shake. Trying to remember what exactly I needed to do in what order (it took me several precious seconds to get it all straight in my head, I was so buzzed), I dropped my trap, let an arrow fly, then started to tame. He froze in that ice right in front of my face. No other player appeared to ruin my tame. I had my Loque, and it was the most exciting tame I had ever done. Very next thing I did was stumble over to my brothers room, wake him up, hold out my hands and say, "Look at me shake. I'M SHAKING."
He was so confused. XD