Anyone know Terrorpenes spawn time?

[Sammax]

So, i thought id camp for terrorpene for a bit, went off to do a quest for 5 minutes, got back and there was his shell.

He was dead though, someone had killed him.

So i have the time of his last spawn, which means if someone can tell me how long it takes for him to spawn, i can get him next time hes there.

Thanks

[Koumaru]

It's at least 8 hours from personal experience, because I just spent that long patroling the area before I snagged him at 2am on Dalaran-US.

I've heard 12 hours and I've heard 24 hours, but I don't know which to believe. I can only confirm that it's no less than 8.

[Sammax]

Cheers

I literally cant believe what just happened, lol.

[Makoes]

I've heard in multiple places that most Cata rares have a 6-12hr spawn timer, though that was in beta.

[Koumaru]

Oh yeah, I'd probably be nerd raging after that.

You have the right attitude. Laugh about what will later be the funny story you share with your new fiery turtle buddy. About his murdered relative. Wait ... maybe you shouldn't share that story with him after all.

[Lehana]

Oh man, that really sucks. I'd hate to see him dead. I don't mind if I see him tamed in front of me, but seeing his dead body...blarg...there isn't even an achievement anymore.

But I do think his spawn time is 6-12 hours. Apparently someone on the forum has seen him spawn 6 hours. Although the night before last when I checked his spawn point 6 hours after I had seen him tamed, I couldn't find him. I stayed there for about two hours and I didn't see him. So...yeah...6-12 sounds bout right.

Also, completely off topic but hey, another person from Dalaran, cool.

I wonder if I saw you around. I was in Mt Hyjal last night and the night before. Were you the Alliance Draenei hunter I saw camping him? Um...if so...congrats and hi! And if not...congrats anyway! I was the horde Tauren hunter who periodically fished the pools of fire. I feel bad about fishing pools of fire now, since now people might assume I'm hunting for him. I'm not anymore. Already got him, but I can't exactly tell alliance that. Not unless I got out my turtle which would be mean.

[Koumaru]

Corgan, is that you? Yeah, this is Melisan. You were making me paranoid for hours!

I was going to create a horde alt to send you a /tell with the time I tamed him and wish you luck on getting him yourself. Obviously not necessary, I guess. Crazy.

Congrats on your Terrorpene, and also on your Chromaggus. I saw your buddy Khroma traveling around with you. It's sweet how his roar is audible to other players from half a zone away.

[Lehana]

Haha yes, I am Corgan. I also was going to create an alliance alt to do the same. I was like, I should say I'm not hunting for the turtle anymore so don't worry, just fishing! But then I forgot, got distracted by fishies. xD

Anyway, congrats again. I'm glad you got it, I think you were looking longer than I was. That first night, I was going to let you tame first since you were there first. And it sounds like you would have succeeded.

[Mustafah]

Camping this guy atm, hoping he'll have a short respawn timer :/

Also saw a folk who got him after 3 hours

[Heuristic]

I saw the dead shell at 1am server time, went to bed, and started camping from 9am to 1pm, and again from 9pm until he finally spawned for me at 3am the next morning. A 6-8hr spawn, closer to a 10-14hr spawn, or (highly unlikely) a >20hr spawn are all possible given my timeline. The high end of his spawn timer range must be longer than 6 hours, though I don't have evidence to say he couldn't ever spawn sooner than 6hrs. Personally, I'd suggest you assume it's a 6hr minimum and expect a 9hr camp for a really good shot at a tame.

[wildstormz]

Well i notice if been killed or tamed it always spawn like say its 3 am... been killed or tame it comes again like 2pm i tried this 5 times and it all popped up im guessing it spawns like 1hour earlier before the time it got killed or something..

[Rickhunter]

Just tamed him 3 p.m. in the Boulderfist server.

Last night, a little after 9 p.m. I went to his spawn points and an alliance had just beaten me to the tame so I camped him out all morning, lunch and around 3 p.m. he spawned.

So that's about 18 hours between tames.

Good luck.

Finding him is one thing... taming him, if you're not ready, is another adventure in itself.

[Luluu]

So i was trying to tame this nice rare turtle and bam a lock from same faction drops down and kills it while i was taming it. im an angry panda

[Undra]

I'm pretty sure almost all of the rares are on 6hr timers, and just stalled by some other means (in wrath it was a population cap). So until the limiting factor is figured out, any rare is going to be 6+

[Tyrik622]

I was camping this guy from 12:45 PM ET until 11:24 PM ET on Zul'jin. Had a few hordies nearby all day, and unfortunately one of them got the tame at 11:24. /grats and /cheered the guy.. still a waste of an entire day.

With that being said, I can confirm that the spawn timer can at least be as long as this... so any attempt at taming this spawn you might as well bring something else to do.

[Loosle]

Ok been camping his spawn location for 22 hours now and still no sign of him....

[Phaelus]

The only evidence I have is from what I've gathered from posts in various locations. What follows is a construction of those reports from multiple sources.


Cata rares have a 6 hour spawn timer, with the exception of specific ultra-rares (or sub-ultra). Two examples of these exceptions would be Aoenaxx the mount dropping drake, and Jadefang, the geodesic crab. However, despite the fact that these rares have a 6 hour spawn timer, there is also a per-zone rare count cap. No zone can have more than 3 rares up, at the same time. So for Terrorpene, if Magria, Blazewing, and Ban'thalos are up, you can wait till the cows come home, he will not spawn until one of them is killed, tamed, or despawns.

Other information I have seen sporatically, but not enough to put into a basic ruleset as above, are that rare mobs may either have a set despawn timer, despawn mechanic, or may remain up until killed or tamed. An example of this would again be Aoenaxx, who if a rider fails to kill and falls to his death, immediately despawns. Other mobs may remain up for a set amount of time, and if not killed or tamed, will despawn. Others still, have neither effect, and will remain up until killed or tamed.

On top of that, I've also been seeing increasing reports of people taking notice of what is being called a "despawned timer". Meaning basically, after a mob is killed or tamed, it will not respawn again for a set period of time, completely unrelated to its initial spawn time. This seems to be more the case with mobs that do not have a despawn timer or mechanic. What this means is if a mob spawns, wanders around for six hours, its not going to spawn a second identical rare. Also, if a mob spawns, wanders around for 5 hours and gets killed or tamed, it will not respawn one hour later (which would be a six hour respawn timer). It will however, most likely respawn six hours after that point. What this means for the hunter is that the older the report is, the more improbable the calculation of the next spawn time will be. In previous patches, you knew that if someone found a mob with a 12 hour timer, that was heavily farmed, as long as you knew the point at which it was dropped, you could factor a time to camp within 20 minutes either side of that time. If it was found at noon, you knew pretty well to camp around midnight, noon, and midnight again, at least until server reset. This no longer works, particularly with shorter respawn times, the margins become wider, meaning you have to camp wider spans of time through increased unpredictability of the times of kills and tames.

The flip side to this, is that some mobs do not have a despawned timer. Some do have a set respawn rate, varied only by server resets. That would in effect account for reports on some rares of respawn times far less than six hours, some reports on certain mobs reaching as short as 45 minutes.

Like I said, this is all just speculative information I've pieced together reading various things in places all over the net. Not confirmed by a blue post, or a dev.

[Sarantha]

Its even funnier when NPCs kill a rare you're wanting to tame. Like the only time I ever saw King Krush he was being mauled by Nesingwary lackeys and eventually died. Nesingwary: the only NPC that is so badass he ganks pets from players.

[Lisaara]

Terrorpene is 6 - 16 hrs, like the others out there are.

[Monica Gems]

The only evidence I have is from what I've gathered from posts in various locations. What follows is a construction of those reports from multiple sources.


Cata rares have a 6 hour spawn timer, with the exception of specific ultra-rares (or sub-ultra). Two examples of these exceptions would be Aoenaxx the mount dropping drake, and Jadefang, the geodesic crab. However, despite the fact that these rares have a 6 hour spawn timer, there is also a per-zone rare count cap. No zone can have more than 3 rares up, at the same time. So for Terrorpene, if Magria, Blazewing, and Ban'thalos are up, you can wait till the cows come home, he will not spawn until one of them is killed, tamed, or despawns.
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A] Tell that to Magria and Banthalos. From personal camping experience, they are a lot longer. Same for Terrorpene, as someone here hs already cited.
B] The three rares thing only applies to Northrend; people have seen multiple (over 3) rares up at once in the Molten Front, pretty sure the story was here.

Sorry, but this post doesn't give current, correct information, and I don't want anyone missing a spawn because of it.