Terrorpene - finally (at 81)!

[Worba]

So, logged in to check on him again, had just about finished sweeping the SE area of the lava pools, when I saw a red dot on my screen aaaannddd now I gots mah flamin turtle!



I'm not sure if I'm the last one here to have gotten him, but if anyone out there is still trying - don't give up!

Here's what I did to prepare for this:

1) Loaded up on cheap green fire protection gear at the AH; I had a piece on almost every armor slot from (character) lvl 67 thru 79 totalling 440 FR, and as much +STA enhancements as I could find giving me about 31k HP. I've heard many say you only need half this much FR... but when I was done I'd taken approx 20k dmg, so it felt like a good investment to me.

2) Tamed a core hound and made myself a "tame prep" macro to cast ancient hysteria - it helps to practice this in a safe place. Once you're sure it's working you can upgrade the macro to also activate a speed potion - I still had my "welcome to level 80" gift potions lying around so I didn't even need to bother with the AH for these.

The thing I did differently than (many) is, instead of camping for hours at a time, I just logged in now and then, checked and logged off. That's how I always do it, and it has always worked; I got Skoll the same way, and in about the same amount of time e.g. 2 weeks after the pet entered the game.

So if I can do it, anyone can! Good luck!!

[Worba]

Based on another hunter's findings it looks like TP's burning hatred may have recently been nerfed to always do 20k now (total - probably does 3k or 4k per tick), regardless of FR (some may recall it originally did 10k per tick for totals of 60k+)

[Gumballs]

Based on another hunter's findings it looks like TP's burning hatred may have recently been nerfed to always do 20k now (total - probably does 3k or 4k per tick), regardless of FR (some may recall it originally did 10k per tick for totals of 60k+)

Not true, I tamed him just over an hour ago and he hit me for 10k a second, killing my hunter multiple times before I got lucky and tamed him. I had 0 fire resist.

Grats on your tame btw

[Falanir]

I'm currently awaiting Terrorpene as we speak, I'm in the correct spot, however it's been eight hours now since i've been hunting, not counting the hours that Terrorpene last died/was tamed. Does anyone have any idea of his respawn timer? I heard 12 hours...

[Alwayz]

Congrats! He's the only other rare that I want.

[Worba]

Based on another hunter's findings it looks like TP's burning hatred may have recently been nerfed to always do 20k now (total - probably does 3k or 4k per tick), regardless of FR (some may recall it originally did 10k per tick for totals of 60k+)

Not true, I tamed him just over an hour ago and he hit me for 10k a second, killing my hunter multiple times before I got lucky and tamed him. I had 0 fire resist.

Grats on your tame btw

Ah... ty for the info on that - good to know there was a point to all that fire prot gear I accumulated, after all.

And, this also means seclipse' success (sustaining only 20k dmg with no FR and certainly no more +haste or other mitigation than the lvl 85s who took 60k) has now become a bit of a mystery...

[Novikova]

Hee, congratulations. I don't know why but it makes me giggle that so many dwarves love this turtle.

[Worba]

Hee, congratulations. I don't know why but it makes me giggle that so many dwarves love this turtle.

Because dwarves and turtles are both squat and solid, and look perfect together?

[Novikova]

I think I'll go with that. I'm currently cheering one on on my server. I dumped a bucket of buffs and food on him, ahaha.