The first one is as the subject says I guess a lucky one.
Last week I had just read about the new "fire" turtle. (Terrorpene) My hunter who is one of my many alts had just dinged 82 and was questing in Hyjal. I had come so far in the questline that I was about to start doing quests in the area around the big pools of fire. As I was flying towards a point of interest for a quest, it occured to me that I had heard something about this new turtle. So I diverted my path abit and flew in over the lava pools. Literally 10 seconds after I got close...Bingo. There he was, a fiery turtle. I couldn't believe my luck. I even started to look around to see if he was a regular mob until I saw the name. I certainly didn't expect him to be around.
So as I drop close I recalled something I read about him doing alot of fire damage etc, and decided that my aspect of the wild will do. (Yea I know... /facepalm. Don't think fire equals nature damage.).
I quickly settle myself on a rock nearby and dropped an icetrap, even knowing that he would be immune, and started taming. WHOA, had I miscalculated the damage. As I saw the huge 10 ticks, my 47k health suddenly seemed irrelevant. But for some reason I must have resisted some of it because I died literally 1 second before the taming was completed. Frantically releasing and ghostrunning to my corpse I rezzed and went off to see where he went. Finding him a but further on I switched some gear around and got a whooping 49k health. (You have to understand my reasoning here, even though it was totally off. Since I almost got him the first time i thought 2k more health would do.) Boy, was I wrong.
This time I took the full ticks of his fire attacks and died barely halfway through the tame.
So once again.
- Ghost run - Rez - Eat up - Tame - Dead. (sigh)
After this third death and about 10 minutes since I first saw him I realized that I need to reconsider my approach. Expecting to see another hunter swoop in I started looking for a healer in general chat. Basically anyone with healing spells. (Another miscalculation). After a minute I found a questing shaman that hurried over. Trying to buy some time I told her to stay in whatever spec she was in, no resto needed. I just wanted a heal or two.
That was another of my many mistakes.
- find turtle - start taming - bam dead before the first healing spell went off - bam healer died as well.
New approach.
- Shammy respec to resto - find turtle - start taming - got heals - healer grabbed aggro - bam healer dead, hunter dead.
(sigh)
At this point I felt that I would waste the healers time, since I had so low total health that I acutally thought he couldn't heal through the intense damage. I died to quickly. But she persisted and we would try again.
To cut is short, after our 4-5th attempt I finally managed to finish the tame. And overall it had basically taken around 30 minutes to get it done.
So I guess I was not only lucky to find terrorpene but also lucky enough to have him for myself for over 30 minutes.
Anyways. The burning turtle is mine.
I love him or is it her? 
I'll shorten the next tame story I was thinking of. That is the day I tamed Loque.
Basically I had camped him on and off since wrath released and I heard there was a spirit cat in sholazar. I camped for weeks and never saw any trace of him or any of the other rares there. Not even a dead body. In the end I gave up. Then one evening a few months later I decided to just give it a shot again. I knew that I had logged out in one of the spawn places in basin. Literally 10 seconds after I log in, the NPC scan (which I had at that time) started blaring. At first I didn't understand what was happening, but suddenly I saw him. I couldn't believe it. So I did what most hunters would do at that point. I panicked.
- First dropped flight. (Of course from quite some height, luckily I survived the fall).
- Desperately looked for my frost trap on my bars. Couldn't find it. (Sudden blindness I guess)
- When I finally found it I dropped it at my feet then backed away a few steps. (You know where this is going...
)- Started taming which resultet Loque doing his big jump, over my trap, and starts to hit me.
- Realizing my health couldn't cope with it, I FD.
- Get back up and during a few stressful seconds try to eat and pray.
- Next tame went according to plan.
The feeling I got when I saw him shrink as the tame finished, was amazing. I remember me trying to tell myself, as my heart raced, it is only a few pixels. But oh it is so much more when you have waited so long.
Oh I almost forgot. I don't think there was a coincidence that I found him when I did. It was around 23:45 on december 31 2009. Guess there weren't that many ppl online that close to the new year. ^^
