Kirix. He's mine. And there's a story behind him.
I was headed back up to the top of the Molten Front after doing the dailies and doing the achievement 'King of the Spider-Hill' when I spotted a hunter I knew who's been camping Skarr a while. I was heading up there with the intention of getting Skarr as well, but not a minute after I got there, Karkin spawned. The hunter already had Karkin, and I've no interest in him. We waited a bit, no one turned up, so yes, we killed him just so that something else could spawn a bit faster. Since Skarr obviously wasn't going to spawn for a while, I decided to camp for the only other rare I wanted that I hadn't gotten yet, Kirix. The hunter camping Skarr told me that he'd been online all night and not seen a Kirix spawn since when I helped Douche McBaggery tame it yesterday. Which means it had been nearly 17 hours since a spawn. I thought this was the best time for me to camp him, and there was barely anyone else around, so I did.
Not half an hour into camping, an Alliance druid turns up. She stands in front of me for a bit, as I'm camped at the time on the old rock Skarr used to spawn on. I greet her with a 'hearty hello' and then I can see her changing specs, going Boomkin form. Yep, she was going to gank me and I knew it, so I camouflaged on my rock and hid. She climbed up the rocks to the other side, obviously going to look for me. I jumped down below when she couldn't see me and camouflaged again to trick her. It was fun at first, but she wasn't going to leave. After she eventually spotted me and chased after me, I relogged to my Worgen rogue and asked why she was there. She said the usual shit: "You're a Hordie so I'm ganking for fun and I'm trying to help a friend." Trying to help a friend tame a rare who wasn''t even there himself? That's just lazy. So I logged back over and there was no sign of her for a while. I ran around a few times and found her stealthed. I killed her and she seemed to be AFK. After that, I never saw her again. Thank god.
Minutes after killing her and running around to the spot Kirix spawns at, he spawned. Not knowing whether the druid was still around or not, of course I panicked. Trying to remember the tactic, I hit tame and got ready to disengage. I took a lot of damage in one hit - Crap! Forgot to put my AotW buff up. Ran back to my corpse, ressed, tried again. Disengaged off the cliff, of course. Ressed again. Still no sign of the druid or anyone else at all. I calmed myself down and got ready. Tame, got hit back. Disengage, deterrence, tame! And it worked. I was just about dead when he was finally tamed, one more hit off him and I would've been dead. But I'm not. And here he is. And I love him...
