I was looking for Skarr, but Karkin spawned instead. I died numerous times! I looked up the fight, my husband came on his mage, and I set my mind to taming that crab! Honestly, I tamed him more for the challenage than the fact I liked him. My husband cast time warp, I started the tame and when I seen he was going to cast barrage, I hit him with silence shot, and started the tame again! He was mine! I named him Darkcrab since my husband's mage was Darkmage and he helped with the taming techniques and time warp.
Next, I helped husband (Gigglez) camp Skarr. He had been camping him for a couple of days now. He had a horde take it from him the first time he seen it spawn and was going to try. The next time, Karkin spawned and he had tamed it. Then Karkin spawned again and I tamed it so we knew when Skarr could possibly spawn again and we were on 'Skarr watch duty'!
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I was just hanging out on my mage. After all, I had already gotten Karkin and there was no way I would cause the kind of grief it would promote in my household if I was out there trying to tame Skarr before he got it! Skarr spawns at the northern spawn point so my husband started taming. He died a few times and there were horde and alliance watching his attempts. One horde thought he'd jump in and take it but I pulled aggro off him with the mage to prevent him from having a successful tame. Then, husband was about to try again when Oodsicle (horde hunter) said he was asked by someone else to help my husband tame Skarr. Husband started tame and when Skarr started to cast barrage, Oodsicle hit it with silence shot and hit esc multiple times so he only shot it once to prevent pulling aggro. Worked like a charm! I enlisted Oodsicle's help for the next spawn time for my hunter to try and tame Skarr. We were just praying it was Skarr that showed up. At the next spawn time, my taming went off without a hitch thanks to Oodsicle! I named my new cat after his alliance rogue - Kageoni!
I will admit, we did notice this alliance hunter standing around watching the show but was in no way trying to interfer. I later learned that this hunter already had the pets and was just watching others tame it. This hunter was none other than Kalliope <3.
I tamed Skitterflame by myself. After all, I had the hang of taming that spider by then because I'd already killed it twice by freezing it to death!
Next came Deth'tilac for me. On the first try, I allowed Deth'tilac to 'eat' too many things and then it hit me before I could finish the tame and it killed me. Next try, Kalliope knew my taming skills just weren't up to such a challenge so guess who was there when I was going to do my taming - Kalliope. Kalliope basically kited Deth'tilac for me until it was time to tame and I was able to tame Deth'tilac successfully with her help. Thanks again Kalliope! I named my spider Kalliope
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I let Skitterflame go...after all, I didn't need two spiders!
Next, I switched to BM so I could start on the spirit beast. I was done with the pets I wanted from the Molten Front. My husband is still looking for Deth'tilac.
I helped my husband tame Ban'thalos next while I was on my mage. I hit him and slow falled to the ground, counterspelled it, and when it was on top of me, I went invisible for husband to start taming him. I'm not sure exactly how he did it, but I was just trying not to die and allow him to have aggro.
Magria was the first spirit beast I found. I was adding them to my NPC and when I logged out to clear the cache after adding them, I signed back in and Magria popped! I already set my equipment manager for a 'No gear' so I could instantly strip - completely! No gear, no rings, no trinkets, etc...I wasn't going to chance it! When NPC went off, I targeted Magria, went to equipment manage and stripped, went to the ground and started the tame..successful!
My husband and I were doing the Molten Front dailies on some more characters when a friend whispered me ...asking me did I have a hunter. When I told him yes, he told me he was following a spirit beast and wanted to know if I wanted to tame it. I asked him which one. If it was Magria again, my husband was going to go tame it, but if it was Anhka, I was going to go. It was Anhka, so I switched, went to equipment manager to strip again, and was waiting on a good spot to land to tame him. My friend was still there and asked what I was waiting on. I told him I couldn't take a mob on in my current 'gear' status. He told me to land and start taming...he'd worry about any mobs. I was able to tame Anhka without any mobs are any problems.
Now for Ban'thalos....after 3 days of camping him when I was home...Ban'thalos spawned. My husband was grabbing his mage to bring Ban'thalos down like I had for him. His mage was already in the area. When he got out there, a shaman was trying to kill it...all of us were telling him to stop. I realized someone else had finally gotten aggro and was taming it....a fellow guildie
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So, that meant more camping for me. Yesterday, I had been parked in a tree for quite a while when my son told me I was in the wrong tree. I told him I didn't think so. He said put a trap down...and I did. It went straight to the ground! That wasn't going to work! So he showed me which tree so make sure you're in the right one. Test putting a trap down and making sure it doesn't fall to the ground! I also had my 2nd tool bar set up accordingly....Freezen Trap, mount, arcane shot (I had read somewhere you didn't want to dot him up because it would break the trap when he landed if it was still doing damage), health potion, taming, feign death (just in case)
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Last night, Ban'thalos showed up and I waited until he was close and I started my 'rotation' on the second tool bar. Tamed him without any issues....well, if you don't count I fell out of the tree after taming him because I got too excited but I did survive the fall!
I'm done taming pets now for 4.2. I'll be helping my husband finish his collection and oh yeah, did I mention my son has a hunter too that is taming pets! We're a site to see with three hunters in the house taming and wanting the same pets!
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I hope Blizzard gives us some more storage for pets though! I'm out of room!!!!!
Thanks to my husband, son, Kalliope, and Oodsicle for all your help!
P.S. I have returned the kindness Kalliope has shown us horde hunters by helping a few alliance tame Skarr and Karkin by assisting them like Oodsicle did my husband and me!