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Why? because it's rare! Now with Mists of Pandaria updates

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About this thread:

I love looking for rares, tame them, kill them rehome them, ever since I found out about them and killed my very first one 3 years ago in Westfall (some ghoul). I decided to take screenshots of those I find, notably Northrend, Cataclysm and Pandaria zones, as there's far too many to include otherwise. So here we go:

Notable Rares that drop Mounts, Pets or Novelty Items:

Mounts:
Companion Pets:
To be added:

Karr the Darkener drops Imbued Jade Fragment: Companion pet Grinder.
Nalash Verdantis drops Hollow Reed: Companion pet Aqua Strider.


Novelty Items:
To be completed:

Bonobos drops Magic Banana
Ik-Ik the Nimble drops Hozen Beach Ball
Major Nanners drops Helpful Wikky's Whistle
Sele'na drops Overgrown Lilypad
Kal'tik the Blight drops Bottled Tornado
Borginn Darkfist drops Crate of Kidnapped Puppies
Jonn-Dar drops Terracotta Fragment
Nal'lak the Ripper drops Dynasty of Steel
Havak drops Shard of Archstone
Nasra Spothide
Ahone the Wanderer
Ai-Li Skymirror
Yorik Sharpeye
Ai-Ran the Shifting Cloud
Source: http://mop.wowhead.com/achievement=7439/glorious
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Cataclysm World Rares

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Garr (Mount Hyjal World Boss)
Drops Garr's Reinforced Girdle of Memories

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Mobus (Vashj'ir World Boss)
Drops Mobus's Dripping Hauberk

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Poseidus (Vashj'ir)
Drops Reins of Poseidus

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Akma'Hat (Uldum World Boss)
Drops Belt of a Thousand Gaping Mouths

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Julak-Doom (Twilight Highlands World Boss)
Drops Vitreous Beak of Julak-Doom

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Xariona (Deepholm World Boss)
Drops Xariona's Spectral Gauntlets
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Cataclysm



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Sambas (Twilight Highlands)
Drops Crystalline Tear of Loyalty

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Karoma (spirit beast) (Twilight Highlands)
Drops Crystalline Tear of Loyalty

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Overlord Sunderfury (Twilight Highlands)
Drops Sunderfury's Sundries

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Tarvus the Vile (Twilight Highlands)
Drops Tarvus's Poison-Scarred Boots

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Armagedillo (Uldum)
Drops Armagedillo's Tail

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Cyrus the Black (Uldum)
Drops Tol'vir Hereditary Girdle

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Mysterious Camel Figurine (Uldum), leads to dust in 95% of cases but when you're very lucky, it teleports you to:

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Dormus, who drops Reins of the Grey Riding Camel and awards a feat of strength and the title: <Player, the Camel-Hoarder>.

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Madexx (Uldum)

Drops Crystalline Tear of Loyalty
Spawns in one of 5 random colours.

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Blazewing (Mount Hyjal)
Drops Blazewing's Furious Kilt

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Thartuk, the Exile (Mount Hyjal)
Drops Thartuk's Inimitable Gauntlets

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Terrorpene (Mount Hyjal)
Drops Crystalline Tear of Loyalty

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Jadefang (Deepholm)
Drops Tiny Shale Spider

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Golgarok (Deepholm)
Drops Golgarok's Tenderized Treads

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Terborus (Deepholm)
Drops Terborus' Rotating Bands

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Aeonaxx
Drops Reins of the Phosphorescent Stone Drake

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Lady La-La (Vashj'ir)
Drops Lady La-La's Singing Shell

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Ghostcrawler (spirit beast) (Vashj'ir)
Drops Crystalline Tear of Loyalty

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Burgy Blackheart (Vashj'ir)
Drops Burgy Blackheart's Handsome Hat)

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Shok'Sharak (Vashj'ir)
Drops Sussurating Treads of Shok'Sharak
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Wrath

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Time-Lost Protodrake (Storm Peaks)
Drops Reins of the Time-Lost Protodrake

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Vyragosa (Storm Peaks)

Drops Azure Dragonleather Helm


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Skoll (spirit beast) (Storm Peaks)
Drops Skoll's Fang


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Dirkee (Storm Peaks)
Drops Dirkee's Superstructure or Titanium Braingear


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King Ping (times 3!) (Howling Fjord)
Drops Egg-warming Blanket

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Vigdis, the War Maiden (Howling Fjord)
Drops Soul-Sealed Belt

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Perobas, the Bloodthirster (Howling Fjord)
Drops Worgen-Scored Shackles


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Fumblub Gearwind (Borean Tundra)
Drops Fumblub's Seat Cushion


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Old Crystalbark (Borean Tundra)
Drops Crystalbark's Toenail

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Icehorn (Borean Tundra)
Drops Mammoth-Hair Crown



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High Thane Jorfus (Icecrown)
Drops Corroded Faceguard


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Hildana Deathstealer (Icecrown)
Drops Val'kyr Vestments

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Putridus (Icecrown)
Drops Giant's Toewrap


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Syreian, the Bone carver (Grizzly Hills)
Drops Syreian's Leggings


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Tukemuth (Dragonblight)
Drops Mammoth Riding Boots


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Crazed Indu'le Survivor (Dragonblight)
Drops Seal-Fur Spaulders

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Scarlet Highlord Daion (Dragonblight)
Drops Highlord's Padded Legguards

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Loque-Nahak (spirit beast) (Sholazar Basin)
Drops Loque-Nahak's Pelt and Loque-Nahak's Severed Fang


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Aotona (Sholazar Basin)
Drops Aotona's Collar


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King Krush (Sholazar Basin)
Drops King's Eyesocket


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Gondria (spirit beast) (Zul'Drak)
Drops Gondria's Spectral Claw


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Zul'Drak Sentinel
Drops Eternal Observer's Legplates

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Terror Spinner
Drops Calcified Web Spaulders
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Random kill moments


The hunt for Aeonaxx - Steamwheedle Cartel EU
The hunt for Aeonaxx - Frostwhisper EU
And two of my favorite mounting videos, I like the songs!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByxzJhCHZLs (Pendulum) The Aeonaxx theme song!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4L2pV86U70 (Two Steps From Hell)

Steamwheedle Cartel kills by me

Time-Lost Protodrake #3 fell into my lap

The hunt for green Madexx

Poseidus story

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Lots of goodies...

April 1st update:

Been doing Archaeology for the recipe, the pets, the mount...no luck. But I found the second real camel figurine while digging in Uldum (first one went to my hordie hunter). A hunter friend came to get it :-)

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Then this morning, I found Poseidus.

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But the mount will go to the bank and be a nice present for someone some day.
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Maps of Pandaria, the Catalysm and Northrend rares, by Ponderance @ tlpdresource:

http://board.tlpdresource.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=217

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Possible spawn points for the Mysterious Camel Figurine. Apparently, there's one at the Vortex Pinnacle and Throne of the Four Winds too.

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4.2 Rares (Hyjal and the Molten Front)

Comment of the author: These taming strategies are optional, they worked for me on multiple occasions. For more complicated, different or detailed tactics, visit:

http://forums.wow-petopia.com/viewtopic ... 36&t=12158

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Ankha (spirit beast, shares spawn with Magria) (Mount Hyjal)
Drops Crystalline Tear of Loyalty
Taming strategy: Remove all items with armour. Weapons are fine.

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Magria (spirit beast, shares spawn with Magria) (Mount Hyjal)
Drops Crystalline Tear of Loyalty
Taming strategy: Remove all items with armour. Weapons are fine. Tame.

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Ban'thalos (spirit beast) (Mount Hyjal)
Drops Crystalline Tear of Loyalty
Taming strategy: Perch on the tip of the highest pine tree behind the statue. Drop a freezing trap. Mount up, fly slightly up, shoot Ban'thalos. Fall back on the tree, Ban'thalos gets trapped. Tame.

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Skarr (shares spawn with Karkin) (Molten Front)
Drops Crystalline Tear of Loyalty
Taming strategy: (Needs MM spec) Tame. Silence the barrage cast. Deterrence and tame. It's possible as BM, stacking as much haste as possible and using corehound buff.
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Karkin (shares spawn with Skarr) (Molten Front)

Drops Crystalline Tear of Loyalty
Taming strategy: (Needs MM spec) Tame. Silence the barrage cast. Deterrence and tame. It's possible as BM, stacking as much haste as possible and using corehound buff.

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Anthriss (Molten Front)
Drops Crystalline Tear of Loyalty
Taming strategy: Shoot Anthriss, run into the lava pool with the spike. Make sure you'e swimming. Tame.

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Solix (unique skin) (Molten Front)
Drops Crystalline Tear of Loyalty
Taming strategy: Use aspect of the cheetah. Drop a frost trap in front of the pool with Solix, wait for cooldown. Shoot with concussive shot, kite through frost traps. When the energy bar is at 40, deterrence, tame.
Warning: If energy bar reaches 0, Solix will die.

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Skitterflame (Molten Front)
Drops Crystalline Tear of Loyalty
Taming strategy: Use scare beast. Tame.

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Kirix (Molten Front)
Drops Crystalline Tear of Loyalty
Taming strategy: Use aspect of the wild. Stand on the rock on Kirix' ledge. Use a corehound buff if available. Deterrence, tame.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRnymyF5QWg

This doesn't work anymore. One way to do it is hop on the floating rock that gives the wind buff. Stand in the middle, facing Kirix's ledge, turn right and press your spacebar to jump across on the furthest floating rock. The convalescence of winds buff gives you 100% haste, making taming Kirix a piece of cake. But you can also tame from the rock that gives the wind buff, it will just take longer and Kirix might evade. Still, haveing a corehound to pop heroism before dismissing it and tame Kirix is always a bonus.


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Deth'tilac (unique skin) (Molten Front)
Drops Crystalline Tear of Loyalty
Taming strategy: Use a trash spider pet. Kite Deth'tilac through frost traps while continuously attacking her. Use concussive shot whenever possible. Send the spider in, let Deth'tilac deth strike it. Revive, repeat till Deth'tilac is under 20% health. Dismiss/abandon the spider, make sure you're out of her reach. Tame.
Warning: If Deth'tilac uses deth strike on a target, she will lose 10% of her health. If she is too low, she WILL kill herself. Make sure you can complete the tame without getting too close. Watch out for other people trying to melee.

An easier way is to have a druid root Deth'tilac for you.



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http://forums.wow-petopia.com/viewtopic ... 36&t=12158

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Mists of Pandaria Beta Rares


To save a lot of space, bandwidth and my nerves, I have decided to post actual information about the rares of Mists of Pandaria on my Beta blog, found here:

Why? Because it's Rare! MoP Beta Edition

Mind you, this is work in progress, I haven't found everything yet and I haven't added any links to the drops yet.
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Updated with 4.2 rares and some other missing ones!
Edit. I found 2 Madexxes in two days. The missing colours, blue and bronze *cheers* And a second camel figurine. A non-fake one!
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for some reason i cant open this thread like it should be! The pics doesent load :S

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Thank you for the nice comments, I've enjoyed getting the pictures together for it. There's still some rares that always evade me!
Snowbird, I'm not sure what to suggest. And generally, I wonder if the images are too large for some people? So the loading takes just too long. I apologize if they are.
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Oman, so glad you posted the Aeonaxx video with Pedulum. Thats my absolute FAVORITE Aeonaxx video ever. x3

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Snowbird wrote:for some reason i cant open this thread like it should be! The pics doesent load :S
I might have found/solved the problem. Had all on imageshack, moved to imgur now and replaced the ones where there was just text saying "image". In time, will replace them all with slightly smaller versions. Are there still some that don't load?

And Cataclysm complete! Hurray!! *mumbles something about screening an unengaged Aeonaxx...*
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Might want to add that Ghostcrawler is a spirit beast, I mean i'm sure it's obvious but you tagged the others as spirit beasts :)

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Airwyn wrote:Might want to add that Ghostcrawler is a spirit beast, I mean i'm sure it's obvious but you tagged the others as spirit beasts :)
Done! Maybe I should just label the exotics as exotics.
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