Illidan Was Right. :|

[Ijomi]

I was idling out in Igneous Depths while doing artwork in OpenCanvas and reading up on Solix tame strategies. I don't camp anymore since Ban'thalos, fifteen hours with a stick up my ass literally was enough to last me forever. Just random check-ins so I don't need to be checked in anywhere IRL.

NPCScan blares at me. It's Kirix, an obvious hunter pet. I calm my rattled nerves, test my new hotkeys for my traps one more time, go back to my arting.

It blares again. I mouse over my toolbar to bring up the in-game thumbnail, and see my miniature hunter staring down something that still looked pretty darn big.

My test trap was still there. I Concussive Shot, and the race was on!





The tame I was most afraid to try. One more tick of the tame bar, and I would have been posting in the Consolation Corner instead. There were also three people doing their Wardens daily in there at the time, and no one tried to stick out a foot and trip us. I named him for the Golden Rule. I thought it was appropriate.

[Sarantha]

Grats on Solix. I died to this guy 10 times before I figured it out (and after douches doing the Wardens dailies stopped tripping my slowing traps). He is a tricky one if you have no one to root him for you, and a painful kite. I almost died at the last second while taming.

[Ijomi]

Ouch, grats for your tame as well, though!

As panicked as NPCScan makes my pulse, I shut down and was amazingly calm during the kite. Maybe because I'd just read the Surv strategy on WoWHead, I don't know. Maybe just desperation because I hadn't seen him since I helped another hunter tame him weeks ago. I haven't run Ala on Surv for so long, I forgot she was specced into Entrapment. He was surprisingly easy to manage with it, and I'd gotten a lot of practice dodging lava spurts. The only thing that made me hold my breath was noticing his energy tick down in relation to my Tame Beast. I was one long silent cry of FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUU until I saw he shrank to "Spider". The flash didn't even load for me. An almost anticlimatic yet most grateful moment.

[Snowbird]

gratz!!!

[Ijomi]

Thank you!

[Lupis]

Very nice! I just adore Solix. Huge grats, I bet watching him shrink down was a magical moment. xD

[Ijomi]

Thanks, Lupis! I had some lag going, I think....it was like one moment he was huge and almost out of energy, the next he was "Spider". With his own version of Trollface.

[Lisaara]

Illidan would be proud. *sagenod*