Inspired by Mel: What is the CRAZIEST thing you have done..

[jahathehunter]

This wasn't for me so much but for another random hunter...I was herbing on another character and saw Karoma, so I /who'd 85s in the zone and found one. Whispered him/her to see if they wanted him and we had a language barrier....so we managed to communicate enough to get across that they needed dual spec, then got them a shiny new spirit beast So semi-crazy, and not for me, but it was a fun half an hour

[Aquillian]

Oh gosh, my heart starts racing every time I remember either of the following tames...

First, my Loque'nahak Animus. I camped for days and days to get him. And when I say camped I mean sat in one spot with the PC on, NPC scan going and spamming a target macro. For hours - waking until well after midnight, and then waking early the next day to resume. x.x; I felt like I was going to lose my mind by day 7... I actually started naming the monkeys that spawned at the spot I was camping. It became a running joke in the guild I was in at the time that I lived in Scholozar, haha. And then one night around 2-3 AM he spawned. I completely lost it. I remember I was shaking so bad and I started crying when the tame finally went off... that was the first and last time I *ever* camped anything that intensely. Animus is still with me though, he was totally worth the wait.

Then was King Krush. I didn't want him originally - I loved the black devilsaur skin most. But over time, the more I saw of him, the more I felt the need to go tame him. At first I'd just do quick circles when I was in the area farming ores anyway, nothing serious. Eventually stables got extended and I had no excuse not to have him - that's when I started checking in earnest. I'd look for him several times a day between other tasks. This went on for months and months without seeing him at all. And then one evening BLAM, NPC scan gave me that all-too-familiar heart attack. He was UP. I was ecstatic! I landed, feeling totally prepared, and hit my corehound bloodlust bestial wrath macro and began taming.

King Krush laughed a mighty laugh, said "DENIED DEAR" and proceeded to eat my face in after fearing me into wasps a few times for good measure. I was so horrified and scared he'd die in the time it took me to run back. I tried at least four times before an Alliance paladin showed up. I knew it was over then... and yet the paladin /cheer'd at me? I cheer'd back and /point'd to Krush before trying again. And died again. The paladin ran up and taunted Krush... and led him to a spot off his path for me, where he stayed until I returned and bubbled. I couldn't believe it. I admit, I am a total softy when it comes to people being kind and I started crying at that point, haha. I was so touched that a stranger of the opposite faction would be willing to help me, I just couldn't believe it. He stuck with me through at least five attempts before I began spamming general chat with requests for a priest. I offered 500 gold to anyone willing to help with "my secret project". One finally replied, and I had them fly down and fear ward me. We failed a few times but somehow in the chaos, the combined efforts of myself, the priest and the paladin succeeded and I had a new green devilsaur. I paid the priest, /thank'd and /love'd the paladin over and over until they flew away. I honestly still can't believe it happened, but it did. Always makes me feel super happy to remember.

To this day I refuse to leave a rare pet alone without at least trying to find someone who wants it, and then doing what I can to help. I've helped two Deth'tilacs find new homes with my druid, and more molten front spiders than I can remember with Aquillian, along with various spirit beasts and other assorted rares. It only seems right to do everything I can to repay the kindness that was shown to me.

So those are my two crazy pet tame stories! Honorable mention goes to my own Deth'tilac, who I only have because an incredibly kind ally druid was there and rooted her for me while I tamed. I named my Deth in her honor and never intend to change it ^_^ Nor do I ever intend to release Coriander or Animus. Not after all that!

[Dalianza]

I ran a level 13 Dwarf from their IF to Barrens to tame Dishu (back in Wrath), I ran a level 10 Night Elf from Teldrassil to the Blood Elf starting area to get a lynx, then ran back out to Eastern Plaguelands, to put it in the stable and went back to the BE area for a dragonhawk as well.

I tamed Ban'thalos without the tree method. Instead I flew up, dismounted, pulled him and then disengaged before I hit the ground to avoid the fall damage, then attempted to trap him and tame him. I wound up with about 5 minutes on my res timer before managed to get him. Every single time I tried I managed to trap him about a second after he would spirit strike me in the face, taking my last shred of health and I would have to stand next to him trapped as a ghost and watch as the trap eventually wore off and he flew away...

The biggest problem with doing this is that I use a trackball mouse (which you control the movement of the cursor by using a ball on top of the mouse, instead of moving the mouse around). I get adrenaline shakes something chronic when I am taming rare-spawns. I was shaking so badly that I had to move every single spell I used for the tame (in the order I used them) to my main action bar because I could not physically use my mouse at all. I could barely even target him, let alone click any buttons. I was lucky that it early in the morning my time (therefore late night server time) otherwise someone else would have intervened for sure. I didn't even want him that much before I saw him in game. I just thought, "meh, I'll give it a shot" when I saw he was up. After my first failed attempt my brain just said "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED" and that was about 30 minutes of my morning gone.

I also solo tamed Deth'tilac. Fortunately I was on my laptop so I had a real mouse, but it still took me 45 minutes (and my poor pet dog Gaspode was sacrificed so many times it wasn't funny.) Once again, I hadn't even been interested in taming him (I don't really like spiders all that much) but the same thing happened as when I saw Ban'thalos. "I'll just try it for a while, but I don't need or want him at all." 3 attempts later - "I MUST HAVE HIM! ... I NEED HIM!"

[Falcon]

Some of you know the all-nighter I pulled just to tame Hawkbane after he was put back into the game, but I've done some other crazy tames as well.

I've done the 'take a Horde to Azuremyst for the Kurken' twice, both pre and post Shattering with the help of my best friend.

Back in BC, shortly after core hounds and chimaeras were made tameable, I tamed Lord Lakmaeran with the help of my best friend (as her shaman) and a druid friend of mine.

Back at the end of Wrath, I pushed myself to level from 76 to 80 in order to tame King Krush before the Bestial Wrath nerf. Lost a few days of sleep.

The craziest thing, though, had to do with Gutripper back in BC when she was still an elite and hit like a freight train. I tamed her on an alt with the help of my druid friend via the method of sacrificing a pet to help hold aggro, similar to what was done for Krush in WotLK sans Bestial Wrath. Took around four-five attempts, once with Gutripper going after and killing my friend, so he refers to her as 'that certain owl from Nagrand'. My alt sill has her, too, and she's one of my favorite pets.

[Agravaine]

Mine was probably taming Sian-Rotam... as alliance... with a horde pickup group... on a pvp server... in 2005, when he would only spawn to protect Shy-Rotam, when killing her was a horde-only quest.

Basically, I got really lucky and came across a group of horde who were doing the quest just to tame Shy. There were 2 hunters and one of them noticed me hiding under the rock and made it plain that they were friendly. So I helped them tame Shy, and somehow got them to understand that I wanted Sian. His fear was making things difficult, so they called a druid friend over to hibernate him and we got it done. Other pets have come and gone, but I'm never letting him go.

According to my logs, my Madexx madness lasted from February to September last year... I saw all the colours but blue until September, then I finally left Uldum for good (or so I thought).

September last year, I went after Skitterflame -- I got his spawn timer when I saw someone tame him. A helpful hunter who was monitoring Molten Front spawns at the time chatted with me for a bit until I logged. Logged back on 6 hours later to find he'd spawned again. Helpful hunter was there too. Started taming him only to realize another hunter was also trying to tame him -- I think I died a couple of times before I realized that. So I backed off to give her a chance. Helpful hunter said she'd been trying awhile before I showed up. I watched her die around 3 times before I restaked my claim and tamed him without too much trouble. She /ruded me for my pains. Oh well...

Late last July I found out that green was going to be the only unique colour for Madexx. NOOOOOOOO!!! I put in a ticket to restore my old Green, but I got the date wrong -- I mistakenly put in February 2012 instead of 2011. GM said he couldn't help me. Gaaahaaah.... so I headed back to Uldum and released Frood, my dear old blue friend. From my long camp last year I knew he spawns about 6 hours (give or take a couple) after server maintenance, and he can spawn in 6 hour intervals, but I made a contingency plan to tame Dante if I couldn't get green Madexx before MoP. Red... Brown... Black... In the end, I just got lucky with a completely random spawn. As I tamed him, I could've sworn I heard him mutter "again?" So instead of naming him Frood as usual, I named him Agrajag.

Those stories seem to pale in comparison to my TLPD camps, though. 3 of them.