http://forums.wow-petopia.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2101
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I want to thank the folks of Ysera's Petopians channel for being there for me, giving me advice, offering to help, and just.. being supportive. Seriously. You guys rock so hard. -LOVE-
My first attempts at King Krush wasn't on track of doing well. I had got it in my head earlier this week that I must try and get myself a gorgeous green king. It meant prep work. I spent no less than two days before I made my mind to camp, researching spawn timers, macros, what was needed, and set off on farming everything. Luckily, my husband is an Inscriptionist on one of his toons, and was able to snag me Runescrolls of Fortitude. Another friend got me my Elixir of Lightning Speed and Elixir of Mighty Fortitude - along with the usual stacks of Potions of Speed. I farmed and baked up Baked Manta Ray and set off on my hunt.
For 12 or so hours, I scoured the Basin. When I found him, that first attempt didn't go so well. Feel free to read about it in the above linked post. Long story short, someone thought they'd be helpful and killed him during our attempt to tame.
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I really have not been able to pinpoint his exact spawn timer. Anyone who says he shares a spawn timer with Loque'nahak is sadly misinformed. I roughly estimated he respawns 8.5 hours after he last spawned. This theoretically goes for Loque'nahak too.
I want to stress that even though I calculated a time for King Krush to spawn tonight, I had no intention of trying to tame him. I was obsessed about making sure all my macros were just right, and made sure everything worked properly.
Earlier in the day, I found out that USE Haste Items/Enchants share an internal cooldown. This meant you could not use Shard of the Crystal Heart with Accelerator Gloves in the same macro. Internal cooldown prevented them from being stacked. I found a nice substitute that had a solid +128 Haste buff, and actually, on use, gave me 4600 health for 20 seconds. That seemed to solve the worry about stacking Haste and Stamina with this guy. That trinket was an honor bought (for 34,100 honor) called Battlemaster's Vivacity. I highly recommend this to anyone who wants to tame King Krush SOLO.
I had, luckily, haphazardly put my macros together before I logged off to do art. I came back and was still in Stormwind's PvP area. I used my Wormhole Generator and selected Sholazar Basin. It drops you off at the top of Glimmering Pillar. For a bit, I didn't decide to make my rounds. I wanted to re-assure myself for when I saw King Krush, I'd actually get him. I needed to know there were no hiccups in my macros, everything was ready in a 2 button macro sequence.
I guess I was so high up that my NPCscan didn't initially register who was waiting for me. I mount up, after confirming everything is ready to go, and I've at least a food buff, and fly down. DING DING DING. My macro sounds off blaring in the speakers, and holy crap. Who is below me?! King Krush. I nearly fall to my death as I hastily try and dismount. I somehow remember to send in my trashpet. I hit him with a Scorpid Sting and Arcane Shot and wait for him to fear. Nothing was 'easy' or 'planned'. I was honestly sorta smashing the keyboard praying I wasn't bungling this up too bad. I had planned for him, but I hadn't PLANNED for him to be sitting right under me!
Trash pet fears. I hit my macro, and flail. I'm shocked. My health doesn't reach below 65%. Telling you. That Battlemaster's Vivacity is awesome. All the while I'm waiting for something to go wrong. My hubby is already saying congratulations to me before my timer is up. He was right though. I now have a King Krush. After the tame, I realize I'm actually missing some of my Elixir buffs (the Fort one).
Now. Remember how I mentioned above that I made some hasty guesses as when he'd respawn? I was right within 15 minutes. I had guessed 10:30 PM. He spawned at 10:15 PM.
Soooo. I'm done. I'm happy. For anyone who wants him, I highly suggest the following things if looking to tame SOLO:
ITEMS:
Elixir of Lightning Speed
Elixir of Mighty Fortitude
Runescroll of Fortitude
Baked Manta Ray
Potion of Speed
Shard of the Crystal Heart
Battlemaster's Vivacity
MACROS:
/cast Bestial Wrath
/script PetAbandon()
/use Shard of the Crystal Heart
/use Battlemaster's Vivacity
/use potion of speed
/cast deterrence
SEPARATE MACRO/BUTTON
/cast Tame Beast
No gear/enchant/gem alterations needed.
For Giggles, My Aotona tame from a few weeks ago:
Well, still, you got him in the end, so that's what really matters the most. ^.^
