A hah! Figured it out! Oil Stained Wolf Tame!

[Kyonarai]

I was questing on my night elf hunter, whos currently level 72, in borean tundra. I got to the quest where you have to bait the wolves and collect the microfilm, and noticed the wolves went neutral when you baited them. Now, remembering the earlier posts here about the wolf that kept his oil coat, I figured I'd give it a whirl. I tried taming the wolf just after I threw the bait, but he despawns before the tame finishes. Then I tried trapping him while neutral, but again, he despawns. So I log off, log on my druid, grab some potion of speeds, and send them to my hunter. So I get to the nearest wolf, Set down a trap roughly where he'll stop(they run towards you a bit when they turn neutral), Throw bait and immediately chug potion/cast tame beast. He despawns just as the tame is about to finish. I think "aww man, let's try again. Lemme tame a normal wolf real quick to get these robots out of the way". I go to tame another wolf, and it says "You have too many pets already" and I'm like "Wha? *hits call pet*" And theres my wolf, still oil stained.

Edit: You don't need haste to do this, but can make it easier if you don't have freezing arrow yet. Just time your tame to end just as the wolf despawns by waiting until there is approximately 6-7 seconds left on your frost trap.

It may have just been a fluke, but it worked! Heres mah proof!

[Saturo]

Thanks for figuring it out! :)

[Nevar]

Thats so cool! - However if its the quest your thinking of then it would make this pet alliance only, IF I'm remembering correctly as I dont think horde have a similar quest.

[MaximumOverdrive]

Thats so cool! - However if its the quest your thinking of then it would make this pet alliance only, IF I'm remembering correctly as I dont think horde have a similar quest.

If you can get an ally buddy to do the quest with you, and then you tame it, it might work.

[Nevar]

Thats so cool! - However if its the quest your thinking of then it would make this pet alliance only, IF I'm remembering correctly as I dont think horde have a similar quest.

If you can get an ally buddy to do the quest with you, and then you tame it, it might work.

Its Echeeyakee all over again :p

[MaximumOverdrive]

Thats so cool! - However if its the quest your thinking of then it would make this pet alliance only, IF I'm remembering correctly as I dont think horde have a similar quest.

If you can get an ally buddy to do the quest with you, and then you tame it, it might work.

Its Echeeyakee all over again :p

Our turn to help you! Or that one wind serpent from 1k Needles...before he lost the cool summoning animation.

[bluddy]

damn i need an alliance to help me now


ALL allies hate me

[MaximumOverdrive]

damn i need an alliance to help me now


ALL allies hate me

Maybe you should be nice to them? I'm a nice ally and usually play well with horde, but you made some pretty mean comments about them sometimes.

[bluddy]

ALL ALLIES DIE!!!!! LOK'THAR!!!!! DIE YOU FILTHY MAGGOT!!!!

oh will try to be nicer i see u'r point

[Kyonarai]

Yeah, my husband is all like "Darnit! My hunter's horde currently! And on another server!" He's planning on switching back to Stonemaul soon though, so I can help him then. I've named my wolf Voidrage, which I think suits him very well. It'll be interesting to see how well this can be replicated by other players. I havn't tried it again yet, but I guess I should for consistency's sake. SO far he keeps his coat when dismissed and re summoned, but he hasn't died yet. I imagine he would though.

[Rhyela]

Cool! Can you try logging off and logging back in to see if he retains the oil coat? Also, maybe try dismissing and calling him back. I'm curious if the coat will fall off or stay.

Edit: Looks like you answered my question already.

Interesting!!!

[MaximumOverdrive]

ALL ALLIES DIE!!!!! LOK'THAR!!!!! DIE YOU FILTHY MAGGOT!!!!

oh will try to be nicer i see u'r point

Hahaha, that's cool. I'd help ya, but all my chars are on another server...the best I could do would be try to spam lvl a DK on yer server lol

[bluddy]

any alliesd on the alonsus server? any?

[VelkynKarma]

D'oh! Too bad I've done this quest on Silinrul already. I'd have been willing to perma-keep the quest open just to help any Nesingwarians with it, but...oh well.

~VelkynKarma

[Kyonarai]

So far, I've managed to figured out at least a few things. Wolf keeps his coat if you log, if you stable him, and if you dismiss him. Also, timing is incredibly important. If the tame finishes before he despawns, it's a no-go. It has to be the exact second he despawns.

[Vephriel]

Wow! Awesome job figuring that out.

[karina]

Hate to the bringer of bad news here. But I do think you just got lucky on this one me and a few others have been trying it and got like 50-100 wolves both factions and nothing. You are a very lucky person a extra GZ for you

[bluddy]

ow well crap sure u did it the right way?

[karina]

We did trap as soon as he got baited, we did trap as he is running, no traps, same time as bait .... we trapped when he was running. I am starting to think this pet is pure luck to those 'elite' enough to get it :p

[Keywi]

Just got mine and im happy.

The key for this tame is, you need make sure your tame is finish just right when the wolf despawns. If you did it right, you will have your oil coat wolf on next time you hit "Call pet".