A day later I spotted Ban'thalos and pulled him. Six other players started nuking it when I tried to tame it so eh...yes. Considering you need a ton of tricks to survive and that you can't use those when others disrupt your fight...This meant I died horribly and the pet lay dead minutes later...and all they got was a vendor item worth 25g
But not second time I spotted him.
I was camping my usual spot, another hunter was there. Suddenly the Spirit Owl spawned and my heart started thumping. I was nervous because of the Worgen Hunter, clearly camping for the same pet. I'd prepped this tame immaculately luckily and although his Moonfire ticks for 30k I managed to survive it for 20 sec minus haste
This left me with a pet and a very confused Worgen Hunter
So where the first attempt was super frustrating with a clumsy Thork, the second was calm, efficient and with steely determination
Almost done with my list I was camping for Solix. That's kinda easy since he spawns inside a cave in Firelands that's not very well travelled. But to make sure I would not go bonkers, I did Battlegrounds in between.
So here it happened. I came out of a successful BG where we had a miraculous turn around after an awful start. My heart skipped a beat when my enormous spider lay await lurking in the lava. Quickly checked my bars, to see what I was going to do. I started the kite. The deal with this fellow is that you kite him through that cave, over narrow pathways, dodging lava, dropping ice traps and using concussive shot.
I was making good time, although he was JUST on my tail. I can tell you this is scary ! His energy dropped below 50, he lost his untamable buff and I popped Deterrence and started the tame. The Tame Beast bar seemed to crawl along at a snails pace and suddenly I was losing a lot of health. Surely Solix was biting my face...
But then I noticed...since I came out PVP tagged there was also a hordie hunter that was nuking me, trying to get the pet for himself. My health bar got tiny, the tame bar was shrinking and suddenly I saw the red health bar of the spider go green and I died.
Naturally I went back to mock the Orc Hunter who /spat on me several times
Now I am officially DONE
(until Blizz releases MORE awesome tame challenges that is !)
Thorkie surveying the Firelands knowing the 4.2 challenges have been bested.
