WoW Petopia Community

Junrei wrote:The point we're trying to make is that every hunter on the server probably has those exact same pets. Rare spawn or not. That won't make a difference. Loque'nahak and Skoll are perfect examples. Every hunter and their mama has one or had atleast once.

Castile wrote:I'm kinda not getting your point now...how are you being punished? It's not like rares spawns don't exsist anymore they just aren't adding them to new content anymore because its an outdated way to have rare pets. You can still "hunt" in Northrend, Outlands and Vanilla areas if you REALLy want to...no ones stopping you doing that.

Junrei wrote: So lets go through the trends....

Vanilla: Broken Tooth
BC: I'm not sure on this one. I'm sure someone here remembers this. I didn't pay any mind to hunters at this time.
Wrath: Loque, Skoll, wolf, devilsaur
Cata: Sambas, Karoma, Ban'thalos, Skarr, Deth'tilac
Pandaria: the white tiger track tame, Portent
WoD(so far) : Gara, hydras

Sabrewulff wrote:It takes less than a half hour to gather the items you need to get to her you guaranteed the tame that's hardly rare, i don't Know where your getting this loads hated BC info from but some one is obviously giving you false info lol, and yes some one or two will have it but a majority wont.

Kayro wrote:So now you want to know where I got my info from? My opinionated mind, that's where. Yes, loads of people hated BC. Think how many people played back then. Not all of them are going to like BC. It's viewing both sides really. I hated BC. I'm sure many others share my opinion.

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Kayro wrote:So now you want to know where I got my info from? My opinionated mind, that's where. Yes, loads of people hated BC. Think how many people played back then. Not all of them are going to like BC. It's viewing both sides really. I hated BC. I'm sure many others share my opinion.

well, if it helps, there isn't a single person in my guild that liked BC. We've even gotten together to find ways of skipping as much of Outland as possible by doing bursts of powerlevel in dungeons.

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Twila wrote:What I'm not fond of?
Hours of camping and freting.
People ganking your tame Just to grif you.
People trying to steal your tame from you
People holding tames for ransom. (yes such happend with Lok, the first ever spirit beast, got so bad GM's had to get involved)

Personally, the hunt was worse.. I'm glad it's not that way in WOD and hope it remains that way. Let unique tames be challange tame instead. Like the hidden pets in WOD or quick respawn yet hard to tame methoods like the spiritpines. Or the quest for Gara.

I am so done with RARE rare tames...

So you want everything handed to you?
You are the only one making it hours of camping a lot of the thrill just comes from a lucky pass
Its a online game... If your honestly letting people like that get to you you should not play
its a competitive game
well if a person was lucky enough to find it they can do whatever they plz with the spawn

Cant really call us hunters if they take the hunt out of it just saying
Im not saying that the challenge/quests tames are not fun and should be removed but by taking rare spawns out you are only accommodating to the people that like stuff handed to them, why cant there be both

What Kayro said.

And honestly, it's not 'handing' anything to anyone. Mobs can still get killed from beneath you. You still have to go to the mob, tame it and survive.

It's not 'hunting' if you have to sit and wait for hours. It's not 'hunting' if you lose it to some dingus with distracting shot. It's not 'hunting' if you can't stop another hunter from killing it before your tame completes. It's not 'hunting' if some wanker decides to hold the thing ransom to the point GMs have to intervene.

I really don't get the 'it's being HANDED TO YOU!' mentality. It's up there with 'welfare epics' for phrases that weird me out. It's a game. Not a job. Challenge shouldn't come from 'I'm sitting in a spot for hours, hoping no one kills this thing'. People are going to get frustrated if hours of effort get foiled by some douchecanoe, even if they're normally even headed 99.9% of the time.

To me, a hunt is a questline. A hunt is tracking. Not 'man, I wish NPCscan would go off so I can go do something else and be done with this so I can stop worrying when someone parks next to me here or spits on me'.

Lucky passes don't work on a lot of servers (especially medium and high pop ones). Hell, I did fly bys on Skoll for 2 years. 2. Freaking. YEARS. If all the spawn points are camped, good luck with that. And if you want some of the downsides of long spawn timers, check out the Trigore threads. Or the consolation corner. Competition turns people into dicks.

Difficulty should not come from other people with no way to deal with it. There's literally NOTHING you can do about it on a PvE server if the guy is same faction or not flagged.

Stephen wrote:I completely disagree, I think it IS having the pet handed to you. To myself and many veteran hunters, long spawn camping, multiple spawn points, player competition, and a little luck are what pet hunting is all about. It sounds like you have had a lot of bad experiences with taming a rare pet, but your poor luck should not speak for the entire community. The challenge and competition is what makes it that much more epic when you finally do get that tame if you persevere. I find it hard to believe that a pet was held "ransom," and a GM had to intervene-that sounds a bit like a fish story, but I'm sorry if your luck is really that terrible. Having a pet like Loque to this day is an accomplishment, whether you want to admit it or not and why not have one or two pets like that each expansion? I don't see any harm in that. I don't think these elite rares should go away just because some players are unable to get them or are too intimidated/too lazy to try. What next? A quest handing out mythic raid mounts to everyone?