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Just for fun added a little extra to his summon. If you get a Drowned Thunder Lizard Tail from the Ord fishing daily the pulse it sends out when you use it matches the colors of this bird and it's mist. Made a quick macro to use it on summon

/cast call pet 4 (or whatever active slot you keep em in)
/use Drowned thunder lizard tail

Griffley wrote:All check out my all-new guide to taming the Oiled Hawk!

Holy.....relinking here for convenience!

NICE JOB, Griffley!!!

awsome thank you for this! time to go re-tame Banshee!

Thanks : D

I'll try make a third soon

Guide worked like a charm! ...Even if I had to put him on Defensive before he nuked the entire Veil. >.>

Woot I got him thanks dude this one is definitely a keeper

I decided to give this a try too. It was a problem at first because I have a lot of haste gear on and I had also taken advantage of the second spec now that it's 10G. I added survival to BM. I used the survival to solo tame the blue dragonhawk. I must have speed up the taming process much more than I realized, because having the stopwatch out showed me my taming time was close to 7-8 sec.
Once I took my gear off, that seemed to help. I found that I needed to begin the tame just as 50 rolled up.
I don't know how accurate that is because a lot depends on how fast you begin the stop watch once the bird spawns. This was basically the same as the old worgen tame. The change from mob to pet has to happen just at the very end. It can be random. I do think this tame was tougher tho. But maybe my timing is off.

Cute birdie!

When I saw this post, I immediately set off for Blade's Edge. It took about five tries, but I eventually got it. All I did was watch for the spawn and start carefully counting the seconds. When I killed the wing guard, I froze the bird, stopped counting, and added the seconds I'd counted up to 10 (I assumed my tame time was around there since my haste is pathetic on Cailan). Then I waited for the freezing trap to hit that number, and...



Gorgeous. Thank you so much for letting us know!

I love all the screenshots! They make scouting and writing guides worthwhile ty

Ok so 10 tried 15 minutes I got pretty ghosty bird all is good im happy
show him off excite other hunter (other hunter goes tames ghost bird and oily hawk )
Now i did herbing and a few randoms NO bgs NO getting pvp flagged NO arena ..
and hes not ghosty anymore I leveled him and by 79 i noticed he wasnt ghosty (was herbing)
*sniff*

not pet didnt die, i did but that was after Id noticed he changed

It took me like 7 tries but this is Awesome!!!

that should not happen if you follow the guide :/

someone has too much time of there hands...

My high latency is making this a hair-tearingly difficult tame to pull off. I've been at it for a couple of hours now with nothing to show for it but a heap of dead arrakoa.

hours after i tamed it it lost its mist mind u I did log out cause it was 6 am when i got him and logged back on 10 ish did some herbing (looking for kk) he had his mist after tamed he had it after hearthing to dalaran had it after flying to sholazar did some qued randoms and herbing that was all wondering if he lost it when he levaled

My brother finally got this after I'd say...about 20 tries tonight. Even untargeted, this bird is very bright. The last shot is of me and Ysuran (my green carrion bird) and my brother and his bird all together, and as you can see, his is a lot brighter. It really is quite beautiful.

Thank you so much for the guide! Let us hope they don't lose the mist as Nemera's did.

(In the first screen shot, the bird is targeted; in the rest, it is not.....and still very glowy and pretty!)

Rhyela, what's with the see-through huntress?

Nemera wrote:wondering if he lost it when he levaled

This is a very good question. A key component to getting these pets to keep their special effects seem to be to avoid getting the "flash" at the end of a tame. When a pet levels, it also tends to do the "flash"... Does anyone with one of these pets dare to test the theory that the level flash can remove these effects?

My guess is that the level flash you see when you finish a tame coincides with Tame Beast cleansing the beast of all buffs and debuffs as it becomes a hunter pet. I'm not entirely sure if your pet gets healed to full like a player does once they level, or if any debuffs get cleansed. Haven't heard of it happening to the oil wolves, which are cleansed by entering arenas, so I'd be surprised if this bird lost the glow upon leveling. Looks like I'll have to tame one, and go do a whole bunch of different activities with it while keeping a close eye on the glow effect.

That is, after I take my last final on Wednesday and go on break for the rest of the month