Always the wrong one...
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:38 am
Just a bit of venting...
Way back in Vanilla, my hunter was like a magnet for rares. I remember heading out to start camping for Broken Tooth (back when he was a terror in PvP). I went out to the central spot where you could use Eagle Eye to check all 3 of his spawn points. I wasn't sure if I was looking in quite the right spot for one of the spawns, so I went on over to check the cooridinates and, poof, he spawned right next to me.
That sort of luck seems to have abandoned me, though. I end up searching and camping, which I don't mind. Gotta put in some effort to get the rare pets, after all. But the hunt for Krush is really starting to demoralize me. It seems as though, now that Krush is the only rare left on my list, every other rare that I either have or don't particularly want spawns.
For example:
Doing my rounds for Krush a few weeks back, my heart raced when NPC_Scan went off. But it was Loque. Okay, I've already got 2 spirit beasts (Arcturis and Skoll) and don't have stable space to spare, plus I've never really been enamored of Loque's skin. So I call out in guild, and another channel to any hunters who might want 'im. One of my guildies responds that he'd like to tame the fella, so I keep an eye on him til the guildie shows up and gets his first spirit beast. yay!
A day or two later, I'm flying around the Northern Barrens. One of my lower level alts is kind of behind in leveling alchemy, so I'm farming herbs. Hey look! It's Humar! Okay, announced it in a couple channels as well as Local. A young Orc hunter in the zone heads on over, tames the kitty and thanks me. Yay!
Not long after, I head down into Deepholm on my warrior to do dailies and a bit of mining. Jadefang is up! Okay, I already tamed her on the hunter. I wouldn't mind getting the companion pet, but figure I should let a hunter get first dibs. Having the bomb quest, I blast myself over to her cave. As usual, I call out in various channels to any hunters who might want her. Unfortunately an Alliance pally came over and killed her before anyone responded. Ah well.
Last night, I was taking advantage of the recent bot-banwave to actually farm some Twilight Jasmine in the Highlands. As I'm flying along....Sambas. Okay, same old thing: tell folks a rare is up. Didn't hear anything for a while so I went down and tamed the fella just for the heck of it. Of course it means deciding which of my two other cats I may have to let go. Having gotten a few stacks of jasmine, I left the zone for fear I'd come across Karoma.
Thing is, the only rare I'm really hunting now is Krush. I've seen him exactly once since WotLK and that was a couple months ago when I came across his corpse. It's as if I'm doomed to run across every rare spawn in Azeroth before the one I actually want will show up.
Oh, Krush. Whatever did I do to make you hide from me?
Way back in Vanilla, my hunter was like a magnet for rares. I remember heading out to start camping for Broken Tooth (back when he was a terror in PvP). I went out to the central spot where you could use Eagle Eye to check all 3 of his spawn points. I wasn't sure if I was looking in quite the right spot for one of the spawns, so I went on over to check the cooridinates and, poof, he spawned right next to me.
That sort of luck seems to have abandoned me, though. I end up searching and camping, which I don't mind. Gotta put in some effort to get the rare pets, after all. But the hunt for Krush is really starting to demoralize me. It seems as though, now that Krush is the only rare left on my list, every other rare that I either have or don't particularly want spawns.
For example:
Doing my rounds for Krush a few weeks back, my heart raced when NPC_Scan went off. But it was Loque. Okay, I've already got 2 spirit beasts (Arcturis and Skoll) and don't have stable space to spare, plus I've never really been enamored of Loque's skin. So I call out in guild, and another channel to any hunters who might want 'im. One of my guildies responds that he'd like to tame the fella, so I keep an eye on him til the guildie shows up and gets his first spirit beast. yay!
A day or two later, I'm flying around the Northern Barrens. One of my lower level alts is kind of behind in leveling alchemy, so I'm farming herbs. Hey look! It's Humar! Okay, announced it in a couple channels as well as Local. A young Orc hunter in the zone heads on over, tames the kitty and thanks me. Yay!
Not long after, I head down into Deepholm on my warrior to do dailies and a bit of mining. Jadefang is up! Okay, I already tamed her on the hunter. I wouldn't mind getting the companion pet, but figure I should let a hunter get first dibs. Having the bomb quest, I blast myself over to her cave. As usual, I call out in various channels to any hunters who might want her. Unfortunately an Alliance pally came over and killed her before anyone responded. Ah well.
Last night, I was taking advantage of the recent bot-banwave to actually farm some Twilight Jasmine in the Highlands. As I'm flying along....Sambas. Okay, same old thing: tell folks a rare is up. Didn't hear anything for a while so I went down and tamed the fella just for the heck of it. Of course it means deciding which of my two other cats I may have to let go. Having gotten a few stacks of jasmine, I left the zone for fear I'd come across Karoma.
Thing is, the only rare I'm really hunting now is Krush. I've seen him exactly once since WotLK and that was a couple months ago when I came across his corpse. It's as if I'm doomed to run across every rare spawn in Azeroth before the one I actually want will show up.
Oh, Krush. Whatever did I do to make you hide from me?
It took me nearly 40 hours of camping over a period of 2 weeks, after I had already been searching for him off and on for a month. I finally got him and he is COMPLETELY worth it- so keep trying!!! 
