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I missed Terrorpene, but the wow gods gave me Sambas !

Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 12:51 pm
by Sookie
So!

Yesterday I had a very bad taming experience.

I headed my hunter over to Hyjal to check on Terrorpene only to see, just as I flew in range, a bright flash and a newly-tamed terrorpene standing by a hunter that barely survived with almost no health left after the tame. To make it worse, he did /laugh and /spit and flew away with the pet I wanted.

I was heartbroken but inspired, assuming that since I knew of one spawn I could simply camp confidently until the next one. I usually fly over many rare spawn points when I'm looking for pets (rather than camping) but I stayed in Hyjal from the first tame at 6 o'clock in the morning until 10 o'clock at night. I had to get up for about half an hour around the 6-hour mark of camping, and after the full 16 hours spent there, I'm pretty sure he must have been tamed during that brief afk.

The next morning I decided to go back to my usual method of taming: fly over all of the rare spawns I'm looking for instead of camping them one by one.

So I looked for Maddexx, Skoll, Karoma, & Sambas... and found nothing. I figured I might as well sit myself in Twilight Highlands as long as I could stand it to up my odds of finding either Sambas or Karoma, since I was up fairly early and wanted to find one or the other to make me feel better about losing Terrorpene to a jerkface hunter.

I had been sitting in a queu for a dungeon during my flyovers and I accepted it when it popped even though I didn't want to leave my post, because I figured 'hey it will never spawn anyway, i have terrible luck'. We went in and it was a very bad group in Zul'Gurub. We wiped a couple times (with me feign death'ing and mass resurrecting everyone and giving pro tips, to no avail) and - this is unusual for me - for some reason I just got fed up and decided I didn't feel like putting in the effort to help guide these people through the instance. So I said goodbye & left the party.

...to find Sambas screaming right below me via NPCScan. I plopped down, dismissed my aqua kitty, frost trapped & tamed with no problems at all. I shudder to think how bad a day I would have had if I had continued to put up with the bad people in that dungeon & spent the rest of the day camping for rares someone else got while I was in there. It feels meant to be!

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Here's to karma doing right by you in the end :)
Good luck all you fellow rare spawn campers <3
-Sookie

Re: I missed Terrorpene, but the wow gods gave me Sambas !

Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 1:45 pm
by Airwyn
Congrats on getting Sambas! He looks very nice next to your hunter :) I'm sorry that you missed Terrorpene though, I hope you get him soon!

Re: I missed Terrorpene, but the wow gods gave me Sambas !

Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 1:52 pm
by Litlemouse
Congrats ^_^ I've been looking for Sambas and Karoma lately, but to no avail :(
Lucky you got out of that dungeon when you did :)

Re: I missed Terrorpene, but the wow gods gave me Sambas !

Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 3:41 pm
by Sookie
Thanks guys :)

And seriously, next time you're in a fail dungeon group, just leave! Not worth missing a rare for if the group is painful to deal with anyway =)

Re: I missed Terrorpene, but the wow gods gave me Sambas !

Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 11:38 pm
by MajorThor
^ Pugs generally always fail more than win due to lack of coordination and/or teamwork. Everyone thinks what they're doing is more important than the next person, like PuG PvP. Anyway, Sambas is a total hardass on the outside, but a huge fluffy kitty on the inside. You two will get alone swiftly! Congratulations!

Obligatory...
http://youtu.be/RZWwNlKn8xE

Re: I missed Terrorpene, but the wow gods gave me Sambas !

Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 2:50 am
by Lisaara
Grats! Karma has blessed you. :3

Re: I missed Terrorpene, but the wow gods gave me Sambas !

Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 5:11 pm
by Sookie
Omg that youtube clip... rofl :)

And for the record, I got terrorpene later. While camping for hours and hours, I was in the window practically watching the spawn point dejectedly and he spawned right under me! I was really happy because lately I've been doing some soloing and I didn't have a turtle pet at all. My trusty white bear LOST helped me solo Leotheras & robot for my 2-piece riftstalker, and then I ran stonecore a bunch to take a shot at the mount. I'm new to soloing so it was a fun adventure but without the best pet for the job. Now I have the perfect pet for my adventures :)

Re: I missed Terrorpene, but the wow gods gave me Sambas !

Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 7:33 pm
by Lisaara
Grats Sookie!!!