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Skarr and Karkin Taming Challenges

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 6:59 pm
by Aritria
Some more love to WoWInsider!

*Flail*
*Dead*
All I can say is I wantz mah gem kitteh. I wantz it bahd.

Re: Skarr and Karkin Taming Challenges

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 7:15 pm
by Kurenio
Wewt all those years of playing super mario won't go to waste now!

Re: Skarr and Karkin Taming Challenges

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 7:18 pm
by Aeladrine
DUDE YES THE GEM CAT FINALLY

Re: Skarr and Karkin Taming Challenges

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:12 pm
by Kurasu
We've known about these two for a while now. ;)

Re: Skarr and Karkin Taming Challenges

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:14 pm
by rubybeam
I read that as Karkat. Again *flails* I so need to tame that crab now my snake can just go bye bye in the meantime

Re: Skarr and Karkin Taming Challenges

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:18 pm
by Kalliope

Re: Skarr and Karkin Taming Challenges

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 12:18 am
by Sasrei
Ok when they meant challenges they mean it.. skarr.. now sucks..

Re: Skarr and Karkin Taming Challenges

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 12:23 am
by Kalliope
What happened?

Re: Skarr and Karkin Taming Challenges

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 8:45 am
by Kurasu
Is Skarr still tameable from afar and frost trappable?

EDIT: Never mind. I just read further down. Apparently at least Skarr isn't trappable any more. Which means, likely, that Karkin *also* isn't frost trappable. Which means... oh, this is going to get a lot more vicious. :D

I pray they do not share spawn points. But I *am* happy that the difficulty is being upped! A frost trap and taming from 30 yards away was definitely not very sporting. :D

Re: Skarr and Karkin Taming Challenges

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 9:54 am
by Sasrei
I am kinda thinking they share spawn timers as they still do share the same spawn points.

Re: Skarr and Karkin Taming Challenges

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 12:55 pm
by Kalliope
But don't worry, Magria and Ankha seem to too, and we still see both of them plenty! :)

Re: Skarr and Karkin Taming Challenges

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 3:04 pm
by Kurasu
Hey. Maybe with how unkillable they are, they made the timer shorter. :D

.... well, we can hope!

Re: Skarr and Karkin Taming Challenges

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 7:33 am
by Jodmos
Unkillable. I think not.

Every time I've seen Skarr it's been as a corpse. It still seems to be easy for ranged to kill him.

The difficulty with that challenge is finding him alive.

Re: Skarr and Karkin Taming Challenges

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 7:46 am
by Kalliope
*nod* That actually sounds right. The big bad cast can be interrupted, so Skarr and Karkin are actually squishy, unless you're taming them and eating the 70k+ hits. >_< (Which interrupt the tame, which means starting over at that point.)

Re: Skarr and Karkin Taming Challenges

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 9:08 am
by Kalliope
So thanks to Skarr for spawning twice in a row*, I got to test both silencing shot and scatter shot tonight. Both of them work on the big cast. The downside is that scatter works like an ordinary short interrupt rather than its usual disorient, so my theory regarding that was wrong. Skarr got to do three casts with no corehound and only two with. I fatfingered an interrupt on the no corehound attempt, though, due to fatigue, so that interrupted the tame. -_- Had I gotten both, I think that would have been the tame.

So yeah, aside from a corehound for hysteria and the casting speed debuff, I'm not sure how you solo either.

*God, I was so tired when I wrote this, I didn't put the side note. Karkin and Skarr have the same mechanics now, so either of them spawning would have been fine.

Re: Skarr and Karkin Taming Challenges

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 10:05 am
by Sasrei
Question does he only cast the stun when you hit tame? As it seemed for me to be the only reason he did it.

And why is it when you die in the fire, it says its fall damage lmao.

Re: Skarr and Karkin Taming Challenges

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 10:08 am
by Kurenio
Sasrei wrote:Question does he only cast the stun when you hit tame? As it seemed for me to be the only reason he did it.
Well skarr it seemed he only casted it once. The first time I hit tame, but the second time he didn't so either kalli has deadly precise timing or it triggered by tame and has a cd.

Re: Skarr and Karkin Taming Challenges

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 11:41 am
by Sasrei
OK guys.. how to tame Skarr/karkin easy

Tame beast, silencing shot tame beast.

That is all.

Please carry on ^.^

Re: Skarr and Karkin Taming Challenges

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 1:00 pm
by Jodmos
Karkin

I got the haste buff from the updrafts. Tame/Silencing Shot/Tame. Worked easily.

Don't know if the haste helped much.

Re: Skarr and Karkin Taming Challenges

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 1:44 pm
by Sasrei
Nope I had no issues without haste.

Blizzard likes to promote MM spec apparently :lol: MM spec can make.. all the rares except well obviously the SBs alot easier. Readiness rocks.