A lot of people might hate me for this....

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Cattackalysm
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A lot of people might hate me for this....

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So, this past Friday I decide to delete my level 80 rogue and move my 70ish hunter to my main server, Azjol-Nerub. Over the weekend I hit 74 so I decided I wanted to look for some rare pets... within a few hours of camping out in Grizzly Hills, I got Arcturis:

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Then, after I hit 76 this week I decided to go to Sholazar Basin as there were two out of the three rares there that I wanted.

I camped for Loque'nahak for about 6 hours over two days:

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and within about 2 hours of taming him, found Aotona:

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So, totally excited last night, and hit 77, decided to call it a night. Today, I look on petopia and decide to hit Zul'drak. Run an instance, then am in Zul'drak for maybe an hour and see Gondria:

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Apparently, its my lucky week for WoW pets... maybe I should buy some lotto tickets??? =P I know lots of people have spent MANY hours looking for even one of these, so I can't even describe how insane it felt to find all these in such a short amount of time :D

(and really, please don't hate me, i'm really nice! :P )
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Pretty lucky!
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:D I had very similar luck with taming Ghostcrawler, Aotona, and King Krush (those last 2 I actually found while searching for Loque, heh). No real camping.. just logged in and there they were!

I'm jealous about your Loque though! Still no luck on him for me!
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Why would i hate you?

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Believe it or not, but:

I found Arcturis when I was level 74. Logged off my char in Grizzly hills, logged in at 4am and he was there. Went to work, came back home, leveled a bit and went leveling in Sholazar Basin. When I've hit 76 I was flying around the Loque's spawn points every few minutes while questing. Got lucky, found him in one of the rounds and tamed just before a goblin priest tried to kill it (I was taming it and mid-tame he was casting mind blast on Loque... but he was already mine :D).

Next 2 days I managed to tame Gondria, Skoll and Terropene (last one at level 82). Can't remember which day I tamed which though.

When I've finally hit level 85 (I was on a leveling streak, so was like 1-2 days later) I went to Vashj'ir like 5 minutes after I dinged just to find Ghostcrawler waiting for me.

After that, same day - I went to Twilight Highlands and as I was questing there, same as I did in Sholazar, I was looking through the Karoma's and Samba's spawn places every few quests/minutes. In one of the places I got a fake Karoma npc scan from a player. Then at another spawn place I got a Sambas, again, fake NPC scan. Some hunter was killing mobs with his Sambas at one of his spawn places - I got kinda sad, 'cause I was sure he just tamed it and trying it out. However, I still checked the other spawn places and 2 spawn places later I found Sambas with my /target macro (I use both NPC scan and macros just in case it gets cached). Froze it, tamed it. Just makes me wonder now what was that hunter doing there in the other spawn place.. Don't even wanna know.

Checked for Karoma, but he/she wasnt there. I got tired of questing so i took like a 2-3 hour nap. I came back, checked Karoma spawn places, and I found him! Again, tamed. That way I got 3 rares in the same day, as I've hit level 85.

Next 3-4 days I managed to get both Jadefang and the mini pet he drops. Still no luck with Madexx though. I'm looking for King Krush once in a while as well, but didn't see him either. I managed to tame Aotona however.

Here's my armory: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/e ... a/advanced Check the level 70-80-85 achievements as well as my stable to see I'm not lying.

Another fun fact is that I got white hawkstrider after 2 MgT runs with that character as well.

To my.. umm.. excuse - It's already been a few months into cataclysm, so I guess those pretty rares aren't farmed as much anymore, or perhaps rare pets just like me ^^ Realm is Emerald Dream EU
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Oh, and there are these guys...

I find the check periodically method much easier and far less infuriating than the camping method. Most hunters will camp the new rares forever then give up. Patient hunters that wait for the excitement to die out, and then simply check periodically win out.

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kirin wrote:Oh, and there are these guys...

I find the check periodically method much easier and far less infuriating than the camping method. Most hunters will camp the new rares forever then give up. Patient hunters that wait for the excitement to die out, and then simply check periodically win out.
It is! That's how I found King Krush, and all them. I simply would randomly check there spawn sites and sure enough I got them one bye on.
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grats, much easier to get northrend rares now that everyone is more focused on the cata rares. plus there's much less traffic up there, so the rares live longer.
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kirin wrote:Oh, and there are these guys...

I find the check periodically method much easier and far less infuriating than the camping method. Most hunters will camp the new rares forever then give up. Patient hunters that wait for the excitement to die out, and then simply check periodically win out.

Hehe.. very nice! Can't wait to get more levels so I can work on other rares =) And yeah, doing it that was was much less frustrating... a lot of times i would just hover over a spawn point then websurf on the other monitor.
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Nightsights wrote:grats, much easier to get northrend rares now that everyone is more focused on the cata rares. plus there's much less traffic up there, so the rares live longer.
Oh yes, it definitely has to be much easier now, though there are still quite a few hunters on my server still hanging out in sholazar, as I ran into a lot of em, asking if I was looking for loque too =)
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Oh yes, it definitely has to be much easier now, though there are still quite a few hunters on my server still hanging out in sholazar, as I ran into a lot of em, asking if I was looking for loque too =)
Sholazar always seems to have some 85 hunters (and other classes perhaps going for achiev) on my realm throughout the day. I often check /who sholazar because I still want King Krush in my collection, but if there's 2-3 85s I usually don't bother checking.
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Congrats! I've gotten a lot of the same luck as well: Gondria, Arcturis, Skoll, Karoma and Sambas in two hours time.
It's a nice collection of pets you have there (:
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