Kirix - FAIL, but a nice consolation prize...
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 10:22 am
I went to MF intending to just get myself a Cinderweb Broodling - hard tames are fine, even fun - as long as I get to retry as needed, and without 50 people peeking over my shoulder. So I was happy to go for an "Imitation Brand"...
But although the little green buggers seemingly have been popping up everywhere else, they were taking great care to avoid Zangarmarsh.
So when I saw Kirix, I /sighed and joined the mob of hunters (and the litter of skeletons) who were already there trying; tried the disengage method... died at 80% complete. Tried the floating rock method, died at 99.89% complete. Then a troll hunter tamed him with a pally bubble.
Went back to checking on broodlings, no dice. But ... oh look, there's Deth'Tilac on Eagle Eye.
"Ha ha, as if", I chuckled as I rode over.
Found a NE there ahead of me, so I let her have her shot at him. After a little while she died, and Deth reset. So I went for him, mainly because I knew how mad I'd be at myself later if I hadn't at least tried. So I sent my spider in and did the kite / pet rez shuffle (being MM helped a lot, as others have noted).
Gradually a crowd formed, occasionally jumping in to attack Deth, and I was extremely glad for DS being disabled - while I'm not certain any of them were going out of their way to try and pull aggro, I tend to assume the worst about strangers.
Finally I got Deth down into the "tame area", tried to tame and ... I couldn't, because my spider hadn't been abandoned (my active slots weren't full)... by now without exaggeration my hands were shaking so much I could barely manage the keyboard - and I was backed into a corner (and the wife was talking to me about something, so I was kinda muttering "yes - that sounds great!" without having a clue what I was agreeing to)... but somehow I managed to slip around Deth, rez my poor yellow spider one last time, and then click abandon before it got one shotted again.
The rest as they say, is history...
But although the little green buggers seemingly have been popping up everywhere else, they were taking great care to avoid Zangarmarsh.
So when I saw Kirix, I /sighed and joined the mob of hunters (and the litter of skeletons) who were already there trying; tried the disengage method... died at 80% complete. Tried the floating rock method, died at 99.89% complete. Then a troll hunter tamed him with a pally bubble.
Went back to checking on broodlings, no dice. But ... oh look, there's Deth'Tilac on Eagle Eye.
"Ha ha, as if", I chuckled as I rode over.
Found a NE there ahead of me, so I let her have her shot at him. After a little while she died, and Deth reset. So I went for him, mainly because I knew how mad I'd be at myself later if I hadn't at least tried. So I sent my spider in and did the kite / pet rez shuffle (being MM helped a lot, as others have noted).
Gradually a crowd formed, occasionally jumping in to attack Deth, and I was extremely glad for DS being disabled - while I'm not certain any of them were going out of their way to try and pull aggro, I tend to assume the worst about strangers.
Finally I got Deth down into the "tame area", tried to tame and ... I couldn't, because my spider hadn't been abandoned (my active slots weren't full)... by now without exaggeration my hands were shaking so much I could barely manage the keyboard - and I was backed into a corner (and the wife was talking to me about something, so I was kinda muttering "yes - that sounds great!" without having a clue what I was agreeing to)... but somehow I managed to slip around Deth, rez my poor yellow spider one last time, and then click abandon before it got one shotted again.
The rest as they say, is history...
