Skarr welcomed me back
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 12:13 pm
I decided about a week ago that after a much needed break from WoW that I was curious about the new pets that have been added to the game since my leave. So I lurked back here to find a lot of fun new tames that I'd like to try. I decided to go ahead and take Blizzard's 7 free days for my account and start looking for rares a few days ago.
I expected griefers already but in matter of minutes in Molten Front, someone's pet had already cached. And it happened the rest of the night. By the time I gave up most of the rares were cached. And a few hunters were "clever" and named their rare its NPC name triggering my macro too. Very frustrating as we all know. I guess I had figured since my server really isn't very large that maybe I would not have to deal with this behavior as much.
This morning I had a spat with a hunter about having his Deth'tilac sitting out right at his spawn point. I just don't understand the rudeness. And after deciding to just go somewhere else to look, I figured that on my way back to the Regrowth, I would check Skarr's location quickly. For this hunter I have decided to tame Skarr, Deth, and both the spectral kitties and grab the rest of the rares on my currently leveling second hunter.
I hit the corner around where Kirix 's spawn, and my NPCscan blows up. COntinuing around the corner, I see a hunter sitting at the spawn point. My heart sank a little, and I was annoyed that another hunter is just sitting at his spawn point with Skarr out. Then I decided to be sure and mouse over the hunter pet. A FOX! It was Ashtail! So I started to spam the targeting icon for NPCscan. The portrait pops up with the little green triangle over his head and no pet buffs. IT'S HIM all the way over at his other spawn! The hunter next to me must not have NPCscan. I felt a little guilty as I started to hop over. But he was Alli, and I don't have any Alli alts.
I begin to hop rocks and must have tried to jump to the wrong one. I fell to my death. I spirit rez'd and decided to go ahead and try even with rez sickness. 3 attempts and 3 deaths later, 4 minutes still on my sickness, and I decide to hearth back to Org. I pick up as much haste as I can, hop over to the trainer to switch to MM, spec down to Silencing Shot and fly back. I have been shaking this entire time. I head back up and find him still just standing there. Waiting. This time I flawlessly jump all the rocks. Run up, hit tame beast, break it, followed by Silencing Shot, and Tame Beast. I watched my meter go down and he hopped to my side.
I have no idea how I got so lucky. Molten Front isn't too busy right now, but I expected within 10 minutes, he would have met up with another hunter! Now it's time to pick out a name for this guy. He's super cool. I'm very glad I found him.
I expected griefers already but in matter of minutes in Molten Front, someone's pet had already cached. And it happened the rest of the night. By the time I gave up most of the rares were cached. And a few hunters were "clever" and named their rare its NPC name triggering my macro too. Very frustrating as we all know. I guess I had figured since my server really isn't very large that maybe I would not have to deal with this behavior as much.
This morning I had a spat with a hunter about having his Deth'tilac sitting out right at his spawn point. I just don't understand the rudeness. And after deciding to just go somewhere else to look, I figured that on my way back to the Regrowth, I would check Skarr's location quickly. For this hunter I have decided to tame Skarr, Deth, and both the spectral kitties and grab the rest of the rares on my currently leveling second hunter.
I hit the corner around where Kirix 's spawn, and my NPCscan blows up. COntinuing around the corner, I see a hunter sitting at the spawn point. My heart sank a little, and I was annoyed that another hunter is just sitting at his spawn point with Skarr out. Then I decided to be sure and mouse over the hunter pet. A FOX! It was Ashtail! So I started to spam the targeting icon for NPCscan. The portrait pops up with the little green triangle over his head and no pet buffs. IT'S HIM all the way over at his other spawn! The hunter next to me must not have NPCscan. I felt a little guilty as I started to hop over. But he was Alli, and I don't have any Alli alts.
I begin to hop rocks and must have tried to jump to the wrong one. I fell to my death. I spirit rez'd and decided to go ahead and try even with rez sickness. 3 attempts and 3 deaths later, 4 minutes still on my sickness, and I decide to hearth back to Org. I pick up as much haste as I can, hop over to the trainer to switch to MM, spec down to Silencing Shot and fly back. I have been shaking this entire time. I head back up and find him still just standing there. Waiting. This time I flawlessly jump all the rocks. Run up, hit tame beast, break it, followed by Silencing Shot, and Tame Beast. I watched my meter go down and he hopped to my side.
I have no idea how I got so lucky. Molten Front isn't too busy right now, but I expected within 10 minutes, he would have met up with another hunter! Now it's time to pick out a name for this guy. He's super cool. I'm very glad I found him.
Not 2 seconds later an Ally hunter logs on in the exact spot where I tamed him. It's been a great day.