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Illidan Was Right. :|

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:02 pm
by Ijomi
I was idling out in Igneous Depths while doing artwork in OpenCanvas and reading up on Solix tame strategies. I don't camp anymore since Ban'thalos, fifteen hours with a stick up my ass literally was enough to last me forever. :lol: Just random check-ins so I don't need to be checked in anywhere IRL.

NPCScan blares at me. It's Kirix, an obvious hunter pet. I calm my rattled nerves, test my new hotkeys for my traps one more time, go back to my arting.

It blares again. I mouse over my toolbar to bring up the in-game thumbnail, and see my miniature hunter staring down something that still looked pretty darn big. :lol:

My test trap was still there. I Concussive Shot, and the race was on!

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The tame I was most afraid to try. One more tick of the tame bar, and I would have been posting in the Consolation Corner instead. There were also three people doing their Wardens daily in there at the time, and no one tried to stick out a foot and trip us. I named him for the Golden Rule. I thought it was appropriate. :)

Re: Illidan Was Right. :|

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:28 pm
by Sarantha
Grats on Solix. I died to this guy 10 times before I figured it out (and after douches doing the Wardens dailies stopped tripping my slowing traps). He is a tricky one if you have no one to root him for you, and a painful kite. I almost died at the last second while taming.

Re: Illidan Was Right. :|

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:18 am
by Ijomi
Ouch, grats for your tame as well, though! :)

As panicked as NPCScan makes my pulse, I shut down and was amazingly calm during the kite. Maybe because I'd just read the Surv strategy on WoWHead, I don't know. Maybe just desperation because I hadn't seen him since I helped another hunter tame him weeks ago. I haven't run Ala on Surv for so long, I forgot she was specced into Entrapment. He was surprisingly easy to manage with it, and I'd gotten a lot of practice dodging lava spurts. The only thing that made me hold my breath was noticing his energy tick down in relation to my Tame Beast. :lol: I was one long silent cry of FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUU until I saw he shrank to "Spider". The flash didn't even load for me. An almost anticlimatic yet most grateful moment.

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Re: Illidan Was Right. :|

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:30 am
by Snowbird
gratz!!!

Re: Illidan Was Right. :|

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:35 am
by Ijomi
:) Thank you!

Re: Illidan Was Right. :|

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 1:42 pm
by Lupis
Very nice! I just adore Solix. Huge grats, I bet watching him shrink down was a magical moment. xD

Re: Illidan Was Right. :|

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 2:50 pm
by Ijomi
Thanks, Lupis! I had some lag going, I think....it was like one moment he was huge and almost out of energy, the next he was "Spider". :lol: With his own version of Trollface.

Re: Illidan Was Right. :|

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:42 pm
by Lisaara
Illidan would be proud. *sagenod*