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So, I'm in Sholazar Basin on my DK yesterday. Whenever I go there, I have fond memories and at the same time, nightmarish flashbacks to hardcore camping sessions and taming attempts for Loque'nahak and King Krush. I spent many an hour in ShBa looking for the two of them. I read every entry on Wowhead, I scoured every site on the web period. I did eventually manage to tame. One thing I'd always thought (and it was commonly accepted knowledge, at least when I was hunting and taming the two of them) was that Loque and KK shared a spawn timer. They were "mutually exclusive." Certainly all my empirical evidence including sightings and attempts, etc. supported that theory. Well, there I am on my DK, flying down the western edge of ShBa and as happens, things "resolve" as you get closer to them. Something about graphics detail, speed of flying, etc. Well, what suddenly resolves on my screen, and makes NPCScan and Silverdragon both trumpet and go beserk at the same time is BOTH King Krush AND Loque'nahak, right next to each other. KK is pathing South right past Loque's spawn point.
I couldn't bring myself to kill KK, though my DK does need him for the exploration sub-achievement of rare kills in Northrend. It would have broken my heart when I was on my hunter to have some stupid DK come in and kill him. So I snapped a few screen shots. I have tried (I hope successfully) to embed code below of the pic from my Flickr.

King Krush and Loque'nahak by lymang, on Flickr

That's awesome. Took me forever to kill Loque for the Northernend achievement and I refused to do it on more than one character because of Loque. I have rolled a hunter on Burning Blade that is level 80 and I'm back to camping him and Arcturis again. I have all the spirit beast on my other hunter so I'm just going for the two that I actually have fallen in love with! My hubby is always aggravating me about killing Arcturis but I have warned him fairly that he'll do without me cooking for a full month if he does!

I have heard many people claim rares are linked. There are very few of them that I think are. TLPD and Vrya, Skarr and Karkin, Magria and Ankha, Aeonaxx and his bat are the only pairs I can think of. I also do not think there is a cap for the amount of rares that can be spawned.

It is my opinion all of this comes from the coincidences that arise from having many npcs with very, very tiny windows of existence before they get killed and long respawn timers. The amount of things that need to line up to have many of them spawn at the same time is crazy. So unless there are no people around in the game to kill them, rumors of limit caps and shared timers will persist.

Your screen shot is cool though. Awesome timing to have them both spawn at their points that intersect. I've seen both up before, but not at the same location like yours.

Blizz removed the cap long ago. There used to be one.

This is way cool when it happens. When I FINALLY got my loque, it was at the mountain where the two cross paths. Loque was coming around the side of the mountain and Krush was walking along his path in front of the mountain. I landed, tamed Loque and then used him to defeat Krush since I owed him a death from long before. Good going on the cap. Wish I could have gotten one myself but was just so happy to finally get Loque.

Wow, I've never seen those two up at the same time. There was always a theory on my realm that it was impossible for them to both be up at the same time. I know thats wrong now, but just... O.o

Nice shot there.