Beta check -- ghost Windserpent

[Cerah]

Just a little tamable check request for those of you lucky enough to have the beta. In the Occulus, in one of the groups of mobs that appear after the second boss is killed (before the mage in the center ring), there's a group of ghostly beasts, which includes a white old-world style, transparent windserpent. As far as I know, that windserpent's never been tamable in live, despite being classed as a Beast, so I was just wondering if someone on the beta could test and see if that's changed.

I think this would be an interesting additition to the ranks of "ghost" pets. Thanks in advance for checking!

[Grigg]

That's funny. I hit The Oculus in a random tonight and had the exact same thought. There are also Phantasmal Wolves that can spawn in those groups too, so that would be another one to check.

[Albain]

Sadly no, they're not tameable. :< I just went up and checked.

Although H. Occulus is shockingly easy to solo, up to Eregos.

[Albain]

Interestingly, all of oculus is easy to solo except for Eregos - although you have 200k plus health, there's no way you can burn down the whelps, /and/ him, and not get torn apart somewhere. You'd need at least two.

[Acherontia]

Have you tried doing it on a red drake? If you target the whelps every time they spawn, rather than the dragon, it will chain through them and actually hurt Eregos -more-.

[Albain]

The downside to a red drake is you can't heal. And as the damage of the drakes don't scale, only your HP, Eregos and his whelps will in VERY short order nibbles-and-scratches your 211k health down to nothing before he even enrages. You can kill the whelps, mostly, but then Eregos enrages and kills YOU.

The bronzes .. well, they get their timestop, but again, their damage doesn't scale. One drake now is still doing the same damage as one drake would be on Live.

[Anyia]

Here's an out-there idea - can you dismount from your drake when it's about to die, pull out a spirit beast for healing, and nuke him yourself? I have no idea how much damage has scaled at 85, but last time I was in Occulus I pulled aggro half-way through and spent the remainder of the encounter on the "ground" shooting him.

[Albain]

No. By the time your drake dies there are ten to fifty+ whelps, and even a tanking pet is ripped to shreds. My 85 shale spider with 177k health died so fast I didn't get a chance to even feign death. If it were just eregos, and no adds, I think it would be doable, but all those adds ... add up ... ..really, /really/ fast. You could probably 2man it easy just for -that- fight, given the rest is a snoozefest.