While leveling in Northrend I managed to grab all four of the Spirit Beasts there, most likely due to less competition as everyone was leveling through Cataclysm at the time. I managed to get Ghostcrawler shortly after hitting 85, leaving Karoma as the only spirit beast I had yet to tame.
I casually circled her spawn points from time to time, hoping to catch a glimpse of her someday, but to no avail. I grew more and more in love with her looks as I watched success stories on the forums about days, weeks spent camping to finally tame Karoma, and I was starting to doubt I would ever get her without serious camping (I'm on a very high-population server so competition for rares is fierce, and I know more than one person on the server is collecting the tears.) So today, I was back out in Northrend looking for Skoll for a friend, when this conversation goes down right after I kill Vyra (I'm Jettatura/Em, Michelangelo is the guild leader and a friend of mine):
"[23:17:31] [G] [85:Mcgoobers]: he just usually has me to bail him out :p
[23:17:34] [G] [85:Michelängelø]: Oh em do you have Karoma already
[23:17:46] [G] [85:Michelängelø]: I don't remember.
[23:17:53] [G] [85:Jettatura]: I don't have Karoma
[23:18:01] [G] [85:Michelängelø]: get your butt here
[23:18:03] [G] [85:Jettatura]: OMG
[23:18:09] [G] [85:Michelängelø]: I've got him trapped
[23:18:09] [G] [85:Jettatura]: omw
[23:18:12] [G] [85:Jettatura]: keep him
[23:18:13] [G] [85:Jettatura]: Aaaah
[23:18:15] [G] [85:Mcgoobers]: time to go kill
[23:18:33] [G] [85:Mcgoobers]:
[23:18:33] [85:Michelängelø] has invited you to join a group.
[23:18:33] [G] [85:Mcgoobers]: its a race!"
So naturally I rush out there as fast as my (suddenly snail-slow) 280% speed mount will go, shaking like a leaf the entire time, and sure enough there is Karoma in all her glory, sitting in an ice trap
We had a scare with me not being able to tame it for a moment, but then Miche FD'd and I was able to get the tame off without a hitch, no other players in sight. I then proceeded to flip the heck out in guild chat and thank him about a million times. I guess my recent homing of a bunch of Northrend rares over the past few days finally got me some Karoma karma ('nother bad joke /brick'd).I'm still shaking slightly, but very extremely happy as today was kind of a bad day and that made it all a million times better. Now I just need to figure out a name for her.
. Props to him for trapping and guarding Karoma for you. That's some wicked luck that no one came around and tried to gnab while you were on your way.
