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If you haven’t taken a look yet head over to the WHU and check out the write up on pet tanking Sindragosa. Now we wait for the nerf from Blizzard. At any rate it is a very impressive feet none the less.
Late last year I undertook a little project to get 3 out of the 4 Spirit Beasts. After getting Skoll and Gondria, I spent a bit of time looking for Loque’nahak, but I guess I lost interest and gave up. Well, yesterday I was bored and looking for something to do, so I went off to do a few laps around Sholazar Basin. Well 4 hours later I got lucky.
Now all I want is Blizzard to give me more stable slots. Arcturis can’t fit in the stable so he will have to wait till Cataclysm comes out. Below is how my stable is looking. I don’t have a wolf for raiding. Hmm, this could cause a problem. Rusty will have to do for now.
I didn’t plan it but, all my Spirit Beasts start with the letter A. I have no idea how this happened, but it looks kinda cool. Also you can tell my Photoshop CS5 skills are getting better, so I will redo the top banner soon… maybe.
If you would like to read how this all started or how to use NPC scan:
So, Toresh and I recently leveled our Hunter/Priest alts, and, as I have always loved the Spirit Beast models, his hunting fever caught on to me.
To be perfectly honest, I didn’t spend a great deal of time camping each one – mostly just an insane amount of lucky timing – but today, I have finished my quest!
Loque’nahak, tamed 7th Dec, 9.40am (server time)
Did a few rounds looking for him, mostly at the gorilla spawns, but ended up finding him at the spawn South-West of the Nessingwary Base Camp when I decided to make a quick round just in case.
Gondria, tamed 8th Dec, 9.10am
I managed to get my Gondria spawn when I decided to do a quick check just after we dinged 77, on our way through to the Storm Peaks, and there she was, ready for the taming.
Arcturis, tamed 12th Dec, 6.20pm
A big thanks to Toresh for this one, as I requisitioned his laptop because we were baby-sitting my brother that night. Had a bit of trouble getting the wireless set up, but, as my luck turned out, he was right there when we managed to get online!
Skoll, tamed 14th Dec, 6.15am
I probably spent the longest on Skoll, several days flying between his spawn points in between running heroics – probably close to 20hrs worth of camping. Totally worth it, as he is absolutely gorgeous <3
Toresh is now after Arcturis (and Loque still) – though I must admit I am rather disappointed that he will be abandoning Orthus to get him.
- Ariia
Day 4
This day saw a few ups and downs, I had another Huntard walking around with his tamed Skoll at one of the spawn points, I saw a dead Skoll, first time I actually saw any sign of him. So I now know hes does exist. I also for the 3rd day in a row saw Vyragosa but this time I was the only one around and got the kill on her. On the bright side seeing the Skoll corpse gave me a time line to work with. Working on the assumption that spirit beasts have a 4-8 hour re-spawn timer I had a window to shot for. The only problem with this window was it was 3-5am in the morning. Well its not like I’m doing anything then anyway right? Who needs sleep anyway. So from 3am till around 7am I was back camping skoll’s spawns with 2 toons. But no sign of him. I came to the conclusion that he spawned in the gap I was catching up on some sleep between 1-3am. So at 7am I gave up and felt like crap so went to get some sleep for a few hours.
Day 5
I guess we have to call this day 5 now. I managed to get a few more hours sleep, before waking to start all over again. I walk to the office and log back into wow. To my surprise NPCScan goes off, and there he is, Skoll just standing there like he didn’t care that I have been after him for the last 4 days. Well there is only one thing to do then. I set down my trap, which of course doesn’t go off, so I decide to hit tame anyway because I’m to excited to wait for the cd on my trap. I do start to get a bit worried as my Heath starts to drop and fast. He actually hits hard.
But luckily my tame finishes before I bite the dust, and the long hunt has come to an end. Skoll is mine and I now have 2 out of the 3 spirit beasts.
Total time spent searching: 51 hours
Now to start the hunt for the mighty Loque’nahak.
Patch 3.3
If you haven’t kept up with the news Patch 3.3 will be droping next week. Ill try get a few posts in about the hunter changes, because there are a few that I am looking forward to. But for now, if you are after any more information on the patch, WOW head has a great run down on everything that is coming in patch 3.3.
Time spent searching: 12 hours
Yesterday was day 3 in my attempt to find Skoll, but again for a 3rd day I saw no sign of the blue wolf. Hopes of finding this great beast fade with every passing hour. How long can I keep this up for? I have no idea.
I did how ever see Vyragosa for a second day in a row, and again by the time I got to him he was dead on the ground. So I guess I can at least say I have seen a rare spawn. But some how that doesn’t lift my mood at all. Is there another spawn that has yet to be found and Skoll keeps spawning there?
I did have one ray of hope yesterday and that was late in the afternoon, I was flying back over to the Foot Steppes from the Snow Drift Plains, when npc scan went off and Skoll came up as the found mob, I thought to myself it was about dam time, but as I landed and tryed to engage him, I see he’s actually friendly. Some huntard who had already caught him awhile ago thought it would be funny if he hid in the trees and used eyes of the beast to walk him around the spawn point for a bit. Well Mr huntard I did not find it the least bit funny. I /w him and told him in not so nice language.
So far I have amassed 35 hours spent on this. Thats almost a good working week. There are a few people in the guild who think I actually spent the whole time in front of the computer. This is not the case. As I mentioned in my first post on this I’m using an addon call NPCScan to do all the hard work for me. This combined with NPCScanOverlay, means I can pretty much sit AFK most of the time and if skoll does spawn then it will play a very loud sound, which you can change to your liking. So all you need to do is turn the speakers up really loud and you can find something else to do. I return every now and then to un-afk myself so I don’t get kicked off the server.
How does it work you ask?
Well NPC scan checks every time a new entry is made in your creature cache to see if the NPC ID matches one of the rare spawns that can be found though out the game. Now there is a problem with this, tamable mobs such as spirit Beasts the ones we are hunting, have the same ID as the wild NPCs. Once a NPC has been found and cached NPCScan can no long distinguish new entires. So every time you go out to search you need to empty your wow creature cache. This is the only small and annoying thing about NPCScan. But if you remember to do this, this addon is second to none. Finding your cache can be a bit of a problem if you are not that hot with computers. But lucky over on curse they have a short guide on how to do it, also with a link to a guide if you are running windows vista or 7. On the bright side if you know how to use batch files, or windows power shell, you can write a script that either runs when you exit wow, or that just sits on your desktop for you to click and it will remove your creature case, without having to find it in your wow folder every time.
Now for some screen shots. This is what NPCScan looks like when you have found a mob (this is with the test feature). Of course you can’t hear the really loud noise, but I’m sure you can use your imagination.
Now to go with NPC scan you also need to get NPCScan Overlay. This is a simple little tool that adds the spawn points of the rare NPCs to your World Map and Mini Map.
