Hunter Time

Terrorpene, you're mine, at last!

Last week I managed to hit 63 with my priest. Part of me was missing my hunter so on Friday I did a little PvP for kicks. I mostly got my behind handed to me but it was fun and we won TB. I decided to go ahead and switch Clo, the hunter, to the Alliance. Night elf!

I have a very nice guild who is very active with heroics and raids and so on, we're level 16 closing in on 17. A good place to jump back into the fray with the hunter. Good people to group with and get off on the right foot!

I really have enjoyed playing the hunter again, I've missed her. While I still plan to level the priest, its nice to change it up and just do whatever on my 85 sometimes. With my hunter I often run out to Hyjal and check, in vain, for the rare mob Terrorpene. I was kind of stunned when I saw him swimming around in the lava last night, I started muttering little sounds on the lines of: Oh... uh... um... Dire was like "Are you going to tame him or stare at him?!" I was so tired, and it was late! I got my wits about me and tamed him. He's so awesome! I wanted a flashy tank pet and he fills that role indeed.

Sambas <3

 I was looking back at some older blog posts and I noticed I didn't show where I tamed Sambas, I still get a lot of searches directing people here with that criteria. From what I noticed he seems to be on a twelve hour spawn cycle. He spawns in the Twilight Highlands. Many people seem to think he spawn in Uldum, nope. These are his spawn points. I've seen him two or three times in the same spot, pictured below.

One of Sambas' spawn points, I've mainly seen him here.

If you're after these lovely rares, it took me awhile, keep at it. Keep checking in and looking on and off. The biggest way to burn out on them is to camp them, which I did for Sambas. On every mob I was either too late or competing with a ton of other hunters. Most of my tames have been just checking in real fast and getting lucky enough to see them up.

Anyone have any good ideas for my turtle's name? I thought about Koopa but I don't know, still trying to decide something. Some humor would be nice but not all of my pets have silly names. Let me know if you have something good!

-kaozz

Show & Tell!

Some of our new toys! Yes, that is a WoW ghoul.... My son's :)

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas weekend. I had a lovely time. I got some great presents, had some good food and a nice time with family. I even got my very own Domo! My family got me a lot of cool things, they know me well! Good books, which I was in dire need of!

One of my son's presents was Minecraft. He's been wanting it for awhile and I actually got it a few days before Christmas so he could play it with friend. He absolutely loves it. He had made a really terrific castle but someone wrecked it and from then on they decided to not just let anyone come play with them. He's having a blast and building some awesome stuff, I want to make a video of his place soon. One of these days I'll sit down and mess around with it more so. It's quite fun!

I finally got Sambas! So did my bud, Money (we had to take pics together hehe). Sambas is on either a 12 or 24 hour spawn it looks like, spawning close to the same time always. I didn't spend a lot of time on WoW over the weekend but I popped on a few times. Dire got 85 with the Priest and is now working on alts. He says he runs out of mana quickly just questing, which seems a bit blah. After the last expansion, running out of mana just seems redundant and slow-When questing at 85. I haven't had a big problem with my Druid at 82, but I do notice it's not the same as it was.The Hunter is grand, I love it. I just miss healing sometimes. That's what the Druid is for though!

My WoW account just renewed a few days before Christmas and I'm still enjoying it but I am not really hyped about new instances or raiding. I suppose it's sort of rare that we can do a guild run with enough people on at once. We have the making for a solid group but it's just getting everyone together at once that's the hard part. As of now there is no chance of raiding, as I see it. But it's alright. I mainly putter around with questing and trade skills slowly, archeology keeps me busy too. I just can't stomach pugs very much these days.

For Christmas I also got Station Cash! So, with that I decided to get the new Freeblood race in EQ2. I don't have a sub currently so I've been messing around on the EQ2X server. Which is just chocked full of people. Anyhow, the Freeblood race is very cool. I'm having fun with it. More thoughts in my next post on this though!

I was inspired by the new EQ2 race and did some 'Vampy' art. Check it out, if you like. I was pretty happy with the outcome of the pictures.

I hope everyone had a great Christmas, anything special come your way?!

-kaozz

Sambas For Christmas!

Early Christmas morning Sambas was waiting on me. I logged in for a few to check the Orgrimmar tree and checked his spawn real fast, there he was! What a fantastic pet, I guess my 'Azeroth' Christmas wish was granted ;) I only had a few min to drool over him before logging...sigh. Merry Christmas all!

-kaozz

All I Want For Christmas Is Sambas!

The Elusive Ghostcrawler!

Chasing rare pets, for me, is like a compulsion. I hate it but once I get it in my head that I want a particular pet I have to have it or I'm one crabby Hunter. It's really annoying. Last night I was minutes late, maybe even seconds to tame Sambas. I was so mad, I wanted to throw something! I instead noted the spawn time and logged off in defeat. I know when he spawned but is he on a 12 or 24 hour spawn cycle?I've heard both so I will check at both times.

What really ticks me off is that if these rares have such a long spawn timer.... Why must (most of them) they be in questing hot spots? Any person questing along on their merry way can kill them for sport while about ten Hunters keep looking night and day, like vultures, in vain. I'm not a person who likes to waste huge amounts of time and this causes a lot of wasting time. Sure, I don't have to get these pets. I want to though, I just wish it wasn't such a PITA just to get the pet model we actually want. I'm not a fan of rare spawns anymore, EQ burned me out on massively long camps that make me want to roll into a ball and start rocking, in some dark corner.

He sparkles... Should I name him Edward??

I did manage to get the Ghostcrawler pet. He spawns in the Abandoned Reef. No other mobs spawn there and I was shocked to see him scuttle past me. I shrieked and pointed and made Dire look, I was so excited to finally see a rare. He's a cool pet, glad I got at least one rare! He makes a nice addition to my other lovely pets.

So I suppose I'll waste more time hunting these pets and hope to get lucky. If I don't enjoy it, why do I do it? Because I want those pets and there is no other way. I'm a Hunter, I have to have the coolest pets! What makes you want to pull you want to pull your hair out? Are you a masochist (as Lono likes to call me) about something in game? What's your vice? All I want for Christmas, in Azeroth, is Sambas!

For anyone interested in Ghostcrawler's location I found him here:

Safe adventures all!
-kaozz