3 days ago... Jag dings 76! I head straight for Sholazar. Might as well keep an eye out for Loque'nahak, the fabled and wondrous Spirit Beast, while I'm leveling. But I'm not gonna camp him... nope... I just install an addon to track rare elites, and go about my business. I still can't fly, and checking the spawn points on my ground mount just isn't gonna cut it. Not for a cat that's rumored to spawn every 6-10 hours, shares a timer with other elites in the zone, has 6 different spawn points, and is notoriously camped by hunters. ... Riiiiight ... of course, once I'm out there, I can't help myself. It's like I have some kind of compulsion. I start doing laps around Sholazar on my tiger, hitting the spawn points. I continue to quest.. but anytime I'm anywhere near ("near") a spawn point, I divert to check it. I nearly have a heart attack because the first time I approached I spawn point, my addon fired off like crazy... LOQUE FOUND... but it can't distinguish between the wild animal or a tamed hunter pet, and to my horrible disappointment, this one was tamed. It was still named the default "Spirit Beast," and the hunter was running around the spawn point slaughtering random gorillas, so I figured I had just missed my chance. Later, I notice the pet is level 80, which means it wasn't tamed anytime recently... and this hunter seems to practically LIVE in Sholazar killing gorillas. Oh well. Quest, quest, quest... the sooner I get to 77, the sooner I can start flying between spawn points. That night, I dream about searching for Loque. In my head, I circle around and around and around the basin in my dreams... I camp the spawn points... I search and search, nothing.
2 days ago...
Jag dings 77! I can fly! Around and around I go, several times throughout the day, but I'm too busy to spend a ton of time at it. I just check now and again, knowing that probably won't be good enough to actually catch him, but what the heck. Last night, I dream of hunting Loque again, but in this dream, I find and tame him easily. I wake up sad, knowing that it was a dream.
Today... I'm busy most of the day. I stop home for a brief time this afternoon. I don't have long, but what the heck, I log in and fly around the basin once. Then I dawdle near one of the spawn points while I do other things and get ready to leave, glancing at the screen occasionally. ... BAM. What's that white thing down there by the gorillas? OMG, it's a cat. OMG, it's Loque. Heart is racing, panic, dizzy. Execute series of moves I've read about and memorized... shoot to tag, Esc to stop shooting, drop Freeze trap, abandon pet, ... tame? where's the tame button? I put it front and center on my action bar, right next to the trap, ready to go... But I'm panicing so bad that I can't find it. OH, there it is! Tame, tame, tame... Trap breaks before I'm done, Loque gets a few good swings at me, and then he's MINE. <3
I was figuring this would take at least several days/dozens of hours of dedicated camping. Some hunters have been at it for weeks, or longer. Jag just has all the luck with cats! The cats find her.
