So as I welcome a few days of regular Azeroth activity once more, I noticed last night we were in for rolling restarts this morning. So, I set to placing certain folk in specific locations….ok, well, just two. Saintvache went to Feralas and Tumunzahar was back off to Northrend. Saintvache had no luck, as his realm went down first and came back up before I had gotten there. Still no Minfernal. No biggie, as I know that will come one day (and what a glutton for hope that makes me…). But I was on Tum when the realm and zone were restarting, so I went to Realm selection and just waiting for my server to come back up.
Sure enough it did…but when I tried to log in I got the World Server Down message. I tried again right away and not only did I log in, but there was a pet icon not five feet from me…unfortunately I aggro’d an Icecrown mob at the same time. One shotted him and clicked the icon without even knowing what it was. I didn’t have time to waste…
Oh yeah. I ended up winning the fight with relative easy and not only captured the first Scourged Whelpling I’ve ever seen, it was an Uncommon! When I had logged out, there were 17 people that I could see camping the area. I know of three of us who caught a Whelpling. One even got a Blue Undead Stone in their fight. Still, I’m ecstatic with my luck.
In my infinite wisdom, I decided to see if it was snowing in Storm Peaks. My Real ID friends know this region as the bane of my existence. Well, I didn’t even get to think about whether it was snowing (which it wasn’t). As I hit the zone there was a pet icon. I muttered about getting screwed by phasing, but flew down into the Drake pool in Valkyrion just the same. No phasing! Hot diggity. I swear I have never been so happy to see a cockroach in my life…
I know I’ll eventually get the Fox Kit, but I’m just happy as pie to have that achievement out of the way. Odd coming from me, the guy who normally doesn’t care much for such things…but this consumed me like that little gold ring in Mordor.
I did go looking for snow just the same before logging off again, and didn’t find any. What I did find, was three other critters out and about in the zone. So this suggests to me that if you have no luck with snow, it would seem you can still actually tame something in Storm Peaks after a restart. There’s no bountiful amount, but at least there’s something. It’s my damn duty to share this info to anyone who might be suffering like I did until this morning…
Yay! Grats on that Whelpling AND the achievement! Here’s hoping for snow in Storm Peak sometime soon.
Actually, the day was pretty good. I snagged a few more rares (and lots two battles involving two more) putting me at 45 caught, and I knocked off the achievement to tame a pet in each Kalimdor zone. I think I also caught all the Mount Hyjal pets save for the Wisp.
Congratulations! That is the one that still eludes me…was thinking today would be a good day but alas real life doesn’t include virtual one…
Yeah, I foresee that scenario soon too, so I suppose I should be thankful for what I got today.
Grats on the whelpling! Nicely done with the timing on the reset.
I’m still trying to get mine. I keep telling my self it’s no hurry untill summer time hits and I can get my Qiraji Guardling, as I won’t get the meta achivement before then anyway….but it doesn’t really helt. That whelpling still annoyes me like crazy when I think about it. >.<
Worst thing is I see them every time I fly over the zone, but then CRZ happen and when I get there they are all gone… -.-
Yeah, don’t even get me started on CRZ’s….lol.
I got here from Navi’s site and just had to leave a comment…. STORM PEAKS IS INFURIATING! There was much cursing before I finally got that cheeve. I didn’t even care about the silly fox, I just wanted any pet at all… and they would always disappear when I got close. Would have been so much better had they not been there at all, haha.
I know! I was the EXACT same way…didn’t care about the Fox. Just wanted a pet. ANY pet. Stupid CRZ and phasing…