Taking A Break

Due to some unexpected real life events, I won't be writing or playing much.

Happy New Year

Arcturius

By request, here are pictures of the new Spirit Beast.

You will be mine. Oh yes, you WILL be mine.....

*** I found him on July 20, 2010
I named him BEAROSMITH

Rak'Shiri

She is level 80 now.

I'm not so sure I want to release her when I find that new Spirit Beast.....

Don't Tell The Hunters We Did This ....

My level 26 mage was out helping a level 18 friend level when we decided to see if Humar the Pridelord was up.

He was !

How exciting to see him live and in his habitat. Just one issue. Humar was never around when any of my hunters were looking for him so my mage was out for revenge! But could she handle a level 23 rare elite?
I guess Humar was smarter than we thought. He saw us and pounced. Before we got a chance to clear the area. I focused on him while my friend defended me from all the other cats that came running.

Sorry Humar, it just had to be done.....

No Luck Yet

Spent a few hours looking for the new Spirit Beast. No luck yet.
Other hunters in the same area but I was the only Horde.

I am loving the new Teleport To Dungeon option. I can get pulled in, run a dungeon and then by the Power of Greyskull, wind up in the exact same spot I started back in Grizzly Hills.

New Patch today

Been trying to log in for hours... not because I'm anxious to try the new 5 mans or to explore the new content but because there is a new Spirit Beast!!!!

Unfortunately, Rak'Shiri is going to be the one set free once I find the bear. It's nothing personal, I just don't have any other choices.

My dragonhawk was my first pet and he has been quite faithful. And I need Montecore just in case I ever get the crazy idea to play as MM or Surv.......

I'll post updates as the hunt begins.

A New Guild

I was invited to join a new guild. A BIG guild. A very good guild.

The second most progressed Horde guild on the server.

I am honored and humbled.

I accepted.

New Server, New Name

Just wanted to post a quick note and state that I am loving my new server. People are helpful and friendly, rarely any abuse in trade channels or otherwise.
I'm enjoying the game much more in general. The new guild is small but we are working on recruiting. My new name is common, many of them at lvl 80 scattered around. I feel confident I can only be found if I want to be.
Goodbye stress, hello fun.

The Rare Pet Collection Gets Another

The night of September 7 I found myself in Winterspring looking for a druid for my lvl 60 Hunter quest.
I decided to look around and see if Rak'Shiri was by any chance wandering about.

Hopped on over to the Rock only to see an Ally girl doing her quest with Shy Rotem. Damn !! I could've nabbed her and the Ally could've done her quest again. Disappointed I turned around to hop away on my raptor and go look for the druid....... and who's that? Walking behind that cave???
I could not belive in less than 10 minutes of looking, I had Rak !

My stable now consists of my very first pet at level 10, Pyros
Echeyachee, renamed Montecore tamed at lvl 16
Loque'nahak - Matthiessen
Gondria - Lucretia
and now Rak'Shiri

Blizz better not come out with any more Spirit Beasts because I really don't have a stable slot now!

For the record, I don't like Skoll ad will not be persuing him.

Don't help me, I won't help you

There I was, on my own, off to kill a boss and loot his head. I had just done the quest on another toon on another server so I knew exactly where both spawn points were for the boss.

I dashed through the cave and saw a group with their high level tank friend standing on one spawn point. Clearly, the boss was at the OTHER spawn point. I ran through their group, jumped off the cliff they were standing on and made my way through a narrow corridor. There was the boss, on a cliff above me. Ha ! I fired up at him and let him come down to me. He brought some friends and as he died, so did I.

I wisped my way as quickly as possible back to my corpse to loot the head I had rightfully earned. As I ran through the other group I see "Can we join your group so we can loot the head?"

I didn't bother to reply. I killed the boss on my own, the head was mine. I didn't need a high level tank to help me and I didn't recall that group asking ME if I wanted to join them when they thought they were standing in the correct spot.

Remember, poor planning on your part does not necessitate an emergency on mine....

Cataclysm

http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=92919.0

Gotcha you little spectral vixen !!!

Since Sunday night I've been seriously pursuing the tame of Gondria. I've loaded NPC Scan onto the computer to alert me to her presence. I've memorized five of her spawn points and have a system for camping all of them.
I was about 14 hours total into my camp for her last night when it was time to switch spawn points and begin a new camp...
As I flew over to a point, the NPC Scan alerted and I nearly jumped out of my skin.

There she was, GONDRIA - merrily strolling along right below me! (77,68)

I froze, OMG, what do I do? I dismounted from my dragonhawk in mid flight and crashed to the ground. I aimed an ice trap at her and secured her. Abandoned my current pet, a frost leopard whom was temporary anyways and began my tame.

She busted out of her ice block and leaped forward at least 10 yards and smacked me. No worries, the tame continued.

The little red hearts wound down, the yellow spiral went up and there was one very unhappy captured Spirit Beast.

I could barely see her against the snow! I renamed her immediately, an ode to my favorite Sisters of Mercy song and we posed for pictures.

Now Matthissen has a sister!

No More Worgen Combat Pet

Apparently Blizzard has hotfixed the NPC so that he can no longer be tamed, stating that they never intended players to have a humanoid pet.

Players who have already tamed Garwal will find that they have no talents or abilities for him, nor can they feed or buff him rendering him effectively useless except as a vanity pet.

Expect him to be removed even as a vanity pet soon.

Worgen pet

So, here's the deal. There is a worgen that can be tamed and made a pet if:
A) you haven't done the quest/gotten rid of the disguise
B) you have timing and patiece
C) you have Wyvren Sting (SV) or a druid friend

Well, the only qualification I have is a druid friend so I am S.O.L.. As much as it broke my heart, I knew if I couldn't have him, I wanted my buddy to do it. He has been a tremendous help to me in the past and I knew of no better way to say thank you than to offer up all the advice I could and help him get this awesome awesome pet.

It took him around 45 minutes of trying to get the timing just right.
He did it and here is his new pet

Tame A Worgen

But do it quick before Blizz nerfs it!

http://www.maniasarcania.com/2009/07/04/pet-worgen/

Godspeed Billy

Having a bank alt named Billy Mays just doesn't seem funny anymore. I don't think he'll be pitching his wares on the trade channel again.

RIP Billy
June 28, 2009

Gondria, where are you?

I've started a casual camp for Gondria - nothing like the intense determination I had when camping for Loque.
I'd like to add Gondria to my stable but will not lose sleep over not being able to find her.

One hour in and no sightings..........

Three hours in and I've gone off to do other things.......

Changes are heading our way!

Hunters

• Aspect of the Cheetah: Can now be learned at level 16.
• Deterrence now has a new visual spell effect.
• The time that traps will exist in the world after being put down has been reduced to 30 seconds, down from 1 minute.
• Traps now have separate 30 second cooldown categories: Fire (Immolation Trap, Explosive Trap and Black Arrow), Frost (Freezing Trap, Frost Trap) and Nature (Snake Trap). A hunter can have one trap of each category placed at one time.
• Talents
• Beast Mastery
• Catlike Reflexes now also reduces the cooldown of your Kill Command ability by 10/20/30 seconds.
• Survival
• Entrapment: This talent no longer works with Immolation Trap or Explosive Trap.
• Lock and Load: Now has a 22 second cooldown. The Lock and Load effect cannot be obtained on targets immune to snare effects when Frost Trap is used.
• Pets
• Roar of Sacrifice: Redesigned. This ability can now be used on any friendly target to make that target immune to critical strikes, but the Hunter pet takes 20% of all damage taken by that friendly target. Cooldown increased to 2 minutes.

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Pets

I set Tecumseh free today so that she may return to her original hunting grounds in Stranglethorn Vale. She'll most likely assume her original name of Bag'thera.



I then went to a far off land known as Un'goro Crater and tamed a Venomhide Ravasaur just in case I decide to dual spec....

I have a rogue also

She occasionally comes out to play with her dear friend Tiriana.

Today we were stealthing around in the Basin looking for mining nodes to up my skill.

We were also checking spawn points for a certain Death Star kitty just, ya know...in case.

So, I spied a node and went sprinting for it.

I mined it and it stayed for a few seconds as three other players swarmed it.

One lvl 78 horde immediately threw his duel flag on me as I laughed... the DK flew away, the Ally thought the horde took the node and flagged. Those two go at it and Tir jumps in and kills them both.

It was funny as hell!

I got the node and the maxxed out mining skill !

450 FTW

Powned by a level 71 in stealth!

We Love Be Imba!

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Hunter Changes in Patch

Hunters who are engineers can Track Mechanicals. While this is nice and all, what we're eventually hoping for is that hunters who are engineers can hop on their mechano-hog and enter "Silent Mode", making the vehicle and rider silent and untrackable.

Hunters who are herbalists can Track Plants, which will be wicked for tracking resto druids in battlegrounds. Still, we won't be able to actually kill them at all, but at least we'll know where they're hiding.

Hunters who are double-gatherers can Track Phat Loot, which causes all mobs to drop nothing but gold instead of worthless gray and greenie items.

Improved Pathfinding – increases the bonus to Pathfinding by 1/2/3/4/5%.

New Survivalist talent, QQPally – allows the hunter to equip maces, both 1h and 2h. The third-to-last bastion of non-hunter loot is broken! Plate armor and shields, watch your backs, baby.

New Marksman talent, Venomous Tips – allows the hunter to envenom his bullets and arrows by using rogue-poisons on his ammo pouch and quiver. Letting hunters use Crippling Poison is just the perfect solution to most hunter-issues in arenas. Bravo!

Consciousness Swap – the new 51-point Beastmastery talent, allows the hunter and pet to exchange brains. The "hunter" becomes controlled by the game, maximizing DPS by properly implementing a predetermined shot rotation, while the player becomes the "pet", using all the pet-skills and spells as he sees fit.

Minefield – the new 41-point Survivalist talent, allows the hunter to place up to five untriggered traps, of any flavor and combination, at one time. When one trap is triggered, the hunter can immediately set another trap. (You can stop drooling now.)

Howitzer – the new 51-point Marksman talent, allows the hunter to equip the new "rocket launcher" weapons. Because of the weight of the things, the Howitzer-spec'd hunter cannot wear any armor heavier than leather.

New passive talent available to Beastmastery hunters, Spirit Beast Taming Supremacy – any person who attacks a hunter while taming a Spirit Beast is immediately killed, their account suspended for twenty-four hours, and their credit card charged $15.

And the show-stopper that's better than dual specs:

Hunter-pets get their own Character pane, allowing the hunter to equip the pet in leather gear and fist-weapons. All socket remain active, all enchants still possible. You want a tank-pet then by-Elune build yourself one! You want to make your Rhino a DPS-pet, then rock the house! Basically, we hunters will be rolling on Pet-Spec and Off-Pet-Spec leather gear until we laugh ourselves into comas. We can't wait!

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Reprinted from Big Red Kitty, we love you Daniel!
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Happy April 1, fools

BIG RED KITTY

Our friend and mentor, Daniel "Big Red Kitty" has decided to step away from WoW for awhile so he can dedicate himself to his family.
/applaud!
Please join this thread to convince Blizzard to acknowledge our friend in game.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=16019894052&sid=1

We'll miss you Daniel but we will be here when you want to return!

xoxo,
Chaaron and Matty

Naxx and The Spirit Beast

We maintained a steady third place on the deeps chart. I'd have loved to be number one but a solid third is just fine for us casual raiders.
Matty kicked some ass and did dps I was proud of.

We took out Maexxna, even though the Torn Web Wrapping we wanted did not drop.



We moved on to The Military Quarter and wrapped up the evening with Patchwerk.




We tried unsuccessfully to take down Gluth. It was my and Matty's first time and we just couldn't get the hang of trying to kite the Zombie Chows around and keeping them away from Gluth. Maybe next time.

Thanks to our guildmates for the invite to Naxx, hope to try again one night soon!

Kill Shot Crit for 9151

I'm still a bit new with understanding crit numbers and trying to get the highest crit and highest hit rating possible. I refuse to respec or dual spec and will always have Loque'nahak as my pet.
I think a Kill Shot crttting for 9151 is pretty damn good though !

Tiriana is a Whelp

I felt a bit guilty as I offered my dear friend Tiriana a piece of Magic Eater. I knew something would happen to her as she took it without question and sat down and nommed it.
She was so trusting, so innocent - and then *poof* she was an Emerald Whelpling!
She gleefully glided around, spun in circles and darted about. I cackled like an undead knowing it was temporary and no harm would actually befall my friend.
She was a whelpling for 30 seconds but the memory will last much longer!
We love you Tir !!!

When Fantasy Meets Reality

March 17 is my IRL wedding anniversary.
My beloved decided to say this in a guild raid (orange text)
And then we posed for some in game wedding pictures-



Happy 5th Anniversary to my beloved bear butt!

Matty and I love you baby

Mount Farming

Matty helps to down Anzu every single day

My new ride

We downed the Infinite Corruptor with less than a minute to spare! It was an incredible run.

Game Etiquette

Whatever happened to manners? I'm sure I'm not the only one who experiences in-game rudeness. Rude behavior may be a bit harsh, perhaps it is best to state that sometimes other players just don't think before they act.

How about we establish some general in game rules of etiquette to follow? It's pretty basic stuff but here is what would make me a lot happier and a lot less stressed-

• If you want to whisper hello in game, that's fine, I love when my friends come on line and greet me.
• If you want to ask me some long winded question, please check to see if I am in a dungeon, raid or otherwise concentration required situation.
• If I am in a raid, please do not whisper me 4 sentences and expect a reply. A quick, "Have question, reply when you can." will do just fine.

By "random player" I am referring to someone who is not in my guild, not on my friends list and never have played with before:

• If you're a random player, please do not whisper me with a "What's your dps?"
• If you're someone I do not know, I'm not sharing my stats with you. Go to the Armory and look it up if you have to know.
• If you're a random player, please do not whisper me insults about my pet. I chose him, I play with him, I pay for my Warcraft account therefore I can play the game however I want to.
• Please do not whisper me and ask me for gold. I earned mine, go earn yours.

I had a lvl 66 recently come up to me on the zeppelin platform and demand I help him quest in Northland (yes, he said Northland) because he needed gear, money and experience and I was headed there also.

Whatever happened to people being polite and gracious? Just because this is a game which allows one to hide behind a computer does not mean basic etiquette no longer applies.

We Had A Great Night!

Matty and I kicked some ass in Wintergrasp, winning for the Horde.
Then we ran heroic Violet Hold with our guild.
Then heroic Gun Drak, then Utgarde Pinnacle and then finished the night off with a timed run through the Culling of Strat which resulted in ME getting a bronze drake mount :)
Thank you to my guildmates, I love you guys and thank you to my beautiful pet for always doing his best.

A Story From My Archives

Back in December I'd been camping Loque with no luck. I'd chosen one spawn point and I'd stay there.

I was on my fourth hour of standing on the same rock overlooking Hardknuckles when an Alliance NE hunter dropped by and stood directly on top of my Horde hunter. I'd encountered plenty of hunters in my camping hours, one in particular is always friendly and we play emote games together. Others, not so much.

This NE hunter, named Princofegypt played a cruel but clever trick on me. I was minding my own business spamming my /tar Loque when it picked something up. I squinted at the portrait on my screen and thought "What the heck is THAT?"

This NE hunter actually changed the name of his tamed hound to "Loquenahak" while he was standing on top of me then ran out to the collection of non aggressive Hardknuckles, put the pet on "stay" and ran back to stand on top of me again.

My macro picked up his pet every time and when I tried to mouse over the yellow dots on my mini map, once again, picked up his hound.

I think we should just play fair and not be douchebags to each other. Was it really necessary to do this?

As a side note, a few weeks later, when I was successful in taming the elusive Spirit Beast, the above mentioned player was the first on the scene, landing in just enough time to watch me complete my tame and earn my new pet.

He then switched over to his Horde hunter to talk to me in whispers. After I berated him with a round of "karma is a bitch" type responses, I was kind enough to answer his questions.

After all, karma IS a bitch!

Who Is Loque'nahak? He is NOT a cat, he is a Spirit Beast

Loque'nahak is an extremely rare level 76 elite spirit beast found in the Sholazar Basin. He requires the 51 point Beast Mastery talent in order to tame, and is the only tameable creature of its kind. He is the mate of Har'koa

Har'koa is one of the Loa goddesses of the Drakkari, taking the form of a great Snow leopard.
Her children were twisted against her and became the Cursed Offspring of Har'koa. She swears revenge on her captors. Her mate is Loque'nahak, who wanders far from home.

Spirit beasts are the embodied spirits of the natural world. Spirit beasts appear like regular animals, but bear glowing auras.

Waiting. . .

Here we are sitting and waiting for a creature that may or may not appear

the PTR

The patch took 59:12 to download.
Upon entering for the first time I received a message that my name was flagged and needed to be changed! Hmmm, well okay. Changed my name to well, my name and arrived in Dalaran. With no pet. I whistled for Matty and was told "You cannot possess an exotic creature" WHAAAAAAAA !!!
Oh yeah, I had to respec my points. I put my points where they belonged and whistled for Matty.
He came trotting to my side.
I explained to him I was going to look for a friend of his and he had to stay in the stable. He was not pleased.
We ran to the stablemaster where Matty begrudgingly got in and Tecumseh (Bag'thera) happily jumped out to accompnay me on my journey.
I flew to the coords BRK specified and sat. Another hunter came along and we briefly chatted. I grew bored quickly.
This isn't the same as the hunt for Loque. Loque is so much cooler than Gondria and Loque was the first Spirit Beast.
I may swing by now and then to see if this new creature appears but my heart belongs to Matty.

Waiting for our turn

Loque and I are patiently waiting for our turn on the PTR. We've spent about 90 minutes so far downloading all the necessary applications and patches for the PTR.

We'll let you know how it goes......

GONDRIA

A New Spirit Beast Family Member !

As reported on BRK and the wow forums

http://www.wowhead.com/?forums&topic=81280&p=870100

Reprint of a Great Story

As told to WoW Insider -
When AFK attacks

by Matthew Rossi

Feb 8th, 2009

My wife is a hunter. I don't say plays a hunter because that might give you the idea that she's playing and oh heck no. She's not playing. She's very very serious about taming rare or unique skins of pets, to the point where I find myself leveling a second shaman for the express purpose of using heroism to tame a spectral lupine.

The other day, she completed her most recent mission, which was to tame the attractive fellow in the picture. As you might expect, there were other hunters trying to accomplish it, so we ended up with a two day marathon of sleeplessness, calls from work asking me to check the zone to make sure he hadn't spawned, a mix-up with a hunter who followed her around dropping flares at her feet while she wasn't shadowmelded, and other exciting (and not so exciting) adventures.

The other day while I was gleefully stealing baby wolvar from the still-cooling embrace of their mothers because a walrus paid me to, I heard a strangled gasp from my wife over at her computer. Somewhat distracted by wrangling bereaved pups, I at first didn't process what "I got the spirit beast" meant, especially since she gasped it out as one word. Eventually, of course, the congratulations started (in my happiness that I wouldn't have to camp Shol... er, I mean for her, yes, of course I mean for her success) and then I saw on her screen that orc hunter she'd mentioned before.

He was AFK.

In fact, my wife said, she'd actually tamed the mob out from under him. He had landed, done his usual drop a flare at her feet routine, then after a while (she was busily killing all the mobs in the area around the spawn point, as is her way) he went AFK.

Five minutes later Loque'nahak spawned inside his body. One second there was a hunter sitting there, the next second she couldn't even see him anymore, just Loque. A frenzied execution of key strokes later, Loque was tagged (you want to tag him so that someone doesn't come along and decide to kill him for the achievement) and lured into a trap for proper taming.

This entire time, the AFK hunter remained AFK. He was still AFK, in fact, when I arrived on the scene to examine the pet who had been the source of all this effort. As you might expect by the fact that I don't play a hunter and can't get one past 31, I'm usually more baffled than anything by pets, but I have to give Loque credit for having one heck of an impressive skin. He sounds like the Darth Vader of cats when he attacks, too. As we were standing around discussing what to name it (I still say Pellinore is a good name for a beast she spent this much time looking for) the orc hunter finally came back from being AFK, and was presented with the sight of the NE hunter he'd been dropping flares at for two days... the one he knew didn't have a pet when he left... standing there with Loque. The fact that the pet didn't have a name probably would have clued him in too.

To his credit he wasn't the kind of unpleasant you can so often see in these situations. He didn't /spit or any of that, he mostly just walked around Loque and made gestures that Blizzard has rendered unintelligible. We understood why he might have been upset, after all, but it wasn't like either of us went to his house and made him go get a sandwich either. My wife then proceeded to cycle between extreme glee at having finally tamed the spirit beast, and extreme guilt at having tamed it while that other hunter was AFK. Again, I'm fairly certain I don't have telepathic "You gotta have a sandwich" powers but if I do, sorry about that.

So now I come to you, gentle readers. What would you have done? Waited for the other guy to come back from AFK and get the thing you spent multiple days farming for? Or tame and be damned? You can extend this out to nodes or quest mobs if you like. I assume an AFK player is essentially in a 'you snooze, you lose' penalty box, myself. Sometimes if I see one getting beaten on I'll pull the mobs off to be nice, but that's basically it. Am I callous? Heartless? Or is it just common sense?

Pet Emotes !

PetEmote 1.6.1 is out now and brings about a whole bunch of random Spirit Beast emotes. Expectantly it took longer than I announced.

• Emotes for Spirit Beasts have been added. Actually these are just a copy of cat emotes, but I threw some of them out. So spirit beasts are cats which are not so… cute.
• PetEmote now also works with the Death Knight’s Ghouls, even though there are no random emotes for ghouls at the moment. Please keep in mind, that ghouls are not real pets as long as you don’t push their futile life with the talent Master of Ghouls. Otherwise, PetEmote will not detect your ghoul.
  
• The random emote frequency has been slightly reduced.
• The combat emote frequency has been considerably increased.
• A bug has been fixed which triggered random emotes directly after dismounting or summoning the pet.
• The Editor’s menu has been changed perspicuously. I hope it will be much easier to understand and give a clearer view over a huge amount of configurations.
• Using the Editor, you can now create configurations for ghouls and spirit beasts.

Vault

If you must see the numbers . . . . . .

How's his dps ?

Well, if you must know, we came in sixth in vault.
I'll take sixth and be proud of it!

Black Temple

He's downed Illidan also

The Amphitheater

Matty is victorious!

Taming the Spirit Beast

I've spent every day since the first week of December standing in the same spot in Sholazar Basin. I saw Loque dead once, skinned him and received the cloak. Nice trophy but I'd rather have the pet!

I've spent up to 6 hours at a time in the same spot over the past several weeks. I log out every night in SB, in the same spot.

Jan 29 was my lucky day! I was running some errands around town and swung by Baja Fresh for some lunch. Got home, unwrapped my burrito, took a big bite and logged in to the game.

As I was logging in, my husband was trying to reach me via voice chat.

I logged in at 4:58 pm. I noticed my mini map first and a yellow dot where there isn't normally a yellow dot. I knew it was Loque. I didn't see him though! I hit my macro and sure enough, Loque was targeted! I actually tossed the burrito I was holding onto the table, scattering black beans and tried to stay calm. Loque was walking underneath me as I stood on a small hill (71,72).

I started yelling at my computer, "Not now, husband, not now!"

I was so excited I forgot what to do! Oh yeah.... abandon pet, abandon pet! I hit Loque with an ice trap and a gorilla started beating on me. I abandoned my tiger as Loque broke free of his ice trap. He too started hitting me but I had a tame on him. I watched my health drop as my tame wound down. Oh dear, was it all about to go horribly wrong?

And then a Death Knight came down from the skies. Was he going to kill my treasure? Then an Ally hunter swooped down, the same Ally hunter whom had been harassing me for days with his antics but it was all over. Loque was mine ! First thing I did was send him after that Hardknuckle! Next I spammed my guild with an all caps "LOQUE IS MINE"!

I answered my husband's chat request and just started yelling at him, "Come to Sholazar, come to Sholazar!" He of course thought I was nuts, thought something was wrong that was causing me to holler, then he realized what had happened and soon was by my side in his Swift Flight Form admiring my new pet!

I fed the Beast, posed for pictures and then renamed him, "Loki". I thought I had a solid plan, knew exactly what steps to take when I finally spotted the Beast - let me tell you I didn't remember not one step of my plan! It happened so fast and my heart was pounding so hard!

I renamed him soon after, I felt he deserved a strong name with meaning. He is now named "Matthiessen" in honor of Peter Matthiessen, the author who spent two months tracking the elusive Snow Leopard in the Himalayas.

My advice for hunters still hoping - it WILL happen to you also, pick one spawn point and stay there. This was the third time Loque was sighted at this spot at around 5:00 pm. Be patient and you shall be rewarded!

I am a believer in karma so now whenever I attempt to obtain a rare item (such as the reins of the ravenlord mount) I go to Baja Fresh for lunch! It hasn't worked again but no harm in trying!