As I’d previously mentioned in a comment somewhere on this site, there is a mod available that should greatly help in your search for Gondria, Loque’nahak, or any other rares you may be after. My buddy Blaquespell had alerted me to a mod which he found that makes searching for rare mobs quite a bit easier. He’s been casually trying to hunt down the elusive Time-Lost Proto Drake in the Storm Peaks, and this addon has been helpful for him (even though he hasn’t been lucky enough to find it yet).
The mod is called NPCScan, and is available for download off of WoWInterface. The NPCScan addon pretty much replaces a /target macro, and automates the task of finding rare spawns. It automatically scans the area for any rare mobs that you haven’t encountered, and targets them without the need to mash a macro. Plus, NPCScan has the same range as a targeting macro.
While the addon is active, it will automatically scan while you’re exploring an area and alert you when a rare spawn is found. Basically, it detects mobs that aren’t stored within your game cache. The catch is, once a rare mob is located it will no longer alert you to it unless you clear your cache. Clearing your cache is an easy process and is completely safe.
To clear your cache, just navigate to your World of Warcraft folder, open it and delete the Cache directory.
On a Windows machine: C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Cache
On a Mac: Macintosh HD\Applications\World of Warcraft\Cache
The process is worry-free, because your cache directory gets automatically rebuilt upon your next login. If you were to say, happen upon Loque’nahak’s corpse, you’d need to clear your cache after logging. This would ensure that NPCScan would alert you next time Loque’nahak was spawned.
NPCScan will also provide a “cache warning” when you log in. If any of the listed mobs are ones you’re still searching for, then you will need to follow the steps to clear your cache.
The Catch: Hunters Read This!
Since NPCScan cannot differentiate between tamed rares and rares yet to be tamed, it will go off if a nearby Hunter has tamed a rare spawn, like Gondria for example. By default, it does not account for rare tamable beasts. To fix this however is relatively easy.
The first thing you’ll need to do is get the NPC ID for the mob(s) you’re searching for. To do this, just search for the rare spawn in a database like Wowhead‘s. Once you find it, there will be a number at the end of the url in your address bar, which is the NPC ID.
Open up the NPCScan options menu by typing in, /npcscan. You’ll see a configuration screen with a list of rare spawns. To enter in a new one, just type the name and NPC ID at the bottom and hit the + icon. That’s all there is to it.
NPC IDs For Some Popular Rare Spawn Pets
- Gondria: 33776
- Loque’nahak: 32517
- King Krush: 32485
- Aotona: 32481
- Nuramoc: 20932
- Rak’shiri: 10200
- Sewer Beast: 3581
When NPCScan detects the rare spawn, it will alert you with an audible alarm, a targetable icon, a message in chat and flashing red borders around your screen. You’d have to be asleep to miss this. The small NPC icon and target frame can be repositioned on your screen by holding down ctrl and dragging it with your mouse.
There are many other options available for this great addon, but I suggest you download and install it to get a feel for things. Hopefully my explanation and short tutorial here will help get you started.
Lastly, here’s an updated map for Gondria’s spawn locations in Zul’Drak.
Good luck and Happy Huntering!
Related posts:
- Got Gondria?
- Introducing… Gondria, The New Spirit Beast
- Tips and Advice For Hunters Seeking Loque’nahak
- Oozeworm
- And You Thought Camping Loque’nahak Was Rough…
- Mousie, Tauren Beast Master
- I See Spirit Beasts
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Just a note, this thing worked for the first time tonight. I was doing some dailies in Icecrown and stumbled upon High Thane Jorfus. I dispatched him quickly and got the rare kill achievement.
Righteous. Thanks for tipping me off to this addon. I was playing with it some today and it rocks. It’s even better than Rare Finder, which is great because I can’t find a download link for it anymore.
I logged on for 2 minutes and there he was.. I almost forgot how to tame..
i know the feeling man lol,its like there he is after so long
Wow. That’s pretty lucky solkana. Which location?
Garwulf: 77.70, I only remembered Gondria was in patch 3.1 last night too. I had made it a plan to just log on every hour or so to do some quick patrols, 3rd login’s a charm! Less than 30min total spent on my hunt
Gondria Tammed
Location: 77,70
Time: 2.45AM (server time)
Server: Grim Batol
GL HF
I too just recently tamed him at 77,70. My story is here, http://dblbbl.com/content/gondria-tamed
While searching for Gondria I remembered this post, logged out, installed the addon, deleted my cache folder and… WoW broke… I recommend renaming the cache folder, as I am re-installing WoW as a result…
On a happy note, I tamed Aotona on the weekend, also have Loque’Nahak, just need King Krush now for the full Sholazar Set!
Now the question is has anyone done testing? Is he/she putting out the same damage numbers as Loque’Nahak?
Big thanks to HuntsmansLodge,I installed NPCScan after reading your write up on it and it done its job for me yesterday by finding Gondria at 62’62 at 15:35 on Nagrand EU-one of the great things about this add-on is that you can camp a spawn point even when you have to go /afk all you have to do is turn game volume up and do whatever you got to do in a different room or go outside for a smoke and you are still going to hear the alarm sound if kitty turns up,
Daftpunk 80 Troll Hunter
Hi!
Just managed to tame GONDRIA this morning (runtotem).
Was at 77,70. My other toon a DK was parked right above it (I have 2 accounts).
Got on my hunter, travelled to Zul drak and zappo!!! I’m a happy hunter now!!! Got both her (him?) and loque.
Best of luck to you all
Was hunting in ZD for Gondria and boom npcscan found Loque! Alarm when off and the Loque icon came up. I cursored over the “red” dot and it was identified as spirit beast. Started to fly towards it and it disappeared. Did’nt see another hunter with a tammed Gondria so kinda puzzled. Any ideas?
Valdiar,
It may have been that a Hunter had just hearthed, but prior to that had been standing there with his tamed Loque’nahak. At least that sounds somewhat likely.
Gondria Tamed and confirmed 66,78
ce jour 25/04/09 ais apprivoisé gondria en 68/77 a 13h15, merci beaucoup pour toutes vos info a toutes les personnes faisant parti ou pas du site .
I got mine WOOT by the stairs named her Garlic
Grats Azreel, spy and PMEL!
Thanks for sharing the coords and locations. Good job.
Just wanted to leave a note. I love your site very well done. NPCscan, very nice. Thanks for the info.
Also to offer a suggestion to all those hunters out there who, like me, gotta catch’em all. If you will pardon the cartoon verbage there. I am on Elune. I got Gondria at the 63,43 coordiantes on the map above. Nearly all of the hunters I have talked to on Elune that have it, got it in the same spot, or 77, 70. So if you want to camp I would suggest those two spots
ps. He blends in to the snow very well. So be sure to slow down and give a good look before zooming off.
Thanks for the compliments on the site Glitterstone, and I appreciate you sharing the tips on finding Gondria.
Cheers!
I’ve got today on Uldaman
The last i need is King krush
hallo
ich have a question^^im using npcscan now and i wut like to know if the hole area is scant (like all of zul drak) or is only the little spot wer my char is standing scant? sorry for my bad english thy for the answer^^
Confirmo : Zul Drak – 77,70 – Hoy 1 – 5 – 09 15:00H.
Server: los herrantes ( España ).
Gracias por su magnifico programa.
Cazando.
^^ hello
i got him today at 21:11pm at 77,70 at the server kult der verdammten ,after a loooong waiting time^^dont even know how many houers and dayes i spend but im real happy now thx everyon and sorry for my english ^^
I can recommend this add on – been searching for gondria for a couple of days now; it alerted me to gondria way before i noticed the yellow dot on the mini map. The targeting function is great as she isnt the easiest to spot. Found her by the trees just between the Har’koa alter and the grizzly border.
Happy hunting; finding and taming her is well worth the effort
i have been searching for gondria for numerous days now and i randomly woke up at 4:30am this morning so decided to log on and do a quick fly around ZD… and i found him! i was so amazed.. and as soon as i tried to tame.. it said Creature not tameable!!!! what happened? the guy before me on May 3 said he caught him.. idk what happened!? please fill me in if blizzard stopped this pet?
I randomly found Gondria around 10a EST on Agamaggon at 62,62. My wife saw the pet and wanted for her hunter so I had to hunt it for her. At 7:05a est today (just before servers went down) I found Gondria at 69,49. I had just installed NPCScan last night and was doing a quick circle and BAM there she was!!!
Joe, you have to be spec’d to tame exotic pets to be able to get Gondria!
BTW, you do NOT have to delete the cache folder, just the creaturecache.wdb file contray to what the mod dev states.
Thanks so much for the link! I found not only Gondria, but Loque both in less than an hour tops!
Thks for the tips helped a lot. By the way this addon didn’t work for me but I found Gondria very easyly at Warsong between 66,78 and 77,70. He was blinking, beautiful beast! Wish you all good luck it is a very amazing animal.
I just found Gondria 10:54 pm server time but it keeps telling me he’s untameable. I’m lvl 78 and I’ve been looking for him forever! What’s going on?? Can someone help me?
yea thanks Czardas lol i noobed it up.. my dual spec is BM but totally forgot so i killed him lol.. now gotta find him again but its harder then the first time lol.. but thank you
but i have noticed that hunting loque’nahak is much more difficult then hunting gondria… maybe because more people are in the basin.. not sure..
I found Gondria last night on Ursin, he was at the 77,70 coords about 12:00am server time, he is amazing. only thing i think is lacking is his spirit strike, really low on damage not sure how much it goes up from 77-80 but we will see.. still an amazing and beautiful tiger and well worth the hours of camping…=) jsut wish i could use him as Survival hehe
Found Gondria at 69,49 (Altar of Mam’toth)
@ 9:30 PM CST
On Moon Guard
I tamed gondria at 3:00 am server time at cords 66.78 on Gnomeragan. Its a nice looking pet now I have both spirit beasts
.. Happy Hunting…..
I tamed Gondria on 5/11/09 at 4:30am server Duskwood
good luck Hunters
Hi..
If i stand in Dalaran will the alert come if a pet spawns like gondria and Loque’nahak ?
or do i need to stay in Zul’ Drak to get the alert ? or do i need to stand at the right spawn place ?
Thanks for helping the sad Hunter
Found Gondria at 63,42 – NPCScan worked.
It’s a bit annoying that if an other hunter already tamed Gondria and walk around with the tamed beast in Dalaran, NPCScan still alert, it does not make a difference between tamed and untamed beasts
So we have to delete the createcache file again and again…
Just got Gondria on Tanaris at 3:50 am server time. NPCScan worked beautifully. I nearly had a heart attack when it targeted her. I had mapped out all of her spawn points on my map (I use Carbonite), and it found her at the 66, 78 location after I’d been flying around for about 20 minutes. She was a relatively easy tame, too, considering her epicness. Some of the devilsaurs are way more difficult. Anyway, I’m stoked that I got her, so thanks Huntsman’s Lodge and NPCScan!
Ash,
Grats on Gondria, and you’re welcome.
Gondria tamed at 3:02P server time around 77, 70, on Moon Guard after four days of searching. Surprised I did not die ‘cuz I just drop trap and tamed like a stupid fool, without clearing the bears around. She went right to work defending.
Just an FYI, I had been searching that location every few hours; another hunter had found a corpse of her at 4AM server, and alerted me to be on the lookout for a respawn. I hope that helps.
Yo I Can Find It ANYWHERE!!!! AnyOne Know The Spawn Time Or Idk lol Can Anyone Please Help Me
XRetribution,
I suggest just reading through many of the comments posted by Hunters who have tamed him.
More here: http://huntsmanslodge.com/1314/introducing-gondria-the-new-spirit-beast.htm
Good luck!
Has there been an update to this mod at all? It seems to me that since the patch 3.1.2 I’m not finding any rares, even when I have pratically run over them!
And yes, I do clear my cache…
Found and tamed Gondria at location 77,70 around 3:45 am this morning on server Misha…ty so much for the helpful info.
After camping 77,70 for 2 days, unexpectedly just got Gondria at 61.7,62.5 which is the same as earlier reported 62,62. Server Barthilas, time 12:20pm. Called her Bagheera. Good Luck taming.
i couldn t tame for my lvl and i kill it it s give 23g and 20 frostwave and one finger =D
Last night i tamed her, was doing a quest in Zul’Drak and I had my beast tracking on and I saw a yellow dot. Made an ice/frost trap (30 seconds immoblile) and tamed her. Server Blade’s Edge and her name is Furball, after my own cat. Happy hunting/taming.
I have both Loque and Gondria. Although I think Gondria is absolutely beautiful, she doesn’t make noise. Loques roars and growls are awesome. He is a great pet, does good damage and keeps you entertained.
I have also found that having Gondria out is not worth the PSSTSPAM I get.
Both spirit beasts put out the same damage, as far as I can tell, the differences are cosmetic.
I love these pets. They make BeastMistress very much worth speccing for.
As a 77 hunter for the moment with my slow mount, I figured I didnt have much of a chance to tame Gondria. I started lookin from time to time for Loq, Aotona and Gondria in their spawn points, After 2 days I was flying over the ones in Zul Drak and off went my NPCcsan alert for Gondria. My heart rate quickly went up and I looked on the ground for it, luckily I saw it and dropped down fairly close to it, abandoned my wasp pet, dropped a freeze trap and started the taming process. This was the slowest tame ever it seemed, lol. Then bam… Gondria was mine!!!!! Spawn point was 69 49
My toon is Jonmcslain and I named her Sarahplayin.. The political satire if great, I may change it later with a scroll but I hade some players get a good laugh. I now have 2 rares Gondria and Nuromoc, which is also a very cool pet.
Good Luck to all in their hunts!!
Grats on Gondria Jon!
Nice names btw.
Guys, i downloaded it, extracted it, now how do i install it?
Drag it into your C:/Program Files/World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns/ folder and that’s it.
To access it in-game, just type: /npcscan
Well well.. i got Gondria today by luck as i expected.
:D
I could get help by my friends nut i wanted to do it alone as it may turn to be endless camping..
So heres my way:
I placed my high lvl chars in the different spawn locations 63.43,69.49,62.62,66.78,77.70 !
Fortunately for me yea i have 5 high level chars;p
Anw as i placed them there and was reloging to different chars once and a while , but had no success for a half day.
I gathered several info from different forums , downloaded the addon NPCSCAN and tried again the next day. I was patroling with my pala for an hour trying to find any rare mobs in Zuldrak to see if the addon works. I got bored and logged on another char who was placed at 63.43, and i just wanted to go and reveal the rest of his map so i just headed to 69.79 only part which was unrevealed;ppp
BOOM the addon SPOKE : GONDRIA FOUND ! looked down and there is was! Got nervous for a while till i log on my hunter and run there with my freaking 60% mount! Run my ass there asap and YES still there , i tamed it , the end of camping times for now
Ty for the locations above helped a lot
The Maelstrom EU at approximately 16:00 pm
Grats Chris!
I’ve found that NPCScan works almost too well. On my level 74 Druid it’s gone off a few times, but without Cold Weather Flying I’d been having a tough time finding them. It’s target radius is huuuge.
Good job though and thanks for the comment.
haha it’s awesome..especially when i walk down the dalaran if a hunter pass me by walking gondria and loque all i have to do is hunter mark them and they’re mine buahahahah
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I have Silver Dragon addon instead of this one. It still needs the cache to be cleared but when I do, it is recreated with all the creatures still in the cache.
Can anyone help me please? Am I doing anything wrong? And yes, I am closing WoW before I clear the cache.
Thanks for any help.
Ivan, maybe this will help: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info6606-SilverDragon.html
hello to everyone!!
i’ve found immediatly Gondria…but he is green color…i can’t attack or tame it!i’m specced in Beast Mastery and i am level 80 but i don’t know what is the problem…he have even 1/1 healt and 0 armor and 0 attack…can somebody help me?
Hmmm… not sure I can help you with that one Rosdill. I’m kind of stumped.
I am looking for ages for Gondria, i killed it before not knowing that i realy want this Rare pet. But i fly arround now but it doesnt show. Does it have to to do something that i killed it. I use NPCScan and cleared cache
You’re probably just unlucky now Supergirl. It’s that rare spawn exotic pet bad karma. You killed him once, so now he’s avoiding you.
At 10:40pm Realm Time on Deathwing server I found him after 2 days of lightly searching. He was at the 77,70 location. I highly recommend NPCScan!!!! Without it I doubt this tame would have been possible.
whats the range on NPCSCAN
The range on NPC Scan is normal range as a /target macro
I guess I’m pretty lucky, because I found and tamed Gondria then flew to Sholozar..killed a few things and about 20 min later found/tamed Loque’nahak!
Lol i found that NPC on Wowoptimus private server! Super Fun!
I have found her twice and both times when I hit the tame icon it pops up not tame able?
I used freeze trap the second time but still the same thing any suggestions.
I have been able to tame Terror Spinner.
@Outpost
I know this seems silly, but do you have the talent in the BM tree called Beast Mastery? Gondria is exotic so you have to have that in order to tame her. =)
I was doing a quest, when i said to my slef ” il go loking for gondria one patrol them stop and there it was at my second stop i got so happy i was like OMFG OMFG OMFG!!! then i remeberd WHERE THE F*CK IS TAME PET :S
WHERE I INTALL THE SHIT OF NCP SCAN?