Since I have yet to tame him, I am by no means offering a blueprint for success. However, after spending probably a collective 30-35 hours (at least) looking for him, I have a few pieces of advice that may help others.
Update: With so many high level Hunters after Loque, new information is filtering in daily it seems. Most notably (and unfortunate) are the addition of new spawn locations. From what I’ve been reading, it appears now that there are a minimum of 7 spawn locations for Loque’nahak.
- Loque’nahak spawns in at least 7 known points across Sholazar Basin. (see map)
- Before seeking him, wait until level 77 so that you can fly around the basin instead of riding a ground mount.
- He is on a 6 hour spawn timer.
- He is only up for approximately 10 minutes once he spawns (I’m assuming this has to do with his transition between the physical and spiritual worlds… I dunno).
- He will probably not last 2 minutes once spawned before he is ether killed or tamed. I am on a medium population server and it is crazy busy in the basin.
- Once he is killed, it will take approximately 20 minutes for his corpse to disappear. It is believed that the 6 hour timer starts at the moment of his despawn.
- If you find his corpse and are a skinner, have at him. Skinning him results in a blue cape drop.
- Level to 77 so that you can get Cold Weather Flying. This makes things so much easier.
- If you are a skinner I suggest camping him west of The Nesingwary Camp. Even if you don’t get Loque, you will get rich.
- Don’t try to find him until you can fly.
- The east and south spawn areas are also good places for skinning, and they are pretty close together. You can grind gorillas while you pat back and forth between the two points looking for him. The downside is, this place is usually teeming with other players. Lots of competition.
- To cut down on travel time, you can sit atop The Glimmering Pillar and use Eagle Eye to scout the two northern spawn locations. This obviously requires a flying mount. This also may be contingent upon game settings as well. The downside is, the precious several seconds required to fly down to him may be long enough for someone else to reach him first. It still can be helpful to rule out those two locations before heading off to another.
- If you have a friend who can help you, have them sit at the western location. Set your hearth to the Nesingwary Camp. No matter where you are, if he should spawn there you could get to him in just over 30 seconds.
- Get an addon called RareFinder. It sounds an alert and displays a message on your screen if you target or mouse over a rare. After days upon days of looking you can start to fall asleep at the wheel. This helps prevent that.
- Did I mention you should wait until you can fly before trying to find him.
Lastly, make sure you are using a target macro. I use the following:
/target loque
/target king krush
/target aotona
Spam it while you are flying around and it will target any of the rares in the area. There are claims that only one rare can be present in Sholazar Basin at a given time. However, I have read stories to the contrary. It’s also said that their spawn timers are related. I don’t know whether any of this is true or not, but it’s a good macro to use. If you’re looking to tame King Krush also, like I am, then defnitely use it.
I’ll update this if I can think of anything else. Ultimately, taming Loque’nahak is pure luck. It’s a perfect example of being in the right place at the right time.
Hopefully my right place and right time is coming soon. 
Related posts:
- Loque’nahak Q&A
- Hunt For The Elusive Spirit Beast: Day Four
- The Patrol For Loque’nahak
- Chasing My Losses: Day Five
- This Ought To Scatter The Troops Somewhat
- Got Gondria?
- Garwulf’s checklist
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Well, recently i found him near Nesingwary Camp.
Thought: Wow, this pet looks awesome. And it is a rare elite.
But since i am a Warlock i had to kill him.
And did i mention i am a skinner to, so i skinned him as well?
Thanks for these infos ! I’ll post your map on my blog.
With credit of course.
Glad you liked the map Sellia. I wanted to make a user-friendly and reliable map for Loque’s locations. Good luck with the hunt.
Hope your right, I just based my weekend off your spawn time
Thanks for the writeup here Garwulf, I hope to have acquired Loque any day now
Good luck to all those of you still looking to tame Loque. All I can say is, be patient. When she’s ready to be tamed, she’ll appear. That’s how it happened for me anyway.
cool looking cat, didnt have much dificulty getting it, but I was a little dissapointed. Its as small as most of the cats, but with a glowing face, and its special move -spirit strike- looks impressive, but only does 23-29 damage, and I am currently at lvl 79 with a 900 dps.
Like most pets, it is a shame to see it shrink so much after taming. However, it does look awesome… at least I think so. The roar is great too.
As for the sub-par DPS… I hear ya. They’re not that bad, but it’s a bummer that they’re not closer to the top for BM.
All in all though… a very cool pet.
a hunter tamed loque and within 10 secounds king krush apperd so no way are they link also 6 houre timer is untru it seems to differ from sever to server
I just want to say thank you for your guides I recently turned 80 and decided I wanted to hunt the spirit beast. So my first day I obviously looked around for Loque but nothing to much happened so I went to Skolls spot nothing same with the bear. So I finally ended up in Zul’drak and who did I see on the far east side of the map Gondria. Tamed no problem. So after that success I still wasn’t quite happy without Loque. I searched for 3 days (this being the third) and this morning about 6:00 a.m. I came up on the eagle spawn point the one furtherest north. When I was coming up on it I kept saying in my mind this is it hes gonna be here this is it. and sure enough my NPCscan went off and there he was standing in all his glory. I set down my frost trap and was so nervous I stepped in front of it when i did my concussive shot at it. I stepped back though he went in it and while I was taming it just stood up held my fist in the air and said yes! lol anyway just wanted to say thank you your guides really did help. Time to start my next goal and thats skoll.
You’re welcome Horseahorde, and grats!
Hi,
Thanks for these great tips. I am now working on my second spirit beast to capture.
I have Arcturis but definitely want the other three also.I am now looking for loque’nahak.
I have been a few days looking for him/her. You say in point 4 ”He is only about 10 minutes after he spawns” Are you saying that you can find him 10 minutes before he returned he simply disappears or remains disabled until you catch him or die?
Sorry for my bad english. = P
P.s: your site is awesome
This guide is pretty old, so it’s difficult to say if this theory still holds true.
When I posted this, Loque was the only Spirit Beast in the game, and was in very high demand. The 10 minute theory could have been more or less based upon players’ notions that 10 mins was about all the time you’d have to get him, otherwise someone else would either kill or tame him during that window.
My guess is that Loque will not despawn, but will remain out until tamed or killed, just as all other pets. But again… this is just my thought. I still can’t say for certain.
Glad you like the site Preb.
i’m trying to find him. this is only the fisrt day.. i hope i’ll find him!!!
After 4 hours of searching.. I see NPC scan pop up, and a belf warlock runs RIGHT infront of my frezing trap, and kils him…. You dont even know how pissed I am.
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