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Bringing Down Ban’thalos

by Garwulf on September 2, 2011 · 33 comments

The rare pet hunting has continued to be successful for me since I landed Skarr the other night — the first of the rares I’d tamed since entering the Molten Front earlier this week. Yesterday I nabbed Ban’thalos, making him the fifth Patch 4.2 rare pet I’ve acquired since Tuesday. The procedure I used for [...]

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As many of you know… Patch 4.2 hits live servers today (06/28/11). The following guide serves as a rundown of the new beasties — where to find them and how to successfully tame them. There are 10 new taming challenge pets in all. 3 new Spirit Beasts, 5 rare Lava Spiders, and 2 extremely badass [...]

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Magria

by Garwulf on June 1, 2011 · 10 comments

Another new Spirit Beast has been discovered on the Patch 4.2 PTR. This latest spectral kitty is known as Magria. Magria not only looks nearly identical to Ankha, but also poses the same taming challenge. According to this post in the Petopia forums, you must remove your armor before attempting the tame, as Magria’s damage [...]

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Ban’thalos

by Garwulf on June 1, 2011 · 32 comments

See my Patch 4.2 Rare Pet Briefing Post for an updated guide on how to tame Ban’thalos, as well as the other 9 Patch 4.2 Taming Challenge pets. Finally… a flappy variety Spirit Beast. I knew they’d add one sooner or later. Ban’thalos is one of the 8 new rare-spawn-hunter-pet-taming-challenges in the Firelands arriving in [...]

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Ankha

by Garwulf on June 1, 2011 · 10 comments

I just caught this video by WoWInsider which features one of the 8 new rare pets coming in Patch 4.2. I figured I’d share it. A few key points from the Ankha video: Ankha is a Spirit Beast, so this pet will only be tamable by Beast Masters. Based on what Mathew said (at 0:18), [...]

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