🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:35:12 +0000, Catriona R wrote:
>  On 16 Mar 2011 16:17:10 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> >On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:42:45 +0000, Catriona R wrote:
> >>  On 16 Mar 2011 15:31:36 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> >> >On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:08:27 +0000, Catriona R wrote:
> 
> >>  I'm still missing three in Northrend, will have to go back and look for
> >>  them now it's likely to be far less camped - I certainly found the
> >>  Outland rares much easier once everyone movedinto Northrend, and likely
> >>  it'll be the same for Northrend now.
> >
> >Yupp, I'm hoping for that, too. I found one while doing archeology there,
> >but that was the only one so far. But I haven't gone back really looking.
> >
> >One problem with deserted continents and farming for rares is, that any rare
> >that spawns that you have already killed, is likely to remain alive for a
> >long time, blocking the spawning of one you need. This can be remedied by
> >telling _NPCScan to warn you about killed ones, too, and then searching the
> >whole continent, not just the zones you're still missing rares from, but
> >that makes the search patterns much longer, so it may be just as effective
> >to just come back for those three you need every hour.
> 
>  Well given the 20g and stack of Frostweave plus often a decent blue,
>  it's worth killing them all anyway :-)

After bombing the Schmitz Infantry in Uldum last night (yay, only 5 days to
go) _NPCScan notified me of a rare scorpion and suggested I tame it. As I'm
quite happy with my (not so) juvenile snow leopard, I decided to kill him
for the loot instead. All it dropped was a grey item, looking like a blue
gem. Its tooltip said something along the lines of "The desire to serve as a
trusty, loyal pet condensed into this thingamajig". Boy, did I feel guilty!

>  I didn't actually realise they
>  could block the spawn of others though; I've heard that theory but
>  it's a bit debated as to whether or not it happens.

I seem to recall that those sources propagating the "spawn on the hour"
theory also mentioned that there are at most 4 rares active per continent
(at least in Outland, not sure about Northrend). So if you're lucky, you can
kill 4 rares within 60 minutes at most, then have to wait for new respawns.
If you just kill some of them, the corresponding number of new spawns will
take palce but the unkilled ones remain alive. There doesn't seem to be a
despawn mechanism. If nobody kills any of the rares, the same four will
wander around in eternity (or until the next server restart). At least that
is how I understood it. Could well be wrong though, but so far it seemed to
match my experience.

Cheers
Urbin
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