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On 17 Mar 2011 07:25:37 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>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!

Lol! Yeah I've heard about that, ones which are likely to be wanted as
hunter pets do drop greys instead of a shiny blue lol, doh! Of course
if I see a rare I'm likely to just kill it rather than go checking
wowhead in case it's meant to be a pet, since somebody else will grab
it otherwise ;-)

>>  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.

Hmm, well I've most definitely seen more than 4 rares up in a short
space of time, but then I do kill the ones I find, so maybe that
triggers others into spawning. Opinions seem very varied on all that!
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