Comments on: A word of advice on hunting Wild Turkey

By: Zeromaxx

Zeromaxx — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:46:27 +0000

For druids the macro I recommend would be:
/cleartarget
/target [nodead] Wild Turkey
/script SetRaidTarget(“target”,5)
/cast Moonfire

I got really sick of targetting turkey corpses. I didn’t use the raid icons when I did it but that is a really good idea so I added it in.

By: Phaedra

Phaedra — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:14:10 +0000

My first attempt, I tried in Elwyn and just tried to melee every turkey. Abyssmal failure.
So I tried in Elwyn again, this time moonfiring. Ran out of mana.

I then perused the forums. I made some tracker snacks, put on my healing set, set up a /tar /moonfire macro, and headed to Tirisfal.
First attempt in Tirisfal, I got to a heartbreaking 39.
Before my second attempt, I did a little more scouting to find the best area.
Second attempt in Tirisfal and I was done.

I cannot reccommend Tracker Snacks, Tirisfal, a macro, and scouting enough.

By: Kaelynn

Kaelynn — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:16:24 +0000

Finally got my Turkinator yesterday. As a rogue I don’t have a lot of ranged abilities so I basically mounted up after every turkey and meleed them. I used the tracker snacks and hung out in the eastern area of Elywnn that you described. I used a macro to target the turkeys and tried to spot them – spotting them was the hardest part for me. My favorite rogue blogger Forever a Noob had a great tip today. Get in a group with a guildie or friend so you can have marking ability and mark those turkeys with a gigantic skull or square. His macro looked like this:

/cleartarget
/target Wild Turkey
/script SetRaidTarget(“target”,5)

By: klaki

klaki — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:57:22 +0000

The macros are great but I will give some fair warning. Some turkeys will require you to mount up to get in time, so going in and out of bear will waste mana. The same goes for the moonfire macro. Luckily for me, I got a good moonkin spec so mana wasn’t an issue. I do love the raid targeting part. Sometimes those guys like to hide behind trees and such. I also HIGHLY recommend the snacks and doing this either late or early. Doing them mid-day is insane for a few times I’ve gotten into the mid-20s before some turd came and “stole” the turkey I was going for.

What I did was have the:

/tar Wild Turkey
/cast Moonfire

macro, then I would mount up, run and spam while having my turkey tracking on. The problem with it though is it tracks all beasts so you see all the boars. The best place I’ve found was in the north middle of Elwynn (around and north of Tower). There are a lot of aggressive mobs, so the yellow dots are mainly turkeys. After killing, I would hit the macro again to see if I could find the next one real quick while I was mounting. Good luck and liquor up first :)

By: Adonik

Adonik — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:44:09 +0000

I’m waiting for it to die down later in the week, then I’ll bother with it.

By: Nesut

Nesut — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:32:48 +0000

Do the turkey hunt as one the first achivments and loot the bird so you have all the turkey you would want to cook for the quest’s :)

By: Corwyn

Corwyn — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:12:44 +0000

Go bear.
/tar wild turkey
/cast Fairie Fire (Feral)

Great idea about the tracker food. Now I just need to get my cooking to 400.

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:33:14 +0000

While I’m sure that between travel forms & sprints, being a Druid helps, I hardly found this to be easy. I dunno’ . . . I didn’t even think about using FFF, maybe that would have made it easier. I bet the tracking food definitely would have made it easier. But man. By the time I got it done, I had 100 turkeys in my bags and quite a few more that I missed picking up as I hurried from kill to kill.

Or maybe taking time to loot the turkeys was my problem.

I think the competition was probably the most difficult thing about the achievement, though. Druids hardly have a monopoly on abilities that make it easier. The DK had ranged attacks that were as effective as moonblast, the hunter could shoot on the run, the shaman used basically the same shapechange/spellcast tactic I did. And those are just the people I actually ran into and raced to the next turkey. Most often, I’d be running through my route and suddenly all the turkeys were just gone from my path . . . already hunted by someone who, most likely, found himself running into the area I had just cleared.

The worst was the DK who broke my chain at 35. I mean, not that I hold a grudge. I was doing the same to him. And the Shaman and the Hunter. It is a competition, after all. But 35!!! Gah.

By: Kayeri

Kayeri — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:04:27 +0000

Rhiane, my rogue, IS in hiding after getting Turkey-Fied no fewer than 15 times this morning while I was levelling her cooking skill. She may not come out the rest of the week! :)

It is a great way to level cooking skill on toons!

By: Aluminum

Aluminum — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:49:59 +0000

I used this macro to help out as well
( I will not take credit for it though, as I saw it mentioned on Wowhead.com)

/tar Wild Turkey
/run SetRaidTarget(”target”, 1)

just remember that u have to be in a group to use this.
It will put a {star} over the nearest turkeys head. which u can see through buildings,trees,and hills.