Comments on: Say Hello To My Little Friend

By: Jeni Morton

Jeni Morton — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:19:12 +0000

Thanks for the wealth of info on dinos. I haven’t had much of a chance to check out the isle.

Don’t be down on the “man” about pretty pictures. I’d use them even if he said they took away from the content. I still come here for what you have to say. Pictures are a bonus!

By: Can’t Complain | Zwingli's Weblog O' WoW

Can’t Complain | Zwingli's Weblog O' WoW — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:37:02 +0000

[...] reading BBB’s post on Dino-Island, I was ready for a long painful time of not-so-successful [...]

By: Katzbalger

Katzbalger — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:20:20 +0000

You can actually solo the BIG devilsaurs as a hunter fairly easily, the main tactic for this? RUUUUUNNNNN! Yes, pet tanking is out (cos er..my turtle dies) and kiting is back in. They can’t be slowed, have to do this in cheetah and best to have the glyph so if it does it’s aoe ‘piercing roar’ and you’re a bit too close it just knocks you out of cheetah instead of dazing you, which is almost certain death ;p Have to plan out a route for kiting these though to avoid pulling anything else!

These are the best mobs, looking at the drop rates, to farm for both bones which you mentioned and another little item you didn’t…Primal Eggs. These are like the old Oracle eggs from Sholazar, they take 3 days to hatch, are unique and can contain 1 of 3 different primal raptor mounts. My plan is to farm up my primal egg every 3 days and collect my bones that way, 2 things at once, efficiency!

By: Kemonojin

Kemonojin — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 02:53:27 +0000

Yeah, seriously. :P I’m totally full, I had to abandon my orange core hound and my first moth (Grabbed it to complete my Kaiju collection, Gojira the devilsaur (had him since level 71, when you were first able to tame them. He was in Netherstorm), Ghidorah the hydra, the fire turtle from the Cataclysm area, and picked up a random moth… then Mothran appeared in Pandaria.) to get the new devilsaur and triceratops.

By: Kemonojin

Kemonojin — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 02:51:13 +0000

Kroshuk is indeed tamable. And you don’t need the dinomancer book to tame him.

I ended up abandoning him in favor of one of the ‘blue’ devilsaurs with the lighter blue stripes. (Colors approximate; I’m colorblind. Petopia called the skin I have ‘blue’, but it looks gray to me… and the one it called black looks red with yellow stripes.)

A mage friend helped me get the book, and I tamed one of the red triceratops (with the bright blue eyes, looks nifty) Been trying to find out if the giant, armored Zandalari Battlebeasts are tamable. Have only seen one, and it died shortly after, at the cave where you go to run the solo instance.

By: Pawzy

Pawzy — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 06:56:36 +0000

That looks SO awesome! It makes me sad that I don’t have time to play my hunter these days. Ah well, maybe things will be less camped and cramped this fall?

By: Riegnman

Riegnman — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:20:07 +0000

One problem with this patch. Blizz gives us a lot of cool pets to tame but no more stable slots? Why?

By: Navimie

Navimie — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 09:07:51 +0000

Oh wow. That looks so cool. Almost makes me wish I was a hunter.

By: Theodoxus

Theodoxus — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:28:38 +0000

I’m sure we’ll get around to hitting the Island of Giants at some point – just having too much fun on the Isle of Thunder. While running around as a direhorn sounds fun – I haven’t had more fun in game than running around as a saurok – with levitate, you can float quite a ways when jumping off the larger peaks.

Plus the devilsaur, Kroshuk? I think.. he’s pretty. and tameable to boot.

All in all, I like this patch.

By: Tamiel

Tamiel — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:19:17 +0000

Yay congrats on your two dino pets BB! Whoot!! I ended up with the blue tri top, and a black/purple trex with white striping. They are cute, and quite stompy sounding.

Second the recommend the intact direhorn skin–you can carry more than one in your inventory, and each time I used it, I turned into a different colored direhorn. Skinning will knock you out of the disguise. The dinos and trolls are still hostile to you, just less interested. . . It was totally a fun way to explore the island. Does anyone know if there anything up in the mountains above the tar pits? Or is that area just decorative?

Try and get friends or guildies to farm with you. As bear mentioned, it took us an average of 40 min per hunter dino book drop. We were there 2-2.5 hours. Bear also got many many many more pets than us. Although we got two and a half complete sets.

I went with 2 other hunter friends, and we staked out the small camp right off the beach with 3 spawn points (it is below the 7-8 spawn village bear mentioned). We were all under geared, but only died a couple times when folks dragged some dinos over our heads and once when all 3 spawns happened at once. Use freeze traps for the extras, silencing shots for the casters, and multiple tank pets if they transform.

If you have a group of 4 or more friendlies (maybe 3 could work), I read on another hunter blog that you can sneak onto the troll boat just offshore. There are some jumping on tricks, and have to avoid the dino but it’s quieter and the chance of folks training dinos through your camp is much reduced. ;-)

I saw people farming the dinos for bones as well. It seems safest/most efficient in teams of 3-5, depending on gearing and composition. It seemed like a fun guild activity.

Have fun! Gooooooo dinoooooos!!!!

Tamiel (not a he; is a druid and hunter and altaholic)