I have to tell you

As some of you might remember, and for the rest of you who don’t know, I have two level 70 characters, my hunter, Giznad, was the first character I played to reach the level cap back when this blog was first started up…go ahead and check out January posts, yep, it’s there I promise…anyway, as I spend more time playing I find myself splitting my gaming type between my druid and hunter.  I know I am not alone when I say hunters are a lot of fun to play!

Yesterday, out of a combination of boredom and that I was wanting a challenge, I decided to go tame gutripper, the level 67 elite owl in Nagrand.  I watched a video someone made on how they did it, and it was simple really, first off, I got into the zone and started asking if there was a priest around who would help me out.  I did pay them, although it probably wasn’t necessary, for those of you nonhunters out there, the taming process can be tricky if you don’t know what you are doing, the typical response for taming an elite beast would be to lay down a freezing trap, well, he is immune, so it went down like this…

Pick a good spot free of any other mobs, wait for gutripper, switch to aspect of the monkey,  target gutripper, at maximum distance fire scorpid sting at gutripper, immediately cast tame beast, have priest holy shield you…I also had another advantage of a shaman and his totems there as well, healing will interupt the taming process, it was pretty close, just have the priest recast holy shield on you, he had me down to about 15% health by the time it ended, but we did a little dance and I thanked everyone, and now I have a nice looking black owl for PvP…I named him after the priest, since I didn’t have a name picked out yet…

So, it can be done, right now my pets are, Sian-Rotam from the quest in Winterspring, an undead pig from the eastern plaguelands, and gutripper…I wish we could stable more pets…a tank would be nice to have…

So, yes, my hunter is alive and well, currently Beast Mastery specced with his little family of pets.