Something interesting with RNG is that it will favor you when you are least expecting it and will not grant you the satisfaction of success when you are actively seeking it.
This proves troublesome for us hunters, especially when we are specifically looking for certain pets. How can we just "happen" upon an old world pet when we have no business in an old world zone, and if for any reason we are in this zone we are probably looking for the old world rare pet?
(This also applies to the STUPID world drop non-combat pets)
It's all in your mind. See, I logged in after work and decided to do my daily Scholazar Basin rounds early. I flew around not really expecting to see King Krush after six weeks of not even seeing a glimpse of him nor his corpse. Then I completely zoned out. Removed from this alternate reality. Actually I had been watching Rebecca Black's "Friday" music video, trying to convince myself that there was some meaning to this song. I think this song really helped from displacing my mind from reality as well.
**This all takes place within the time frame of about ten seconds**
Anyways, I see my character flying and all of a sudden NPC Scan goes off and it's King Krush right in front of me! "NO WAY" I think! I dismount, and sadly I had to abandon my semi-trusty grey parrot Beakers. I am sure Beakers made his way back to the Deadmines safely, as I saw him there later during a dungeon run. I approach King Krush and begin to cast my Tame. I knew he would fear me and I knew at that moment of fear a warrior would swoop down and kill him. Yes, always a warrior. I don't know why. I'm usually really calm for my pet tames but for this one Dinosaur with his fear and super rarity I was slightly shaky.
Then my heart sank. I saw that King Krush was already targetting another player, chomping at them. "Damn, someone's killing him for the achievement" I thought. "Oh well at least I got to SEE him for once". But then I noticed that Krush's HP was not going down, and he was chomping on someone who seemed to be AFK on their flying mount a couple yards above the ground. I'm still approaching Krush as this is all happening. Now this person is either fighting the mobs around them or they have aggroed onto him, but I'm thinking "oh maybe this warrior has seen me and is going to let me tame him instead of killing him, or he's still afk". I begin the tame. Krush fears me, his HP is untouched, my worst fear did not come into fruition, I retame. 8..7...6...5...4...3...2...1...ding! I see the person in the background extremely low on health now so I run forward and kill the aggroed rhinos.
I'm about to whisper them and say "thanks for letting me tame" when he runs out from the fray and whispers me "fck u" and I'm thinking "huh?" I mouseover him and he was a level 77 hunter!
OH NO I'M THE PEOPLE I FEAR! So what you're saying is essentially I stole this poor person's tame right from under his nose? But he wasn't taming when I got there, he was floating in mid-air. Say I had been AFK camping a spawn point and I hear my scan go off and see another hunter taming the pet, I would probably be frustrated but at least I know not to look for the next many hours and I would probably say to them "uggggh grats!".
If I was in mid-tame and somene came along and killed or tried to tame-away my pet I would be quite offended. But wait is it even possible to tame a pet that's already being tamed? Do we essentially "tag" something when we initiate the tame? If that's the case, Krush had not been tagged by anyone until I began my tame. And if he had been tagged by my tame, if someone came along and tried to murder him, does he not count for the achievement?
Now I had up to the point until he whispered me assumed this other person was a warrior, and in the mess of stumbling off my mount and trying to gather my composure, me end goal was: Tame Krush, prevent his death.
What if I was calm and steady? I would have checked to see if he was a hunter, asked if he wanted to tame Krush. He would probably be on his way back to the keyboard, at 50% health. He'd say "yes", and I'd watch him attempt to tame Krush the first time and die. I would then risk Krush's death by waiting for him to res and re-attempt the tame. Too much risk!
So should I have waited and risked the tame? Was I just five seconds luckier? Was their two worded response appropriate for the situation? But let's not dwell on the past, this new Devilsaur shall help me find a new Parrot!
Turby the Hunter
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