Let’s hear it. Because hunters can tame cloud serpents in Shadowlands. Oondasta and the Soundless are both tameable and drop mounts when killed. They can’t be both tamed and killed at once, so people who are camping Oondasta/Soundless can all tag it when it spawns, and a hunter can finish taming and leave with it, nobody getting loot.
Hunters who want a cool pet like Oondasta/Soundless will wait to tame and be harassed for putting themself before 5-15 other players. They will often have to wait until odd hours of the night or morning to get the tame because it’s hard to tame when players are killing it for a chance at a mount.
Is this fun? Do we like that?
Cloud serpents are now tameable on the beta. It’s confirmed that Huolon, Nalak, and Rei Lun can be tamed. While having cloud serpents as pets is AWESOME, are we excited to fight over world bosses? Is this a fun mechanic?
The Oondasta Problem needs to be acknowledged.
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A secondary hunter only version of these animals should be implement imo. Like those old world tames that only drop a grey hunters tear when killed.
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Agreed. Just called them “Spawn/Brood/Second Cousin Twice Removed/etc of [boss name]” and have them somewhere nearby.
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“Nalak, son of Nalak”
“Oondasta, cousin of Oondasta”
“Huolon, step-sibling of Huolon”
“Rei Lun, no not that Rei Lun”
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I proposed this on the beta forums, hoping it is seen. Threads there aren’t easily buried and stay at the top for a while.
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They need to have duplicates somewhere because yes it is not fun trying to tame world bosses. You either fail because it dies too fast, or you succeed and make the campers mad. It’s not good.
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You don’t need to worry about me taming these stupid mobs, they do and bring nothing to my toolkit that i don’t already have in other pets.
Stupid fluff we can do without imo.
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I see no purpose in taming Huolon, because there are heaps of black lightning serpents down in BfA Vale that are everywhere. Why would I go to Timeless Isle to tame one that I have to wait through a spawn timer for?
Nalak will certainly be difficult since I believe he has a unique skin. He does have a quite short spawn timer so I’d probably say that if hunters turn on WM and do it as peculiar hours of the day they will have more luck getting it without fighting against people killing it for the mount. I wouldn’t object at all if they created at least a few other wild cloud serpents with the same look.
A more difficult situation for Rei Lun (who I note looks almost exactly like the mount from Lord of the Reins). His spawn timer is currently quite long and also depends on the part of the Vale that is up, so he will certainly be the most difficult one to get. Unless they change the spawn time. Again, this issue would be solved by having a similar wild variety available somewhere.
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Soundless on live also has this issue and is an even bigger issue.
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too hard for dev’s specially the hunter twitter guy that pushes for “feedback” to think something like… create a hunter zone only where all the WBs and rares alike can be tamed there…
not taming damn world bosses/rares that mount collectors and their army of alts spend their days everyweek camping for just a spin on the RNG casino wheel.
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World bosses should never be tamable…Are blizzard idiots or what? Purposely causing griefing and fighting is not cool…You can’t tell me they don’t have the foresight on the issues this will cause…or they don’t care. People have been farming these mop world bosses for 7 yrs and don’t need some hunter coming a long and taming it right in front of them. Oondosta can be bad enough
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An alternative mob would be the best option. I got lucky on my cool tyrannosaurus tame but I doubt I will be as lucky w/ Hulon or Nalak.
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I really prefer it and it would not be difficult at all.
Has it been changed or do hunters not have to channel a tame spell anymore?
The channel typically finishes before 2-5 players can burst down Oondasta with the kill buffer they put on WBs. It only dies first if there are 8-10+ people.
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I am concerned they are conflating the ‘rare and shiny’ issue with ‘stole the kill from people waiting for it to respawn’. It’s only a rare thing to have because you have to take it from other people who can multitag for loot.
I hope they put in minispawns.