I remember this. Lost my tame because of that and it took me a year to get him after that incident.
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I think you misunderstood.
I didnât mean unique as in âIâll be the only one to have this.â I meant unique, âpopsâ, or âstands outâ, in comparison to most pets in general. Oondasta is unique in that heâs the only Devilsaur like him. Itâs not about what other hunters have, itâs about Oondasta being a unique skin on itâs own. Itâs like collecting
Itâs not about making a statement to other players. Itâs about wanting something that is, itself, a unique skin. While there are some hunters whoâll use a plague lands wolf just to be different, thatâs not necessarily the most common.
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I didnât mean legitimately dissimilar to what other hunters are doing. I meant that it stands out compared to my other pets to me. Itâs unique compared to my other pets to me. What the rest of you think of it doesnât factor in whether I want it.
I got her. I have all three rare cats. That one, Skarr and Sambas.
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itâs easy to point the finger at hunters. but the spotlight should really be on some of the incompetent people that are on this development team.
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A favorite of mine for my Hunter the unique looking Devilsaur
Thok the Bloodthirsty which can be tamed from the Siege of Orgrimmar raid.
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I am not ashamed to be one of those Hunters who tamed Oondasta. Got him a month ago, and he is my main. Even soloâd ToT to get Horridon, and both look âat homeâ in Zandalar. Luckily, Oondasta spawns every 15 minutes, so that made me feel less guilty. I made sure to apologize to everyone around me with /sorry (and I did mean it).
I did see a dead devilsaur in Oondasta armor lying near the Blood Gate in Zuldazar, but it is part of the scenery.
EDIT: I also made sure to say in General Chat that I was wanting to tame him, but of course it would only have been seen by other Horde players. Some people even /w me to give me tips on how to tame him, so at least some people were happy to give me the opportunity.
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When I more actively played a hunter I had plenty of people just walk up and kill my rare tames. It was incredibly frustrating! Half the time it wasnât even an important rare! I just like taming anything with a silver border.
Anywho. Because of this I have little sympathy for mount the Oondasta situation.
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I do this now too, especially on really long timers like spirit beasts from Northrend, etc. You want to take mount kill chances from us hunters? We will take your spirit beasts. I get the gryphon from SW for fun now too every time i see its feather. Ill spawn itâŚcall it out, then kill. Then collect the beasts tears, and the hunters.
We didnât start this war but if you want rare pets, youll leave the ones that drop mounts alone hunters.
A rare Oondasta would be so much more fun. I love the hunt for rare pets. My stable only has pets (except for a couple with sentimental value) that are a challenge to tame.
Make Oondasta untamable, put in a rare version with the same skin and slap a long spawn timer on it. Let the game begin 
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Because itâs rare, and when every hunter has a rare pet, no one does
Though imagine choosing oondasta over thok 
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Tamed it first week it was available.
Must be really different on some servers. Every time I go out to dinosaur island Oondasta is up. Doesnât matter what toon I take or when, heâs up about every 15 minutes.
Maybe you should just try going out there at a time you usually wouldnât?
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If itâs the same hunterâŚas in âaâ hunterâŚthen that hunter is a griefing posterior fedora and should be reported for it.
Yes, I have that pet, yes I rode up with 1 minute left to go on the spawn timer and rode way with Oon in tow 1 minute and 15 seconds later. And yes, there was some angry gesturing going on as I rode awayâŚbut I am never going back and wouldnât go grief-tame out of some tit for tat BS.
Standard practice. Rare tames are often part of a quest, or drop unique loot. If itâs up, Iâm killing it. Even the oneâs that arenât Iâm probably still killing it. The whole game is about killing monsters and collecting loots.
Thatâs why I play in Warmode.
Just be grateful that pet deaths are meaningless now too. I used to always kill hunter pets first before killing the hunter just to give them extra chores.
Well, Oon fits perfectly with my Zandalari hunter - so thereâs that.
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No different than hunters have already been treated for almost FIFTEEN YEARS.
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Challenge accepted. And yes, yes you (collective âyouâ here, not you personally) actually did start it. People have been blowing up hunter rare tames since they came into existence.
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It is because I wouldnât go out of my way to kill a mob a hunter was camping before, I might now though.
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I think the devs screwed up with this one. People are still killing Oon (or trying to) because the mount is a rare drop and rng is rng. When they decided to make it tameable they should have upped the mount drop to 100%, announced it before the change went live, and given mount collectors a few months to get it. After that FFA and good luck to all. They seem to enjoy pitting players against each other. 
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I speak for Us as the mount farmers that left you hunters alone to tame your rares, and even helped call it out for you. You took the blow against us by taking our Oondasta kills, so we will take your kills.
When that poor kid wanting his spirit bear gets a paladin swooping in, one shotting it, and then yelling âYoloâ before flying off nowâŚyou are to blame. Not you you, but hunters in general.
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Same. As soon as i saw the first thread complaining about it I made a special trip.
Got one for myself and one for my daughters the next day.
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