Got bored. Went to Wailing Caverns to farm raptors, despite having earlier said something to the effect of “screw Wailing Caverns, I hate that place, I’ll just buy the pet.”

But I was bored, and an instance is the one place that you can farm by yourself without five billion other people camping the mobs that you need – so I figured I’d give it a shot and see how easy it was to do. As much as I LOATHE this instance, I discovered that the part in which you farm the raptors is right inside the instance door, and you just run in a big, straightforward circuit. You don’t need to go deep into the bowels of the instance (as I had feared). The whole thing takes around 5 minutes per run and is actually FUN.

I know – I was shocked, too.

Without further ado, here’s my ultra top secret method for farming Deviate Hatchlings:

  • Ignore all of the raptors outside the instance portal – they don’t drop the pet. The ones you want are immediately inside the instance.
  • Turn thorns OFF.
  • Remember: nothing in an instance will leash. Run through every raptor you see. The room is basically a big rectangle – just run right around the whole thing, gathering every mob.
  • When you have them all, Hurricane or kitty Swipe as appropriate.
  • Loot the sparklies.



Result:


Now, I may just be crazy lucky, but those three came from just two runs, out of 5 runs total (I got two on my fourth run, and another on my fifth run). I kept one (that makes 87 pets) and I am going to sell the other two while the prices are up. Obviously these are one of the easier raptor pets to farm, so the price of them probably won’t stay very high for long (at the moment – 2000g to 4000g). I suspect they will plateau somewhere in the low hundreds – it’s still annoying to have to go to WC in the first place, after all.

I don’t really intend to farm for the ones that drop from elites.. too many people camping them already, and it’s too stressful to sit there and watch the spawn point for hours, waiting to mash your moonfire button. I’d rather do a few days of dailies and buy them at inflated prices, to be perfectly honest.

(If you’re on Cael and you have one to sell, drop me a line. I buy and trade!)


Isn’t he cute?


Aww, bless.



DISCLAIMER: I cannot be held responsible for any raptor-related maulings which may result in injuries ranging from feelings of mild discomfort to death. Raptors are wild animals and should be respected (I recommend paying particular respect to their pointy ends).

Remember: raptors run at 10m/s and they do not know fear.

Boy howdy are they cute though! /chin tickle



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