I hate you all. 16 runs and not one drop.

PLUS:

Instance Servers Are Full. Additional Instances Cannot Be Launched. Please Try Again Later.

^ Spammed 60 times each attempt.

Yep you got lucky in WC, I spent four hours killing the mobs (19 resets) and got a grand total of 0 Deviate Hatchlings :(… I have too much spare time

grats on getting the deviate hatchling. and thank you for this helpful and entertaining post (i like your disclaimer at the end, lol). i'll be adding this to my to-do list.

Grats Keeva!

I am also taking your boat, I may farm the non-rare spawns, but I intend to purchase the rare spawns from the AH. I will pay ~1500-2000g for the rare ones, just so I don't have to farm them.

Lord knows that I farmed enough pets while getting my oozling, firefly and whelplings. I have enough gold stocked up in the bank, and can easily enough replace it that I may just forgo the farming altogether and buy them all as I find them!

I've already gotten two of the four rare hatchlings! If I am remembering correctly I have the darting and the razormaw ones =)

Good Luck!

Thanks for this – I didn't realise the drop rate was so good Got mine 2nd run of WC.

*grin*

Still, I got mine on Keeva, horde side – I think you'd get more money Alliance side, since they're from the Barrens and a bit more annoying for the Alliance to get.

Man, I saw this post in my blog reader, and was all like, hey, I should go do that and make some G…then I realized which blog I was reading. Doh.

-Alaron, the ORIGINAL lvl80 Alliance Druid blogger on Cael. (Not some plucky imitator. Pah.)

Yuck, I'm so glad my server doesn't have those horrible instance problems. I didn't even know it was an issue until recently.

And really, when you think about it, you can earn 500g per day just from doing dailies and not much else. Plus I supplement that with my professions and playing the AH a little (I dabble). So really it would only take a few days for me to be able to afford them, and that's at the super-inflated prices that we're seeing now.

So I don't think people will mind paying 2-4k.

I'd say the one from rare elites will settle at around the 1-2k mark. While they are limited spawns, it's a 100% drop – whereas something like a whelpling has plenty of mobs for you to farm, but a random drop rate.

So I think the prices for these elite raptors will be around the same as a whelpling… but it might take a little while.

We'll see

I thought 2-4k gold was expensive, but then I spent the last hour and a half trying to get in (and I'm still not in). When I finally get an instance, if I get more than one, 2-4k gold is totally justified in my mind.

That is so much fun. When I decided to go back through all the old world instances for achievements, I did pretty much the same thing with trying to grab the entire instance including bosses and then aoe them all at the end.

It did turn bad in some instances when I came across mobs which knock you down. Grabbing sufficient numbers of them to chain-knockdown or spell-interrupt was not fun.