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评论来自
840578
This NPC is a rare beast tamable by hunters added in patch 4.2 as a "hunter taming challenge". He spawns somewhere in the Firelands daily quest hub.
评论来自
235986
So a trick with the fire, mount up and stay as close as you can to the left edge. You should be able to get through it without dying.
Also, if you go up to the north of the zone near the elite fire elemental and jump around on the rocks/mountains you can get to an outside ledge. Follow it to the west and jump off in the direction of the island (you'll see some of the jumping rocks there but they will be out of reach). You should rez at the graveyard on the island.
Hope this helps!
评论来自
849483
Very easy tame, I used MM and Silenced shot him followed by Tame. I found him on a floating rock from the Furnace side.
评论来自
Jorhearl
Just tamed Karkin on US sentinels 3:00PMish.. Silencing shot tactic works great
评论来自
849732
Tamed at about 2:30 am est on Malorne-US tame>silence>deter>tame worked wonders after about 30 min of practice >.< lol but finally got him dont know how many others if any got him but ty for the tips everyone.
评论来自
Korruptio
just tamed him, heres the plan: go mm for silencing shot, start taming, and silence fieroclast barrage he starts casting, and start taming again. worked for me, loving my new unique crab
-edit- coords are about 37, 35, and i think karkin shares them with skarr
评论来自
yaminoryuuji
Oddly enough when i tried to tame him something weird happened. During mid tame his attack hit me and instead of cancelling the tame he was an instant tame. I found him on the far side of Fire pulme. and stood off to the side. it might have been a glitch since the other hunters around me had no idea either.
评论来自
850215
So Karkin and Skarr share the same spawn. 2-5hrs apart from each other but my question is, is it a alternating spawn or random
评论来自
whitehusky
Karkin and Skarr share a spawn timer, but in my experience, Karkin has a much higher chance of spawning than Skarr. I've seen Skarr once out of eight spawns (my friend tamed him then, so my hunt continues).
As for the taming process, it is the same for both Karkin and Skarr.
Begin with Tame Beast, interrupt Fieroclast Barrage (Silencing Shot), then immediately cast Tame Beast again.
Do not cast Silencing Shot too early or you will not interrupt Fieroclast Barrage.
Fieroclast Barrage does a very large amount of damage such that when you are hit by it, the mob's next attack will kill you. Fieroclast Barrage will also interrupt your Tame Beast, so it must be interrupted if you hope to be successful. Deterrence does not mitigate the damage done by Fieroclast Barrage.
Good luck!
评论来自
mmjau
Strat 1:
- Pull with Tame Beast (This forces him to cast his one shot ability Fieroclast Barrage)
- Silencing shot on Fieroclast Barrage
- Deterrance
- Tame Beast
If you don't pull with tame beast, you will only silence shot his fireballs that don't hit for much. You want to silence shot his Fieroclast Barrage which he only does when you tame beast.
Strat 2:
"On the last rock when you jump from the furnace to fireplume, there is a gust of wind that you can see in here, jumping onto that will fly you up onto the island and give you a 2min buff Convalescence of Winds, and the buff reads 'Increases your attack speed and haste by 100% and allows you to jump much higher and farther than normal." From
http://forums.wow-petopia.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13053
Confirmed, I took this screen its the next rock:
http://i.imgur.com/ZSa5M.jpg
Tips:
- Tag it fast with arcane shot if others are around (Read the new hotfix about taunt/Distracting shot immunity)
- Reforge all your gear to haste, use haste elixir, potion of speed, haste buff food (I got my tame beast down to 8,x secs)
- Tame Beast Macro:
#showtooltip Tame beast
/cast Rapid Fire
/use Potion of Speed
/Cast Tame beast
评论来自
bruenir
Tamed this on Lothar-US at 10:30 AM EST today, with the aid (just like Skarr) of my sweety, only this time she was on her hunter. I pulled with Tame Beast, she silencing shotted the barrage, and I tamed with a haste potion. EZ-PZ lemon squeezy.
For some useful data: the 2 previous spawns were also karkin.
评论来自
Paradox043
Does anyone have tips to tame him without being a MM hunter? I get its a popular spec, but I doubt its only available for them =/ Can I interrupt him with my arcane torrent racial?
评论来自
851708
Just tamed him this morning 7/5 before Sen'jin server went down. I woke up before going to work thought I would check the spawn spots for Skarr and was there 3 min checking both north and south. when I returned to northeastern spot with the falling jump stones karkin just spawned right before my eyes. About this time I saw another toon coming up the jumping stones so I though I better make this quick. So I ran on the first stone and jumped to the 2nd which was the falling jumping stone and completely missed it, died and rezzed at graveyard from the other side by widow's clutch and ran back hugging the left side to stay out of the fire. I thought for sure I wouldn't make it with rez sickness and then I thought he's probably gone now either dead or tamed but he wasn't . The other toon I saw had either just died or cast death on the south end by the stone elementals and I saw karkin still sitting on the stone. So I quickly jumped up again and this time just stood on the first stone from the ledge and was able to tame him there. Just cast silence and spammed tame beast he cast his barrage spell but somehow it missed me and now he's mine. All this happend in the last 10 min of server going down. Good Luck! :D
Now on to Skarr.........The Hunt Continues! (AKA Shadowriver)
评论来自
802092
Just got him, but was really waiting for Skarr.
A horde hunter arrived first, he was op to me and would easily kill me.
I let him try first but the barrage spell killed him and me (didn't think it was aoe :( )
However, as the horde hunter was reading the tacts i snuck up on him and tamed crab right infront of him :DD
Not sure if he was a nice hunter and let me try once or if he actually was reading the tacts, the didn't have target on anything so i guess that he was reading.
评论来自
748410
From what iv seen the new rares all share some sort of spawn timer such as
Karkin spawned at 02:00(he got stolen from me by another hunter-_-)
so i went out in to mount hyjal a little gutted and though i might as well look and there was
Magri just wondering about,after the tame decided to go back into the firelands and skitterflame poped up on my npc
so after a challangeing tame i though i might as well go and check and one after one the rares were spawning as soon as one had ben tamed another spawned.
Dont know if it was a coincidence but if you tame one deffo go check to see if another is there.
Happy Hunting :)
评论来自
769175
Can those with the pets stop showing them in molten front... kinda sick of false npc scan warnings
评论来自
161365
karkin is easy to tame ones u get the idea, can be done with even half hp, have silenceing shot ready, now tame/start combat, he will at a time cast a frontal fire attack called Fieroclast Barrage this is the one u want to be interrupting, if u do he wont cast anything but fire balls for 10 sek, more then enough to tame him, the macro here is quite usefull
/Use Haste Potion
/Cast Deterrence
/Cast Tame Beast
have fun....
note same taks on skarr is useble
dont use time on Rapid fire its based on ranged attack speed not spell cast so waste of cd
评论来自
aymiah
Tamed 9:41 AM Malfurion-US server at 36.6, 34.7 with another hunter helping me out. Hit tame, then Deterrence, Silenced the barrage, and hit tame again. Named him Old Bay :)
评论来自
Evighetensmorke
Tamed 5:35 Server Time on Thrall: Horde at 33,52 . Followed everyone else in taming:
tag, tame, silencing shot, haste pot, deterrence, tame again.
I died twice, once because I accidentally ran off the cliff in excitement, and another because there was another hunter there who had just died and I panicked and went without deterrence up and readiness on cd, so fireball killed me.
There was another hunter there trying to kill him (I'm going to assume to push the Skarr possible spawn time sooner, but still, pretty jerkish when there are plenty of hunters in the zone) but he died to fireball, so I tamed him.
评论来自
842400
I was on my warrior, talking to my hunter friend who was camping the flame cat rare, when this guy popped up. She wasn't interested in him enough to get him when there were others in the area who did, so she left while I stayed behind to watch one of the new pets in action.
Several hunters died and gave up, one continued to try over and over. Just before his next attempt, a horde rogue started attacking him, but I guess no one gave him the memo about what this guy actually does, and he was promptly smashed in the face by Fieroclast, It was very amusing.
The hunter who kept trying eventually got him, after which I congratulated him. Pet models aside, I think these new pets, and their special tactics, are one of the cooler features of the patch.
评论来自
842368
anyone ever notice how his back looks like a horde symbol?
评论来自
xarthan
Tamed him this morning. Logged in and saw nothing, used Eagle eye and saw another hunter on the southern platform and nothing as well. Began to logout, twisted camera view around and saw bones on spawn point. Been seeing alot of bones there. Moused over and whoa! Hi Karkin!
MM Spec'd
1. Hit Tame
2. Silent Shot when he began casting his barrage
3. Hit Tame again
Success! and health was at 40%. Didn't do haste pot or had deterrence up. My gear score was 330. So pretty easy for any hunter to tame, the challenge is finding him.
评论来自
Chaotichorizon
Tamed at 13:27 server time on Medivh. Spawned on one of the bottom islands on the strand you use to get up to the elemental birds. Stood as far from his as I could to give fireball more space to travel through. Cast Tame to make him cast Fieroclast, then silence shot, then det/tame. Worked like a charm. Good luck to everyone out there.
评论来自
75087
realy? that hard up for 25g you would camp a rare spawn that was actualy ment for a hunter. would it not be easyer to just do 2 daily quests? yes the new 10 where put in as Hunter Challenge Tames. as for the rest of the rare pets ya fair game to all. it is realy sad that non hunters feel the need to kill them off while a hunter is do the tameming. all for none other than to spoil the hunters day. ya for the jerks out there. NOT! but hey your an a** will always be one. I bet when you see the kid with the candy in hand your run up and take it from them, lol when they cry.
评论来自
Sarantha
FINALLY
got Karkin after three days of 10 hours of camping each day. Another horde hunter was there before me, so I told her she had first dibs, but she fell to her death on the rocks twice, and a worgen was going to tame it, so I jumped the rocks and got to him before the ally did. I waited a bit for the fellow hordie to come back, but she didn't make it in time and the worgen started attempting a tame (he failed and died to the fireball thing), so I tamed Karkin instead of letting the ally that had come out of nowhere come back and get him. The fellow hordie showed up about 30 seconds later and congratulated me, so there were no hard feelings.
Thanks, Fireinthesky of Runetotem! Appreciated. And to the troll hunter, whose name I have forgotten, thanks. =)
Sorry random worgen hunter who was trying. Factions at war and all. And you failed twice, once on rocks and once on tame. =(
Tip for those who still don't know: PULL with tame beast, silence his massive fireball or whatever attack, tame, profit. Haste isn't a must (I didn't use any haste things at all, since I wasn't expecting to get to try and tame him) but it will likely help.
评论来自
292102
Just as i posted on skarr, both shared spawn timers and depend on who spawned. They have an 8hour spawn timer cause i camped him and skarr for 8hours. Just use mm spec, go to taming ranged (tame/silent shot/tame) easy. Used this strategy to skarr as well. Was camping skarr instead of karkin. Skarr spawned, both me and alliance fought over it, a horde came and ninja tamed while we duel it out(pvp realm). Camped 8 hours, karkin spawned, so i decide to tame it. Camped another 8hours and karkin spawned again so i tamed it again to reset timer(being stingy). Camped another 8hours and skarr spawned. Tamed. If you already have skarr and need karkin, it will suck it skarr spawned twice in 8hours you will have to wait another 8 hours if your lucky skarr wont spawn 3 times.
评论来自
343309
I say he is on an eigth hour spawn timer.
I tamed him at 4 pm sharp today, and then went back at 11 pm to see if he was there.
He spawned shortly after I arrived and I helped another hunter tame him.
A tip is to read the tacts beforehand, many hunters don't (have seen a lot trying to tame the challengepets, One knew how to do it).
And also, on Karkin, the tactic that goes "make aggro, wait 'til he casts his barrage, silence him and start the taming" works perfecty well. Easy enough.
Have a deterrence up if youre afraid of dying, but I didn't need it, so you might not either.
by the way, I'm on jaedenar, so if you wish to try and tame him, come by at 7 am, He'll probably spawn then.
评论来自
654830
You can also use scatter shot to prevent his cast.
评论来自
lock101
Realm - Area 52
11:00pmish, I'm camping for Skarr, he's the only one I want from the molten front and I only have one stable slot left. Anyways Karkin spawns and the area packed with stacking greedy hunters, they eventually kill him fighting over who gets him. Sad that people are like that, especially if your a hunter. Who ever is attempting first or has the spawn camped, have some respect and wait your turn. If they move theyre feet, take there seat, sure, but come on.
评论来自
596674
Tamed on Wyrmrest Accord at 11:00pm server.
I was camping ghostcrawler until I got too bored and decided to check some of the molten front spawns. Had him manually entered into NPC scan and just eagle eyed around, saw no rares so I decided to hop over where Skitterflame spawns and wait around for a bit to see if anything would spawn for me. Right when I get past the fire npc scan goes off and there's the crab!
My friend who's been wanting him went to bed not 30 minutes prior and we couldn't get her by the time other hunters started swarming the place. This guy is as popular as Skarr, and spawned exactly on the platform I got the cat from last night. Same mechanics too, so they are similar.
I tamed him right after another hunter failed to. Easy to do, just go MM for silencing shot. Start to tame, interrupt his cast about halfway through, then hit tame immediately again. He will cast fireball like Skarr does since you are on a different platform, but it doesn't do much damage.
Checked around again, and back to camping ghostcrawler until my next fit of boredom.
评论来自
655339
Listen up ladies. i tried the BM b/c sadly i did not spec up in my MM for silence shot. and i was waiting for Skarr when i saw that the crab poped up. So i died a few times and after haveing a horde friend of mine help me he told me to have a few people stand on the platform with me while i tame the crab, thus having him attack everyone els but me so i can tame :) good luck everyone! i got him at 4am server time on Lightninghoof!
评论来自
Bloodtankftw
I tamed this pet on my hunter at 3:32 a.m. U.S. Server, note his strong attacks.
To help with his Fieroclast Barrage, ( I know this wasn't right ), I had my mage friend interrupt this while I was taming it, and in order not to drop aggro, I made sure to hit it with several auto-shots and silencing shot at the beginning.
Good luck to any hunters out there, and I will post if I find the other rare, Skarr.
评论来自
823275
Just tamed Krakin today at 11:55am Server time Area 52! waited for an alliance to try (he died more then once) then i tried did what was told to be done on here & now iv got 4 out of 10 rares. yay! :D
评论来自
hordald
Got this guy by accident. I stopped my tame about 2 seconds before it finished by jumping and all of a sudden he was mine. I was going to let some other Hunter have it. :|
评论来自
853269
Tamed on Wyrmrest Accord at 6:40 PM Server was MM used Silencing shot then tamed.
评论来自
853269
Karkin Spawned agianst today around 5:50pm Server on Wrymrest Accord was waitinf for Skarr. looks like the ~6hr spawn is correct as he spawned earlier that say between 12-1 server.
Karkin spawned again around 11:40pm Server and i helped my friend get him. Not the one we want but still she wanted a rare.
评论来自
854302
Hello! I know there are quite a few posts like this one already, but the more good information the better, right?
I’ve managed to tame Karkin and Skarr and have discovered some useful things about their spawn timer and how the taming process goes.
I’ve seen four spawns so far, 2 Karkin and 2 Skarr. Some people have said the spawn times are between 2-10 hours, some 3-9 and others 4-8. All the spawns I saw were exactly 6 and a half hours apart (give or take 2-3 minutes)
The times I saw them were:
- 5:09 a.m. Karkin, July 11, Tamed
- 11:40 p.m. Karkin, July 11, Killed (By a human as a worgen tried to tame, D:)
- 6:09 p.m. Skarr, July 11, Tamed
- 12:34 a.m. Skarr, July 12, Tamed
I think the spawn time is very, very close to being 6 and a half hours (I know it was only 4 spawns, but they were all one after another and the times match so well it seems like just too much of a coincidence to me, lol).
Another thing I and that worgen hunter learned the hard way is that more than likely, people will be jerks when it comes to rare spawns. The problem she constantly had was everyone around her that hit the crab managed to pull aggro.
Something I would recommend if you are worried the pet might be attack by another player (
don’t do it if you are sure you won’t be interrupted
) is to use a hard hitting shot before continuing with the normal tame/silencing shot/tame strategy. I’d go with chimera shot because it’s instant and will probably do somewhere in the neighbourhood of 10k-15k dmg which should hopefully keep his attention on you for the duration of the tame. Chances are you will take a fireball before the barrage, but better than having the pet killed by someone.
I haven't actually tried this method before... I didn't have anyone around when I tamed so I can't say for sure whether this is a smart way to go about doing it, it's just what I think I would try if I were in the situation.
I think I will keep an eye out for the pets to really get a better idea of whether 6 ½ hours is the magic time here, and maybe update with whatever I find.
Hope this helps and Happy Hunting.
评论来自
bloodandbone
tamed at 4:32AM US realm
评论来自
272275
haha, this guy randomly falls asleep... I was out in STV doing the ramp up quest line to ZG and he just stops dead in his tracks (not in combat) and pops up the .zZ animation and has the buff "asleep"
评论来自
804079
Karkin is a sweet pet. I got him no longer than 1 hour ago. he has around 10 hour spawn rate.
and he can only spawn on the floating rocks next to the fireplume peak i tamed him by turning on detterence and scatter shot. Skarr and Karkin have the exact same spawn timer. People that want to kill it shouldnt it is not worth it just because of the silver dragon doesnt guarantee you and awesome set of shulders or anything
评论来自
abraxiswolvies
for those trying to find a pattern just saw another hunter just tame him on hellfire server at 1:45 am server time
评论来自
IMissThottbot
Quick video
showing how to tame Skarr/Karkin without MM spec or any pots or BL/Hero.
Best if you've not got much competition, though.
评论来自
Gnarledoak
Karkin tamed on Caelestrasz at 6.05pm server time.
评论来自
853676
Tamed him on Caelestrasz. He was tamed exactly 6.5 hours after Skarr spawned at 1pm EST (reports from another hunter who was camping).
Easy tame using the mentioned methods above - be careful of fire barrage - don't worry about fire ball, its the barrage you want to dispel ! Other than that, its easy =)
Happy taming
评论来自
zomg5
@Harixe
One of the dumbest things you could have said.
Just as you have the right to tame him...anyone else has the right to kill him.
Just because a mob is "tamable" doesn't magically give hunters priority over them.
I'm going to quote your..."flawless logic"...but change a few things around...
"You could of let someone kill this rare pet and get 25 gold for finding it, but instead you decided to tame him...and crushing someone's chance of making some money."
See? It can go both ways.
There's a reason he can be killed...Blizzard obviously meant for it to be killed! Otherwise, they would have made it so hard to kill no one would even attempt it!
In case there are people stupid enough to doubt that....check out "Ghostcrawler", a tamable beast that is super hard, if not impossible to kill! Ghostcrawler
To sum everything up...quit being an idiot and having the mindset that because you want to tame him, that anyone who kills him is in the wrong.
you sir are a schlong nuff said
评论来自
804623
He spawned on Khaz at approc 5:30 AM ST, after a 6 hour camp, juked the tame, silence shot, dter/tame/Engi bubble macro
mid tame Alliance hunter came along and killed him.
can we name and shame here on Wowhead. yesimadbro.
评论来自
IdTheDemon
Just tamed him on my hunter alt on Frostmane US
Used what many people here said:
1) Pull with Tame
2) Silence Shot the barrage
3) Deterrence
4) Then tame beast
Named the crab after the guildie who told me it was up lol
评论来自
megapull
Here
is a detailed guide about taming Karkin along with all the new Molten Front pets.
评论来自
856248
yeah some1 just ninjad him from me so unfair.......that silencing shot, jump to his rock, deterrence, then tamebeast doesnt work......yet the hunter that just ninjad him away was standing on the ledge used scatter shot and got him..the thing that puzzled me was how her scatter shot gave her enough time to tame beast.....?....:(
评论来自
856276
I just tamed Karkin on Draka @ 1:32 pm, approximately 6 hours after the last Skarr spawn. When I got close to Karkin's location after NPC Scan alerted me, there were 2 players at the location--both just standing there doing nothing. I then dismissed pet, respected from BM to MM, and started the tame (same method as above--tame, silence, deterrence, and tame = new pet).
Then I got a message from one of the player's say I was rude because she was saving the spawn for a friend--protecting it from the ally hunter who was at the scene--and her friend was almost there. Next, I was getting pointed messages from the hunter who was late to the game. I guess we're supposed to ask all players in the area of a rare, “Does anyone have a claim on this rare spawn?” Ridiculous! I've spent too many hours, like many have, camping rare pets to feel sorry for this player.
On a happy note, the night elf hunter at the location tried to kill Karkin when I started the tame. Karkin one-shot killed him :) Good news for those who get the chance for this decent tenacity pet.
评论来自
318564
This is a BM spec method of taming this pet. I have this posted on Skarr's page (who I tamed successfully with this method) but seeing as how many people seem to think help or a MM spec is necessary, this should let you stay BM and have an easy time of it for either rare:
1) Find a disposable
Core Hound
for
Ancient Hysteria
. The best way I found to do this is to take the portal from your capital to the Blasted Lands. You should see a green
Core Hound
named
Gomegaz
wandering around just behind the crater. If he isn't there or is dead, fear not, his spawn time is fast. Pick him up and return to your city.
2) Haste, haste, haste. I bought both
Elixir of Mighty Speed
and
Potion of Speed
. The elixirs take 1 Stormvine and 1 Twilight Jasmine to make. The potions take 1 Pygmy Oil and 2 Adder's Tongue, however, any DPS class usually receives a stack of 5 of these in the
congratulations satchel from Ronin for reaching level 80
so it's not uncommon to find some cheap on the AH. I picked up 20 for about 40g.
3) Deterrence macro - I recommend setting this up just in case someone tries to mess with your taming even though I didn't actually need to use deterrence in my case. I also used a macro to abandon my pet in one click, although in hindsight it probably isn’t the best idea. If you fail once, your
Ancient Hysteria
is then no longer at your disposal. If you can, take the few seconds to dismiss him instead.
Deterrence Macro:
/cast Deterrence
/cast Tame Beast
4) Head to the Molten Front and station yourself around the base of the southern cluster of rocks. Use
Eagle Eye
to keep an eye on the other spawn point. In my case, Skarr was up at the northern spawn.
5) When you see him, do not panic. Calmly hop the rock maze (swearing as the breakable ones delay you if you must). The highest rock has a large red plume/updraft shooting off of it. Jumping in this plume gives you a 100% haste buff called
Convalesence of Winds
. Note that this plume is not phased – I only did enough quests to gain entrance to the Molten Front and could still use it. Jump the maze, get the haste buff, and run over to Karkin, staying on the mainland. Be careful if you have to jump back down! The buff also increases your jump distance and makes it harder to gauge.
6) The process to tame him is simple at this point. Be sure you have your
Elixir of Mighty Speed
on, have your
Core Hound
out and pop
Ancient Hysteria
. Dismiss or abandon the
Core Hound
. Pop your
Potion of Speed
. If you are a troll (I am, thankfully) use
Berserking
. Hit the Deterrence / Tame macro to pull him and start the tame. Do it all in that order. If you pop the potion first, for example, it may wear off before you manage to cast
Ancient Hysteria
and dismiss your pet.
My Tame Beast finished in less than 3 seconds, far under the cast time for
Fieroclast Barrage
. In fact, my tame was so fast that I thought something had gone wrong and looked around nervously to see if someone else had been taming it and not me. Much to my joy, no one had him and then he teleported to my side. I took no damage throughout the entire process.
While this method may look complicated, it really isn’t. It took no more time or effort than making an unfamiliar spec and setting new bars up for it. And should something have happened (like a member of the opposite faction interfering) I was in a spec that is familiar to me and could deal with the threat quite efficiently.
评论来自
zomg5
@Stabbiter
Killed him yesterday (Shadowsong - EU). Saw a hunter messing around with it, he didn't interrupt the cast, got us both killed.. he got back first, started trying again, I stealthed, and dropped into a rotation, and nuked it down just before his cast finished. It was rather beautiful, my only regret is that I didn't get the Hunter Tears™ to cover the repairs that idiot set me back..
you are by far the worst person i ever come across apart from the person in my previous post.
I hope whatever dungeon and raid you're in people always will ninja your stuff.
评论来自
779198
Tamed this one awhile back. I'd finally decided to go after the rares that'd just been released and headed out to Molten Front. I'd seen a nelf hunter frantically trying to jump up the rocks to the island and dying repeatedly. I made it up in one try, ready to park myself to camp for Skarr, when I look over on the rocks to my left and see this guy just sitting there with a nelf priest staring at him.
Now I hadn't bothered to look up any tactics on the new rares at this point, so I just got close enough for Karkin to be within reach of Tame Beast, and hit it. Not sure why, but he didn't so much as attack, just sat there and let me tame him (probably a good thing as I'd not dual specced for MM to silence that nasty one shot attack). I thought for a minute maybe he was evading, but seconds later he was mine.
Happy with my new pet, turned around only to see the nelf priest and hunter (can only assume the priest had told his friend the pet was up and he'd been trying to get out there.) standing there staring at me. I felt a bit bad, but, I got up there first and it honestly hadn't occured to me he'd been trying to get him. Hope he later tamed him.
评论来自
486756
Its also found in two other places I managed to tame him in BM spec by doing this:
i pressed tame and while he was halfway into casting foreclast barrage i used a macro that was like this: /cast detterence
/cast tame beast
He shares the same spawn points and spawn timer with Skarr. A really cool pet with pretty good DPS its a tank pet. Best of luck to everyone :P
评论来自
Phelia
Karkin is one of the new rare hunter pets.
He spawns on the northeastern floating platforms off Fireplume Peak.
Karkin has the spell
Fieroclast Barrage
. It is a 5 sec cast, does 70k+ damage and stuns you for a second, which interrupt the channelling of Tame Beast.
There's multiple useful things you can do to deal with this. If you're Marksman you should cast
Silencing Shot
before you start taming him.
Another useful thing is to get as much haste as you can to speed up the cast. If you're Beast Mastery
Ancient Hysteria
from the Core Hound is useful. Using
Basilisk Liverdog
,
Elixir of Mighty Speed
and
Potion of Speed
before you engage is also useful. You can also stack haste gear but I wouldn't advise it unless everything else isn't enough.
The absolutely best trick to get massive haste and easily taming Karkin is to get the buff
Convalescence of Winds
, I'll explain how to acquire it.
To get to the Fireplume Peak you have to jump on some floating platforms from The Furnace leading to the southern part of the peak. At the end of the floating platforms path there's a Thermal Vent. When you jump in the airvent you don't only jump really high but you also get the buff
Convalescence of Winds
which lasts for 2 minutes and increases your haste by 100%. This buff is not necessary to tame Karkin but it makes it really easy.
(Note that theThermal Vents actually on Fireplume Peak does not provide the buff, it is only the vents on the floating platforms leading to it that does)
A obvious warning is that since this buff also lets you jump really high, be careful not to jump off the island. Don't go out onto the platforms to tame Karkin, you should instead stand at the edge of Fireplume Peak.
I also suggest you use this standard macro for taming him, to avoid damage and potentially escaping a barrage:
/cast Deterrence
/cast Tame Beast
Throw in
Silencing Shot
,
Ancient Hysteria
and
Potion of Speed
if you're using them.
评论来自
ohnoezitsjoes
Tamed on Thrall-US at 10:50 pm server (I saw Skarr get killed at ~5:30pm same day).
Named him Annihilation, most fitting name I knew.
评论来自
55493
I got him at 4:30 pm server Ravencrest. I was taming him and was having a hard time of it. Another hunter came up and offered to help me. Thank god this was a nice person or I would have not gotten him. Also I want to thank all of you for the excellent advise that you guys always share.
评论来自
Euphyley
I've got a short video of a friend of mine taming him
here
.
评论来自
419458
Server: Feathermoon
Time: 7:00 p.m. ST
Co'ord: 33,53
He spawns in the same spot Skarr does. So both Skarr and Karkin share same spawn time and spawn spots. *From what I've seen* They both do a barrage where you silence them 3/4 into it, deterrence, then tame.
评论来自
712420
I saw the crab on my Blood Elf hunter (ametris) and started to tame it. A NE druid decided to kill it right infront of me. Me being the person I am, I got pissed and really sad at the same time. I don't know why but I really want to give it to them.
Earthern Ring- 1:40 AM
Be warned Shaureesa, I am pissed.
评论来自
804079
I tamed Karkin the other day and his challenge is to pretty muc scatter shot him in the right wany and pop detterence to make sure his fireball thing doesbt hit you because that will pretty much kill you. H ave someone stand in front of you and start the tame.
评论来自
431735
I'm not super excited I got this guy but he's pretty cool. I was camping Skarr and he just popped up on my npcscan. I just tamed, silenced, and tamed again. Easy.
Korgath - Derken
评论来自
537090
An interesting thing about this pet. It's name comes from the Greek word Karkinos, which is the Zodiac sign for Cancer.
评论来自
807418
He is a Crab model WC-4.3, sent back from da future to terminate Garrosh Hellscream!
评论来自
Salandria
28/7/2011
Server: Kalecgos - PVP
Tame Time: 3:50PM PST
Tame Location: 34,53
Notes: I did not get the exact spawn information as I had just been called over by a friend to help him tame and he was successful.
Good luck hunters!
评论来自
202176
If you notice the only item they drop is called
Crystalline Tear of Loyalty
, and the description of that item says "The desire to serve as a loyal companion coalesced into a single priceless crystals" and that is the way of Blizzard to say you shouldn't be killing these spawns but instead hunters should tame them (notice the part of : The desire to serve as a loyal companion = A hunter pet)
So yh if a wasnt the first one to notice this sry then i didnt read trough 121 comments ( or something like that) to know if i am stealing someones post or not, but i reached to this conclusion myself so just wanted to put that out there.
PS: There are
10 rare spawns
that came in , in patch 4.2.
评论来自
AkaraBWR
I guess I'm just lucky... or something. But my hunter reached level 85 last night and then I logged off. This morning I logged on and did the dailies to get into the molten front and decided that I was going to have a look around to see what rares were out here at the time. I wasn't too interested in taming any of the spiders, but I really really want Skarr.
I went over to the floating rocks and I saw Kirix running around. Apparantly he was cached cause my NPCscan didn't go off.. but it didn't have to, he was pretty easy to spot lol. I figured that I would try to tame him and I started jumping up on the rocks and then my NPCscan went off for Karkin. I wanted Karkin alittle bit more than the Spiders so I went over to get him.
I was getting help from another hunter who already had him, but in the end it was just luck. I don't have a marks spec, I just have surv and BM. I was in Surv at the time and I gave a few tries at him but died before my tame finished, or he ended up interrupting my casts with one of his spells. It was about the third try when I popped a haste pot and detterence, and I finally got him. He didn't get a chance to interrupt me and I was left with about 25-30% HP I think.
So first day being 85 and I get a nice little new pet :P
评论来自
211588
Can confirm that Karkin does share a spawn timer with Skarr.
Spent the day camping for Karkin (from 12:30pm), and at 20:48pm Skarr spawned and was promptly tamed by another hunter, as I already have my own.
Logged on around 1:30am and at 1:50am Karkin spawned on the northen floating rock formations.
So the spawn timer does vary it seems, as I've heard a lot of speculation that they have a 6/8hour spawn timer, However I found him exactly 5hours later, despite the first metallic pet spawn being around 8hours, so don't get disheartened, the timer can work to your advantage, and give you a generous wait.
Fully recommend using the heat slipstreams to gain the haste buff, as for both my Skarr and Karkin tames, half way during the tame the pet becomes instantly tamed, before they manage to get the first barrage up, essentially making them tamable by a hunter of any gear level, provided they collect the buff before attempting to tame.
Good Luck my fellow hunters!
And anyone taming on Azjol-Nerub, feel free to wisper be for help or advice on them :)
Always happy to help out my fellow hunters, Horde or Alliance :)
-Okami, Guardian of Cenarius
评论来自
834556
I fell in love with this pet after I saw him with my close friend. I set out to tame him, annnd, speaking my luck was good, I tamed him on the first day of camping. My friend was camping Skarr who I had at the time, and he had to go to BoT. So i told him, If Skarr spawns, I'll tell you. Not sure if raid will let you out, though. But 5 minutes after he left, NPCscan blares through the techno music I was listening to, and Karkin was omnomnoming away. My heart almost died , as I simply tame Karkin in mere seconds. I told my friend, and did /pet on Karkin. Later, I named him Omnomnomnomnom.
Found: 5:59pm, Mannoroth Server time.
Tamed: 6:00pm Mannoroth Server time.
My luck, because a horde hunter came in seconds later.
评论来自
Lucetia2896
If you want to tame this pet and not be marksman there is a way to avoid the blast he does. What I did was got on the ledge (the other where the flames are) and got into range of casting it. Then I cast Tame Beast this caused him to start casting the blast. My mage friend hit Time Warp and then I hit Feign Death. It will show it still casting at you but it'll hit your friend. After you dropped aggro immediately hit Rapid Fire and Tame Beast. He'll then continue hitting your friend with fireball until you've tamed him.
Overall even easier then Deth'tilac which only took about two minutes dropping traps that snare as SV and resummoning pet for sacrifice.
评论来自
862030
just helped a ne tame him at 9:55 on wyrmrest accord... ive been over here waiting for the kitty to spawn and he did instead so i /who and asked someone if they wanted him... now if the kitty will spawn for my good deed :-P
评论来自
50789
After doing a late night tour Vashjir & Deepholm it was time to do a quick hunt for Magria, Banthalos & Karkin. Late at night means less chance of swooping down & sudenly finding out I'm trying to tame a Druid :(. Anyway no Mag or Ban to be seen so thru the port, stood next to a Druid & used my trusty Eagle Eye, then slowly turned to see a Troll on a red raptor looking at Karkin, & then he rode off. Trojox as cool as an icecube in freezer hops on his Hog, (guy in real world nearly has a heart attack). Drat, unseen rock in the flames, fried to more than a crisp, manage to res on the other side. Back on the Hog to the steping stones & soon across, camoflauge past the Rock Ele's. By this time there's a Worgan clearly on his second tame attempt, being the softy I am, I step back to signal he can try again, he does 1 or 2 more times & fails. Now a Nightelf turns up with a Corehound, they join group, Ancient Hysteria, he tries again & dies, he must be on 2 min res by now. So Nightelf dismisses Corehound & tries, & dies. My turn, use Lady La-La singing thing, tame beast, cast Silencing Shot,
then macro /use haste potion
/cast deterrence
/cast tame beast
Karkin is mine, Nightelf has ressed, she cheered, Trojox stood there, eventulally (real world guy) stopped shaking enough to give a general chat thank you.
This is to say thank you to all the people who take the time and write to these pages with tips & hints so as people like me can really enjoy the game, thank you.
I used this macro 3-4 weeks ago to tame Skarr, again thank you.
评论来自
743900
Just tamed him on ursin as BM. no food buff or pot, just the haste buff from the updraft, didnt even have to jump to a rock, moved up, hit with 1 shot (wont immune like the others) hit deterrence and tame. fast and easy
just an edit, i have 5% haste, all my haste is reforged out. and i dont use any haste buffs etc other then the one from the updraft.
Double Edit: as of now, all im missing for 4.2 rares/spirit beasts is Skarr, skitterflame and Ankha. with my tactic. no haste boost other then updraft. very simple
评论来自
Arkets
hmm i just jump from stone to stone then i gotta theee buff (100% haste) then i click Karkin + haste pot + deterrence + pet tame.... and before he could end his cast.... he was mine ;D ah btw i used camouflage to get near enough 4 pet tame... short get "updraft buff" -> camouflage near him -> hit macro -> /use haste pot /cast deterrence /cast pet tame -> done. :D
评论来自
720742
On August 3rd, the Karkin spawned at 9:45am and was tamed at 9:50am. I was standing at the first spawn location because an alliance hunter was waiting at the northern spawn point (36.6, 34.8). The Karin spawned at the northern location, but the hunter didn’t move. I waited but still no response so I popped off my shots and the Karkin did his AoE and killed me and the hunter instantly. Thank goodness the grave yard is 3 steps away from where I died. This time I waited for him to do the AoE but it just kept hitting me with the fireballs, so I thought it would knock me out of taming, so I silence him and a few seconds later, he did the AoE... and I successfully died again. This time, I said screw it I’m just going to tame him and when I saw the AoE being cast, I silenced him and then tamed and this way worked. At the time, I didn’t see any comments about the fireballs affecting the tame so I was nervous to try at first.
I followed the directions from the other comments but after dying twice, I realize my mistake. My mistake was that I was popping off my shots to quickly and not waiting for him to perform his special attack. It is an easy tame when you watch for his attacks. You will need arcane shot to tag him. He will start shooting fireballs at you. Good thing is it only takes off small amounts of life and you can tame him without it knocking you out of the tame. However! When he does his special ability (and I can’t remember the name), you will need to use silencing shot from your marksmanship tree. Even if you are in the middle of taming and the AoE is being casted, go ahead and press silence shot and then continue taming him. Without the silencing shot, that ability he does kills you. It seems like he only performs two attacks: fireballs and his AoE. It is also an AoE. I used deterrence shot once but I didn’t see how it helped him…honestly. All I needed was arcane shot and silencing shot. You don't have to be a BM to tame him or Skarr.
Note:8/3 at 4:45pm Skarr tame (it spawn a few minutes earlier). The spawn time seems to be 6-8 hours after each other.
-Eldre’thalas server
评论来自
859994
Tamed at 9:45am server time on Akama (8/8/11). I was BM spec.
Hopped up the rocks leading to Fireplume Peak, and went to the far left rock where there is a thermal vent (there is also a rock like this to the far right). Hopped onto Fireplume to get my 2 min 100% increased cast/attack speed buff from the special thermal vent. Hopped down until I was in LOS of the crab down below me. All I did was hit my macro
/cast Deterrence
/cast Tame Beast
that I got from other peoples' comments under Kirix's page. I don't think Deterrence really helps here, and I could have sworn that Karkin stunned me before tame finished, but next thing I knew he was friendly and standing next to me on the floating platform that I was perched on. I guess it was just a really close call (I also don't see anything about being stunned/interrupted in my combat log so I guess it was just a trick of the eyes :P ).
Going to see if this method will work for Skarr also or if I'll have to cave in and swap over to my MM spec for the silence.
Best of luck!
评论来自
863609
tamed at 03:01 - Nagrand - EU.
Fairly easy to tame, fake a tame pet, when he casts fieroclast barrage, use silencing shot and instantly tame. You should have around half health by end of tame and have a new pet.
评论来自
855729
Just wondering, is there a pattern to Skarr's and Karkin's Spawn? cause I've been camping Karkin for awhile now and I've seen Skarr spawn like 5 times then i would see Karkin spawn. Well, I'd either see or hear about him being tamed/killed. I really does angry me when you finally have your spawn and then a horde comes and kills it when you try to make your way back to your body after epic failing the first time.
评论来自
855729
btw, does anyone know if a rares spawn timer is affected by server shutdowns or resets?
评论来自
Delupi
Tamed him. 8-12-11 2:00 A.M.
Delupi - Daggerspine US - Horde
Spawned on the floating platforms leading up to the Druid of the Talon dailies.
Nice trick for any Tauren Hunters who stumble onto him.
Camo -> Jump to his platform -> War Stomp then immediately Tame. Stuns him long enough to get him.
评论来自
855729
I have FINALLY got him! After about 5 different tries on different spawns. I had made it just in time. I died once the i got my tame off right before a horde ( that is well known for killing rares after seeing Alliance hunters trying to tame) got to him. I really do hate people that that do that. Hate hode too, but that's a different story.
Anyways, Good luck to everyone. Hope you guys don't have the same problem as I did.
评论来自
Traziz
Very similar in taming to Skarr.
Tame, wait for barrage attack, immediately cast silence shot, then Deterrence and Tame macro. No need for haste buffs or gear. You will get it.
评论来自
wheels010
ive been looking for karkin for like 2 days, but everytime him or skarr spawns its always skarr, i already have skarr, but what I want to know is why isnt this crab spawning? did karkin and skarr get into a fight? if so skarr must always win...
评论来自
Dristor
In my opinion the worst beast's skin ever, it's simply ugly. I don't like this pet.
评论来自
twistedtwilight
Very easy to tame this one; I helped a hunter that wasn't marksman do it. I Time warped him and counterspelled the opening spell. Was hers shortly after that.
评论来自
wheels010
finally got this awesome crab this morning around 5:20am server, it was an easy tame like skarr was, but now i have the rare i wanted since the release of firelands
评论来自
865852
I found this guy on one of the floating platforms you have to jump on to get to where the firehawks are. I found this very easy to tame with the (deterence/tame) macro
评论来自
785932
Spawned at 3pm server Whisperwind. Just waited till he cast his first fireball then deterrenced and started taming. Right before the 2nd one got off he was mine.
评论来自
866094
I saw him early yesterday morning and was attempting to tame when a rude little gnome came over and killed him. I was upset because this is one of fave 4.2 pets.
Then later that day, I came back to search for Skarr and there Karkin was! And no one around either! There are two spawn points and I've seen them both. On the rocks between Fireplume Peak and The Furnace, and also between Fireplume Peak and Ragnaros' Reach.
Took some trial and error, but I figured out the tame.
At first I would tag him and then I would die before finishing my tame.
And then I would tame first and do silencing shot with the barrage but the fireballs would kill me.
And then I finally got the 2min haste buff, and he actually finished the tame before the bar was up.
I love my little crab <3
评论来自
866574
Just tamed this guy... I switched over to my secondary Marksmanship talents, and then started taming, once Karkin's attack was almost cast, I cast silencing shot, and continued taming.
评论来自
536000
I can confirm he shares spawn points with
Skarr
. BOTH can and have spawned from each point.
(I actually tamed each from the opposite spawn point marked on wow head).
Also the easiest way to tame is do the following:
1) Jump from rock to rock on your way to the top of FirePlume Peak.
YOU MUST MAKE SURE THAT YOU GO ALL THE WAY TO THE VERY TOP
.
2) The very top
Thermal Vent
will give you a buff called
Convalescence of Winds
.
3) This buff gives you a 100% haste increase for 2 min. (it also makes you rocket jump every time you jump - so be careful).
4) With this buff - you can tame BOTH Skarr and Karkin without any other needed elements - just hit tame and your will beat their attack.
--------------
If you have npcscan you can actually be on the very top platform, ready to get the wind buff - when Skarr or Karkin appear - get your debuff and tame.
NOTE: If they appear on the platform areas - you will actually have to walk off the rocks to the ones below. I recommend practicing this while you have the Druid of Talon quests here that way if you fall - they catch you and bring you back up.
评论来自
853822
I have just tamed Karkin on alonsus. server time (21:35) to tame him have silencing shot.
1. start to tame
2. silencing shot
3. tame agian
4. you have him :)
good luck and have fun when you have him ;)
评论来自
FartGarfunkel
just caught the little bastard.
/Cast Deterrence
/Cast Tame Beast
is the best!
评论来自
Lokkey
Spawned at 10:00AM (8/22/11) server on Silvermoon-US. Was in the process of getting in LoS for the tame when a worgen warlock by the name of Lohal from the guild Unrestrained attacked and killed him. Nice job Lohal...nice job.
评论来自
243753
Well, I wish I had read this last night...
It was my first time up in that part of the Molten Front, and I hadn't really read up on any of quests when suddenly there are a couple of messages in Local that Karkin is up. I wasn't even aware this guy was a rare.
Apparently I was the only hunter in the area that didn't already have him, so another kind hunter helped me. I was only in PVP gear, and my Haste wasn't all that good, so it took about three or four tries (he shoots a pretty powerful fireball), with my Deterence up, taming, and another hunter silencing and interrupting. I was probably luck that ended up getting this great catch for me more than anything.
This was on Ghostlands, about 3AM server time.
评论来自
385379
For what it's worth, Karkin just sawned in front of me at 10:16PM server time on Area 52-US.
5 or 6 hunters were standing around making attempts to tame him and a mage came out of nowhere and killed him in front of us and left.
评论来自
Sanryo
Well this isn't about at what time he was tamed or anything...but I haven't seen anyone else point this out yet so:
His ability-
Fire it up!
Is (What I like to think of) as a tounge-in-cheek reference to Starcraft, The Firebat (For those of you that don't know) Was a flamethrower unit in the first game, and in the sequel only makes appearances in the campaign and multiplayer custom maps, not official ones. And one of their many sayings was "Fire it up!" when they were selected. Maybe I'm over-thinking it, but..
评论来自
Bumfuzz
Just got him 2:25 am server time Daggerspine eu. Tame-silence-tame again,very easy. Wanted Skarr but this guys cool as well. Went to get skitter just afterwards and saw a Horde taming so helped with the aggro and congratulated him/her.
评论来自
Babas
I did the haste buff tame stated above. I fully tamed Karkin at about 1/4-1/3 full on my tame bar.
I had a hunters help with the silencing shot, but that just interrupted my tame spell as well. So Haste Buff it is.
评论来自
150475
Tamed 1:20PM on Bloodhoof-US. I lucked out because there was an ally hunter with his two priest friends trying to kill it since I was trying to tame....$%^&*!@s. Got killed 4 times
评论来自
876492
I was honestly looking for Skarr cuz i have gotten Ban'thalos, Magria, Ankha, Terrorpene and what not. However I was just sitting there when my NPC Scan went off and noticed it was the crab...Even though its not Skarr, it works for me!
All I did was try to tame him and then i noticed he was about to use the Barrage shizz, and i silence shot him, and then tamed him again. However he did hit me with a fire ball...but i got him
评论来自
Paulosio
I just tamed this guy and have never seen it on my server.... as I arrived some Paladin invited me to a group and said "help me kill it". I quickly tamed it and he said "where it is".... I don't think he understood I was there to tame it and couldn't understand why it was no longer on the rock after I tamed it despite the fact it was now standing next to me.
I didn't use any taming tricks... all but 1 of his casts seemed to miss me. Not sure if it's because I tamed him from the floating rock beside the 1 he stands on.
评论来自
zulmas
To all who want to kill this animal =======> Do it!
You only make it more rare (as a pet) that it was ment to be, more glory to a hunter owning one.
I was unable to tame him ....... Yet!
评论来自
pat1812
I just now saw karkin spawning on the other spot where skarr is also spawning.. not the usual spot... he was killed by someone before i could reach him grrr..
so he has more spawnspots then what think and what is saying here
评论来自
traesten
I'm not a hunter, and I don't keep up to date on hunter pets. I have never played a hunter past level 20, and I had no idea Karkin was some sought-after hunter pet. He looks like any other rare spawn in the game. If you want to think anyone who kills one of these pets is stupid or just griefing you, go ahead, but you're wrong. Why don't you all band together and petition Blizzard to give them a different-color portrait or something? Then at least the rest of us would KNOW something was meant to be a tamable mob and not a cool rare. Just saying.
And it will spawn again...if you want it badly enough, camp it. Don't be jerks to someone who may not have known any better. (Though if someone like that guy on Tanaris in the Osiris guild does it, that's different...but I didn't know any better.)
评论来自
519868
Don't worry about needing haste, as long as you are a Marksman and have Silencing Shot, you will be fine. My strategy:
>Tame Beast
>Interrupt Fieroclast Barrage
>Deterrence (which was unnecessary, but may stop a gank.)
>Tame Beast
His fireballs hit me for 17k each (through Deterrence,) and he was only able to get a couple off.
评论来自
841183
Just Tamed him.
I was unaware that he was a hunters challenge. (I had already tamed Skitterflame, Anthriss & Magria btw) i just ran up and hit tame...
My tame ended as he attacked and i got a mad new friend... no dramas... strangely enough.
评论来自
Romire
Karkin appeared at 7:44pm 7/9 AEST
Saw him on Fireplum ridge.
Was about to tame when some jackass comes in and kills it.
Doesnt ANYONE understand that, their HUNTER PETS CHALLANGERS? my god i swear some people are idiots.
Back on to a 15hr wait now
评论来自
Romire
Well I just tamed Karkin at 10:05pm 7/9/11 on Fireplum Peak.
I was chatting to a friend, and saw it spawn right behind her, i offered it to her becuase she was already there.
She ended up dying 3 times, and passed it too me!
To tame this pet, do the following:
Haste Pot > Deterrence > Tame
Instant Win!
A lovely crab to have.
Deth'tilac is next!
Photo
评论来自
Ungata
@ Harixe
What server are you on? I want to know so I can avoid it, or transfer off of it if I am on it.
评论来自
Paulosio
I hate this pet.... I tamed him for the 1st time a few days ago while looking for Skarr. I then found him at around 2am today and tamed then abandoned to give Skarr a chance to spawn. I found him for the 3rd time at 6am today and again I tamed and abandoned to allow Skarr to spawn :(
Edit: Just tamed him and abandoned for a 3rd time at 3am... I would just wait for another hunter to come along but at these late hours there is normally nobody about. Where are you Skarr!
评论来自
864988
I caught him right after catching Gondria today . Two rares in a row , he was just sitting there and I used beast master to catch. No buffs ... scatter shot detterence tame .
评论来自
Risingknight1
I simply pulled out "Chromaggus" in beast mastery hit ancient hysteria and dismissed and deterrence next thing i know like instance he was caught and tamed i would recomend doing that for your tame as well :)
评论来自
solardiablo
Tamed on Earthen Ring about an hour ago. Sitting at his spawn point with no one around, and even though I wasn't after him the way I was Skarr and Ban'thalos, I figured what the hey. Used the same mechanics as for Skarr: MM spec, silence the barrage, deterrence, tame. Easy enough. And now my stables are at max capacity!
评论来自
777717
Tamed Karkin yesterday...switched from BM to MM spec, aggroed him, waited for him to cast his barrage and silence shot him, then tamed. There were 2 other enemy ally hunters trying to take, but a horde DK named Gåtts came in and helped me clear them out. So I named my crab Gåtts. If you are planning on taming this guy...have MM spec with silence shot specced ready. I just helped an MM hunter trap him today, but he did not have silence shot(?why i dont know) After trying for 30 minutes unsuccessfully, we went the thermal route with the 100% haste buff and he tamed him easily. My advice to hunters trying to tame...know how to catch what you want and what you need to do it...be prepared and dont give up. Research! You'll get it eventually. GL!
评论来自
880999
have been told by a good hunter friend that when karkin or skarr appear you dont have to get on platforms. he tamed them both by getting close to the edge and used tame, silence and than tame. if your armor risks heavy damage than use deter after silence...im waiting for them to spawn to try it but he has them both!
评论来自
HaRE86
Just tamed this baby a while ago. I am still at the 1st Phase of the Molten Front Dailies. I have not unlock the Druids of the Talon nor Shadow Wardens. If any of you hunters want to get this pet without unlocking the Druids of Talon dailies, follow these simple steps:-
1. Make sure Karkin is there
2. Get to the Magma Springs
3. Jump off the cliff to the west heading to Karkin and die
4. You will end up spawning at the Fireplume Peak graveyard. Ress Sickness here.
5. Wait out for the Ress Sickness debuff to go off (I didn't)
6. Get to The Furnace using the gust of wind.
7. From here its pretty much the same as other guides (Haste buff/potions etc.)
I was at 55k max hp (because of the Ress Sickness) when I started taming it. Manage to deflect the 1st fireball. Luckily the 2nd fireball missed me and poof. My very own metallic crab. Hope this helps.
Harlyx @ Aman'thul US
评论来自
877662
Got her this morning at the northern rock spawn spot on Gnomer server. Was ~11:30am server time. I stood on the rock next to the island to be in tame distance, hit silencing shot, then deterrence, then tame. He shot at me and interrupted tame, I re-tamed, he shot again but missed me, and he was mine! Had me on the edge of my seat :D Happy hunting!
Had a haste potion and a stam scroll.
评论来自
876037
Karkin is super easy to tame if you follow the advice given.
Tamed him at 312pm server today. I had res sickness and about 68k health and was able to tame him by silencing his big spell then hitting deterrence then taming.
Tamed him on my alliance hunter Huntera on Cenarion Circle.
评论来自
881988
Tamed at 06:35am 9/19/11 on Andorhal.
I was looking for Skarr but found Karkin instead.
I'm Surv/BM so I did the following:
1. Popped my
源质幼龙
.
2. Attacked Karkin.
3. FD.
4. Tame.
评论来自
825408
9/18/11
I tamed this pet with the very easy strat of getting to the top rock that has the haste buff, silenced his main attack and casted tame right after. I ate the fireball but it did not interupt my tame spell. Piece of cake and should be used by everyone.
评论来自
634798
Tamed Karkin yesterday around 20:30 Uk time on the hellfire server, he was on the lower level in fireplum ridge, hit tame beast then silenced his fire barrage, hit detterance then tame again and boom new pet.
On a side note i was actually camping Skarr, went back today and sat at the usual spawn points, Karkin spawned twice, once on the upper level about 15:15pm UK time and then again on the lower level about 22:10pm. So it would seem a 6 hour spawn timer is minimum on both these guys.
Will return tomorrow to look for Skarr, fingers crossed.
Hope this helps, good luck guys.
评论来自
DrPhil
I spent 30 min trying to tame him. Reason being my MM spec doesn't have MM. So this is what you do. By jumping on to the Island through the platforms you will gain a buff that will increase you haste by 100%. Cast tame and its all yours. Simple. For you downies that post unrelated comments hope you diaf.
Happy Hunting!
评论来自
Enigma1196
I found him by accident at about 3:22am, I've found that its best to look for them at unusual time's since there was only 4 people online(Horde side)
I wiped a few time's yes, because I solo'ed it, I found that if you half tame, then silence that cast that one shots you, then use Detternce about half way into flame burst or bolt. He should hit you on the second bolt, but I managed to tame him with ress sickness on, 57k hp, had 23k at the end.
Happy hunting!
评论来自
slayer50513
Please keep in mind that unless you are an MM hunter or have someone to silence him (i.e. DK) you will be murdered a fiery death.
评论来自
Shakarri
How to tame Karkin as non-MM
Jump all the way to the last mario platform and get the 100% haste buff
Target Karkin and hit Tame Beast
Karkin (same as Skarr) will be tamed way before his Fieroclast Barrage goes off.
It helps if Karkin is in the north east spawn location, I couldn't keep the haste buff when he was on the southern spawn point.
评论来自
597835
I hopped rocks until a vent shot me onto a main platform, got the haste buff for 2 minutes. Shot him with something that dazed him for a couple seconds hit tame and he was mine. I didnt have to get to close to him.
评论来自
721254
I found him sharing at the same spawn location where Skarr spawns. I was wearing my pvp gear (avg iLv 371, 135k hp) and he didn't one-shot me so I was able to feign death if he got his special ability off before I finished the tame. Was pretty easy to tame as MM with silencing shot, but I assume that scatter shot would work as well.
评论来自
885172
Tamed by my hunter Fenaxena;
Drak'thul - 7 Oct. 9:36
If you have not marksman spec like me(beastmaster & survival) maybe this could help you.
HAPPY HUNTING!
1. go into BEASTMASTERY SPEC
2. summon your CORE HOUND
3. active its ANCIENT HYSTERIA
(30% faster casting for 40 sec.)
7. UNCALL pet
8. pull Karkin or Skarr with TAME BEAST
9. INTERUPT your taming, when he is about to finishing cast his Fieroclast Barrage
and cast DETERENCE(5 sec.)
10. start cast TAME BEAST once again
TADAAA, congratulations on yours new cool pet! :)
评论来自
Pogmahon
I want blizz to institute a Karma debuff for these pets. If you kill one, you get an hour long debuff that nerfs your RNG rolls so end up having really bad luck.
It doesnt prohibit people from killing them, but it may make them think twice about it.
评论来自
pat1812
Just tamed Karkin @ Hellscream EU 19:05
logged in and ther ewas a troll hunter taming..
he failed so i tried and i had him w00t
silence his barrage en tame and hes yours
评论来自
Afflictzia
the easiest tame yet for me, including normal pets : stand on ledge, start tame, shoot silencing shot when he cast barrage then start tame again and profit ;)
评论来自
monkeyporche
reading all the post about this pet i feel bad now for the way a tamed him. I just got into Molten Front, still on first phase and he dinged on my NPC scan, naturally i stated hunting him and could not find him because i was cut off from his area by The Furnance. I jumped off the side of the cliff in desperation and died, and lo and behold i spawned up on that island I could not previously reach. From said island I tamed him and he shot two fireballs at me, both missed and then he was mine.
评论来自
904636
Just tamed this pet on Nagrand. NPCscan went off at exactly 8:01am.
Used the methods outlined above:
Start tame
Shoot Silencing shot when he starts castings his barrage
Used the /cast tame /cast deterrence macro to start taming again.
No haste buffs or potions were used.
Took me two go's because I was so excited the first try that I popped the macro before using silencing shot and ended up eating his barrage. :)
评论来自
9mmx19
When I got him I think it bugged. I accidentally interrupted a regular fireball and got hit with the fieroclast (I took like 95% damage) but my tame somehow completed. Used the deterrence macro on the first page.
评论来自
StaticLgtBrngr
Unlike the other rares in the zone this creature is hostile towards any player who walks past, I was jumping over the rocks while questing on my shaman the other day when I got randomly fireballed and when I looked down it was this guy targeting me.
评论来自
mynx
Same thing happened to me as someone who posted above. Just tamed on Galakrond, and it was right after I got Kirix after 4 or 5 attempts. He was on the floating rocks and after I got over to Fireplume Peak, I targeted him, cast deterrence then tame, and he didn't so much as attack. I even popped a potion of speed because I had a few left after Kirix. Was nice to have him come so quietly after several frustrating attempts at Kirix. Now I just need to find Skarr one of these days...
评论来自
908033
i just tamed this awesome looking crab !
was in marksmen spec and i just pressed : tame, then silence he´s cast, deterrence and tame again.. workt perfect! got him my first try :)
评论来自
864010
Is there any way to tame this pet with out a haste buff? Would hate to have to level up a brand new toon just to have alcomy to get the haste buff pot.
评论来自
914159
I found Karkin about 2minutes ago. It´s easy to tame and i don´t think at that is so "challange"
Just jump 30yd range and start tameing it,but when it start casting that "Fieroclast Barrage" stop casting tame beast and use silence shot to it then use deterance and tame beast agin and it yours.
评论来自
ToviValdora
Tamed this guy on Eredar just now.
Extremely easy. I stood on the ledge and hit tame. As soon as he started casting his "one shot" ability, I silenced it, hit deterrence, and started taming again.
I think he hit me with two fire balls before the tame was complete. I didn't have any help or use any sort of haste buff.
评论来自
914987
I got mine this morning at around 5am eastern time, wasn't easy but worth the effort.
评论来自
264582
Wasn't MM but i figured a way yo tame him anyway. i just camouflage to his spot war stomp tame and done lol. i tried many things snake etc only way i knew how to do it.
评论来自
907779
I just tamed this dude on Outland-EU, ran on the left side of the fiery stuff since I haven't been bothered with actually doing any dailies, saw him on my minimap, used the right platforms to get up, got the haste buff from the air thingy, tamed and got him.
评论来自
Thayi
Tamed Skarr and Karkin a day apart as part of my daily routine to check for Molten Front rare spawns. Both tames are incredibly easy for a MM hunter if you use the buff (
Convalescence of winds
) from the floating rocks near where the quest givers are for the Furnace.
Start with tame beast and then silence the blast. Start tame again and soak up the 1-2 small fireball spells. I did Karkin while under resurrection sickness after falling off the edge and rushing back to beat anyone else that would have killed or tamed him.
Good luck!
评论来自
Swanflea
Tamed at 11.46am on Azjol-Nerub EU.
I failed a few times solo with my semi crappy alt gear, then a priest friend came to help me and we got him the second time. I scatter shot the first cast, she silenced the second. But it was close, his barrage was in the air when the tame ended. Close!
He's a tenacity pet, and he's quite nice :)
评论来自
166639
Not much of a challenge anymore, just get the haste buff from jumping up on the island at the north west of the map... tame cast is ~2.3 seconds
评论来自
zinsco
Just got him 10:05 server time "stormreaver."
Was very frustrating at first. I got the buff from the thermal vent but couldn't find away to get on a rock without jumbing to far until I discovered what to do.
After getting the buff I just ran over to where he was right below me. Crept slowly forward until I fell right on his rock.
Feign Death then tame
评论来自
Baconhawk
Got my Karkin earlier around 9 or 10pm ish. Really easy, took me 10 seconds to get to him and tame him. xD
I kept his name because I didn't know what to name him.
Got my Kirix right after too.
Pretty happy. (:
UPDATE!
Well, I just saw Karkin again, REALLY suprised me since I only tamed him 2 or 3 hours ago.
I guess his spawn timer is 3 hours? Wow.
-Shadow council
评论来自
928158
So im gonna save everybody the trouble of having to repec to MM to get this guy with silence shot, All you got to do is go up on the right side of the floating rocks you use to get up there and you will find an Air Plume. Jump into it and you will get a buff that gives you a 100% haste increase that lasts for two minutes. Tame the guy and your down that simple!
评论来自
metafangirl
Tamed at 4:22 AM Server time (my mistake on the screenshot. It is AM, not PM) on Stormrage!
I did use this strategy. It worked flawlessly! Though honestly, I didn't even need Deterrence at all. The rest went swimmingly. If you feel iffy, go ahead and use Deterrence. Better safe than sorry!
- Pull with Tame Beast (This forces him to cast his one shot ability Fieroclast Barrage)
- Silencing shot on Fieroclast Barrage
- Deterrance
- Tame Beast
评论来自
kellyli
i got REALLY lucky. i was camping for skarr, and i saw him. he was already cached bcuz of earlier, so i died like 8 times. on my ninth try, his shot missed, and i got him a split second after he casted fireball. o, and i had rez sickness, so... ya. i think i tamed him at 10:05 or something
评论来自
810178
Got him a little bit after server reset - around 3:10 AM. Had a boomkin and mage with me for the haste buffs (I didn't use the wind buff)
had the mage pop time warp popped tame beast and cancelled it halfway through the fieroclast barrage cast then popped silencing shot deterrence and tame beast and got him. :D
评论来自
931557
For MM Hunter, start taming, hit ESC to self interrupt, cast Silencing Shot to interrupt Fierocast Barrage, and immediately start taming again. Haste won't matter. Once you start taming again, Karkin will get off 2, maybe 3, Fireball spells. His Fireball spell does not interrupt taming. So easy a caveman could do it.
评论来自
903160
SV tame:
I used the rocks that you take to get over to the floating island where you find karkin and i went up to the last rock w/ the windsheer coming out of it and jumped using that said windsheer. you get a buff for 2mins that increases haste.
i used tame beast on karkin, tamed him and moved on w/ my life in whatever time it takes to get to the island by jumping on the rocks and click tame and wait for it to finish so about 2mins? or so.
tamed him w/o anything else but that buff. i didn't hit him/stun him/silence him/trap him ect. i didn't use any potions i didn't have a pet out for a buff, i didn't use berserk, i didn't scatter shot. i just took the rocks and weaved all the way up to the last rock to the wind jump, used it, got the buff walked over to where karkin is (did not even jump on the floating rocks by him, just stood close enough that it reached him) and tamed him. he didn't even get one cast off. easiest tame so far
~Moomoosho
Tauren Hunter Extraordinaire
评论来自
beyre83
today at 16:20 GMT, i was in the process of tameing Karkin, when some A$$ of a mage decided to kill it :S and stoped me tameing it, so not happy :( why they kill them when its only worth 25G
评论来自
thebl4ckd0g
Saw him up today at 4:30pm eastern time on Hellscream. I was in mid-tame, when night elf druid named Appo hopped on a rock near me, and proceeded to kill the npc. Sadly I was not able to tame him today. :(
评论来自
beyre83
he came backup around 12:30am GMT 12/1/2011, i tryed to tame him and kept getting killed, he was at the far end around 37.8, 35.6, so i had to completely REspec my tallents because i didnt have silenceing shot when on marksman :S, once idd gotten back there this was around 1:15am GMT, as my internet droped and had to log 3G, did the Marksman Strat 1, and got a sucessfull tame :)
only Magria, Skitterflame & Solix togo for me
Realm Killrogg EU
评论来自
thebl4ckd0g
Came back today at about 12:30 eastern time on Hellscream-US - no stupid alliance druid to kill him around this time. He was on the left-hand set of rocks (if you are facing the main area for dailies). I started the tame and stopped like somebody suggested, silencing shotted him, and then tamed. Viola! Got him. :D
评论来自
522972
This pet was one of the ones I tame this morning. I kept going back in hopes of getting Skarr but in a different location this one spawn again. Make sure you are in MM spec and watch his cast and interupt then tame again. Very easy tame once ya get that down.
评论来自
937390
Almost tamed this pet around 8:00am on a tuesday, but the server restart didnt give me any time to tame and so he was gone after :(
评论来自
940970
I tamed him lastnight no bells no whistle here's how .. Get on the island the 1st platform at that sloped part of ground where u whould 1st land I stood there, he was spawned on the platform just below. The platform are like stop sign shaped aproch the north tip carfull target use tame he Chanel's his 1 hit take a step back it will miss u go fwd immediately and tame a 2nd time that's it
评论来自
smithwess
Just nabbed him
He was on the platform close to where Kirix goes I stood there without crossing the platforms and hit tame beast inturupted it silence shot then tamed him just like that.
评论来自
Voshk
After observing Karkin and Skarr spawn times on Gnomeregan realm:
Karkin:
Spawn 9:20 p.m. RT - Despawn 9:31 p.m. RT Tuesday
Karkin:
Spawn 3:57 p.m. RT - Despawn 4:10 p.m. RT Tuesday
Karkin:
Spawn 6:15 p.m. RT - Despawn 6:25 p.m. RT Tuesday
Skarr:
Spawn 10:26 p.m. RT - Despawn 10:29 p.m. RT Tuesday
Karkin:
Spawn 1:30 a.m. RT - Despawn 1:43 a.m. RT Wednesday
Karkin:
Spawn 7:55 a.m. RT - Despawn 7:51 a.m. RT Wednesday
The average time between spawns/despawns was
4hr 24min
. Skarr spawns a lot less than Karkin, so if you're camping him expect to be there for a long time. If you're camping Karkin, the minimum spawn time seems to be a 3-4 hr window.
Tactics:
Silencing Shot
Temporarily spec into MM for silencing shot.
You cannot use
Scatter Shot
to interrupt
Fieroclast Barrage
, as he'll just begin casting again when you go to tame.
Start taming, fire Silence Shot, Deterrence/Tame Macro, and you'll have him. If you have less than 110k health, I recommend using a haste potion before Deterrence/Tame Macro.
Convalescence of Winds
You'll definitely want to grab this crafty buff if you don't have any haste potions, or if you just want to be safe. It gives you +100% haste rating/attack speed and you'll be able to jump insanely high.
To get it: upon entering the Molten Front, you must walk along the
left edge
of The Furnace; there is a little path between the flames and the edge of the platform. Once you get past the flames, keep going up and around the back of The Furnace until you reach a cluster of floating rocks leading up to the Fireplume Peak platform. Jump from rock to rock until you reach a Thermal Vent on the last rock, when you jump into it you will gain
Convalescence of Winds
for 2min.
Haste
and
Deterrence
are definitely utilitarian for this tame. If you can stack up enough haste you might not even need to use Silencing Shot. You can pull out a Core Hound and use
Deterrence + Ancient Hysteria + Potion of Speed + Elixir of Mighty Speed + Convalescence of the Winds
and probably pull off quite a mighty tame.
评论来自
Link2999
Very easy tame. Kept my haste buff from the plume and hit tame. Didn't even get a cast off.
评论来自
770841
I killed Karkin today on Hyjal at 3:34 realm time. no hunters were on so no worries.
评论来自
939983
Blizz just needs to make these things drop nothing, and not criteria for an achievement. unless that achieve is to successfully tame which wouldn't happen.
评论来自
635293
tried to tame karkin as BM with haste pot and ancient hysteria method and it does not work. can't complete the tame cast in time.
it's a shame but if you are trying to tame this guy, be sure to respect to MM with silencing shot. i tried to go back to the trainer to do this but when i got back no more karkin.
not sure why everyone else here was successful with ancient hysteria/haste pot method.
评论来自
176786
tamed him with nothing but that 2minute haste buff.
4%haste on gear. BM spec, used the deterrence/tame macro.
评论来自
cerw
Just tamed him very easily, using following order: get close enough to hit tame, as soon as he starts casting hit him with silencing shot and hit tame again. Didn't need haste or even deterrence. Good luck!
评论来自
265949
Since vanilla we have been trained to think a silver dragon means we get better loot - it would be a good idea for blizzard to change the dragon color on spawns meant for hunters to tame
评论来自
rewn
Does anyone know if he can despawn or if his platform's can even degrade?
I find myself asking this as, this morning I was doing dailies on an alt and the little bugger was sitting happy as a camper on the rock. So I promptly log my hunter (who is in the Molten Front already) and get up to where he was to find he is gone. It definitely was not tamed or killed by anyone else as I did a who each time to make sure (I was literally the only person in the area, horde and alliance included). Anyone have any idea?
评论来自
963501
If you are not MM and all the haste pots don't help you then use a simpler way,
Start taming him without deterrence. He will start casting Fieroclast. Let him cast for 2 seconds (a little before half the cast bar) then hit deterrence and start taming again. His first fieroclast will miss you and you will be able to finish the tame even if you get hit by his next fireball.
评论来自
neutriel
lol went up to tame him his fist spell missed and wola i got him :P
评论来自
970654
I used the Drums of Forgotten Kings which gives a magic resistance for 30 min. I'd start taming and if he didn't miss, I'd just feign death. Then, get up and eat and start the process over until his shot did miss me.
评论来自
493620
Finally solo tamed this bad guy at 4:30am PDST as MM Hunter. He seems to spawn about every 12 hours so after killing him earlier during an attempted tame I stayed up to get him. Here is exactly how to tame this interesting creature.
1. Do not use a pet...totally useless for the tame.
2. Do NOT use Hunter's Mark...otherwise you will end up killing him
3. After running through the Furnace, you will find Karkin on a floating rock within range
4. Run up and hit him with Silencing Shot followed by an Arcane Shot or two, then RUN OUT OF RANGE of his Fireball...This tags him so other hunters can't bag him...I found running back to where the GY is keeps you out of harm's way. As long as you have a hit on him, he will stay there, even if you have to run back to the cave and get your armor repaired.
5. Get up to full health...put on Rapid Fire and any speed enhancement potion/elixir.
6. Run toward him til your Auto Shot fires off
7. Then hit him with Silencing Shot
8. Hit him with 2 or 3 Arcane Shots
9. Run back out of range
10. REPEAT this cycle until Karkin's health gets down to about 15%
11. At this point, run up to range...as soon as your Auto Shot fires off IMMEDIATELY HIT SILENCING SHOT THEN HIT THE TAME BUTTON...
12. Karkin's first "fireball" will miss you, giving you just enough time to complete the tame
13. He may get off another "fireball" that will bring your health way down, but if you keep the TAME going you will be able to tame him before you are killed. I had just a couple of ticks left on my health bar when he finally got tamed.
That's it....took a while to figure this one out but the above strategy worked like a charm. Just be careful on the last run that you do NOT use any harmful shots or you will end up killing him like I did on my previous attempt.
Good Hunting!
评论来自
427099
EU-Argent Dawn. 11.40am MM spec 137K health (buffed)
Tried and failed many times as BM - quite sure it's possible, but I couldn't make it. Got out an MM spec and had it on the second attempt. Faked a tame to get him to cast the special ability, quickly canceled the tame and hit him with Silencing Shot, then hit Deterrence (to be on the safe side) and Tame Beast in quick succession. Got me with a couple of bolts but didn't lose much health.
评论来自
THunter
Just come across Karkin for the first time, whilst looking for Skarr.
Had a quick read through here for tacts, but I don't have an MM spec so I just went for it.
He cancelled my tame the first time so i FD and ran off.
Second time round all I did was click tame then immediately FD then start taming again, he still did his attack but it completely missed me and I got the tame.
Not sure if it was luck or not?
评论来自
gryndul
I was spec'ed for BM and did not have silent shot. I could not get my haste high enough to tame Karkin (i missed by just the tiniest margin - frustrating).
Re-did my talents to marksmanship, got silent shot and taming was very, very easy.
Recommendation - no silent shot? Change talents and get it. Tame. Change them back to what you prefer (like me and my Beast Master). Well worth the price in gold if you want to have Karkin.
评论来自
BabyCakes205
Tamed at 2am ET on ER-US Karkin completes my collection of all the rare MEANT TO TAME pets. Seriously. Kill him? That'll make him more rare like it was meant to be? Are you kidding me right now? Sheesh.
very easy tame. Distracting shot, tame, (when he's almost done casting hit your interrupt...must be MM to tame unless you have one w/ you or you have ungodly amounts of health lol) then tame again. Det won't midigate damage if you don't interrupt, and his special will int your cast, and you most likely won't live through his next cast to tame. Good luck!
评论来自
Tyler7
For some reason, he seams to never spawn :/
评论来自
979221
Tamed 4-27-12 5:25PM Doomhammer 37,35
I was looking for Skarr but came across this little guy instead. He's pretty easy, I was MM already for Skarr, so I got next to the edge of the cliff and hit my tame. He started casting his "die hunter die" spell, so I hit him with my silencing shot and hit tame again immediately. He hit me with two fireballs after that, but they didn't do that much damage and the tame finished and he was all mine.
评论来自
hamilton0608
Just tamed him by getting the Convalessence of Winds buff which is obtainable by jumping on the last rock when you jump from the furnace to fireplume, there is a gust of wind that you can see going to the main island, jumping onto that will fly you up onto the island and give you the 2min buff. I used my rapid fire CD just to add to my haste as much as possible. Walked to the edge of the rock platform a little ways from him and cast my tame beast, he didnt even get his cast off and I took no damage. Easy mode. Good luck Hunters !
Edit. I added some screen shots of the rocks you need to jump on for the Convelessence if the Winds buff, there are two locations.
评论来自
824735
Just tamed the gem crab at 5.45am ST, at the northern spawn point.
Used previous MM methods, worked a treat, but u need to remember that your tame cannot be interrupted by casting silencing shot, ie u must move your toon to interrupt taming, before you can cast SS...once SS is cast, tame away.
Back to camping for Skarr :)
Sassyhunter
Blackrock
评论来自
293189
Tamed on Alleria at 5:32pm server time.
Silencing Shot + Tame Pet = 10 seconds later. BOOM.
评论来自
988246
MM spec
start tame .. wait for crab casting to almost complete
move to the side and silence shot
tame immediately
you will get hit like 2 times but will survive and pet will be tamed
评论来自
293189
Tamed again at 1:09am server time on Alleria...
Can Skarr be out at the same time as Karkin?
评论来自
blakebox
I Just tamed Karkin at 9:30pm on Garona Server. I was just going to look for any rare spawn. There are so many pets that I still want. I went to Hyjal to look for Ankha but he was not up so I went to Firelands looking for Skarr since the last time about 10 hours ago a Dranei Shaman told me she killed Skarr. When I got there Kirix was not up which is not normal for me to see.. I think on garona server Kirix is always up.
Anyway when I got close Karkin popped up on my NPC Scan so I decided to go over there. Once again the excitement had mad me not capable of jumping across without dying. I still have jumping games.
When I finally got up top, I saw a night elf hunter trying to tame him but he was not successfull. Died twice. So I decided to try in between his deaths. I am a survival hunter and my secondary spec is BM but I dont have my core hound with me either. So I was thinking that this is not going to be a successful tame.
Anyway, I started, use lifebloom for haste. The thermal vent does not give me anymore haste anymore. So I dont know how old those other post are that claims that it will give me more haste.
I just started taming and sure enough Karkin started the pyroblast barrage. I always get halfway taming him before he started doing damage. then I try again.. I know that the next hit I take I will die so I just disengage and pop deterance and just try to restore my health.
I tried this tactic twice and always disengage before the second hit of pyroblast barrage.
Then I thought well I will just do some damage to him first since I have a trinket Arrow of Time which grants haste on some successful range attack.
Karkin is immune to traps, and Concusive shot. I open with Serpent sting, then Explosive shot, then Black Arrow. Yeah all of them with dots. And Karkin started with regular fireballs. look for his energy level, it does go down when he uses that. Then I pop lifebloom and started taming him.
This time because he was casting the regular fireball, he didnt cast pyroblast barrage till half way of me taming and I just tamed him right before he finishes pyroblast barrage!
Updated: Sorry for my ignorance. But the Arrow of Time trinket is a proc. So by me starting up the tame by shooting at Karkin, I got lucky and the haste buff kicks in, which enables the tame to go through.
评论来自
Weaseltotheface
Literally just tamed this guy like 20 minutes ago on Ravencrest. I had logged in on a whim to see if Skarr was up (which he obviously wasn't) but my NPCscan flashed for this guy so I decided to go see if i could tame him since he was there lol
I didn't really know anything about him and since it's the middle of the day and no one else was around I decided to just see what he did before I started taming and let him kill me.
After that I just switched to Marks. and popped a haste pot and bam the little dude was mine
He's kind of a neat little guy, I like him, you don't really see him around much.
I do believe this is where "cool story bro" is applicable lol. He's an easy tame good luck :)
评论来自
aphexhanna
just tamed this little fella as MM.
Simply stood on the main island with him targeted and started casting tame beast.
byt the time he was almost finished casting his Fieroclast Barrage he was already my loyal companion. I didnt have to interrupt or anything like it.
Dunno if its a bug, I got lucky or hes simply that easy to tame now.
I have 1349 haste.
评论来自
theASCHE360
Just spawned and I Tamed him at 1:39 on Ragnaros US pretty easy one, just interrupt it and start the tame, ona side note, npc scan alerted me of the spawn of rare green spider just after I tamed Karkin
happy Hunting!
评论来自
543619
This beautiful animal looks as though it was forged from cooled, molten metal and was built for nothing more than taking hits. The whole thing looks like some indestructable cyborg-crustacean complete with shine and varnish.
The gem in its crown, literally, is the large red-gem upon its back. It has a red-hot, molten glow to it and seems almost like a glimpse of the raw, volcanic fury locked within its cast-metal shell. This pet looks as though it would go "DONG!" with a resonating vibration if it was hit. I'm not usually a crab person, but this creature is the epitome of cool for Tenacity pets.
Trust Blizzard to make a crab truly epic.
评论来自
1015901
Im not sure if I was extremely luck or what but i never had to do anything but tame. didnt have any trouble I wasnt aware of karkins ability one shotting people but when I tamed he started casting his ability(my apologies its name isnt in my memory atm) and he shot it once before I finished taming. however the one time he shot it it didnt hit me it missed me. if you beleive im lucky please tell me cause it sounds like I am.
评论来自
1017307
Ok. So let me just tell you that you DO NOT have to be a MM hunter or have assistance to tame. I am a beast mastery hunter and used a little brains to do it. Buy a few Prismatic Elixir. Stand on the ledge opposite the spawn spot. Drink ur magical resistance elixir. Hit him a couple of times, deter before he casts, then tame. OWNED.
评论来自
600679
For those claiming Skarr and Karkin share a spawn-timer,
they do not
. They share spawn locations and, most likely, cannot be up simultaneously (a guess as they share spawn location exactly and I haven't seen both up simultaneously yet).
Through trial and error, howeve, it's become crystal clear, that they do not share spawn timers.
In WoW, rares have a 6-hour cooldown period after being killed or tamed, before they can spawn again at random. Skarr and Karkin have been observed by my group as close as less than one hour (50-some minutes iirc) between their spawns (but then 6+ hours before the next spawn of each).
In other words, if you see one, get rid of it to allow the other to spawn, HOWEVER, do not think yourself safe for a 6-hour period!
评论来自
Jadaard
I think it's worth noting that if you jump across all the round little platforms and make it to the larger platform (as opposed to falling off the side and being carried up by a druid of the talon), you'll gain the buff
康复之风
, which increases your haste by 100% for 2 minutes. This makes it possible to finish your
驯服野兽
before Karkin manages any casts.
评论来自
832808
I was in stormwind when I saw this hunter walk around with it, I had completely forgotten about its existence. Looked it up and saw it shares spawn points with Skarr. Went looking for it right away and sure enough it was up.
I have to say this has been by far the easiest tame ever wasn't even fun, took me one try. Clicked tame, he started casting something but I beat him to the punch. Tamed him before he finished his cast. Do have to say that my haste is 2015, hope that helps.
评论来自
897975
Found him tonight on my survival/bm hunter.
Tried a few times in surv spec.. haste pot.. tame+deterrence+tame (died) tried the same thing with tranq shot, conq shot etc.. died died died...
tried in BM with my core hound, using ancient hysteria plus a haste pot.. then the above tactics.. died every damned time.
Is there a viable method to solo tame this crab in surv spec?
Am I truly just.. a huntard?
评论来自
Silvansaria
I didn't do anything special...
I ran up to do my dailies - saw him and THEN:
#1: Tame Beast
#2: Deterrance
#3: Tame Beast
#4: Rename new pet to Karkin
Forget all the jazz - this is one of the easiest tames in the game. (This tame came about an hour after I tamed Deth'tilac)
...and that's it :)
Silvansaria
Hunter - Nordrassil
HORDE!
评论来自
982884
Just Tamed Karkin Whilst camping for Scarr. Found Scarr last night at around 9:30. Trying all sorts to tame but it wasn't having any of it. Got up at 6:00am Server time to check if he was still there but he wasn't. Came back online at 3pm this afternoon to find nothing and havebeen doing BG's all afternoon. He just spawned at around 19:10 server time at the Northern spawn point. Checked the other also to see if Scarr had spawnws but no such luck. Good luck people
评论来自
Fribdyret
The easiest way to catch Karkin and Skarr is Beast Mastery. Get a Core Hound as pet before you go, for Ancient Hysteria (Heroism/ Time Warp/ Bloodlust). With your core hound in leash you need one more thing; Convalescence of Winds.
Now you're ready!
Get close to the platforms (withing taming range) pop Ancient hysteria+Rapid Fire+any haste trinkets you may have, dismiss your core hound, and start taming.
With the buffs mentioned above you should be able to fully tame him BEFORE he gets to cast his spell. This method got me to 195% haste which allowed me to tame before he nuked me. Happy hunting!
评论来自
Maddienat
Tamed him this afternoon. Was waiting for a fellow guildie to come and tame Kirix and he decided to spawn on the rocks right there. Used the method that everyone else has used and had him easily :)
评论来自
homepeace
The easiest way to tame this is BM spec, get the speed buff aura from the jumping rocks. Run up, pop deterrence/tame macro and hes yours before he gets the first cast off. All these other guides that tell you to counter/silence whatever are giving you too much to do. Just tame him with the buff. SUPER easy.
评论来自
rainetan
I kicked his fieroclast barrage using a high-powered bolt gun then just tamed him without any haste buffs / deterrence.
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