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Commento di 221343

Found in Sholazar Basin, north east of Rainspeaker Canopy.
Looted a blue lvl 74 plate wrist armor / 20 gold / 20 frostweave cloth / 3 cristalized water / 5 cristalized life.
Looks like a giant blue / purple bird.

Commento di 257644

Found north-west of Rainspeaker Canopy, Scholazar Basin. Dropped it's plate bracers with random stats, and a bag with 25g and 20 Frostweave.

Commento di 253947

Killed her in Sholazar Basin around 17.00. She is blue and very rare. Dropped plate healing wrist and a sack with 21 g, 20 cloth and Crystal Shadow. She was next to rivers heart, i had a quest there and find her.
Very easy kill, she had around 1500 hp.
Good luck to find her!

Commento di 243847

I found Aotona in the Scholazar Basin tonight and she droped the collar, 20g and 20 frostweave. She had about 16k life and i soloed her with my 74 warrior NP at all.

Commento di Arunlol

I found and killed her few minutes ago, in Wildgrowth Mangal area.Got 42stam/33spell power/11m p s plate bracers , 24g and stack of frostweave from bag, and also 10 pts for achievement "Northerend Exposure".

Commento di 305152

Just a few moments ago I killed this bird. Though like 5 minutes before that I saw King Krush just soutwest of the shimmering pillar. I killed Aotona between River's heart and the mosslight pillar. Anyhow, aren't the rare mobs supposed to be far apart in spawn times? What I'm talking about is litterally like 5-10 mins apart, since I was flying around the zone herbing.

Commento di 298547

killed at 43.6 69.3... S. Basin

Commento di jeeberpow

Sholazar Basin, right next to Frenzyheart Hill. 52.8,72.5

Commento di 302741

Killed at 47.1, 56.0.

Commento di 247917

Killed this creature at 41,69 this morning - should have taken a screenshot of it while it was still alive :( Oh well...

In any case, the first thing I checked for was to see whether it were tameable or not - I can confirm that it is not tameable.

Very easy kill at lvl79 - got me the Northern Exposure achievement :D

Commento di 321136

So I logged off my char to restart my computer.
I was still in the forests of Sholazar.
When I went back on, the bird was right on top of me and attacked.
But I was able to kill her.
Very easy kill, nice drops.

Too bad I only wear mail. <---Shammy

Commento di Clare

Aotona is a giant version of the rare non-combat pet Hyacinth Macaw.

Commento di Drakkena

Just killed her at 5:44 Central time on Bloodscalp.

Was around 42.7/50.0 When I found her while doing the quest Need an Engine, Take an Engine. I had been patrolling for Loque'nahak at the time but wasn't in luck. Killed her and got Collar of the Beast and the Satchel which dropped 15g. All in all, 1 more creature added to my Northrend Explore achievement (I got it the first time from King Ping)

Commento di 233955

Tameable in 3.1!

Commento di 296847

This macro should me usuful while you are in Sholozar Basin:

/cleartarget
/tar Aotona
/tar King Krush
/tar Loque
/stopmacro
/script local t=UnitName("target"); if not (t == null) then PlaySound("RaidWarning") DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(t) end;
/stopmacro

Commento di Shirohibiki

How often does it spawn?

Commento di 299433

Found this gorgeous pet tonight.

Time: 3:30ish AM (CST)
Server: Rexxar
Coords: 41, 52

The macro posted above me a few posts works wonderfully. Thank you, Zurr!

Commento di 146327

I tamed her tonight on ShC at 57,66 ,not too far from the waterfall there.
The time was 1:10 am. If you have done the Frenzyheart Tribe quests, remember where the
tamed croc is? If you were standing on his back, look down the embankment toward the forest area. There is usually a hostile ape that patrols that area back and forth.
If you mine, you'll often see a node there. Aotona was just hovering in that area as the
ape paced beneath her. She was not as deep into the rain forest as I would have thought she'd be. If you're looking, always check by the croc because someone else in our guild also found her there a few days after I did.

Finding her was purely accident. I did not know it was tamable until a few days ago and I still was not sure where to look.
But my druid miner was there getting my hunter ore for the last 2 points of eng; and as she flew down to get the ore, she just about clipped this bird.
However, I (hunter)was in exodar at the time. Luckily I was bound in SB and I hearth'd back, changed pets and flew to my druid who was just over her.
At first I had trouble spotting her because the color of the druid in flight form and aotona are similar.
I set a frost trap and the tame went ok.

This bird was hard to spot even when you knew it was there. So have a macro and use it often.

Good luck to all who are looking for her.

Commento di 103827

Tamed 5 minutes a go, in the 42.2, 52,2, but is too big for a companion and too small for a Hunter pet.

But I´m happy :)

Nothing grand strategy, only drop the Freezing Trap, pull and tame. Beware of the crocolisks beside.

Commento di Oomie

Spawn point map

Commento di 122216

I was doing the Oracle dailies when I ran into this thing by chance. I didn't have a trash pet but I hurried and dismissed my pet gorilla anyways (I'll miss you Obama.)

**You don't have to be BM to tame this pet because it is not an exotic beast like Loque'Nahak or King Krush.**

Commento di 365105

Thank's for the info ^^

Commento di Siusha

load NPSCan and it helps ya to find this bird and the otrhers fast :-)
good hunt

Commento di kberends1979

Tamed 3:30 p.m. EST (Server time) 5/18/2009 in Sholozar Basin at 41.68 on Smolderthorn US PVP.

Flew past on my paladin doing some dailies, and NPC scan went off....immediately logged out and then flew back to Sholozar (River's Heart FP) using FPs from all the way up at Argent in Icecrown. It was still there in the Wildgrowth Managal west of River's heart and east of Nesingwarys at the coords I mentioned, 41 68. I dropped an ice trap, froze and tamed, pretty simple even with the adds around. Aotona IS an aggo rarespawn so if you plan to tame without a trap or want to clear adds to insure success, keep that in mind. Frost trap hit her with no problems though.

I'm thinking this will end up being my Suvival pet for raiding/dual spec since I've got Loque'nahak last monday at 7:55 a.m. (server) at 67 79 (southwest of Hardknuckle) and Gondria yesterday at 3:30 in ZD at 77 70. I run a Silthid for PVP and have Devilsaur already, but still want KK since he's the most difficult to solo tame. Still waiting to run across him again, and maybe get lucky enough to grab him this time which will be attempt 3 whenever it happens. Both times I've seen him he's been patting southwest from Shango at the Maker's Perch toward Venture Co on the southwest end of Bittertide Lake and then back up around 10:20-10:30 p.m. server... I'm not sure if each server has a different time cycle for spawning times based on their individual time zones or if they run off of a set GMT time for their spots, but the timing and spawn locations I've seen so far seem to be at consistent times / times of day.

Third time's a charm I hope?

Good luck everyone. NPC scan is quite worth using even if you do have to flush the cache before loading into the game. It can track any NPC you have the numeric ID for, and pops up with a nice little button like the test feature which targets the mob upon a simple click. A must have for tracking these guys down. Also I had more luck camping ONE spawn point repeatedly at the times I've known an NPC to spawn there.....hope that helps. Was also lucky enough to get the Tidal charm for my 39 rogue twink last night from Prince Rezeleh (spelling?) in Arathi off the south coast. Awesome week for gaming so far if I do say so myself :)

If anyone on my realm has questions about timing spawns or what time certain spawns are where etc, read up on the exotics I've posted about or feel free to ask me directly in game if you see me on.

For anyone who may not know already, Aotona is a "Bird of Prey" and is tameable by any hunter. I'll be using her for my survival offspec (raiding spec) pet.

Hkrannak of Smolderthorn (Orc BM /Surv Hunter)

Commento di IceHawk79

Where does this parrot spawn at mostly?

Commento di 168307

Last one I need for Frostbitten but I'm starting to doubt he exists >_<

Commento di 363932

After hunting down and taming Loque'nahak a couple months ago, I wasn't looking forward to taming Aotona. It took me about a week of flying around the basin to find the Spirit Beast, so I know how hard getting these rare beasts can be.

I've been searching sporadically every day (for about 5 minutes at a time, once or twice in a given day) for Aotona ever since 3.1 hit, and just 3 minutes ago found her. Landed, tried to summon one of my non-exotics but found that it was on a 5-minute cooldown, so good-bye my crap-tastic core hound! I'll tame ya again later this week.

Dropped a freezing trap, and tamed Aotona with no trouble. Pretty bird, I must say. I'm sad to see that she doesn't keep her Eye Peck ability when tamed, but that's not too terrible. She's pretty, and will make a good replacement over my old Olm the Wise pet.

Oh, and I found her by that Frenzy Heart camp; I don't remember the exact coordinates. Good luck to you who are hunting for her!

Commento di 389002

Tamed this beauty twice, once on my own hunter, and then again on my friends hunter... both times were at the top of an hour.

I caught mine around 3:00pm server, on Whisperwind, after periodically checking the spawn point at 42,52 for a few weeks. One day I decided I really wanted it so I left my hunter at that spawn point, and started leveling an alt, checking back every once in a while. Finally caught him after camping there that one day.

On my friends hunter I wasn't as lucky.. only took me two days but still. Once again he was found at 42,52 this time around 10:00AM Server time, on WW.

I was checking between two main spawn points, the 42,52 , and then the one by Frenzyheart.

Good luck to all! She's a gorgeous!

Commento di Gibalt

Finally tamed him just now, after seriously a week of heavy camping.

Useful tip: if you don't already, get a gathering profession like herbalism or mining and track for that respectively, instead of tracking Beasts. I have made thousands of gold while looking for this pet, just by mining every that crossed my path. The pet is just a nice extra then.

Commento di Elarieline

I've been trying to get this pet for a while now. Maybe a week or so. Nothing yet but I have seen a Corpse someone had looted....sadly. That was at the Frenzyheart Tribal camp. I now only normally pat between there and the Oracles camp. Will report back with my findings when I get it.

Elarieline Khaz Modan, 80 Night Elf Hunter

Commento di 338612

Found and tamed 10:23PM Server Time, Azjol Nerub. Aotona was at around 41,67 among the Emperor Cobras and Mangal Crocolisks.

Taming was without incident... which I still couldn't believe considering the many mobs in that area. Good luck!

Commento di 408813

Found at 53,51 uploaded a screenshot also.

Commento di Zuma

Woo! Just tamed now at 7:09am. Hit it with an arcane shot so nobody else could tag it, and started the tame. First two tries and i got wing buffeted, then Aotona finally went into the trap. It makes funny parrot sounds instead of the usual bird of prey noises.

Commento di 418828

Just got me one. I was looking for Loque or King Krush and came across this one. Found it right at 44,69. Now back to looking for the other 2

Commento di Jellydog

Had been looking to tame her for two weeks found her 3 times but sadly dead 2 of the times.
I asked a few of my friends to help me on my search for her (they all got bored in the first 10 minutes and left me alone to find her) I looked for four hours and then went off to dalaran to do something else for the rest of the day.

I had an early start the next morning hoping to find her when not that many people were about I logged on at Frenzyheart Hill and flew over to one of her spawn points I could not believe it she was so beautiful and just as I was about to set my trap and tame her she fell to the ground dead I was turning around to leave her when I saw one of the friends who I trusted to help me find her looting her I was shocked that one of my best friends (that I know in real life) had killed her knowing I wanted her he said to me that he would give me a phone call to tell me to get online asap if he ever found her I was not a happy Night elf.

Second time I found her she attacked me just north east of The Mosslight Pillar I had no idea what was attacking me untill I thought I should turn around and have a look. It was Aotona! I felt so happy that I dismounted into about 5 cobras and died. I ran back to my corpse as fast as posible so that no one could kill her. Got to my corpse and what did I find? A level 74 Death Knight killing her once again she had just slipped away from me.

The Third time I found her I had been looking for 7 straight hours and nothing so I had given up. Was flying off to River's Heart went afk for 2 minutes came back and the beauty spawned right infront of me I was so excited that I jumped off my mount and killed her at 21:43 realm time kicked myself about 5 seconds later when I remembered I wanted to tame her so the hunt for the beauty known as Aotona goes on!

Happy hunting all :)

Commento di 380792

I just tamed this lovely Bird about an hour ago. I was flying into the Basin and about to hop off my flight path in River's Heart when I saw this giant Blue Bird just hanging out around the Suntouched Pillar spawn point. I pretty much freaked out because even though I hadn't been actively searching for this pet, I knew I would tame her if I found her. I can use her for fun in WG since I am not a real hardcore PvP nut. So I prayed that I would land quickly and find her alive. Took me a good 1-2 minutes to find her again since I had to pull out my target macro that I had used for my hunt for Loque'nahak (which was a success). And after swapping out to a trash pet in my stable, I had to fumble around and tame this birdie. After a couple of accidental add aggros and waiting on my trap to come off CD, I finally got the tame. I was lucky that no one came to grief me.

She does have a Wing Buffet so I happened to lay a trap, start taming that she knocked me out of, have her follow me over the trap and tame. No one was around so I didn't bother to tag her. But tagging is usually a good idea.

I was surprised at how small she really is. I think I need to farm the minipet on this toon so I can run around with Mommy and baby. lol And now that I have Loque and Aotona, I think I might have to tame Krush too and be the Tamer of the Basin. :D

Good luck grabbing this pet. She is so pretty!

Bundia
Exodar
Tame at around 10pm ST at about 41,58

Commento di 360902

Finally tamed this pretty bird today at 5:30am server time, making my collection of Sholazar rares complete. One thing I noticed though was that as I promptly went back to base camp to show off I happened to see Krush spawn nearby, so I guess that says something about the respawn mechanics.

Will be using it for my survival offspec as well.

Srna
Twisting Nether

Commento di 443703

Found it at 42,74 at 07:45am (CET) on Skullcrusher. This is the southernmost possible spot it seems and in the southwestern quadrant.

This is my story of how i tracked down Aotona:

For about a week I had planlessly revisited Sholazar Basin and flown a couple of laps around River's Heart in hopes of just stumbling across Aotona. I always saw 1-3 other hunters in the area using the camp-at-one-spot approach along with some other classes who I suspected were leveling alts acting as spotters for another char. So I was never really alone.

When I got bored of flying, I did some grinding in the southwestern area, which seemed to be shunned by the other hunters for some reason.

As I said this went on for about a week. Some days I spent a bit longer in there, some days I weren't even logged on, don't really know for sure. But I soon realized that this wasn't working - this required a concentrated effort.

So at about 09:00pm on Monday I sat down for a long night of canvassing the area. I developed a system for myself where I would take on lap around the whole area (clockwise, just felt better), making sure to cover the spawn points, and then land in the northwestern area (which was now empty of other hunters) and do some grinding/hanging around. After 10-15 minutes or so I would repeat the process. I felt this approach would be a nice compromise, maximizing endurance and sanity by not only doing one thing all the time. I would get some grinding done AND keep an eye on all spawn points as well. Win-win situation sort of. The northwestern area was more open and more packed with mobs to kill, so I now understand why the other hunters prefered it.

I flew pretty close to the ground since I realized that this bird would not be cruising around at high altitude like big dragons do; It would flap around on the ground basically. I tracked beasts even though I didn't really need to - just using your eyes and look for an out of place, blue parrot would be enough. Well, maybe not so out of place, this IS a jungle after all, but out of place among all those cobras and crocolisks - it would surely stick out.

This went on and on, hour after hour. Eventually around midnight to one o'clock the area was starting to lose players. This was a slow night for sure. But that's just a good thing. It was actually only in the beginning that I saw another hunter out for the same thing I was. And that guy mysteriously disappeared pretty quickly. Could he have gotten it? In retrospect it seems very plausible.

Other than that there was the occasional melee class here or druid there, mostly hordies (I'm a NE), nothing special. By two or three the area was completely void of people. But still no Aotona...

For me, dailies reset at 03:00am, so I knew I had to keep an extra eye out then, because there will always be a few players arriving before and after that. None that I saw was a hunter though. Good. I took some detours from my now almost auto-piloted flight path and did the Tuesday Oracle dailies myself as a much needed break. Before long, the area was empty again (except for a questing druid).

Since that hunter disappeared early on, I felt I had had pretty good control of the area, feeling pretty confident I had not missed it (but who knows). At about 04:15am I finally decided I needed to get some sleep. I felt that it simply couldn't be long now before it spawned, but this was now Tuesday morning and I needed to work this day! I set my alarm for 06:00am and then again for about 07:30, leaving just enough time to get up and go straight to work.

At six I got up and sat down again and took just one lap around River's Heart. No Aotona... Distraught I went to bed again. :(

Then in the morning when I got up again and sat down, I took my regular lap around the lake, starting from the northwestern sector. As I was completing the lap in the southwestern sector I felt pretty sad. My plan was a failure.

But wait...! What was that? To the left of me, tucked away behind a tree close to the ground, there was a big, blue parrot flapping about! It looked like it was hiding almost. Success!

I had a (very) quick look around and then sat down in front of it, out of way of most mobs (I hoped). Immediately I lay down a freezing trap at my feet and then tagged Aotona. The trash pet spawned next to me and I was quick to abandon it, back up a few steps, and start hammering the tame beast button.

Perfect sync with the freezing trap. Aotona was tamed just as the trap broke. Next to me now was a much smaller, blue new friend. And that was that!

My take from all of this? Save yourself a week of travelling back and forth to SB and pull a one-nighter like I did instead. The spawn time seemed to be 7 or 8 hours, maybe more, depending of what that hunter found or didn't find.

Good hunting! :)

Commento di 205800

Well, since others have left their stories, I'll share mine too. :) Since taming this beauty was a big deal for me!

My best friend since middle school (we're now in our mid-twenties) has been begging me to play WoW with her since it came out. She only finally wore me down about a year ago, and as a "welcome to Azeroth" present she gave me a rare hyacinth macaw for which she'd farmed for weeks. At that time, pets still took up bag space, so she was my only pet for a long time.

When it was first rumored that a tamable beast with the same skin was on the way, I knew I had to have the set, especially since I didn't have a PVP pet yet.

As soon as I was a high enough level to tame her after the expansion, I visited Sholazar multiple times a day. Sometimes I would spend hours looking for Aotona. Sometimes I would just camp spawn points. I never found her. Since my hunter is my main, I had other obligations to address of course ... lvling, raids, etc ... but I tried to check back for her in Sholazar every 1-2 hours. Months of frustration passed with no luck.

This morning, when AGAIN I couldn't find her, I decided I was just going to stop doing anything on my main. I was going to camp the Wildgrowth Mangal and not do ANYTHING until I found her. I would lvl alts, and log back every 30 minutes when the hearth cooled down to look for Aotona. Well, right after one such unsuccessful search, I logged back to my mage and started questing ... when my aforementioned best friend saw Aotona while she was looking for Loque! She engaged the bird in combat and basically just let herself get beat upon while I logged over and flew to where she was. Without my best friends sharp eyes and charitable heart I would not have this beautiful bird that I've wanted for so long. So thank you Galen!

I've submitted a screenshot of the pair of parrots in Sholazar.

I'm sooooo happy! ^^

Tamed on Whisperwind approximately 3:30 pm server time 8/24/09

Commento di 450259

Tamed last night on Haomarush 3:24 AM server time at the water fall to the east. I had been hunting for over a month from time to time sometimes putting 7hrs into a camp, Seen King Krush a few times killed once. I had camped the area for about 6 hrs last night till 2:30 then got in the bed with the wife, she said she couldn't sleep and I still had my sceen up so she asked how to look for him. Well it couldn't hurt if she wanted to try for me. Showed her the roped and I fell asleep. About a hour I heard OMG THERE HE IS! as I jumped out a dead sleep to take the chair shacking like crazy trying to open my eyes. Hoping to pull it off but could not get my head straight. Finally I abandon my wolf got a trap down and was like what next oh start taming lol. As soon as tame finshed he knocked me back about 15feet but yay the tame held. got a tear in my eye as I gave the wife a hug. She was my luck I needed all along.
So to all you hunters out there I wish you the best it's a prize for sure. GL in ya hunt. Rokee

Commento di 422763

I'll throw my story in there too, I suppose! And sorry for this being so long...

I loved this bird when I first layed eyes upon it on Petopia at about level 65(It's great, because I have a fascination with pirates), and was dedicated to leveling just to get it.
I figured when I got about 75-76 I'd start the hellish hunt for this bird, scraping away hours of my life for the damn thing. On the contrary, I tell you I must be the luckiest Hunter on the server, because I honestly used the macro below for about 6 solid minutes not even looking up her coordinates and found her! Thus, balancing out my past luck, which I'd say was horrible, hah!

About 5 days ago (level 74) I figured I'd get Uhk'loc, the Rare white ape in the gorilla cave in Un'goro (I have a thing for PvE gorillas), which took about a good hour and 30 to stand there and get the spawn. Now the reason I tell you that, is because it was honestly easier for me to hit up that macro for 6 minutes blindly than to stand in that exact, exact spot and wait there for that Gorilla.

Now to tell about the capture.
After the bird popped (coords: 50,53 Rainspeaker Canopy) using the /Target Aotona macro, I pretty much freaked out, hitting every button I had, assuming that a random Hunter would tame her as soon as I hopped off mount. Figured I'd give it a try with just 'Tame Pet' and no 'Frost Trap'. Yea, don't do that!.. She has a knockback attack that will kick you out of Tame as soon as she gets close. Feined Death and re-tried with Frost Trap, success.

I feel great, going to go scratch some lottery tickets. I suppose it just goes to show that sometimes a blind shot in the dark just may make your day.

Good luck Hunters!
Meerkat, Executus Realm

Commento di 436143

Finally i got Aotona

Tamed: 11/9 2009
03.34 server time (Azjol-Nerub) EU at 47.7, 55.1

Good luck!

Commento di 42689

i totally flew past this bird on my way back to dal... was like "ohh, thats a cool lookin bird, think ill wowhead it." right about wintergrasp i figured out that it was rare, and people spend lots of time tracking her down to tame her.

it being 3am, i decided to turn around at dal and go get her.

fly around a bit, find her, pop a ice trap, tame her, done deal....

in all of 10 minutes i went from having a scorpid i never used to having a beautiful bird to keep Gutripper and King Mukla company.

Commento di 456440

Found and tamed her right outside the Rainspeaker Canopy. I don't remember the coords, but she was right directly above the A and the I in rainspeaker.

Evadne
Sentinels Server US

Commento di 455742

Tamed this lovely lady yesterday on Misha, around 4.30 EST after an unsuccessful search for Skoll. Didn't look that much, flew in and out of SB a few times doing laps of the Basin. I was lucky at this point, not many people are in there looking for her.
Got Venomtip, ran the heroic daily, came back and got a hit off of Silver Dragon and ESN Rare for her. Spent about five minutes with my heart in my throat looking for her, hoping no one else would kill her (happened to a guildie while he was taming her once) or that she wasn't being tamed.
Found her, and am happy as a kitten.

My luck held out, as I never set a Freezing Trap on her, and never got the Wing Buffet.

Fellah (MM/S BElf Hunter)
Misha Server US

Commento di 173203

I was looking for some rhino for a quest and I happen to notice 'Aotona' on my map, I thought it might have been an enemies pet because I have never heard of this bird before. Come to my surprise it was this BEAUTIFUL creature. I decided to see if it was tamable, I was filled with happiness when it said it was. So I Imediately abandoned my Sapphire Wasp and engaged her in combat. At first I tried trapping her, Failed. Then I used Wyvern Sting on her and it worked :D. Was about 4:30AM PST on Frostwolf Server.

Commento di 461335

Found 610ish server time. Just north of frenzyheart hill. FYI: She is a red dot when searching for beasts on your mini map. Definitely nice to look at.

Commento di 199891

I just found it and killed it, thinking it was beautiful but disappointed since I didn't have BM on offspec. I instinctively acted and now regret it, finding out it's not exotic :( I got an achievement but lost a great pet. Would have been awesome. There's always next time. Sorry if anyone was farming on Demon Soul.

Commento di Darkynhalvos

Tamed this beauty just northwest of the Oracle quest village, about 3:15 am server time, on the Whisperwind server. Freeze trap is pretty much a necessity, as Aotona has a wing buffet ability that knocks you back, interrupting the taming process.

Commento di 465291

Tamed the bird just east of The Mosslight Pillar, about 10.10am server time, on Dreadmaul. Pretty easy Freeze trap and then tame.

Commento di Stovepipe

Not sure if it shares this trait with any other birds of prey, but Aotona actually squawks like a parrot.

Commento di Wakeman

Just tamed this nice bird after 3 days of intensive scouting. So happy!

I strongly recommend searching when there are little players online since there are alot of activity in the area with dailys and such. I found him at 04:30 AM

I got surprised how big the wild version of the bird were when I found it, was alot bigger than I espected. Sadly the size goes down alot when you tame, but its still the best looking pet out there (imo).

Commento di 475471

I tamed this lovely bird yesterday with the help of my boyfriend as we were looking for Loque.

This happened about 14 hours ago now. I didn't take the exact time when I captured it, as I wasn't all that interested in it at first but now i'm really happy I got it.

Undermine - Level 77 hunter

Commento di 483535

Well my hunter had been looking for this bird for 3 1/2 months after i saw it with my pally, I am a miner/engineer so i must have gathered enough ore to make a saronite version of iron forge, and enough eternal fires to melt that, when i fanally found her near rivers heart after a 14 hour gaming session. almost lost my good wolf, i was so excited that i almost abandoned him instead of tossing him into the open stable spot. Dropped a trap, tamed, and now i have the best looking bird out there. Just a little beef i had, i had spotted her one other time, and was taming her when a dwarf pally dropped down and smoked her. I mean honestly if you see a fellow alliance taming a beast why would you drop down and kill it? Permanently on my ignore list.

Commento di Morbidblaze

I was on my Death Knight doing Oracle dailies when I happened upon this beautiful creature. So I politely advertised in general chat that I had this bird in my sights, in the hopes of a hunter out there wanting this bird for his/her own. No one showed so I diced her up. She was patrolling right next to Frenzyheart Hill, due west of the settlement.

Dropped plate bracers .... of the Beast.

Kill happened at 4:05 am

Moonguard US

Commento di 82137

Why do people keep posting, for every rare mob, how they camped them for weeks and then killed or tamed them. This is neither funny nor insightful, it's just plain waist of time, both yours and mine!

Hunters, glad for you that you find a pet, but you don't have to write it here.

Commento di 347864

Hey Nova, people post their comments here so that other hunters can have an idea of where the pets spawn, and usually have some idea of a spawn timer. It is to help other hunters with their quest to tame this rare that usually only last a few minutes from its spawn point since blizzard had this bright idea to put it in an acheivement list. So people post their server and the time so that people from their server can get a better idea of when to go look. Needless to say I have only seen her once, when some horde DK came and killed her right infront of me. I did however enjoy wintergrasp alot more that day.

Commento di Chundermark

FFS! i'de been searching for him the whole day, and when i finally get him with my macro, it was killed by a god damn level 80 drawf hunter called Aule -.- then flaunts around saying "I wonder what the abandoned adventurers satchet will drop :P" #$%^ing idiot got it with only a simple fly over, too -.- while i had been searching on just a ground mount :'( But hell, thats tarren mill for you :/ -.-

Commento di 497520

Just tamed this beautiful bird at the spawn point 44, 69 at about 3:45am server (Steamwheedle Cartel US). I was incredibly lucky because I first saw her on my druid alt, frantically logged over to my hunter only to endure a four-minute flight to Sholazar from Dalaran anxiously hoping no one else would find her. I was thrilled to discover her still there and, of course, it took me about 15 seconds to realize I didn't even have my tame beast spell anywhere on my bars. Otherwise, she was very easy to tame with a trap!

Good luck to the rest of you searching for her!

Commento di Paperdolls

Actually, Aotona was always in the database for NPCScan. However, if you had the original version, Aotona was listed as a "tamable mob" and wouldnt trigger an alarm, as the version would pick up all creatures of that ID - including hunters pets in cities and out of the original spawn zone. You had to go into settings and tick the option to allow it to report tamable mobs.
The new version, however, will bring up tamable mobs anyways, and will only give you a UI warning if you are in the zone which the creature originally spawns (ie, Aotona will only pop up a UI display if you are in Sholazar Basin). Most people dont know much about the addon, and have it just for the convenience of NOT having to spam a /tar macro...

Now personally, I have seen Aotona 5 times, all on the Silvermoon US server, and shes the last I need for Frostbitten.. So obviously Ive yet to kill her.
Between personal experience, and talking with others on the server, I can put in my idea that shes on a longer spawn timer, and that happens to be between 8 and 15 hours.
So, it is common that she can be up only once per day, up to 3 times.
As for most common spawn points? Anywhere is fair game, but Ive seen her 2/5 times at the waterfall area around Frenzyheart Hill....

Good Luck, Happy Hunting.

Commento di gomibako

Shattered Hand, 5:50am Server time.

Another hunter was nice enough to use /1 chat to ask if any hunters wanted to tame Aotona. I responded, grouped, and quickly headed over to 59, 63 where the other hunter already had the bird ice cubed for me. However, despite being in a party, I wasn't able to begin taming until the other hunter feigned death so I could get aggro.

Commento di 523358

This bird did my head in trying to find her.
A week of non stop grinding.

But tonight I finally got her. After looking for her off and on all day I decided to do one last run and low and behold SW of riverheart there she was

Commento di 465890

The horror, the horror....

Aotona, Loque and King Krush are all tameable, and all 3 are part of the Frostbitten achievement.

This sucks bigtime.

They are the last 3 I need for Frostbitten, and I have spotted all 3 and past on killing them, a hunter of my faction showed up each time and wanted to tame them.

This is just a terrible desicion by Blizz. I know of hunters who have spent weeks in Sholazar waiting for Loque.

Having them part of the Frostbitten achievement is just an evil desicion by Blizz.

Commento di 10207

Hunters, help a brotha (or sista) hunta out. If you see this pretty parrot, DONT KILL IT!

YELL in general or something where you are & what you just saw, so others can know it's there. I have no desire for this pet but helped another get it for herself. She was very appreciative ;)

Sorry, I do not remember server time but it was just N/E of the flight path by the river in the middle of the map. I was farming rhino meat & saw it fly past me ;)

There is enough drama in the world, lets have fun & help each other out. Where is the love mon?

Commento di 288721

I think this bird is harder to find than Loque!

I was lucky enough to get all 4 spirit beasts within 2 days. Lady luck has run out for me though, as I've been putting in hours and hours for about a week and still nothing.

Please do pass it on if you encounter this bird. The achievement is pointless.....it's just a pat on the back ...a "way to go!, Good Job". No reward.

Please keep posting the coordinates of where you located Aotona...I think so far it's most common spawn point is in the 42,69 vicinity...just east of mosslight pillar.

Commento di 518699

Found this guy hovering under a tree just east of The Skyreach Pillar. He wasn't patrolling so he was easy to find and kill after being targeted.

Commento di 288721

Finally tamed this bird just now! 406server, 42,69 on Azjol Nerub.

My advice to anyone trying to get this pet is to camp out Mosslight Pillar. It seems this is the preferred spawn spot.

Commento di 182824

Be aware that she is doing Wing Buffet (to people who doubts what that is, it's when she pushes you backwards) when you're taming her making it more difficult to tame

But she makes a fine pet, not for much use, though - or am I missing something?

Commento di Ospreyfalcon

Hey, I had the same experience on the Steamwheedle EU Server last night. I was doing the Northrend Elders, flying on my druid from the Borean Tundra into Sholazar, and seeing this big blue parrot cruising around in lazy circles. (Between River's Heart and the Mosslight pillar)
Now I had only ever seen it once, and that was when I had to kill it for the Frostbitten achievement, where it was the second to last one on my list left, seeing as how rare it is to find alive. It was a very old plan of mine though to tame it on my huntress, a few months back I had spent a few days circling Sholazar, but given up quickly. But now, here it was, in plain sight of everyone mining, herbing and whatnot, and my huntress was in Dalaran!
Muttering to myself "it won't be there, it won't be there", with the adrenaline levels rising, I logged over, what seemed to take an eternity, dualspecced to BM so I could sadly release Loque to make stable space for Aotona, ran to the Wintergrasp portal (which took equally ages to load), flew over to Sholazar.... and it was still there. I popped a freezing trap, and started taming, hoping that she wouldn't get killed in a mid tame. And then she was mine... the last pet I planned to ever tame before Cataclysm.
Things happen when you least expect them, so don't give your hopes up!

Commento di 542080

I have been searching for ages...

Aotona is one of my last 3 for Frostbitten along with that damned King Krush and Vyragosa. All 3 have been a problem. I have searched all around River's Heart covering all spawn points three times a day for the past 2-3 weeks. Nothing!..

I completed Bloody Rare with only 2 being a problem, but still found them 1-2 weeks after. Im waiting for my screen to flash red and see a purple bird flapping its wings having the time of its life, that is of course until I slaughter her and use her head as a trophy of my victorious kill (sorry If this offends hunters, but its reality).

Oh well. I guess I have to continue searching. If anyone finds Aotona and already killed her, pm me so we can kill it together (if you want). My account name is Chrimson. Thanks! :)

Commento di 48858

Poor achivement Ever *****Wasting Time cause hunter camp 24/24 7/7 ******

THX Blizzard to make Billions Accounts to Spam a boutton or just camping Zone and waiting for a flash screen pop to complet that achivement.

I already know what Cataclyms Rare Elite gona be.

Wana make Gold whit rare elite i give u my opignion All i do its Scan Zones and sale the Rare Elites for gold to make more ppl freak in this world.

Commento di 527720

Regardless of your objective (kill or tame) consider camping just one spot instead of circling for this girl - theres enough traffic thanks to questing and mining that a split second makes a big difference. When I found her, I was doing circles and asked randomly in general. She had just spawned right after I had flown away and someone was kind enough to tell me she was there. I used the 'camp one spot' idea for Krush and it saved me alot of grief. Just kept npcscan on, volume cranked, and tabbed out to do some other chores. The addon did all the work :)

Commento di 566307

i plan to tame this bird as soon as i get off work. just wish i understood macro's. lol

Commento di Achloryn

Just saw this bird to the west of Frenzyheart Hill.. Freezing trap is key to taming this beast, cause he'll wing buffet you every time without it.

Commento di 574018

I tamed this bird today in Sholazar at 40/58, 07.50 server time (Azuremyst). It is not a neutral beast so don't bother circling around tracking neutrals like I did for a month... It's an aggressive beast so it shows red on your tracking hud, just as King Krush does. And yes, although it's an elite, you don't need to be a beastmaster to tame and control it. I used freezing trap, got wing buffed once before it got caught in the trap, which hold it still for enough time to tame it, once it got close enough to trigger the trap. Good luck to all hunting for this unique bird!

Commento di 574934

Are there anyone who can give some info about how high above the ground this birdy is flying?

Would be much apreciated.

Commento di 334983

Just barely missed this one. NPCScan went off and by the time i got there, a hunter tamed it and it was in the process of shrinking.

Commento di 589736

Tamed at 10:32am server time at 56,57 on the Terenas server. I caught this guy literally 10 minutes after I caught Loque'nahak, after camping them both for about 3 weeks. It seems that this is a good time in the morning to catch these guys.

Commento di StaticLgtBrngr

Been circling her spawn points for 8 hours now without luck, had to crack open a bottle of voddie to stop myself going insane. Anyone know how long the corpse takes to despawn? As theres 2 bloody botters on my realm in 2 of the spots she spawns in, made a ticket about it but no luck there either as of yet..

Edit: Yes, got her! just over 8 hours of shear boredom but finally it pays off, she spawned at her south western most point where one of the botters was but was able to tag her in time, nice easy tame as freezing trap works on her.

http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/7672/aotona.jpg

Commento di 608363

killed her last night can't remember where but it was right outside a village..she gave me the plate armor lvl 74 blue and the satchel thing which contained 20 frostweave cloth and nearly 17g,, very very easy to kill

Commento di Bubonic

The corpse isn't skinnable, but it disappears after about 2 minutes. Since it takes about that long to fly around Aotona's spawn points, it's possible that even if you're patrolling her route, she could spawn, be killed, and the corpse could disappear before you get a chance to see it, especially if you're not doing a continuous patrol. I spent over 11 hours flying around her spawn points before I found her, once every five minutes or so, but her spawn time could have been less than that.

Commento di Bandeeto

Just tamed this magnificent beast today. He spawned in the southwest spawn point. I was lucky because he hadn't thrown off my npscan addon at first, but there happened to be a steam cloud I was extracting or I would have been long gone. Been searching for this guy for a about week now. I just need cata to come around soon so I can have more pet slots.

Commento di Baneleaf

I tamed this wonderful pet last night. Approximately 52-75 for those with coordinates, for those without that is a hair north of the Skyreach Pillar. One of my guildies was mining and kept going on and on about this bird he saw and how it was the only one he had ever seen like it. He was mining on his rogue and although he has two level 80 hunters, he was reluctant to stop mining to try to tame it. So I told him to sit tight and I was getting on my hunter to give it a try. That flight took forever and allowed me the time to check wowhead and see just how rare this pet was. When I got there, amazingly no one else had tried to kill it or tame it so I went to work. I will tell you two things, one, make sure to use a trap, and two, he will do a wing buffet knockback as soon as you start to tame so be prepared to hit it again after the trap goes off. I had about a quarter of a second left on the trap when I tame him. This thing is beautiful and an immediate attention getter, plus birds are fun for pvp, not quite as good as a crab or spider, but I am not giving him up at all. Happy hunting for those who are after him.

Menina, level 80 nelf huntard, Bleeding Hollow US

Commento di 621403

I tamed at about 3:30am realm time (Emerald Dream) location 39:70. Or a little North East of The Mosslight Pillar for those who dont use Co-ord's.

Been wanting this pet for so so long but never the patience to actually tame. Then over 2 days i lived in Sholazar. After reading some comments on other sites it seems all the Rares in Sholazar run on a random lottery spawn, and only 1 will be up at any 1 time. The spawn rate i cannot really relate to any comments you may see on other sites because after realising i need to check for Loque and Krush to see if they are up, i went to the Northern most spawn (53:24) for Loque and he was there at 2:30am .. then found Krush around South Eastern edge (65:78) at 3:00am .. then Aotona at the location above at 3:30am. So that is all 3 spawned in the space of 1 hour. Yes yes i know, i am a jammy s.o.b :-p

Good luck to all hunting it down, i love my new pet! now to lvl it! :D

Commento di Allakhazam

Was looking for Lqu and my macro tagged Aotona. Very squishy.

Commento di Allakhazam

38,67
Doing a quest, saw something oddly colored off to the left, shot it, and saw a silver portrait dragon on it...no idea that it was part of an achievement until I got said achievement, 20g, a stack of frostweave and a plate wrist. Nice. I was hoping to find the cat though.

Commento di Allakhazam

Tamed Aotona on my hunter Alarel on 06/24/2009 on Airie Peak server time 2:15 pm / 4:15pm cst at cords 57:66 Salazar Basin re-named Altona. no need for freeze trap eazy tame for such a hard pet to get / find.

Edited, Jun 24th 2009 6:30pm by Alur

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