Really Kirix? Really?!

I...I don't even know what happened.

So, last night I was doing my dailies. I zone into the Molten Front, kill some fire guys, and I'm alerted by NPC Scan that Kirix is up. It was actually him and not a tamed doppelganger, I saw his green butt scuttle out of view around the corner. I decided to take a quick detour and skim around the fire to watch him for a bit, always eager to see a kill fest.

Turns out, there weren't many people around. Nobody actually. I was slightly disappointed, but shrugged and went to continue my dailies. About an hour or so later after doing a few things, I returned and saw that Kirix was still going. A hunter acquaintance of mine was there, camping for Skarr, so I chatted with him for a bit and we saw another hunter try and fail miserably to tame the green spider.

Well, I'm sitting there watching Kirix blaze back and forth over his little edge, and the urge begins to creep up on me.

I jokingly tell my friend that maybe I should tame him, for the lulz. He agrees and enthusiastically tells me to go for it. I hesitate, not knowing the first thing about his taming strategy (I didn't really bother to read about any besides Deth'tilac since I wasn't planning on taming the others), but recalling a couple pointers.

A night elf hunter shows up and we emote with him for a bit, then he clearly motions for me to tame. I took a deep breath, not sure what I was getting myself into, but the prospect of attempting the tame so spontaneously was suddenly a very fun idea.

I vaguely knew about the rock strategy, but also knew it was glitchy sometimes, so I thought I'd do it the 'hard way'. My mind suddenly made up, I marched forward and bravely faced the mean, green killing machine charging towards me.

And I'm promptly massacred.

Alright, death number one. So much for that idea. The night elf had been shadowing me, and after my first death he urged me to follow him. I nodded and decided to try it a different way, since clearly the face-to-face method was not going in my favour.

He led me up the rocks and showed me how to grab the wind buff and leap onto the far floating rock. We'll shorten the next half hour by summarizing I had terrible luck. I'm usually good at rock jumping too! Never any problems, but last night I was cursed with clumsiness. I fell off the ledge a few times, I fell off the rocks a few times, some of the mobs killed me a couple times, and I missed the high jump to the far rock more times than I can remember. My other hunter acquaintance was kind enough to lend me his Mammoth for repairs, lol.

Much gratitude goes out to the friendly night elf who was so patient with me during this. xD I fear my brain was a little slow due to the late hour and sleep deprivation. I finally get to the 'taming rock', and he motions for me to tame. Alright. I got this.

Kirix comes into view, and I hit tame as soon as he's within range. Keep in mind I really have no idea what I'm doing and I'm just following the other hunter's lead. Well, sure enough Kirix's poison kills me. Woo, more corpse running!

I manage to get back to the rock again. This time the night elf gestures to himself, then to Kirix, then pops Deterrence. Oooohhhhhh. I get it now. I nod, and prepare for another attempt.

This time I pop deterrence and hit tame beast immediately after. Only Kirix waits and decides to hit me with poison after the deterrence wears off. Oops. Another death.

After more corpse running and jumping difficulties, once again I make it to the rock. The night elf tells me to wait and sits down, so I guessed he was probably logging into a Horde character. I get a whisper explaining that I have to shoot Kirix first, wait for him to start casting, then begin the tame. I thank him and said I understood at last. Alright, I think I finally got it! xD

There was a worgen hunter who was trying to tame Kirix in between my numerous failures. I didn't mind if he got it, we seemed to be taking turns, and if he was successful then great! I saw him die as I got onto the rock once more. Armed with the full strategy now, I prepared for another attempt. Shoot, wait for the cast, hit deterrence and...tame!

Woo success! I laughed in real life, hardly believing how clumsy I was during the whole thing (it was very, very late for me), but I have to admit the noob aspect made this tame way more exciting. Having no clue how it was done and figuring it out step by step with the help of the others was definitely worth it. The worgen hunter congratulated me as well, so I could tell there were no hard feelings there. It was a perfect night of cross-faction cooperation.

I thanked everyone profusely once more, and stared at my new green spider. Wait...how did this happen again?