#ban'thalos

It was pretty ridiculous, actually, because I thought I'd done enough Hyjal quests to put the Sanctuary of Malorne in the right phase. So, I ended up camping for five-ish hours before realizing something might be wrong. And, what do you know, TWO more quests and there he is. Just floating up there. That asshole.

(An aside: the way I realized that something was wrong was that Bob got on his hunter and says "Hey Jessie, your owl is here" and Banth showed up for him but not for me even though we're on the same server. Well, that was pretty irritating. What was worse, was that Bob decided to go for the tame himself, but he's FUCKING BAD so he one-shot Banth with an arcane. ._.

He. killed. a. Spirit Beast. Like.... not out of malice, but out of badness. By being a clueless utterly incompetent bad hunter. Bob is the one who gives hunters a bad name. I am hunter-shaming Bob right now, but he is strangely okay with it b/c he's a pretty mellow guy. Anyway, back to business. Bob Mitchem did not take off his gear, he did not equip a white weapon, he did not use tranq shot or distracting shot, or DO ANY FUCKING RESEARCH OR PREP FOR THE DAMN BIRD THAT I SPENT A LONG TIME METICULOUSLY DOING.

He said, "Oh hey, tranquilizing shot, what is that? Oh man, I don't even have it on my bars!" BAD. HUNTER.

"BOB WHY DID YOU ARCANE HIM FOR FUCK'S SAKE WHY DIDN'T YOU AT LEAST AUTO HIM"

"Oh, well, I dunno, I don't have that button here"

"RIGHT CLICK? YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT CLICK ON YOUR MOUSE THERE?"

"Oh hey, well, yeah I guess that's true..."

So, long story short, I had to wait 7 more hours for the thing to respawn. During which I took an angry shower and made angry dinner and put on some angry jeans and a super cute angry v-neck so that Bob could take me out for apology coffee and pastries after dinner. And I did end up getting Banth, so I guess I'll stay married to him.)

Anyway, some tips: level 90s will one-shot him like Bob the Bad Hunter if you don't take off your gear and equip a gray or white weapon (like from a gun vendor in major city). Tranq shot does no dmg (put it on your bars), but you need to have a stop attack macro b/c even with no gear and a baby weapon, it won't take many autos to kill him.

Also, that tree method or w/e, well it doesn't work. I tried to get on the damn tree and couldn't. Doesn't matter though b/c you can just disengage right before you hit the ground and it will cancel all of your fall damage. So what you do is, fly up to Banth, tranq shot to aggro, stop attack, disengage before you hit the ground (like, within living distance b/c it acts as if falling from the point from which you disengage, like canceling your momentum) drop a freeze trap, wait for Banth, tame him.

And, don't forget, you have to do quests up til the daily hub is unlocked, not just Aessina's Miracle, but the quest called The Sanctuary Must Not Fall. If you don't do this, Banth will be phased and you won't see him when he spawns.

I am the proud owner of a new ghostly green owl named Remana. Banth is a girl owl now b/c Ghostcrawler was a boy crab named Greg.