Do you remember that presumed bug back in beta that let hunters tame a ghostly crocolisk, plus a ghostly hydra and an ooze that thought they were crocs?

Yeah, well … apparently it never got fixed.

That’s me there with my new pet “crocoslime”, who is as yet unnamed. Isn’t he just soooo adorable?

The Pets

All three pets — the ghostly crocolisk, the hydra, and the ooze — believe that they are crocolisks. Before you name them, their default name is Crocolisk. Like crocolisks, they eat meat and fish, they have Tenacity talents, and their family skill is Bad Attitude.

I haven’t yet played enough with my slime to know if there are any other weirdnesses with these pets (other than their basic nature, of course), but that is always a possibility with something that seems unintended like this.

How to Get Them

In order to tame these three beasts, you need someone to summon them. They are summoned as part of the daily Oracle quest “A Cleansing Song” in Sholazar Basin.

In order to get to the daily quest, you first have to finish the entire Oracle/Frenzyheart quest chain that starts with “Playing Along” and ends with the group quest “A Hero’s Burden”. During “A Hero’s Burden”, you kill Artruis the Heartless, who forces you to choose whether you will align with the Oracles or the Frenzyheart Tribe. (You can change your mind in the future by attacking Artruis and choosing again.) Once you choose the Oracles, you can start their daily quests, including “A Cleansing Song”.

[edit] As pointed out in the comments, “A Cleansing Song” is randomly available, not available every day. I got it the first day so I didn’t realize that. Thanks to Behemot for the correction!

Or you can skip all that and just find someone to summon the beasts for you. Once they are summoned, they are tamed like any other creature. The spirits are non-elite and not immune to frost traps. Keep in mind, however, that all three spirits are level 80.

The crocolisk is the Spirit of Ha-Khalan and is summoned from the shores of River’s Heart. The hydra is the Spirit of Atha and is summoned from the shores of Bittertide Lake. And the ooze is the Spirit of Koosu and is summoned from the shores of the Wintergrasp River.

By the way, my sincere thanks go out to Vafrous of the guild Ex Obscurum, who helped me with the nasty group quest in the chain not once but twice (after the first time bugged out and I had to log out to help the husband with a contract), and who also helped me tame my pretty slimer. For his pains he now has a “hydradile” named Franka. That’s him to the right.

Caution

And just to be clear: It is extremely likely that being able to tame these creatures is a bug and that Blizzard will fix this bug sooner or later. Since the ooze and hydra are not part of a normally tameable beast family (oozes aren’t even beasts!) it is quite possible that the existing tamed pets will be removed from any hunters that have them, or shapeshifted into a normal croc or something along those lines.

So tame these beasts if you want to, but don’t expect them to be permanent!

[edit] And .. err .. my apologies the the posters on my own forums, especially Kweri, who posted about this 5 days ago. *cough* I’m still kinda out of it after a week of leveling, I admit.