Comments on: Ghost Croc, Crocoslime & Hydradile

By: emrsonbigins

emrsonbigins — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:36:48 +0000

Tamed my ooze before 3.0.8. Name . . . “OozeYerDaddy”

By: Mizuko

Mizuko — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:33:21 +0000

As of patch 3.0.8, these pets are no longer tameable, as well as Gezzark the Huntress. Since I’m the worst Hunter ever, and no one on the Azjol-Nerub server ever tames anything but gorillas or wolves, I don’t know if you got to keep these beasties prior to the patching.

I know, because I did everything to get to the quest to tame the Hydra, (after spending an hour or so to try to get enough Time-Lost scrolls to summon Gezz), and I got the ol’ red message of doom: “creature not tameable.”

By: thtswatshesd

thtswatshesd — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:41:52 +0000

I wish i could tame these pets!!!

please blizz make them spearit beasts!!!

By: Wolfington

Wolfington — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:05:30 +0000

I tamed the Ooze and the Hydra after many days of “Is the patch tomorow? Is it going to be removed? WHen am I going to get that stuped daily?!!”. Needless to say I love my Hydra (Named Seamist, although I am going to rename him.) THe sounds don’t bother me, usualy I have music on anyway so I don’t notice.

I’ve been wondering, anyone have the “problem” where the hydra can attack an enemie from much farther away then a normal pet? He doesn’t seem to have to move towards casters that are 5 or 6 yards away. Hmm. Not that big a problem, really, but interesting.

Still thinking of a name for the Ooze! I don’t think there are any mythical piles of goo, are there? :-)

By: John

John — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:59:06 +0000

Or Carrion Feeder? That restores Happiness.
4 weeks now, keep getting Song of Fecundity and Song of Wind and Water :S

By: Choo

Choo — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:29:30 +0000

Just a thought but going with the whole “Can’t feed a pet and it runs away” thing, if you have a Glyph of Mend Pet, you can just spam that until your pet becomes happy.

Thats what I do so I don’t have to waste money on food. 8D

By: Pedro

Pedro — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:27:31 +0000

I just tamed both hydra and ooze, I really prefer the hydra, I like the animation on it (the head constantly fighting each other, really nice to login and see my hunter with it in the background ^^) but the screech it makes every 5 seconds is kind of annoying ^^

By: Mania

Mania — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:54:23 +0000

I just tested them on the PTR (build 9386) and the hydra and slime, at least, can still be tamed.

By: snowyjoe

snowyjoe — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:06:45 +0000

Yep they havn’t removed the daily and it’s still tameable.

I’m surprised blizz hasn’t done anything about this…. looking at the forums i see no blue posts, and looking at the PTR patch i still havn’t seen any bug fix on these pets.
They acturally might make it a proper pet 0.o

If anyone on the PTR is able to get this quest, could someone check if their tameable there?

By: Flinkbaum

Flinkbaum — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:41:45 +0000

I finally got A Cleansing Song too. I was surprised at how much the Hydra and Ooze shrink after being tamed.

Not sure if anyone else has said it, but for those wondering: once you have the quest, you get an item that allows you to summon the appropriate mob, if you are in the appropriate area. The areas themselves are quite large. The mob summons instantly, and will be instantly aggressive to the summoner. The item that summons the mob works instantly, but has a two-minute cooldown. As long as you keep the quest, you keep the item.

I would have thought the Hydra would be my favourite, but of the three I think it’s my least favourite now that I’ve used them. Noises aside, the ghost croc is less odd and ponderous (the hyrda always seems to lean to the side,) and the little ooze is comically cute zipping around with charge and intervene.