Diary Post - Grayz's Extreme Poseidus Strategy

I choose an ugly sea horse instead!

I wrote this the 22nd of May 2011.
The reasons that i'm posting it now are:

1. I killed Poseidus for the second time on New years eve 2012.
2. It shows bits of my thought process during the craziest rare hunting phase that i've been through to date.
3. Lastly because I won't delete this post anyway.

Disclaimer! This isn't the most efficient way to farm Poseidus. But it is the strategy that I used, mainly because I was bored of WoW in general.

So let's get it on, shall we? After the break...

Farming Poseidus - The 2nd kill (New Years Eve 2012)

 

  NPCscan has gone off. NPCscan overlay shows the yellow circle that's visible on the minimap.

So I couldn't sleep after New Years Eve and decided to do all kinds of shit. I ran some heroics on one hunter and then decided to go look for Poseidus for the 4th time today on my other. I flew ABOVE the water and NPCscan went off 6.32 am) and I killed her/him/it/theugly for the first time on Agamaggan, but the second time in total. How does it feel? Good. 

Read on about this lovely sea horse after the break... 

WoW or Gold: Misdirect Episode 4 - Poseidus Special part 2

This was recorded before the 2nd Poseidus kill on New Years Eve!

First off, I have my girlfriend and her kid in the room in this episode and for some reason i'm extremely focused for being me although I have the chance to rant on about all kinds of things. I keep it below 15 minutes and manage to pull off an episode that actually has to do with the title, most of the time. Not bad at all!

WoW or Gold: Misdirect Episode 3 - Poseidus Special Part 1

This is the first episode where I try to be more focused, use show notes and stick to a topic. The first minutes stick to the random Tauren bullshit as it should, in pure Grayz style. I could be off with the minutes but skip back and forth and pray to god that you find some information about this Rare Ugly Seafuck.

The First Hunt For Poseidus Is Finally Over

Two addons that have helped me kill or tame various rare spawns are NPCscan and NPCscan overlay. Npcscan alerts you when a rare mob is nearby. This can be a mob anywhere, meaning that it can be a tamed pet, a dead corpse or the real live version of a rare NPC. You'll need to clear the cache in the WTF folder if you want to search for a mob after it has alerted you the first time. Once a mob is found it won't alert you again, until you reset the cache. If you know your way in the WoW directory you can delete the file named "creaturecache.wdb". I'm paranoid so I delete the "npccache.wdb" as well. I run Windows 7 so those are the file names that I know.