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Comment by Tharama

Kirix is one of the ten "hunter challenges" brought into the game in the Firelands patch. He is the "green fire spider" and is definitely not a fun spider to play around with.

He resides south of Fireplume Peak running around like a spider on steroids.

For those who want to know his "challenge" be spoiled below.
Spoiler:

Kirix is poisonous. He will kill your pets, your friends and anything else you hold dear in seconds if they stay in melee range. Not only that but he has an aura that reduces healing all around him by 99% and silences you. And to top that off he has a short cast time ability that will stun and kill you no matter what. Fun spider, right?

To tame him I jumped onto one of the rocks close to where he runs in the north, put on some trivial 318 iLevel haste gear, pulled out my core hound pet, popped hysteria, dismissed him and tamed him with barely a second to spare before his cast went off.

EDIT: I recently found two thermal vent places when jumping up the rocks that, when jumped from, give a 100% haste buff for 2 minutes. I think this is actually the challenge to taming Kirix as it would probably make the tame go quicker then he could cast his stun.

Good luck!

Comment by 707422

I just tamed this on my hunter!

Spoiler:

What I did was jumped on the rock that the previous poster advised, I then had a corehound with me and popped its bloodlust and dismissed it imediately. I then tamed it with no problems. Be careful though, it seems to be kinda buggy and must be standing in the perfect spot on the platform. If you're not, then A) your tame casting will complete but there will be an LOS issue and he will not tame, or B) It will charge you and knock you off your rock.

An easy way to make sure you're in the correct spot on the platform is to summon your corehound. If you are in the correct spot, your pet will be standing with you on the platform, if you are not, your pet will be below you on the ground under the platform.

Happy Hunting. :)

Comment by Ozlem

Fun Facts:

NPCscan ID: 54323
I find his spawner is a little longer than the others (6-27hr spawner) and he does not share a spawner with any other spider. None of the FL spiders share a spawner.
Hunter only pet. If killed all he drops is a crystalline tear of loyalty & a bucket load of hunter angst.
Unlike the other rare FL spiders, Kirix is a mover. He speed patrols north of the furnace (south of Fireplume.) On your map you'll see a fast red dot go back and forth, probably see a fair share of skeletons lying around as well.
I love this rare the most because he is so badass. This hostile green spidy has no time for fools & will kill anything in melee range. He is toxic, literally. He has an aura called 'Suffocating Prey' which looks like a green cloud. If you get too close this aura both silences & reduces healing by 99%.
Kirix's power attack is beautiful, it's called "Magmatoxin" which is a DoT and a stun. As he hits his prey and stuns them the DoT ticks 25k every second! So nasty lol.
His very first attack is a knock back. So don't think you can sneak in to tame, as soon as he sees you he'll come at ya & knock you back.
This is a haste intensive tame. Get a corehound and spec BM to take advantage of hysteria OR make sure your haste is 2000+. You need haste because you need to tame while deterrence is saving you from Magmatoxin. If your tame doesn't finish by the time deterrence wares off Kirix will break tame & pwn you like you've never been pwned before. My best advice is to practice! Find a test pet, pop deterrence and tame, if tame finishes before deterrence ends you're safe to pay Kirix a visit, if not you will need to bulk your haste up.

SOLO ROCK TAME METHOD

The reason for the rock method is to protect you from knock backs but you need to be on the right rock otherwise he can still reach you (which knocks you back anyway) or he goes LoS and evades.

Now this is hard to explain & I should do a SS but hopefully you get what I'm saying. Jump up onto ~~Skarr's floating rock (from PTR, skarr doesn't spawn here on live)~~ the solitary floating rock that is closest Kirix, just left of the lava pool (the most southern lava pool on fireplume peak.) This floating rock is not close to any other floating rocks. You can't just jump to it, it's just out of reach. There is a trick to jumping on it and it's NOT using the thermal buff because if you try it with the buff you will often over shoot the mark. Just mount up (without any boost buffs/thermal buffs) and mount jump.
~~I like having Aspect of the Wild on, I've never tamed Kirix without it, I like using all my arsenal.~~ As AoW is no longer just glyph tame beast to speed your taming and mirrored blades.

Once on the rock, depending on your haste situation, you will need to tame using one of these two methods:
1. HIGH HASTE GEAR (2000+) METHOD: When Kirix runs by pop any haste pots that you have, fire a shot, hit deterrence and immediately begin to tame. 2000 haste rating is the bare minimal number, I've tried it with 1994 and it wasn't enough (it looked like I finished but he got in there a fraction of a second earlier.)
2. NEED EXTRA HASTE KICK METHOD: Have Basilisk Liverdog food buff, haste pots and a corehound. Before Kirix reaches you pop Hysteria then abandon pet, pop haste pots, fire a shot at him, hit deterrence and immediately begin to tame.

Remember If you can not complete the tame by the time deterrence has cooled off you then you're his, not the other way around.

SOLO DISENGAGE TAME METHOD

If rock jumping is not for you there is another way to tame Kirix, right on the ground, face-to-face (it's a tame rush.) Still make sure your ~~Aspect of the wild is on~~, you'e glyphed for tame and mirrored blades, make sure you still have a high haste rating & know how to disengage to avoid fall damage.

Solo Akil'zon hunters of yore & Archimonde hunters who CBF using Tears of the Goddess will remember how to do this. For those who have never needed to worry about large fall damage before, when you time it right, disengage will save you from taking fall damage! It's crazy fun and so useful. If you can master this trick it will not only save your life but you can use it for really neat things, like air pulling TLPD near K3 or tagging Ban'thalos mid air etc. So yeah to practice just fly up in the air and let go, timing is everything, if you do it too soon you'll shoot to your death sideways, too late and you go splat. It's hard to say when I do it because I've been doing it so long that I have a feel for it, I would say on a few seconds before I go splat I'd pop it. Just keep practising to get a feel for it.

You need to tame him right at the end of his path, near the jumping stones to get up onto the fireplume peak. Right where he turns away to run back. Don't stand too far back, you need some room to be knock back.
When you pull Kirix he will knock you back into the air. When you get air tossed, disengage right before hitting the ground.
Cast deterrence as soon as you land and hit tame pet instantly after that. Again haste is important, a low haste rating means there is a higher chance the tame will fail.

Best of luck hunters

(Edited to remove redundant information)

Comment by NinjaPirateTaki

My favorite method seems to be the intended one, though one of the floating rocks is certainly okay as well, provided that you don't get evade bugged. :)

~~1. Have Aspect of the Wild up. (If you don't, you will die.)~~ (No longer exists as of 5.0.4; see MoP update below.)
2. Pull Kirix at max range.
3. When he does his knockback, disengage at the height of it.
4. Hit deterrence when you land to block the toxin and immediately cast tame beast after. Any temporary haste buffs go here. If you have 120k+ hp, you should be fine without them. 110k and lower, I'd recommend potting here and getting a heroism/bloodlust/ancient hysteria/time warp effect just before you do step 2. Remember, the lower your base hp, the more accurate you have to be about timing everything; one extra tick can be the difference between success and failure.
5. Enjoy your new glowing green buddy. :)

Mists of Pandaria updates:

Aspect of the Wild no longer exists in MoP, which forces the tamer to take massive 32k ticks from Kirix's aura. Fortunately, the minor glyph Tame Beast shortens your taming time by four seconds and the talent Aspect of the Iron Hawk reduces the damage you take by 15%. With the glyph alone, the above method still works, perfectly countering Kirix's knockback and stun.

The only difference I noticed in 5.0.4 is that Kirix's toxin cast now interrupts the tame beast cast, even through deterrence! So you need to cast tame beast AFTER the toxin cast. The timing needs to be a bit tighter, but it's completely doable, as evidenced here. Alternately, you can use the glyph of mirrored blades as suggested in the comments below.

Regardless of what anyone else has posted here, you cannot interrupt the toxin cast with silencing shot. There is a UI error that shows the cast as being interruptable if you're not specced for silencing shot, but if you are, you can see that the cast cannot be interrupted.

Comment by 849109

Located on the West side of The Furnace in Molten Front. Yet again, done with a Priest assist... she bubbled me and got out of the way.

I placed an Ice Trap, shot him, let him come to me and use his punt move. At the apex of that punt, I Dsengaged, cast Deterrence and Tame Beast.

Tamed him with 2-3% HP left.

Good luck!

Comment by 811040

Solo tamed, server first in Quel'Dorei.

The strategy is to tame him without him touching you, and no CC/trap works. Only way to accomplish that is to stand on a solitary floating rock, to the left of the cluster of rocks that forms the stairway to Fireplume Peak. In order to jump to that rock properly, you need the extra-jump buff on the ledges of Fireplume Peak. Once there, you are in range to use Tame Beast.

He will sit there and let you tame, unable to hit you; However! he WILL cast his 5sec poison stun which ticks for 23k-ish DPS. Now, to beat his cast, as a BM hunter, I used Ancient Hysteria from my trusty core-hound (DualCore), ate the 60 Haste food and popped a 500 haste potion right before the tame and beat his cast by a hair. Good luck fellow hunters!

He looks awesome and even more awesome under Bestial Wrath. Screenshot posted.

Comment by 849331

Server first in US-Eitrigg.

After trying for 2 hours with a Holy Pally and a mage for hero. The spell he would cast would stun me right before the tame would get off. With many attempts and many failures, we agreed to give it a couple more tries with different strategies and ended up taming it successfully in the end without any heals, heroes, or potions. Just Mark of the Wild buff on my hunter (probably not even needed as well). Secret is your positioning and the timing on your deterrence and tame spells. Good Luck! :P

P.S. You do NOT have to be BM to tame this beast but it helps if you need the Hero for the haste.

Comment by wastedtime

Tamed this beast tonight on Terokkar EU, I brought along a disc priest. I pulled with a shot and then waited for him to shoot me up into the air, as soon as I landed I popped deterrence and the priest put power word barrier, power word shield, power infusion and pain surpression on me while I hit tame beast. The tame was interrupted half way through but I instantly hit it again, with all the healing cooldowns on me I managed to get the tame off with fractions of a second to spare!

Comment by salutedeeznutz

OOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKKK

after camping his location for 9 hours i decided to give up... less than an hour later i hear a hunter has just tamed him... needless to say im upset at this point and /ragequit... i get on about 10 hours later and camp for like 20 mins and HOLY OMFG there he is... after about 15 deaths and 2 mins for each death after 2 i did some thinking and this is what i came up with...

here is what i did to tame this BAMF... shimmy your way up the rocks then hop on the single rock not the 2 that are close together... i was mounted when i did this and not sure how far not mounted will allow u to jump... wait for him to get in range of concusive shot use conc shot if you have any POP EVERY HASTE BUFF YOU HAVE... this includes pots racials even the old corehound BL / abandon trick.. rapid fire doesn't help i was informed earlier... he didnt get the knockback off cuz i was too far away and he didnt evade so yea...

posting screen shot...

i haven't named him... i was hoping to get everyone's insight on that

Comment by mmjau

I have tamed him serveral times on PTR and now on live with this strat:

Strat 1:
DO NOT FORGET NATURE RES AURA! :)
1. Pull with arcane shot and wait for him to throw you up in the air
2. Disengage when you are in the air
3. Asap when you are back on the ground and see him casting something Deterrence and Tame

Tips but not needed:
Reforge everything to haste
Macro haste CD into your Tame Beast.. Rapid Fire, Potion of speed.
Buff yourself with fortitude scroll, eat buff food and use elixir of mighty speed..

Strat 2:
"On the last rock when you jump from the furnace to fireplume, there is a gust of wind that you can see in here, jumping onto that will fly you up onto the island and give you a 2min buff Convalescence of Winds, and the buff reads 'Increases your attack speed and haste by 100% and allows you to jump much higher and farther than normal." From http://forums.wow-petopia.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13053
Confirmed, I took this screen its the next rock: http://i.imgur.com/ZSa5M.jpg

Comment by shao

marksman version here

jumped on to the floating platform to the north that doesn't decay - it's on its own, and not next to a air jump boost thing. Make sure you don't have any of the jumping buffs that send you flying. Mount up, jump about 5-10 yards back from the ledge so that you can make it okay.

Once kirix pats hit it with any shot,
hit deterrence, readiness, deterrence again when its off cooldown - this should cover you from any ability kirix has and give you enough time to tame it without any potions, buffs, or anything else to increase haste.

good luck

I probably should have checked here before trying this tame. Just solo tamed it on draenor.eu. would have got it figured out a lot quicker, and a lot cheaper.

spawn time seems to be a standard 6 hours, as i saw it around 6-7 hours before.

Comment by Reddy

Well I tamed him a minute ago (Blackmoore EU). There was a group of people trying to kill him. I just jumped in and hit "Tame Beast" a couple of times. It never finished because of his silence but suddenly, bam, he was mine. Don't know why, don't know how but it worked. Strange...

Comment by Mogron

The easiest method to taming him, which i don't think has been mentioned yet, is to grab the "super" jump buff. This buff is attainable when you jump into the Thermal Vent. This vent is located at the point where you jump from the rocks to the actual peak. This buff gives you 100% increase to attack speed and haste while also allowing you to jump incredibly high. For the positioning while taming i just went on the peak and got into range of him. With this buff my cast time for tame beast was instant. So there really isn't any need to bring any potions or to use ancient hysteria.

Edit: This buff is called Convalescence of Winds.

Comment by Khayr

I nabbed this guy on US-Gilneas yesterday evening around 8:30.. when they said "taming challenges", they meant challenges. Kaze590's method worked best for me, though I did try several other ways.

Kirix moves very quickly back and forth around the outer edge of The Furnace. If you're not ready to go when he gets there you're going to have to wait for another pat.. but don't worry, if someone is waiting on the other side they're sure to get one-shot. We had six different hunters trying for 30 minutes, not counting the numerous other classes trying to come in for the kill. Kirix has just under a million hp.. I don't see other classes being able to kill him on you, so good luck to all of you in your hunt!

Comment by Kaneiac

Tamed at 4:35PST - Silver Hand US server.

Followed this strategy:

First of all, Aspect of the Wild. Use it, love it.

1. Shot him with AS/SS - anything really.
2. Get charged & knocked into air
3. Disengaged at the very height of it
4. Popped haste + deterrence
5. Immediately began the tame.

This was after watching about 15 other hunters die repeatedly trying the rock strategy, which was amusing in it's own right, considering that's also a viable way.

A very, very fun tame. Refreshing - brings back memories of the Bow & Staff questline.

Comment by IMissThottbot

There is an alternative to Kirix for those who want this skin--but it's still not easy to get.

One of the two IDs of Cinderweb Broodlings--namely, the patrolling -> despawning random ones--can be tamed.

Comment by 849483

I tamed Kirix on Grizzly Hills around 6:30pm server.

INFO ABOUT KIRIX: Kirix has a Toxic Presence buff which causes nature damage to all nearby players and pets. With this Buff comes a Spell that he cast's, when he successfully casts this spell it will stun you and kill you in a matter of seconds.

Taming Location: I mounted up and jumped on the solo floating rock to the left by the first lava pool with the Fire Hawk and the Elemental when you jump up onto Fireplume peak from the big jet stream.

Taming Method: Once Kirix Spawned I waited for him to get into range of SS (Silence Shot) and pulled, I started to tame Immediately after the SS. With only 2 or 3 seconds left on the tame Kirix began to cast his Toxic spell. To avoid the stun effect I immediately used Deterrence followed with the tame spell again. I completed my tame for Kirix while he attempted to cast his toxic spell a second time.

IN SHORTER WORDS: Kirix will cast his toxic spell 2 times during this encounter.........1st cast = Deterrence...........2nd cast = You finish taming with him having about 2 or 3 seconds left on the toxic cast.

Comment by 850696

I came across Kirix this morning at 7:00 am on Drenden. There were three hunters he killed before I started my tame. This pet on my end was glitched when I tamed him. He attacked me just like Skarr did, but also my tame lasted 2 seconds before he was mine. I don't know what happened, I just tamed, Silencing Shot, and then tame again and got him like that. The Dwarf hunter there used a scatter shot when I was taming and asked how I did what I did. After discussing, we agreed he was glitched or someone tried to hax it and failed and I was just in the right place at the right time.

Cool pet and very strong. Definitely a tame worth the wait.

Happy hunting and good luck to all.

Comment by 823275

Just tamed this one! (9:48pm servertime Area 52) :D I followed the advice given picked up a core hound waited for some hours & woo NPC Scan goes off i get my core hound buff off & a Haste Potion removed the core hound just in time he came by the floating rock (close to the phoenix by the lava pool) tamed him with one tame! & then i died from his nasty attack but i have him now! :)

Comment by rshire

I just tamed this spider at 11.15am on turalyon EU server with the help of another hunter who already had him to tell me all the tips on taming took a few trys but got there :P

Comment by Silavara

Just tamed this awesome little challenge on Kirin Tor. I watched 4 others hunters try and fail at taming him, and must say its a fun challenge here. I used Basilisk Liverdog and Elixir of Mighty Speed, also have Aspect of he Wild up.

I used the platform method so its still a workable method. I started the tame and as soon as he started to cast his wicked, nasty, devastating, ugly ability used deterrence and than started the tame again and got him. Those 4 other Hunters have be mad with me.

Comment by 643772

Just tamed him before the server shut down on Azuremyst-US.

After watching him decimate me and 3 other hunters over and over and over I pulled it off by:

1. Standing on a rock within range of him.
2. Hitting him with SS (any shot)
3. One SECOND after he started his cast for the massive insta-kill poison I popped deterrence and tame beast.

Timed perfectly the deter stops the poison shot and the tame completes before he gets off shot#2.

No speed pots, no help, no tricks, no buffs- just straight forward timing and execution with abilities at any hunter's disposal regardless of what spec you are.

In other words, don't wait for him to finish poison shot one almost then deter and tame. Start deterrence while he is casting that first poison shot and go into tame- that way you get the time it takes him to cast- the block of the poison blast - and the time it would take him to cast shot#2 - you will beat him by a solid second or more even without hysteria, pots, voodoo (LOL).

But most important of all, don't try to do this where he can get to you to melee you. Be sure to attempt from one of the floating rocks.

The other hunters were *green* (cough cough) with envy as we all stood there amongst the piles of bones from the other failed attempts!

He'd be a great mob to kite down into the daily quest zone if possible and unleash him on people you don't like. (HA HA)

Comment by 802092

As of experience I can say that the most easy way to tame him is to get the "Convalescence of Winds" buff, jump onto the single rock mentioned in most of these comments and then shot him, press tame beast, use deterrance when he cast his toxic thing and tame beast again, as fast as possible after you used deterrance.

You can also use Hero, but i suggest that you don't.

Comment by Esdala

Tamed him last night right after Skarr around 2:00 am on Gul'dan and I used the single rock and corehound hero suggestion, super easy with most of my gear yellow. Jump to the rock on your mount though, or you will fall.

Comment by 779198

After snagging Ankha, and shortly after that Karkin, I'd popped back on for one more look for Skarr (no luck yet). Used Eagle Eye, and saw a big green spider skittering around like it was on crack. I was still on the big central platform where I'd tamed Karkin, and didn't move off it for the tame. Granted I (and several other hunters that were on the actual platform with Kirix) died many times trying to figure out how to tame him before he killed me. I stayed up on that platform, at the very edge, had my corehound out at the ready, waited till he was starting to come my way and popped Hysteria, Rapid Fire, Deterrence (pretty much anything I could think of to increase speed and survivability) and managed to tame him with 1 second to go before he cast.

Comment by skyejelly

If you want to tame this purposely for the skin, then I suggest you not to spend 20+ agonizing hours trying to camp this, and then end up failing because of uneducated knowledge, or gear, or a missing buff. Kirix is a hard one, but not as hard as Deth'Tilac, but unlike Deth'Tilac, his skin is not unique to him alone. There are other spiders near the Widow's Clutch called Cinderweb Broodlings. There is two types of this spider, one of them is tameable, the other one is not, it is a stupid chance. Just run around spamming tame on these spiders, because the first one I clicked was tameable. It's much better to spam tame around a pack of spiders instead of camping Kirix and probably end up dying because of his poison attacks.

Hope this didn't anger any Kirix owners. cx

Good luck!

Comment by Ahhbubble

Ok so easy tame.. Snagged him on Frostwolf at 12:00 pm server. I had died a few times from horde prior so I was sitting on a 2 min rez timer. I spirit walked thought the flames to see if skarr was up, The moment I rezed smack dead again and there he was laughing over my body Kirix....
I was freaking out due to the fact horde hunters were traveling in packs and apparently non hunter class horde had a hunterpet kill on site order. Its been brutal. So I rezed up again after my miserable nail biting 2 min wait, And was able to jump onto the tall rock next to the mountain were he patrols ( the floating platforms are not needed) . Eat some grub to get my hp back up and waited until he patroled by the edge of the island. Shot him, detterance as soon as he started to cast his poison and immediatly tamed.. He began to cast his poison at the 1 second tame time, and he was mine and I still had 100% hp. Did have to us rapid fire before the tame cast but no need for hero/bloodlust, so i figured the haste benefits you get in the marks tree is good enough. I also thought they may have fixed the evade bug because he didn't evade for me. GL to the rest of you!

P.S. Anyone have some info on spawn times...

Comment by 852350

ok so i just tamed chris as i call him ;p with some help from another hunter.thank you Onegin!

im on nagrand it was 6am
i stayed on the same platform as chris ;p around about in line with the rock that every1 stands on to tame him,when hes in range of ur tame beast spell,HIT it he will charge u and knock u back as soon as ur in the air hit disengage and deterrence then as soon as u hit the ground start taming,it will b close but it works like a charm>
good luck and happy hunting :)

Comment by 851690

Another tip which I haven't seen mentioned yet - I tamed him on Jube a few days ago after watching many other hunters try and die. I then tried, using the core hound haste buff and what I could remember of the tips I'd read here (I came upon him by chance... wasn't camping so hadn't really studied his strat much), but I got killed about 2/3 way throuugh the tame.

Came back and watched others try again, and noticed the high rock at around 27, 63. If you run up the hill just off to the side of it while mounted, you can easily jump up on top of this rock (not a floating rock... just an elevated one on the ground). So I sat there and watched for a bit, and when he ran past me after another reset, I speculatively cast a deterrance/tame. He sat there and just let me tame him! Now I'm not sure if he bugged out or something, and I got lucky, or if sitting up on that rock means he can't do his knockback on you, but if anyone else can confirm this strat it's quite an easy option.

Comment by Nairaj

Just tamed on Nagrand server and he killed me a few times. Used the disengage trick and it worked perfectly.

Comment by 125795

This is 1 of 10 new rares in 4.2 patch

Comment by 853269

Tamed him on Wyrmrest Accord about 11:pm server time. Used a haste potion, hysteria, and another haste buff i got from jumping on a jet way like thing. Stood on the rock and hit tame.

Happy hunting all

Comment by 749333

Found this guy scrambling around the ledge right next to the Druids of Talon quest givers in the Molten Front.

Comment by 477449

Tamed at around 6:05pm server on Earthen Ring. Had the added assistance of another hunter in the area camping Skarr to give me a bloodlust assist with her corehound.

Soon as he hit me, disengaged, deterred, hit berserking and had my friend hit bloodlust and was able to get the tame!

Quite a beauty it is. And I owed her back in allowing her to tame Skarr with some help from me, so fair is fair :)

Comment by Danielfboone

Just got him on Draka after about 15 unsuccessful tries and almost 200G in repairs. He was running around for at least 30 minutes killing everybody who tried to tame or kill him. I finally got him by using my Corehound's hysteria buff, then quickly dismissing him and using a haste potion and casting tame. He never even got to use his cast before the tame completed so I never used deterrence either. I was standing on the rock when I did it. The first 14 times I tried everything including my PvP trinket to try and get out of his stun. Nothing worked until I went and got the Corehound. then I got him first try.

Guildie wanted me to name him ItsyBitsy so that's what he is but I think I might eventually change it to the name of the spider in LOTR. Shelob.

NOTE--Solix is 20 times harder than this guy. At least for me.

Comment by 853676

Just tamed him on Caelestrasz, 20:45 realm time. Went with the (spoiler below):

1. Call of the Wild
2. Disengage
3. Detterence
4. Tame Beast

method, and it worked first go, so thank you NinjaPirateTaki! Saved my little hunter butt <.<

I am currently at 123K hp with decent gear, and he smashed me down to my last heartbeat (9K) so every second counts for this tame! Be on the ball, and you will be cheering!

Great spider!
Good luck everyone

Comment by Euphyley

Got a video of someone taming him from the rock here. It took him a couple of tries, the first 2 were very close but he was killed by poison just before tame finished. 3rd try was great success!

Comment by bloodandbone

i love sitting on the edge watching 10000 hunters die in an urge an desperate rush to tame him. makes me laugh so much, its my top priority of actually going to molten front hahaha

Comment by 853967

Kirix had been spawned for ~1 hour before I discovered that he was up. There were a few horde hunters trying to tame him, with some of their friends killing all alliance in sight.
Hid in a corner, targetted Kirix, and waited for the one of the hunters to die. Right when before he died, I popped my core hound's ancient hysteria, dismissed him, and popped deterence as I ran in and hit tame pet.
Horde did not expect me to rush in like that, so it took them a second to realize what I was doing. By then, my tame bar was almost complete. An arcane mage and a hunter managed to kill me, but my tame pet bar completed a split second before they did so. Right after I died, the hunter that had died right before I tamed Kirix got back from his corpse run.
The wonderful element of surprise was definitely on my side.

I saw Kirix, Solix, and Deth'tilac today, but the horde killed both Solix and Deth'tilac. :(

Comment by Sarantha

Tamed him from a floating rock, used the deterrence, haste, corehound lust, tame method. Maybe a bit overkill, but he was super easy this way. Also used aspect of the wild to help reduce poison dmg just in case. He's gorgeous and I named him Loki. Because, well...green and black is hot.

Comment by vampirechickk

In MM, I positioned myself on the floating rock at 33.6, 52.8 (One of Skarr's spawn points) between fireplume peak and the furnace. I had a Food Buff and a Elixir Buff (All haste). I was in Marksman to help with more haste. All in all I had a Haste of 540.

Stand close to the edge of that rock. Wait for Kirix to run near the front of you. Hit Tame.. then in the middle of his poison charge hit Deterrence, then Drink a Potion of Speed and hit tame again. I tamed him with about 2 seconds to spare.

I failed the first 2 times because I didn't stand close enough to the edge or let Kirix close enough to the rock. He would evade and it would take longer for tame to be up after hitting Deterrence.

Follow these simple rules and it should be a piece of cake. Stand on a rock (with enough haste/haste buffs) tame, deterr, potion, tame and win! =^_^=

Comment by Brighteyez

I tamed Kirix using the following method:

Engage Kirix (I used an arcane shot).
Wait for Kirix to punt - at the height of the punt, disengage.
Pop the following macro:
/use Potion of Speed
/cast Deterrence
/cast Tame Beast

I had tried on numerous occasions previously to do the rock method, but being on a PVP server meant that I was often typhooned off the rocks or just slaughtered.

I had the time of Kirix's previous spawn thanks to a guildie who happened to see him get tamed. My group started camping 6 hours after his previous spawn, and he did not spawn til 6 1/2 hours later (12 1/2 hour spawn timer for this particular Kirix).

Don't know if that will help anyone, but there you go! :D

Happy Hunting!

Edit: Forgot to add that I also died right at the end of the tame, but Kirix disappeared so I was crossing my fingers that I would have a shiny new spider in my stables, and sure enough, the spider icon was there when my guildie rezzed me! :D Yay pretty spider!

Comment by 854905

Sat on the floating rock from about 11.30am time (Dunemaul EU) whilst my boyfriend was camping Deth'tilac. He got Deth at around 12.30 and then specced BM to come help me (on the way whilst searching for a core hound for Ancient Hysteria, he flew over the lava near FL and I told him thats where the rare turtle spawned, hes like oh yeh here it is, and tames right away , easy =p lucky git)
Sit on the rock for hours more, at around 16.30 I see a ret dot on my mini map next to me, Skarr! My heart races, I jump off my little rock and kinda rush into taming, bad idea as all these new pets require skill/tacts etc. I popped deter too fast and his attack hit me, then he killed me in the second time. Had a mage and another watching me. I quickly res and run back, and the stupid mage was standing there laughing at me and I see a dead Skarr in front of me on the rock.
I seriously dont know why people kill such rares =/ Makes me sad. May go back at 10.30 to see if the crab is there as its 6 hours spawns I think.
Anyway, I rage in guild, get back on my rock. Wait more hours, until raid time comes, 20.00. Then at 20.04 comes and I see another red dot on mini map, KIRIX ! So he starts to come around, me being a noob and thinking ill mess it up hand keybord over to my boyfriend, I pop ancient hysteria on his pc, he pops haste pot, deter and he tries to tame, but the tame wasnt fast enough and the cast went through again before he could get the tame off.I mass res myself on his pc, try again, but my char dies.
By this point there are a few watchers inc a hunter, so he gets back on his pc and I told him id rather him get the pet than any others seeing as we have been waiting in the same spot for 7 hours straight =p so he rushes to do it and manages to get the tame off first go. (Find out a sec later the other hunter already had it and I had time to res and stuff ><)
I dont know what happened on my char as I had AC and haste pot up and I had 19% haste UB and he only has 10% and he had nothing popped. He did exactly the same on his char and it went though. So a bit unhappy that I waited 7 hours for nothing, as he doesnt even like Kirix =p Bah

But yeh, don't rush into taming Kirix, as you have to time it all perfectly. Ive heard that there are smaller tiny green spiders you can tame, may do that. But then ill know deep down i didnt really face the challenge of a rare, and im cheating -_- ugh. Damn spiders haha.

edit - Got him the next day as he spawned during my Skarr camp. He evaded my tame 5 times in a row, but managed to get him starting on the floor.
pull him, when he knocks you back, disengage at the top of the knockback so you get some distance, deterrance then tame. no flasks, pots, bl used. just normal tame =)

Comment by hazzegame

Just helped a lucky hunter on EU-Darkmoon faire (00:04) to get this "little" eightlegged killing machine. :)

Tip: If you don't have a core hound other similar buffs works just as well. That means if you meet a nice mage or a shaman, she or he can help you by popping Time warp, Heroism or Bloodlust.

If that shouldn't work, try bribing them with 150g. After all, that's cheap for a rare. :P

No, Unholy frenzy won't work beacuse it doesn't affect spell speed. Only melee and ranged. Also as it only gives 20% compared to the others's 30% the hunter may not even have enough time before getting killed. Also the dot from Unholy frenzy might interrupt the tame. (I'm not sure about that one though)

Comment by 392238

Kirix is not "rare" now, because you can tame Cinderweb Broodling

Comment by 855570

Question: Does this pet keep this aura after tamed? "Suffocating Prey - Silences and reduces healing effects by 99%." I'm trying to determine the benefits for PVP.

Comment by 804478

Tamed him around 7:00 server time, pretty simple easy tame. (was a 6 hour spawn since the last tame)

Climb up the rocks like your going to get skarr, turn left at the top and walk a little to the left until you find a floating rock all by itself, mount up and hop onto it. This will allow Kirix to not melee you which kills you in about 3 seconds. Right when he pats by hit tame to grab agro, then quickly silence shot his poison (it stuns and kills you in 4 seconds) pop deterrence incase he decides to do another poison, and hit tame. Should work out fine, i've seen people not even have to cast silence because he never popped his CD. I also had a mage cast Time Warp for me which helped alot due to the 4 other hunters attempting to tame him. Also don't even try to tame him without being on a rock, it doesn't matter how good you are, you won't get him, he hits to hard. If you don't have a mage just tame a corehound and use it for bloodlust before you begin taming.

Comment by 804623

The idea of a 6-12 hour respawn time is complete BS.

Having him myself I watched and cheered as a nelf hunter tamed him on Khaz server at 4:30 pm, whilst sitting there posing and chatting with several hunters that had him and the new member to the club the shout went up in /1 KIRIX.

I started to type back, "we know he's just been..." looked up in time to see the green machine of death roll over all of us sitting there with our tamed kirix out.

less the FIVE MINUTES after a tame.

timers are RNG.

edit: and while I was typing this skarr spawned, tabbed back in just in time to see a druid of my own faction butcher him while i begged him to stop.

Comment by Tatwo

Hunter Tame Guides for 4.2 Rare Spawns
Molten Front - Mount Hyjal

Youtube Search for: "Tatwo Solo Tame"
1 Tatwo Solo Tame Guide Deth'tilac Challenge (w/ people bothering you)
2 Tatwo Solo Tame Guide Kirix Challenge (HARDMODE)
3 Tatwo Solo Tame Guide Solix Challenge (Entrapment)
4 Tatwo Solo Tame Guide Ban'thalos Challenge (Easy and Hard)

Comment by 362388

I tamed him tonight (20 Jul 11), doing nothing really special. People talk about taking healers with them, using core hounds, popping haste potions and food... i did none of that.

I was in my Vicious PvP gear, I took no potions, ate no food, didn't use a core hound buff. My haste in pvp gear is 7.11%. I just did the following:
1) stood on that solitary rock
2) waited for him to come into taming range, shot him, he evaded
3) he began to cast his poison spell
4) while spider was still casting, I hit deterrence and tame in quick-succession
5) I now own a green spider

As you see, all these people talking about xtra food and potions and spells... i did none of that and tamed him... so you can too... just be quick on the draw and pull from the right place.

Comment by Nelinde

GROUNDING TOTEM IS YR NEW BEST FRIEND!
if you can get a nice shaman to help you then you dont even need any haste buffs just pull him by taming and get the shaman to put down a grounding totem. the totem bites the dust and yr tame completes in one!
just tamed him on my hunter with this trick on Quel'thalas EU Defaid, 15:12pm.

Comment by rilgania

Tamed this lass yesterday. It took me about five attempts, even if I did everything "right" (as i thought): Aspect of the Wild, pull with AS, wait for the charge, disengage, deterrence-tame. Despite this, I died alfway through the cast.

Then after 4 deahs, I noticed that pulling with an AS that is macro'd to AotH might not be the best idea.

After changing to auto-shot-pulling, it went like a breeze. Luckily, the 3-4 other hunters that were trying to tame her as well didn't have a clue of what to do. :D

Comment by Grizlor

After watching some other hunter die 10 times in a row trying to tame him (there was a good 1-2 seconds between him hitting deterrence and tame beast every time) I stepped in and got him on the first try.

Moral of the story: Don't click your buttons, don't do drugs, and stay in school.

Comment by 431735

After several attempts, I finally got a chance to get him without alliance killing me with one second left. I just disengaged after he hit me in the air, popped deterrence, and tamed him.

U.S. Korgath - Derken

Comment by 857470

tamed that killer today 05.05 gametime @ twisted nether server 3.rd rare today, just jumped to rock pulled , and cast rapid fire cast berserk and tame . kirix doent have time to cast that deadly spell . now camping for scarr

GL hunters

Comment by 841557

Just got Kirix now all i do is just standing at the floating rock at the north where kirix spot is. i only use the berserking haste buff by the time i tame him. when he cast the magmatoxin i quickly pop the deterrence then Berserking and tame beast then success!

Comment by 857756

Awesome sauce time getting this one, missed him day 1 but went back as I always do to check on the different pet and saw another hunter trying to get him.... I gave haste elixirs and offered tips of how to grab him, she had been there for about 30mins trying to get him prior to the 20mins I stood there watching and helping. Finally after about 30 deaths she gave up... I walked over popped a flask and tamed first try lol I was happy know it pissed her off but eh apparently big spidy there didn't want her!
Its easy, wind buff, 225 haste flask, 500 haste potion, don't shoot at it just start to tame, when he casts poison pop deterrence and start to tame again, bingo bango new pet.

Comment by aZies

Tamed it about 3 minutes ago, just jumped on a float rock (mount-jumped to it, the far right one), Kirix came speeding, pulled it over with a shot. Waited for the cast, Deterence -> Tame (total of 12,47% haste). Ended with full hp and another rare spider. Azies@Zenedar-EU.

Happy hunting !

Comment by Thechrispyguy

It's incredibly entertaining just sitting here watching groups of hunters die to this one spider.

Comment by 355492

I "took" him from another hunter but I don't feel bad about it. I've had MANY pets killed or stolen from me. There was a group of people around and 1 hunter trying to tame. The hunter gets killed and I started my tame and successfully got him. You snooze you lose

Comment by 758699

Just tamed him on Deathwing.

I can confirm that that above method is best, stand on the sole rock, hit him, wait for him to start casting and then pop Detterence and start taming. It might bug out a bit but it is your best bet. There was a lot of competition with an alliance hunter and his pally friend. I managed to find some people to take care of them while I did the taming. Good luck to all :)

Comment by 758699

No, that would be way to over powered lol, I just tamed him and can comfirm it.

Comment by 631174

Easy tame, you don't need to stand on a floating rock to get him (I always miss) instead you can stand on the edge of the other island, and he's in range to hit.. Jump to the other island using the thermal to the right of the floating platforms, which gets you the thermal buff, shoot him once, and when he does his poison attack, pop deterrence and tame.

Comment by 464052

I have just used Kaze strat,
it seemed to have worked, to some extent, while 3 other hunters were after it; as well as a priest + hunter

I say to some extent because I finished casting tame on him,
and I did not get him my call pet is empty except 1 slot.

I finished my casting half way into his hunter pwn spell
WTF BLIZZARD >:O

Comment by 707322

Please Help!
I just tried to tame Kirix multiple times. Everytime i did, i used a haste potion and used the deterrence/tame beast macro when he started to cast his venom spell. My tame beast cast would complete with out interruption and at the end he would evade it! Can anyone please tell me what i'm doing wrong?

Comment by sellack

I recommend using the method where you do following

get all the buffs you can from food and druid/priest
attack it with normal shoot
it will come to you can cast you up in the air- when u are high up use disengage.
when you land he will come towards you - he will stop to cast posion then you use detterence and right after use tame - it will be a pain but you can manage it :D
P.S. for good sake rememer to put on wild against nature..

Good luck

Comment by 834556

Another hunter on my server got him, but soon after the tameable version of cinderweb brooder was up. This is a spider I should say, has drank 1000 energy drinks.

Comment by Salandria

28/7/2011
Server: Kalecgos - PVP
Tame Time: 1:20PM PST
Tame Location: 29,57
Notes: I did not get the exact spawn information as I had just logged in and there he was. Another hunter tamed him.

Good luck hunters!

Comment by Jeremybell

Its very strange, and maybe a bug, but i am happy i tamed Kirix the most easiest way to imagine.
My NPCscan went off 3 times. 3 rares. 1 was dead, 1 i couldnt find, and Kirix was still up. I ran to the fire, then corpserun (not yet the buff) and went to the place. 2 hordies standing there, and looking to a fast running kirix. i walked towards it and somehow (even i was pixels away from him) didnt aggro him. specced BM and clicked tame. Somehow, he dispelled me. I clicked again, and after 2 seconds (!) i tamed him.
I am happy, but i dont think it was the proper way.

EDIT: (spoiler) i had mark of the wild on, and no energy potions or whatever. Just normal, and not fully BM specced. Just enough points for the last talent.

Comment by Detin

Ok, but how to kill him ? :>

Comment by 202176

If you notice the only item they drop is called Crystalline Tear of Loyalty , and the description of that item says "The desire to serve as a loyal companion coalesced into a single priceless crystals" and that is the way of Blizzard to say you shouldn't be killing these spawns but instead hunters should tame them (notice the part of : The desire to serve as a loyal companion = A hunter pet)
So yh if a wasnt the first one to notice this sry then i didnt read trough 134 comments ( or something like that) to know if i am stealing someones post or not, but i reached to this conclusion myself so just wanted to put that out there.

PS: There are 10 rare spawns that came in , in patch 4.2.

Comment by AkaraBWR

I got on top of the rock that gives you that 2 minute haste/jumping buff. And when Kirix got close enough I tagged him with a Arcane shot, waited until he started casting his stun, popped Deterrence, tame... win.

Keep in mind he will be evading until he starts casting the spell, this is okay. As you will still be able to tame him. It took me 2 times but I was able to get it. Hope it helps.

Also, I believe he is on a short spawn timer, because I saw him this morning when an alliance tamed him. Tonight (roughly 3:30am Server time) I saw him again, this was when I tamed him.

Comment by 857952

Can there be a race-dependent Line of Sight issue with the rock method?

Me and another Orc hunter had between us about 30 failed attempts from the rock this morning. The Tame Beast spell would complete casting, but rather than having a new pet at the end, Kirix evaded. In the end I tamed him on the ground using the disengage-method.

This afternoon I see a Tauren just jump on the rock and taming Kirix on the first try. I was about to tell him I did not think that method worked anymore, then he whispers me back that was his 4th tame and he never had any problems from the rock.

So. Do Taurens avoid Kirix evading at the end of the tame because they are taller toons, or have a larger hitboxes, or something else related to the toon/race?

Also, the Tauren told me there is no particular spot on the rock he needs to stand on, and he has also tamed from different rocks.

Please report if your experiences confirm or contradict this LOS/hitbox hypothesis.

Comment by 436634

Tamed this bad boy this morning on Argent Dawn at 7:15A CST as Survival.
Had Nature resist on. Tame Beast, he knocked back, Disengaged mid-air, hit Deterrence and Tame Beast when I landed.

I tried Conc shot at first but it didn't do anything to help. Scatter Shot didn't work either to break his cast. I'm sure if I was Marksman it would have been easier to Silencing Shot his cast, then Deterrence, Tame. Anyhow, got it done. ;) Luck to all!

Comment by 288403

Some Ally on Frostmane EU decided to kill this thing at 3:49 PM, for the epic LEWTS it might drop, even though us hunters spammed the general chat that he will drop no loot (other than the 25g) and is only for hunters to tame...

Lesson learned: Hunt these beasts at night were the servers are less populated, managed to grab Terrorpene, Ankha, Skarr, Karkin and Karoma last night, so I am not the one to complain too much^^

Comment by 228860

Just tamed Kirix.

Jumped onto the lonely rock, waited for Kirix to come around the corner and then:

(In BM spec with a Core Hound pet)

1. Ancient Hysteria
2. Dismiss Pet
3. Spammed tame to get his attention once he was in range (he runs non-stop back and forth and can go out of taming range if you're not fast enough)
4. Deterrence
5. Tame

He never used a single attack against me. Kirix just stood there staring at me like an idiot the whole time I was taming him.

Wish I could say this was a "Challenge", but it really wasn't using that method.

Comment by 859994

Tamed at 11:49pm on Akama server. I am BM spec.

Found Kirix up on the back half of The Furnace with horde hunters and other classes trying to tame/kill him (he runs back and forth very quickly and will kill you fast if you engage him too close). I used the lone rock technique and made a deterrence and tame beast macro. I fond that the macro gave me that 1 extra sec needed before he cast his stun again. I tried doing it manually one attempt and his stun hit me right as the tame was supposed to finish which canceled it and killed me. Waited for Kirix to come into tame range of the rock (remember your shots are 40y but tame beast is only 30y) and hit him with SS. Waited a little again with my dot ticking and hit my macro as soon as he started to cast his stun. Tame was successful and all the jealous horde hunters made a point of killing me on Fireplume Peak. :P

You don't have to use any haste buffs if you go about taming him this way. I tend to get overly excited and can't make a pet buff me, dismiss it, and start taming something else without freaking out or screwing something up in the process.

**Take your time hopping up on the rocks if you aren't on the Druids of the Talon quests. My hunter is helping the Shadow Wardens so if I fell, I usually had to start over (the Druids will catch you and carry you onto Fireplume if you fall off). Just pray while you are hopping on those rocks that no one else will figure out what you are doing and beat you to the spot! If you hit him from that rock he will evade and only look at you. While I was taming, people were trying to aggro him away and I could see that their shots were whizzing past him.

Comment by Centaurian

Ice trap will slow him dow and give you more time to tame. To bad there is no special buff like the embrace of the green shale spider.

Comment by 863483

I just got him on Dawnbringer server. took FOREVER. had the help of a guildie and then another hunter joined up and brought his corehound for the buff. stood on the platform rock and finally tamed him. i was close to giving up; i was nervous and kept falling off the platforms lol. but its worth it in the end! now i need a really good name :)

Comment by Mcflurries

The rock method does NOT work anymore. I tried and died like 8 times before trying NinjaPirateTaki's method and finished my tame on the 2nd try with about 10k/105k health left, and plenty of help from Ancient Hysteria & Rapid Fire. Does not require good gear or haste stacking, just be sure to start that tame cast the second you hit Deterrence. Wait at all and you'll probably die; every second counts.

Comment by 256678

While out with guildies attempting to help tame Kirix, though we were unsuccessful, we did have Skarr spawn immediately after someone else tamed Kirix. It was within 30 seconds of Kirix being tamed that Skarr spawned right in front of us. This leads me to believe they share a timer or are associated *somehow* - Mind you, there are tons of posts prior to mine, and I didn't exactly have the time to go through, but I did want to share this little bit of observational information.

In addition, Kirix was tamed using the following macro:

/cast Silencing Shot
/cast Deterrence
/cast Tame Beast

Good luck! ^.^

Comment by Keijupoika

Quite easy tame with the disengage + det + tame tactic.

Just let him charge, disengage in the air, pop deterrence and tame beast asap. Managed with 1041hp left.

Comment by 228860

Another way to tame him easily:

1. Stand on the Air Vent on the ledge, just to the left of that infamous "floating rock", by Fireplume Peak. (While facing the Druid Daily NPCs). Not the Air Vent on the floating rock, the one on the ledge.

(Kill the annoying Elemental Mobs there so they don't aggro during the tame)

2. You'll know you're close enough on the ledge when Kirx runs by and you have him targeted - you'll see the White Dot on your Tame button letting you know you're in range. Just don't accidentally jump becasue you'll have the Air Vent buff and it'll send you FLYING! lol

3. Once in position, wait for him to come around the ledge from the flame area, toward you. Pop Hero/Hysteria/TW/whatever. (Dismiss or Abandon your Core Hound if you're doing this solo, right after you pop Ancient Hysteria - you'll have plenty of time). That combined with the Air Vent Haste will give you fast taming speed.

4. Spam tame to get Kirix's attention as he's running along the ledge (he'll only be in range for like 1 second, so spam tame to get his attention). He should stop and just stare at you for a couple seconds while you tame. Let the tame continue until he starts charging the nasty "Megatoxin" DoT.

5. Once he starts charging up Megatoxin, Hit Deterrence and immediately start taming again.

He should be yours in a couple seconds now :)

No need to jump on the stupid rock to get the evade bug anymore.

Comment by 438921

ok i just tryed 20 times to tame this darn spider, on both of the floating rocks and neither work, with or without haste with or without heroism. on the higher rock he evades the tame at the end of the cast and with the no haste bit that didnt work either ... how exactly can you tame this spider ! !

Comment by Mixern

So has anyone managed to SOLO kill this bastard ?

Comment by 143864

So i saw this Silver framed spider and thought "hellz yea phat loots from this rare, murder time!" The I ran up to him, pally wings blazing, blast him with Avengers Shield, pop Divine Plea and 3 charge Righteous Shield him. I'm full of confidense in my gear and ability and know that I'm gonna down this mob.
Then it became real:
He charges me, stuns me, poisons me, silences me, THEN kills me.
All in one macro it seemed.

I had to wait till he patted away before I recovered my corpse.
This dude is serious business

Comment by aloroth

The ledge trick worked great. And Thanks

Comment by 517601

I read every comment and tried and tried but just couldnt get him... until tonight.

For those of you who are sick of dying or your tame being pinched by another hunter here's what worked for me.

Clear the elemental mobs near the Thermal vent. On the right side of the Thermal, there's a slope you can walk up and right on the edge is close enough to tame Kirix. Watch the spider's path and your Tame Beast icon - there's a very small window of opportunity. Plan where you're going to place an Ice trap.
Go back to the island point where the floating rocks are. Jump from rock to rock, going right to get the haste buff. You have 2 mins of 100% haste when you jump over to the island.
Jump over to the island and go to the island's edge on the right side of the Thermal vent - dont jump.
Place the Ice trap where you figured from step 1.
You get aggro from the trap, so spam tame beast and anticipate that poison cast. I never have seen a cast bar for it. If he's stationary and out of taming range, back away and FD (then back to step 2 cos the haste buff is going to run out).
Deterrance, Tame Beast and with the 100% haste buff Kirix should be yours!

Backing away from the edge puts you out of range and line of sight, so Kirix doesnt kill you. You still have aggro, so have to FD.
If the haste buff is getting low, back away, FD and go get the buff again.
May have to clear elementals again too.

Good Luck.

Comment by Traziz

Easiest way to tame this, is to go up the platforms to the top from the quest givers, and take the hot air ride towards the middle tier of the mountain, then fall down so you get the buff to jump around.

Go towards a rock on the edge of cliff facing a solitary floating platform, stand facing it in the middle of the rock formation and press space you will land on it.

When Kirix comes along, use normal tame, when he starts to cast his main attack, stop the tame and use deterrence followed by a second tame, the deterrence will block his main dot attack and you will tame him.

Comment by 865081

Just tamed at 23:10 server time on Thunderhorn using the rock > disengage > deterrance method. Very close call though!

Third rare spawn today :D
Karkin, Deth'tilac now Kirix. One happy hunter!

Comment by Kreepya

Just got him, used:
->Aspect of the Wild <-

1. Pull him, arcane shot or whatever
2. When he knocks you back, disengage!
3. Concussive Shot
4. Detterence
5. Tame Beast!

Comment by Pensri

Just tamed Kirix this morning at 10:05 Nesingwary server. I stood at the edge of Fireplume Peak where the air vent is. Waited for Kirix to walk by, hit him with arcane shot and right when when he cast his spell of death, I deterrenced and tamed away. :)

Comment by 598817

Just helped my fiance tame this beast. Amazingly hard. Took us a good 45 minutes to figure it out (watching a few other less tenacious hunters die in the process.)

You've got to be on the floating rocks out to the side, otherwise, you get no heals from his aura. Having a disc priest with you is a great idea for the shield, pain suppression, and power infusion (20% haste buff) and the rezzing bonus if you don't want to have to keep jumping out to that stupid rock. (He resets once the hunter dies if you're standing out on the rock, leaving the priest alive to rez you to try, try again.)

*!@#$ of a tame.

But fun fun fun! Good luck!

*5.0 Edit for Disc Priests - Power Infusion is no longer castable on other targets. Damn them!

Comment by deemer

Just tamed him an hour ago, felt like adding my experience.

In short: got on the lonely floating rock, with the vent speed buff, hit tame, and tamed Kirix while evading, without even a deterrence. The tame beast cast bar didn't even go until like 70%, and somehow I still got it.

After I tried it solo tame a couple of times, (and meanwhile reached a good 2 minutes rez timer) I found the "standing on the floating rock" tactic the best. Luckily, no other hunter tried it that way, so again, knowledge is power (guard it well).
To be exact, I hopped on the edge of the Fireplume Ridge - there is a thermal vent there. Taking that buff, I sidestepped towards west, where a lonely floating rock was.
I found the farthest place from the vent where the jumping buff still applies. Then jump (without any other keys pressed), and in the air I managed to turn well and landed on a rock. WARNING: as a ghost you can't do that, cause you fell through the rock. Must be alive, without that it's no fun anyways (and having not done the chain yet :))
When Kirix came around, shot him once, which got him evade near the platform. He didn't do anything for like 8 seconds. Casted tame beast, the bastard still didn't react - thought I'd bait him to do the omgwtfaoe, but he didn't. Around half way the cast, he started... and I already kissed goodbye to the cruel world and the tame. But suddenly, the tame went off. without even near to the end of the cast! I guess it must be the wind buff, or whatnot. No deterrence used, or any kind of traps.

Bottom line: he killed more hunters then I could count. I bet the ork hunter who was waiting for his pala buddy still sits there :P

Comment by 867087

Tame him tonight

Solo tame on Sta speced BM ghettho king haste food haste potion --> set youre ice trap little behind you. Wen he come running back at range you 1st fire concussive shot and walk back untill he lift you up with hes charge. desengage fast to give you extra distance shot concussive on youre way back down Deterence+Tame AsAp should come close to die but worked on me with around 10k left but you need to chain all those action real fast. Mage time warp or shamn hero would also help speed up youre tame

Comment by izaul

Ninjapirate is a freaking genius; that strat works perfectly, I even was knocked back to the druid npcs and one died on my behalf xd

Comment by 196126

If you don't want to deal with the hastle of taming him or wait for him to spawn, just go to the spider area and tame one of the Cinderweb Broodlings. Granted may not be as much of a challenge, but they are tamable as I did that on my hunter just a few minutes ago, and after taming Kirix a few weeks ago. Much easier. But if you do want a challenge, then feel free to wait for Kirix.

Comment by 147608

Just stand on the last rock when you jump on em.
get a mage or shammy to team up with you.
cast BL or TW when he comes around the corner.
tame beast.
you should be able to do this befor he cast his first poison and cant knock you back.

Comment by Roland1969

Shot it. Spammed some buttons. Hit deterrence then tame beast. Ended up with 3% health and a little bile-colored spider following me everywhere. /shrug.

Comment by Unknownrose

Tell you honestly. Didnt think ill tame him.

Earlier this afternoon i saw him spawn. I came here 4-5times to find diffrentspots to tame him at.
Least to say I failed at them all and took a hour of wiping.
I had the tame 2-3times with the bar going off when the tame was finished never got it cause it didnt register after the bar had finished.
As i was about to try again. Another hunter had came and tamed it.Please know before he came to tame it he already had the pet out. He dismissed that pet and tamed the same one again. Saying congratzy,he proceeded to tell em "I only came to tame it for you failures to see what it looks like" I lost my edge and went off on him and proceeded to call him a ignorant person for being a jerk and showing off when others like me and 2friends who was also there trying to tame it could've gotten it..needless to say I wasnt happy.But i gave up
A few hour's later I came back to see if Skarr was up being the only other pet I needed.I saw kirix up.I was so excited and screamed with glee as I went up the rocks.I tamed it right when the same hunter from earlier appeared. Needless to say I was happy. XP

Now time for skarr tame :3.
First time seen: 12Pm (eastern) 10AM(Serverdoomhammer)
Timetamed:3am(1Am server).

Comment by zsasha

Just tamed this spider

Frostmane EU
15:57

good luck all, he cost me 200g in repair bills yesterday and no tame ..... now what to name him?

Comment by AertenAine

Quickie Info:

Date: 8/23/11
Server: Suramar-US
Time: ~1:40 pm (spawn) 2:40pm (tame as I failed MASSIVELY OVER AND OVER AGAIN lol)

I wasn't quite getting the picture with all the wonderful notes everyone had posted. I required a visual demonstration after 150g in repair bills on failed attempts. I went to YouTube and watched a video on YouTube entitled "What Not To Do When Taming Kirix". (I'm new to posting so can't post links just yet LOL)

This made this tame UUUUBER easy. Getting up on the rock with the thermal vent, standing there, popped my corehound and its buff, put it away, hit tame when he was in range and I had me a green spider. I don't know why I couldn't get that from all the previous notes but seeing the visual clicked so figured I'd post it up for everyone. Good luck hunters!

Comment by 872774

Tamed Kor'Gall EU Aug 25th about 3AM... Here is how i did it:

1.took a core hound
2.jumped down so druid could catch me and fly me up
3. just a few steppes to the right after u cross lava pool there is a flying rock . Mount up and jump there (it's a bit tricky)
4,since u landed there call Core Hound and observe Kirix's movement
5.Now most important... Launch Fire or Snake Trap(while hes still away) -when he traps Cast Hysteria -dismiss pet and w8 for his poison cast
6.when he casts poison use Detterance fast and Tame Beast

thats it, all about timing,close one but worked for me! GL :)

Comment by Iverach

Did it as Survival with some pretty crappy gear. 900 haste, 115k HP.

1. Aspect of the Wild up.
2. Shot him to get his attention.
3. Disengaged on the charge to get some distance.
4. Popped a potion and Lifeblood.
5. Popped deterrence on Megatoxin.
6. Hit tame. Cast finished with 1% HP.
7. Got shot by a night elf.

Comment by 873149

Just Tamed Him =D if your tame him on the floating stones i reccomend using the convalence of winds buff you get for jumping at the top rock, it gives 100% bonus haste and attack speed for 2 minutes, only problem is it makes your jumping a little insane and hard to aim. well worth it though.

Comment by somnomania

Just tamed him at 11:25am (10:25am server time), Thorium Brotherhood server, after trying for at least half an hour and dying numerous times. I finally got him with a combination of Ancient Hysteria + dismiss corehound, Arcane Shot + Disengage at the peak of the knockback, and then a /cast Deterrence /cast Tame Beast macro. I'm not sure how it happened; the knockback didn't do any damage this time, and the deterrence didn't block the poison, as it hadn't the previous four times, but the macro and the haste buff gave me the speed to get him tamed before the poison killed me, I guess. I wasn't too fond of the lava spiders when they were released, but this guy's pretty cool.

Comment by 874342

tamed this beast last night on llane at approx 11pm server time.

This tame was more than a challenge - it was an epic battle to the end! - Took approx 25 mins!

Below are a few things that ended up working well for me;

(not in any particular order...)

1.) make sure you have G on you. You are going to die... alot. might have to take rez sickness... who knows... come prepared... don't be like me, and run out of gold, have to log into your main (thanks vic!) and send you some quick cash! ("...but i gave you most of the money baby!")

2.) breath... i often forgot this important step, and would make silly/stupid mistakes... like fall off the rocks! or over shoot the solo rock, and end up back on the other cliff, or worse, falling forever to your death!)

3.)jump onto the solo rock platform

4.) make sure you enable your Nature Resist Buff -

5.) Macro's Smackro's --

/cast Silent Shot
/cast Deterrence
/cast Tame Beast

i used this macro, and would pop my deterrence each time ( and wouldn't be in range for the tame!) so after i tried this macro twice, i just took it off my bar, as it didn't help me. just make sure you stand close to the edge on the solo rock, hit em with concussion to get his attention (make sure tame beast icon is NOT RED BEFORE you do this step), wait for him to cast his spell - then pop him in the mouth with silencing shot, then IMMEDIATELY cast tame.... do not pass go, do not collect 200G, (might be a good idea to have FULL heath, (no rez sickness) for this tame as you ARE going to take some serious dmg.

i had (110k heath, with 1100+ Haste) and well over 150G in repair bills.

Comment by Amberlynn

Just tamed this pet right now on Khaz'goroth (around 4:40am server time).

Coming here and reading the comments helped a lot once I scrolled through them far enough to find something that would actually work...especially for someone like me who has a lot of trouble jumping on those stupid floating rocks.

I don't know how many times I died trying, but it was a lot, not just from falling off the rocks but from not getting my timing right and getting killed before the tame completed.

I kept forgetting to put up Aspect of the Wild........it helped a lot. I wouldn't forget it if I were you, especially if you have competition...I had pretty much none since it was off hours. I DID have a corehound with me...but my main spec is BM. No corehound? Don't forget Wild. I also highly recommend what others have said...haste, haste, haste.

What I did EXACTLY was pop Ancient Hysteria and dismiss the hound, i hit Kirix with a regular ol' arrow and when I got knocked into the air....I popped Disengage at the highest point (as suggested by someone else), AS SOON AS I LANDED I hit Deterrence and then hit Tame Beast. To help me with the timing, I set these on my hot bar as '1' (Disengage), '2' (Deterrence), and '3' (Tame Beast).

When the tame completed...I was really close to dead.

RECAP -

1. Aspect of the Wild
1a. Corehound if you have one, Ancient Hysteria, dismiss
2. Pull
3. Disengage in air
4. Deterrence on landing
5. Tame Beast
6. /dance
7. Rename

Comment by 749053

I'm just sitting on the Garrosh server, watching people jump off the thermal jump thing and landing right on top of Kirix and getting destroyed by him. Pretty funny actually >_>

Comment by 875326

Tamed him on Shadowsong at 5:30pm. He had been up and running around for a good hour and a half before I got him.

I died the first 7 times I tried to tame him- he evaded after the tame had finished, and that really sucked. So I left and did some other things for a while. Around 5:20 my mage buddy said that no one had tamed him yet. So I came back, and got him first try with a new method! It works no matter what spec you are, so go wild!

I think I may have had a glitch, since I popped the tame and it seemed to be going a lot slower than it should have for 130% haste. He started casting his TOXIN OF DOOM, and I started praying. A moment before he would have struck and killed me, the tame suddenly finished, even though the channel bar wasn't to the end yet.

The method is this:

1. Jump the rocks up to the vent, and use the vent to jump to the island. You should get a buff that gives you 100% haste, thus halving the channel time of tame beast.

2. Clear everything on the ledge. Then go to the right of the vent back to the Furnace, and you should see a small ledge. CAREFULLY get onto it. You should now be in range of tame beast for a few seconds of his run.

3. When he gets in range of your tame, IMMEDIATELY use arcane shot.

4. Have a mage buddy cast Time Warp. Wait until he starts his cast of Magmatoxin, and pop Deterrence as quickly as you can, before the spell goes off.

5. Hit tame beast as quickly as possible. The cast should finish a few milliseconds before his next Magmatoxin goes off.

6. Enjoy!

Edit: I have just talked to a GM, and the GM said that you should NOT try taming him from the floating rocks. I was told that you should be on level ground when trying to tame. Regardless, my above method works like a charm, even if you are on a slanted ledge.

Comment by 870708

Tamed this guy yesterday, on Lightbringer EU around 12pm. Wasn't looking for him, was just doing my dailies.

Just wanted to give my times incase any other hunter on my server is looking for him. Good luck! :)

Edit: Helped a hunter tame it at 2am last night, and saw him get tamed again at 4pm!

Comment by 876492

Just tamed him at 12:46 am eastern time. I did have a bit of a struggle with him becuz i kept dying. However when I use Ancient Hysteria, I was one millisecond from taming him, but his poison got to me first. After that i got em by standing on one of those rocks so he couldn't attack me.
Good luck to others and happy hunting!

Comment by 61826

Another method...

required Corehound pet

Put yourself on rock for enter in evade state after pulling kirix
when Kirix is at range of Tame Beast use Ancient Hysteria and dismiss your corehound
just cast Tame Beast

your Tame Beast will finish when Kirix cast stun+poison spell

tamed!

i tame with this method after a few death...

Comment by 752391

i was doing my dailies when my npcscan saw it spawn, being a priest myself i /who for a hunter, the first one didnt have the right quests, the second one the same thing. the third had the red and yellow (that i saw him summon) and ran to meet me. after many many attempted fails we had his friend pull get the death beam, hit corehound hero, then he tamed while i shoved wings on him was close as all crap this hunter now has a new pet Congratz Jokette!

on another note right after this i continued with my dailies and found both the Red and Yellow rare spiders, hanging around.

Comment by Ungata

I have caught this guy a couple of times. He is really easy. First make sure that your not in front of a wall, cuz he will kill you if you are. Next let him get to the very edge of your range. Cast concussive shot to slow him down (note if you do this he doesn't seem to cast the Magmatoxin). When he gets close he will throw you into the air, cast desengage at the top of the fall. When you hit the ground cast detterence and tame beast (note he will start casting Magmatoxin as you fall thus detterence no damage and you still are taming him! ^_^). After about 8 to 10 sec ( in which time he should be powering up a second Magmatoxin) you will complete your tame and have your pretty new pal. (Important note have the aspect of nature on or you will die fast!)

Edit: I used this method and never had to use haste buffs. Addationally tamed in the off hours when no one was there. Trying to get a hunter in off hours is like trying to find a needle in a hay stack. It just doesn't happen. Each time I have tamed him no one was in the Molten Front. Server is Kul Tirs. Time is around 4:30am.

Comment by 844355

easiest tame with a "challenge" ive ever done lol
popped anciant hysteria and a haste pot
1159 haste rateing on gear caught him just on time GL :)

Comment by 416972

This tame does not require haste, nor standing on rocks to evade bug him (which can be considered an exploit by GM reports). I know others have said it, but these steps made him my easiest tame so far:

1. Cast Aspect of the Wild.
2. Concussive Shot him at max distance.
3. Get him to hit you into the air, cast Disengage at the height of the pop up.
4. Cast Deterrence and Tame Beast.
5. Name your new pet.

I saw three other hunters trying the rock tames and kept crying and yelling that Kirix was broken and that they had tried and died a lot to this tame and that it was impossible, etc. I got it after one death, since I was a noobcake and didn't have Aspect of the Wild up nor hit Deterrence. He never once evaded, instant killed me, or any of the other things that happen when people try to tame on the rocks. I just really don't suggest it.

Comment by 367535

Just tamed him on Dalvynger. Had quite a hard time of it and died way more than I'd like to admit.

I tried everything mentioned in the comments and failed until I figured out that the correct rock at this point is the lone rock just off the ledge by the lava pool. Do not get the jump/haste buff from the rock with the wind effect -- you will not be able to land on the rock you need to land on instead it will launch you past it into Kirix's path.

If you are BM and have a Corehound wait till Kirix is pathing back toward you from the furthest point away, pop Ancient Hysteria, dismiss, arcane shot Kirix to pull him, WAIT until he is almost done with his nasty poison cast, pop deterrence, and tame IMMEDIATELY!

If you do not have a corehound bring some haste pots and pop them just before you pull Kirix.

The timing on this is the key. If your timing is off you will die. If you nail it Kirix should go green just after your tame completes -- with microseconds to spare. In my case he actually looked like he was about to cast his poison attack again and then suddenly stopped and went green.

By the way, if you miss the tame and you are able to FD before he starts casting his poison attack you'll be able to just wait for his next patrol.

Good luck!

Comment by 877620

Got kirix on Wildhammer - at 8:00 pm server (Inc long post)

The tame was a whole compliated procedure. i had just gotten Anthriss with a lot of competition so was trying to rush Kirix before other hunters realized she was up.
I go up to the rock which i knew very well how to get to. pop Berserking (Troll Racial) and start taming when he is close enough. just as i thought i was going to get it! Poison cast kills me.
Tried it again and realized i needed to be faster and didnt have my core hound pet with me.

I quickly do a /who Molten Front to see if theres anybody around that has a Bloodlust type ability and i see a single mage in there named Chongita (This is what i eventually named my Kirix). He comes over and pops lust i pop berserking and still get killed by the poison bolt attack. I then try to get the 100% haste buff needed for Skarr while waiting for Bloodlust cooldown. This was a mistake.. it killed me 2 times because of the high jumps.

When i finally tamed it, it was pure luck. Popped bloodlust and Berserking again and Start the tame. i had atleast 1 second left on the tame when he starts casting his Poison attack and gets it off but the attack didnt hit me... The rest of the Tame bar just got like completely ignored and Kirix was mine.

In short : I went through tooo much trouble trying to tame Kirix
8 deaths - 2 rez sicknesses and 2 full repairs later and Kirix was mine though

Comment by PetTamerShy

I just tamed this guy for myself after dying Elune knows how many times!

Well I had someone with a 2 seat mount (like a bike) bring me up to a vertical rock where I summoned my CH and cast his buff, then dismissed him, then tamed. but as he was about to cast, at that last second, have another MM hunter cast Silencing Shot. boom! you have him! It requires cooperation from both ends :D but its so worth it!

Comment by 312748

I just tamed this spider on Aggramar at midnight. I didn't use any pots or use my core hound with hysteria. I wanted to tame him the 'hard' way XD. When I was using the rock method I did have Aspect of the Wild on. I am a MM hunter so the only tool I used was the macro for the deterrence and tame. But when it came down to it I had to learn to do it earlier in order to get it right. What I did was basically mash my macro/tame beast button til it started channeling, and I died. I got a whisper from one of the hunters looking on and he/she asked if I had the spider. I didn't believe them and I relied no I do not have it. To my disbelief I had finished the tame somehow before I died and he was my in my last slot. So if you are using the rock method like I did remember that practice is perfect.

So this spider respond again while I was doing dailies. There wasnt any other hunters around atm trying to tame him so I decided to retame him without using the rock method. I was able to tame him again by silencing him at the peak of my disengage. When I landed I used my deterrence/taming macro. I was above 20% health when I finished taming so it is do able. Gl all

Comment by 878904

kirix is so easy that i am shocked it took so long for me to get him here is how to do it

Stand on the lone rock near the corner he comes round on, concussion shot him as he comes bk by u then wait .......As soon as u see the casting bar for his Spell hit Deterrance and start taming right away, you should get him before he casts again.

i also got Solix and all u do is Concussion shot him and run around the outter side, hitting him with concuss and ice trap once he has lost his speed boost tame him Easy

Comment by 767367

Just tamed him, yay. All I did was:

1. Put a few stamina buffs on me (food, runescroll of fortitude II, scroll of stamina IX). This put me up to 140k health.
2. Went into Aspect of the Wild.
3. Shot him at farthest distance I could and started moving away from him while he ran towards me.
4. After a couple seconds he'll send you flying into the air a little bit. Used disengage while in midair.
5. Landed on ground popped deterrence and immediately cast tame beast.
6. He closed into melee range when I was about halfway through my tame so I just had to hope it finished before he could tear through my 140k health.

He got me down to about 15-20% health when tame beast finished, so the stamina buffs were definately helpful with this one.

Comment by pat1812

Just tamed him... died like 15 times..
then a horde DK attacked him and i casted deterrence and tame

and he was mine!

thanks horde hihi

Hellscream EU 9.30 AM

Comment by Meggle

Delism's one little tidbit helped me a lot. "Walked backwards" My little hunter has terrible gear (101k hp) so doing just that simple thing to take less damage before the actual tame helped a TON. Thanks! -pets new spider-

Comment by goldwynn

Caught Kirix on Laughing Skull (Ally) 2:30am EST. I pulled, as i was in the air, hit Disengage, landed and popped Detterence, easily caught. I had a mage with with for Temporal Displacement, highly recommended for a quick an easy catch. Thanks for the help if anyone of you guys are reading this.

Comment by mirain84

Just tamed him myself on Thunderhorn EU, but to be honest while playing around with various tactics to tame him (and spending ~300g in repairs) I seem to have found a way myself - apologies if it is already posted here, I didn't see it if it is...

This can be done either with or without Ancient Hysteria. Instead of jumping on the rocks between the quest givers and the fire bird island, trying to get the 100% haste buff and all that, head around to the north end of the ledge where it pats. It seems to have a very small aggro range, and worst case, FD. Around the north side (north of quest givers, sorry, don't have coords...) there is a small, upright rock formation which Kirix actually patrolls around en route. Opposite that, inland direction, is a much larger formation. You basically need to wall climb up the side (not wall jump, you can just run up it) unti you are level with the small, upright rock formation. Mount up, and jump across to the small upright rock formation so you are on top of it. As Kirix is patting past you, shoot him, wait for the Magmatoxin (big cast), pop deterrance, and IMMEDIATELY after cast Tame Beast. I *just* made it before the second cast and I have next to no haste.

Only issue I had once or twice is that you have to be in a particular position on this small, upright rock or he will run up it and start meleeing you, but you can just feign him off... Much easier than trying to jump onto various rocks and falling into the void, I thought xD

Hope this helps <3

(EDIT: Would love to know why this was downvoted with no constructive criticism or comment when it's a perfectly viable method with no repair costs or faffing about with buffs or between island rocks involved... Ungreatful much? -.-*)

Comment by 741325

I have to say that yes the rock way actually works.

beware though to disengage and land on a similar height lvl as Kirix is , pop detrence, and tame.

if ur not on the similar lvl height as kirix u will not be in LoS.

Did tamed him today 13/09/2011 18:03

Best spot to Disengage after u get knockback is on North side where most of the rocks are, but care that u get a knockback and be in range of Kirix + not lose LoS.

Comment by 777717

Finally tamed this darn green spider at 10:03am on Gurubashi server, after several failed attempts. The strat I used:

- It really helps if you have "Into the Fire" quests completed, that way any missed jumps wont end in death.
- Hop onto rocks to other side of Kirix.
- Kill 2 rock elementals or anything else for that matter, that may get in your way.
- Aspect of the Wild
- Mount up and align yourself with thermal vent closest to questgivers.
- Run to edge of cliff and jump to vent. If you jump at the very last second, you might hit vent and pop to other side, so split second before cliff jump. You lose haste buff if you cross.
- Dismount and turn around, so you jump back to where you just came from.
- Jump once and you will land with 100% haste buff. Careful, because you also have jump boost as well!
- Run to rock furthest from quest givers, between the cliffs, near the lave pool. You have to know where to stand to jump with boost and land on the rock. Get to the very edge of rock.
- When Kirix is in range, hit tame. When he starts to cast megatoxin, cast deterrance as it's about to hit you.
- Recast tame immediately after, and he will be yours...just as i died, but I finally got this guy!

I know it sounds like a lot of effort, but really, I just learned to figure out what worked for me and I practiced all of my vent hopping and rock jumping before I needed it, so when Kirix popped up, even though there were several other hunters tryng to tame, I ran through my routine...waited for the other hunters to try/die, then tamed him. Very, very stoked! If you want to use this method, I suggest you practice your jumps and make mental notes of where you need to stand to land where you want. I was pretty depressed after several failed attempts on him and a few others, but I did my research and came back with a vengence. I have tamed 4 rares in Hyjal/Fl in the last 2 days. (Kirix, Karkin, Deth'tilac and Ban'thalos). If you can, try to be on ealry in the AM, like 2 or 3 am. It is early, but way less traffic and so much easier to attain. GL, dont get discouraged (like I felt). Happy Hunting!

Comment by xxxj2kxxx

Sup all,

I am Iculookin-Frostmourne-PVP-Alliance

I have tamed Kirix twice now, both unplanned opportunity tames..

The first time was about a week ago, I ran past it as i didn't want the green one, and went on up the stepping stones. At the top, a hunter with a priest behind him ganked me. I wasn't too fussed as skitterflame wasn't up yet. I went to jump up the stones after rezzing, and got mind controlled off the edge. Mmm funny i bet...

I saw the hunter was trying to tame it with priest healing him (didn't read that 99% heal debuff did ya?)... having read how to tame this i figured alright u wanna gank me i'll take your pet then.

As the hunter was getting wtfowned by venom i cast a distracting shot and began to tame, the hunter died, and the tame was about 40% cast then Kirix evaded and ran back to his patrol path.

Suddenly he agro'd back at me (instantly as he got back he turned around again) and i cast deterrenece>tame beast as he ran for me. The tame beast only cast for like 0.5s and insta captured him. Little bit bugged lol... but i ain't complainin :D

The second tame i got was just coz i was bored of watching people fail at it. Bufflo-Frostmourne-PVP-Horde... did you read how to do it? You must have gone through 2 full repairs in the 12 or so times you died to this. I was /luck and /cheer 'ing you and genuinely wanted you to get it... but u failed lol.. so when u left for ages (thought u werent coming back) i tamed it out of boredom... first shot btw... time ur deterrence tame macro at start of cast bar... i named it after you, and attacked your friend Drako with it (funny characters in drako). I lol'd as he disengaged off the cliff away from me and died falling.

GG guys

gl taming this one (:

Comment by Praotectrekkie

Tamed Kirix yesterday evening on EU-Stormrage with my tauren hunter. It took me over 10 tries (and deaths) to get the timing right - I casted Disengage at the top of my flight and IMMEDIATELY after that Silencing Shot to stop his casting. Then I used my prepared macro /cast Deterrence /cast Tame Beast and he didn't have a chance afterwards.

Comment by 861902

Tamed this beauty a couple of days ago. I had Deth'tilac ninjaed from me by this idiot hunter of my own faction (his name is Kulsprutan btw.), so it felt really good. Especially because that same hunter was about to get the tame done when I "flew" in with a distracting shot, interrupting the tame. He got killed and I got killed too but I was fastest at ressing (apparently). I attacked Kirix again, got beaten into the air -> Disengange -> Macro with deterrence + tame beast -> welcome to my stable.

I was in full pvp gear (ilvl 370) and used no buffs or anything what so ever.

Now I only need Deth'tilac and I just cant find him :(

Comment by 881380

For those hunters that do not want to learn the tricks,I have a tip for you..Start the spire side daily's during the quest lines from time to time you will see green critter sized spiders that move in groups and attack if you freeze and kill the rest,you can tame the 1 trapped and it looks just like the rare.

HAPPY HUNTING

Comment by 721254

@Poultrygeist:
I don't believe you were downgraded for mentioning an exploit might not work... but because people since then have successfully used that method just fine. Maybe you weren't in the right area or did something else wrong.

Comment by 864298

I didn't even WANT this pet but he kept attacking me while I was doing dailies so I tried a tame, he killed me, I res'd and killed him right back. /kanye shrug

Comment by 864298

.... also, after reading this entire thread, I have to ask if this pet is so popular just for the look and stable achievement?

Back in "vanilla" when Blizz removed special abilities (e.g., the named hyena was no longer faster than all other pets), they (personally) removed all reason for me to go out of my way to get a rare.

Terrorpene is all I need as a MM thanks; especially since the Spirit Pets I have in my stable are unusable unless I activate Beast Mastery, but I enjoy Marks way more than Beast (and I don't have to listen to PUGs complain about my DPS)

Comment by 881581

This is how I tamed Kirix around 11:30 pm server time on the Forgotten coast. I saw Kirix and started jumping up the floating rocks to Fireplume Peak made a left and found the furthest air vent, got to the right of it, positioned myself on the edge towards the lone rock all by itself, jumped, and landed. Waited for Kirix to run by, hit concussion shot, waited a few seconds til he started casting that god awful poison spell. As SOON as he started casting I popped this macro:
/cast Deterrence
/cast Tame Beast

And BAM in less then 5 minutes he was mine :) oh and mark of the wild was NOT on for me! Good luck hunters! And if this helps with spawn time my friend tamed him 9-11 hours before I did. So all the spider have roughly a 9-12 hour spawn time (especially with Deth, she is always precise)

Comment by 598420

This looks like it is gone be hard, BUT, if you use the next guide its real easy.

Guide:

Make macro ( /m in game, and put text below inside macro, leave the icon on the Q-mark, save )

#showTooltip
/cast Deterrence
/cast Tame Beast

1. Stand on the second rock from above ( i submitted a screenshot with exact position )
2. Shot him ( any shot will do ) edit : watch on your tame beast icon because your tame is 30 yards rest 40 yards
3. Wait till he cast magmatoxin ( 2 sec )
4. use Macro
5. on last second he try to cast magmatoxin again, but it get's interrupted
6. BIG WIN you have youself a greet / awesome looking pet

good luck
edit : links added and warning tame yards

Comment by sillysauce

Just tamed (with < 5% haste and < 340ilvl gear) on Whisperwind US at around 4:50 PM PST (6:50 PM server) Took me a few tries (and some serious raging) to get.

I used the highest rock on the way up to Fire Plume Ridge (or w/e its called) and hit him with auto-shot. When he started the cast I threw up deterrence and tamed.

If you don't have a ton of haste you will want to deterrence and tame right away. I read on a previous page that someone waited till the last sec to use det. and was able to tame with det still up when the 2nd cast went off. I tried that and was hit by his cast right as the tame ended and didn't get it. So det/tame as soon as you see the cast.

Comment by 332274

I did the single rock spot as said before. All i did was arcane shot once, waited for him to cast, deterrence then tamed, got it off just before i died, got pet.

Comment by 863404

Just tammed it. You need to be in full health, and use Aspect of the Wild so you can last a little bit more.
Tame > Wait until it gets close to you > Deterrance > You will get a strong hit and while you're in the air (yeap, you will be thrown into the clouds) use Disengage > when you hit the floor: Tame.

Comment by Nemo74

HellHeal has posted this guide and it works like a charm zero problems taming him.

PS. WAIT WAIT WAIT for him to start casting mega-toxin. Then use the macro.

Guide:

Make macro ( /m in game, and put text below inside macro, save )

/cast Deterrence
/cast Tame Beast

1. Stand on the second rock from above ( i submitted a screenshot with exact position )
2. Shot him ( any shot will do ) edit : watch on your tame beast icon because your tame is 30 yards rest 40 yards
3. Wait till he cast magmatoxin ( 2 sec )
4. use Macro
5. on last second he try to cast magmatoxin again, but it get's interrupted
6. BIG WIN you have youself a greet / awesome looking pet

good luck

Comment by 895863

For all you hunters out there i found a nice easy way to tame him.
as most of you would have figured out you need a but load of haste. my base haste was around 17% before i tried to tame him.
so heres what i did:
Step 1: get the Haste Buff from the platforms increasing Haste by 100% (lasts 2min)
Step 2: go to a platform thats in range of Kirix
Step 3: get his attention
Step 4: wait for him to use his ability then hit deterence to dodge it
Step 5: use rapid fire to increase you Haste even thurther for 15sec
Step 6: TAME you with all this Haste you should have no problem taming him before his ability goes off again (my total Haste after this method was around 200%)
IMOPRTANT: Deterence, Rapid Fire and Tame Beast need to be hit almost simultaneously i suggest a macro or have all three button next to each other on a quick select.
Goodluck to everyone trying to catch this spider

Comment by ElfenAeria

Great challenge, THIS one right here is what the challenge pets is all about!

1. Activate Aspect of the Wild
2. Pull Kirix
3. When he punts you, use disengage. (He knocks you up in the air.)
4. When you land, use deterrence and tame beast - He will always cast the poison-stun directly after the punt.
5. Hopefully the tame will succeed before you die. (It always cuts close, AotW is essential.)

If you execute the steps correctly you are very unlikely to fail. I tried the buggy and cut-close ways a few times and it only earned me a total of 460g repairs. Doing it the intended way made me nail it the 2nd try, I disengaged too far the 1st time which messed up my deterrence and tame so dont aim to get as far away as possible, just try to get enough range to initiate your tame.

It was a true pleasure taming this guy, and he looks incredibly awesome. :)

Comment by 392424

I have 1060 haste & not even close. I get about 2/3rds of the way, using deterrence. But not a chance to complete it.

BUT, I didn't need to jump on a rock. There is a spot JUST close enough to tame from the far side with no jumping - except to cross over.

Comment by 847060

You can pretty much use the same method to tame about all the Hunter challenge pet.

Have a haste pot or a friend that can lust/warp/hysteria.
Drink the pot/lust use the deterence/tame beast macro and hope for the best.

You may have to slow them or scatter shot, but this method seems to yield results.

Worked with Karkin, Banthlos and Kirix. A few small details differ, but increased cast speed a slow and deterence work wonders.

Comment by boweti

How to tame Kirix

What I did today:
1) Jump on a floating rock...any floating rock
2) Use my corehound's haste
3) Cast tame beast

Success! :D

I can't tell you how many times I've tried to tame this horrible green spider but it has been so many times, everytime I see it spawn i'd die a little inside.

Comment by Bloodfalls

Bring a Mage or a Shaman! I had my Mage boyfriend with me and had him cast Time Warp as he was coming around the bend. I was on the floating rock just down from the one with the thermal vent. That is all I did. Time Warp + Floating Rock + Tame Pet = Happy Hunter on Aggramar Server at 09:56 am.

Comment by crazybelgium

If you have a MM spec, hitting chimera shot while you are in the air will give you a little cushion.

Comment by WellWell

FINALLY! I got this one about 15 minutes ago.... After dozens of failed attempts.. So I did as said, jumped on one of those floting rocks (there were two of them side by side, one of them dissapeard once in a while) and shot with concussive shot and it said evade, and after few seconds, used macro (/ cast deterrence / cast tame beast) before it made that so f*cking annoying one-shot poison thing.. And then I got it.. But before I succeed I died about 30 times... Literally...
So happy hunting :)

-Arathor-

Comment by LadySuncrusher

just did tame kirix on chamber of aspects round 6:12 am ...

i stood around the quest givers

1. ate some skewered eel
2. activated aspect of the wild
3. hit him with arcane shot
4. hit disengage after his knockback
5. immediately hit detterence
6. tame

SUCCESS!

happy hunting fellow hunters

p.s: same realm about an hour before, i did tame deth'tilac

a process involving sacrificing a pet, in my case my jadefang (shale spider), laying snake trap and frost trap and hitting concussive shot giving me time to rezz my pet and repeating the process till he was low enough for me to tame

Comment by 909389

Was camping Skarr and reading this page incase he did spawn I'd know how to capture it, all of a sudden heard my npcscan going off haha. Alt tabbed and he was here, I summoned a mage, went on one of the floating rocks and cast Tame Beast with AotW on. Worked a charm, one spider left to get :)

Comment by 537709

I've just helped a friend tame this nice spider (I am a resto shaman). We basically asked a guildie druid to taunt the spider and soak the first toxin and as soon as Kirix cast it, the hunter started taming it (but she got on low health because her gear is a bit low) so I cast Spirit Link totem (which causes no threat so it was awesome for healing without breaking the taming process) and it kept her alive though his aoe damage so she managed to tame it.

Comment by Myro85

i literally just tamed him it is actually easy if you have a friend or family member who is a shammy. i pulled with my tame and blood lust activated and did not use aspect of the wild

Comment by 831098

Just tamed him today at 2.58 PM on The Sha´tar
I dident use any kinds of buff.

All i did was stand whit my back close to a little rock, when he came running, autoattack, then concussive shot. Then Disengage over the rock and then macro for Deterrence and tame beast.

Was a really close call, had like 500 hp left, but i got him :)

Good luck to all hunters still trying to get him :D

Comment by Qruelty

Died more than once with all other rotations...
Then did this: Got myself a Core Hound, jump on Floting Rock, Ancient Hysteria, Dismiss Core Hound, Pull Kirix, Tame.

Comment by Sectionnine

I tamed him after a few failed attempts.

I did what a Youtube video recommended, lugging my corehound to the floating rocks. Timing is important in this strategy.

Once on the rock platform, I brought out my corehound and waited for Kirix to run back. Once he is half way through the bend on the minimap, I pressed 'Ancient Hysteria' before dismissing pet.

Kirix should be in 45-60 yard range now and start spamming 'tame beast' as he can get out of range pretty fast.

I tamed him in 7.4 secs which it worked.

Good luck.

Comment by 876278

I tamed Kirix yesterday with my hunter alt. She doesn't have great gear, some epics, some greens still, freshly dinged 85.
I positioned myself on the highest floating rock, pulled Kirix with auto shot, waited til she started casting her ability then used Deterrence and tamed.
Died a few times since I timed my actions wrong and lacked just a bit of haste. Anyway, after a few tries it worked and I tamed Kirix with the tactic I just described. It's all about the timing.

Soon after, I tamed Skitterflame.

Comment by 633900

I helped my friend tame this (I'm a rogue). We both stood on one of those floating things in the air, it's pretty easy to just jump up there. When Kirix was in range, he begun taming him. When Kirix was about to use Magmatoxin, i just used Smoke Bomb. It took us 2 hours and about 250g in repairs before we figured this out lol.

Comment by Sohco

The hardest parts about this tame seem to be where to position yourself and the timing on Deterrence / Tame. So reading is certainly fundamental here and will save you alot of deaths and frustration if you take a few minutes to prepare.

After reading the posts before mine, and trying to actually understand what most were talking about, this is how I did it and probably, how many before me have done it as well.

First, I was in MM.

Now positioning seems to be the hardest part here .... above where Skarr spawns there are a few high platforms. Get on the one just below the red wave that gives you the haste buff.

Next, if you aren't pressured by other hunters being around to make the tame, take a few moments to watch Kirix's path. You have to try to get him at a decently close point to be able to not only get a shot off, but to tame him as well.

Lastly, use auto shot to agro Kirix ( Yes he may show EVADE when shooting him ). When he goes to cast his magmatoxin ... wait until it is about half cast and hit deterrence then tame IMMEDIATELY after. The timing has to be fairly good here.

Have patience here. I died more times trying to hurry to get in to position for the tame then I did trying the actual tame.

It isn't the easiest of the tames, but not really hard either once you understand the positioning and timing.

Good Luck fellow hunters!

Comment by 917754

Hey I would like to thank all for your input on how to get this PITA spider. The non rock method worked for me. I have very low haste and did not need any pet out or used any haste boost from things like time warp or blood lust.

The floating rock method was very buggy.

I just waited by the NPCs just a little in front of them. When Kirix passed and started to circle back the other direction I hit him with a regular shot. I got knocked back as predicted, then I hit Disengage and waited for his cast then hit deterrence and then started to tame. I got it after the 4th try. it was all a matter of timing. What worked for me is putting all the abilities I needed to do like tame all next to each other on my cast bar. that made up for my slow response time or haste. So i hope this helps.

The funny part is when you are by the NPCs when you try this it will wipe out a few of them from his AOE. very amusing. :)

Comment by 917927

the easiest and faster way is get a core hound use the buff dismiss then tame him while on the floating platform. you can tame him just in time before he kills you with toxin

Comment by iceman2541

Hi all... thought I would add my own experience and hopefully provide some help for those still looking to get this green-skinned beauty.

I tried various methods discussed herein (the single rock method, the disengage method, etc.). However, the one that worked GREAT for me was the one that suggested standing on the small ridge on the other side across from Kirix (on Fireplume Ridge). Once you hop over on the stones, head to your left. You will likely need to kill a couple of the obsidian guys, but once they are out of the way, this is pretty easy.

Get as close to the edge of the ridge as you can (near where you fall forever to your death!). Be very careful not to jump as you will likely have the thermal boost at this point.

Kirix patrols in a very fast loop. He will come into range from where you are standing on the ridge for just a short period of time. Before engaging him, create the following simple macro and put it on your action bar:

/use potion of speed
/cast deterrence
/cast tame beast

Only use the potion if you've got one. I did NOT have one or any other haste buffs. My gear is not particularly haste specced, either, but this is how I tamed him:

1) When he came into range, I used Tame Beast to gain aggro. When you do so, make sure that Kirix is close enough to the edge on his side that you keep him in range.
2) When he casts his Megatoxin, quickly hit the macro above.
3) Enjoy your new pet.

Using this approach got me the tame and I took no damage. As I discovered after many failed attempts and then this successful one, there is no room for delay between deterrence and tame. If done by using the macro, you do not need to worry about any delay and you will easily tame him before he can cast another Megatoxin.

Hope this helps. Best of luck folks!

ps - I got him on Blade's Edge on 12/12 around 8:30pm EST.

Comment by 924651

This worked like a charm TY!

Comment by Baconhawk

Got my Kirix today.
So, yesterday, all spiders were there, and Skarr.
So I went after Deth'Tilac, succesfully tamed him.
Then got skarr shortly after.
I was too annoyed from Deth to attempt to get Kirix, so I kindly left him for another happy hunter to come swoop up this pretty spider.
So the next day, I went to go do my dailies, and bam, Kirix was STILL there. To my amazement, I asked my mage friend to come assist me by giving me timewarp, and he saw me tame the spider.
I wanted to get rid of him to be honest, so Ankha, Magria, or banth would have a chance to spawn, since Terrorpene got tamed not too long ago.
So I was prepared to kill him with my 3 friends, and some back up if needed. Since he literally sat there for many, many hours, with no hunter to even look at him. I even /who for a hunter and none were around. D: It would of sucked to kill him, so I made sure to try to tame some more before he had to get a horrible fate. D:
But the tame was successful, and it was a pain in the butt for awhile until I got my mage friend :D

Comment by dadofshawn

i agree with Milune. put your aspect of the wild on, concussion shot him, run in and let him pop you up into the air, disengage at height of your pop, deterrance, then tame pet. He almost got me at end but tamed him first try this way! Tried rock trick and all that and did not want to change all my gear to haste and nothing worked. You don't need the haste boost from the jump or no need to cast any spells or eat any food. Just follow the steps above and he is yours....first time if you don't forget your aspect of the wild.

Comment by 931249

I can confirm the below I just tamed on Nagrand doing the below.

Thanks for the tip!

By Milune (509 – 2·14) on 2011/09/03 (Patch 4.2.2) Report
This tame does not require haste, nor standing on rocks to evade bug him (which can be considered an exploit by GM reports). I know others have said it, but these steps made him my easiest tame so far:

1. Cast Aspect of the Wild.
2. Concussive Shot him at max distance.
3. Get him to hit you into the air, cast Disengage at the height of the pop up.
4. Cast Deterrence and Tame Beast.
5. Name your new pet.

Comment by 770841

I am the proud new owner of Kirix. I did exactly what the first comment says to do. I engaged him at max range (SHOT HIM)...popped Diengage at max height...the immediatly hit Deterrance as I hit the ground, and hit Tame beast. I did not need to use any haste buff of any kind, my timing was perfect and I was able to avoid his DOT that he puts out, with the help of Deterrance. this way to tame kirix is flawless and super easy! thanks!

Tamed him at 11:10am on the server Hyjal

Comment by 83571

Tamed him today 1/8/2012 on Aerie Peak, patch 4.3.

I put disengage, detterence and tame on my bar (so i can hit 1,2,3 in that order) hit nature aspect (i'm a night elf so i get a bonus to NR too)

waited at the npcs that give you the quests, he came over the hill i arcane shot him, stood and waited for him to charge me, went up in air, hit disengage, landed, hit 2 (detererence) and then 3, tame...and....win

if you dont hit deterence he just stuns you and you insta die, i failed the first try, hit wrong key and thought i had time to hit it, but you dont, if you get stunned..gg run back try again

I also ate some haste food, (eel) and a haste elixir, i didnt know how much i needed, plus my gear is all haste, i was in BM spec too, so my haste is probably pretty high but i think i got him just as deter wore off

Hope that helps

Raevynwillow of Aerie Peak

Comment by 118920

Wow this guy hurt to tame. I tried the Concussive Shot/Disengage/Deterrence/Tame trick 10 times before I had to go repair.

While in Stormwind, I got a Fort and Marks from some nice people and bought a cheap flask with stam buff. Went back, did the trick and finally got my spider!

The Concussive Shot/Disengage/Deterrence/Tame trick works! Make sure have you have Asc. of the Wild up and I would make sure u have 140k hp or more, or go get some buffs before taming this guy

Happy Hunting! :)

Comment by selvin

I feel kinda bad, at least on my server no one wants him, so he just ceaselessly continues running back and forth, longing for a hunter to want him, day after day.

Comment by 937084

Hello I tamed the spider and the crab at same night, the spider at 04:34 and carb at 04:37 on dunemaul eu, guess its my lucky day *:D

Comment by Faunadragon

I watched another hunter try to tame this spider. I think he had second thoughts and kited the thing over to the quest givers! They all died, I died, he died and everybody else made a mad dash out of there! Kirix broke my gun, but it was hilarious!

Comment by Dosantsu

For any hunters out there with lowish hp that wish to tame Kirix (105k~110k)
Using the floating rocks will not work, Him evading stops the completion of the tame,I had the haste buff from jumping in the air vents,Potion of haste and Rapid Fire and i completed the tame before he even started casting the first spell.

Its really dispiriting :( ill have to get one of the Cinderweb Broodlings instead,seeing as tho they look just like Kirix.

To anyone who actually managed to tame him, I envy you :(

Comment by smithwess

I got Kirix,Deth'tilac, and Solix yesterday
only skitterflame, Anthriss, Skarr and Karkin to go!

Comment by smithwess

Okay so here is how I got Kirix.

I used aspect of the wild.
I then clicked the tame button then I interrupted it.
He will run at you knocking you into the air.
While in the air click disengage.
Before you hit the ground use deterrence.
Once you land click tame and you should have Kirix.

Hope this helps everyone!

Comment by 930944

After dying idk how many times and using a shaman for haste. I went to the left hand side of the crater near the rock. Pop pot waited for him hit arcane, he punted me disnegaged even before i hit the ground i hit deterrance and as soon as i touched down i was taming. I tamed him with 5k hp left and i only had 108k to start.

Comment by 942572

Okay there is a way to get this beautiful, green spider without a huge headache!

I was waiting around for Skarr in molten front and saw kirix running back and forth because no one wants him lol so I thought I'll take a whack at it. Of course I died several times before a fellow hunter took pity and showed me a little trick.
1) get up to fire plume ridge
2) go to the area on FP ridge along the side where kirix runs back and forth below.
3) there is a stand alone floating rock, mount up and jump to it.
4)once you made it to the rock and kirix comes in range, hit rapid fire (helps if u have it gyphed 50% haste buff)
5) then hit tame and interrupt it. Kirix will start casting a spell that does mega nature damage so make sure you hit deterrence but you have to time it. Also use aspect of the wild this will help. You will see green nature damage circles and that is when you want to hit deterrence. ( for some reason I did not see the spell on cast bar when he channels so watch for the green circles)
6) immediately hit tame.
7) enjoy your new pet!

Just FYI haste pots or a core hound will also speed the tame up I ran out but I still got him with just rapid fire haste buff. I hope this helps and happy hunting! :)

Comment by 935579

When I tamed this beautiful spider, I used a way a friend of mine showed me,
You see those rocks over there? About....5 feet from where he runs around? Jump all the way up those, only 2 crumbles, so be careful, before you jumped up you should have saw a rock your suppose to jump up to when he throws you in the air, a bit of the ways over to your left, off the edge.
Hop on a slow FALLING mount (Such as the carpets or a flying machine). And hop down to the rock, Hit him once he comes around, then use Deterrence once he started his cast. Then tame him.
Then you should have your spider<3
--
Love Tigandra

Comment by 667030

Got Kirix tamed today, tried that whole floating rock thing didn't work to weel for me. Used this theory from someone else on here and it worked great, still had anout 30k HP left.

I used aspect of the wild.
I then clicked the tame button then I interrupted it.
He will run at you knocking you into the air.
While in the air click disengage.
Before you hit the ground use deterrence.
Once you land click tame and you should have Kirix.

Just wait by the quest givers and hould work good.

Comment by JASP01

I just got this bad boy today (and he matches my xmog -perfectly-)!

The Tactic:
When I came across him, I read up on him, having only read up on him a little bit a few nights before. I had a Haste food buff and elixir up. I had a Potion of Speed, which I would really, really recommend. However, I forgot about it at the time, which proves it can be done without (and with will really make it easier).
A few things. I had only came in Molten Front today for my first time on this char, never having a reason to before for this alt. So, there's no need to unlock anything.
Second.... I did not use the rock or vent or whatever process. I did not use Rapid Fire, because contrary to popular belief, it does not boost tame speed (boosts ranged attack speed, not Haste).
I casted tame, and when he used his knockback, I popped Deterrence and Disengaged, then immediately used Tame Beast again. Having an ave ilv of 384, but reforging away from Haste, it took me 4-5 tries, and I survived with only a few thousand HP left; less than a second more and I would have died.
Have a Potion of Speed, do what I did in addition to that, and you're golden. And I would pop it before pulling.
Edit: I also had Aspect of the Wild up, which is mandatory!
The Story:
I originally came in for the kitty with the red eyes, Skarr. I read up on him, and wanted him as a new Surv PvE pet to replace my old one, Humar.
However, the Crab was up. I considered getting him for a solo'ing pet, since he did look cool, and since they share the same spawn timer (so the kitty couldn't be up). But, I then noticed this guy, and how he matched my armor.
After a few attempts, I fell deeply in love with him, and... Funny thing, I started looking for a PvE Surv pet, and ended up respeccing my secondary spec, so it could turn out to be a PvP Marks pet (I still have Surv as my main spec).

Comment by 692994

I wasted a lot of time trying to follow people's advice by standing on one of those platforms and trying to tame Kirix from there - that was a waste of time and it didn't work... did I mention it was extremely frustrating?

So, just go down to the ground where the spider runs around and find a spot to stand where you know he's going to run into you (just passed the quest givers or around coords 32,57), and stay away from the edge (he knocks you back).

1. Aspect of the Wild (put up before getting into position)
2. Arcane Shot (wait for spider to be within aggro range of you, and shoot)
3. Tame Beast (hit this immediately after your first shot)
4. Disengage (he runs at you and throws you into the air, hit Disengage while in the air, it'll cancel out his knock-back and you'll fall straight back down)
5. Deterrence (hit immediately after Disengaging)
6. Tame Beast (tame immediately after Deterrence)

If you died before he was tamed, you need more Haste and/or Stamina. The first time I did this, I died. The second time, I used a Runescroll of Fortitude II - and I tamed him no problem. I had also eaten a Basilisk Liverdog.

I watched groups of 5 trying to tame this guy and they kept wiping over and over. My gear is not great, and I did it on my own - what one man/woman can do, another can do. That means, so can you!

Comment by 849483

Hey guy's this is a great tame and a beauty to get. Follow these steps and you'll have her before you know it.

1. You can this beauty in ANY spec.
2. Make sure you have Aspect of the Wild on.
3. Make sure you have Tame, Disengage, and Deterrence on your action some what close to each other.
4. You dont need any haste buff at all. (No Potion's, Flask's, Elixir's, or Food speed buff.)

Now for the Plan to tame.

When you see Kirix, make sure your on a flat platform with a lot of flat area behind you (area kirix patrols). When she gets in range to tame press your tame button, when she reaches you she will knock you in the air. When this happens pop your Disengage, and when you are in the air or land press Deterrence. When you land press tame. and vwallah! this may take 1 or 2 tries to get it down, but when you do get it down its really easy. Happy camping!

Comment by 924920

After trying many, many times and spending who knows how much in repairs, I finally was able to tame this spider. I also found that the Potion of Speed seemed to be the magic ingredient. Order of tame went as follows: hit tame when spider came close enough, wait til she knocks you into air, hit disengage/deterrence and use haste potion as you land, hit tame again. Took a few tries to get timing right, but I succeeded at last. Good luck to you fellow hunters.

Comment by 958463

Just tamed him using mirain84's srategy, simply jumped on to the standing stones, aspect of the wild, hit him when he was close, deterrence close to the end of his big cast followed straight away by tame beast. easy although took me a number of goes as i first hit him out of range of tame beast lol, so when i jumped down to tame him he immediatly knocked me back!

Comment by 837172

85 BM. Took three tries to get the timing down, but tamed him with Aspect of the Pack on, using core-hound's Ancient Histeria, dismissed pet, targeted Kirix and hit with Arcane Shot, ate the bounce back and at top of arc hit Disengage (make sure there's good space behind you!). While falling back hit him with Concussive Shot, then popped Deterrance and hit Tame. Then it was just a heart-stopping few seconds watching my health meter race the Tame Beast cast meter to the bottom. Probably had about 5% health when done, but he was mine! =)

Comment by Bvolt

Lvl 85 BM, I got up to one the floating rocks close too him, then I auto shot him, waited until he use his special when it popped up, I used Deterrence, then right when I hit it, I click Tame Pet

2nd spider out of them so far!

Comment by rapperman

Don't know if the rock jumping method was viewed by Blizz as an exploit but I tried this method several times today following the 4.3.3 patch on Tuesday, 2/28.

As a Night Elf hunter with herb gathering I used lifeblood, and haste potions until I ran out of them and then used my corehound. I also popped deterrence once aggro was achieved. On at least 3 occasions I was able to complete channelling my tame beast spell with no interruption and nearly full health. In spite of this, the tame didn't take and I died following his poison cast.

A troll hunter eventually bagged him using the less than subtle method of aggro, knockback, disengage, haste potion, tame.

(edited for punctuation :P)

Comment by BubbRubb23

Just tame Kirix on Lothar. 85 BM Hunter with 121K health. I did just as people said to do below. I hit him with AS, tame beast, when he hit me up in the air I hit disengage, and then popped deterrence before I landed, and hit tame beast again right away. He got me down to about 10% health. I thought I was going to die, but I didn't. Oh, and I made sure I had aspect of the wild on. I did it without aspect of the wild and died. So it seems that is pretty important.

Comment by 911506

Got Kirix, Deth'tilac, and Skitterflame all in the same day. :) The Molten Front has become a utopia for Hunters looking for pets since it has now become a ghostland with the new patch.

Tamed Kirix 11:30pm ST, Draka using the method others had described. Arcane Shot, Tame Beat, Disengage, Deterrence, Tame Beast.

Tamed Deth'tilac 02:44am ST, Draka kiting her over to the druid quest givers. Their root spells slow her down and there is much more room to kite her there. Used Concussion Shot and Explosive Shot to DPS her down to 20% before Tame Beast.

Tamed Skitterflame 02:57am ST, took the wind boosters up to the ledge just above Skitterflames' pool of lava. Killed surrounding adds, placed a Ice Trap on the ledge, waited until the trap timer was almost up before hitting him with Concussion Shot, immediately placed another Ice Trap and moved back then hitting Tame Beast.

Comment by powermax

Was able to tame him about 12:30 pm US Dentarg server time. I used the disengage/detterence/tame process. It took many, many attempts, but eventually i finally got him. Just like alot of the other spiders, it's all about timing. I tried the rock method with the silent shot, but stated he was immune to it. I just tamed him in one of the spots that he kept running around in.

Comment by 605734

Not to be of any use, but when I was looking for Skar with Eagle Eye, I noticed him, and noticed his spazz-ness and squealed with joy. And now I love him. He was fun to get.

Comment by 964868

tamed last night at about 10:30 to 11:00 on duskwood
not having having it work the first dozen times I decided to take a better look at the area he skitters about. towards the end of his run I noticed an outcrop of the wall that I could get on to increase the distance of my Disengage and hopefully buy me a few extra seconds to tame. second or third time I tried this the taming stuck though it brought me close to the flames and less than a thousand health left, that said i now have a pretty looking spider to tag along with me :)
armor rating at time of tame was 352 and 112k worth of health for anyone who cares or is discouraged

Comment by MaxHunter

I am a SV/MM hunter and I usually use the rock because the ground does not work well for me, On the rock I pull, his deterrence when toxin comes, hit tame beast, but then I am killed with 2nd tixin. What am I doing wrong?

Comment by YBerion

Does the troll racial skill work towards the tame cast?

Comment by Rentotem

tamed at around 12:30 am on Thrall
was a lot of fun, died a crap load of times (another hunter showed up near the end saw all my corpses and then just wished me luck and stood back watching)

as a fresh 85 my gear was kinda crappy aside from legion bindings and the cloak from the quests that opens molten front I was all blue/green

reforged everything to haste, ate a basilisk liverdog
putting me at 119k hp

put on aspect of wild and aggrod after his special I disengaged popped a mythic health potion in air then deterence and hit tame.
dropped me to about 200 health but I got him.

good luck to anyone else looking for him, patience is key.

Comment by 427099

EU-Argent Dawn, 11.15am. BM spec, 137K HP (buffed)

Didn't try to balance myself on any ledges or what not, too much room for error. Otherwise same tactic as most. Got my health up as far as I could with some food buff (also have the advantage of reasonable gear too). In to Aspect of the Wild, pulled with an Arcane Shot, Disengage, Deterrence and Tame Beast in quick succession right after he throws you in the air. Was lucky enough to get away with not using a health potion, brought down to around 10-15% health.

Comment by petyrit

Thanks, Hellheal, ur tactic is the best. I just tamed him (4 rare pets from Molten front today)

Comment by mauvaise

finally got him after a few deaths... realizing i was a total noob and never had aspect of the wild up. got him with shoot, disengage, deterrence, tame.. got me to 1hp haha and i got him :)

Comment by 973860

After a lot of very frustrating attempts, I found out one simple trick.

Using the floating rocks.
Start taming.
Now, this is very important!
ONLY WHEN YOU SEE HER CASTING, Hit deterrence and restart taming!

Congratz on your new pet!

You will thank me for that! :)

Comment by 978312

My blood elf hunter found Kirix yesterday around 22:00 - 23:00 just after you pass The furnace on the left narrow path. He was patrolling right from there till close to the floating rocks. Not sure exactly when he spawned but since he was there I decided to give it ago, I had tamed Deth'tilac minutes before. Tried on floating rocks several times only to fail miserably but once tame successfully ended with my GP around 80% but he wasn't tamed! Extremely annoyed so I am thinking it might have been a bug. At the end I moved on to find Skarr, what I really came for and got him few hours later. Two other hunters tried to tame Kirix but pawned at the end. Skitterflame was around at the time as well just to let you know. Might have been a great coincidence that the three spiders were around at the same time or is it normal?

Comment by 761699

So that Hunters looking to grab this guy understand, popping Deterrence is meant to save you from some of the damage from the fall after you Disengage.

Be sure you pop it before you land, and pop that Tame Beast the literal NANOSECOND your toon's feet hit the ground. I also found it helpful to position yourself near the end of Kirix' loop, so that you fall back onto the lower ground near a neutral scorpion (right in front of the floating rocks).

I tried the floating rock thing; Kirix kept evading, so idk if I did something wrong or what.

Comment by 929233

there are some rocks you can jump up on like mario bros, stand on the small one before the large last one, face to Kirix direction on the right side where he do his patrol.

Get a core hound, the best one is the one before you enter the portal in blasted lands.
So from Org you enter the portal and you stand and have the bigger portal in front of you.

Behind you on the right side you have the core hounds - tame one of them and the pet has a ability called - Ancient Hysteria - Increases melee, ranged, and spell casting speed by 30% for all party and raid members. Lasts 40 sec.

This means that when your tame Kirix it will go faster than 10 sec.
When Kirix comes to the end point of your side and go back to the other left side you press on this abilitiy, dismiss the pet and just wait for Kirix to come back, once in reach, tame and you get him before he do the deadly damage om you.

Youtube - Taming Kirix the easy way by JohnDaniel747

trust me, you cant fail here

Comment by 824735

omg so much money on repairs haha

Just managed to tame Kirix, close to 6pm server time...tamed near the falling rocks area using the above mentioned ways...used potion of speed and popped lifeblood after i hit disengage...had about 20% hp left...every other time i didn't use lifeblood, i rightfully got killed...Kirix is my first spider pet, but i don't know if I'll use it overly much, I don't like spiders :)

Sassyhunter
Blackrock

Comment by blakebox

OMG I was being such a noob huntard on Kirix. I wasted 50 G on repairs cause I didnt read or watch any videos on how to tame this and what the challenge is.

So I tamed Kirix after dying like 5 or 6 times (A few of them was cause I am horrible at jumping games like Mario Bros). It was my first time into Molten Front and Kirix pop on my NPCScan. When I died and was running around to find my body, NPCScan also went off for Solix, Skitterflame, and Anthriss. Cant believe they were all up. I even whispered a fellow hunter that they are but was ignored.

Anyway, after dying for the last time, I decided to hearth back to SW and do some repairs and grab my core hound. I was using lifebloom and tame beast thinking that will be enough. I always miss it by 1 sec. Acient Hysteria + dismiss pet + tame beast while on a floating rock is the best combination.

Kirix down, now for the others that I saw while dead

Comment by Emarelda

Call me cruel but I love sitting on a floating rock and watch him. Sometimes unsuspecting players will run by him, get killed as they try to run, then post in general chat: SOMEONE KILL THAT STUPID SPIDER!1!

Comment by PoshKenneth

Just tamed on Thaurissan. Used the method on the floating rock (jumped on it on my mount).

Where I kept going wrong was popping deterrence before he started casting Magmatoxin, don't make that mistake! As soon as he casts it, click, then tame beast. This is great if you're like me and kept failing at the Disengage method. I didn't use any haste buffs or a Core Hound so if you don't have these don't worry, it's doable.

Comment by 988246

Very easy ...
No spec necessary .. i was in BM
hop across to the other side
use the platform to the right of the jet stream
as he is passing by .. cast tame beast (he'll pause), and you slightly move to cancel tame
wait for his cast.. at the 1/2 mark cast deterrence and immediately cast tame beast again
done.

Comment by zharshoul

i figure he would drop a tear... but is he at all killable(outside of just bringing tons of people)? or does he just gib people with his moves

Comment by 993662

Kirix in my opinion is one of the easiest tames in patch 4.2 :)

All I did to tame him was go past him and climb up to the next little planet thing and wait for him to come by. Just a simple deterrence when he casts his thing and you'll be able to tame right after without being struck by melee attacks. VERY simple tame but very important to pop det asap :)

Lucky tame!

Comment by 989980

Just get it done with another toon in your group that can cast lust right before you start tame beast, and you can avoid all of the deterrence stuff. :)

Comment by digitalutopia1

Once you unlock this section, you really should just create a BM spec if you don't have one already, just because a Core Hound's Ancient Hysteria skill makes this, and most likely any other tame cake.

I simply stood on the platform in between fireplume and the furnace. It's easily reached via a mount while you're already on fireplume, and shouldn't be confused with the multi-platform area that you use to get to fireplume. It's located further to the right (by the firehawk)..

Once there, I got out my core hound, waited until this guy was closer, popped Ancient Hysteria and dismissed my pet. I immediately cast tame pet, and it finished just as he started casting his poison spell.

Comment by Shekar

I fell off the edge when trying to jump onto one of the rocks where the thermal vents are. This caused me to release spirit to a graveyard on Fireplume Peak. I discovered that from Fireplume Peak on the southern part where there is the big orange spot, there is a stable rock between Fireplume Peak and the area Kirix runs around. Mount up and jump onto this rock. From there, get close to the edge near Kirix, and cast "Tame Pet." If you time it right, she won't figure out how to spit poison at you until it is too late, but if she does you're dead. I died 2 or 3 times before I got my position on the edge and timing just right before I could tame her.

Comment by Derfman

Do not make the mistake that I made. That 100 percent hast buff is a trap. If your tame beast finishes too quick, it will fail. Make sure you have your Aspect of the Wild up first. Just jump to platrorm that is by itself, pull, wait till he cast his spell and then hit deterrence then tame beast. My haste is only 7.99% and health is 112k, MM speced. After I realized my mistake, it worked on the first try. It respawns very regularly now, so getting it should be easy. Good Hunting.

Comment by 670769

Just tamed it on Uldaman. I also used the floating rock method, but died the first few times due to casting Deterrence too late - you want to hit it as soon as he starts casting his poison, otherwise he'll hit you with the second cast while you're still taming and interrupt you.

Comment by 1020899

take a priest with you for him, i went with my gf to tame kirix while i was stacking divine aegis on her he aggroed her and then aggroed me wile she was taming lol, and i was priest tanking him, ended up killing me 2 seconds before she tamed him easy tame if someone take aggro without dealing any damage to kirix himself...

Comment by bjuke

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Walked into Molten Front Today
Between Hours of 11:00am Server Time To About 12PM Server Time, I found all 3 Spiders and Skarr.

Took me that hour to tame all 4 with dying and waiting 2 minutes to rez.

US Tichondrius

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Deth I tamed @ 1:32 Pm Server Time. So Spider #4 All in One Day
High Pop server too.

All same spawn spots listed and followed everyone else's tactics.

Comment by 973808

Questing with my paladin when I see him, logging my hunter going to molten front and ... have not done the quest chaine that far ... -.-

Comment by MikadoGG

One pointer to the disengage+deterrence strat is that you need to have deterrence up when he casts the toxin, otherwise he will stun you and kill you in a matter of seconds and you won't even be able to feign death while stunned by him. If you cast deterrence too early (i.e. before he has begun casting toxin), it will wear off well before you are able to finish your tame beast cast (assuming you didn't load up on all the haste buffs which are really quite unnecessary) and his aura/melee will have the few seconds to kill you.

I tried doing the strat where I disengaged and after landing immediately cast deterrence but he seemed to kill me like that every time because you still have to wait out his toxin cast before casting tame beast since he will interrupt you with it even through deterrence, which gives him plenty of time to kick your butt. So the perfect chain of events is this: pull at max range>get charged>while in the air disengage>he begins casting toxin>deterrence>tame beast>enjoy your new cute green spider. Good luck.

Comment by 43360

Ok, so this post is AFTER patch 5.0.4 has dropped, and I just tamed Kirix, so plz listen and save yourself the headache and lots of gold for repairs that I had to spend...

this is very easy if you follow directions and stand HERE!

Note: The only thing that I used "extra" was the Glyph of Tame Beast to speed up the tame.

I didn't use any buffs, potions, nothing! I let Kirix make a pass to ensure that he was in range of my Tame Beast spell, and then on the next pass, I didn't waste time on a shot, as soon as he was in range of Tame Beast, I hit tame, and it was over before he even cast his toxin!

No knockback, no timing it right...just tame him as soon as he's close enough! As you can see in my screenshot, I just jumped down and he's standing next to me after about 25 times of trying all the out-dated methods that worked Pre-patch 5.0.4!

Hope it helps..plz upvote, if so.

Good luck!

Comment by 993112

Bleeding Hollow.

I don't know how many times I tried to tame this little guy but finally I got him.

Here's what I did;

When you come upon Kirix, there is a cliff higher than the one you are on. You must go across the floating rocks to get there. Then near the lava pool, you mount up and jump from the cliff to the lone floating rock. I had another hunter with me, he cast Hysteria and I tagged Kirix. He dodges for a few seconds before casting Magmatoxin, right before the spell completes, hit deterrence and than tame. The extra haste Hysteria gives you make's it possible to complete the tame before he casts Magmatoxin again.

I haven't named him yet. I also got Ban'thalos the same day, I was pumped.

EDIT(4/4/2013): I'm not sure why this was down voted considering this is a strategy to tame him.

Comment by 1029563

Finally tamed after many unsuccessful attempts since 5.0 and the removal of Aspect of the Wild. I will note that I tried several times on the platforms, and he was constantly evading attacks and tames.

What worked for me:

Popped Ancient Hysteria and dismissed corehound. Layed Ice Trap at feet and pulled with Concussive Shot. When knocked back, cast macro with Disengage and . As he cast Magmatoxin i cast Deterrence then Tame Beast. Successfully tamed with about 20% of my health left.

As I had several attempts with no luck, I had a Flask of Steelskin up for the extra stam boost. In the end I'm not really sure if it was necessary.

Glyphs that helped: Charred Glyph

**Edited for links.

Comment by 903933

Just tamed: Kilrogg 10:22 server time

No floating rock just had Skewered Eel buff....just make sure you have the Tame glyph. had Aspect of Iron Hawk up; stood near the druid of talon to the left; hit tame as soon as he was in range; he got in my grill; hit disengage; AS SOON AS he starts toxin hit deterrence; then quickly tame.....piece of cake....after a gazzilion times trying! WOOT lol

Comment by 858129

This guy is a jerk to say the least! I had a lot of problems with the tame before it finally was successful.

I tried standing on the rocks but he EVADES just at the end of the tame. Here is step by step what I did:

Spec: BM (You can be any spec, Kirix is not a spirit beast)
Buffs: None
Glyph: Tame Beast
Health: 136.000
Talent: Aspect of the Iron Hawk

1. Position yourself on his platform, I chose the spot right infront where Skarr spawns, Dont be close to any of the edges or you may fall.

2. Just as Kirix was making his run back toward me, I ran a little ahead and pulled him with Concussion Shot,

3. I walked backwards as he came at me and when he knocks you back Disengage in MID AIR, you will lose some health from his hit and your fall

4. Just after I landed from my Disengage I immediately ran away from him he will pause and begin casting his poison, Make sure you run a good ways away while he's casting it (but not too far! you want to be be at max range)

5. Hit Deterrence just before he finises his cast, he will come for you! Start taming immediately, he might melee hit you once before you finish casting.

6. Enjoy your dirty mean spider

Good luck hunters, and don't get discouraged, this is a challenging tame.

Comment by Cobolt78

Can confirm the comment By Jetdoctr, I wish i read his comments first as it took me 3 spawnings over 20 deaths and a massive repair bill lol.
I tried alot of strats but most of them had him evade on me or kill me with my small 91k hp.

Finally saw this post and a youtube vid, thought this would be like the rest of them and evade but i thought what the heck give it ago. after all the other tries with buffs and hysteria and deterrence i jumped on this rock, hit tame without any buffs or deterrence active, he came in range and what do u know he was mine in 5secs, no evade no death lol.

hope this helps someone else.

Comment by DarkRouge

i did as the OP stated and I noticed that after I hit deterrence once on the ground..tame beast would not work or come on...odd
I know alot of you have done this,maybe it could be my adds? I;m not sure..

Comment by 1076380

I just finished doing my Molten Front dailies and jumped on one of the rocks right by Kirix's path. I was able to tame him w/o taking any damage from him after 4 failed attempts. Even had a resurrection penalty too which sucked. I had a Tame Beast glyph so that helped in shortening my time in taming. As soon as he came within distance of me, I got him in secs. No pets distracting him, no silencing shot, nothing. Pretty sure it was a fluke on my part. Tho it is the same way I got Skarr 5 minutes earlier. Wasn't even looking for either pets.

Comment by 1076672

Milune's ty 4 the pointer on tamming krix it worked on the first try

Comment by tonywow99

Just tamed this beauty 12:35PM 1/16/13 Aerie Peak

Tried taming solo with the tips I read here in comments, but, could not get it to work for me. I did not have the Core Hound for his buff. I tried to get on a floating rock ledge with the haste buff but found it stripped me of the buff.

I was lucky enough to meet a couple awesome players who helped. A hunter named Kristilove on Turalyon tamed the rare crab and helped me out. A shaman named Islendrey on Velen was in the area and helped out as well.

The shaman used bloodlust and it gave me just enough haste apparently to make the tame. I had deterrence up and then hit tame beast and got the spider probably a second or so before he was going to kill me. I couldn't have done it without these guys.

LIke other players mentioned, the tame is tricky and you will want to get as much haste as you can. Ancient Hysteria will really help combined with anything else you can find to up your haste. Once I had the Bloodlust I had to try a couple times before I ended up getting Kirix, again using the deterrence/tame beast combo.

Good Luck to anyone attempting this tame!

Comment by 1080974

After i tamed Skarr i also saw Kirix ..well i wasnt read any comments about this creature and started to tame it and ofc i wiped :) Anyway i red all posts and comments. First i used detterence and disengage tactic and somehow i failed again and again...maybe i did somethng wrong or i wasnt fast enough i really dont know . After 1h i went on the little platform again and start thinking what should i do and then suddenly i wanted to try somethng very easy and cheap ...honestly i didnt think this way gonna work but it did. I put an Ice Trap on its path so this way it would slow down a little. But not only makes it slowed down it just stopped when touch the trapped and didnt cast anything and i started to tame it then dboom! its done. Maybe it bugged or something but it worked. Try this tactic but dont give up on first try because when u icetrap it he may come to you and knock you back or sometimes he just come and melee attack but tame beast still not work because it will be out of your sight. Now i have to excuse because i need a repair... Good luck ;)

Comment by 1069423

Tamed 2/27/13 8:20pm on Sisters of Elune server.
shot Kirix to get his attention, then cast Disengage as he knocks you back (in midair),
then cast Deterrence as he casts Megatoxin, then cast Tame Beast. POW!

Comment by senxai

date: 06.03.2013
time: 00:30
server: Stormscale EU
faction: Horde
spawn timer: 7-17hrs
tamed at lvl: 87

Guild: Nightraiders

I just tamed this while exploring Molten Front omw to see if Skarr spawned and pop Kirix running around his route, so I tamed him with no problem. The last taming of Kirix before 5.2 patch. I will look for more after patch.

I wish you all a great hunt! and also for the 5.2 patch! GL HF!

Ps. Having a problem taming Kirix? check youtube "how to tame kirix"

Comment by 719660

After 5 hrs of jumping and dying...

05/05/13
Approx 0430
Server: Gilneas US
Horde Lvl 87
Glyph of Tame

Spent hours and almost 150 gold on repairs. Jumping onto the rock platforms isn't working. Land dead center and fall right thru. Respawn at Fireplume. Mount, jump, fall. Rinse and repeat.

Also tried. Concussion, Disengage, Deterrance, Tame method. But Kirix was on me and I was dead WAY before it toxinned me.

A level 90 Troll Hunter showed up and he wasn't doing much different from me so I told him I'd concuss K once he started to add another slow down and hit K with a Deterrance the moment it started the Toxin cast. Since he said it was my turn, I made my run, ruined gear and all.

Concussion, Disengage when K hits, other Hunter hits him, while I don't break Tame. Success.

Comment by Sirvi

Server: Terrokar
Player: Ryzaljyn-:Lv 86 Troll hunter
Spawn time: 10:30ish p.m. Saturday June 1st

Competition: Annoying Lv 90 Night Elf Mage

After logging on and finding Jadefang dead in the Crumbling Depths in Deepholm, I made my way to Molten Front and made a suicide run through the fire ramp (I've done everything once on my Forsaken Lock Ivris, I'm not about to do it again). There I find Kirix doing his daily sprints and pissing him off when I try to tame him (as well as trying to follow the directions that NinjaPirateTaki posted).

Doesn't work well the first time. As I make my way back to my corpse, I see a Night Elf trying to kill him while I wait for the 30 second corpse timer to wear off. Thankfully the Night Elf dies and I am able to regain my corpse and try again only to have my face nommed by the spider.

This resulted in a 2 minute wait for me to get my corpse while the same Night Elf is trying to kill him only to watch the alliance player die again.

Overall, I watched this Night Elf try to kill Kirix at least 3 times before giving up, leaving me to die several more times until about my 5th try to tame Kirix.

Is it the "Oh, rare namable elite mob! Must KILL!" complex that new players develop or do they get a kick out of it to see if they can kill rare mobs to see how tough they are? On the 31st of May, I saw Skarr on the island next to the patrol path of Kirix only to be OS'd by a Goblin Warlock.

Yet I managed to tame Skarr a day later without having to jump on the islands (I somehow overshoot my landing every single time)

Comment by Ocyla

Like someone else mentioned, I just ran through the fire because I wasn't about to open up the Molten Front on a third character. Hit 90 somewhat recently a few days ago, hit Kirix, Disengaged his throw back like others have said, hit Deterrence, hit Tame. Got him easily. I did die several times the other day trying it though XD

10:45 on Whisperwind by Ticksy.

Comment by 1141052

Just tamed Kirix at 2:15am on Dragonblight. Waited until he started to pat away to start my tame.

Hit deterrence when he was almost on me
Hit disengage midway through his cast
tamed again

now he is mine :)

Happy Hunting!

Comment by sherrasama

Isn't Deterrence supposed to block the stun from Magmatoxin? I'm following the listed strats and after I Disengage in midair from the knockback, land, cast Deterrence, the toxin hits me and I'm stunned for 6 seconds and can't start casting Tame Beast. Something I'm missing?

Comment by 1184079

Save your self time and disregard these children who are trying to say that blind luck is skill or the mechanics of how to tame. 1000+ gold in repairs, and 2 dozen deaths, i dont suck, the above info is false, and not to be trusted

Comment by 1184079

jST TRIED SWORN TAME METHOD, 3 MORE TIMES AFTER POST, JUST TO MAKE SURE, THE ABOVE METHODS DO NOT WORK AT ALL, IF THEY DO IT WAS BLIND LUCK, NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AS THESE PEOPLE DONT HAVE THE FACULTIES TO COMPREHEND LUCK NOT BEING SKILL OR METHODOLOGY. DO NOT REGARD ANY OF THE ABOVE TRASH. THESE ARE NOT SUCCESSFUL METHODS. UNLESS THREE DIFFERENT PEOPLE DOING THE SAME THING, COMPLETELY UNRELATED OR FRIENDS WITH ONE ANOTHER, ARE ALL WRONG. THESE TIPS ARE FAILURE, STOP WASTING PEOPLES TIME, IF YOU DONT KNOW, DO NOT PASS YOUR LUCK OFF AS SKILL.

Comment by 1184079

5 TH TIME, MACRO:FAIL TIPS:FAIL PLAN LISTED ABOVE:FAIL TRUSTING THESE TIPS:FAIL

Comment by 1184079

NOW ON DEATH NUMBER 25, THESE TIPS DO NOT WORK, DISREGARD UNLESS YOU WANT TO GO BROKE, AND WASTE INCREDIBLE AMOUNTS OF TIME, PET NOT WORTH FALSE INFORMATION

Comment by Fleurdelis

Yanno, I tried at least a dozen times to tame Kirix using the disengage method, both the floating rock methods, standing on the ledge method...none of them worked for me. I died every time, had ENORMOUS repair costs, got frustrated and decided to get an imitation Kirix up by the Widow's Clutch - except after 4 days, the right ones never spawned. I decided to try the real Kirix once again, just because I'm a masochist. Died a few more times trying the same methods.

I should mention that I'm level 90, BM hunter, decently but not spectacularly geared. I'm also a wuss and not very skilled at anything. I shouldn't be surprised that nothing worked for me. :-\

What DID work for me was running along his path and finding a spot where I could run up the side of the rocks with my corehound (oddly enough Kirix passed me a couple of times while I was looking for the right spot and did not aggro; go figure.)

I ran all the way up - there are several spots where you can run up to ledges, but the one I found first took me up to the top between two peaks - and waited for Kirix to come around again. I hit Ancient Hysteria, dismissed the hound, and hit Kirix with tame just as he got in front of me. He stopped for a few seconds then RAN UP THE HILL TOWARDS ME, scaring me to death. I managed to hit Deterrence just in time, hit tame again, and in two seconds he was mine. I think he got about two blows in before the tame finished, so about 50k damage; not too bad.

Loading up with haste is not a bad idea if you're going to try this. Stamina would help too, I think. The Tame Beast glyph is a must. I THINK the corehound helped but I'm not absolutely certain.

The thing about this is, I am NOT good at jumping floating rocks. I mess up every time and die. I'm not good at timing things either; hitting disengage and the macro at the right time didn't work for me; more death. But this was so easy I was shocked. I really was making a last ditch effort, just one more try, and I couldn't believe it when I had him in seconds.

Btw, this is a great pet. You'd think the spiders would be squishy but they're not. He's very tough. Just thought I'd toss that in there. :-D

I don't know if this would work for anybody else, but it's worth a try if you're having a hard time with the other methods. It was an experiment (sort of) for me, but it worked.

Comment by Disraeli

Just got him. Took me 6 tries. I was nervous about being a ilvl515 Survival Hunter, and that I might Crit and kill him if I engaged him from afar...well he took it like a champ. Hit him with a Sting, disengaged, deterred, tamed. Done.

Comment by 1209349

Hey guys, So WoW has obviously fixed some of the glitches that made previous easy methods possible. Myself and my Fiancee just found a way to tame Kirix (Need 2 people). Its as simple as this:

The person who is going to tame needs to have a Core Hound ready. Use Ancient Hysteria as soon as the other attacks Kirix. Let Kirix kill the attacker. Once that person is dead, Use Concussive Shot, then Tame Beast (try to be at max range).

Now when I did this, Kirix did throw me at the end of the tame, but I still got him on Jan 8 2014. Once he respawns, We will do this again so my Fiancee can get him.

Comment by futuredude

Tamed: Kirix
Date: Jan 29, 2014
Server Time: 02:15 A.M.
Realm: Dragonmaw US
Zone: Molten Front
Coordinates: 33.6,52.2
Character: Knockboots of the Shattered Sun (Level 90 Blood Elf Survival Hunter)
Gear Level: 428

Notes:

I was hanging out waiting for Karkin to spawn when Kirix made his nasty appearance. I tried just about every piece of advice in these comments but nothing worked. It killed me about 50 times before I was successful, that Magmatoxin is serious business and watch out for the Bouncing Charge it will break the tame cast every time. Finally, I decided to just use Stampede and while it was busy killing all my pets I tamed him. My health was at just a couple thousand by the time tame was complete. I had the Glyph of Tame Beast and drank Flask of the Earth before attempting to tame. Happy owner of Kirix now.

Comment by 1213669

Tamed him at 9.45 servertime (Nordrassil).

So I tried the deterrence method with all kind of haste buffs. He still killed about 20 times.
Then I tried the stampede method I read in a previous comment and it worked on the first try!

Just released stampede and started taming. He interrupted it the first time, but I just started taming again. So I guess the glyph of tame beast saved me that day.

But I guess you can lay a Ice trap or concussive shot before taming, just in case.

Happy hunting :)

Comment by Pixis1

Stampede method worked for me! I also set a snake trap, ice trap (don't even think it slowed him down), let loose dire beast & murder of crows for good measure. I had died a number of times by this point so I wasn't taking any chances. I also used a Potion of Speed & ate some Tangy Yogurt for the extra haste, and used a Flask of Earth for the extra health.

Before that I'd tried taming him from one of the floating rocks w/ haste buffs but his Magmatoxin interrupted my tames at the very end every time even w/ Tame Beast glyph. I wanted to try Mirrored Blades glyph but couldn't find one on the AH, so I'm still wondering if that would have worked to reflect his Magmatoxin while taming him from the floating rock. But the above method worked from the area where he was w/o me getting toxined or head-butted.

THEN, not two minutes later, Karkin spawned! He was the reason I was there to begin with & I only tamed Kirix bec/ I wanted to see if I could. I got Karkin on the first try (with rez sickness I might add) by taming him from the nearest Fireplume Peak ledge & interrupting his Fieroclast Barrage once w/ Counter Shot. I ate his fireballs no problem even in my weakened condition.

Also, I changed specs to BM for core hound's Ancient Hysteria halfway through trying to tame Kirix (but it was on cooldown & didn't get used when my tame finally worked) & I didn't realize until afterward that I didn't have Tame Beast glyph up for either successful tame. LOL.

Good Luck All!

Comment by baralic

Yesterday after 1h and 600g for repair I finally tame a green @#$%^.
First I try like other write but cant do it so I google a bit watch other youtube clips, there are lvl90 like me who pull with arcane and let Kirix push him/her away before he/she use deterance and start taming. For me that tact wont work but I find other who works just fine, target Kirix use and be at max possible range and spam taming, minor gliph for taming is good to have. And this is it I tame Kirix from first try with this tact.

Comment by Galahfray

I just tamed him on Ravenholdt, and I am not sure this has been mentioned yet, but I figured out THE easiest way to tame him, (after dying many, many times myself because none of the first tips here helped me) But if you go to the "island" next to him, and in a corner, you can tame him from there, and he can't get to you. Boom!

Comment by Erelorial

What worked for me was to cast Deterrence to block his cast, then cast tame. Glyphs I used were Mirrored Blades and Tame Beast. Unsure whether I reflected the stun back, but I didn't get stunned and finished the tame.

Comment by 1362250

How do you tame this guy?

Comment by Cyan

I saw him and killed him.

Comment by Ephyste

I'm going to recommend the ledge idea. There's two spots it'll work from, & the one that I first thought of when I saw the suggestion is a little ledge/floating island thing that you can use to get down from the giant island. From there, you can easily reach Kirix with a Tame If you stink at doing the island-hopping thing like I do & keep getting caught in the updraft & overshooting the jump, you can jump along the crumbling island steps & stop up near the top & tame him from up there, too. (It'll reach, & it won't crumble) I was having a hard time getting to the little island because the updraft kept making me jump too high, so I just went up & tried to tame from the mini-islands that lead you up to the giant island. Sure enough, began tame & Kirix could do nothing but stand there, facing my direction. (There were two other players trying to DPS Kirix, & I managed to nab the Tame & spare him)

Comment by AjronMen

As for patch 5.4.X:
To tame this spider you have to use Mirrored Blades Glyph - you MUST use it. I tested it. When i tried to block his stun with deterrence - i failed, but with this glyph my det. gave me immunity for spider's stun! It's most important!
USE GLYPH OF MIRRORED BLADES

Comment by 1385449

At the current time (19-10-2014) the following setups do not work:

Taming from a floating rock
Deterrance & taming
Deterrance + mirrored blade glyph
Deterrance + mirrored blade glyph and core hound spell: Ancient Hysteria

Aspect of the fox & taming
Aspect of the fox + taming + core hound spell: Ancient Hysteria
Aspect of the fox + Disengage + core hound spell: Ancient Hysteria and then taming while flying backwards away from Kirix.

All resulted in Magmatoxin 1st round stunning you for 1 / 3 seconds. You might be able to cast feigh death at this point. If not, you will be stunned a second time and that will be 5 seconds. Death is iminent.

What does work?

Get on higher ground in and about the centre of his patrol. From there you mount up and try to jump on a small hill in the centre of his patrolled area. From there you do not need anything else then just taming.

Comment by BigTeddyPaul

I have had four separate opportunities to capture Kirix and was unsuccessful on my first three attempts. I had multiple attempts for each but it ultimately lead to some Not-So-Nice-Person coming along and just killing it for fun.

My frustrations were that I read up on how to tame Kirix and nothing seemed to work. I got up on the ledges to tame. I used deterrence with Glyph of Mirrored Beasts. I attempted Stampede to distract him and it failed each time. I would literally go through the entire cast of "tame beast" with no result. I swore I was glitched and didn't know what to do...until I happened upon a random Portuguese? youtube video where he shot Kirix first and then tamed. I figured I would give it a shot. I climbed up on a ledge, no island hopping for me, made sure he was within tame range, shot him, deterrence/tamed him...and he became my pet. Took 19 deaths and a lot of ghost walking but I am happy.

Hopefully this might help someone else who was having the same difficulties....if you are like me and tamed him without acquiring him then try shooting him first. Make sure you shoot him in range of tame though.

Comment by Tenneiyl

Anyone else looking for a replacement model can also find them in Draenor at Deathweb Hollow in Talador (60,65 83,02 approx). They are named Deathweb Crawlers.There are also small Deathweb Hatchlings roaming the area.

Comment by gumyumgirl

I tried to tame him using all the methods written here but it wasn't working. Finally, I just jumped on the floating rock and hit tame when he was close and success! No shooting first, no tranquilizing shots, no deterrence just tame beast (with tame beast glyph to make casting shorter).

Comment by davidgabriel

If you are lvl 100 then you should be able to tame this guy easy. I just found him, hit tame a few times then got him. nothing was hard about it. the purple spider with 7 million health was a lot more challenging.

Comment by ironballs16

For those wondering how to tame Kirix now that Deterrance is removed, the tactic I just used was to get onto the floating rock near the one end of his patrol (it's in front of an air gust) and tame from there. It might take some repositioning, as Kirix actually broke line of sight by going beneath the rock, but I was able to stay on it and regain LoS to tame him without knockback or knockup. Happy hunting!

Comment by Shadowsofme

Does Nyone have a tip how to tame this spider now ? since deterrance been removed cant do it , always die, thy ppl

Comment by Hugulin

How to tame Kirix easy way.
https://www.facebook.com/brandon.ryals.10/videos/1321867274522022/?l=4507506008102288237

Comment by Shadowsofme

hi ppl Anyone has an idea how to tame this nowadays? no deterrance:(

Comment by 1750589

I did this tame today at 110. I stood on one of the floating platforms (across the ledge/little lava pool, use your mount and jump on it). Then I let him run to the end of his patrol then spammed the tame button. The cast finished before he uses his toxin ability. No need for turtle shell or the now gone deterrence. Hope this helps.

Comment by shifty350

Well, since I had trouble finding information on this guy, I thought I would share what I've found for those who don't know.

As of 2018:

Kirix, and the other rare lava spiders spawn in Molten Front. Molten Front is a zone found through a portal in Mount Hyjal. To be able to click on the portal and get into Molten Front, you need to complete a series of quests at the Sanctuary of Malorne in Mt. Hyjal. As part of the series, you will get a quest to obtain 20 Marks of the World Tree. These marks are the currency used to buy various things in the Molten Front. Once you complete enough dailies to get 20 marks, you will open up the portal into Molten Front.

Yay! You got inside! Now you will be given more quests and dailies, through which you will gather more Marks of the World Tree. You will also get a new quest to obtain 150 marks for Malfurion.

Important: Kirix and the other rare lava spiders, along with some other named mobs in Molten Front will NOT show up for you to tame until you have obtained 150 Marks of the World Tree and completed the associated quest for those 150 marks.

This is what I have learned so far, please feel free to comment with anything I've missed and I will edit. I have not yet finished the 150 marks quest, so I can't comment on how to go about the actual taming process.

Comment by 1901820

Tamed this guy around 10pm ET on Stormrage and let me tell you, THAT WAS STRESSFUL. I did everything else had suggested, but nothing worked. The standing on the rock part I guess is bugged or something because he kept walking UNDER THE FLOATING ROCK and just trying to attack me in MID AIR! I kept spamming tame but it said evade and creature is not in your line of sight. Eventually, I jumped off the platform and back onto the ledge where he walks around and magically he eventually became mine... But I died about 4 times during the entire process and it was just really stressful, lol. I'd been camping for him for about two weeks now and one other time when I went to tame him he just disappeared before me... was super pissed about that, lol! Anywho, super glad to have this awesome spider now!

Comment by CzechCloud

Beware! From BFA he is a 122 rare elite.

Comment by Crostaws

Tamed it today :-)

standing on the platform at 27.56 (jump while mounted)

Dropping a tar trap on far right (Facing Kirix from the platform) And tamed as soon as it was in range.

Comment by Koukura

This creepy-crawly was patting along while I tamed Karkin (who I was actually there for) on a nearby ledge, so I thought I'd get a two-for-one deal during my first trip to the Front. I nearly got wrecked by Kirix while trying to tame her and had to Feign Death, and then a Horde panda hunter took a crack at it while I was getting my health back, but she ended up getting wrecked hardcore. *IDEA!* Once the Horde hunter rezzed and recovered, I aggro'd Kirix enough to hold her attention while the panda could start her tame and I /hurry and /go at her so she understood what I was doing. I Feigned Death at the last second and the panda was able to get Kirix.

Feels good, man.

Comment by Nienora

Tamed Kirix today... no gimmicks, no cliff jumping, just used my pet and hunter abilities. I sent Loque in to gain aggro and allow Kirix to use Magmatoxin and stun. I then dismissed him, activated Aspect of the Turtle, started my tame and Kirix was mine before he got into melee range. I was a happy huntress! <3

Comment by A3ON

Tamed first try today, stood on one of the floating platforms near his patrol route and tamed before he got close.

Comment by CedricDur

I tried several things when I saw this guy was up while I waited for Skarr. The mob ignores Freezing Trap and Turtle Shield. I tried Bloodlust from a Ferocity pet. Tried using a pet to get the Magmatoxin and then unsummon before taming. Nope.

What worked the first time was climbing on the rock with the vent, just where we climb to reach the island where Skarr is. No gimmicks, just pressed Tame Beast when in range and it was tamed.

https://imgur.com/a/RD8DWGn

Comment by ddiddler

WOWEE, this took me a while to get correct but I finally did it.

The removal of deterrence makes this guy a lot more difficult to tame, but it's definitely still doable.

Attached is a picture of where I had to stand to tame him successfully. I did not need drums, ancient hysteria, dire beast haste etc. to tame this guy by standing here. To get close to the edge, I turned on walking (by default I believe it is the "/" key on your numpad if you don't know) and inched forward.

https:// imgur.com/a/iBBpx7X
(just remove the space between // and imgur, I made an acc just to post this so I can't post links yet)

Comment by Guarakiwi

Tamed Kirix today at 05:30am Stormrage-US after many failed attempts (Level 46 BM Hunter)

-No, I didn't need to collect 150 Marks of the World Tree. I unlocked the Molten Front and went to approximately 32 56 and Kirix was in the main land, and Karkin was on a floating Island.

- I tried the "good old hunter" things and nothing worked. Blood lust, Tar trap, Turtle, Nothing worked for me.

- I finally tamed him from the vent that everyone else talks about. I didn't need to jump on any extra rocks; I stood at the very edge where the vent was and was able to tame Kirix easily. There was a very small window where the beast was tameable from where I was standing but still worked.

Comment by KRONEC

Korean.
tip.
easy. just stand one of collapsed bridge that close to Kirix. Of course not collapsed one.
then Kirix will not punching your head.

(sorry, i can't read all comments)

Comment by Davman

As someone previously suggested. Kirix can be tamed by standing close to the vent opposite to where he patrols. There is a very small window of opportunity where he turns around and comes to within taming range. Before this I tried standing on one of the floating rocks (which I had used to tame him on my Horde hunter back in the day). I tried that before the vent method but failed as one time he knocked me off the rock even though I was standing in the recommended spot. The other time I failed as he went under the rock and out of my tame line of sight.

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