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Comment by 6299

Rocs and Fire Rocs tend to gather around the giant rib cages found in Tanaris.

Comment by 19387

Bone cage at 48, 43
at 49, 35
at 43,39

Comment by 15292

Perfect for farming the 12 giant eggs you need for the cooking quest. Just run the ribcage circuit and you are done

Comment by Gemily

Mages remember your fire ward when fighting these. It will absorb 2-3 of their "firespit" spells and make killing them even easier than it already is.

Comment by notquitegosu

Their Flamespit attack has only 15 yard range, so casters and hunters can easily back up enough to make it fail while still doing damage. This is especially useful to shadow priests, who can back up to 20 yards and Mind Flay while the Roc casts and fails.

...also, has anyone else noticed that the location for these things forms a big question mark on the map?

Comment by 156552

"Good droprate of giant eggs" BULL@#$%! I have killed about 20, got only 2 !!!

Comment by 253465

One is ready to meet you when you go to the hidden island in the far south.

Comment by SpectraKitty

Can they spew fire after they are tamed?

Comment by Thottbot

They are pretty sparse, but you mostly find them around big kodo-like bones

Comment by Thottbot

I found a good amount or searing roc at 40,64 good for giant eggs

Comment by Thottbot

More at 46.38

Comment by Thottbot

if you can't find any fire roc's, awesome spawn point right here ---> 45,38

Comment by Thottbot

oops someone just said that. haha

Comment by Allakhazam

There are various comments here about what the Fire Rocs have and don't have, but none state patch numbers.

As of version 1.7 (September 13,2005) the Fire Roc does not have resists - no pets do. They will sometimes have Dive (Rank 2) when tamed (the one I tamed last night did). Their fire resist found in previous patches can be replaced with skills learned from a pet trainer, but with a limited number of training points on each pet, pick what you train carefully.

Comment by Allakhazam

If you're hunting these for the eggs, they spawn around any of the old bones in the middle region. However, they share spawn locations with the Hyenas, so either a Roc will spawn or the Hyena. So you have to kill everything around the bones. It works best to just pick a large camp of them and farm non-stop. I got my 12 eggs in an hour, and a lot of exp at level 45.

Comment by Allakhazam

it should be noted that these birds have 110 fire resist after being tamed.

Edited, Sun Mar 6 01:52:43 2005

Comment by hevgirl

I have done my best to provide Map Mouseovers for each and every beast, wherever possible!
Unfortunately some do not yet have maps, but these will automatically be added to this post when they're added to the NPC's page.

Increases movement speed by 40%/60%/80% for 15 seconds.

Can be learned by: Bat, Carrion Bird, Bird of Prey, Wind Serpent.

Dive Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Speed: 40%, Pet Level: 30, Cost: 15 TP	Speed: 60%, Pet Level: 40, Cost: 20 TP	Speed: 80%,	Kraul Bat Young Mesa Buzzard Greater Kraul Bat Mesa Buzzard Wayward Buzzard Dread Flyer Shrike Bat	Vale Screecher Roc Fire Roc Rogue Vale Screecher Greater Firebird Searing Roc Ironbeak Owl Arash-ethis	Dark Screecher Carrion Vulture Ironbeak Hunter Spawn of Hakkar Spiteflayer Olm the Wise Ironbeak Screecher Plaguebat Winterspring Owl Zaricotl Winterspring Screecher

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