Dont cry for me im already Dead, Gondria Spirit Beast

So even though i said I wouldn't bother with taming this new Gondria Spirit Beast i have spent a few hours out of today just flying around the spawn points in ZD. Its that or level another alt which i already have far too many of.

Then at around 4.02 i found the body of Gondria, I cried a little bit (Not really), but i was sad :( then a druid came along and skinned it. Ah well... I wonder what the respawn time is. I heard it was between 0 and 6 hours, and it may or may not share a cooldown with all the other rares in Northrend. That's a fat lot of help right there isn't it. Sounds like ordering a technician when they say they will be out between 9am and 5pm, and then at 4:30 you call them and they say they cant make it anyway. But that's another rant / story :P.

Anyway, I guess ill give up for now, and keep checking back every few hours. Might get lucky.

Gondria Spirit Beast Taming Guide

Gondria Spirit Beast Taming Guide

I dont think ill be looking for this sexy spirit beast myself just yet. But i have scraped a bit of info together for those that want to start looking / camping. Loque'nahak was enough effort for me i think, and it looks like Gondria is on around the same Spawn Cycle with the other three rare elites in Zul'Drak.

It appears that when spawned it stays in the same spot, so it you shouldnt have to chase it around, and does not seem to get killed by NPC's.

Macro for Spamming while flying around Zul'Drak

/tar Gondria
/stopmacro [noexists]
/script PlaySound("RaidWarning")
/run RaidNotice_AddMessage(RaidBossEmoteFrame,"Gondria - Found!", ChatTypeInfo["RAID_WARNING"])

or alternatively you could just use

/tar Gondria

And watch for the target to come up.

Wowhead Map Link for all known spawn locations.

Gondria
Level 77 beast (elite)
556-784 damage
8822 armor
17068 health
Diet: meat, fish
Tameable (Exotic)
Tame abilities: Spirit strike, Prowl, Claw, Cower, Growl
Location: Zul'Drak (63.2, 42.7)

As this beast is exotic, make sure you have one of your specs with the 51 point talent in the Beast Mastery Tree before you go around looking for it. Also if you do have dual spec, make sure you have already switched to BM spec, so that you don't run into Mana Issues when taming, if you are lucky enough too stumble on this rare spawn.

Happy Spirit Beast Hunting ;)

Other Links:

BRK's Video of the New Spirit Beast

More Info on Gondria.

Gondria the new Spirit Beast

Click here for my article on taming this beast!

So apparently from my last post there is another spirit beast, Gondria, basically its a see through frostsaber, much like the mount and winterspring ones.

Not as original as the Loque'nahak skin thats for sure, but still pretty cool.

So does that mean that everyone will be going back to BM when the patch hits just to search for this new beast? I dont think ill bother really, finding the first Spirit Beast was enough of a pain really.

Here are the known spawn locations on the PTR at the moment:

(62,63) (62,42) (69,47)


Happy Spirit Beast Hunting! :)

So what have i been doing... taming a Spirit Beast!

So i hit 77 and got my cold weather training. I wasnt going to start looking for the spirit beast befor i had my flying mount, too painful.

Camped the spawn locations for about 10 hours and was about to give up when in trade there was a PST if you want to buy Lok. I was like how much!

Anyway 2400 gold later the Spirit Beast is mine! He was at 58,22.

I think its worth not having to camp his spawn locations for 2400 gold.

Originally it was going to be 2k gold, but then a rogye came along and said he would kill it if we didnt pay him 400g. Pretty low, but oh well. Its all mine now!

Spirit Beasts!

Well hunters may not be getting much in the way of skillz... Kinda. But least we get "Spirit Beasts" :)

Looks like a cat, but with glowing bits...

Mmm.. Glowy.

Source Manias Arcania & BRK