While working on bigger bag achiev (completed 1 week ago, 370 jakur of ordon kills to sign to drop) i just killed 1 each day took 2min-2h top to spawn one
Sounds like the experience is making you feel kind of... crabby.
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took me over 4000 ( yes, thousand ) crab kills to spawn enough rare versions to get the pet on our dear dead Mazrigos, since nobody else bothers killing them, finally got the pet, and achiv
A related question, I'm nearing completion myself but still need the crab pet, is it wise to group with somebody from a very full pve server? As far as I understand the mechanics, having more people on the island lowers the spawn timers of everything, so you'd get more normal crab spawns per hour which results in a higher chance of getting the monstrous spineclaw to spawn in let's say an hour.
It's a double-edged sword. High-pop server tends to mean you will get much more regular crab spawns for much less personal effort. But you will also find it much harder to actually get tags on each spawn because the damn things have such depressingly low HP they get taken down in a snap.
It took me quite some days of farming crabs to get the pet and it surely is the hardest one to get in the island, but both the Time-Lost Proto Drake and Aeonaxx(Poseidus also comes to mind) are considerably harder to get(if you aren't lucky). I spent 15 days camping almost non-stop for the Proto Drake and 56(yes, 56 days) camping Aeonaxx every time I had available when I was home during the launch of Cataclysm. I missed dungeons, I missed the first raids that my guildies were doing but I eventually got that crazy drake after those 56 insane days I spent in that god forsaken place(and I only got it because a friend felt pity for me and helped me camp and 2 days later the mob spawned in his zone).
Holy crap, I finally got this stupid pet, and the achievement. This was the most boring annoying grind I've ever done for an achievement. Thank god that's over.
Nothing weirder about this rare than any rare, how you found this thread-worthy goes beyond me.
I find it it still is ... now that there are less people who kill the crabs.
I didn't find it too bad, I was usually killing the crabs anyway because my main characters at the time in MoP were both skinners. Go from one end to the other and then back around killing snakes, made so much gold off all that leather.
You want to talk about bad though, I have two items left on my achieve for TI; the Talisman off the cave rare and the Rain Stone off Zesqua and I don't know how many times I have killed them both but they never ever drop :/
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Never had this misfortune, got it the first time I killed the mob.
i have all the pets from Timeless Isle yet how many of them really dropped for me ? probably 1 or 2. i think that spineclaw crab drop rate is ridiculous plus there is no way to know if monstrous spineclaw will spawn or not. this system is flawed to the boots.
quick edit : i killed monstrous spineclaw more than 20 times. never really farmed though.
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Ik killed about 2800 crabs, on the days when Wod was just released. EVERYONE was levelling, so i had free reign in Timeless Isle farming crabs. I got the pet I think after my 64th Monstruous one. I can safely say: never again.