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Kirin Tor Familiar
(85.5%)
Binds when picked up
Use: Teaches you how to summon this companion.
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Hovers about and occasionally produces a non-damaging Arcane Explosion.
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Simply speak to Archmage Vargoth to receive this pet. Vargoth is housed in a secluded spire atop the Violet Citadel within Dalaran. In order to access Vargoth, one must teleport to his location using a tome rewarded by the "Higher Learning" achievement. This achievement entails reading 8 different books about arcane magic that spawn throughout Dalaran. The books appear to be on 3 hour spawn timers and share spawn points with roughly 30 other non-achievement books. Read the Kirin Tor Familiar Guide for the most efficient method to collect this pet.
Note that while a warlock and two others who have access to Vargoth can summon another player to his location, that player cannot receive the pet without having completed the achievement.
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OK, this guy's beginning to get a little too "familiar" with me. He's always invading my personal space! And when he doesn't get what he wants, he throws a tantrum and spams Arcane Explosion. Now that I think about it, maybe all entities summoned from the Twisting Nether are behavioral. For example, my warlock friend's Voidwalker is always demanding that she "send him back" (which is really starting to erode her self esteem). Meanwhile, her succubus is busy slapping her own behind and trying to seduce anything that moves. And don't even get me started on her emotionally abusive felguard...
I had one book and then I was camping, and circuiting...and it just wasn't paying off. THEN the rolling restart uccured! My sugestion is to log on immediatly after the rolling restart - get the pattern down so you can do it in just a couple minutes. I got FIVE of them at the rolling restart (several were junk). I only have 2 left now. I'll park my character by one, and every time I log on, I'll check them, but I'm looking forward to the next rolling restart.
Finally got this little guy, talk a bout a pain in the neck, it took me 3 weeks to get him but you know what it was worth the effort! :)
Well time to feed him a pet biscut! :D
Took me several weeks, and camping out with several others in Dalaran for book spawns. I did this one back in 2009ish... there was a channel that someone created for book hunters and everyone was kept updated that way for spawns. Worked out nice.
Here are waypoint macros you can use with the addon TomTom. You will need a total of three macros to hold all of the /way commands because of the per-macro character limit.
http://pastebin.com/hixVuNNc
I have to post them in that link because this message cannot hold enough characters.Incredibly annoying how much they've shrunk this pet.
Also, make sure all your guild mates known that you're looking for this, maybe they're looking for the books too and you can help each other.
I just couldn't seem to get the final book, then randomly
I checked today (after 5 wks & 6 days of junk books) the book 'Introduction' finally spawned! Promised myself I won't be doing this again >.>
EDIT: After less than two days of working on this achievement, I have my pet. Definitely not as difficult as I thought it'd be! A nice mix of traveling the circuit and camping, and bam, there it was. He's my new favorite and I'm glad I finally have him.
I had heard that more than one real book can't spawn at the same time. Well let me tell you that on the first day I found 4 books all spawned at the same time. The other 4 of course didn't spawn like that. This achievement took about 4 days to complete and that was with heavy camping. Except for the moments I am sleeping I checked every 3-4 hours. ALSO I want to point out that (on my server at least) the books don't spawn for closer to four hours