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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...
The books will despawn 3 minutes after being opened, and any number of people can read them in that time. iirc, the books will respawn between 3 and 4 hours after despawning.
The easiest way to get him is to use server resets to your advantage.
Familiarize yourself with all the spawn points and log out in Dalaran the night before. On maintenance day, log in to bring up the realm selection list. The instant you see your realm come up, log in and make your rounds.
Each book will vanish 3 minutes after it is opened, and there will be other people doing this, so make sure you log in as soon as the realm is up.
Happy hunting! :)
Another tip to use while looking for the books is to go ahead and read the duds. Most people seem to skip them and the longer those dud books stay, the longer you have to wait until one of the books of magic takes its place.
A plus to this is that you get a book that teleports you to an extremely low traffic area of Dalaran. If Dalaran bogs your computer down and you like to hang out there, this is the place to b
Incredibly annoying how much they've shrunk this pet.
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.