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I have never understood the problem with these. I have gotten 5 red whelplings 2 black whelplings and 1 emerald whelpling. I have made around 800g off those plus the small flame sacs they drop. All on one character in less than 2 weeks.
I guess I'm just lucky
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits! *grins*
Congratulations Webjunky! Though I must say you have interesting timing.
I spent a huge chunk of my weekend farming green whelps with my 56 orc hunter. And this was not the first trip to the swamp. Once I decided I’d like to make a blood elf ice mage when the expansion comes out I also decided I’d like for him to have a green whelp.
I’d guess I farmed for a total of about 10 to 12 hours this weekend. Before that I slaughtered green whelps for about another 14 hours, give or take an hour or two. Still no pet. I hate it when a green item drops, as its rather like a stillborn dragon whelp. *sniff*
I’ve had good luck with red whelps, at least when compared to other pets. My first character, my human rogue, got his to drop in about two weeks of farming on and off. My orc hunter got his red whelp on his second outing. But the green and “black†whelps took my alliance characters literally months of farming to finally loot them. And my orc seems to be following the same pattern.
Green whelps are particularly hard to farm as there are so few of them. I’ll kill them all off and have to stand around waiting for more to spawn. I also tend to take breaks when someone of the appropriate level to do the Stranglethorn quest appears. I don’t want to hog them all. Sadly I don’t get any xp for farming the beasties. But I do try to make good use of my time. I’ll take various melee weapons and level up my skills while killing and save on the cost of arrows at the same time.
Hopefully I’ll get a green whelp to drop before the expansion comes out. My poor blood elf mage really need a green whelp pet. After all, he’ll only have a panda cub, a nether whelp, a black tabby and a tranquil mechanical yeti. He’ll be practically petless.