Solo Taming the Zul'Gurub Bloodseeker Bat

Important note: Use Eagle Eye as the instance can spawn without the two bats being in the location noted, or with humanoid guards. If the bats cannot be found as above, you might need to reset the instance and try again.

With a combination of Feign Death and a disposable pet, it is possible to get one of these things solo. I will be running it through the paces, after which I'll do a bit of a write up on it here. ...

Invite some random person into your group. When you have someone who is willing to sit in your group for a bit, just convert the group to raid. Two people are all you need to make a raid. Your helper doesn't even have to come to the instance. Just being in a raid is all you need. ...

I had never been in there, so I really had no idea what I was doing. I had read on the official boards that there were bats somewhere to the left of the entrance. Basically, I went between two groups of mobs and jumped into the water. I was being as careful as I could about not aggroing those stupid fish (which did kill me several times). On one particular run, I made it to land without a fish eating me. I went up a bit of a hill, and there was a bridge. Across the bridge and to the left, there were two bats. They were NOT elite. I placed a Freezing Trap and started to tame one, and both came. Basically, I tanked one of them while the other one was trapped the whole time I was taming it. When the taming finished, I was nearly dead, the new pet was unhappy and had no abilities, and that second bat killed me. But, I mean, I had it, so it didn't matter.

1) Get a level 59-60 trash pet. I used a bird for the AOE taunt ability.

2) Get a stack of invis potions and a stack of extra food. Pick up a stack of fruit for the bat also.

3) Take off your gear, turn on beast tracking.

4) From the entrance, turn left. Move onto the platform. Wait for two snake roamers to pass.

5) You will see two stationary snakes and two stationary Trolls near the water as you face left.

6) Look past those mobs and you will see a waterfall with a big stone in the middle. That is your first safe spot.

7) This is where things get tough and you must have some luck to succeed. Send your sacrifical lamb into the mobs, attacking the middle Troll. Use intimidate if you have it. Follow your pet down the hill far enough away so that he gets all aggro. The mobs will kill your pet in about 3 seconds so make good time. As soon as you are out of aggro range FD. The mobs will have already turned on you at this point and you can expect to get hit with at least one axe throw and one poison spit. The snakes also execute when you are at low life- but if they do you have done something wrong they should not be close enough to execute you. Timing is everything.

8) As soon as you are sure aggro is gone, pop up and go sit on the big rock. This is a safe spot. Rez your pet and rest up.

9) From the rock you can see crocs down below. Put your pet on defensive. You want to jump into the water and swim to the closest point possible that you can get up on the shoreline. The gators will not aggro unless you have gone too far. If you get aggro from a fish, get up onto the shore asap then FD.

10) Hug the wall and head up the trail. The trail is safe.

11) This is the trickiest part... there are about 7 groups of roaming mobs in this area. You must time things almost perfectly. Weave your way through them and get to the other side. You will now be next to a wall that takes a left and goes up a hill. On the hill are spiders and tigers with Troll handlers. There are no safe spots in this area so you must keep moving and FD if necessary.

12) Move past "Spider Hill" and go to the wall in front of you. Keep the wall on your right shoulder and go all the way to it's end. Jump / run up it and you can get onto the wall. The wall will take you around to the bridge with the bats next to it. If you fall off the wall use an Invis potion and run for it. Once you get to the bridge you are safe.

13) Spend a few minutes watching roamers to get the timing down. Buff up and equip your gear. Make sure your buttons are all handy-- you don't want to mess up and do the sneaking part again.

14) Position your trash pet about half-way down the bridge and put it on Stay. Drop an ice trap near the top of the bridge. Shoot the nearest bat with Conc shot, then turn and run back to your pet. Kill the extra bat then abandon your lamb. These hit very hard and if you don't have Beast talents it will be a very tough fight. FYI these bats do a knock-back that clears aggro and you are fighting on a narrow bridge. It is not easy. If you have any problems FD and try it again. You DO NOT want to have to sneak back to the bridge again.

15) Tame your new baby. Make sure you have Monkey up and don't use health potions. If you get low on life just FD and try again.

Hope this helps. There is no way you can do this in 5 minutes. Don't go into this expecting anything but a long PITA. It took me 2.5 hours and about 10 deaths to get my bat. Total cost was about 5 gold with everything. I hope you have more luck than I did.

From The_Korrigan:

That's how I did it (approximatively) without dieing, I had luck in using feign death 3 times, 1x the first troll axe throwers, 2x the damned fishes (used an invis pot but was not long enough), and 3x for some crocs at my landing point on Hakkar island. The X is the exact position of the two bats, which can be pulled solo on that bridge.

(See map at top of page, marked by The_Korrigan:)

For the jump in the water, there is a point of the cliff where you can jump into deep water without risk, just have beast tracking up and wait that no fish is under your diving point. I drawed the water jump a bit too far on my map, it's on top of the cliff, and there should be no agroing mobs at the point you have to jump. If you follow the cliff and arrive at ennemies, you've gone too far.

Don't forget to bring mushrooms or fruits, bats don't like meat wink

Good luck !

EDIT:

I had the time to test the bat on live action, and I can tell you it's well worth the hassle to get it. Never seen such a fast pet, and mine doesn't even have Dive yet. 1.0 attack speed ... nuff said. Let's hope this won't get nerfed into oblivion !

Bats can spawn at 4 positions around the bridge. You'll want to reset until you get an instance where the bats are just left of the bridge, because they can be pulled with no troll adds.

A rogue friend would be very helpful, but it's a nice challenge to solo it. =)

Koneg included this video (requires Requires DivX 6 Codec) of successfully riding a mount to the water, using Feign Death to avoid the fish, and an invisibility potion to get to the bridge. However the 2-bat spawn was not close enough on the far side of the bridge for him to reach.

Okay got him solo happy No potions used. Total cost was 2g for repairing my items on my suicide death to get out grin Here is all I did: I went in instance (logged on my GF's account and started a raid with a level 1). Eagle Eye'd to the bridge to check to bridge to make sure bats were up, driectlty left of bridge. Around the 3rd try they were up Mounted up and and ran to the left, straight to tree, around right side of tree and along edge, jumped off just before the last set of axe throwers. Hit the water and immediately feigned death, waited for fish to swim away a little. Swam across to rock and you can jump out and completely avoid the croc's. Ran up the little mountain there and its clear sailing to the bridge. Quite easy once you get passed the water. Took all of 3 minutes on my successfull run.

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