Dino's REALLY like to Eat Me!

I'm sure most of you will be able to guess what this blog post's about! And just to confirm - yes, I've been to the Isle of Giants, the dino's are big and really liked eating me!

So, Patch 5.2 hit earlier this week and last night I finally got around to exploring it's contents. I was really keen to go check out the dinosaurs, get some new pets and have a good ol' mooch about. I had very little knowledge of the patch contents beyond what I'd read via other peoples blogs so it was a bit of a journey.

Random pic from the Isle of Thunder.

I took the quest that leads to the Isle of Thunder daily quest hub not realising there was no dino's there. I did a couple of dailies - the usual kill x number of so-and-so etc. I also managed to get a few new pets and boy do they look good! I got a Swamp Croaker, Thundertail Flapper and an Elder Python.

I then started making my way to the Isles of Giants. I spent the first half hour or so fighting, dying, ressing and repeating. It soon became clear that my gear wasn't good enough. Also, Gary (my tanking gorilla) was having issues and kept dying *cries*. I happened across a Troll hunter who seemed to be having similar issues and we teamed up for a bit talking via realID. My new friend switched over to one of their Alliance chars and we carried on for a good hour or so.



Me as a Direhorn courtesy of Intact Direhorn Hide.

We then happened across another hunter who was willing to take other hunters to a good spot for farming the Ancient Tome of Dinomancy. It dropped much quicker than I expected for me. We then worked on getting it for the Troll hunter but it took considerably longer to drop the second time.

Anyway, I was then able to tame a Direhorn and eventually opted for a green one. He's pretty cool looking but I still need to name him (well atleast I think it's a 'he'!). Oh, a Zandalari Footlasher also dropped for me.

New green Direhorn hunter pet and Zandalari Footlasher battle/companion pet.