I have to admit I tried farming weekly for the raptor and tiger mounts to drop, but for a druid, rare mounts are hard to come by. Even though I now have reached my goal of 100 mounts, now at 102, I can't help but envy the folks who get those rares, like Baron Rivendare's horse, or the Raven Lord, or even the mounts that are now no-longer obtainable. The latter feels a bit unfair on one level, and the least I can do is stare and moan and drool. I could also /cry, but there's no sense in that. They're old and out of date.
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| Mojo, the rare blue frog companion from Zul'Aman |
Even Mojo looks a little funny when you glance at him up close, even with the newer and cooler graphics, Mojo doesn't seem to have any eyes. Or no wait, there they are, look there's a little black dot there, that must be it... Hmm. I wonder if Blizzard can change the way that looks.
They can also put in a change for how the frog works. If you /kiss Mojo, and only Mojo, then you turn into a frog yourself! The only glitch I see is that when you're in frog form and you jump, the frog appears to be standing still. There is no animation for when you jump in frog form. I think the same glitch applies when a Shaman puts a hex on you and turns you into a frog for a bit.
Still, it's the thought that counts! In my quest to obtain as many pets as possible, of which I now have well over 100, I managed to spend an entire day farming for this one. Yeah, there were Argent Tournament quests to be done at the time, heroic dungeons to farm, but this was a must. My thought was you never know when this particular pet will be gone, and I was right. Or am I...?
The fact is I have no idea if these new dungeon revisions Blizzard is up too will keep Mojo in the picture. As of 3-29-10, the patch containing the release of these new dungeons has not come out, so you can still farm him to your hearts desire. As I've said it took me a whole day to farm it, and later I brought a friend in and gave her step by step rules and instructions in how to go about farming it.
The first damn stick that dropped gave her the frog.
The basic idea is that when you're in Zul'Aman, you have to loot an Amani Hex Stick, use it on the forest frogs in the area, and be very lucky. The stick is consumed on use, so if it doesn't work the first time, you need to find another stick.
Another useful tip is to have a surefire way to lose aggro. Mages can use your invisibility, and night elves have shadowmeld. I can only assume that rogues could use vanish, been a while since I played a rogue and I don't have one anymore, sorry. Hunters I know can use Feign Death. As for the other classes, I don't know, but what you do is that you find one of the two patrols that are walking around in the instance, you kill one, but leave the partner alive. When you drop the agro, the patrol will reset. The best part is even if you kill one, when the mob rests, the one you killed will respawn. This results in your being able to farm the Hex Sticks to your hearts content. The drop rate seems to be about 1/4 kills, perhaps, but the proc of Mojo coming from a Forest Frog is even lower.
Once you get your stick and drop aggro, you use it on a Forest Frog, but bear in mind that the chances of actually getting Mojo is very slim. 99% of the time you'll get an NPC who'll most likely thank you in their own ways. Some will drop a little box you can loot for an item to help you, others will offer you their own services like food and water, reagents, and even repairs! After a few seconds (or a minute if it's a vendor) they'll bid you farewell, goodluck, and all that jazz, and walk away. Truth to tell, they walk up to the very front of the instance in a large room where they will walk about and cheer at you should you pass them by. And the vendors will be there too, so you can repair or restock on out outlands stuff. :P
But if you're very, VERY lucky, you'll get Mojo. I've farmed him recently on my hunter and mage so they could have it, and one time I got an NPC who dropped a box and walked off, and the box turned out to have another hex stick! I was pleasantly surprised with that one, so the boxes themselves have a chance of rewarding you a second stick. But if you do get Mojo, what will happen is that he'll jump into your pocket (actually your bags if you have space I assume) and then the emote will let you and everyone around you know that "Mojo leaps into *player*'s pocket!" When that happens to you, GRATS!
Now it isn't just the fact that Mojo is a little blue speckled frog that makes him the most unique pet to obtain. It's the nifty little perk where if you /kiss the pet, you turn into a frog. Best of all, little pink hearts float up from Mojo and he follows you around. He even whispers a private message that nobody else can read, such as, "I thought you'd never ask!" or, "Your lily pad or mine?" The little flirt. You can /kiss Mojo even if it's not yours, so if you see a player with Mojo out, you can take the opportunity and kiss him and turn into a frog for a few seconds. Bear in mind however that you cannot cancel the effect, and you cannot attack while you are a frog, much like the hex that Shamans can do only it's not dispellable. But it lasts only a few seconds, enough to make you laugh as you see yourself change and read Mojo's whispers.
Well, there you have it! A rare and hard to obtain pet, and info on how to get it. I'll include the link to Mojo from Wowpedia so you can look him up and read the other sayings he'll whisper, and if you're interested you can click the other links on that page to learn about the instance he's farmed from (the level 70 raid in Ghostlands for the time being - soon to be level 85 heroic dungeon!). Best get a move on, because If Blizzard does alter this instance in any way, odds are Mojo might become extinct, or a million times harder to get. Imagine being in a group and a hex stick drops, only one out of 100 chances, and everyone rolls greed except for one player who rolls need. Beware of Ninjas when the change comes!
I've included images of when you /kiss Mojo below. Hope you liked this blog and I hope you'll get your Mojo soon! =)
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| /Kiss with Mojo as your target, and a poof of smoke later, you're Kermit! |
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| "Now that's what I call Froggy Style!" |
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