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Comentario de 16112

Mal: We're still flying.
Simon: That's not much.
Mal: It's enough.

- from the Joss Whedon series "Firefly"

Comentario de Nekomusume

Looks exactly like Bogflare Needlers, except smaller ^^

http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/1843/fireflyxk6.jpg

Comentario de 56382

Further confirmation of this drop. Farmed 5 hours last night and nothing farmed 2 hours today and it dropped! My favorite minipet now.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/Rezza/WoWScrnShot_052807_141734.jpg

Comentario de hydrosk

This pet ONLY drops from the Bogflare Needlers.

I killed 400 over the course of 2 days and was starting to get frustrated.
I went out to Zangarmarsh today and got it on the second kill :)
Good luck to everyone!

Comentario de Indil

Have been trying to get me one of these cuties for a while. Took me around 500 kills or so. Really worth the grinding, and makes a nice flapping sound to.

Comentario de 22920

it kinda "hops" a little as it goes.. and the flapping is more of a light insect buzz, similar to the needler buzz but less intense
it also cleans its face periodically like insects do
and wings flap fast like needlers
and gives off little spores and dust stuff

Comentario de 16201

As with most rare drops such as this one, the drop rate is purely informational.

Your chances of getting one are __completely random__, and don't improve over time - you could spend a whole year farming just this and never see it, but you could also just kill one mob during your whole time in WoW and get the drop then and there...

It's all down to luck (and a little faith!) - good luck! ^_^

Comentario de 60294

There are 20 spawn points if you don't count the southeastern ones and you can cycle through them.

It took 1837 kills for me - defenitly worth it. Good luck everybody.

Comentario de schnoggo

I took the opportunity to skillup my melee weapons and fishing while farming for this. Took 1251 Bogflares. But I maxxed all my skills. Fishing while waiting for respawns yielded a couple hundred sporefish, 30 scroll, 20+ ores, dozens of engineering parts. Mote extraction yielded a few primal lifes. A well spent couple days.

Comentario de Shdwbane

Realm: Burning Blade (US)
Date: 06/11/07

Took a few days of farming but I finally obtained one yesterday after about 20 Kills.

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/387/shdwfireflyep7.jpg

Comentario de 61757

Took about 450 kills and 5 hours and I got mine tonight! :)
Mal: Appears we got here just in the nick of time! What does that make us?
Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir.

I'm happy. :) Good luck to everyone!

Comentario de LomaxGnome

Since this was added in patch 2.1, and the kill stats on the mob date from the expansion, the numbers implied here aren't at all accurate (19 in 46k). Chances are, the drop odds are about the same as the Dragon Whelps, ie 1 in 1000 or so.

Comentario de 68524

I don't care if I'm still free...
You can't take the sky from me...

Comentario de 54671

"Since this was added in patch 2.1, and the kill stats on the mob date from the expansion, the numbers implied here aren't at all accurate (19 in 46k). Chances are, the drop odds are about the same as the Dragon Whelps, ie 1 in 1000 or so."

what he said

Comentario de 2209

It took me 191 kills of Bogflare Needlers to obtain this little beauty :) I'm a Joss Whedon fan and fireflies have a great personal significance to me as well, so once I knew it was out there I had no choice but to grind! Thankfully it wasn't too much of a trial.

The Needlers themselves seem to have a pretty nice respawn rate even for a level 70 farming, going from the west coast of Serpent Lake around the north and then picking up the two that spawn on the south side before starting over again. You can usually pull 3-4 of them at once as well, making it pretty smooth sailing.

Comentario de Impatiens

As others have said this only drops off the Bogflare Needlers, so don't waste your time killing any other of the firefly mobs in the marsh. I found the least frustrating way to obtain this pet was to just kill any needlers I passed by while questing in the marsh rather than grinding them for hours. I probably killed about 80 before it dropped for me. Cute little pet, definitely worth taking a little time out to try and get, though I don't think I could have handled the endless grinding that some people here did.

Comentario de 75028

OMGosh what an awesome pet. Take it from me, this was worth all the grinding. And I...*gulp* only farmed for 2 hours to get it! WOO HOO!

Please visit:

www.warcraftpets.com

for all the information you could want on vanity pets, and tell 'em Surrenda sent you. ;)

Comentario de 75547

Weee, I just got mine ... grinded a level on those buggies before I got it too. It's a very cute little pet, 100% worth the trouble in my opinion, and I suppose in the end, determination is the key to success. =) Good luck!

Comentario de 76240

2000+ kills in moderation over the span of 6 days to get this pet to drop for me. There are only 24 Bogflare Needler spawns total, but they respawn quickly and are spread out enough to make for a nice constant flow of non-stop killing, lol. However w/ the low mob count, any competition can make farming these a pain.

All in all, I am glad I stuck w/ it. What a great little pet!!! :)

Comentario de mikeismad789

to be honest..

i was just questing round zangar at level 63 and came across a needler.

when this dropped my immediate thought was that it wasnt that rare of a drop

after about a few hours of questing i threw it on the AH for 150g and to my suprise when i woke up i had 150g in the mail =]

Moral of the story: Good things come to those who least expect it ;]

Comentario de 81548

I was in Zangarmarsh to do an heroic in Coilfang Reservoir, stopped to loot some herbs on my way, killed a bug that was pestering me and voila - firefly. Didn't even know they were out there. Good luck, folks! They're cute :-D

Comentario de Lore

A little tip for people farming for theirs. The 3 Spore Bats in the area give you the nice +30 to all stats buff if you kill them. Helps the grinding go that little bit faster.
2957 kills later and it drops.
The only reason I say the number is to show you there is no point trying to kill steal other people's bugs, the odd 1 or 2 will not make the difference for when you get yours.
Just try to have fun. Good luck.
ps. None of the spawn points are shared so you will always get the above mentioned 24 every lap of the area.

Comentario de 70938

This cute little pet drops from Bogflare Needlers. The "Firefly" doesn't look like a real firefly, but cute none the less. These little guys can drop from your first kill to your 5000th kill. It's at a 0% droprate so you may even never farm one.

Luckily I got mine on the 3rd kill. Nice little guys to have out in main cities. Attracts alot of attention, even from the higher levels.

Comentario de computerweekend

2339 gray drops, 686 white drops, 66 greens, 2 blues, and one Captured Firefly. It took about a full week of grinding. Competing against other players for spawn points was really the most frustrating part of this. Make sure you REALLY want one of these before you get to work, because chances are you'll be in it for the long haul. However, you will make a good amount of money, and if you're under level 70, a good amount of XP as well - it took me from 66 to 69 and I earned around 500g. Good luck!

Comentario de 71727

I was just sitting here on my lunch reading warcraftpets.com and realized that I have one of these in my backpack. I've had it for a while now. I was just ignoring it because I thought it was a quest item from some old quest in Zangamarsh I'll never finish. Funny. I couldn't have killed more than a few of these. Just goes to show you how truly random these drops can be! I'll hang onto it through. I mean, pass up a Joss Whedon in game reference?!?

Comentario de 8255

I farmed one for myself (as you can see from the screenshot I submitted) and then I went back and farmed another one to sell to help fund my elite flying mount. I originally put it on the AH for 800 gold, but it sold for 500 gold.

I'de say it takes a good five to eight hours worth of farming to get one of these to drop. Now's the time to do it, before these become more commonplace and the AH price drops.

Comentario de 45018

To explain why drop rates are important its best to start with a little basic scientific fact. The science of statistics is about showing that random numbers always form predictable shapes and patterns. I've taken statistics and here is a simple example of how it works. Write 2-12 on the bottom of a peice of paper. Take 2 six sided dice and roll them 100 times and put an X above every number that they roll. It forms a shape. Every time its the same shape. That is statistics. The more times you roll the smoother the shape becomes. It is not possible to miss one of the numbers. ( as previously stated about the all heads coin toss. Try it and fid out for yourself.)

Now how this applies to WoW and loot drops requires some understanding of the game mechanics. Blizzard has stated that all mobs have the loot they are going to drop decided at the moment they spawn. This means that at any given moment there is a slim chance that one or two of the mobs in that zone have the item you want on them. In silithus you could see what weapon a particular mob would drop because it was holding it in its hand. This means that not every Bogflare Needler in the area can drop your pet. Only the lucky wasp that was "born" with it in its inventory. You must fight for it!

So, in the end, time and luck matter. If you never roll the dice, you will never get the drop. If you roll the dice, the luck comes into play deciding weather you are Unlucky number 2 or 12 on that paper, or if you are the Very lucky number 5 or 6. But in the end, eventualy ALL the numbers get the drop they want. Some are just really, really bored till they do!

Comentario de 88480

I have been farming this pet on an off for about a week and I haven't seen one yet. Today I made a commitment to just farm all day (going on 10 hours now) until I see one. One person comes and goes within a half hour which makes me think they had gotten it. So out of curiosity I go on the alliance AH to check and yup... the person who was there is selling one for 2000g.

I am now up to 2624 kills and haven't seen it. Luckily I am not in a guild and I plan to continue farming until I get one. As a holy priest I don't farm too fast so I've only done about 800 or 900 kills today.

So as many people have said... make sure you really really want this pet before you start the possibly epic journey. Oh yeah... and I hope you people who got it within your first 100 kills Diaf. :p

Comentario de 433

The Bogflare needlers will always drop either a Fractured Carapace or Twitching Leg. Keeping track of these is a good way to keep track of how many you have killed.

Comentario de 43040

I really wish there were a way to PM people as to not bloat the item information. But this is a necessity at this point. Your math formula (though elegant) is not the reality of what is being discussed. Even with just the quote you extracted. He is providing himself a 19% drop rate simply from trying one more time. That is not the case. He is adding 10% twice and reducing it by 1% (no matter how it was mathed). Using his assumption would make the equation more along the lines of 1/20 = 0.05%. So his second statement would be correct:

If your overall chances didn't improve the more you killed, then for every failure you have, it means you'd be even less likely to get it on the next kill, until you reach a point where it's effectively impossible.

However, that is not the case either.

0.05% is not 19%. So the reality of what you are experiencing from the multiple tries remains the same. That is: You have 10% chance on each event. There is no reduction of chance. There is no addition of chance. It simply remains the same through out the course of events. 10% chance each event.

That is why you will see (if you note the remarks to various items) the differences in comments to drop rate from the multitude of wowhead users. Some claim quest items never drop after HOURS of farming. While others state they received it on thier first or second tries. For instance the quest Are We There, Yeti? for the item Pristine Yeti Horn. I killed 70 yetis at my first drop, then recieved the 2nd on my 74th kill. Though my own personal drop rate (1.4% first drop) is rather low. If you see other comments; some received the item on there 1st and fourth kill (making their first drop 100% and at worst there 2nd 25%) < we know that is not the case.

I make note in some comments. That anyone that has ever been a Dungeon Master for Advance Dungeons & Dragons would understand how the percentages work in monsters and loot. WoW is no different in that area. Killing any type of monster over and over again will not change the actual percentage for the item to drop. The item will retain the same probability through out your attemps. You are just giving yourself another try at that percent base. Believe me. Farming 10% items does not mean ONE of TEN will give you the item. Or Ten out of ONE HUNDRED. ( How ever you would like to look at the "math". ) It simply DOES NOT work that way. Each event is singular, and does NOT affect the prior or later event.

Comentario de Longtooth

1100 Mobs killed and counting i still don't have it

Comentario de VitaDoden

I was gonna start farming and it dropped after maybe.. 20-30 kills altogether. Im a happy camper now :) might sell it tho.

Comentario de 48632

I just wanted to add something in regards to drop rates and farming for this particular pet.

I am a 70 Rogue and was leveling fishing in Zangarmarsh. I aggroed one of these Bogflare Needlers. I killed it. The pet dropped. It was the fist one I killed since I was level 63.

In my opinion, I would kill a couple when you are in the area. I don't believe that grinding for hours will get it to you any faster, you should have plenty of other things to do than grind for the rarest of pets.

Good luck if you decide to go for it, you are going to need it.

Comentario de aaronrt

Got it tonight on my third circuit, 60 some kills approx.

Comentario de ran93r

I farmed for days on my mage when it was added, easily got into the thousands of kills before I saw one. Just hit the zone on my druid, was doing the firefly wings quest, first one I killed dropped it... go figure.

Comentario de 73381

according to a blue post. (cant find it). loot is pre-picked when a mob spawns, so you could farm for your life or get on your first kill like every one is saying.

the only exception is quest loot,

Comentario de 84253

Based on these comments I thought it would take >100 kills to get a drop, but mine came after only 80. I'm definately gonna keep him, though there is one on our AH right now for 1250g its very tempting to sell ... I might have to farm for another.

Comentario de 95064

This was actually the first rare pet i ever farmed for in my WoW play time. When I was level ~50 i saw someone with a firefly in org and thoguht to myself, i MUST have one! So i got on my brother's 70 and proceeded to kill ~100 bogflare guys. Got tired. Gave up. leveled up my main a few more times then went back to zangarmarsh on brother's toon again. killed another 100. dropped. sent to main.

I had tried to get one for a friend's birthday a few months ago when i finally dinged 70, buuuuuut... i spent all day killing needlers with no drop. So his birthday passed and i gave up >< I bought him a dark whelpling instead. only 40g!

Comentario de DrAgRoS

Quite literally the rarest farmable drop pet in the game. It has a 1 in 1500 drop rate as compared to all of the whelplings who have a 1/1000 drop rate. My information comes from www.warcraftpets.com.

Comentario de 143878

Has a marvelously loud, annoying buzzing sound effect playing at all times.

Comentario de DigitalDJ

I was lucky enough to see this drop within about 20-30 kills. I set out prepared to farm for hours, just lucky I suppose. I only had 8 Unidentified Plant Parts in my inventory at the time. Kept it, didn't sell. Goes for about 500-1000g on my server (well that's what they're up for on the AH anyway, whether or not they sell is a different question).

Comentario de 56746

I farmed for this pet around week, killed 791 bogflare needlers before it drops. (maybe little more +150 more i think thats before i installed mobinfo addon).

Then I killed 14more and second drops! I sold it at AH for 800g

Now I have around 1800+ kills farming for another one but unfortunately didnt drop yet.

Comentario de 156620

Heres a little conversation-starter. This looks alot like a Silithid doesn't it?

Comentario de 160821

I was walking to complete a quest when a Bogflare Needler attacked me and i got dazed, I killed him and it dropped. :S

Comentario de 163658

You mean it can be a silithid spy instead of a cute little firefly as labeled? O.o

Comentario de 134047

I killed 40 of the needlers, then this dropped. Brought it to Shat and after 1 listing in trade chat I sold it for 600g.

Comentario de lagmoose

I nearly gave up on finding this item, after spending hours with numerous alts grinding the area the needlers spawn. The other day one aggroes on me as I was extracting a swamp gas and I kill it and this drops.

I love pets and don't think I can part with this, only problem is do I save it for Death Knight or just try my luck at finding one again for another alt.

edit: not about the Firefly but about comment ratings. I've come to find that most of the comments saying that they've found something (whether it be this pet or other "rare" ones) are marked negatively. Even the ones that wish people luck in finding them are. I'd hate to think people are that upset over someone having it that's not them. :|

Comentario de 111889

I just got mine after 3 or 4 days of farming for it, and it was the 499th kill. I feel it was worth it, especially when it comes that quickly! Good luck to everyone else who tries for this pet, but remember if you keep at it, it's bound to drop at some point!

Comentario de Mikka

15 Kills... I suppose all the karma I earned while farming the Badge of Tenacity paid off.

Now to sell, or to collect? 'Tis the question.

Comentario de Longtooth

I farmed it ... 1600+ kills to get it few months back and makes a buzzing sound when it is out. Nice because it wakes me up when i get it out during raids

I have many many other pets but this one is the coolest one and most importantly not everyone has it :))))

What is the point to run around with a cool pet that many many people have: "He sees it, likes it and tomorow he has it :(

And when they ask hey where you got that little felow and you tell them where and how much mobs they need to kill to get one ... then they hate you for that :P

After all there are not that many things in TBC that can still make you feel different when everyone is running in full T4/5/6 and looks the same :)

Comentario de Allakhazam

After killing 335 Bogflare Needlers I finally got it! The Firefly reference makes up for all that time killing them.

Comentario de Allakhazam

I've got some odd luck.

Second kill got a BOE blue, and now after killing masses of these things still no firefly :P

Bah!

Comentario de Allakhazam

spent about 45 minutes just killing the needlers, at one point i just kinda spaced out, didnt notice until two or three kills later but i had picked one up.

people complaining that 200g is too high. nubs.

Comentario de Allakhazam

made one circuit of the bogflare needlers, and on maybe the 15th kill it drops. from the posts here, i thought i would be farming forever, not that i'm complaining :)

Comentario de Allakhazam

I was farming for my firefly on the shattered halls server for 2 hours. I expected to be farming for several days, but I actually got one after Kill 87. Amazing. Don't count on this as normal.

:)

Comentario de Allakhazam

I just got one after around 200 kills maybe, with that Talisman of True Treasure Tracking on :P no kidding :) i'm so happy. Mwaaa hahahhaha

Comentario de Allakhazam

I have 1 for sale on black dragonflight (alliance). send pm

Comentario de Allakhazam

Hate to hear about the nearly 4800 kills to get this, I'll chime in with another heroic story of only 45 minutes of grinding to get this pet. Try it, you might be the next me.

Comentario de Allakhazam

Got this on my hunter today, actually farmed the azure whelping for a few days before it dropped, but this one dropped within an hour or so, 'bout 200 kills, I'm going to keep it if it doesn't sell on AH 896g BO Malygos lol

Edited, May 24th 2008 4:54pm by Shimmeringly

Comentario de Allakhazam

Farmed about 200 of them last night... no drops as of yet, but I did make 50g from the drops lol

Comentario de Allakhazam

When i was grinding to 64 one of these dropped. I think it was about 3 days after the patch. I used it not knowing what it was. It just sold on Darkspear for 2k gold.

Comentario de Allakhazam

Right now, I'm killing these guys... hopefully it'll come soon :)

Comentario de Allakhazam

One up for sale on Archimonde Horde 600g BO. or PST with offer.. here or in game.

Comentario de Allakhazam

Selling my Captured firefly on the serverFrostwolf, hope to get money for epic mount. my characters name is Binlang on alliance. if ur horde i can make an Auction in Gadget, just message me on AIM. TEEM0S *the 0 is a zero*

Comentario de Allakhazam

1400 flies dead and no pet, I think I'm jinxed lol. But got a hyacinth macaw after 1500 bloodsailors so I'm trying not to complain too much.

Comentario de Allakhazam

This is a new 2.1.0 item drop from a mob. From what I've discovered, this item drops on the Bogflare Needler spawns in Zangarmarsh. I believe it's drop rate is similar to those of the whelplings. I've never run into this mob, but a friend showed a friend showed me, so yeah. Both of my friends got the drop from these mobs and fairly early on, too, and one gave me theirs. That is all.

First Post! FTW!

Edited, May 27th 2007 8:22am by WoWmanXris

Comentario de Allakhazam

Heading back to the FP, picking up Glowcaps as I went. My pet aggro'd one of the mobs and it dropped this.

Lyr - Daggerspine, for anyone interested :)

Comentario de Allakhazam

I have one of these on Greymane Alliance send me in game mail or a whisper at Blitzkrieg Eradin or Oxxy Selling for 800g

Comentario de Allakhazam

Dedicated tonight to farming these buggers, first one dropped after about 300, second one at 1000. I think the drop rate is a bit higher than the .03 it says up there, but either way its still rare.

Comentario de Allakhazam

double post, sorry.

Edited, Oct 5th 2007 11:49pm by Ebeneza

Comentario de Allakhazam

I'm curious, how do you guys keep track of how many times you've grinded a mob to get something like this?

Comentario de Allakhazam

I have one of these on Anachronos - EU, Horde side.. /w christov ingame if you want it.

Edited, Mar 7th 2008 12:16pm by christovrules

Comentario de Allakhazam

Only took me 40 kills ^.^ Super happy right now, was expecting a long, long farm with my luck.

Comentario de Allakhazam

Just got my hands on one of these and im looking to sell it

Server is Black Dragonflight

And my char name is Dementri

If your horde and wanna buy it just AIM me, Sev7en Eleven

Comentario de Allakhazam

Have one of these on Venture Co. if you want it, send me an in game mail or a whisper.

Comentario de Allakhazam

I have one of these on Trollbane, Alliance side...

Feel free to whisper or mail Valdor if you are interested.

Edited, Mar 25th 2008 4:48pm by ImInADatabase

Comentario de Allakhazam

Saw one in Org, thought it was the cutest thing, and decided to go farm one. Took about 100 kills and one dropped. Then I saw the 450g AH price quoted on Alla and now I am torn between keeping it for me, and selling it for a good boost to my epic flying skill price. I guess I will keep working fishing and farming these flies and see if I can get another! :)

Comentario de Allakhazam

I had farmed a TON of these on my shaman while i was leveling her up and it never dropped... i was just flying over a needler on my druid on my way to pick up a cooking recipe and i decided why not kill it? and it dropped! druids have better farming luck than shamans - its official =D

Comentario de Allakhazam

Saw someone asking about this in the trade channel and came here to see what they were talking about. Sounded cool so just for fun I thought I would try and farm me one when I had some time to kill. Got it in 5 minutes. Not sure if it's really not that rare or if I was just lucky.

Comentario de Allakhazam

This things drop rate is much worse than any of the whelplings, i have over 54 non-combat pets, and this is by far the worst, took me 4763 kills to get mine, farming at least 4 hours a day for over 6 weeks.

I have farmed several of almost every other pet that is farmable in this game and the worst average i have seen is the emerald whelplings. Even with them I average one in about 1200 kills.

My second dropped in a little over 3000 more kills after getting my first while farming for Unidentified plant parts for the guild bank. Sold it for 600g in less than 2 hours on Medivh-Horde.

There will always be people that get it on the first kill, and there will also be people that wont ever get it to drop. That is the nature of percentile math and the reason why casinos make money. anyone that gets this in less than 12 hours of farming for these is lucky.

Comentario de Allakhazam

Does this drop rate only include kills from when the item was introduced? If not, I think the drop rate would be higher then it shows. BTW, I have 2 in 168 kills.

Comentario de Allakhazam

I popped up out of the lake after returning from a very unsuccessful Steam Vaults run and was immediately attacked by a Bogflare Needler. It dropped a Captured Firefly. I didn't even know what it was. <shrug> I'm on Argent Dawn if anyone wants to make offers.

Comentario de Allakhazam

Wow you guys have been pretty lucky! Im on my 1942 kill and no firefly yet! Im gonna keep at it and hopefully I'll find the little bugger!

So if anyone comes across this little guy on Archimonde and you are willing to sell I'll pay 500g for it, horde or alli we can work out a way to get it to me! you can send a tell in game or email me at auttumnwow@hotmail.com

Edited, Jun 5th 2007 6:50pm by auttumn

Edited, Jun 5th 2007 6:51pm by auttumn

Comentario de Allakhazam

I have this for sale on Jubieo'thos 850 gold, in AH now

Comentario de Allakhazam

I'm on Aman'Thul. Alliance side =)

If you are interested pst or mail EzKez =)

Comentario de Allakhazam

i always wanna have this little pets :P so i bought a firefly from AH for 100g :P dunno if its allot of gold or not, i dont care because i got it! :D

Comentario de Allakhazam

I guess I was pretty lucky when I farmed this. I only had to kill about 150.

Comentario de Allakhazam

I got one
about 1200 kill
is very cool pet

Edited, Jul 2nd 2007 6:08am by HartmannTWOW

Comentario de Allakhazam

I just picked one of these up on the Eonar server... If anyone's interested in buying it, just send an in-game mail to Reny. :)

I'm on the Horde side, but I can always transfer it to an Alliance character if necessary.

Comentario de Allakhazam

sold it for 1000g

Comentario de Allakhazam

This was awesome to me cause where it says "still flying..." references the TV show "Firefly." Love that show.

Mal: "We're still flying..."
Simon: "That's not much."
Mal: "It's enough."

Comentario de Allakhazam

WOW, you guys weren't kidding!

Took me about 12-14 hours of grinding those stupid Needlers to get mine!

If it wasn't for the nice green drops (and occasional blue drop) to keep me going, I would have just given up after the first 6 hours!

But I'll be a happy Mage if I never see another in Outland again!

P.S. Of course I kept it! The time it takes to get it, it's just not worth it to sell it, even for 1000g! I can get that doing my daily quests in less time! :p

Comentario de Allakhazam

140 kills no firefly, droprate is kinda low ill farm til i get one so ill keep you posted.

Comentario de Allakhazam

I was just grinding trying to get to 61, and after about 110 kills I got one! I didn't even know they existed, I was like wtf is this thing? Now its decisions decisions, sell it or keep it. Think i'll sell it :)

Comentario de Allakhazam

Just got one... Willing to sell it, but only if I get a really good price worth of all those long hours of farming.

I'm Kapsel on Blackhand Alliance if you are interested.

Comentario de Allakhazam

98th kill :D i am damn lucky :)

Comentario de Allakhazam

:) :) :)1100 kills to get it:p

AoE farming ftw :p

here are 2 pics of it with me :p

http://img505.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot121007091334yp4.jpg

http://img243.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot121007104736pq7.jpg

good luck

Comentario de Allakhazam

Had one drop last night, saw one on the AH for 800g and wondered if i could farm one before our kara run.

Killed around 30-40 then it dropped, just in time for the invites! =P

Joth - lvl 70 Undead Mage - EU server Agamaggan.

Comentario de Allakhazam

I just found 1 of these things on erader, and am looking to sell.

PST any of the following characters to talk to me.

Anarky
Surion
Nastraa

Comentario de Allakhazam

http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/533dea3826.jpg
Yep, just confirming even more, that they do exist.

Comentario de Allakhazam

Just saw one of these last night on my server. Now I have yet another pet I MUST get for myself!

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I was fishing around Serpent Lake when I was attacked by a Bogflare Needler, not the first time either. :) I was surprised to find this Firefly as a drop. Haven't killed all that many, maybe 15-20 a night for a couple of weeks. And just the ones in the way. Lucky me! :D

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Just got it on Kel'thuzad horde. PST Xradeonette if you're interested.

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i just farmed this forever ,killed around 2000 of theese needler they just never dropped the captured firefly . finaly there was 1 in ah i asked the guy he just sold me the firefly for 100 gold and like 3 weapon ! good deal .

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I have one for sale 750g obo. on the Khadgar Server alliance. name is Cavaliers. pst me

Edited, Oct 31st 2007 6:55am by Frostmagus

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I just got mine about 10 mins ago, only took an hour of farming.
It's so cute and tiny!
Here's a picture of me with it :)

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Bought off the AH for 20 gold..... I guess im lucky

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Finally got mine today. I don't know precisely how many of the needlers I killed but it was at the least 1000 of them, quite possibly more.

Day 1, Afternoon: 2 hours straight alone.

Day 1, Late Night: 4 hours in competition with an ally mage, we killed each other back and forth.

Day 2, Afternoon: Was constantly camped by same ally mage for 3 hours; got in a few kills.

Day 2, Evening: 5 hours straight alone.

Day 3, Afernoon: Killed around 30 needlers and it dropped.

Yes, this item has perhaps one of the worst drop rates of any item in WoW history. He's a pretty cool pet, and if you desperatly need gold and don't mind possible 10 hour+ grind, I've heard of people selling them on other servers for 700-900g. All you people who bought it for 100g or less are either really lucky or the person who originally farmed it had no idea what he had.

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Finally got it - after allot of kills

Edited, Jul 12th 2007 10:15pm by DipperPA

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Has anyone heard anything about the drop rate on this thing being increased? I got one and have been trying to sell it and have had a couple people tell me that the drop rate has increased and I won't get that much money for it anymore. Yet I have a good friend who's been grinding for one for a little over a month and hasn't gotten it yet. Soo... anyone know what gives?

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3 hours 9 minutes
220 kills
gave the following results:

Fractured Carapace x193 vendor value 16g 79s 10c
Twitching Leg x48 vendor value 4g 75s 20c
Unindentified Plant Parts x60 vendor value 4g 50s
Moldy Leather Boots x1 vendor value 69s 74c
Moldy Leather Pants x1 vendor value 94s 92c
Modly Leather Sholderpads x1 vendor value 64s 24c
Loosely Threaded Hat x1 vendor value 55s 79c
Eroded Axe x1 vendor value 1g 82s 53c
Tarnished Plate Sholderpads x1 vendor value 96s 40c
Modly Leather Gloves x1 vendor value 46s 83c
Dementia Vest of the Bandit x1 vendor value 3g 6s 65c
Starfire Mantle of Spirit x1 vendor value 1g 79s 12c
Bloodscale Belt of the Champion x1 vendor value 2g 16s 56c

Total Eearned 39g 17s 47 copper.

No Firefly! i dont belive they drop from these.

edit: forgot to mention there was ONLY me that farmed these mobs that time, so the droprate is either lower than 0.40% or the mobs doesnt drop it, bring me proof!

Edited, May 28th 2007 1:18am by norfenriz

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https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=29960

Read the posts at the bottom, screen shots too of the pet.

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I have one already, that I got myself, but I just bought one at the AH on my server for 2g. I couldn't believe it, of course I had to buy it. Now... to resell or give it to my son...

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i saw one of the fireflies on the AH and set out to farm one for myself, well, i had no idea the grind i was in for...but i finally got one to drop.

2399th kill captured firefly

60 random greens

3 eternium lock boxes

1 random blue...headress of the sleeper

so anyone who is in for the long haul, be prepared to spend some time grinding! but to be the 22nd person on all servers with one was well worth it!

happy hunting!

Captured Firefly

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killed some for the quest and second needler dropped this <3 doubt anyone will pay 800g for it tho :P

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I was checking out a couple macros on my lock and killed a 4 of these, and autolooted my crap and off I went to help someone level. I had picked one of these up. Made a nice gift for a friend.

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I tried farming for it for a few weeks off and on, until I found a seller. I offered 500g. Expensive for a pet, but that soothing sound it makes is worth it :P

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I have this item for sale on the Blades Edge Server-Alliance will sell through neutral AH for horde. Price is 900g OBO. Char name supermatt

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Selling one of these on Vashj - US horde side

pst me on Theplacebo, Stabinater, or Animosity.

600g OBO

Edited, Apr 22nd 2008 3:57pm by karyuu

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It's not from a quest - this pet is a drop from the Bogflare Needlers in northern Zangarmarsh. It was added in the 2.1 Patch. The pet looks just like the Bogflare Needlers themselves, only smaller. Here is a picture of me and my Captured Firefly. It took me 168 kills to get it.

The pet's name and the flavour text reference the series "Firefly" by Joss Wheadon.

Mal: We're still flying.
Simon: That's not much.
Mal: It's enough.

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Roughly 698 kills for me over 2 days. Dropped at loc 52.33. Confirming it exists, and indeed drops off the Bogflare Needlers. I got 18 greens, and almost 100g worth of trash loot.

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1350 kills.

/slumps over

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I got him after like 20 kills. I'm buying lotto tickets tonight! Hes so damn cute...

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1674 Needlers later...

And FINALLY got it.

Be warned before you set out to do this, that the little firefly has a wing sound effect, so if noisy wings bothers you. You may want to think twice before commiting to farming this pet. ^_^

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This pet has a near epic drop rate percentage. Don't get too excited when you see folks post about getting it first kill, or first five hundred kills. It could take two thousand to .. anywhere up to ten thousand depending purely on chance. Just keep at it if you're desperate for the pet. It's not a viable way to farm gold, per se. 1,000 gold could be farmed in a day or two mining, rather than a week farming this item.

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I have never posted on these msg boards but farming for this thing is making me do so. I wnat this pet for my main and my alt was 1 bar into 68, like 25k/750k to level. farmed it to 750k/750k, killing thousands of those, no drop. now im 1/2 into 69 and still no drop. well over 1 million experience farmed , about 6 boe blues, at least 100 greens, plant parts x 500+, and no dam bee. you ppl are so f'ing lucky who got it under 100 kills. ok back to the bees...

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this is the funniest farming thread i have ever seen... =D

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As "cute" as it is a few have sold on my server for 1k gold. if it ever drops for me im selin it!

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I was farming in Maelstrom for 4 days till I got mine.
1,500+ kills (counting the carpaces) and it dropped off of one of the two closest to the naga.
After a while, you start to know exactly where they spawn :\

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interesting side note, this pet can keep up with me on my epic mount. i thought that was cool.

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At my 1st day of grinding i had no luck at all and decided to start fresh on the next day, and my 3rd kill dropped the firefly right after i started on the next day! im so happy! they look really nice, especially for a nice holy priest :P

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Day 7...
It's become a matter of pride.

I will have you.

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found a link to this page from another comment on thott and thought i'd have a shot at farming one. killed 97 making the circle around cfr a few times picking up glowcaps on the way, it dropped unexpectedly just when i was getting bored.

the fluttering buzz sound does get quite annoying after a while, i'm standing in shattrath feeling like i'm in un'goro. it's comparable to the sound of a paper streamer tied to an electric fan, but in my opinion preferable to a whelp's flapping wing noise.

http://i17.tinypic.com/4v68z6w.jpg

it also leaves a trail of cute little golden smoke puffs behind it!

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well i killed over 1200 of these within 2 nights and got "nothing" so found some guy who was selling it for 300g :) yay! me

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Purchased for the low low price of 100g.

Time to farm 100g - 1 hour
Getting a firefly in the AH - 100g
Checking thott and reading all the epic farming threads - priceless

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To summarize:

This drop is REALLY hard to get.

If someone comes on here and complains he must have killed 30 or 40 of these guys and still hasn't dropped, they need to be removed from society permanently.

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This pet was MUCH easier to get than that damn Blue Whelpling (Azure Whelpling?). Maybe I just got lucky but I got it after about 4 hours or so of off and on grinding. It took me a few days of grinding to get my Blue Whelp. This is a cool little pet and worth the time to get. This one and the Tiny Spore Bat are head turners. I also got a fair amount of money and a couple of nice greens to sell. Good luck :)

*I found it on Proudmoore server/US so they are still around

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i dont know exactly how many kills it took me to get it, as i had prolly killed about 30-40 of these mobs before i decided to install the MobInfo addon. i killed 346 bogflare needlers after i installed MobInfo so i guess i killed some 380 needlers for this to fall

location of the needler that dropped the firefly x:46.08 y:35.63. thottbot map is accurate on mob placement.also this dropped after patch 2.3.2, so answer is no, they did not remove this pet with patch 2.3

still photos do not really show how cute this pet is... u gotto see it live.....

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Some epics arent purple.

Off to farm this, ill let you know how it goes.

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Ran to zangarmarsh, completely prepared to grind 2000 kills, and found it after 113. Woot! It was a hard 113, because one of those chinese account levelers/rare item farmers was running that belt 24/7 (litterally - I tried coming back at different times of the day to grind the place alone, and he was ALWAYS on, and NEVER responded to emotes, whispers, yells, etc), but, it was worth it.

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I got this drop over the weekend and didn't realize how lucky it was....I really needed the $ and was offered 200g. I am kicking myself now after reading all of these posts....I must have got caught up in the moment.

He looks really cool, maybe i'll try for another.

Happy grinding.

:~)

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2 days of grinding off and on and 294 kills later. I got my pet its very cute. lots of junk loot no blues 4 greens. I'm happy for getting one I'm going to take a break from grinding them for a while it got boring. right now they are going for 550g on killrog.

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So I never told myself I was going to try to get the Captured Firefly.... I just got done reading about it to see what actually dropped it. Well so Im running to do a quest and I see the bee that drops it. Remember I told myself I would not waste time killing them to get it. Well I said to the heck with it at least ill get exp. Well my first kill it dropped one... And to top it off I got a Shadow Pearl 30 min before that.... So I believe in all of you. You can get it...

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BTW on my server they are going for 600-800g

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extremely rare pets are what i would call status sybols, but if you have bought it from the auction house. not so much. a pet collector has pets not for utility, but for accessory. therefore when i get people msging me saying im a moron for wasting all my time farming i merely laugh.
bottom line: people who are too ignorant to understand the thoughts of pet collectors dont deserve your attention, anyone who farms for hours on end to get something that they so much want shouldn't be put down for it.

so congrats if u get this because it requires ALOT of time and effort unless ur plain lucky.

- another proudmoore pet collector

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I'm interested in purchasing one of these cute lil guys, but I don't know how long I can put up with the "buzzy" sound. So if anyone with a firefly pet would care to experiment with the sound options (turn emotes off, sounds in background, ect.) to find out what category the sounds falls under that would be great!

Obviously post the results here :D

THANKS!

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i hate you.

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FINALLY! I got it! I have about 49 hours of grinding in for this and about 3200 kills on Area 52 server. I got it after 7 hours that day with 500 kills in for the day. There was another horde grinding there also and two alliance had just dropped in. I had told myself and the other horde player I was giving up when I leveled to 68 (I was three kills from leveling) and had wished him luck. The next kill it dropped! This pet is pure luck!

Good luck to everyone who really really wants it! Persistance pays off! He's so cute! =)

I got mine off the middle needler in the mid-island area at 45.35. =)

-----------------------------------

Went back last week and looted another one of these for a friend of mine who had recently transferred servers to join me. (As a thank you gift.) This time it took me 9 hours and around 800 kills.

NOW, the interesting thing I noticed was --- Marticar (the elite marsh walker) spawned in the area right before I looted this. ALSO the time previously above with my first loot, on the day that I finally looted that firefly, Marticar was in the area. (He had not been in the area on the other four days I had grinded.) Hmmmm.

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Thursday, 20 March 2008. Walking around, killing things for exp. I was a level 66 lock with a VW. Killed one of those stingers because he was in my way. Almost didn't check the drop. Something made me check, there was the Captured Firefly. Plan to sell it on the Mok'Nathal AH on Saturday, 22 March 2008, 500g buyout 1000g. Thottbot suggests 607g 57s is a decent price. It's decent enough for me. I've always had luck with their prices. A few months ago, found a nice trinket. Thottbot suggested 200g. Put on AH, 3 hours later, 200g. Works for me. Will return and provide final price for your info. Wish me luck.

Regards,
666

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I was doing some mining in the area and flew by these guys. Decided to kill a few just to see if I got lucky. About 20 kills later it dropped. Couldn't believe my luck.

Think I'll keep him :-)

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Got one after like 700 kills. Dont know if I gonna sell or keep it. Im just lvl 63 atm.
Edit. Just sold it for 950g from ah :)

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I only decided to farm a 2nd one when I tamed a new pet. Finally got one after a few days. If you're interested in buying it, PM Exaspidey - Alliance - Runetotem

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I've farmed this pet a few times for friends as gifts so I know the difficulty in getting it. But the other day I was in the area about to go farm the schematic for the repair bot when I got asked to go to kara by a friend. My friends rogue needed gear so I logged out near the bugs, then to my friends account did kara, ect... Logged in later that night and a bug attacked me, killed it and got a firefly. Got a good laugh and sold it for 650g, Woo!

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Approximately 800 kills and I got one of these. Am working on selling it now as well as trying to get another one for myself. I will edit with my sell price when I am able to sell it.

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WTS: Fractured Carapace. Large quantities available -_-

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I bough this from a noob at AH for 25g...sold it for 650g because I already had one lol...it's my lucky day

Willah, 70 mage, skullcrusher

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Best vanity pet ever. Particularly nice since the model is actually a wasp or yellowjacket, and I went to Georgia Tech. I just wish I could rename it "Buzz."

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after seeing it drop twice.. and after watching the AH religiously.. I have an observation..

both drops were after a server restart (tuesday), and anytime I've seen it in the AH, it's been tuesday night start on the auction. is it a once a week thing?

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Took me 1311 kills to get!

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