Capturing the Firefly

Firefly Pet

After about 10 hours over 3 days hunting Bogflare Needlers, I finally had the Captured Firefly drop.

Captured Firefly

This definitely took the longest to get of all the dropped pets I’ve been hunting for so far.

Firefly Pet

I had read this wonderful article on Random Number Generators (RNG), “Beating the RNG Boss” by Cal Henderson.

Mr. Henderson explains drop rates in a very clear, concise manner that makes sense even to a math-challenged Night Elf!

Once I understood the theory about drop rates, I didn’t bother running a circuit for this pet.  I picked an area with the highest concentration of Bogflare Needlers (a little south of the Orebor Harborage) and stayed there until the pet dropped.

As with the other dropped pets, I didn’t bother counting kills as the number is meaningless statistically.

All it takes is a time investment and a little bit of luck!

Firefly Pet

I can make a “guesstimate” based on the number of Cracked Carapaces I received – about 900-1000.  If Carapaces had an auction value I’d not only have a Firefly pet, I’d be swimming in gold!  Unfortunately, Carapaces are only worth a little vendor silver.

So far it’s been averaging about 6 hours time per dropped pet which I suspect is probably average.  Some will be lucky and get a pet quickly, others will not.  It’s all up to the RNG.

Daily Cooking and Fishing Quest

I don’t even want to talk about it…..