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Kommentar von 222702

Nach genau 287 Sumpflichtschwärmern war das Glühwürmchen meins!

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Kommentar von 16112

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

- from the Joss Whedon series "Firefly"

Kommentar von Nekomusume

Looks exactly like Bogflare Needlers, except smaller ^^

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

Kommentar von 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

Kommentar von 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!

Kommentar von 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.

Kommentar von 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

Kommentar von 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! ^_^

Kommentar von 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.

Kommentar von 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.

Kommentar von 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

Kommentar von 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!

Kommentar von 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.

Kommentar von 68524

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

Kommentar von 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

Kommentar von 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.

Kommentar von 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.

Kommentar von 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. ;)

Kommentar von 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!

Kommentar von 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!!! :)

Kommentar von 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 ;]

Kommentar von 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

Kommentar von 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.

Kommentar von 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.

Kommentar von 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!

Kommentar von 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?!?

Kommentar von 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.

Kommentar von 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!

Kommentar von 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

Kommentar von 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.

Kommentar von 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.

Kommentar von Longtooth

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

Kommentar von VitaDoden

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

Kommentar von 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.

Kommentar von aaronrt

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

Kommentar von 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.

Kommentar von 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,

Kommentar von 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.

Kommentar von 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!

Kommentar von 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.

Kommentar von 143878

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

Kommentar von 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).

Kommentar von 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.

Kommentar von 156620

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

Kommentar von 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

Kommentar von 163658

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

Kommentar von 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.

Kommentar von 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. :|

Kommentar von 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!

Kommentar von 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.

Kommentar von 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 :)

Kommentar von 146819

Biggest dilemma when you do actually find one of these little beauties:
Keep it and brag, or sell it for 2 arms, 2 legs, and a left eye?

Kommentar von Masaba

~2h farming=1200g

Kommentar von 189354

Don't get discouraged seeing those high numbers. I got mine on the 55th kill. I was probably lucky, but you can be too.

Kommentar von Damia

Took me 1170 tries to find one still flying after shadowbolting it into submission. Did shrink a good portion, too. Maybe I should have held back on the corruption…

Ah, whatever, little bugger is cute like hell :)

Kommentar von Bonewrath

Took forever for me to get, sadly. Multiple days of farming for it spread out over a few months. I'd kill a few hundred over the coarse of an hour or so each time, then give up. Got it today after less than 10 kills. Gratz to those that got it and keep tryin' for those that haven't!

Kommentar von dawnish

Thought I'd link the route i used
Going from left to right, then repeat, approx. 20 spawnpoints within this path.

Map to Firefly route

Kommentar von Arra

This finally dropped for me two days ago.
After one year of farming.

This will make those of you who had to kill over three thousand feel much better about the time it took. Those of you who found it by chance on the first or second kills will feel even luckier. For those of you still farming for this vanity pet remember that for every bug you kill, the next may hold your pet.

32,202 Bogflare Needlers. That is account-wide from the first kill until the last kill.
3,000g in vendorable grey items.
2,345 Unidentified Plant Parts
300+ greens
1 blue BoE

And that does not include the help from friends who farmed on their own from time to time in an effort to surprise me. Yes I could have purchased this item from the AH, however I wanted to prove that it was in fact possible for me to aquire an in-game pet through farming (3 years of farming the crimson whelp and am still whelpless). I felt a great deal of satisfaction when I finally saw it come up as looted.

So those of you who are ready to give up and call it quits, remember that it could always be much worse, and that through mathematics or sheer dumb luck it will eventually drop.

Kommentar von 107187

Got mine after 182 kills.

Kommentar von ADneo

i got 2 of these dropped for me

1st after around 700 kills which i sold for 2000g, but than i regret it, and desided to farm 1 for myself, 2nd dropped after around 35 kills and im gonan keep it.
drop chance on average is 0.4% which probably makes it the rarest "drop" pet in the game.
however im yet to get lucky with Dark Whelpling, 1000+kills and counting

Kommentar von 224649

I stumbled across my Firefly pet about 15 mins after I started trying for it. Keep in mind that I was extremely lucky and some people spend a looooong time trying to get this pet.

Luckily, as mentioned, the Needlers respawn very quickly, and they are close enough to eachother to gather up and kill in groups.

They are most plentiful along the northwestern and northern part of the lake. I got mine along the North strech, as did another person in my guild... maybe it's a lucky spot...? ;) Good luck!

Kommentar von Toumei

Killed 160 so far and all I have to show for it is an inventory full of fractured carapaces. Tedious, but relatively little downtime since they spawn fast enough.

At least I've found something to do in my spare time!

Kommentar von krimsonkrow

Collecting pets for the next patch, 39 minutes into my first farming session and this little guy dropped. I think i just set a record. . .

O.o

<3

Suit, Azshara

Kommentar von 228319

ouch took me about 598 kills about 2hr of farming on my rouge

Kommentar von 180068

I have never before farmed for a pet and I just decided to do this when I was in Zangarmarsh.
I read here about the guy farming for it for 1 year and I knew I wasn't going to loot it.

But oh my god, I almost got a heart attack when I saw the little cage in the loot window..
I killed maybe 40-50 of the mobs and I got it!
I guess it's all about luck.
I'm going to end it like everyone else:
"The next mob you kill might carry the pet."

Kommentar von 232358

For anyone still trying to get this little bug, the thing that keeps me going is if your going for the 50 pet achievement, just remember to pick up glowcaps while your running around, that way once you find the firefly, then you can have enough glowcaps to buy the Sporebat!

Kommentar von AoE4life

got it on my alt and gonna farm it again for main xD rly cool pet and "buzz" makes it almost unique ^^

Kommentar von Azrilar

As an Insect lover in real life I feel like I've been conned. It looks nothing like a real firefly!

http://www.learner.org/jnorth/images/graphics/f-g/firefly_Purdue.jpg

Well, it is a game, and its a pet to collect, so I'm not complaining.

Edit: Typo :s

Kommentar von 158000

There is a quest in the area for diaphanous wings, so you will have a couple 62-64s every now and then annoying you by killing a few of the mobs. After vendoring two 20-slot bags plus the backpack full of carapaces three times, I got my firefly! Took approximately 4 hours.

As with all farming, don't give up, don't question yourself and don't succumb to useless ganking, it will not improve your odds.

12 pets away from my Fawn!

Kommentar von 310327

A few thoughts and tips I'd like to share based on my experience farming this pet:

-As you go through the farming area, and as you enter/leave it, kill all the Greater Sporebats, Sporebats, Marsh Walkers, and Fen Striders you see. They drop Fertile Spores, which can be turned in for Sporeggar rep (most people call this the inefficient method for getting Sporeggar rep, but hey, if you're killing fireflies anyway, you might as well right?). I got a fair way into honored by the time I got my Firefly this way. (I assume that if you're going for the Firefly, you'll also want the little Sporebat pet as well.)

-As you kill the sporebats, get up close to them when they die, so you get their buff. As a hunter, I experimented with how close I could cut it in terms of running up for the buff, and it seems you need to be within melee range when they take their fatal blow.

-When you start farming, choose either Twitching Legs or Fractured Carapaces to keep in your bags to keep track of how many Needlers you've killed. I recommend the carapaces, as they have an 81% drop rate, so you can figure for every 500 you have, you've killed around 600 Needlers. I sold the stacks when I got an even 100, 200, 300, etc. and then wrote down how many I'd sold. By the time I finished, I had sold 1,500, meaning I had killed approximately 1800.

-If you're going to keep the Fractured Carapaces, be sure not to auto-loot anything else that might drop them, so that you don't mess up your count. Sporebats are OK to auto-loot, but the Fen Striders and Marsh Walkers can drop carapaces, so just be careful.

-Keep Unidentified Plant Parts and Strange Spores that you get, as they can be used for Cenarion Expedition rep and Cooking respectively. The plant parts are easy to store as they stack in 200s in your bags (waiting for when they were going to stop stacking was kind of a fun little thing, so I'm sorry that I just ruined it for you).

-This is a very popular farm for people, especially now that Death Knights can start the farm shortly after starting their characters, so expect to have plenty of competition. Obviously, if you can log on during odd times, get as much farming done as you can handle while you have the place to yourself. The experience offers a nice balance actually of alone-time and competitive farming, which is kind of nice in terms of relative boredom and stress levels.

I hope someone finds this information helpful! Good luck farming!

Kommentar von Mukaltin

To be honest, I personally dislike such type of comments but.... I've got it today with my 34th kill :D Took me about 10 minutes before it dropped. Funny thing that right before a kill another farmer asked me if I just came because he has been there all day long. We wished a good luck to each other... And then I got it on the next drop.:D

So, happy farming to everyone who reads it, just always keep in mind that dumb luck really exists... And if I could I would swap this minipet's stroke of luck with something's else >.>

Kommentar von 25176

I just wrote a script to count the amount of needlers you've killed in one outing. This only works if you keep the carapaces and legs in your bags.

/script local count = GetItemCount(25434)
local count2 = GetItemCount(25436)
print("Needlers Killed: " .. (count + count2))

Kommentar von 279337

This was a 1st few kills drop for me. ONE REASON WHY! I didn't kno it was gonna drop and i didn't even what it was. Farmers have trouble because the Drop gods don't like them.

Kommentar von 307206

how to get this item: grab an alt, turn off the exp bar, and pop in a movie. my 66 mage made quick work of them and it dropped half way through In the Line of Fire.

Kommentar von 278558

i was amazingly lucky on this one, 4hrs straight farming for it and it dropped on the left, took 283 kills. good luck to all.

Kommentar von 287544

Just lucked out one with less than 100 kills

Kommentar von duskhawk

12 hours. >.< I was doing about 250-350 a night, for 5 nights.

Kommentar von Eccentrica

Caught on kill 657. About 6 hours of farming, more or less, with collecting Glowcaps along the way. I also pushed my exp bar up from 69 1/2 to just over 70.

Collected 20 greens and 2 blues during the farm, and around 60g of saleable junk (including the carapaces and legs).

Good Luck to all collectors.

Kommentar von 313089

It seems as if they ALWAYS drop either a fractured carapace or a twitching leg, but never at the same time, so if u combine them together thats how many kills you have. (as long as you don't kill anything else that drops the carapaces or legs). Please correct me if im wrong.

Kommentar von 347106

Just bagged one after 408 kills over two evenings which, thanks to music breaking up the monotony, went by in a flash.

Farming this on an Unholy DK was a breeze: zero downtime, fast kills and re-spawns and since I was between lvl. 62 and 64 at the time, some nice XP as well.

I only wish it still had the "Still flying" quote, there really is no reason not to have it included in the "spell" tooltip for the pet.
Now to grind Sporregar rep for the Tiny Sporebat. >< If only I could use the 150+ Glowcaps I collected for rep after Friendly. :(

Kommentar von 353008

For the pure fact that this is a reference to the greatest show ever created.

.. I shall have this pet...

:D Can't stop the signal!

---
And the firefly was mine (1hr 17min :D i got so lucky).

Just to warn you, this i found was a very happy place for bots to farm. Tricking them is always fun...

Best of luck to whoever wants one of these!

Kommentar von 164937

893 Bogflare Needlers before I received this fantastic pet to add to my collection.

Kommentar von 188831

my working m8 sat and farmed this for around an hour, she killed 150 mobs, then i came over. killed 5 and got it.

just use them CDs!

Kommentar von 354134

Just got mine! I'm so happy! Took me about 2 days and 1,000 kills.

Kommentar von 361429

WOOT got my SECOND fire fly today ( 1 on my main toon and 1 on my alt ) the first was gotten on my alt by accident. I was questing in Zangarmarsh. ( I was completely SHOCKED ) Then today I decided to start farming the firefly for my main toon.... I was expecting this to take several hours if not a few days maybe even weeks. Landed by the first needler in my sights.... and of course there is my pride and joy my Firefly drops on my first kill! Not many people can say thats ever happened let alone twice!

Kommentar von 363709

I didn't know this pet even existed. I randomly killed 2 of these Needlers and it dropped - I had thought it was just a quest-based item that would give me a new quest. Turns out it was a pet! My brother is a pet fiend so I gave it to him for a pittance.

I hope all of your luck is as good as mine.

Kommentar von wolvirine

I farmed for 20 mins and droped 2 now thats what i call lucky guildies swore at me lol

Kommentar von wolvirine

there 20 mins and had 2 droped guildies were shocked must of been my lucky day

Kommentar von 138031

I may be the luckiest person alive.

I just got this pet after 6 kills. Earlier today I got the dark whelpling and emerald whelpling in 614 and 19 kills, respectively.

Good luck to everyone trying to farm this pet.

Kommentar von 242910

8 hours in, lost track of kills.

still no pet.

but have leveld up twice

Kommentar von 168124

Started farming this a few days ago, about 10 kills in I looted my first one... then accidentally bound it to myself when trying to move it in my bag to avoid that very thing! >.o;

A very cute pet, though.. well worth the effort.

Looted a second one today on about my 157th kill-- going right up on the AH. :)

Kommentar von kimpy

I have been wanting this for such a long time. I farmed it when I was still 70.. but no luck. I have seen this on the AH many times for around 1k gold each time... but I didn't buy it. My buddy wanted to get Sporeggar rep, so I figured I would help get him fertile spores and I would loop up north every so often to kill the Needlers. Well this pet dropped for me pretty quick. I didn't think it would drop, but I am so glad it did! I am definitely keeping it for myself :)

Kommentar von 244041

902 kills, 1 boe blue, and many greens. 2 days of farming, about ~6 hours worth total.

I happen to love the sound it makes, it is very comforting to me. But, then again, I grew up in southern florida and that is quite a common noise there in the summer :)

Kommentar von 242910

phew.

Kill count - 3000
2727 Fractured Carapaces
273 Twitching Leg

1 Captured Firefly

FML apparently everyone on this server who has the gold to buy this pet already has it. =(
theres no way im selling it for less then 5k

Kommentar von noggin

I was able to farm a total of three of these at approximately 100 kills each on my mage, I think it was from about June to November 2007. The first one was while questing and I decided to see if it would sell. It sold for over 600g within minutes of listing it, and the buyer asked if I had any more. This prompted me to farm the second a couple weeks later, and the third near Thanksgiving. All three sold for over 600g on the AH. I haven't been able to get another to drop for me on any of my characters on any of my accounts in many hundreds of kills since.

I wish the achievement statistics tracker would show how many times you've killed something that drops each of these specialized items.

Kommentar von SaintStryfe

Went farming for this for the first time in since Wrath launched. Had lots of unsuccessful attempts before. Killed probably 450 or so before getting a drop. 20 of the Carapaces sells for 1.75 gold, times about 20 or so. The legs sell for 1.9g a stack, and had two or three of them. Also got 15 or so greens, a lot of spores, a ton of sellable grays, 44 plant parts, two lockboxes and I collected while I went, netting me another 20 or so gold at auction. Probably made total 200g. Not incredible now-a-days, but the pet sells for about 1500 on my server. But this one, I chose to keep.

Kommentar von Irie121

Got it on my first try... Wasnt trying though, just mad luck.

Kommentar von 18869

I'm selling one on Destromath Horde. In-game mail "punxbank" if you want to make offers

Kommentar von 416591

So after reading all the comments, i went to farm this pet. Surprisingly the firefly dropped after the 12th kill. I couldnt believe it, literally almost fell from my chair LOL! On my server it looks like this pet sells for about 2500-3000g, but its just so cool, i think id rather keep it..

So anyone who goes to try for this pet, just stay vigilant, it could drop on the 1st kill or the 20,000th. Seems pretty random, but totally worth it. :)

Kommentar von 47813

I went there to farm it, and yay, even in that place there was an ally lv. 67 hunter gold farmer! Seriously, c'mon! Every mini-pet I go to farm I find one of those farmers lurking around.
Btw, I'm in Daggerspine-EU.
Anyone remember Chronicles of the Gold Farmer? well.. I couldn't kill him because he was in my same faction, but I did kill every single mob before he could attack them.

I'll return there to continue the farm.

Kommentar von donkon

I've had 2 of these drop in the last day or so. Not sure if they raised the probability of these dropping? Anyway, I didn't know it was worth this much and learned 1 on my character, otherwise i would have sold them both.
I agree the sound they make gets annoying very fast.

Kommentar von 37999

The quote is gone with the change to the item. That's disappointing.

Kommentar von Alleymonkey

Very happy to report that after flying into zangarmarsh, preparing for hours of farming. I got this on the very first kill. Good luck to all of you after this!

Kommentar von 460435

I got this pet this morning. I've wanted it for a long while but didn't want to farm it for hours and hours. Whenever I went to shattrath for anything- to help a guild mate, etc~ I'd fly to Zangamarsh and kill all the bogflare needlers- i've been doing this for a few weeks and today it dropped- 57 kills total.

I've been farming for disgusting oozeling forever and got very fed up with it - so this is my new way of farming- just killing what I see when I am around.

Kommentar von 261770

I would buy it für 2.2k. My GF is collecting and missing this one.

Kommentar von 264639

For those who dont know. when you learn this pet, its name gets changed to firefly. i didnt read the in game text after learning it and i freaked out a little when i didnt see him in the C group of pets.

Kommentar von 496673

you would not believe your eyes if ten million fireflies lit up the world as i fell asleep

Kommentar von 18495

I totally forgot about these guys until I saw one on the AH. I went out to Zangarmarsh to try my luck at them. After about half an hour, one dropped. I used to farm the crap out of these during BC & never got anything. Needler-less (ha) to say, I was ecstatic. I though, "Hmm, I'll queue for a dungeon & kill more of these." So I queued up & went back to killing. As soon as the "enter dungeon" screen popped up, I knew I had 30 seconds to kill as much as I could. Luckily there were 3 pretty close. I killed the last one with 5 seconds left & he dropped one more for me.

Just as proof, here's my SS:
http://tiptoealaska.com/screenshots/WoWScrnShot_010710_113826.jpg

Kommentar von 331444

Looked at this post earlier today, and debated if I should try and farm for this... Got bored tonight and decided what the hell. I flew my character to Zangar and after about 30 kills or less I got one of these lovelies. :) I'm going to use it. Don't have much use for more gold... I love vanity pets. :D

Kommentar von Ashtranza

This item is clearly a bug and should be fixed soon.

Kommentar von BrknSoul

/run local a=GetItemCount print("Needlers Killed: "..(a(25434)+a(25436)))

Kommentar von Spawwn

Funny story actually....I killed about 780 Bogflare Needlers (in a single day) and nothing! I promised myself id never do anything like this again after looking for Louqe'nahak, so i said "screw it what am I doing"? Hearthed back to Dal all butthurt and started to sell all the crap ive accumulated and THERE IT WAS! I must of blinked or something and didnt see what I looted!.......and then I found $5...anyway dont give up everyone its possible! Awesome pet

Kommentar von 589964

I've been farming this bad boy on and off for a couple of weeks now, never staying for more than an hour or so. Today I got lucky and after only 30ish minutes of farming, It dropped!

Its possible! Don't stay for hours on end...come back every day or so. Honestly, this is how I've gotten it twice!

Goodluck!

Kommentar von jw150

I looted this pet while doing quests in zangarmarsh never knowing of its existence or value, i immediantly "learned" the pet thinking it was a common drop. I was then amazed when i found various posts about its rarity and now regret learning it as i could have made 4k gold by my realms auction house on it.
Well i guess i'll have to show it off more often now that i know what its worth.
Good luck to all you farmers.

Kommentar von 619417

Alright, I'm really loving this companion now. I've got one on my main, which I got after about 300 kills. That would be a fair afternoon of running back and forward. I was pretty satisfied, no doubt!

So now 1 year later, having unfrozen my WoW account and leveling my rogue further, I decided to give it shot while I was questing there anyway. Within 50 (!) kills it dropped. So that was insane luck, for the second time! But it gets more fun. That being 3 days ago.. My rogue being 10 levels higher.. I went to have another go at it, just to test my luck.

Kill #281.. Another drop! I guess I could make a living out of this. Obviously this one is going on the action house. Though I'd need one on this rogue later on too. Guess I'll be back soon enough!

Anyway, my advice: Don't get demotivated by reading the approx. 2.000 kills that the drop requires, as the drop rate and respawn rate will always be an estimate - a 'chance' that it will drop will always be there, also on your first kill(s). To put it simple: Who says someone before you hasn't just killed the other 1.999 and perhaps decided to give up ;-)

Kommentar von Vont

By far the easiest pet Ive obtained! I didnt even have to do anything to get it.. It only cost me all my gold as well as everything in my inventory and bank! Who says all hackers are scum? Not only did I get this pet but also a over 200G worth of random bug parts and unidentified plants.. w00t! :/ Blizzard let me keep it after restoring all my shtuff which was cool.. With the AH prices through the roof on this, 14K for the one's ive seen listed, I kinda want to try and get another..

Kommentar von 658053

Um, is it a different item i'm thinking of, or didn't the tootip used to say 'You can't take the sky from me...' because I remember an item with that tooltip, the same icon, the same TV show being referenced and, if I remember correctly, the same effect.

Kommentar von SilverHeimdall

Went around the lake once, killed all of them, then on my second go around the lake I got one.. yay.

Kommentar von NormySan

I've been killing these Bogflare Needlers for days now and still haven't gotten the companion to drop. Guess i'll just have to keep going at it =)

Kommentar von 664143

Farmed for 5 hours yesterday and will be going again tonight, the way i look at it every kill is 1 closer to the one that drops it :)

i dont bother keeping track of kills, it would just give me false hope that its gonna drop soon.

good luck all.

Kommentar von Kiingy

If anyone else is interested, the path to this pets flying sound is:

Sound\\Creature\\SilithidWasp\\SilithidWingLoop2.wav

Replacing this sound file will mute this pets flight noise. This particular sound is also used for all wasp creatures so muting this will also mute others.

To replace them make a folder called Sound in your World of Warcraft > Data folder and create the same tree path as shown above then place a blank .wav and .ogg file with the same name in the last folder that was created.

Replacing sound files is legal.

Kommentar von 691812

another couple of notes:
--the strange spores can be used to cook sporeling snacks - a hunter pet treat - so they auction well on my server.
--the glowcap mushrooms can be used to purchase recipes from M ycah the sporeguard quartermaster (clam bar and sporeling snacks). These recipes sell for anywhere from 25-55 gold on my server, so you can make a pretty penny by picking up glowcaps as you farm. *Note also pick up recipes from Doba -- but he will only talk to you after you do the first 3 quests that get you to friendly with the kurenai. These recipes sell for 45g on my server
--I farm mine with a level appropriate toon, that is always on rested bonus. This way I level my toon with double xp while I farm. Just park the toon at the inn and switch to another toon when her rested bonus is used up. I level each low 60 toon farming.

*edited to correct recipe vendor info

Kommentar von Mytheleanor

Damn this pet harder than emerald to farm.. i've got myself an emerald whelpling for 2 days, and i've been farm this guys for 3 days and never drop, im sick to seeing Carapace, Twitching Legs, and Unidentified plants.. T_T

Kommentar von sopor30

Bought mine for 5500 gold off the AH. I read the various comments here first, and then decided that I wasn't in the mood to kill thousands of bog lashes. IMO, its more affective to spend one's time making the gold and then buying it off of the AH. But to those who are willing to grind for this awesome pet the hard way, I have nothing but respect!

Kommentar von 817286

The sad part is that i need 2 of Gefangenes Glühwürmchen (1 for me, 1 for my husband), bought 1 of those off ah for 2,4k gold, but there's no second :( To be honest after few hours of farming i'd say it's easier to buy it off ah for 2,5k gold~ than farm it for 6 hours+
Atm framing this pet with my mage alt (as it's BOU). 4,40 hours spent, 721 Sumpflichtschwärmer looted, no pet so far.
7,30 hours spent, 1300 kills, still no pet dropped.
1550 kills, no pet. i'd better stop it at least for a while and leave my luck for Beutel voller exotischer Geheimnisse

Good luck with farm guys :)

Kommentar von Redrik

this dropped for me out of one of those new bags that tanks can get for Qing randoms haha... pretty sweet

Kommentar von 819408

I also got this pet from the satchel of exotic mysteries by tanking for the new call to arms, not sure what the drop rate is but the wowhead page for the satchel doesn't have this listed yet for a drop.

Kommentar von Murloc

Now also drops from the Beutel voller exotischer Geheimnisse

Kommentar von Throbb

After my 2nd day of farming, I'm at 1603 kills and still no luck. I would probably buy this pet at the auction house if given the chance, but I've checked constantly and haven't found one yet.

Edit: During my 3rd day of farming, I've been lucky enough to get the drop. I got a message saying "Yay! You found a !" I've logged 2148 kills.

Kommentar von Lottielot

Just registered so could let you know I got this today. I downloaded Bunny Hunter Addon to see how long this would take me after having no luck with farming pet drops to date.

Totally surprised to see this drop on my 38th Kill :o)

It's really pretty and I agree with what's been said above, feel so much more satisified that this dropped rather than having to buy it from AH. Happy hunting :o)

Kommentar von 844147

2200 kills later and i finally got one

Kommentar von Snowbuny

got mine on 75th kill today

Kommentar von 801191

Got mine tonight from Satchel of Exotic Mysteries. It can be placed there, which is pretty cool

Kommentar von huntedknight

Sweet Just got mine 2 min ago took 407 kills but it finally dropped

Kommentar von 194935

I feel so &*!@ing stupit selling this for only 3.5k...

Kommentar von Peanuthead

Got it after 38 kills... On my server one is sellling for 30k.. is that right cuz if it is ill sell for 25k or mabye 20. Can someone please respond? realm is smolderthorn if any wants to buy

Kommentar von 863347

really surprised to read the comments and difficulty some are having. I killed 304 and received two captured firefly drops. Now I just hope the buyout price is accurate.

Kommentar von 867566

Got mine in 26 kills! I was farming for Fertile Spores (I was doing the "Now that we're still friends" quest, but wanted a change of pace) so I figured I would run where these guys are, since I want the 100 pet achievement. Cleared the spawn point once and killed two more before it dropped! I am pretty sure I have never been this lucky in this game. Now for the raptors...

Kommentar von S1lv3rw0lf

i found this thing in 1 of those satchles u get from tanking heroics, i think the drop chance might be higher in those bags cuz i got it with my 3rd bag

Kommentar von 875887

Wow I'm very sorry for you guys... I got it after killing about 60 :3

Kommentar von AznNoProblem

I grind alt levels while trying to farm these... leveled my rogue 60-64 and no firefly yet... over 2k kills :(

Kommentar von pessimisaurus

Just wanted to say I just got this after killing less than 15 needlers. Sure beats wasting 5-10k on the AH!

Kommentar von 900142

I just got one today from only one hour of trying. Made me pretty happy obviously.

Only one other selling at the AH on my server for like 9k. (would have kept it if it wasn't that high)

Lucky too since I was about to stop but i noticed my poison on my daggers had 5 minuets left so i thought I'd at least run that out and got it at the 3 minute timer.

So that's a lesson, never quit too soon. Sometimes a little extra time can be the difference.

Kommentar von anisadora

I don't see this posted elsewhere, and wanted to give everyone a heads up - there's a quest now where you can get a pet that looks very similar to this one (different coloring, however) - so if the RNG gods hate you, there's always that option. (I believe this quest is out in burning steppes, and is part of a long chain.)

Kommentar von MaBaer

I decided to try farming this and in several hours this is what I ended with:
190 Fractured Carapace
37 Twitching Leg
62 Unidentified Plant Parts
8 Green Items
0 Pet

I will go back another time and then repost any results--I am not sure at what point I would give up n buy from AH, because I am cheap n do not want to pay the high prices. This is why it took me 4 1/2 months to dig up the vial of sands recipe on my alchemy--could have just bought mount.

Kommentar von nakavt

i'm farming this better than flipping mysterious cards and free :)

p.s i got it :)

190 fractured carapace
52 Unidentified Plant Parts
7 green items
42 Twitching Leg
1 captured firefly

Kommentar von Nightshine067

Well I decided to go a different route instead of farming it I decided to buy it on impulse from trade chat for 5K which is a decent price considering this is a pretty rare pet. In order to do this I had to purchase World of Warcraft and make a toon and level profession, in my case it was Alchemy and Herbalism. At first I was clueless but by wrath I had made an alt and leveled Tailoring and Enchanting. Next, another toon and another Alchemist. Enchanting did really well so I made another toon and leveled JC just before cata. Then cata hit and I made more gold than I could imagine.

After you do all that, then you can just watch the AH and buy stuff that is a good deal like pets or whatever. I did not farm for cata, just leveled and bought and sold. So now with my fat toons and plenty of gold I can just buy what I want and keep what I want. This Firefly is # 123 for me. I'll pay 5k for any pet that rare. Glad I was watching trade chat today.

Kommentar von 915653

I highly suggest checking the spawn areas for the Bogflare Needler if you see a sudden increase in Captured Firefly pets on the auction house. There were at least two bots running on my server when I went to look, and there are likely many more as I have seen the pets in large numbers on both Alliance and Horde. These pets will be in extremely high demand in the next expansion, and it's not fair to have people cheat to get them!

Kommentar von 634536

I am a pet collector in game. About a week ago, after some guild drama, i decided that i would go farm the Crimson whelpling. After a few days, and about 8000 kills later i got him. Happy day! Then, still guild drama, i was like..."Hmm maybe i will try to go get the Emerald whelp." 686 kills later he is mine.
Unfortunately, there is still much guild drama going on. Well, guess i will go farm the Captured Firefly.
I used the standard farming circle, killing all of these that spawn all the way around the lake. They are pretty close together and at level 85 are one shots. However, as a 85 you will kill all of them and be ready to start your next circle before all have had a chance to respawn. Sooo, after about 600 kills, i started coming to wowhead to read anything i could find in between waiting for full respawns. I just got my little booger after 658 kills.
As with any farming, patience and determination are key. Happy hunting. :)

Kommentar von 527860

Sold one I got from a LFD satchel for 4.5k... considering it went in 10 minutes, I think I definitely put it up too low. Now that I'm farming them for a friend (who didn't tell me before I sold mine that she needed it), I can see why 4.5k was too low. (This is on Proudmoore-US, YMMV)

305 kills in, 5 greens, 75 plant parts (about 25% drop rate), tons of vendor trash. Hopefully it won't take much longer.

Kommentar von 616859

i got this in a 'satchel of exotic goods' i received from queueing as a healer for a cata random heroic.

Kommentar von 947217

i got this pet from a Call to Arms, Hour of Twilight dungeon and sold it for 5k haha

Kommentar von 958979

This was the worst grind of my life. I leveled all the way from 61-70 just killing those Bogfire Needlers... Overall I killed 6,253 before that little jerk dropped. I'd like to second what has been said before. Be sure to kill the sporebats and collect the Fertile Spores, so you can get exalted with Sporregar and get the Tiny Sporebat pet while you're at it. Also collect the Unidentified Plant Parts for Cenarion Expedition rep and stop to grab the Glowcaps (you will need them for currency with Sporregar if you plan on buying the Sporebat pet or the tabard) This grind took me over a month, and I can't tell you how many hours. I got exalted with Sporregar way before I got the Captured Firefly to drop! After a while it was just a matter of stubbornness and I couldn't give up because I'd already put in so much time. After it all, the Tiny Flamefly you get from the quests in Burning Steppes is actually way cooler. Good luck to those farming, and be prepared for the long haul!

Kommentar von 163020

The worst thing about this grind is not the drop rate, it's the spawn rate and rarity.

Kommentar von Karazaskull

Just got mine after 142 kills / 35min 48s and i didn't noticed. Not as good as the 3 dark whelps i've got yesterday *insert trollface here*

Kommentar von MishhhKristen

This literally took me 5 minutes to farm. Lol, I was expecting to be at this for days!

Kommentar von 973358

Not trying to be rude or anything... but I got mine after like 6 or 7 kills... Best of luck to all you who try to farm this :P

Kommentar von leetnoam

I never once believed people when they say 'I got X rare pet in 5 kills' etc.
But today I was amazed, literally 3 kills and this thing dropped + it was my 150th <3

Kommentar von YinRav

I've been lucky enough to have three drop in 1500 kills. Hard grind is hard.

Sold each for 10k-15k

Latest was 10k on Ravencrest EU.

Kommentar von Locker

Hello guys I decided to farm this pet , and after reading some of the posts here wich were helpfull indeed i thought i would add a few words. Eonar Server EU.

I started a couple of days ago no hardcore farming just walking through the spawn area and i did that for 2 hours , got 7 greens and a lot of greys, and i would say i did kill like 300 on that try, next morning rather early i continued and killed 20 more and it dropped, i did see its best to run a full run in the area where they spawn, then fly midways kill 2 more near the bridge right after the Naga area between 2 glowing flowers , rather big u cant miss them ,near a small pool, that gives u little more time to be sure of full respwan when u return to the spawn area.

Drop rate is as what most farmers have mentioned so good luck farming and go get ur Firefly.

Kommentar von ndoty87

My wife had been farming this pet several months ago, just after the cataclysm. But gave up. Today she decided that she is going to go and give it a stab again. After 7, count them, 7 kills, she loots it. I was like "OMG, really? Takes me three days to farm something with the same drop rate and you go there and get it with only 7 kills?" RNG usually does not work in her favor though, so it is just the luck of the draw I guess.

Kommentar von Scratt

Wow. I was fishing the pools in ZM to level cooking, and i knew these dropped the captured firefly. i casually killed 5 or 6, just to be a dumbass. i &*!@ myself when i looted it on the sixth kill.
Funny thing is, i got my emerald whelping earlier that day after killing 2.6k noxious whelps over the course of 3 days. moral of the story is that probability might not be in your favor today, but it might be tomorrow.

Kommentar von DussoJanladde

All known references to Firefly in WoW...
K. Lee Smallfry - Kaylee Frye
Caregiver Inaara - Inara Serra
Saffron Reynolds and Yolanda Haymer - "YoSaffBridge"
Fantei - Fanty, one of the twins from the movie
Mingo - The other twin
Captured Firefly - Previously had the flavor text "Still flying..."
Mudder's Milk from Jaynestown
An Antique Gun - The Lassiter from Trash
Strange Engine Part and Broken Engine Part - "Don't ride in anything with a Capissen 38 engine, they fall right out of the sky." - Kaylee, Serenity. The former is turned in to K. Lee Smallfry, who mentions it just fell out of the sky.

Kommentar von postulios

just wanted to say i killed two and got it :D

Kommentar von Skill1x1

Lol uh 79 kills and I have 3? :P GG

Kommentar von OrcHuntsmen

I feel really bad after reading the other comments that I got this during my 1st pass of the lake.

Kommentar von Fallsmyer

This macro makes it a ton easier to farm these little buggers:

/tar Bogflare Needler
/cast Fel Flame

Be sure to replace "Fel Flame" with whatever instant cast skill you have. Decided to start using the macro when I went out and there was a bot there, it allowed me to find the Needlers faster than the bots.

Also be sure to pick up any Glühkappe that you see. They are currency for Sporeggar and were selling on my server for 6g per. At least when you aren't getting the stupid pet to drop you know you are making a little bit of gold ^_^

Kommentar von Celestri

I just decided to give this another try.... Thankfully, no bots were present, and I was the only player farming.

1 hour exactly, 160 kills, no pet ... QQ moar :*( ah well ... RNG is random lulz

Kommentar von 951152

looted after 513 kills..

Kommentar von 959764

another farmed pet to add to my collection! Got this today after 385 kills at 7:30 server time, Anvilmar, US. Good luck! *kiss* c('.'c)

Kommentar von 1019234

I love to farm these bug's iv gotten over 30 firefly's since it came out, if you want help to get one let me know, I'm on Draenor EU horde. Love to lvl toons. Bunny hunter is a nice add on if you wanna keep count on your kills :)

Kommentar von andres9123

im at 1500 kills i doubt it will ever drop

Kommentar von Gary5

2168 kills, and I have it! :) omg...

Kommentar von Reaperoffire

Got mine while on my way to do my ogri'la dailies. After 35 kills. I have been farming off and on for it over the last year. :D Very excited!

Kommentar von Dragonborne813

So after spending about 6-8 hours a week grinding for this thing back in June and July, I gave up on it til last night when I showed a friend whre the needlers were to kill for it. So she goes and kills one, then I kill one. Then she kills another, and I kill another...bam! it drops for me! I just stared at it for a moment thinking, "No, it can't be!" Then I did a happy dance, yelling, "I got it, I got it!" Happy, happy, joy, joy!
Hang in there folks! It WILL happen...eventually!
PS...I love the Serenity storyline, Book being my fave character.

Kommentar von yezdk

Finally I got it :)
http://i.imgur.com/brHH7.png

1224 kills

Kommentar von Roserud

You might have some problems with putting this item in the auction house since you might get the message: "You cannot auction an item with used charges". Looks like its a known bug.

Kommentar von 986651

Ok, I'm at 1764 kills and still no pet. I don't know if the whole CRZ thing is affecting this, as over the last 3 days, I have been in 2 different ones. So I'm not technically farming the same mobs, which could impact the drop rate. I will update when I finally get it. Sad Panda atm :(

Edit 2137 kills in all and the little pain in the butt finally dropped. I almost didnt notice as my brain was on auto controls lol..Good luck to those farming, dont give up!

Kommentar von 5n1p3r

I just got one of these from a Beutel voller exotischer Geheimnisse. Wowhead doesn't show it in its list but mine did have one in it.

Kommentar von duhrigs

I killed exactly 0 needlers for mine.
I spent exactly 0 gold in the AH.
It came in a satchel of exotic mysteries for free as a reward for tanking.
right before that i got a green proto-drake and recently before that i got an emerald whelpling.

Kommentar von 1054203

Two days of farming and 3 have dropped already...Im beginning to think the drop rate on these is wayyyyyy higher than it says on here.

Kommentar von kellyislame

I really wish I could have come to this thread with one of those "OH-EM-GEE you guys! I got my Firefly after 15 kills!" and then snicker while the down-vote police make my post obsolete. Alas, the Sumpflichtschwärmer and I are forming quite the bond after the several hours I've spent in Zangarmarsh today. 640 kills later I still have yet to see this little guy appear. This is a terrible grind at level 90. You will slaughter 20 mobs in 2 minutes and then end up sitting there waiting about 6-7 minutes for re-spawns. Here are my observations for MoP collectors trying to farm this pet:

Throw on some music or fire up a video in the background because you're very likely to be farming for awhile. It helps to break the monotony of /kill /loot /fall asleep /face-plant. Rinse and repeat.
Pet battles, pet battles and more pet battles. You may as well level up some of your pets while waiting as there are a pretty good bunch of Kleiner Frosch and Schlange in the area.
Farm with an alt that can take advantage of the experience gain. The kills will be slower, however, you are less likely to have to wait on re-spawns which can be more advantageous for those with less patience.
Pick up those Glühkappe! If you have a character that is exalted with Sporeggar you can turn in 30 of them at a time, buy Winziger Sporensegler, cage it and sell it on the auction house for a decent profit depending on your server.
Serpent Lake is still a pretty good place to complete Fische hinterlassen keine Fußspuren and/or level up your fishing if you haven't already done so. There are several Steam Pump Flotsom floating around which have a decent chance to drop the Verwittertes Tagebuch.

One more thing to note: CRZ. I haven't met a pet (or mount collector, for that matter) yet who enjoys the idea of CRZ. Like it or not cross-realms are here to stay for now so please, please, please be courteous to the people around you. There are still going to be level appropriate toons in the zone questing and other players that are equally as frustrated as you because they wanted to make a day out of farming Gefangenes Glühwürmchen. The amount of rudeness I have encountered since the release of this expansion is absolutely horrible. Play nice, kids!

Edit: 758 kills and a drop. Good luck to everyone else and don't give up! RNG will eventually cut you a break =)

Kommentar von 513485

I found a 1 kg in AH excellent bunch. the drop is very small drop me would never

Kommentar von unholydove

At least farming them is easy these days. They're all one-shots. Now, if only there were more and they respawned faster!

Kommentar von shimmybee

If you're farming this little guy, keep an eye on the Black Market Auction house. Seen it on there for the first time today, it started at 1000g and is unfortunetly uncommon quality. (Not quite sure whether the qualty can change).

You may need to have quite a bidding war as many people clearly wanted this on my server!

Good luck!

Kommentar von 1126980

I got mine after 3 hrs farming :)

Kommentar von Drumaajin

This thing dropped from Schätze des Donnerkönigs randomly today while I was doing an LFR run of ToT PoS.
Didn't expect it to be this rare. Sold it for 7k just before. :)

Kommentar von Tromle

Got it today in a bag in LFR while doing ToT (july 2013)

Kommentar von threninduil

Everyone of you folks are going to hate me. I was collecting glowcaps for the tiny sporebat and read the note about the captured firefly. Since the areas overlap, I decided to start farming bogflare needlers.

Third needler dropped it.

I almost feel guilty... almost.

Kommentar von 1058275

20 min farm

Dropped after a littl' walk around the lake...

guess i'm lucky

Kommentar von scalio

Well I just got this from a Satchel of Cosmic Mysteries as a DPS.

Kommentar von aberdonian

Spent a few hours in 2 sessions separated by doing the Pit daily 165 kills and it dropped, selling for between 10k and 17k on my server, but mine is now called Serenity, too much a fan not to keep it.

Kommentar von Aelhis

Why is this pet not name Time-lost Firefly? Seriously... 8945 kills and counting...

Kommentar von moonlup

A reminder to folks that you can pick this guy up on the Black Market Auction House, and if you're on a medium or lower pop server it may even be cheap. I was extremely lucky yesterday and was able to get him for 1,370 gold on Antonidas. I believe I was outbid a total of two times, so don't dismiss this route of obtaining this rare pet!

He was of common quality, for those curious.

Kommentar von PleaTheFlea

I am not sure if people will read this far down but I do have a nice suggestion to make.

Get the addon "Cross Realm Assist". Go to northwestern Zangarmarsh near the Orebor Harborage flight point.

When you clear one way, cross realm the other way back. When you clear that, hop to another realm and clear the other way back. I did that and it dropped after 6 trips.

The point I'm making is, there is no down time to wait for respawns this way. Maybe it'll work for you. Good luck.

Kommentar von Atrocita

Can anyone confirm this still drops? It doesn’t show in the pet tab or the addon “All the things.” Last it was on the AH on Vashj was 4-17. Also just noticed it says sold in BMAH. No notes it was taken out...

Kommentar von Sponk

I began collecting battle pets a few weeks ago, and this little thing dropped on my very first sweep of Zangarmarsh, i.e. 10th kill or so (not counting the few kills while levelling).
Did they nerf the drop rate, or is this RNG in its purest form?

Kommentar von Jovin

finally drop after 5000+ kills. I should directly buy from AH(40K gold), if I know I will cost 18 hours :(

Kommentar von Dewbeary

Still drops for those who have asked. Got mine today :D

Kommentar von Gyainmaster

For an update. This pet is now on the Black Market Auction House for 10,000 gold starting price.

Kommentar von Irrehs

Dropped for me today on Ghostlands Horde 5/2/2020
I saw the firefly on the Black Market AH and bid a couple times but kept getting outbid. I decided to find out where it dropped and I went out there and was killing the needlers for about 15 minutes when I looted it. Lucky I know, just happens that way sometimes.

Kommentar von Ichise

1051 kills as of patch 14/12/20 on a level 20 character

Kommentar von Zcrow

Got it today it took 850kills

Kommentar von emiluss

late to the party, but dropped it in less than 100 kills!

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