"Slowboxing" Poseidus

[moog]

Just be aware how NPC Scan works and make sure you clear your cache before you start your campfest, in case you've seen its corpse in the past...

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...s/npcscan.aspx

This addon doesn't use nameplates or mouseover units to find rares. Instead, it checks your creature cache for the moment a rare mob is found. There is one catch to this technique however: Once a mob is “found”, _NPCScan won't be able to find it again until your cache is cleared. If you find a rare mob's corpse—Dirkee for example—you would have to clear your cache before _NPCScan would find Dirkee again. Thankfully, clearing your cache is a safe and simple matter.
Clearing Your Cache

To clear your cache, follow these straightforward steps:

1. Exit World of Warcraft.
2. Delete the “Cache” sub-directory inside your World of Warcraft folder. For example on a standard Windows XP installation, you would delete the folder “C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Cache”.
   
   • Advanced users can delete “C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Cache\WDB\enUS\creaturecache.wdb” specifically to improve log-in times, where enUS is your language code.
   
   

Note: Windows Vista and Windows 7 users see this info if your cache isn't in the location above.

That's it. Log in after you've done that and you'd be able to find Dirkee a second time. It's completely safe because WoW will recreate your Cache folder after you log in again.

[beeq]

Just be aware how NPC Scan works and make sure you clear your cache before you start your campfest, in case you've seen its corpse in the past...

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...s/npcscan.aspx

Do you have information about what if NPCScan alerts, and I miss the alert for any reason and someone kills, loots and skins/corpse disappears, then will the alert stay as long as I stay online?

make a macro to target the mob and cast an instant cast just in case someone else hits it before you?

then when you hear the sound just smash the button!

Just when the coord areas are shown as x,y and vash'ij is more likely x,y,z there is a great chance that:

• Poseidus is out of range

• You're not facing Poseidus

Even though I'm on a crowded server, I haven't seen much competition there so far, so there is a great chance to tag the bugger even in a mid-movie after hearing the sound

[moog]

Do you have information about what if NPCScan alerts, and I miss the alert for any reason and someone kills, loots and skins/corpse disappears, then will the alert stay as long as I stay online?

The alert window pops up when it detects the model loading and I don't know what happens if you're not at the PC, as I've always been flying around actively hunting - on the few times it has detected a corpse, I then have to logout and clear the cache to get it working for that critter again - if you have ever seen the NPC, you have loaded its model into your cache and NPC Scan won't work for that creature again until you log out of WoW and delete your cache files, as detailed above. Even if you get there and see a dead corpse of the NPC in question, you still have to clear your cache, after the corpse has decayed, naturally.

NPC Scan is great, though - my huntard uses it to find those rare critters you want to tame

Good luck!