Gutripper: Solo tamed!

Gutripper hits HARD, and after trying to solo-kill her at 66 for the Nesingwary quest and failing, I knew that she resists traps, but I figured at 70 with PVP gear on, I'd be able to manage.

Wrong!

I ran into her at level 67 (she was 66 last time we tangled) and she hit that much harder. After dying twice, I went on my bank alt and got a Scroll of Stamina, one of the minor fortitude potions, and some Rumsey Rum. With that and some buff food, I got Ideale's health to about 11,000, and with Scorpid Sting on Gutripper I managed to outlast the taming cast timer by just barely one second — the TAMED! light flashed, and then her gut rip attack bled me out and I died.

And then I checked Thottbot and found that most people have a taming partner, either a paladin or priest to bubble, or a priest or druid to HoT. A few mentioned having both. That would have been a good idea, I guess. They also listed various potions and buffs that were helpful. So if you plan to tame Gutripper, do some research first instead of being dumb like me! Be prepared and bring friends, too, and avoid your largest repair bill ever (although part of that was from a quest where I fell to my death several times before getting annoyed and buying a flying mount out of sheer frustration — and it was much smaller than the average tanking bill a guildie faces).

But I tamed her, and after an hour or two of thought, named her Gutripper — it doesn't fit the theme, but it just seemed wrong to name her anything else. She's still at "Rebellious" though, after a few hours and much fighting. Wish she'd bump up so I could train her stamina a bit. Constantly casting Mend Pet eats at my mana.

EDIT: The next time I logged on, she jumped up to loyalty level 2 before I even left the inn, and then about half an hour later she bumped up to to level 3. I'm thinking she may have been glitched right after I tamed her, since I also had a problem where she would randomly go from defensive to aggressive, as in I was standing there reading my quest log and I saw the button switch without touching a thing. This happened about four times (thought I was doing it by accident until the last one!) and has not happened once since I logged off that first time. Weird.