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Comment by 91650

Seems to be the only remaining white Marsh Walker as of 5.0. This might make him somewhat sought after if someone wants their Marshie to have the look that Marticar (the rare non-elite from Zangarmarsh that used to be about as powerful as a 70 elite during early to mid TBC) used to have.

Marticar and Boglash (who was also white but had a plague aura effect that made him green) were changed to having green skins when 5.0 dropped.

Comment by Hashupa

Just tamed this beauty and nicknamed it "Hex". I used a map I found via google which REALLY helped me find the path.

What you're going to want to do is follow the tracks until they stop. When they do, place a flare near where they stop... You should reveal the beast if it is nearby. At that point, apply hunter's mark for permanent vision and tame away! Following the tracks can be quite tricky and you will know if you are far away because they WILL despawn after a bit. But, don't lose hope. Only hunters can see the tracks and only hunters can reveal the pet. Good luck!

The map.

Wanted to add that when I revealed it via flare, it did not attack me. In fact, even when I started the tame, it just kept walking. And also, the tracks for this guy are called "Mysterious Tracks".

The Tracks.

EDIT: Tracks have been fixed! Rejoice!

Comment by manoqueen

I would like to point out that although the footprints seem to indicate that Hexapos has walked in one direction, it might have walked the other. Imagine your footprints if your feet were turned 180* around...

If you see a footprint and find that it fades, and then the previous one fades too, this is a clear indication of this. Try tracking the footprints in the other direction.

I tamed this pet yesterday.

Comment by applebear

The footprints are nice and big on this one, I got him soon after I started hunting him by simply flying back and forth to his start and stop points. Biggest challenge with him is the area is congested, so pick your taming spots wisely. Nice looking pet, one of my faves of the new rares.

Comment by 779198

Just tamed him on my hunter Kutleki on Antonidas server, roughly 4:12 am game time.

What a beauty! That makes 9 out of 9 rares now.

Comment by 1036232

Some of the hard lessons I learned spending 14+ hrs. before taming Hexapos:

1) Non-hunters can't see Hexapos or his tracks. You won't be able to see him either until you find the end of his tracks and pop a flare. This works out great in the fact you don't have to worry about non-hunters ruining your hunt.

2) I have to thank Hashupa's post for showing me the map to follow and learn the habits of my prey.

The map

3) Hexapos is one of nine new special NPCs put in with similar mechanics (but different tracks) as a challenge for hunters to tame unique looking pets. Here is a link to pictures and a little info on all of the new NPCs:

Link to info on the new Panderan hunting challenges

4) I wish there had been more information on the tracks before and I could probably have saved myself a lot of time. The tracks look just like the screenshots people have posted and are on the last link. What nobody posted yet was that those tracks are only a little bigger than the hoof print of your mount and the trail they leave is a footprint about every 25 yards and not every 1-3 yards or so like I was thinking. And like previous posters have stated, the prints are backwards to logic so trace them what would be backwards to find Hexapos and the other tamable pets.

I hope this helps others have a successful hunt.

Comment by 1040532

Just tamed him 10:40pm Proudmoore, thank you so much for the guide, worked beautifully, the tracks a re a bit smaller than i imagined but if you follow in the exact direction the heel is pointing its much easier to spot from the sky (also helps you avoid angry scorpions and the like)

Comment by 934824

talk about a b*tch to find. i must have followed those tracks for over an hour losing them so many times. the footprints were so confusing cuz i was following the 3 toe part for direction. u gotta follow the heel looking part of the track at least thats what i had to do. and when u throw ur flare dont throw it on the track u gotta throw it a little ahead like ur guessing where itll step next. i had a guild member make me those purple smoke flares so i could keep track of the steps in case i had to retrace my steps. they helped so much. hope this helps happy hunting

Comment by Suuckamedrya

The tracks to follow this guy were horrible, they were so small and his path is full of flying aggressive NPCs as well as ground bound aggressive NPCs, I finally saw the tracks and thought for sure I was going to have a heart attack trying to track him. When I finally found the end of the tracks I landed to keep up with them and caught the aggro of two stalkers who knocked me down to 90k health from my 300k so I feigned death and used my hunter heals and finally started taming him just to realize that he hits HARD, 25k per hit so I popped readiness plus another heal and after dropping to 60k health I had him tamed!

Totally worth it but definitely a bit of a challenge and extremely stressful!

Comment by 905137

I found him walking by Klaxxevess. Took me about 30 mins of searching.

Comment by Swaney

Tamed him at 2pm server on wyrmrest, following that excellent map linked. The tracks were very easy, and he did appear tapped when revealed with the flare but there was no issue in the tame. He didn't attack at all, just kept strolling right along.

Also, the tracks are still facing reverse direction of the mobs movement, keep that in mind when trying to find them.

Comment by SonAltesse

Hexapos is one of the new hunter challenge pets: Patrannache (Valley of the Four Winds), Glimmer (Jade Forest), Savage (Jade Forest), Bloodtooth (Krasarang Wilds), Stompy (Kun-Lai Summit), Bristlespine (Kun-Lai Summit), Rockhide the Immovable (Townlong Steppes), Hexapos (Dread Wastes) and Portent (Vale of Eternal Blossoms).

Only hunters can track these beasts. These animals are totally invisible. They can be spotted by following the footprints and putting up a flare.

Once tracked down and tamed, Hexapos will gain two exotic abilities:

Comment by Sarantha

Hexapos is gorgeous. Well worth all the time and frustration getting him. So many mobs I had to dodge due to his being in a high level zone before I tamed him. First time, he walked out of my flare and I had to wait to pop another flare. Luckily, he hadn't gone far. I love my Hexapos. =)

He does have a few phasing issues depending on how far in Dread Wastes you are. I hadn't done literally ANY quests in Dread Wastes on my hunter, and actually had zero issues tracking him beyond dodging mobs, so I'm thinking if you haven't done quests, you're better off since he doesn't seem to get lost in phases if you have a "clean slate". I tamed him near a mantid swarm and almost died after tame due to aggro'ing about 20 mantids after the tame. Hexapos decided it would be a great time to run far away, aggro stuff, then run back to me, like some tamed mobs like to do.

We lived, and I now have my gorgeous white water strider. He will make a gorgeous partner for Glimmer. These guys are the only two water striders I have tamed and love. Even if you hate water striders, tame this one. You will fall for him, just like I did. He is so unique and attractive looking. I use him over Savage, who seems to be the most coveted rare in Mists. She's pretty, but she isn't quite as unique.

Comment by 1033312

I just tried to tame it on my Survival hunter (on Silvermoon EU) but it said "Creature not tameable".
I guess you have to be Beast Master to tame it..? ._.

Comment by acabiscuit

8:33 eastern time also server time just got mine on the cross roads near the forgotten mire. wasnt so hard after doing just a lil research on what these tracks looked like. then finding the "lead" track was kinda cool and guessing where he was. had alot of fun. this is my first one of the 9. on to the next one!

Comment by Saiph

One question - does Hex consistently travel in one direction? In other words, does he always start at the North point near Rikkitun Village and travel to the South end in the Briny Muck? Or vice versa? Knowing this along with using Hashupa's excellent map would make it pretty easy to hunt him down once we run across a track.

Comment by Drathellia

Hexapos grants "surface trot" which allows water walking and "still water" which is a passive buff of 10% to spell power and 5% to critical strike.

Tip: wait for hexapos' foot prints to appear at or near his start point along the cliff north of the briny muck (the prints are backwards so follow the heel of the print:FIXED?) "follow" the prints to the "lake of stars". You have to be a little ahead of the prints to catch the rare pets so find the LAST PRINT in each Set of Foot Prints before it disappears and a new set then reappears further on. Using your flying mount is easiest. Wait for prints to get closer to the north end of the "lake of Stars" and then QUICKLY pop your flare in the open greener area located between the two little darker colored "hills"(as shown on your map) north-by-northeast from the north end of the lake towards the battle scar area were all the Mantids are. His path crosses right thru the middle of the two little hills. (Tom Tom is 66, 55) or just about...
I caught him there just now today, posted this just after catching him and it seemed to me like a lucky place to catch/tame him because there aren't any npc's milling around to interfere with taming.

Comment by IreneDAdler

Just tamed him (Dec 9, 2012) and can confirm that as of 5.1, his tracks still point backwards as was posted on Petopia forums:
(forums.wow-petopia.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18527)

- As of patch 5.1, pawprints (Savage, Bloodtooth, Bristlespine, Stompy, Rockhide, Portent) lead FORWARDS and clawprints (Glimmer, Patrannache, Hexapos) lead BACKWARDS. For backwards tracks, instead of following the toes, you follow the back of the prints to the next fresh one

Comment by 1063857

Tracks are still backwards. Though portent and the others tracks are forward facing.

Comment by 1065665

Just to confirm, i tamed Hexapos on Argent Dawn EU Server on 16/12/2012 and the tracks still go backwards, so if you see them, backtrack him - this pet also gives you water walking ability!

Comment by TelisTheHunter

The tracks are still backwards as of December 31st.

Comment by moxietonic

Just tamed mine, 5:28 pm server time (Garona, US). The tracks are still backwards. Put a hunter's mark on him before he could disappear again. FYI, he was grayed out and at first I thought I wouldn't be able to tame him. I decided to try to tame him anyway, and it worked!

Comment by 1063393

caught this guy 12:42 realm time an yes tracks are backwards still. location of my tame was 56.9.66.4. i first saw his tracks at location 37.6,25.2 an lost them so decided to find a nice place that would work out to be a half way point to his travel (shot in the dark it would work) that location was 59.8,68.8....had few cat attacks while i was taming him but with the glyph of tame beast i tamed him fast an then feign death an stealth my way out of there lol. good luck

Comment by Ysosrslawl

1/11/2013
Time: 7:40m PM EST
Area in Zone: Right by the North part of Lake of Stars in his path route

Tracked him from Kapari'Vor all the way down to where I tamed him. He was bugged a little though he wouldn't attack me and the tame cast got cut short twice when he walked passed my flare.

Comment by 1035722

i got him tonight at 10:40pm realm time hydraxis realm at 66 52 his tracks are still backwards as of 1-13-13

Comment by 1055771

gotem yest. Tracks still backwards

Get more comments on this guy then anyother pet......

Comment by ximeentje

Hello fellow hunters of WoW, I just tamed this beautifull beast.
I found his tracks and followed them untill I realized they stil are going back wards.

So any hunter that goes for him should follow the steps backwards from the posistion they are pointing.

Happy hunting :)

Comment by 757351

If you look at his "feet" as he walks, they do point backwards...which would explain having to follow the tracks backwards.

Comment by 948458

Just tamed this beauty. It was my first time tracking one of these guys, and this guy just doesn't seem to care no matter what you do. When I used Flare and even started taming him, he just kept on walking. Once he was out of my flare, he disappeared again. Even if you attack him, he keeps walking. I placed a Serpent Sting on him and that kept him from disappearing again and allowed me to successfully tame him!

Comment by Ariztophale

I just tamed him on Auchindoun - EU. I did it in max 15 minutes and consider myself very lucky to do it in such a short time :P I did this at around 5 a.m. in-game time, so it's safe to say I had no competition. Also, as of patch 5.2, the tracks are now showing the correct direction.

Comment by 123Melchior

The tracks aren't anymore pointed backwards. You can follow them now in the normal way.

Comment by richhhhhhhhh

Just tamed this pet, it's awesome!

A few notes though, you have to be in Beast Mastery to tame as it's an exotic.

Also in 5.2 the footsteps are now fixed and are now facing in the correct way.

Comment by halonah

Confirmed 04/21/2013 the tracks are pointing the correct way. Follow the three toes!

Comment by twistedtwilight

Blizzard has foiled my collection of tears with this new method...

Comment by IMissThottbot

Tracks appear to be oriented correctly now.

Two notes: the footprints are -small,- but a brighter brown than the stone/dirt objects; second, they do say Barely-Visible Track on mouseover.

It was tapped when I located it for my friend, but after doing some damage he was able to hunter's mark it after feign despite a grey health bar, after which point, he tamed it!

Good luck folks!

Comment by Bogdanov89

Honestly i am surprised this creature even leaves footprints.

Comment by 355492

Gorgeous, unique pet! I got lucky finding its tracks right away around the north west area (it must have just spawned recently) on a very populated server to boot! The tracks are small but they're easy to see against the contrast of the ground

Comment by Silvansaria

Just caught him. 1:58AM.

Had to follow his tracks for quite awhile because the flare was either falling just short of where he just walked or I was temporarily interrupted because of an attack and then had to relocate his tracks and follow them some more. But once you get a good flare on him - immediately Hunter's Mark him and then it's all donkey from there.

He's pretty awesome - so worth the treacherous effort.

Comment by Anevara

.... And another one of these sad stories of wild animals that wanted to be pets but never had the luck to become pets.... I killed Sambas the lion in the eastern kingdoms because i didn't know what he'll drop and suddenly felt bad when i read the item comment of the tear these pets drop. (Hey wait isn't this Strider rare? And why does he drop the pets tear when he's/she's not from cata? O:) .__.

Comment by IMissThottbot

Those with the Klaxxi augmentation Master of Puppets can mind-control a Swamp Strider from around the Terrace of Gurthan. Fly around with this "pet" out--it has a constant AoE flare, and keeps up with your epic flyer. It's a far smaller area than the graphic shows, but it's quite useful for using rather than having to pop flares--and you don't need to dismount to use it.

Note: dismiss your pet in advance, because otherwise dismounting (and the automatic pet resummon that comes with it) seems to dismiss your MC'd strider.

Comment by dle0105

This is where I went:

62.1 28.7 (This is the exact spot of where one of his tracks appeared.)

TomTom waypoint:

/way Dread Wastes 62.1 28.7

This spot is on a path that appears carved into the rock with the root of a gigantic tree going over head. There aren't any mobs here to aggro and it is near the middle of his entire path. All I did was stand in the path and spam a flare. After about 20 minutes he came walking through.

Don't forget to place your hunter's mark on him as he moves quickly out of the flare.

Hope some people find this helpful. Good luck!

Comment by jelliott2k

I found the Hexapos in the Dread Wastes, along the south west shore, but it was not tameable. I am a Lvl 90 hunter so it seems to me I should have been able to tame it if taming was possible. Perhaps something has changed.

Comment by 1084147

I just tamed this guy. The tracks don't go backwards, he does a turn around at the end of the top left of the map tracks. That threw me until I followed him and caught up with him once again. The mobs were horrible, once you caught him in the flares they came and attacked. Just be patient, he will cross a dry creek bed after the wall where the Krik'think Hiveling are lined up. The only creatures by the creek bed are calves so they won't attack. Good luck, hope this helps.

Comment by Elanorien

Just an extra trip, sorry if it was listed and I didn't see it. When you see the prints, make sure to drop your flare several feet AHEAD of the last visible print to land it on/in front of him so he'll pass through it and you don't accidentally drop it behind him and miss him. I know this is kind of obvious to some people, but maybe it'll help others out :).

Comment by Maddyx

I've just tamed him at 47.43 22.30

That's awesome!

Comment by Bursi

Tamed him at 63.99 32.71. These are the footprints before, maybe they help someone. Older ones weren't visible any more after taming him.

/way Dread Wastes 63.99 32.71
/way Dread Wastes 64.07 33.47
/way Dread Wastes 64.39 34.05
/way Dread Wastes 64.82 34.45
/way Dread Wastes 65.01 35.21
/way Dread Wastes 65.09 36.03
/way Dread Wastes 65.39 36.77
/way Dread Wastes 65.27 37.56
/way Dread Wastes 65.24 38.40
/way Dread Wastes 65.27 39.24

Comment by Akitnaya

I remember back in patch 5.0 or 5.1 when I tamed this guy how dreadful it was to track him. Spent almost an hr...& back then I believe the tracks had to be followed backwards & I was following it forwards. The all-white/pink skin is the best looking outta all the fen striders in my opinion. I use this guy on Timeless Isle when needing to catch Evermaw & don't have a DK friend around for water walking. The water walking buff lasts 10mins btw & you must be in Beast Mastery spec to tame! Not a very good raid pet but the Still Water buff is nice for casters. Tracked for my bf too & as soon as he dinged 90 he tamed him as well. Patience is key to finding these guys unless u know the patrol path by heart....I don't of course. Good luck all.

Comment by Gothicchick83

Tamed him at /way 44.14 53.42 :)

Comment by chemicalkidd

Made Tom Tom waypoint macro based on points shown on map if anyone can use it, split into three macros for character limit ... gives you a nice little route.

/way 30.2 52.0
/way 30.2 53.4
/way 36.0 52.6
/way 36.8 52.6
/way 37.6 52.2
/way 38.6 52.6
/way 40.0 52.6
/way 43.8 51.6
/way 44.2 53.0
/way 44.2 53.6
/way 45.4 55.8
/way 46.4 58.4
/way 48.2 60.4
/way 48.4 61.2
/way 48.4 62.8
/way 49.6 64.4
/way 51.8 67.6

/way 55.8 66.4
/way 57.8 65.6
/way 59.0 66.6
/way 59.4 67.6
/way 59.8 68.6
/way 65.8 54.4
/way 66.2 53.0
/way 65.8 54.4
/way 65.2 44.0
/way 65.4 43.2
/way 65.4 41.2
/way 65.4 36.6
/way 61.8 27.8
/way 62.2 21.6
/way 64.6 20.8
/way 64.2 16.6
/way 65.8 15.8

/way 53.6 25.6
/way 49.8 22.4
/way 40.2 25.8
/way 39.0 25.0
/way 37.6 25.2
/way 36.8 25.4
/way 35.6 24.6
/way 32.6 23.4

Comment by benx2011

remember, when you see it, throw a freeze trap asap before it disappears. sometimes, it may disappear while it's frozen. dont worry, you have enough time to throw another flash because your freeze trap lasts 1 min.

Comment by 578506

As of 6.0.2, without Hunter's Mark, Hexapos is tamable by standing at 62.1, 28.7 (h/t to dle0105 for coords) and spamming both Flare and Freezing Trap until he shows up. His time to complete the full path is about 40-42 minutes.

Comment by Schadenfreude

Now that hunter's mark has been removed, if you uncover him using flare, hit him immediately with a freeze trap-- you don't have time to tame him before he moves out of the flare.

Comment by setsuko

I went for Hexapos right after taming Portent. I found Hexapos to be a bit more difficult as its path is not as straight-forward. By that I mean its tracks may walk in one direction but it frequently turns a bit to one side or another. Additionally there were some locations with aggro mobs or elites which made it much harder to try to tame there. Please note that Hexapos is not a fast walker.

Additionally, the location that worked for me to tame was around 46.8/59.6 where it begins walking down the road which is a bit west/NW of Kypari'Zar. The path is very predictable here. I cleared one mob, put down a freeze trap, flare, and got it first try on this road.

Overall, I find hunting and taming these beasts to be more fun than camping the spirit beasts from TBC :)

Comment by 777097

Just caught him and Bombyx today, as of 6.0 you still use flare but now have to Freeze Trap target to hold them long enough to tame

Comment by 1481843

I just got him. I had a problem with him stealthing before I could tame and this is what I used to tame him.
Core hound for Ancient Hysteria
Haste Pot bound to key
Glyph of Tame Beast with Tame beast also bound to a key

I followed his tracks as he made them with my core hound out and ready
run ahead of him a bit
Ancient Hysteria (lasts 40 seconds only)
dismiss core hound
drop flare just a bit ahead of the next foot print as it's made
haste pot
tame as soon as you see him

Success!

Good luck, this one was a bit a of a challenge. GL HF!

Comment by kadrii

in patch 6,2 you dont have hunter mark-use flare en ice trap

Comment by Arendil

The best place to wait for him to pass is 62.3 29.5. It´s a nice straight and narrow path that goes under the root of a tree. You cant miss the tracks when he´s walking there. Flare + Ice trap will do the trick

Comment by pmeirelesneto

On 6.2.4, Hunters do not have mark of the hunter anymore. As a lvl 100 hunter you must be very fast since you cannot damage him or use concussive shot. Snake trap is useless as well. PS.: Hexpos runs like hell, he doesn't care.

Once you see a new foot print appear you immediately release your flare and throw a freezing trap on the walking bastard. Click and (for the love of god) do not misclick it because it will be very hard to get another chance.

Ghlyps, haste potion, hysteria - as mentioned before - and other tricks may help you but I did without it.

GL and be patient.

Comment by Aggron

The comments here had me worried, since BMs don't have traps anymore, but I just tamed him pretty easily (it took a few tries but I didn't need any speed buffs).
Find him, pop a Flare a few steps ahead of him and as soon as he appears start taming. Good luck guys!

Comment by ToviValdora

If you're wondering how to tame this pet now that Hunter's Mark and Freezing Trap is gone from BM, one way is Flare first then Binding Shot on top of it. Make sure you're right in it's path.

Comment by 1683999

Tracks now face the right way (toes to front) I just tamed him Draenor server 10:00 server time 26/10/16 I used the path in this pic to find his tracks...http://wowrarespawns.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/hexapos-trackable-hunter-pet-water.html

He ran out of my first flare & my tame did not work so maybe he has to be visible for the duration of the tame. Or maybe I moved a bit & broke tame? Anyhoo, I got him on second go, one happy hunter!

Comment by calebarnell

looking for some good transmog to go with this fella, any suggestions?

Comment by Woundheir

So I had my nether ray out ready to lust. Found tracks after an hour of looking and spammed flare at a choke point. THE F***ING NETHER RAY "assisted" MY FLARE! Killed the thing I spent an hour waiting to tame. WTF

Comment by Toupyga

Since hunter mark is not avaliable for BM hunters in 8.0.1:
- follow tracks
- flare when they ends
- throw freezing trap at hexapod (you dont have to see him, trap will still trigger)
- wait for flare cd to go down
- reflare
- tame
- high five yourself

Comment by Bradwr

I tamed mine in 8.3 and it's very easy but you may have to wait for an hour or so. Go to 62 29 in the Dread Wastes (Pandaria). Keep ice trap down and flare on top of it in the middle of the path. He'll come by eventually but you must use your flare and trap on cooldown as he moves quickly. I tamed one and the next one came by in about 1.5 hours so I guess that's roughly the respawn time. Enjoy. :)

Comment by Yotingo

Since they took Hunter's Mark away from Beastmaster Hunters, you can also tame this guy by getting him in a frost trap and then taming him while he's CCed.

If he walks just outside of your flare, or your flare runs out, I can confirm he WILL remain in your trap even while he's "invisible". So just put another flare down and tame away.

Comment by Danieltoon

The three points of the claw point the direction he is traveling. For me he was going counter-clockwise in the zone.

Comment by Omnos

Tamed 25 Oct 2020, Patch 9.0.1

Unlike other pets, this one did not keep his name as "Hexapos" it changed to Water Strider.

Track was very simple to follow.

Comment by Dierna

Tamed 26.01.2022

After taming the pet did keep it's name, caught mine on the Argent Dawn (EU) server at about 20:45 server time on coordinates 61.90, 27.85 right between the two little hills.

Comment by ArticSkoll

still exists 10.2.0.52393 patch. keeps name post tame. caught it at spawn point 45.01 23.94

Comment by Puhik

This beauty is easy to track, specially now, when a very small amount of hunters are trying to tame him. If you cannot find his prints on your first run, it is a good idea to go back - the map of his path is not very precise, so you could be very close to him and not see him. The footprints still show his direction correctly. Good luck!

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