Old School Rares and their Special Abilities

Unread post by **evil950510** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 1:29 am

I am very new to Wow, but I heard that each rare back in the day had their won unique ability, which they kept even after taming. Like Lupos had dark resistance or Mazzranache being slower than other tallstriders.

Unread post by **Comett** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 1:43 am

Yes and no. I think it was more like, pets in general weren't standardised, so they were all in some way different/unique, whether that was run speed, attack speed or resistance. ^_^ (Including common pets.)

Unread post by **Ziarre** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 1:45 am

Lupos had shadow damage.
AV Frostwolves were super fast, and could catch epic mounts.
Takk was pretty fast too.
Mazz was slow, and so were Snow Leopards.
Broken Tooth had a 1.0 attack speed.
Deathmaw had a 1.2 attack speed, fastest you could get without picking up a cat.

Those are all I remember off the top of my head, I know many cats had a predilection for fast attack speed, but Broken Tooth was king of those.

Dragon Cave · Unread post by **Chimera** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 1:50 am

These arent attack abilities but they are still totally epic:

Prarie Stalkers (or were they the alphas?) and for Horde side, Spot barked.
Deathmaw currently barks, did he bark pre-cata? I never quested in Burning Steppes to see him.

Thats all i can remember that hasnt been said already....

Unread post by **Wassa** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:15 am

Ziarre wrote:Lupos had shadow damage.
AV Frostwolves were super fast, and could catch epic mounts.
Takk was pretty fast too.
Mazz was slow, and so were Snow Leopards.
Broken Tooth had a 1.0 attack speed.
Deathmaw had a 1.2 attack speed, fastest you could get without picking up a cat.

Those are all I remember off the top of my head, I know many cats had a predilection for fast attack speed, but Broken Tooth was king of those.

Some other old school unique pets with odd abilities-

-Snarler has 100 of each resistance. I believe the fire rocs in Tanaris has 100 fire resist as well.
-Other fast pets were Longtooth Runners and King Bangalash. AV Frostwolf was still the fastest.
-Durotar Tigers were also very slow runners with Mazz and Snow Leopards.
-Along with Brokentooth, ZG bats also had 1.0 attack speed and where preferred over "that damn cat" because of their large size for PvP.
-Other faster attack pets include The Rake (1.2), Ornery Plainstrider (1.3), Death Flayer (1.6), and Galak Packhound(1.5 I think...). Many more than what I listed these are the ones I remember off of the top of my head.
-A few pets had slower than 2.0 attack speed (the norm for pets at the time). These where Ursius, Black Bear (the one tameable at the Ironforge Airport), and one other pet I cannot remember right now.
-Gretheer, a rare spider in Silithus, used to have the model and skin of a tallstrider, which was awesome.
-Most pets with mana bars in the wild had "caster stats" and where weaker than most other pets. Wind serpents, dragonhawks, and a few named spiders where infamous for this.

Dragon Cave · Unread post by **Chimera** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:27 am

LOL omg Greether used to look like a tallstrider!?!?!?! What color??

Oh yeah i forgot about the 'caster' stat pets... i always hated wind serpents back then but i couldnt remember why lol

Unread post by **Wassa** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:29 am

Xakaal wrote:LOL omg Greether used to look like a tallstrider!?!?!?! What color??

I think he was the grey skin. I never saw him in the wild. One of those pets that I camped forever but then they "fixed" him so I lost interest.

Unread post by **Slapperfish** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:30 am

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Dragon Cave · Unread post by **Chimera** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:39 am

Hahaaaa that is so epic xD I say thats the best accident blizz has made yet. Caused no harm but made a lotta luls.

Edit: I still cant get over how hilarious the name Slapperfish and that avatar is. It makes me smile every time XD

Unread post by **Rawr** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:47 am

The only reason I had a Wind Serpent, back when SP was needed to get good dps out of them, was because of Arikara. He had the coolest pet entrance EVER! He would appear in a puff of smoke with a cool sound to go with it. It was awesome and made dismounting fun. Sadly though they took it out when they equalized all of the pets

Dragon Cave · Unread post by **Chimera** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:49 am

I remember Azzre the Skyblade and Arikara having the *poof* (damn lol i always remember these things as clear as day AFTER someone mentions it). I tamed Azzre a while before Cata only to see the *poof* was gone

saddened me greatly... im still not one for wind serpents

Unread post by **Wassa** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:56 am

I think only Arikara would be summoned in a poof of smoke, not Azzre. Gezzarak also had a lightning bolt animation when summoned too.

Silithid Protector, a now retired crab pet, used to do an emote when summoned that was removed rather quickly once that was discovered.

Dragon Cave · Unread post by **Chimera** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:03 am

Azzre had the *poof* action but it was removed i believe same time as Arikaras was

Awe thats sad for the silithid, i wonder why they were so keen to rid the pet of its emote

Edit: Maybe it was Washte Pawne im thinking of. Both he and Arikara have the same model.. I cant find the comment anymore on WoWhead that i learned it from..

Unread post by **Nightsights** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:42 am

i had The Rake, Takk the Leaper and Humar the Pridelord, all three had super fast pursuit speed (could chase down lvl 60 mounts) and fast attack speed.

Unread post by **Jin** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:46 am

Mist Howler too had 1.3 attack speed. I remember I very long camp to get him for pvp since I really didn't klick with that cat...

Unread post by **Agravaine** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:49 am

Sian-Rotam had 2.0 attack speed, Ursius had 2.4 attack speed and the Young Forest Bears from Elwynn had 2.5 attack speed. Some hunters preferred them because the slow attack speed translated to huge opening crits.

Unread post by **Wassa** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:43 pm

Agravaine wrote:Sian-Rotam had 2.0 attack speed, Ursius had 2.4 attack speed and the Young Forest Bears from Elwynn had 2.5 attack speed. Some hunters preferred them because the slow attack speed translated to huge opening crits.

Thank you. Young Forest Bear was the slow attack speed pet I was forgetting of the three that had slower than 2.0 attack speed.

Here are old screenshots of the Black Bear and her 2.5 attack speed. She was pretty unknown since she was in a game area we players shouldn't have been in at the time. <.<

Unread post by **Zheria** » Thu Jun 30, 2011 4:44 pm

LOL. I looked at your picture and realized that I had completely forgotten about loyalty XD XD. Geez, that was was a long time ago.

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