Deciding Between Birds (Yes, Another One)

Wark · **Posted:** Sun Feb 27, 2011 9:41 pm

Apparently the question of the day is which bird to use, who knew?

Storytime:
Back when I went on my initial stables-clogging filling spree, I grabbed an eyepopping purple-and-orange kaliri out of Sethekk Halls. This hunter's theme is approximately "purple", I'd never had an excuse for such a gaudy owl before, etc etc. Well, I finished leveling it to 85, and I pulled it out a couple of times when the impossible happened and we'd reach Throngus without anyone else to disarm, but for the most part I buried it deep in my stables and never used it.

Alright, so we reach 4.0.6, and suddenly Hell-Hoot is... purplish. To be charitable. I'd call that color "Winterspring" but I wanted an excuse to tame something new and the riotous colors of my kaliri was just not doing it for me. Off to Winterspring, tame, start to level it... get bored and wander off for a bit. Come back to my hunter a few weeks later, and looking at it again I finally stumble across the beginnings of a story for it: it's the old Sethekk kaliri I "rescued," only being in a different habitat has changed its color (I use that skin-change excuse so often I'm singlehandedly turning it into a trope, I swear) and I finally realize that it's nuts. Bonkers. Out of its gourd. CrrrraaAAAAzy. It's the eyes, I tell ya. Look at it! That is not the look of a sane creature.

I should probably mention that it pains me to use a pet without even a little story. I can do it, but it sucks a large element of fun out of it. But give my pet a story, even just a simple one, and bam! So finally getting a bit of story for my owl made me quite happy.

And then last night I followed my friends into heroic Deadmines for some achievement fun. Well, as we approached the ship room, I idly started babbling about/explaining the rarespawn parrots for the benefit of my groupmates (who are completely hunter-pet challenged and wouldn't know a unique skin if it ran up and bit them). Well, we're pulling through the parrots, and we get within seeing distance of the last flying parrot and oh look, it's the Brilliant Macaw. Miniwing. The rarespawn I spent the most time explaining to my groupmates. Now, my friends are jerks sometimes, but depriving one of their favorite hunters of a pet she just spent 5 minutes babbling about and is now bouncing up in down in her seat begging for strikes them either as too cruel or very, very unwise-- so they kill the last boring parrot, back up, and give me a thumbs up. I quickly abandoned my Hell-Hoot (why I brought a Disarm pet to a Disarm-less dungeon, I couldn't tell you) and a few moments later become the disbelieving new owner of a Maxiwing.

So now I have two Birds of Prey, when I can barely find an excuse to keep one. The owl has more of a story so far, and is even close to having a name-- although, having written out this post, I'm starting to feel around for something for the parrot. Speaking of, the ridiculous crest and dorky look of the parrot model isn't my favorite, although I like the colors better than the owl. I can always retame Hell-Hoot if I change my mind, which I'm quite fond of-- common but rarely-seen skins are a love of mine. But I've never seen a single person brag about having a Maxiwing, let alone seen one in-game, so I can forgive it for being a rare.

*inhales*

If anyone's bothered reading this far... :roll:

Opinions on which bird to keep?

Shalyth · **Posted:** Sun Feb 27, 2011 9:51 pm

Lol i want brilliant macaw just because theres a mini-pet of her xD honestly, you have quite the history with your owl (making your warhawk adapt the the climate of winterspring and having her feathers change color to help her survive) and the macaw is soooosoooo suuuuper pretty xD

id keep both, then see what one you spend more time with, if you feel you need to clean the stables out and you arent clicking with one of them, well, its not hard to re-tame em (the macaw maybe due to it being a rare-spawn inside an instance) but hey, if you do abaondon it, you can always see if a GM will restore it for you if you begin to long for her sparkily figure :3

BTW Avian Warhawks are EEEEEPIC

Ive had mine since the beginning of TBC and i named her BerryDanish XDD

Miyon · **Posted:** Sun Feb 27, 2011 10:22 pm

I'd say keep the owl because of the story behind the pet. Also, I don't like the parrots and I have tried quite a few of them. I made a thread like this a few weeks ago about which bird of prey to keep, standing between olm, brilliant macaw and aotona. Olm stayed while the other two was set free.

TygerDarkstorm · **Posted:** Sun Feb 27, 2011 10:36 pm

Personally, I'd say keep the owl. You've said that you don't really like the looks of the parrot even though you like the colors. If you're like me, it'd end up buried in your stables despite the pretty colors because you don't like the model. The owl also has the start of a backstory and is close to having a name.

If you really can't decide; keep both and play around with each of them until you get a feel for which one you like better. My vote is with the owl though.

Araela · **Posted:** Sun Feb 27, 2011 10:39 pm

I vote to keep both for now, and use them a bit, see if you get a stronger feel for one over the other. If not, keep them both permanently!

Mozag · **Posted:** Mon Feb 28, 2011 3:24 am

Usually, I'd have voted to keep both, since it makes sense to see if you develop a stronger bond with the parrot.

However, many factors here are making me cast my vote for your owl.

1. You called filled stables "clogged", which leads me to think that you, like me, hate a stable filled with pets that aren't getting an airing, no matter how pretty.

2. You have history with your owl, which is always, always more important than some rare, shiny skin.

3. You said you don't like the parrot model, although you like the colours. This is the least important reason, since an ugly pet can capture your heart, when given the chance. (Looking at you, Nuramoc and green ravager! :lol:

) But, because of reason number 4, this is a little bit more important than usual.

4. To my great and overwhelming sadness, being both a parrot and owl fan, the bird of prey skill is only situationally useful, unless you PvP. Personally I love the family so much that some of my hunters have two or three birds of prey, and there are times when it bothers me a little. Still, we should run with those pets we like the look of, except maybe in raids, but I have a feeling that the model and the uselessness of the skill will likely make you bury your Miniwing in the stables, unless you can think up a story for him which makes sense (since that's important to you, as you said).

To recap: Owl it is.

Sherbe · **Posted:** Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:23 am

I say owl. it's crrrrazy and you have a connection. If you don't like parrots you don't like parrots, just like I tamed Olm and Hell-hoot and noticed I don't like owls anymore. No use fighting, so I released both. I myself also don't like Brilliant Macaw skin, but that's me, and I have my cloudscraper Maitai. You, you like owls. So you hang around with an owl. Hell-hoot is the most personality-full owl in game, I will probably have to tame it on an alt sometime even if I dislike the sounds....

Comett · **Posted:** Mon Feb 28, 2011 6:58 am

The owl

One of the last lines of your post did it for me: you could forgive the parrot for being a rare because you didn't see anyone else with it. Next week ten people are bound to pop up with it, you'll look at the parrot and think "why did I even want this in the first place". So owl it would be!

I'm another huge bird of prey fan but they have no use to me - I stretched it out with my Ruchbah (Madexx) because I fell head over heels for him so he's pretty much the only disarm pet I can make excuses to keep. But omg, I love about 90% of the owl and parrot skins. It sucks D:

Kurasu · **Posted:** Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:00 am

I'm with the 'keep both and look for the connection' my own self. But then again, this is coming from a dwarf with three Birds Of Prey in his stable right now, so I may not be the best judge.

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