Random Pet Family Appreciation Thread 2: Warp Stalkers!
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 5:29 pm
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1) Moths
Random pet family appreciation thread is where I roll a random pet family every week for everyone to share their pictures, their stories, their love for that pet family. Please no hate or rants. This is an appreciation thread. If you dislike the family, don't post! Hopefully with some love we can get some hunters to try out new pets they never would have thought to tame before.
Our second family is the tricksy Warp Stalker family!
Warp Stalker facts
~Introduced as a tameable family in Burning Crusade.
~Warp Stalkers have six different skin colors.
~Warp Stalkers have no rare members.
~Warp Stalkers have one unique skinned named member, Gezzarak the Huntress with a dark purple with yellow-green stripes skin called warpstalkerskinblack.
~Gezzarak the Huntress is definitely the most infamous member of the family. Summoned after a very long quest chain in Skettis, she hit like a truck and would knock back and warp to interrupt your tame. Once tamed, she had an awesome summoning animation where she appeared in a flash of thunder. However, she was bugged and could not attack other players in PvP, could not be misdirected and could only be healed by mend pet. Due to these bugs she was made untameable shortly afterwards, making her extremely rare to see tamed. Thanks to Noah, Gezz was made tameable again in Cataclysm patch 4.0.3. Her bugs where fixed but she no longer has that cool thunder summoning animation.
~Back in Wrath, warp stalkers where tamed by 1.3% of level 80 hunters. Placing them at number 14 on the list, tied with chimaeras.(Source)
~Back in Wrath, warpstalkerskinwhite was the most tamed skin at 73.7%! Warpstalkerskinblack was the least tamed at 1.6%, obviously due to Gezz becoming untameable. (Source)
~Warp Stalkers used to have the special ability Warp, which acted as a teleport and increased the warp stalkers avoidance on the next three melee attacks made to it. This made warp stalkers great single target tanks. Warp also shared a cooldown with Charge, allowing warp stalkers to pick up a talent point elsewhere.
~A Black Warp Stalker mount was datamined back in August of 2008, but never implemented in game.
~Many mini warp stalkers exist in game such as Spiny Lizard and Horned Lizard, but no mini warp stalkers have been made as a permanent companion pet yet.
~Daggertail Lizard was introduced in Burning Crusade, but with these creatures being over level 70 they could not be tamed. During the Blade's Edge Mountains changes with Ogri'la these warp stalkers where removed from the game, making their red skin unattainable until Cataclysm when they where added back into the game.
~Chasm Stalker used to be a color changer between warpstalkerskinblue, warpstalkerskingreen and warpstalkerskinwhite in Cataclysm beta. While they are fixed to spawn only in the blue skin, on the character selection screen and in the stable they will still appear green.
1) Moths
Random pet family appreciation thread is where I roll a random pet family every week for everyone to share their pictures, their stories, their love for that pet family. Please no hate or rants. This is an appreciation thread. If you dislike the family, don't post! Hopefully with some love we can get some hunters to try out new pets they never would have thought to tame before.
Our second family is the tricksy Warp Stalker family!
Warp Stalker facts
~Introduced as a tameable family in Burning Crusade.
~Warp Stalkers have six different skin colors.
~Warp Stalkers have no rare members.
~Warp Stalkers have one unique skinned named member, Gezzarak the Huntress with a dark purple with yellow-green stripes skin called warpstalkerskinblack.
~Gezzarak the Huntress is definitely the most infamous member of the family. Summoned after a very long quest chain in Skettis, she hit like a truck and would knock back and warp to interrupt your tame. Once tamed, she had an awesome summoning animation where she appeared in a flash of thunder. However, she was bugged and could not attack other players in PvP, could not be misdirected and could only be healed by mend pet. Due to these bugs she was made untameable shortly afterwards, making her extremely rare to see tamed. Thanks to Noah, Gezz was made tameable again in Cataclysm patch 4.0.3. Her bugs where fixed but she no longer has that cool thunder summoning animation.
~Back in Wrath, warp stalkers where tamed by 1.3% of level 80 hunters. Placing them at number 14 on the list, tied with chimaeras.(Source)
~Back in Wrath, warpstalkerskinwhite was the most tamed skin at 73.7%! Warpstalkerskinblack was the least tamed at 1.6%, obviously due to Gezz becoming untameable. (Source)
~Warp Stalkers used to have the special ability Warp, which acted as a teleport and increased the warp stalkers avoidance on the next three melee attacks made to it. This made warp stalkers great single target tanks. Warp also shared a cooldown with Charge, allowing warp stalkers to pick up a talent point elsewhere.
~A Black Warp Stalker mount was datamined back in August of 2008, but never implemented in game.
~Many mini warp stalkers exist in game such as Spiny Lizard and Horned Lizard, but no mini warp stalkers have been made as a permanent companion pet yet.
~Daggertail Lizard was introduced in Burning Crusade, but with these creatures being over level 70 they could not be tamed. During the Blade's Edge Mountains changes with Ogri'la these warp stalkers where removed from the game, making their red skin unattainable until Cataclysm when they where added back into the game.
~Chasm Stalker used to be a color changer between warpstalkerskinblue, warpstalkerskingreen and warpstalkerskinwhite in Cataclysm beta. While they are fixed to spawn only in the blue skin, on the character selection screen and in the stable they will still appear green.
Warpies 
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. In general, I feel that earthy-colored pets compliment Tauren hunters very well.
