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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 15th family is the burrowing worm family!
Worm facts
~Worms became tameable in Wrath with the addition of exotic beasts. Jormungar worms where released at the same time, while the skinny worms have been in the game since Vanilla.
~Worms come in two different models and 13 different tameable skins.
~Worms have two rares of the same skin color. These bright yellow worms are Grubthor and Oozeworm.
~Rattlebore is the only unique skinned named worm of the family.
~Worms have one color charger. There used to be two color changers in the worm family, but the Deep Borers are now fixed to spawn in the blue skin only.
~Back in Wrath, worms were tamed by 1.4% of level 80 hunters. Placing them at number 13 on the list. (Source)
~Back in Wrath, jormungarlarvablue was the most tamed skin at 83.2%! Both wormskingreen and wormskinwhite were the least tamed skins at 0.3%. (Source)
~Acid Spit, worms special ability, used to cause nature DoT and reduce the armor of the target. Burrow Attack, worms exotic ability, used to not drop aggro when first implemented which made them great aoe tanks.
~One of the tricks NPCs can cast during Hallow's End turns the player into a worm.
~All jormungar worms were one color back in Wrath, which explains why jormungarlarvablue had such a high tamed skin percentage. It wasn't until Cataclysm that the four other previously unused skins where added into the game to preexisting jormungar NPCs. Also, jormungars are one of the few tameable pets with no eyes, except for one special jormungar worm here on the forums.
~Disembodied Jormungars are very ghostly worms. Although these worms have a large sized model after being tamed, even then they are still difficult to see next to their hunter.
~Two of the white worms, Cadaverous Worm and Flesh Eating Worm, spawn only once their undead host dies. Both of these worms are very tiny in the wild.
I honestly didn't have an exact location, nor had I ever stepped foot in that zone before. I didn't have a clue where I was going, I was only armed with the knowledge that jormungars were 'up north'. Getting out of Warsong Hold was a trial of its own, I was fleeing from nerubians and trying to find the path out. Once I did I just ran for it, going north and aggroing half of the zone on my way. I managed to stay ahead of everything somehow and just kept running. I reached the snowy northern point, and suddenly an enormous jormungar loomed up right in front of me. I clumsily dismounted, started the tame, and aggroed a mammoth at the same time. The tame completed at the perfect moment, and my new worm spun around and took care of the mammoth attacking me. Shakily I hearthed back to the safety of Orgrimmar, feeling the adrenaline from my frantic adventure. Once back home I was able to admire my new pet. Seeing the mohawk and the spikes instantly gave him a punk vibe to me, so I named him Rancid after the band. I had an expectation for him to take on a tough, rebellious personality, but over time he seemed to have a mind of his own and became almost the complete opposite in character.
FINALLY FOUND MY EPIC WORM!
