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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 17th family is the bizarre ravager family!
Ravager facts
~Ravagers where introduced as a beast and tameable family in Burning Crusade.
~Ravagers are called crawlers in the game files. The "extra spiky" ravagers are known as elite crawlers.
~Ravagers have two models and 14 tameable skins.
~Ravagers have no rare members.
~Death Ravager is the only unique skinned named member with a green and teal skin.
~All ravager skins are unique to one NPC. Exceptions are crawlergreen and crawlerorange, however only one ravager with either of those skins can be tamed. The others that share a skin cannot be tamed.
~Crawlervar3 (orange and pink) is a currently unused skin of the family.
~Razorthorn Ravager is a retired member of the family. They are involved with Shattered Sun Offensive daily Discovering Your Roots where any player could "tame" one to dig up quest items. This probably caused some issues and they where made untameable shortly afterwards.
~Death Ravager is a former retired member of the family. Before Cataclysm he was the only ravager with crawlerpurple as a stable color. Death Ravager was originally summoned with the warrior quest Strength of One. He was bugged similarly to how Gezzarak the Huntress was bugged where he could not attack other players in PvP, could not be misdirected and could only be healed by mend pet. These problems lead to him becoming retired. Later on in Cataclysm Death Ravager changed to a new skin and was made tameable a patch later with his bugs fixed. He no longer needs a quest to be summoned as well.
~Ravagers currently have no color changers. However, before Cataclysm Rip-Blade Ravager was a very popular ravager that was three different colors.
~Back in Wrath, ravagers were tamed by 1.8% of level 80 hunters. Placing them at number 11 on the list, tied with boars. (Source)
~Back in Wrath, crawlerorange was the most tamed skin at 19.2%. Crawlerpurple was the least tamed skin at 0.2%, due to that skin being retired at the time. Rip-Blade Ravager with it's color changing skin made up 15.1% of tamed ravagers.(Source)
~Gore used to cause damage and that damage was increased if used after Charge. This ability made ravagers the top dps pet in Burning Crusade (until the hunter got +30% crit then wind serpents topped damage). Ravagers shared this ability with boars until the end of BC. In Wrath ravagers got Ravage which used to stun the target.
~While normal ravagers and the elite ravagers have different skin files, they can be interchanged creating a rainbow of elite ravager looks.
~Quillfang Skitterers used to have a super fast walk animations, unique to it. This "skit" seems to have been given to all ravagers now.
~Lost Ravagers where a color changers in Cataclysm beta. This never made it to live, but on the character selection screen and in the stable they will still appear with crawlervar2 (orange and purple) skin.
Back when I was playing regularly on Nesingwary, one of my alts, an undead hunter named Yzma, got rolled one of these guys for the pet challenge. What most people see as ugly I see as the perfect compliment to an undead hunter--the ravager looks sort of like it's been hit with a plague bomb and it was an instant connection after I tamed this guy. He's named Hopper (after the villain in A Bug's Life) as Yzma has a Disney theme.
And rofl, he's rolled into a ball in his taming pic too!