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As I was making my way towards killing a Necrophyte for a piece of Torn Cloth in order to tame Gara, I noticed something rather strange. Never before have I seen a different colored Icepsine Hatchling and I was wondering if anyone else spotted one.
Here is a picture for you to compare the two colors.
I think Quintessence updated WCP yesterday to list both blues.There's the Wood Wasp, too, with a rare purple/green variant instead of the normal brown/green.GormanGhaste wrote:So, as far as I know, the only new wild pets that have multiple skins are the Icespine Hatchling and the Thicket Skitterer. Does anyone know of any others? I wonder how long I should wait to update the guide, to see if there will be any more?
Thanks for bringing it to my attention! Does the rare color really only have a spawn rate of 1%? I probably won't have time to update the color guide until sometime mid-week.Equeon wrote:There's the Wood Wasp, too, with a rare purple/green variant instead of the normal brown/green.GormanGhaste wrote:So, as far as I know, the only new wild pets that have multiple skins are the Icespine Hatchling and the Thicket Skitterer. Does anyone know of any others?
I don't know if it is as low as 1% but it is very low. After I found out about that skin, I went out to get one and during that time I only found 1 that showed up purple/green upon initiating battle. When I found a secondary that was rare with the stats I wanted, I tried to force reset it to purple/green... it took so long I wondered if it wasn't even possible. To give you an idea, I burned through 2 or 3 bandages and 2 self heals trying to keep my capture team at reasonable health while I reset it. Eventually it did change color and I was able to nab it.GormanGhaste wrote:Thanks for bringing it to my attention! Does the rare color really only have a spawn rate of 1%? I probably won't have time to update the color guide until sometime mid-week.Equeon wrote:There's the Wood Wasp, too, with a rare purple/green variant instead of the normal brown/green.GormanGhaste wrote:So, as far as I know, the only new wild pets that have multiple skins are the Icespine Hatchling and the Thicket Skitterer. Does anyone know of any others?
I remember reading somewhere, maybe on the WarcraftPets forum, that it actually is a 1 in 100 spawn rate. The other "rare versions" of wild pets are 1 in 10, so someone was wondering if this extreme rarity was due to a typo.peanutbuttercup wrote:I don't know if it is as low as 1% but it is very low. After I found out about that skin, I went out to get one and during that time I only found 1 that showed up purple/green upon initiating battle. When I found a secondary that was rare with the stats I wanted, I tried to force reset it to purple/green... it took so long I wondered if it wasn't even possible. To give you an idea, I burned through 2 or 3 bandages and 2 self heals trying to keep my capture team at reasonable health while I reset it. Eventually it did change color and I was able to nab it.GormanGhaste wrote:Thanks for bringing it to my attention! Does the rare color really only have a spawn rate of 1%? I probably won't have time to update the color guide until sometime mid-week.Equeon wrote: There's the Wood Wasp, too, with a rare purple/green variant instead of the normal brown/green.
Welp, I'm going for it because I need a mini version of my favourite wasp skin. (why is it always the colours I like best that are stupidly rare?)Wain wrote:Anyway, pick a secondary you like the look of and settle in, because it could take many restarts to get the dark one.
Color changing in battle pets has a bit of a messy history. Early on in MoP pets that were caught as secondaries did change color, while pets caught as primaries did not. At some point (patch 5.1?) Bliz decided to "fix" it so that secondary pets would remain the color they were when you caught them - it wasn't a perfect fix since they broke Dragon Kite's color swap and also certain wild pets "reverted" to the wrong color (I think Maggot or Larva was one). Then I think at the next patch they changed the battle system again so that if you didn't kill any pet in a wild battle, you could forfeit reset it to pick the color of secondary pets while keeping the rarity and breed intact (previously you had to Alt-F4 and force a disconnect, then log back in, to try and pick colors).zedxrgal wrote:I thought battle pets were supposed to be color changers??? Is that broken too along with the hunter pets that used to color change or was it only specific pets?
WoWHead shows them with the same NPC ID (#85003) so I am curious.
*runs to BT*Wain wrote:The new Sister of Temptation is an example of a weird semi-colour-changer, which may be a bug.
Basically there are two different types she can come in:
- blue always
- blue or red colour-changer
It seems like they would intend for her to either always be a colour-changer or to have individual red and blue types. This weird mix seems like an unintended effect to me.
Yeah it's starting to look like it got fixed at some point today or something. I had gotten a 3rd Sister of Temptation this morning that was a color changer, then logged out for a while, and when I came back both it and my previous color changer stopped switching colors.Wain wrote:All my Sisters of Temptation are now stable blue. Maybe they removed the red entirely.
I imagine it might be possible to see it flying around, but it seems very, very rare. It's probably a better chance to find a secondary because at least that way you can continually reset until it spawns as the "shiny" colour.Bowno wrote:So wait.. I'm confused. For like the Purple/green Hookwasp.. Can you see it flying around in world? Or will it only appear as a secondary pet in a battle?
Ah I see. Thanks! I'll have to start looking around.Vephriel wrote:I imagine it might be possible to see it flying around, but it seems very, very rare. It's probably a better chance to find a secondary because at least that way you can continually reset until it spawns as the "shiny" colour.Bowno wrote:So wait.. I'm confused. For like the Purple/green Hookwasp.. Can you see it flying around in world? Or will it only appear as a secondary pet in a battle?