.I forgot to get pics of Ruffley actually taming the little bugger, so the pic of him by her side is included here with the looks.
Ain't he cute? More and more I find myself really liking ravagers and trying to include one on all my hunters.
I'm actually surprised at how well the green matches Ruffley.So anyway, as you can see, this guy is a light, sort of melon green, with black accents, and a dark green and orange carapace (bottom left photo). It's a color scheme that works surprisingly well. Ravagers are probably one of the weirdest looking creatures in WoW, which makes me love them all the more.
Their legs are very thin and pointy, and where their carapace meets their legs, their body forms an odd, saddle-like shape.These guys have some wicked looking teeth and this particular skin has a glowing red eye map on it (top right photo). For as mean as these guys look, Scream is surprisingly loving and protective of Ruffley. The only major thing wrong I see with these guys is the really low res 'mane' that runs down their back (bottom right photo).
Animations and Sounds:
To go along with their weird looks, ravagers have equally weird movements and noises. The noise they make when they go into combat is how Scream got his name--it's the closest word I can think of when I hear their combat noise.
I love the way ravagers move, I think it gives them a certain charm. They only have one idle and that's to look side to side fiercely (Tyra Banks would be proud), quills raised (second photo from the right). When they run, they drop that carapace, open their maw, and skitter forth on those spindly legs (first photo on the left). When they swim, they turn themselves on their 'belly', stick their heads out, and use those legs much the way an octopus would (second photo from the left and last photo).
Combat:
The weirdness doesn't stop!
When ravagers cast Ravage, they do a little Sonic the Hedgehog-esque flip (top right photo), and then they have two basic attack animations, the bite (bottom left) and the claw (bottom right).Ravagers' special ability, Ravage, causes their target to take 4% increased physical damage. This is great for any melee heavy groups. It also makes the ravager a great soloing pet, which I think a lot of people underestimate them for because their debuff only effects our autoshots. Ravage will increase all damage done by the ravager, therefore increasing its threat. Next to my crocolisk, my ravager is one of my favorite pets to use for soloing on Yzma (I do take some pleasure in knowing that other people might be grossed out by Yzma's ravager after Kormai pointed out it looks kind of puke green.
but I digress).Ravagers are cunning pets which means that they are about equal to a ferocity pet in damage. Long gone are the days of Ferocity=DPS, Cunning=PvP, and Tenacity=Tank/Solo.
Edit: Would also like to mention that the sayings on the last two panels are lyrics taken from Scream by Avenged Sevenfold.
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It's always a learning experience and although I get disappointed when someone doesn't fall in love with a pet, I'm sure they will find something they love sooner or later.
). The reason we do that is because we don't expect someone to go out and spend a week camping King Krush or Terrorpene just so they can review them here. That would be torture! So instead, what Cialbi suggested, was to add another optional category called "Rares I Have."
This review is of a certain kind of worm that can only be found on two NPCs, Grubthor and Oozeworm, and both are rarespawns. I haven't heard much in the way of spawn timers for either of these rares since the latest patch, but I do know that before that patch, Grubthor had a fairly long spawn timer, and Oozeworm had a ridiculously long spawn timer. Even if their spawn timers are now closer together, I recommend trying for Grubthor in Silithus rather than Oozeworm in Dustwallow Marsh, due to the differences in traffic through those zones. This was my strategy, detouring into Silithus on my way from Uldum to Theramore whenever I needed to get to Stormwind.
), I believe that worms are still great pet tanks with great threat generation. The reason, apart from them being Tenacity, is their special ability. Acid Spit applies a debuff to its target, increasing all physical damage taken by 4%. A hunter has to be BM to tame a Worm, and of all the attacks that BM hunters use, only auto shots, Kill Command, Multi-Shot, and Kill Shot will benefit by having the Acid Spit debuff applied to their target. When considering how much of a threat gain that is, Kill Command isn't counted because all the threat generated by that attack goes to the pet and not the hunter. So, Acid Spit is only going to cause a small increase in threat output by a BM hunter. Contrast that to the Worm applying the debuff, or any other hunter pet for that matter. For a hunter pet, every single attack available to them will deal Physical damage, save Thunderstomp, Burrow Attack, and Froststorm Breath. While increased T-stomp threat would certainly be nice, you won't be seeing a Worm applying Acid Spit to more than two targets at a time. Burrow Attack drops aggro anyways, and Froststorm Breath is exclusive to Chimaeras. So, hunter pets get a significant damage increase from attacking a target affected by the Acid Spit debuff, and an even more significant threat increase thanks to Kill Command. Hence, a net threat increase for the pet relative to the BM hunter.
