Random Pet Challenge [v3.0]

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All righty, Yzma's report on Image.

Meet Cleo, a purple wasp from Feralas (her name was supposed to be Clio, one of the Greek muses from the Disney movie Hercules, but I mistyped it and it stuck).
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Looks:
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This is the second time I've made a review on one of these lovely wasps--the first time on Venjin for the theme challenge. I'd never had a silithid style wasp before and, just like then, I'm still moved by how they look (I know, that sounds corny but it's true). This purple is really pretty in game with the usual black silithid markings and pink wings (top left).

The center grouping of pictures is to highlight those different regions. The...claws I guess...are the usual low res texture used on pets and wasps have about six of them, the stinger also seems to have a low res texture map and almost seems as if it's loosely connected to the body--kinda looks weird if you stare at it too long. The faces of the silithid model wasps are really cool looking--the shape and the eyes just seem fierce yet regal to me.

And from the back you can see the lovely wing detailing as well as her traditional silithid patterning (top right).

Animations and Sounds:
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Wasps are very busy little...bees...Their wings are always flapping and make a nice humming sound that I find soothing. They are also always moving their little claws around. For their idle, they clean themselves, and they do it often, even managing to twist their heads in painful angles (top left and right).

I believe their run and swim animations are the same, although her swim picture sort of makes it look like she's trying to paddle with those claws (bottom left and right). :lol: I like the way the wasps fly, it seems befitting of the way they're built--in my head I refer to it as an undulating like movement, and after looking up the definition, it's pretty accurate. :D

Combat:
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Wasps only have one combat animation, and that's to latch onto their target with their claws and jab that stinger into them. I actually really like it and never actually noticed it 'til now.

Now, I'm not very familiar with wasps and their special, and since a dummy's not a good way to test that, I'm going to borrow (read: steal) Cialbi's assessment from the pet theme challenge of its usefulness in PvP:
I'll point out the advantages of a wasp in PvP. You get access to Swoop, which is to be used instead of Dive (not both at the same time; that's a waste of focus). So, a wasp can immobilize your opponent for one second, and already be in melee range by the time that second is up. This means that avoiding Icewind's Sting is next to impossible unless Hand of Freedom or an equivalent buff has been applied to the wasp's target. On top of that, your pet gets to spend those 2 seconds merrily gouging your opponent, unlike a bat that applies its stun at range and then flies into melee range and begins attacking. Finally, the CD on Sting is shorter than that on Sonic Blast.
I suppose there could be a few PvE uses for it as a PvE ability as well, but I'm too tired to think of them at the moment. I'd also like to point out that if doing PvP with friends, make sure they're aware when you have your wasp use its stun since it puts all stuns on DR.

My next reports to come after I've had sleep since I feel like I might be starting to get sick.

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FARON!!
Yes, you're right. Vallrok *must* do a Far- I mean Skoll review.

Okay. Here goes. Expect a lot of screenshots.

Skoll review.

The spirit beast Skoll is infamous, being one of the Northrend rare spawns. He's a heck of a hard pet to find. And when he first came out, I was sure that I hated him. I hated the Saber Wolf model, and he looked too bright. Ugh!

Skip forward a few days. I'm on vacation at the beach. I'm losing sleep because I can't stop thinking about Skoll.

A couple days after I got home, I went to Storm Peaks and, lo and behold, Skoll was up.

Now, for the real review, starting with the model and the skin I hated. Though lightning is often flashing over him, this is what he looks like plain.

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Simple, no? Regardless, I love it. He's using the Saber Worg model that I don't like, but I love it on him. His waist is very, VERY thin, and his ruff is tall and spiky. His jaws are... broken. >.> The first Saber WOrg I tamed was named Brokenmaw for a reason. Anyway, the skin on him makes up for all this. It's a sort of dark navy blue, tinted very slightly green. The color reminds me of deep sea creatures. On his legs the dark blue brightens to electric blue, as with his face. His mouth, teeth, claws and eyes are a very bright blue-white.

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Oh, and he glows a bit. There's a blue glow centered on his shoulders, though it shows coming from his mouth, too.

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Here's the best part, though: Lightning!

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It constantly flashes over him and it's VERY hard to get a good picture of it.

I noticed that his mane has the 2d problem, but it was dealt with fairly well. There's another, smaller mane under it that makes it look a lot better.

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Animations! Running, he runs like a worg. Some people think worgs look like they're limping badly when they run, but I've never actually seen how it does. Guess I'm just bad at seeing things. xD

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And, running forward... This would be a scary sight to see.

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Idle he has two animations, but one of them is so rare that I've only seen it perhaps once. That would be his howl animation. He wags his tail fairly often, though, and he has a well animated tail that looks very nice. Isn't he cute?

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Now, attacks. He has three animations, two lunge/bites and a howl. The bites are only slightly different, coming in from different sides.

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HOWL! Unfortunately, this animation takes so long that it's cut off halfway through every time.

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Fighting: He's a Ferocity pet, so he's DPS based - and DPS he does! Spirit Beasts are my pets of choice for heroics. Now, he's not an amazing tank. He needs Mend Pet to be up most of the time, and he can't AoE aggro. His only multiple-mob aggro ability is his Spirit Mend heal.
Speaking of Spirit Mend, I love this ability. Running lowbies through dungeons is much easier when you can heal them up in an instant. It's a little cumbersome to use, but it can be a nice pick-me-up.
He also has Roar of Courage, which is very nice if you don't have a DK or a Warrior.

Overall, I love this pet. He's one of my favorite pets out there, if not my favorite, just for sentimental reasons. He's so closely tied into my troll's RP story that he's taken the place as the main character - the troll is just 'that guy'. It's Faron and Vallrok, not Vallrok and Faron. And you'd better know it, because Faron Is Watching You.

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*Squeals in delight at the Faron review*

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Hope it's alright to do the rare-review thinger only! While I've still got Avanji's to do (haven't yet been whisked away on a silly adventure with my plainstrider!), have had plenty of insane experiences with most of these rares. :lol:

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And now, Ruffley's report on OCJ Image.

OCJ is a level 30 rare spawn that can be found in the Hinterlands, just east of Aerie Peak digging through trash. This little bugger used to be incredibly hard to find pre-Cata. When I passed him on Yzma, that was the first time I'd ever seen him in game. I've seen him each visit to the Hinterlands since so I'm going to assume his spawn timer is a lot shorter now.

Looks (I didn't have taming shots for this guy so the pic of him and Ruff together is included with his looks):
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Cliff is a beautiful dark grey color with lighter gray on his feet and belly and gorgeous green eyes (top right). I don't usually like worgs, but I find this guy to be stunning next to Ruffley.

When viewing his face from the front, I still can't decide whether that's an expression of fierceness, or if it's a little derpy (bottom left). The next two photos are close ups showing off his beautiful eyes and then the low res looking teeth (bottom middle).

One of my favorite things about OCJ is that, for some reason, with his darker colored fur, he doesn't show the major flaws of the worg models as bad (bottom right). His fur doesn't get the weird outlining effect and looks far better than many of the other worg skins--and it doesn't put me off the model entirely making him a keeper. :D

Animations and Sounds:
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I forgot to get pics of Cliff doing the worg idle, so I ninjaed the pics I took of a worg I had for the theme pet challenge. Worgs have two idle animations, one is the head shake (top left) and the other is the tail wag (top right).

When running, worgs look like they're limping from behind--something about the way their back right leg moves just makes them look gimpy (bottom left). Their swim isn't much better. It's a doggy paddle, but just the way their legs move seems odd (bottom right).

Combat:
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When it comes to combat, worgs don't have much in the way of moves, they just do a basic bite animation. Being ferocity pets, these guys also put out a great deal of damage. The wolf special, Ferocious Howl, increases crit chance by 5%. This is a great buff to have on hand in case your other basics (kings, battle shout, etc) are already covered. Furious Howl is also shared with feral druids and subtley rogues. I wouldn't recommend using a wolf for PvP unless your teammates have agreed to it.

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TygerDarkstorm wrote:Furious Howl is also shared with feral druids and subtley rogues. I wouldn't recommend using a wolf for PvP unless your teammates have agreed to it.
The crit buff is also shared by Fury warriors, as well. :) It took me a bit to notice, but if I have a feral druid in my group they override Rampage with Leader of the Pack and Furious Howl doesn't stick. I've also noticed Battle Shout shuts out my cat's roar, so even if you have a wolf with a backup cat you can't win with warriors anyway(unless you can convince your fury warrior to start with the stamina shout instead, I suppose, but PW:F overrides that). ;P
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Warriors are sort of a lose-lose class to have around for hunters. :lol: They take away two of our best pet options...well, except SV, their second best pet is a wind serpent.

But thanks for mentioning fury warriors; I figured I was missing a class/spec that brought the 5% crit, I just didn't know which one it was. :)

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TygerDarkstorm wrote:Warriors are sort of a lose-lose class to have around for hunters. :lol: They take away two of our best pet options...well, except SV, their second best pet is a wind serpent.

But thanks for mentioning fury warriors; I figured I was missing a class/spec that brought the 5% crit, I just didn't know which one it was. :)
Yeah, as much as I love my warrior I get the feeling that Blizz sorta dropped the ball when it comes to warriors and hunters playing nice. With our shouts as our primary rage-generators and Intercept with a rage cost, the shouts are almost constantly up and there isn't much point in letting a cat get off a roar since it'll just be overridden the next time I need to charge. D: If I could turn Rampage off and Heroic Leap everywhere I would though, believe me.

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Yellow Windserpent review!

Now, I got the second Yellow Windserpent. That is, the one that only comes on one mob - the Deviate Coiler Hatchling. I took it upon myself to test the differences between the two yellows in this report.

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Both yellows are right next to each other, luckily, and are easily accessible in the mouth of Wailing Caverns.

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Windserpents have an appealing model, and they're one of the best built serpents out there. Most serpent-like creatures are clearly fragmented into pieces, but windserpents are quite nice and smooth. I really like the old model as they have a pretty feathered crest and nice scale/feathered wings.

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Now, the color isn't something I like. I don't like yellow and I don't like orange. This pet is yellow/orange and a strange aqua. Now, the stripes are nice. He has darker brown stripes and light blue stripes, and his scales are very detailed, each one shaded.

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His stomach is fairly pretty, the same aqua as his stripes. His face is a smooth yellow-orange and his eyes are also aqua. The feathers look really nice, too, yellow with a single aqua stripe at the tips.

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Two problems. First, the crest is painfully 2d. Second, the wings have strange, dark triangles in the pits.

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Now, the differences between the regular Coiler (Common yellow) and the Hatchling (Unusual yellow)!
They're sort of obvious, and sort of... not at all.

Hatchling
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Regular
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The hatchling is a slightly brighter orange, and the shading is less obvious on his scales. The regular one, in the meanwhile, is slightly more bronze, with more shading.

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Regular
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Not much difference here. The Hatchling is *Slightly* brighter.

Hatchling
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Regular
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Ahhh, here's the real show. First, the wings. The hatchling has clearly lighter wings with less shading, while the regular one has much darker, well shaded wings. Second, the face. The face of the hatchling is brighter.

OKAY! Enough hardly noticeable differences. On to animations. He doesn't have any idles, though his typical "Flap flap flap" is very active, tail lashing. He's loud, by the way. Flapflapflap.
As for attacks, he has two... and I could only get a good screenshot of one, sorry. The first animation for attacks is a typical bite, which was very fast and hard to capture. The other attack is an impressive tail whip.

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When he uses Lightning Breath, his wings, not his mouth, glow.

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His running animation was once described as "being sucked back by a vacuum" or something near that. I completely agree, although it's not that bad. He flaps forward, his tail lashing madly behind.

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His swim really takes the cake, though. He's so, so cute, hovering in the water with his wings out, paddling.

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When he swims forward, he tucks in his wings and uses his tail, like a real snake would.

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Now, combat.
He's cunning, which has never been my cup of tea. I much prefer Tenacity or Ferocity, because really, I can never choose what to spec my pet in Cunning. xD I always end up choosing DPS though.
He's pretty good as a DPS pet, as good as my Ferocity pets. He doesn't have Bloodthirsty though, which bothers me a bit.
As a tank, well, he's as good as any Ferocity pet, though he could be specced to be almost as good as a tenacity pet. What he's missing is key, though - Thunderstomp. He's got absolutely no AoE except his breath attack, which he can use on mobs he isn't attacking.

His attack, an extra 8% magical damage to the enemy, is amazing for Survival hunters and magic-heavy groups. However, as BM, it's not quite as nice.

Overall, he's not my pet. I really dislike the color, and it still doesn't match Vallrok at all. That color. Ew.

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Rares I Have: Loque'nahak, Skoll, Arcturis, Gondria, Aotona, Pogeyan, Rak'shiri, Duskstalkers, Shadowclaw

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Hurray Sambas report! Image
Sambas is a level 85 rare spawn in Twilight Highlands.

Looks:
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I was sort of surprised with how enamored I became with Twinkie. I went from thinking Sambas looked ridiculous, to really loving him. He's a beautiful golden color with cream on his muzzle and the backs of his hocks, his mane is golden brown and he has brown on his tail (top right). For me, Twinkie is everything a lion should be. One of my favorite things about him is that he doesn't have the same wonky legs as the older cats.

One of Sambas' biggest problems (which is sad to say since he's a new model) is that his mane clips through his left leg pretty badly (bottom left). If they trimmed the mane back a little bit it probably wouldn't be so bad.

He also has a really strange dark brown stripe at the base of his tail and the back of his hocks have splashes of cream on them (bottom middle).

Twinkie's face is so handsome to look at, especially those bright blue eyes (bottom right). He's very strong, proud, and noble looking. I love him to pieces.

Animations and Sounds:
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Since Twinkie is part of the cat family, he shares the same animations and sounds as they do. When he idles he looks from side to side (top left) and he stretches and yawns (top right). However, unlike other cats, Twinkie's yawn makes no noise.

Twinkie's run is beautiful and smooth--he just glides across the land (bottom left). His swim is the standard kitty paddle (bottom right).

Combat:
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Twinkie has two attack animations, a left paw attack and roar (top) and a right paw and bite (bottom right). He's also a ferocity pet which means he'll put out great damage.

The cat special is Roar of Courage (hurray for that being the lame line on my panel XD) which increases strength and agility by 139 (scaling by level). This is arguably the best buff for hunters that our pets can provide, however, it's also a buff covered by shamans, warriors, and death knights. This buff performs best in PvE as you'll probably want a pet that can provide CC for PvP.

Let's have a go again, shall we? :)
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Hi kids!

Who's that spirit beast?

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It's GONDRIA!

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Gondria is a member of the spirit beast family, of which every member is a rare spawn. Gondria lives in Northrend, in the Zul'Drak zone. She has five possible spawn points, which form a rough circle, making spawn point circling pretty simple.

I had hoped to find her in the wild for comparison purposes in this review, but she seems to know I don't actively need her anymore, so is in hiding. Without further ado, this is Mira, and she's my Gondria-kitten. Let's talk about her!

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Gondria is a purple riding saber with black stripes and glowing green eyes. Oh yeah, and she's see-through. Which is pretty awesome. Except when it's not. Actually, it'd be perfectly fine to have her so see through, except for one little thing...

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Pretty, right? Except you can see her eyes through her head. Actually, you can see her pretty green eyes from any angle, which can be a distraction. Or silly looking.

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Her coloring (the purple on black) is unique among sabercats, as far as I'm aware. However, being unique and glowy does not mean she does not suffer from the biggest problem I see with this style of cat: the Saber-Hunch.

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As you can see here, when she yawns her neck and shoulders bunch up quite a bit and it looks awkward. She also looks like she's firing a lazer.

But of course, there is no lazer left. Instead she, like all spirit beasts, has spirit mend! It's a hot they can cast on anyone who needs it! You, the tank, themselves, you name it! It's on a 30-ish second cooldown, and in my experience she's pretty smart about casting it on whoever needs in on her own.

Here's Mira, modeling it for you now.

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Her other combat special is the cat's +strength and agility buff, which is never out of place. As a ferocity pet, they're good at tearing into things and iffy tanks. They'll try their best, but aren't the best.

IN REVIEW:

PROS:
- Pretty!
- Good special abilities!
- Good DPS!
- Spirit beast, with all the prestige that entails.

CONS:
- VERY see through.
- Can get lost in visually busy areas.
- Spirit beast, with all the frustrations that entails.
- funky model issues.

All in all, she's a good kitty. She's not my favorite spirit beast (that honor goes to Charlie), but we've bonded. Say goodbye to the nice people, Mira!

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"goodbye! :3"

May I have another? :3

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It's late and I need to do my dailies! :o

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I don't remember if you'd done this one or not. It's also above your current level. :?
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Would you mind doing another rare report? If so I can roll again.
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Kormai wrote: Tyger (Ruffley)
I don't remember if you'd done this one or not. It's also above your current level. :?
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Yzma has this guy already so I'll use her to make the report. :D

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Re: Random Pet Challenge [v3.0]

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With the worg limp, I consider the hind left leg to be culprit. The ankle joint (no, not the knee; knees don't face backwards) hardly moves during the run animation, which really limits the range of motion on that leg. It really does look like the leg is partially lame. Personally, I can live with Cialbi's Silverfir (Timber) having that limp, but I probably won't be taming a worg on another character; Silverfir is a special case.
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To be honest, I forgot all about doing that report on Arcturis. So, I'll try to get that done tonight. EDIT: Err, I think I ought to get some sleep instead :|
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Re: Random Pet Challenge [v3.0]

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Hm...I always thought it was the hind right leg. I'll take a closer look at the left one next time I use Cliff. Between that horrid run and the way they look with those graphic lines. Thankfully OCJ's darker color makes it so you don't notice the terrible outlines as bad. :)

And on a side note, I saw Oozeworm tonight on Roxíe snagging the Mudsprocket flight path.

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Re: Random Pet Challenge [v3.0]

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I had a dark grey bone spider to report on.

The dark grey color can be found in two places - low level in Tristfall glades, at very high level (85) at Tol Barad. I went after the Tristfall one. She, if you don't know, has the best way of 'hanging out' in her cave I've ever seen.

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Anyway. Here's how she looks. I really like the bone spider model, and I really don't see any big problems with it. The skin is one of the more appealing Bone Spider skins, with bright purple eyes and dark grey and black body parts.

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There's even a tinge of brownish red in there.

And from the side, so you can see those pretty pink webs better...

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And, from the back. This is the only problem I have with the model, and I know some people actually love it - the back of her abdomen has a bunch of spikes on it, which don't really match her. They don't blend in to her abdomen well. Grrr.

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Moving on! This pet is always in motion. When he's not doing an idle animation, which isn't very common, she's twitching her legs around and her feelers are always moving. She has two idles that she uses all the time, one to look around and the other to rub her front legs together.

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Running is hard to get a picture of, because overall she doesn't move that much - though it's a very smooth running animation. Unlike most spiders, she doesn't move so fast that she looks jerky or ridiculous. It looks really nice.

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Attacks!

Two attacks. One lunges forward, the other LEAPS at the target.

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The leap makes me think she's going, "TAG! You're it!"

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Her special skill, a web, isn't exactly flashy. We've all seen this before.

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And, swimming. Her swim animation is a mix between adorable and just plain creepy. Idle, her legs hang down and it's really cute.

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Swimming forward is where it gets creepy...

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It looks ridiculously realistic, which is why it's so scary. Argh.
Lastly, from the back. Nothing too special here.

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In combat, she's a pretty good pet. I've had spiders before, a magma spider on my main most specifically. They're a little squishy unless you spec them into the tanking side of the Cunning tree. I always spec them into DPS, so... squishy. Again, she has no AoE aggro abilities. Her dps is pretty high though.
Her special skill, web wrap, would be perfect in PvP and can be pretty nice in solo, too. I don't use it much, but I'm bad at using pet skills.

Overall: Again, not my pet. I'm very choosy! She's cute, and I really like her model and color. It gave me some respect for bone spiders at least.

Another? Rare or regular, don't care.

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Re: Random Pet Challenge [v3.0]

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o_o *Meep* The spider report creeped me out a bit. I remember the first time I saw her hanging in the cave there....I all but screamed. And those attack animations...wicked. Very cool, but at the same time *eek*.

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Re: Random Pet Challenge [v3.0]

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:? :shock:

*muffled cry* mmmfpht! S-s-s-spider...... D: I have to endure this every time I got to Tol Barad...damn you Tol Barad!!! Oh and I don't quite understand how the spiders are skinnable but they do give me lots of skins because everyone is always killing them. One night my mom came in to water my plant while I was killing them and I told her to look because it was creepy and they are super realistic. She was creeped out too...and then commented "So you can kill them in game but not in real life?" I responded "Yes, because in game I have a pet who eats them!"

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