Random Pet Challenge [v3.0]

[TygerDarkstorm]

I personally never understood the need to collect all the spirit beasts and MF spiders, but everyone has their own thing. Also, if you'd like to review the new pets you have (and haven't already reviewed), I'd be more than happy to "randomly" roll them for you.

[Sarantha]

Haha, sure.

Name: Sarantha
Level: 85
Exotics: Yes
Restrictions: Will review whichever is rolled for me. White and black windserpents, yellow worm, hunched black spotted cat, Light Grey Bone Spider (totally copied that from Petopia), Karoma (don't think I have reviewed him).

[starkittens]

ok, here is my thing on goretooth.


here i am tameing him, since he's a croc, he normally under water, but you dont really have to worry bout breath, he's a
simple tame for a higher lv, tho i would suggest an ice trap for those near his lv

he has a simple swim, just (or nearly like) a normal croc


(tamed)
he does an occasional "croc" sound, and it seems he doesn't really have a major idle move, but he just mostly swishes his tail around
i would suggest, that if you want his coloring, go after a lower lv croc like him, it's not worth the camping for him

re-roll?
name: starkittens
level: 73
extiocs: bring it on!
restrictions: only old world rares. outland and NR okay (please, not the spirit bear, i dont like his model, maybe for my new baby NE hunter)

[Huntmyth]

K my girlfriend (Sesamee) seems to have alot of fun with this so figured i might give it a try.
My hunters on a different realm which is high pop so not sure how that might effect rares but lets see.

Name: Huntmyth
Level: 85
Exotics: Sure ill get a BM spec
Restrictions: none

[Serenith]

I wants a challenge again!

Name: Ailey
Level: 85
Exotics: Yes
Restrictions: None. I'll take anything, even rares (Well... no Madexx though... I will write a review for the blue and red I have but I just can't hunt for that guy again)

[TygerDarkstorm]

Sarantha:
Karoma


Starkittens:
Duskstalker


::OR::
Ressan the Needler


Huntmyth:
Black Bear


Serenith(Ailey):
Grey and White Color Changing Worg

[Sesamee]

Oops! I thought I had posted for another roll but I guess not. Ah well!

Name: Sesamee
Level: 85
Exotics: yes
Restrictions: none
Rares I have: Loque, Magria, Terrorpene, Olm the Wise, Deth'tilac, Kirix, Nuramoc, Skarr

[TygerDarkstorm]

Sesamee:
Blue Sporebat

[Melentari]

None for me? I rolled on the previous page...

[TygerDarkstorm]

Melentari:
Enthralled Crustacean

[kinderfield]

Name: Weehlos
Level: 85
Exotics: Yes
Restrictions: Nope, hit me.

[Huntmyth]

So my girlfriend Sesamee seems to have alot of fun with this stuff so I thaught id give it a shot.
My first challenge was a Black Bear. I didnt want to get just any plain bear so i went looking for a rare and got Ursol'lok.

Took a few minutes to find him but here is the tame which went very simple although i almost lost an arm! =/


I decided to take him outside of Firelands to test him on a molten giant. Hes a tank pet and held aggro very well with his array of moves seems like he was good at holding multiple mobs as well with his thunderstomp skill.


After fighting through the fire we decided to take a swim to cool off when Demi saw a school of fish and tried to catch us some dinner!


His best move in my opinion was Thunderstomp, it reminded me of my warrior's thunderclap.


Although he was a good pet ive just never been a big fan of bears because to me they are one of the "common" pets you always see people with since they are one of the first you usually see as a hunter. I think ill hang onto DemigodJR for a while since he was a rare. I named him DemigodJR because his original name Ursol'lok is a mix of 2 names from the "War of the Ancients".

I had some fun doing this So lets try agian.
For now DemigodJR and I will be napping away trying to keep warm from this east coast snow storm!

[Huntmyth]

Another please!

Name: Huntmyth
Level: 85
Exotics: Sure
Restrictions: None

[Melentari]

My quarry? The Enthralled Crustacean from Swamp of Sorrows.


Swamp of Sorrows was one of my least favourite places as a lowbie because of the patrolling Horde guards. I kept accidentally flagging myself for PvP, and I suck at PvP, so I ended up leaving SoS all together. This time, I was there on a flying mount, so those guards were the least of my worries. Between receiving fried chicken from my grandmother and letting cats see outside, I flew out to Swamp of Sorrows and attained myself a crab. I found him inside the cave along the ridge south and east of Stonard, a decent way into the cave. Habit had me trapping him to tame him, but in the end, I had myself a crab. The name I gave him, which I gave him after killing the Horseman, was obvious.

With the Horseman done, I switched to my BM spec, which I use for questing (makes life easier) and specced out the crab as such:

I'm kind of using this random pet challenge as a reason to keep questing, so the first thing I did after speccing him out, I hearthed back to Twilight Highlands where I'd left off questing and where the light was a little better so I could get a good look at him.

I'll admit, my first thought was that he resembled nothing more than a spikey soccer ball of death. His body was very spherical and I found myself being very glad that Mel had hooves so she couldn't accidentally step on him and hurt herself. But I remain impressed with the details on the skin. It's really very pretty.

The green and orange didn't impress me too much, which probably explains why I didn't get a good shot of the back of the green skin, but the red and blue both surprised me with how pretty they were. The red has a crest on the front with a very clear delineation, and on the back, both red and blue go into this very nice purple shading.

What I couldn't get over was how bony he looked - and I don't mean skinny as much as I mean pointy. His legs looked a little like flying buttresses without the grace that a flying buttress needs. And sure, he has claws, but with all those spikes, I really just wanted to spin him in a circle and pinball him off my enemies.

ANYWAY. With those observations made, and well forewarned about how Pin could be a problem, he and I went out questing - and Pin really was the problem I'd heard about.

Watching my threat output on Omen, every time he started channeling Pin (which you can see with those little "slow" animations in the screencaps up there), I could watch my threat creep up and his threat creep down. This ended up with me getting a faceful of mob every now and then. I also noticed that, though I specced him for survivability, he took a lot more damage than either of my beetles, Plink or Boing.

But here's what I got to see as he attacked:

His thunderstomp sometimes broke some of my traps - where I'd lay them to try to keep mobs out of my face. I did have fun watching him gallop off toward the mobs that needed deadening, but in the end, he and I just didn't mesh. When it comes to tenacity pets, Plink and Boing are just miles better. And more than that, Spycrab kept threatening my 'aka.

He and I compromised and I found a nice spot outside of Teldrassil for him to reenter the sea, with plenty of Baby Octopi for him to snack on.

Bye, Spycrab!

I'd love to do it again!

Name: Melentari
Level: 85
Exotics: Yep, I have a BM offspec.
Restrictions: None that I need a group to get to on-level. I just don't have the resources. Lowbie dungeons are fine.
Rares: Gondria, Olm the Wise, Magria, Ban'thalos, Terrorpene, Ankha
Honourable Mentions: Ghost Sabre, Alystros the Verdant Keeper (yes, there's an owl with his skin, but taming him was an adventure)

[Sesamee]

My pet this time was the Blue Sporebat. I don't really like sporebats in general as I feel they aren't very pet like. There's something alien and distant about them. Previously I was rolled the brown sporebat and that pretty much cemented my dislike for them. But this time it was a little different....a little!

I initially had a hard time finding one and kept running into the green ones everywhere. Finally I saw a blue one and hit tame. They are found in the center of Zangarmarsh. Obviously taming this lvl 60ish pet is easy at 85.


I named her Bella the Blue Sporebat! She's quite pretty and is really a rainbow of different colors dominated by various shades of blue.


Her underside is where the rainbow of colors is. She has her little dangly pink jewelry things too. They remind me of earrings!:


It kinda looks like she's hugging me here ! If you look close you can see that she gives off a shower of little colorful spores everywhere.


Now on to the fighting!! The sporebat's special ability is Spore Cloud. It reduces casting speed of all areas within 10 yards of the sporebat. The problem is that you can see it and it's easy to walk out of. The debuff does not remain after the mob or player moves away. Not bad if you sic the sporebat on something but it kind of defeats the aoe purpose, IMO.


When running she has a very graceful kind of lope through the air:


She moves the exact same way through water:


I liked the Blue Sporebat a lot more than the brown but not enough to keep her, unfortunately. So Bella and I took in a light show and then I released her back to her home in Zangarmarsh. Bye, Bella!

[Finduilas]

I'm so sorry for my really late report on the black fox. First I was cut off from the internet for two days because the people of the road construction outside our sutden apartment hit the cables then finally my fiance came to visit me here in Sweden and I totally forgot about my challenge. But here it is now, enjoy!

The only tameable black foxes live in the Redrige Mountains and are known as forest stalkers between level 18 and 19. First thing I noticed was, that these foxes seem to be the only ones not affected by the "tinyfication" of some pets (like the Baradin Foxes or the ponies in the area around Tarren Mill). Second thing was, that this fox I tamed didn't grow after taming, he kept his size (but more about that later).
I named my Tauren's new friend Sinopa, meaning something like spirit of the fox in a native american language. Here she is after taming looking cute:


Appearance:

Sinopa has a greyish to black fur, with a white throat and a white tip of her tail. This makes a nice contrast and suits her very well. I was always quite fond of foxes but always only saw the withe ones or Ashtail around in Orgrimmar. I already have a fox with Larkania, a red one called Cream. I didn't actually know that there even were black foxes and always thought that Ashtail was the darkest until I met them with an Alliance toon while questing. So after the quite long journey you have to make as Horde to get out there to Redrige, I was the proud owner of this beauty. I almost immediately felt connected to her. Sad thing for me is her size. I read about several people "complaining" how big the foxes are but I really have to disagree. The look fragile and tiny next to every cat/wolf/raptor/whatever except maybe for dogs. I took some screenshots of Sinopa before and after taming her and she didn't grow an inch. She looks really small compared to my Tauren. I KNOW that foxes are not huge in RL, but since when are wow pets like their rl models (wasps, beetles anyone?). I'd really love to see Sinopa grow a bit, just that she won't look like a mini-pet companion next to Larkania. But apart from my "size-issues" with her, I really like her model. She always seems to smile and be eager to do something silly and/or cute.


Animations:

Like you can see in the pic above, Foxes have the same sniffing-the-ground-animation Hyenas and wolfes already share. She also does the scratching:

Then one thing I never use on my foxes: "Play" aka "fox dancing like a puppy wanting a treat" (or shaman in wolf form...). It looks kind of cute, but why did they give this animation to foxes and not dogs? I never really understood the reasoning behind it it doesn't even affect the fox in any positive kind like the ablility of the bears (I think it now helps them to regain health, Petopia still says happines...).
Sinopa's swim animation is basically a dog-like paddle, like most of the four-legged animals in WoW have.


Fighting:

Sinopa is a ferocity pet, so her damage output is very well. I like taking my fox to dungeons with me when the "normal" buffs from cat and wolf are already covered and the "tailspin" ability reduces the damage on the tank a bit, because the enemies attack speed will be reduced by 20%.
This is a pic of her ability. I think it looks rather silly that her head is stuck inside the cloud, but well...

Her attack animation is basically lunging at the target and biting it, this is a nice shot of her trying to eat the dummy in Orgrimmar:


Conclusion:

I really like foxes and Sinopa grew on me. I had her out while doing the achievment with the treats when I stumbled over Rak'Shiri. I released her for him and now I regret it. I let Rak'Shiri go again, his blue just didn't fit my nature-bond Tauren and now I'm thinking about getting her back. Writing the review about her made me realize how much I like her. I think I need to spend time with my other fox now and then decide if I keep him or get Sinopa back

Next roll please:

Name: Morga (Orc)
Level: 85
Exotics: yes sure, BM is his main specc
restrictions: no diseased pets please
rares he has: several spirit beasts, The Razza, Deathmaw, Aotona, Krush, Pogeyan, Skarr (but if you roll them I'm happy to write a review about them!)

edit: Pets I already did review:
with my Tauren Larkania: Dark Grey Gorilla, Red Nether Ray, Armored brown ghost boar, brown rhino, blue warpstalker, tan wolf, Aotona, black fox
with Nerdanel (Belf): green raptor, purple demon dog, purple parrot, blue raptor, blue vulture
Finduilas: yellow beetle, white chimera
with several others: brown scoprid, grey moth, diseased dark brown bear, armored black boar

[Sesamee]

Name: Sesamee
Level: 85
Exotics: yes
Restrictions: none
Rares I have: Loque, Magria, Terrorpene, Olm the Wise, Aotona, Arcturis, Deth'tilac, Kirix, Nuramoc, Skarr

[Sarantha]

Karoma. My favorite spirit beast besides Ban'thalos. He is no challenge at all to tame, just a challenge to find, since he is in a quest-heavy zone and WILL aggro you if you get near him, so many non-hunters will kill him just to avoid running far away to drop aggro. He is great once you get him though. He looks almost just like a shaman's ghost wolf form, just different colors. Here is my precious Dean, first in his stable:





Idle animations. Apparently, he likes to sniff the ground and has fleas. I think his "scratching for fleas" animation is adorable:





Dean near a pumpkin. Shows his back and side pretty well, but he is so incredibly transparent that you can see it from any angle:



Dean and Sara:



Of course, I love Karoma. He is gorgeous and is a great BM dps pet, like all spirit beasts. I especially love that he is a wolf. I had a major hard-on for Karoma when he was first introduced and camped him for weeks! I found Sambas about 8 times during my Karoma camp and...am ashamed to say I killed him once when I couldn't find him a home (and I hate him). Karoma was worth the long camp time and I adore him. I didn't take any combat shots or swim shots, but he has the same ones as normal wolves or saber worgs. Doggie paddle and bitey type combat animations. Tame Karoma if you can. He is definitely worth it! I think Dean was the perfect name for him, too. At least for me, since I'm basing him off a hunter character from a TV show and the character has kind of a wolfish attitude. His appearance looking like a shaman's ghost wolf form is appealing too, if you like that. I have a shaman, and its almost like having my shaman at my side! So, tame your own shaman today!

Name: Sarantha
Level: 85
Exotics: Yes
Restrictions: Will review whichever is rolled for me. White and black windserpents, yellow worm, hunched black spotted cat, Light Grey Bone Spider (totally copied that from Petopia).

[TygerDarkstorm]

He looks almost just like a shaman's ghost wolf form, just different colors.

He does look just like enhancement shaman ghost wolves, however, and funny story about that... So when I do play my 85 hunter (which is hardly ever anymore), I've had her Skoll out with her doing most things, until a guildy decided he wanted to do a Sunwell run to try and get a hunter in the guild the legendary bow (I happened to volunteer to be that hunter at the time), and I decided to give Skoll a break for Karoma. Now, up to this point I had been playing my enhancement shaman pretty heavily.

We're running through Sunwell and clearing trash when I see my Karoma dash into the mobs and suddenly my brain is like "Where the fuck did that shaman ghost wolf come from? I'm not on my shaman." Granted, it was well after 3AM by this point but after I caught myself and realized that my pet was not a shaman's ghost wolf, I felt pretty stupid. XD

Anyway, less drivel from me and more rolls for you all.

Kinderfield(Weehlos):
Loque'nahak

((I think that's the first time the random system has ever rolled a SB for someone since I've been doing rolls.))

::OR::

Green Turtle

Please remember that you are under no obligation to tame Loque and make a report on him if you do not wish to endure the stress that can come with camping a hard(er) to find rare.

Huntmyth:
Green Chimaera


Melentari:
Violet Dragonhawk


Finduilas(Morga):
Grey Rhino


Sesamee:
Blue Warpstalker


Sarantha:
Light Grey Bone Spider

[kinderfield]

I will go with the green turtle as i have loque and i feel taming another would take away from a hunter who doesnt have him.