Upon meeting Kili'ua, my future pet's personality came through right away. This mob is gigantic, but after taking a few swipes at me, he bugged and completely stopped attacking. He just stood there, staring at me.
These crabs have such a worried expression. That coupled with him freezing up while attacking me gave me the idea to name my new crab Wimpy.
I swear at one point the crab mouths actually had the individual "teeth" properly cut out. It was back in Vanilla. Sadly I don't have a screenshot of a crab from back then, as I've gone through several computers since. Shame the shapes are not cut out anymore.
ANYWAYS. I'm a fan of the blue crab models. I love the markings on their backs. And they're SHINY.
Crabs are quiet pets, in both sounds and animations, and I like quiet. They just look from side to side while idle. They alternate attacking with each pincher when fighting, and they have a paddling swim animation. Pin has that typical purple aura effect that most movement impairing spells have.
I spec'ed Wimpy for DPS, despite being Tenacity, and took him to Heroic UP for a try at the blue proto drake. I noticed he picked up a pretty pink color in there. Maybe he's flushed with excitement.
He did a pretty good Ghost Crawler imitation while in camo.
While trying to sneak past a group of Vrykul, we accidentally aggro'ed them. I blame Wimpy, since that never happens with my Spiritbeast. WAY TO GO, WIMPY.
While trying to kill these guys, I noticed aggro problems, and I can only assume it was from the crab ability Pin. Turning it off solved the problem.
Wimpy seemed nervous to take on Skadi. Oh Wimpy, don't be nervous.
See? You did just fine.
No protodrake. Wimpy did just fine with all of the adds, but I still much prefer doing that run with my spirit beast - it goes much faster. Such is the dps of a Tenacity pet.
I really like the old school crab models, but my dislike of their Pin ability always keeps me from having one for very long. My dog has a similar ability, but as a Ferocity pet his dps at least makes up for it - I turn his ability off and still burn mobs down well enough. I really hope at some point in the future Pin is either fixed to not be channeled or replaced with something better (making it like the croc's Ankle Crack ability would be nice). I PVP often, but I had no desire to take Wimpy into any BGs because of how poopie Pin is. The fact that Kill Command breaks it makes me a sad Beast Master. But then again I think my croc has thoroughly spoiled me. You could turn Pin off and spec a crab into all of the straight tanking talents and it would probably do just fine, but I have more than enough tanky pets that I'm attached to right now. I would rather use my turtles or my beetle for heavy duty tanking, like soloing Stonecore.
So I released Wimpy. He was cute, but just not cute enough. Maybe some day we will be reunited, but I don't see that happening while Pin stays the same.
), Terrorpene, Olm the Wise, Arcturis, King Krush, Deth'tilac, Aotona, Nuramoc, Skarr
) and sharp teeth he's not exactly pretty, but does have a "so ugly it's cute" charm. After taming, it was off to Terokkar for some questing. 
