Random Pet Challenge [v3.0]

[Sesamee]

Another please!

Name: Sesamee
Level: 85
Exotics: yes
Restrictions: none
Rares I have: Loque, Magria (not Gondria!!! ), Terrorpene, Olm the Wise, Arcturis, King Krush, Deth'tilac, Aotona, Nuramoc, Skarr

[Sarantha]

I love this one; her tongue is sticking out!

She does the tongue flicking thing all the time. Its not even an idle animation, just a constant thing. Must be cuz she's a serpent! It is cute though. I love that pic. It was a perfect pic of her. It looks like she's tasting the water. Its clear, pure Sholazar water, so it better taste good!

[Wassa]

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.

You weren't seeing things Kalhoun. They did have their "teeth" cut out back when they had spines. I found an old pic of it on Wowhead: http://www.wowhead.com/npc=3106#screenshots:id=10478

The spines where removed around BC because the JCing crab trinket looked silly with spines on it, so they changed all the crabs. =(

[TygerDarkstorm]

All she had wrong was the names, she did report the correct pet, hehe.

The kind of ironic thing though is that I listed the pet as Magria in the rolls because it was one she said she had. XD I usually hand out the spirit beasts/special rares by name.

Also, I was going to point out that the name of the pet was mistaken as well so there's nothing wrong with gently reminding her. The only reason I would correct it is because I don't want any person reading this and not familiar with the pets to confuse the two.

Oops! Idk how I got that wrong. I knew I was doing a report on Magria lol! Just one of those brain fart moments lol. I'll edit my post! That's what I get for multitasking while at work !

eta: when I edited my post I noticed that I called her Gondria at first then Magria! I can't believe I didnt catch that!

No worries my dear, they look similar enough that I totally understand the slip-up!
Also, will make a post with more rolls soon.

[TygerDarkstorm]

I love this one; her tongue is sticking out!

She does the tongue flicking thing all the time. Its not even an idle animation, just a constant thing. Must be cuz she's a serpent! It is cute though. I love that pic. It was a perfect pic of her. It looks like she's tasting the water. Its clear, pure Sholazar water, so it better taste good!

It's really a great pic. Just the way her eye is watching you I was imagining her going "Nya nya nya! Bet you wish you could be this beautiful."


More rolls!

Sarantha:
Black Wind Serpent


Kalhoun:
Black Bear

The system wants you to have tenacity pets Kalhoun.

Sesamee:
Purple Serpent

[Sesamee]

For my baby hunter, Lyalla, my first pet assignment was the white turtle. I thought it was funny that my first pet assignment on my main hunter was a turtle too, the green one. I love turtles though so was pleased at this little coincidence! I ended up taming the Coralshell Lurker from Azshara as it was the easiest to get to. I learned this the hard way after taking the looooong way trying to get to Ghostlands to tame the white turtles there. I couldn't get past the Eastern Plaguland mobs so I gave up and found out that the ones in Azshara were so much easier! But it's challenges like that that are making me enjoy my new Alliance hunter. There are so many unknowns!

The taming was easy as I was a couple levels above the mob.


I adore the WoW turtles and turtles in real life. They're so cute in a grumpy old man kind of way. I named him Stud muffin because he's rounded like a little muffin and because they belong to the Scientific order Testudines. "Stud" just stood out to me from that name so Studmuffin it is! I like the muted tones of his white shell and body. Very appropriate for a turtle or tortoise type animal:


Studmuffin's idle animations are really cute. He'll move his body from side to side and streeeetch his neck out like he's looking for me. It's adorable!


My baby hunter is lvl 23 and pets get their special abilities at lvl 20 so he's already a little baby tank. He also does comprable dps at this lvl so I use him a lot. His combat animations are simple, just a bite and some neck lunging. He's not great at holding aggro at this lvl though.


In the water Studmuffin paddles along similar to what he does in land. He's very graceful and seems to slide right through the water.


I really like this turtle and he's goona stick around with me! Turtles make great pets and every hunter should have one. Their cuteness and adorable little gestures and animations are icing on the cake....or the muffin !


Thanks for checking out our story!

[Sesamee]

Another for my baby hunter pls

Name: Lyalla
Level: 23
Exotics: no
Restrictions: none
Rares I have: Shadowclaw

[Sesamee]

No worries my dear, they look similar enough that I totally understand the slip-up!
Also, will make a post with more rolls soon.

The thing is that I knew the difference between the two! It was just one of those weird slips of the tounge...or fingers in this case !

[Kalhoun]

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.

You weren't seeing things Kalhoun. They did have their "teeth" cut out back when they had spines. I found an old pic of it on Wowhead: http://www.wowhead.com/npc=3106#screenshots:id=10478

The spines where removed around BC because the JCing crab trinket looked silly with spines on it, so they changed all the crabs. =(

HAHA! I'm not crazy! Well... I'm not crazy in that sense.

I miss the crabby teeth.

[TygerDarkstorm]

No worries my dear, they look similar enough that I totally understand the slip-up!
Also, will make a post with more rolls soon.

The thing is that I knew the difference between the two! It was just one of those weird slips of the tounge...or fingers in this case !

Happens to me a lot. XD

Also, in reply to your statement about turtles being both your hunters' first challenge pets: I've noticed that when people get started with these things, the system has a handful of pets it almost always rolls for newcomers. XD

[Kalhoun]

Ok. So I was assigned a black bear. First let me explain my view on WoW bears. I try to be open-minded on the many of the models. But the bears just kill me. They don't look like bears. They look like "Rodents of Unusual Size" from the novel/movie "The Princess Bride."

Let me show you.

A ROUS.



A real life black bear.



A WoW "bear."



I understand that WoW is fantasy and has dragons and is on another planet and whatnot. But I have a problem getting past their "bears." I just can't. I think I'm pretty forgiving of many of their models. But I do wish the bears looked more like bears.

SO! My bear is not a bear. It's a ROUS. I named him Rous.

He has a special skill, called Rest. It's very cute. He lays down and sleeps... with his eyes wide open. Awww.



I've heard of how great bears are, and I decided to put Rous to the test. I spec'ed him as a pure tank, and then took him to Stonecore, to solo Slabhide. I typically use my beetle or one of my two turtles for this task.





He did very well! His special ability, Demoralizing Roar, really helps with tanking. I would say a properly spec'ed bear is on par with a turtle/beetle.

Demoralizing Roar has it's own animation - the bear rears up.



I like Rous in a different sort of way. He's a great tank, and I have to snicker at his unintended resemblance to a monster from one of my favorite stories/movies. But I'm way too attached to my turtles (I own a tortoise in real life, and love them in game), and to my beetle (pretty scarab from Uldum). That makes three heavy duty Tenacity pets, and I have even more "dps" Tenacity pets in my stable. I just don't want a bear enough to keep Rous. I do appreciate the opportunity to try him out though, I've been meaning to try a bear for a long time but just never got around to it.

[Kalhoun]

Another please!

Name: Kalhoun
Level: 85
Exotics: Yeppers
Restrictions: None
Rares I Have: Sambas, Loque'nahak, King Krush, Ankha, Magria, Karoma, Terrorpene, Jadefang, Red, Blue and Green Madexx

[Talody]

Starting with Lael, his challenge was a white ghost skinned cat, a ghost saber (Sorry for lack of screenshots, none of them seemed to come out right. ). I tamed Schrödinger back pre-cata, so this is more of a review than a taming story.



As you can see, Schrödinger is a very pretty, see through spotted cat. I love all cats, and this skin is my absolute favorite. He's like a spirit beast that any hunter can tame once they reach level 20. I love questing with Schrödinger, he's a tough cat. Holds aggro really well, and things die quickly. Roar of courage is a nice little agi buff, and with prowl he completely disappears (even from me! ).

Taming one of these beauties is the tricky part. First a hopeful hunter must run to The Ruins of Mathystra in northern Darkshore (horde hopefuls need to watch out for Alliance NPCs while traveling). Once in the ruins, you must search for Mysterious Cat Figurines, little tiger statues hidden around the area that you can click on and loot. You will get a cat figurine (grey item) and a chance spawning of a ghost saber. Not every statue will spawn a ghost saber, so be prepared to spend some time searching. I had to loot 23 statues before Schrödinger made his appearance. Since a ghost saber is a spawned beastie, they have a slightly shocking quirk; after a few minutes it will drop dead. This is due to keeping the spawn timer, just cast revive pet and all will be well.


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Jandos' pet challenge was a purple skinned nether ray. The only purple ray I could tame at level 63 was "Count" Ungula, so off to Zabra'jin in Zangarmarsh I went. Count was easy to find. Directly south of the troll town, the only large, purple ray among the marshfang slicers. An easy tame, just freeze trap first, he does have a knockback ability. For some reason while taming, all I could think of was The Count from Sesame Street (WUH-UN! TUH-OOO! TH-REE!), so I wanted to name him "Count", but got the "This name is reserved" message, so I had to settle for TheCount instead.



First thing I noticed were his animations. Count is very graceful, swimming through the air rather than flapping about, unlike other flying pets. Another difference from other flying pets is a lack of a loud flapflapflap, and he doesn't have large wings that can get in the way. When idle, Count just quietly bobs around, occasionally looking about. With all the eyes (those glowy spots are eyes, right? ) 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.

First, I did have some aggo issues. Well, not really issues, I would pull the mob away from Count, but the mob would die long before reaching me. Multiple mobs were another tricky point, requiring some quick target changes. Again, not too much of a problem since the mobs would die pretty quick. Yea, things died quick with Count. I gotta admit I was surprised at how well he can stand up to multiple mobs, taking some damage, but not enough to be worrying.

Count really shines against caster mobs. Nether Shock will interrupt casting, and adds a nice little 2 second spell lock. I can see this being very useful in PvP (I see healers hating this), but limited to certain situations in PvE.

Overall, I like him, and plan on keeping him around for awhile. I'm still not that familiar with the Cunning tree, and think I'll have some fun playing around with specs and testing them out with Count.

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Again please? And hopefully I'll have better luck with screenshots this time.

Name: Jandos
Level: 64
Exotics: Soon! Very, very soon!
Restrictions: No monkeys or ravagers, they creep me out a bit.
Rares I Have: Snarler

Name: Lael
Level: 28
Exotics: Too low at the moment.
Restrictions: Same as Jandos
Rares I Have: None, unless Echeyakee and a Ghost Sabre count.

[Sarantha]

Black windserpent. I can probably copy/paste the review from the white one and just switch out the pictures with images of the black one. He has the same animations as Lien and everything:







Combat:



Water. Like Lien, he looks really smug here. Kind of "Hmph, I'm sooo cute in the water and you're not!":



Temmy and Sara:



No great pics of him sticking out his tongue like the white one, but the water pic is still really adorable since he looks so darn smug and snotty in it. Like he's DARING us to make fun of him. Haha. Anyway, same as white. Beautiful, wonderful animations, very graceful, nice raid buff for casters.

Name: Sarantha
Level: 80
Exotics: Yes
Restrictions: Can only do orange devilsaur, yellow worm, white devilsaur, and King Krush for now.

[starkittens]

Combat:

he's sticking his tongue out here

[Sarantha]

He's "rawring" at the mob there. Haha.

[starkittens]

lol

[Sesamee]

My challenge this time was a purple serpent. You can get this model by going to Wailing Caverns or there's an NPC named Venomtip in Scholazar Basin. I had previously tamed Venomtip on an impulse when I came across him doing dailies for the Oracles. I named him Volos after the Slavic serpentine god. Then I began to think Volos was more suited to the Violet serpent model so I switched them out. Almost immediately I regretted this and was going to go back for the purple one but then I needed room for King Krush so had to release Volos. It was a tough decision but now that I've gotten him back for this challenge, Volos is here to stay!! I'm going to have to figure out which pet to release though. And I may be starting to rethink my support for sticking to 25 stable slots...just sayin!

The tame was easy, no big deal!


Venomtip respawns fast. This is literally less than 2 minutes after the tame and he's already up again!


Stumbling across Volos in the wild really made me appreciate just how gorgeous the WoW serpents are. I love snakes in real life too but could never own one as I used to keep pet rats and to me that would be like feeding kittens or puppies to a pet :/ I just can't do it even though I know snakes have to eat too! Anyway! Volos is gorgeous with a purple scaly back and fins with pink highlights. I love how the light dances across his body. And his idle animations are so endearing. He sways side to side flicking the air with his tongue and makes the cutest faces when doing so!


Serpents are in the cunning tree and they have an armor reducing special ability. I decided to take him along on some bg's to see how he did. I had previously done dailies with him and he does just fine. I pvp as BM and most guides say a Ferocity pet is best but I'm only doing regular bg's for now so I can afford to play around with different pets a bit. I spec'd him for maximum dps and I have to say he was a tad squishy. Next time I'm going to give him more survival talents and see how much of a difference it makes. This is how he was talented:


Here we are taking time out of AV to pose against the pretty snowy background. He took on a very blueish hue here but he's really much more purply/pink looking.


Breaks over, time for action!! His combat animations are just bites and lunges pretty much. But it's really cool to see him get gigantic with Bestial Wrath! I sooo wish serpents had some sort of constricting ability where they'd wrap their bodies around their "prey" and squeeze the life out of them! God, can you imagine how cool that would be??


Here he looks very pink! This is right outside the MF portal in Hyjal. It's so cool to see him change colors in different settings


I loooove the way he swims. He stretches his entire body out and just makes an "s" through the water. It's so cool looking!!


Spirit Serpent!!


Here we are waiting for the boat with all our victims to dock! Muahahaha!


Overall, I'm so glad I got this pet as it put Volos back in my stable. He's here to stay this time. I love everything about him. He's gorgeous and I love having him by my side. He's not the greatest utility pet, there are probably others out there a bit better, but all in all he does a decent job and his cool factor more than makes up for it.


Thanks for checking out our story!

[Nubhorns]

I desperately need to get back into my hunter, so I figure I'll actually do one of these for once. :V

Name: Veeka
Level: 85
Exotics: Nope!
Restrictions: None at all. :)
Rares I Have: Skarr(unique), Snarler and the Sewer Beast(not unique, obviously).

[Sesamee]

Another please:

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

And for my baby hunter:

Name: Lyalla
Level: 23
Exotics: no
Restrictions: none
Rares I have: Shadowclaw