oops. Dunno what happened. Thought I posted my review, still had the notepad copy saved, but somehow never posted. *blush* Many apologies for such a late posting.
Starting with Lael's challenge. He was given a choice between a grey boar skin, or a black fox skin. I opted for the fox skin, since I've been wanting to try a fox. I look up where to find black foxes, and discover why I was given a choice. Black foxes are only found in the far north-east of Redridge Mountains. Easy for alliance to get to, but a long trek for a little horde elf through alliance dominated lands.
I began in Northern Strangelthorn, running to the river, swimming the river to Duskwood. Then I ran along the river, around Duskwood into Redridge. Once in Redridge, over the hills and through several gnoll camps into the lake. Then a swim to the northeastern side of the lake (the elite shark, not nice!). A very long run, but I managed to avoid all the alliance patrols and quest hubs, and got right to the foxes.
I dubbed my newly tamed fox Winter (To go with Summer, my red lynx) and hearthed to go do some questing.
Winter shares animations with the coyote modle wolves (my favorite type). When idle she'll sit and scratch an ear or sniff the ground, but she doesn't sit and howl like the wolves. She attacks with a little "yipyip" and lunges and bites.
Tailspin, first special ability, is a quick spin that kicks up a cloud of dust (could not get a screen shot of the spin.), and I can see this ability being a bit of a pain. While an AoE that reduces attack speed is very useful with multiple mobs, it can catch critters, and once the mob is dead, winter will run off after the scared critter to kill it. Not good in a tightly packed area or a dungeon. I turned this off auto cast.
The second ability, Play, is just too cute.
Dancing with your pet, way too much fun.
All in all, Winter was everything I want from a ferocity pet. She keeps the mob's attention, and dishes out decent damage. She will stay in my stables, making a nice match for Summer.
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Jandos' assignment was a green crocolisk. A quick look told me that there were some right outside of Org, so that's where I went to find Fred, a Dreadmaw Toothgnasher.
I was quite taken with Fred's looks. His scales were in some very pretty and colorful patterns.
I went fishing with Fred, and noticed right away that he's loud, very loud. When idle he'll do an open mouthed head shake with a *grunthiss*, and sometimes he'll just *grunthiss* without the head shake. I don't mind pets that make noise, but he did this a lot.
Another thing I noticed fairly quick was his run animation.
The sharp angles in his body when running, rather than the smooth curving when walking/swimming was a turn off for me. Once I noticed it, I couldn't stop noticing it.
I took Fred questing in Outland and Northrend. Fred is a good tanking pet, he grabbed the mob's attention quick, and kept it. Ankle Crack, a slow, is a wonderful ability against mobs that like to run. he had no problems with multiple mobs, and was able to take quite a beating. Despite his lovely tanking abilities, I just couldn't click with Fred, and returned him to Durotar, where I'm sure he's living it up, telling the other crocolisks tales of Outland and Northrend.
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Again please? I promise I won't be so late this time.
Name: Jandos
Lvl: 76
Exotics: Yes
Restrictions: None, I'll give creepy pets another try.
Rares: Snarler, Rex Ashil, Hawkbane, Loque'nahak
Name: Lael
Lvl: 31
Exotics: Not yet
Restrictions: None.
Rares: Ironback
