Random Pet Family Appreciation Thread 7: Wasps!
Random Pet Family Appreciation Thread 7: Wasps!
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Random pet family appreciation thread is where I roll a random pet family every week for everyone to share their pictures, their stories, their love for that pet family. Please no hate or rants. This is an appreciation thread. If you dislike the family, don't post! Hopefully with some love we can get some hunters to try out new pets they never would have thought to tame before.
Our seventh family is the buzzing wasp family!
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Wasp facts
~Wasps became a tameable family in Wrath. Silithid wasps have been around since Vanilla and firefly wasps were introduced in Burning Crusade.
~Wasps have three different models and 21 different skin combinations.
~Wasps have four rare members: Nix, Qirot, Rex Ashil (also unique skinned), and Zora (also unique skinned).
~Wasps have 5 unique skinned named members. Besides Rex Ashil and Zora above the others are Blacksting, Princess Huhuran, and Stinglasher. While other wasps have Princess Huhuran's and Stinglasher's skins, they are unique to that model.
~Florawing Hive Queen is another unique skinned named member, however she is currently untameable due to her being level 86.
~Wasps have one color changer.
~Back in Wrath, wasps were tamed by 1.2% of level 80 hunters. Placing them at number 15 on the list, tied with both scorpids and turtles. (Source)
~Back in Wrath, silithidwaspbossskin3 (boss model) was the most tamed skin at 47.9%. Fireflyskinblue was the least tamed at 3.1%. (Source)
~Sting, the wasp's special ability, used to reduce the armor rating of the target (similar to Faerie Fire and Sunder Armor) and caused nature damage. While the debuff was up on a rogue or druid they could not stealth.
~For a short while, Black Qiraji Resonating Crystal was bugged and changed into a wasp mount in flyable zones. This happened in patch 2.2 if one logged on after updating to the patch while on the mount and in patch 3.0.2 PTR.
~Two minipets are firefly wasps called Captured Firefly and Tiny Flamefly. The Captured Firefly previously had the vanity text "Still flying..."
~Underbelly Elixir has a chance to turn you into a wasp.You can fly while transformed as a wasp!
~Silithid wasps come in two models, a normal model and a larger boss model. Silithid wasp skins are interchangeable between these two models.
~Silithid boss wasp models used to be huge, even after taming, making them one of the biggest hunter pets in game. This was hotfixed in patch 4.1.0.
~Ayamiss the Hunter and Princess Huhuran are two raid boss wasps that can be tamed.
~While many different colored wasps in Zul'Gurub are named Florawing Needler, they are individual mobs with four separate NPC IDs, meaning they are stable skin colors. Three of their skins you can only get from this mob which are silithidwaspbossskin (non-boss, red), silithidwaspbossskin2 (non-boss, purple), and silithidwaspbossskin3 (non-boss, blue).
~Rex Ashil used to be a turquoise ant model silithid before he became tameable.
~Sapphire Hive Drone used to be a boss model silithid wasp. They were changed to the smaller non-boss model in patch 3.1 while keeping the same skin.
~Sapphire Hive Queen was made untameable in patch 3.0.8 for an unknown reason, but probably due to her large size and that she was a quest mob. She became tameable again in patch 4.0.3.
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"My dear Ptay, I will always be by your side..."
I love this screenshot I got so much. It really shows how loving Ptaysanwee's wasp, Hototo, is to her.
Hototo is the Hopi name meaning "warrior spirit who sings; he who whistles." His "whistling" is his constant buzzing noise. I love this noise wasps make. It actually has a calming effect for me. If I ever had a bad day, I just need to take Hototo out and listen to him "sing" for me.
I didn't plan to tame a wasp on Ptay. Wasps just don't fit for a cold weather Taunka, but I came across Qirot while leveling. I killed him at first, but that night I couldn't stop thinking about it. I had to tame him. Thankfully when I checked the next day he was up. He's been by Ptay's side since.
I've tried a few different wasp skins for Wassa, but I haven't found the wasp for her yet.
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First and foremost is my most used and beloved wasp, Sting (formerly known as Zora). Sting is Rosaliah's companion. I always knew that I wanted to tame this wasp, I just didn't know on which hunter until I took Rose out questing in Silithus and went looking for this beauty. It was love at first sight, and while she isn't my most used pet on Rose, she holds a special place just for being so gorgeous and mesmerizing.
The next wasp belongs to my 85 hunter, Ruffley. I honestly don't think I've hardly ever used this guy other than to admire his awesome coloring from time to time. His name is Dorito as the color is suiting and fitting to Ruffley's food names theme.
And my third wasp is Amber, belonging to my tauren hunter Merla on Nesingwary. I just had to have Nix and ever since the very long run out to get her, she has been a pretty constant companion for Merla when I was more active on the server. Never thought I would like the firefly style wasps until I met this pretty gal.
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I've tamed all the fireflies at one time or another; currently my troll and orc have green ones, and my dwarf with a booze theme tamed a red one named Buzz.
I'm not usually much for taming rares, but I do love searching silithid mounds for them; my belf has a Qirot named Ace, and my worgen has yet another Zora named Sumner.
I'm still waiting for a wasp mount!
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I've been drawn to wasps since WotLK when I became completely bonded with one of the Sapphire Hive Wasps from Sholazar Basin. Back when that 'boss' model was enormous even after taming, I had one named Hypnotik who was one of my prime pets through that expansion. I can't really say what happened exactly, at some point we just drifted apart and lost the bond.
I knew I still wanted a wasp at some point, and it wasn't until Rex Ashil came back with his beautiful new inky blue look that I felt he was the one. I just adored the dark colours, and the original models always had a certain appeal to me.
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I've been trying to find the right Sherlock for a while. My first thought was to get a panther, but I already have a cat and I think a panther would be too normal - not at all like the detective himself. I then wondered if he would make a good owl. He would, undoubtedly, if they had a smoother flight animation. They do not, however. Another thought was to make him an eagle, but there are no black or dark colored eagles.
Rex Ashil was one of two wasp choices. The other was the purple boss wasp. I tamed that first, and it lasted roughly ten seconds. Boss wasps have the most clunky flight animation in the world. Rex Ashil, in the meanwhile, flies smoothly, elegantly. Perfect.
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Amethyst was my rather large angel. So large he could not fit even remotely in my character selection screen.
I so wish my old fried hard drive would boot up so I could pull the many hysterical screen shots lol
I used to send him in to battle in pvp and everyone couldn't see what was going on, so they started attacking Amethyst (Like Clockwork). My team loved it b/c picking off the opposite team was cake at that point.
He was HUGE. HUGE. HUGE.
My beautiful worm didn't even come close to his size!!
Then..one day... I logged into Cata and summoned my prized Amethyst and choked on my soda. He suddenly was the size of the smallest wasp I'd ever seen.
*sigh*
I miss you, Amethyst.
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"ALL HAIL QUEEN MINDY!"
I daresay Mindy was the first pet to establish a personality in my raiding guild, established by other people. She was rather infamous because of her size. I used to tease people who claimed to always click on her instead of an enemy ("Just tab target!"). My raid leader observed that Mindy would go into her idle animation (where she preened herself) a lot... Soon, it was common knowledge that "Mindy wants to always be clean!" "Mindy must clean EVERYTHING!" "Mindy just wants Patchwerk to be clean!" and so on and so forth...
Queen Mindy, the germophobe.
The first person to take a liking to my wasp was my boyfriend. To this day, he doesn't call her Mindy, he calls her min-DYYYYYYYYY!
Sometimes, other people would see that glitch where the pet regains its pretame size. the Sholazar Hive Queen model is HUGE.
It was such a bummer when she shrank in 4.1 ... big time. My explanation for it is that she got into Neilaren's tinkering experiments somehow and had a bit of a fight with the Gnomish World Shrinker... Well, it decided to shrink Mindy instead. Poor girl.
She got to be her (real!) old size again in MoP beta... for a little while...
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Like others, I'm terrified of wasps out of game. Heck, I'm terrified of bugs in general. Neilaren seems to really like them, though... and Koushiro, well, Koushiro pretty much has most, if not all bugs in her stables, out of principle. She similarily adores her Kabuterimon, even if she can't ride him like a mount like she should be able to.
Make a Wasp mount, oh please, oh pretty please, Blizzard!
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