Random Pet Family Appreciation Thread 12: Bears!
Random Pet Family Appreciation Thread 12: Bears!
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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 12th family is the bulky bear family!
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Bear facts
~Bears have been a tameable family since Vanilla WoW.
~Bears have 10 tameable skin colors.
~Bears have 5 rare members: Big Samras, Bjarn, Mongress, Old Grizzlegut, and Ursol'lok.
~Bears have no unique skinned named members.
~Back in Wrath, bears were tamed by 5.5% of level 80 hunters. Placing them at number 4 on the list, tied with devilsaurs. (Source)
~Back in Wrath, bearskinwhite was the most tamed skin at 50.6%. Bearskinblackdiseased was the least tamed skin at 2.1%. (Source)
~Bears used to make great aoe tanks with having the move Swipe.
~While the bear's bonus ability Rest is just for show now, it used to restore pet happiness. With a bear, you never had to feed it any food to keep it happy as long as you gave it plenty of rest.
~Many different bear mounts exist in game and are attainable in many different ways. From the purchasable Armored Brown Bear and Darkmoon Dancing Bear (that really dances!), to the PvP achievement reward Black War Bear, and to the dailies lootable White Polar Bear. Amani War Bear and Amani Battle Bear are drops from Zul'Aman (the former being a retired mount and no longer attainable). The Big Battle Bear is a TCG loot card mount. Big Blizzard Bear was a Blizzcon 2008 reward mount.
~Dun Morogh Cub matches perfectly with tameable bears using bearskinblack. Two other more adorable bear cubs minipets are Baby Blizzard Bear and Hyjal Bear Cub.
~Older players probably remember that bears used to never close their mouths, ever. Now bears only open them in combat and certain other animations.
~Consumed Thistle Bear can be tamed with a consuming purple mist as a permanent appearance buff.
~Amani Bear was tameable during patch 2.3.0 PTR. Their tameability never made it to live servers.
~Arctic Grizzly Cub was tameable for a short while during Wrath of the Lich King beta.
~Elder Ashenvale Bears were bugged and labeled as exotic beasts in early Wrath.
~Infested Bears have spider egg sacs growing from their back. Thankfully, they do not keep the actual egg sacs once tamed.
~A younger version of Big Samras exists inside the Old Hillsbrad Foothills instance.
~Old Vicejaw is a former rare of the bear family. It seems he passed away during the Shattering.
~Bears were the only pet family that had slower than 2.0 attack speed back in Vanilla WoW. Three bears that had these slower, but more damaging hits were Ursius (2.4), Young Forest Bear (2.5) and Black Bear (2.5). The Black Bear was relatively unknown as it was only found at the Ironforge Airport which required a bit of wall walking to get to. Screenshots of it Wild / Tamed.
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I didn't want to tame this bear.
Every arctic/white themed hunter has a polar bear. "No," I told myself. "I won't have one too. I'll be different!"
I failed at level 18 when I went to tame Lord Condar and he wasn't up. I ended up wandering a bit further into alliance lands and tamed Mangeclaw.
And I loved him.
Ealahweemah has been Ptaysanwee's main tanking pet since. His name is Nez Perce for "sleep" after the bear's rest ability, which I used a lot leveling up since it restored happiness back then. Ealah is a lazy bear that lives up to his name and loves to nap.
I also have a Consumed Thistle Bear with the purple mist buff on a low level hunter. As one of the more "unknown" permanent appearance buff pets, he's gotten quite a few whispers.
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I adore the pic in the opening post btw! Sleeping bear is so sleepy ... d'awe!
I have 4 of 'em spread across my various hunters:
Khau's bear is Kahlua.
Niabi's bear is Sumehra.
Ghiselle's bear is Huggins.
and Synestra's diseased bear is Fester.
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But there is a bear mount that wasn't listed: the Big Blizzard Bear that was given out at BlizzCon 2008: http://www.wowhead.com/item=43599
Melentari and Tevildo - she tamed him a long time ago.
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Added. Thanks.Melentari wrote:But there is a bear mount that wasn't listed: the Big Blizzard Bear that was given out at BlizzCon 2008: http://www.wowhead.com/item=43599
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Currently only one of my hunters has a bear, and that's Tsara.
He deviates away from the largely teal theme I have going on with Tsara, but he and his pretty blue eyes still seem to match her. Not that it's super hard for Alliance, but it was a little bit of a hike to get to Bjarn out in Dun Morogh, and for a low level rare, I remember him taking a little while before he showed up. xD
Baneberry is a great big ol' cuddly bear that's super protective of Tsara. I'm hoping that we'll be able to choose pet talent specs for MoP as Tsara is generating quite the tenacity pet collection.
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I don't have a recent picture mainly because I am too lazy and in the midst of travelling around!
However I have an older picture of him, he's still one of my favorites.
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Updated picture
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I tamed the 'Welcome Bear' years back from the entrance of the Western Plaguelands, named due to its proximity to Tirisfal and usually the mob that would decimate any newbies that wandered too close to the Bulwark.
He became my Grudge, and over time he developed one of the most in-depth back stories out of all my my pets. (If anyone wants to read more about him I've written some of his story in my journal in these two entries: Part 1, Part 2)
Grudge had a long break during WotLK when I didn't have room to keep him, but he was the first pet I went and retamed once we got our 25 stable slots.
He's never leaving my stables again.
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Tårnfalks latest pet is to my own surprise an undead bear... but i do like him alot Meet Ribeye
Kahluas bear is a female. Brandy is huggleable eventhough she looks like she wants to rib you appart
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A while back I was leveling my 4th hunter, Syleanora, through Feralas. I was having fun protecting my Night Elven lands and all that when suddenly, something in a tree catches my eye..
It was a bear. An Ironfur Bear to be exact.
I think "What an odd place for an Ironfur Bear to be." and move up to get a closer look.
I get a little bit closer and...
OGODHE'SONMYFACE.
So then he starts whailing on me and I just sit there and watch him for a bit, along with my faithful Moonsaber Tanavar.
Now, normally I do not appreciate this color of bear. the red eyes and blue face used to weird me out a whole bunch. But this bear was special. He has the potential to change my view on his kind. So after much though, I dismounted, dismissed Tanavar, and began to tame.
I named him Estulan, after the Highborne and his tower close by. It was an instant bond. He's such a great bear. He loves life, and high places.
And sleeping. But what bear doesn't love sleeping??
Syleanora is very happy with her tree bear. <3
The End. ^.^
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Havnt got a a bear on my main, The alt Hunter did grab one from western plagelands some time back and named her Hel. After the Norse goddess of death and ruler of the realm of the dead.
There's no real story to why I named her. Just when questing in Western plaglands I came up and saw her. Havning not run with a bear before I figured "Why not". Hel became my Tanking pet till outlands when I got to hellfire and said, "I NEED A FEL BOAR!" But not having the heart to release Hel I gave her a nice spot in my stables.
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It all started with this black bear here. Originally, this lovely teddy was my Nelf Lomelinda's level 10 first tanking pet called Snapdragon. The black skin is probably my favourite, and it was an obvious choice as I'd never had a bear before. They leveled together up to 30 or so, and while I loved the bear a lot, I knew that he didn't suit her intended stable theme. Eventually, after a bit of a wrench, we parted ways. Since then, I've had some troubles finding a new home for the black bear, and he has protected many different races. Finally I think I"ve found his forever home. Bears and Dwarves go together perfectly, and my half Dark Iron Eadgyth was more than happy to give Coal a home. I was ashamed I didn't see the connection sooner!
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As I was about to leave, I looked down and saw a lonely bear. He was all on his own, slowly wandering from the elk-filled forest back to his little home on the cliff edge. It seemed like he was the only bear to make it to the grove- perhaps the rest of his family was lost to the plague. He seemed lonely and without purpose, so I tamed him and named him Torn.
I soon encountered a problem. Torn would die if he left for too long. I like to think, therefor, that Rassaa goes back to the grove every time the Faerie Dragons sing, making sure Torn stays safe from the plague that festers within him.
Come MoP, Torn will become Ferocity. It just seems to fit him better.
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their fight took them across the river to the small islands in the middle; i waited until they were completely into their fight n wouldnt notice....arcturis came within about, say, 20yards from my toon and i could not pass this up, i immediately tamed him. then strolled over to the river as the troll died, waved to the dwarf and got a rude gesture and comment i wont post here back, and laughed my butt off as i flew happily away with my first spirit beast. that picture i posted when i joined here as a Tauren and my Spirit Beast bear? thats the bear, Keelaunaw.
heres one i thought youd like, from MoP beta with my premade panda hunter: The Three Bears; my panda Bearly, my just tamed spirit bear Cheveyo (meaning 'spirit warrior'), and my black warbear mount...
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