Hunter Pets with Special Visual Effects Directory.

[SpiritBinder]

Greetings Fellow Petopians!

Just touching base regarding an exciting tweet a little while back that mentioned at possible plans to have hunter pets potentially keep their special visual effects after taming. The reply seemed to be quite optimistic, saying that they are "Looking into tech that'll put visuals like that on display level and not an aura; not sure when it'll be ready & applied."

This got me thinking that there must be an awful amount of pets out there that have a visual effect on them of some form or another (in fact we've have many of you have passionately hunted, tested and tamed many of them over the years). Also with the amount of potentially shiny pets that may be suitable applicants for their new tech, I was thinking that if we put our collective minds and hunting experience together, we could possibly help in identifying as many as possible and give the guys over at Blizzard a "Go to List" if and when they get the tech up an ready.

So if anyone runs into a wild tameable beast, that has some kind of special visual or effect that deviates from the norm, Please feel free to pop in, check out the list and let us know. We will try and only list pets that have a permanent visual effect, not ones that are affected via a timed buff/aura of any sort. This means that can also be damaging buffs (which we always avoided listing or encouraging in the past due to the mechanics abuse associated) as the new tech seems to headed towards a display level, not aura per say. I'll try an update the list ASAP with any new info and finds, many thanks!

I'll start off the list below with what was the most comprehensive list I could find from our forums already.(Big thanks to Dialga and all the others that helped)

• Akkarai Hatchling - Shadowform
  Amberscale Basilisk - Grey
  Angered Arakkoa Protector - Blue mist
  Angry Hound - 'Chained' Buff
  Armored Battleboar - Retains fire across its body if hit with a torch from a Tauren starting quest.
  Ashmane Boar - Blue mist
  Black Bengal Goat - Sha aura.
  Blighthound - Green toxic aura.
  Coldbite Matriarch - Grey body, sha streaks come out of her eyes.
  Consumed Thistle Bear - Purple glowing aura
  Corrupted Crane - Sha effect around its feet and a dull body
  Cracklefang - Sword held in mouth, level 91
  Deviate Plainstrider - Two sparkle rings around its body
  Docile Porcupine- Sha effect
  Duskstalker - Shadowform
  Felscale Crawler - Fel green aura
  Fern Feeder Moth - Tiny golden moths hover around
  Fire Roc - Flame effect on its wings
  Fluttering Moth - Tiny golden moths hover around
  Furious Goat - Has the murky ground effect of the Sha tigers, coupled with sha 'spirals' that frequently float around it.
  Ghostpaw Runner - Same skin as Karoma/Grimtotem Spirit Guide
  Giant Cave Bat - Black coat
  Grainhunter Hawk - Can be tamed with dull skin. It can also be tamed holding a bag -- the bag is fragile and will be lost upon death, but the dull skin will be retained.
  Horrorscale Scorpid - Has shiny sparkles trailing after it
  Icehorn - Rhino with icy feet (rare spawn)
  Icepaw Bears - Icy effect on paws
  Ik'thik Terrorclaw - Sparkling, smoky Sha effect
  Infested Bears - Keeps disease cloud + buff, not the eggs
  Ivory Starling - Subtle sparkle effect
  Kung Din - Rotating chain around his neck
  The Lone Hunter - Sword through the head
  Mining Monkey - Carries a pickaxe (Dungeon pet)
  Mutant War Hound - Noticeable green buff, diseased skin underneath
  Oiled Fledgeling - Black thick oily coat
  Oil-Stained Wolf - Black thick oily coat
  Princess - Pink bow on shoulder
  Rabid Worg - Skull aura effect
  Searing Roc - Flame effect on its wings
  Seething Fleshripper - Sha effect
  Sha-Haunted Crane - Sha effect
  Sha-Haunted Tigress - Sha effect
  Sha-Infested Prowler - Sha effect
  Silt Crawler - Bottle in its claw
  Spirit Worg - Very translucent, blue-mist
  Spiteflayer - Golden glow, flamey ball above head (rare spawn)
  Starving Hound - Gains a sleepy buff when finished eating their master. Also comes with a damage buff that increases damage when near other 'hounds', but it's unclear if this would matter when tamed and out in the world.
  Stillwater Crocolisk - Sha effect
  Tainted Black Bear
  Tainted Nightstalker
  Tainted Screecher
  Thundermaw - Sha effect
  Veiled Basilisk - Veiled Basilisks in Towlong Steppes can be tamed with their camo-buffs. But they only appear camo'd for the first ~10 seconds when you call the from your stables, then they don't appear to camo again until you resummon them.
  Vicious Teromoth - Dark misty aura effect
  White Crane - Sha effect
  Venomtip Needler - Glowing Green tips on forelegs

[Litlemouse]

Awesome! Hopefully we'll no longer have to resort to finding glitches in order to have cool pets that get nerfed shortly afterwards

[Kintsugi]

thank you so much for this list! I really hope we'll all be using it alot *crosses fingers*

[zedxrgal]

You could add Cracklefang. He shows as tamable on beast lore but he is level 91.

[GormanGhaste]

Removed extra Grainhunter Hawk, added Cracklefang, and alphabetized:

Akkarai Hatchling - Shadowform
Amberscale Basilisk - Grey
Angered Arakkoa Protector - Blue mist
Angry Hound - 'Chained' Buff
Armored Battleboar - Retains fire across its body if hit with a torch from a Tauren starting quest.
Ashmane Boar - Blue mist
Coldbite Matriarch - Grey body, sha streaks come out of her eyes.
Consumed Thistle Bear - Purple glowing aura
Corrupted Crane - Sha effect around its feet and a dull body
Cracklefang - Sword held in mouth, level 91
Deviate Plainstrider - Two sparkle rings around its body
Duskstalker - Shadowform
Felscale Crawler - Fel green aura
Fern Feeder Moth - Tiny golden moths hover around
Fire Roc - Flame effect on its wings
Fluttering Moth - Tiny golden moths hover around
Furious Goat - Has the murky ground effect of the Sha tigers, coupled with sha 'spirals' that frequently float around it.
Ghostpaw Runner - Same skin as Karoma/Grimtotem Spirit Guide
Giant Cave Bat - Black coat
Grainhunter Hawk - Can be tamed with dull skin. It can also be tamed holding a bag -- the bag is fragile and will be lost upon death, but the dull skin will be retained.
Horrorscale Scorpid - Has shiny sparkles trailing after it
Icehorn - Rhino with icy feet (rare spawn)
Icepaw Bears - Icy effect on paws
Ik'thik Terrorclaw - Sparkling, smoky Sha effect
Infested Bears - Keeps disease cloud + buff, not the eggs
Ivory Starling - Subtle sparkle effect
Kung Din - Rotating chain around his neck
The Lone Hunter - Sword through the head
Mining Monkey - Carries a pickaxe (Dungeon pet)
Mutant War Hound - Noticeable green buff, diseased skin underneath
Oiled Fledgeling - Black thick oily coat
Oil-Stained Wolf - Black thick oily coat
Princess - Pink bow on shoulder
Rabid Worg - Skull aura effect
Searing Roc - Flame effect on its wings
Seething Fleshripper - Sha effect
Sha-Haunted Crane - Sha effect
Sha-Haunted Tigress - Sha effect
Sha-Infested Prowler - Sha effect
Silt Crawler - Bottle in its claw
Spirit Worg - Very translucent, blue-mist
Spiteflayer - Golden glow, flamey ball above head (rare spawn)
Starving Hound - Gains a sleepy buff when finished eating their master. Also comes with a damage buff that increases damage when near other 'hounds', but it's unclear if this would matter when tamed and out in the world.
Veiled Basilisk - Veiled Basilisks in Towlong Steppes can be tamed with their camo-buffs. But they only appear camo'd for the first ~10 seconds when you call the from your stables, then they don't appear to camo again until you resummon them.
Vicious Teromoth - Dark misty aura effect

[SpiritBinder]

You could add Cracklefang. He shows as tamable on beast lore but he is level 91.

Oh nice find! I'd forgotten about that one was flagged tamable too

Removed extra Grainhunter Hawk, added Cracklefang, and alphabetized

Awesome, I've updated the list, Thankyou

[Castile]

Oh id love a sha pet! How awesome if it happens

[Agravaine]

It would be nice to have my ghostpaw out and about with me at last! I googled around to refresh my memory on these and found threads I started in the WoW forums 3 years ago now. I also rediscovered something older... the Mania's Arcania post from May 2009 about summoning effects being disabled. Back in the days of comments instead of forums!

But sticking to the topic, are summoning effects like Gezzarak's lightning and Arikara's puff of sparkly smoke included in this?

[SpiritBinder]

As much as I loved the individual nature of those, they are not really a permanent display.... but then they were always a permanent feature so maybe? Would love to try dig up some more info as I don’t personally have an original Gezz myself, but I'm trying to remember when and why they removed it.
If they stopped they ability to tame one with it, that’s all well and good, but some would still have her with the lighting effect right? (as per the sha/oily/sparkly still remain on others) Same for Arikara's puff too I assume. I have a funny feeling it was a permeate removal prior to any visual pets even being discovered…

[Vephriel]

Yeah, Gezz lost the lighting summon even for people who tamed her back in the day. It would be a rather neat feature to put back on her, but that's a bit different than something visual on the pet.

[SpiritBinder]

Sweet, thanks for the comfirmation Veph, and I agree if they could somehow return this, it would be pretty dam cool

[Wain]

The Black Bengal Goat in VEB has a sha aura. Note that this is a second ID for the goat, and was added in 5.4. The one with the original ID still exists, but has no sha effect.

[Wain]

Also, the following VEB beasts now have sha auras. However, unlike the bengal goat, they all retain their original IDs. The goat was the only one to receive a new ID for the sha version.

• White Crane
• Docile Porcupine
• Stillwater Crocolisk
• Thundermaw

[Wain]

Blighthound in EPL has a green toxic aura.

[Wain]

Chasm Stalker has a purple-pink smoke effect, centred around its neck. This seems to only happen after a Faceless Defiler zaps them. There's no buff that is obvious on them, but the effect sticks from then on.

[Agravaine]

As much as I loved the individual nature of those, they are not really a permanent display.... but then they were always a permanent feature so maybe? Would love to try dig up some more info as I don’t personally have an original Gezz myself, but I'm trying to remember when and why they removed it.
If they stopped they ability to tame one with it, that’s all well and good, but some would still have her with the lighting effect right? (as per the sha/oily/sparkly still remain on others) Same for Arikara's puff too I assume. I have a funny feeling it was a permeate removal prior to any visual pets even being discovered…

Nope, summoning effects were disabled outright on any that had them, but not because it was a huge concern. Unfortunately, they were never a priority to restore either.

There was a post on the boards about Gezz and the Blizzard poster that responded where not against bringing the summon animation back. It wasn’t removed intentionally, but was a sideeffect of other cleanup they did. Now, just because they wouldn’t mind bringing it back doesn’t mean they’ll actually do it. I’m keeping Gezz as my tank pet since it still has a unique skin.

Gezzarak became tameable for a couple of weeks in Wrath when we were able to be the same level as her. The bugs in her tamed version were fixed, but taming her was disbled for the rest of Wrath. After insistent popular demand, taming her was reenabled in Cataclysm.

Gezzarak the Huntress wasn't meant to be tamed, but hunters found a way. She was horribly bugged -- couldn't be healed or misdirected to, and was blue to opposite faction players. She was fixed but made untameable... until Cataclysm.

[SpiritBinder]

Thanks for the extra ones Wain, I've added them to the list, very appreciated.

Chasm Stalker has a purple-pink smoke effect, centred around its neck. This seems to only happen after a Faceless Defiler zaps them. There's no buff that is obvious on them, but the effect sticks from then on.

So with these one, they don’t have it until a Faceless Defiler zaps them? So does that mean it also eventually fades from them after a certain amount of time also? Just not sure if to list any pet that does not permanently have their visual effect, just to try and avoid the plethora of other non-permanent buffs that effect pets appearances.

[Wain]

Thanks for the extra ones Wain, I've added them to the list, very appreciated.

Chasm Stalker has a purple-pink smoke effect, centred around its neck. This seems to only happen after a Faceless Defiler zaps them. There's no buff that is obvious on them, but the effect sticks from then on.

So with these one, they don’t have it until a Faceless Defiler zaps them? So does that mean it also eventually fades from them after a certain amount of time also? Just not sure if to list any pet that does not permanently have their visual effect, just to try and avoid the plethora of other non-permanent buffs that effect pets appearances.

Honestly I'm not sure. I thought it was something they had from the start until I encountered one that didn't have it. Soon after a defiler zapped it and the pink appeared. However it had no buffs on it so I'm not sure where the effect is stored. Maybe ignore this one, or put it on an "iffy" list

[SpiritBinder]

Maybe we can go for a dip and have a look later on, been a while since I got my togs out

[Wain]

Three beasts in the swamp area of Dread Wastes all have that yellow-green fel effect on them, pretty much just on their heads, though:

• Tainted Black Bear
• Tainted Nightstalker
• Tainted Screecher