Random Pet Challenge [v3.0]

[TygerDarkstorm]

Only if you'd like Sarantha, otherwise I can give you a new roll.

[Sarantha]

I will tame whatever you roll me. The croc would be fine if you want a review on him. I didn't know I liked beetles until Petyr, so I might LIKE crocs. As long as monkeys/bats/boars aren't involved, it should be cool.

[TygerDarkstorm]

Sarantha:
(In case you don't wish to do the crocolisk; it's up to you.)
Green Worm


Meepitco(Magrallea):
Orange Shale Spider


Joshatdot(Rargiz):
White Lion


Since I'm not sure what race your hunter is, I'll give you an alternate roll in case the white lion is too hard to get.

White Wasp

[Sarantha]

I will do both pets. Unless I bond with my croc.

Here's the croc. Me taming the croc. I tamed one right outside of Orgrimmar since I was already there. He's very low lvl and did almost no damage to me:



After the naming and taming. He is swimming, and swims pretty well. He has the usual smooth swimming animations people would expect of a crocolisk and doesn't look awkward in the water at all:



Nice pic of Kylar standing near an elemental he killed quickly. I don't like the sounds crocolisks make at all and find them very annoying. Still, he's trying his best! Poor Kylar:



Sara and Kylar:



He was an interesting tame and I think I'll run around with him a bit more before taming the worm. I don't think he's a keeper and I haven't really bonded with him the way I did my beetle, but he is a great pet for low lvl hunters! He's tenacity and has a special ability called "Ankle Crack" that slows the targets movement speed by 50% for 6 secs, so he is really good for lowbie hunters wanting a tank pet with a great slowing ability. He is also right there in Durotar, so you won't have to go far! The only problem really are his sounds. I dislike crocolisk growling noises.

[Joshatdot]

Oh .. my race is N'Elf .. I'll see if I can spot either of those Spawned Rares. I happened to come across Sian-Rotam once with my Pally and wanted him for my Hunter .. but he was not high enuff lvl

[TygerDarkstorm]

You can try to convince a Horde to summon Echeyakee for you as well. I did that on my old draenei hunter--I ran around between Crossroads and Echeyakee's quest locale with a trash pet named Echeyakeepls or something like that.

However, if you don't wish to look for either of those rares, I can give you a new roll.

[Sarantha]

Josha, what server are you on? I have multiple random lvl alts scattered around various servers and might be able to spawn Echey for you.

[meepitco]

The white wasp isn't spawned. He is a rare spawn by an alliance camp in Feleras.
(Orange Shale coming soon, just been busy with Camel Statue searching >.< )

[Joshatdot]

I need to fix Sony Vegas or use a different video editing program...

To be honest, this was my 1st time using Vegas .. took me quite a while to figure out fades & adding in text. Then it was crashing on me when exporting the vid to Xvid or X264, in a AVI container. Then I finally got it to render to Upload to Youtube .. but failed to connect or summat. So I am manually uploading what it rendered Right now.

I'll link/embed my YT video once it's done!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-3iogaEcYI

[Finduilas]

I'll first do my review on Spot now, as I'm still looking for Aotona (seems to hate me this guy...).
I already wrote, that I had a tan barking wolf, but didn't like his name anymore, so this challenge just came in handy to have a reason to change him.
I took my old wolf with me to Theramore, where I had the plan to exchange dogs I would take Spot and leave them my wolf behind.... No one should notice. Of course it didn't work out as I planned, so here is my story.

I arrived at Theramore. And this is a challenge, so I just didn't want to fly in on my mount, descend, tame and hearth away - no this should be a classic tame for a classic pet. I dismounted in front of the gates and my first impression was: "Ah, this will be no problem at all - guards are still vanilla-levels".


I shot the gate guards quickly with one shot each and contiued the same thing inside, when suddendly something hit me with an arrow. I ignored it first, then noticed my health sinking. I went all "wtf?" looked around and found the guilty one (first I thought it might be and Alliance guy trying to defend Theramore, 'cause you get PvP flagged there, when you finish their guards off) - it was a level 85 guard shooting at me. I killed her, but she kept spawning again and again (zombies *screams and runs*). Nice, thank you, ever lasting guards is something our bosses need, not some stupid island. I finally managed to sneak around the guard, kill her again and was out of range, when she spawned again. She had made me loose some of my health, but it quickly filled up again. I stumbled across two other 85 guards, but they didn't spawn again once they were dead.
I got to Spots home and waved my wolf goodbye and told him to be a good quy and not to eat too many alliance-marines there.
I tamed spot without no problem and took a screenshot with him in his old home (never mind the squirrel, it just wanted to be in the picture, too). I kept his name Spot, as it seemed to be the only fitting name for him, since I stole him from his former masters.


Animations and sounds:

Spot is a vanilla pet so he really looks pixelated and 2Dish if you look too close. But I always loved his sandy colour and his cute coyote figure. He barks when you click on him (like the low level wolfes from Mulgore) and sometimes sits down and howls (didn't manage to get a snap of this). He uses the same animations as foxes (or foxes use the same animations as he does - to be correct): he scratches behind his ears or sniffes the ground. I adore his animations, they really give this pixel-pile a soul worth loving.
His swimming animation is a dog-like paddle with his legs, and he seems to like a bath once in a while.
When he runs, he runs like I would expect from a dog or wolf, a nice galopp besides Larkania.
Sometimes I just think he's too small for a pet next to a Tauren. I prefer the floofy worgen skins, as they appear bigger next to Larkania, but Spot is a really cute companion.
In fight he barks and growls and is all the grown up evil dog protecting his master - I like it, but it might annoy the tank or some melees who are standing close to him all time and get the full sound.


Fight:

I took Spot to a few dungeons with me. My fiancé plays a DK and so I normally don't need a cats roar of courage. Spots ability is the howl, that increases your and your party's critical strike chance - it's really nice to have it, when no warrior is around with his buff.
He really does good dps, and since I play BM, it's very important for me, that my pet does a good job.
Spot lunges at his enemies without fear, he bites them and seems really aggressive in a fight.


I will defenitly keep him, because I had one like him since level 10. The mulgore barking wolf was the second pet I tamed for Larkania (you got your first pet at level 10, when Larkania was little!) and he will never leave my stables.

I'm still looking for Aotona for the next challenge (never seen him one my server in the wild - and only two times as a pet), this is really going to take some time, I think. I have him with Morga, but I didn't tame him, my fiancé did it for me, because I wanted to give up after one month without a sighting. So be patient

[TygerDarkstorm]

The white wasp isn't spawned. He is a rare spawn by an alliance camp in Feleras.
(Orange Shale coming soon, just been busy with Camel Statue searching >.< )

We were talking about Echyakee, the white lion, not the white wasp.

[meepitco]

oh. My brain probably wasn't working at that moment. >.< Sorry =/

[Joshatdot]

so far I am liking Sian-Rotam .. seems to be just like my other Cats. But seems to hit DSP harder .. stuff dies faster .. could be his talent tree:
2,0,1,0
0,0,3,1
3,0,0,0
IIRC this is same as my Pogeyan

edit: nope Pogeyan is different .. re-spec!

[Finduilas]

So while I have still no sighting of Aotona, I'd love to have a roll for Findu

Name: Finduilas (Belf)
Level: 85
Exotics: yes
Restrictions: so far none
Rares I have: some of the Molten Front rares, all spirit beasts (released Gondria and Ghostcrawler to have a slot, but still have them on Morga), Sambas, green and red Madexx, Terrorpene

[Kormai]

I swear I'm alive still! Just barely though. I do not like stocking shelves...nor does my body. I don't get to do photo lab stuff yet because the store isn't open. Would have been nice to know this before I accepted the job, not that it would have made a difference, still needed the job. Anyways, Tyger I will still need your help with keeping up with the rolls but I will try to be on more.

Finduilas
Yellow Beetle

[Korpinsulka]

I tame whatever you roll for me Got all spirit beasts and bunch of rares and cats..hopefully it's something I haven't had before

My hunter is lvl85 belf and can tame rares still so anything is welcome.

[TygerDarkstorm]

Korpin, we ask that you please read the first post of this thread and post with the proper roll format please.

Also, no worries Kormai, I've been keeping this thread open and keeping an eye on it so I may hand out rolls. Hope things start going well for you.

[Korpinsulka]

Name:Korpinsulka
Level:85
Exotics:yes
Restrictions:no more cats if possible..got soo many

[Snuffley]

Name: Snuffley
Level: 85
Exotics: happy to tame
Restrictions: none

[Arthur]

Ok, so I'm assuming I'm supposed to do the same thing I did last time? XD If I've done it wrong, feel free to hit me, and have me do it over. C:

Sorry I don't have any tame pics =( At the time of taming her I was so excited it completely slipped my mind.

We went to do Vigilance on Wings. She doesn't like it there very much.


Then we fought Galenges. She's gonna give him a punch in the guts.


Chilling in Hyjal. She was standing on a mining node, but someone came up and mined it before I could take the screenshot. XD


Another swim. I swear she isn't drowning. She's just very dramatic.


Camping. Whee! (..The kind with tents, and marshmallows.)


She was jealous of Warrah getting his picture taken with Kael'thas so she wanted to get a picture with someone famous, too.



As for my review, I always have loved this model, and skin. It's so graceful and pretty.
The animation may look strange to some due to her being see through, but I think it makes it interesting.
Gondria is wonderful, in my opinion, for doing solo dungeons. She is good at fighting and has the small heal ability in an emergency situation. (Anything helps, right?..)

Her sounds are really nice, too. Very ghostly and mysterious.

Anyhow, if I may, have another roll, if I have done my post correctly? I simply love doing this.. *hides*


Name: Tygard (ingame: Nellon)
Level: 85
Exotics: Yes
Restrictions: No bug-type pets, please.