Shadowlands Alpha/Beta Beast Thread

[Dialga]

I don't know how that was even a problem. Other tameable raid bosses, excluding chimaeron, can just be tamed right away. No respawn, no loot, just a new pet and sometimes a broken dungeon/raid until soft reset.

Not sure myself. Anzu might be just kind of a funky code since he was a special summoned boss at first? Unsure, just know it's a current issue with him specifically bugging out and dropping repeated loot on taming farms for the mount.

[WerebearGuy]

Whatever the issue is under the hood, I sure hope they fix it. I really want Skorpyron now. Not as badly as I want plant hydras, but still pretty up there. I also understand that it has that weird broken up model for whatever reason still, but here's hoping it's fixed when prepatch lands.

Speaking of Anzu, can I get an F for my friend? I accidentally told him about it, and he's..well, you can guess.

[worgpower]

I would love an emerald scorpion to replace my buggy fire scorpid, the leg is really bugging me and Blizz has never fixed it, hopefully the stinger will stay on the scorpion when tamed

[Lee]

While the Exotic Beast issue still persists and requires level 39 in the new leveling system (refer to the other thread), the heirloom bonuses are a godsend now. Before, the bonus exp from heirlooms didn't really matter when gathering. Now, they absolutely do because of how much you get out of rested. I'm almost tempted to do this on a Goblin at some point too, just to see how horrible it is for one to go and tame those worms in the Kajamite mines.

Wait, aren't they taking the EXP bonus from heirlooms, though? Or did they revise their stance on that and decide to keep them?

[Valnaaros]

While the Exotic Beast issue still persists and requires level 39 in the new leveling system (refer to the other thread), the heirloom bonuses are a godsend now. Before, the bonus exp from heirlooms didn't really matter when gathering. Now, they absolutely do because of how much you get out of rested. I'm almost tempted to do this on a Goblin at some point too, just to see how horrible it is for one to go and tame those worms in the Kajamite mines.

Wait, aren't they taking the EXP bonus from heirlooms, though? Or did they revise their stance on that and decide to keep them?

No, there are set bonuses that reduce how fast you consume rested XP. The first bonus is a 30% reduction, and the then later there is another 30% reduction.

[Lee]

While the Exotic Beast issue still persists and requires level 39 in the new leveling system (refer to the other thread), the heirloom bonuses are a godsend now. Before, the bonus exp from heirlooms didn't really matter when gathering. Now, they absolutely do because of how much you get out of rested. I'm almost tempted to do this on a Goblin at some point too, just to see how horrible it is for one to go and tame those worms in the Kajamite mines.

Wait, aren't they taking the EXP bonus from heirlooms, though? Or did they revise their stance on that and decide to keep them?

No, there are set bonuses that reduce how fast you consume rested XP. The first bonus is a 30% reduction, and the then later there is another 30% reduction.

Ohhhhh, I see! Interesting!

[Wamo]

It is genuinely impossible to tame Tunneling Worm on Kezan. There is no way to learn professions, there are no nodes to collect even if there were profession trainers, and enemies only let you go so far with experience. The worms also go extinct after a few quests, so you really can't do quests if you wanted to grind your butt off to tame this. Unless the level to tame exotics is fixed and put back to a reasonable level, Tunneling Worm is never going to be tameable, even if beast lore says it can be.

Doing the account wide Battle Pet quest trick might work (it's how Doubleagent gets most of his XP now).

[Valnaaros]

I don’t think that there are any battle pets on Kezan.

[worgpower]

Even though I love collecting hunter pets and naming them and all that, I’ve never been a fan of pet battles because of the system it released as. It was based off Pokémon and I didn’t like that, I wish they let us control our pets like hunter’s eyes of the beast or warlock’s eye of Kilrogg, and keep clicking abilities on each other like PVP, rather that hit wait then hit then wait, I hope Blizz will change that, but the only thing I like is being able to collect many different models that we never had in the past and it’s fun to rename your pet to anything, I wish hunter pets can have Spaces

[worgpower]

Now I finally got exalted with order of the cloud serpent, I can have a cloud serpent on day one in prepatch

[Valnaaros]

Now I finally got exalted with order of the cloud serpent, I can have a cloud serpent on day one in prepatch

Great job! Congrats!

[worgpower]

Now I finally got exalted with order of the cloud serpent, I can have a cloud serpent on day one in prepatch

Great job! Congrats!

Just gotta have lots of TW badges, and make sure to buy the rep bonus for cloud serpents too, it was effective

[Dialga]

Even though I love collecting hunter pets and naming them and all that, I’ve never been a fan of pet battles because of the system it released as. It was based off Pokémon and I didn’t like that, I wish they let us control our pets like hunter’s eyes of the beast or warlock’s eye of Kilrogg, and keep clicking abilities on each other like PVP, rather that hit wait then hit then wait, I hope Blizz will change that, but the only thing I like is being able to collect many different models that we never had in the past and it’s fun to rename your pet to anything, I wish hunter pets can have Spaces

Pet Battles and by extension all the pets you could collect used to be a great hunter pet accessory. They were fun and worthwhile in MoP but quickly dropped off in WoD. For one, the rewards nosedived from useful into absolutely pathetic. I did 800/1000 of my battles for the Trainer title in MoP and had to drag myself kicking and screaming through the rest onwards because the reward system from PVP battles was just... just terrible. No idea why they tanked it so hard, but it's become a rather useless endeavor aside from an extra smidgen of rep from World Quest clearouts.

Also, became painfully clear that Blizzcon/storebought pets would never be properly nerfed/were often OP as heck in PVP to encourage people to spend money and that just turned me off from the system as a whole.

[worgpower]

So apparently, I’m able to put my pets behind invisible boundaries, and apparently EOTB works behind walls, just don’t tell Blizz

[Vephriel]

Anyone planning to level with gathering might want to do as much as possible before pre-patch, xp has been nerfed

https://www.wowhead.com/news=317753/gat ... -pre-patch

[WerebearGuy]

Saw that and posted my views. It's genuinely not that bad for the level of insanity it takes to get a Pandaren hunter high enough to tame quilen, but if you want to be a Doubleagent poser, it's probably still sound advice to do it in prepatch. Proportionately, it's definitely worse on live. I forgot where I posted it, but the amount of exp I was getting when I was in the mid-high 50's was horrible. It started taking over 300 nodes at some point for just one level. On ptr, the level squish pushed me down to 26, and 39 is the current goal. At 30+ so far, I've had the same kind of experience I had at lower levels on live, and proportionately, the ptr values are significantly superior. 1% at 33 right now would've taken me probably 5-10 nodes on live WITH heirlooms and rest, maybe even more. Getting 13 more levels when the squish happens will be annoying and I'll hate it because there is OBJECTIVELY no reason to raise the required level for exotic pets, but it won't be as horrible as the grind from 1-65 was. Not by a long shot. Hell, it'll be so much of a breeze that I'm going to start over so I can tame Zhao-ren as well, since my current one is sadly past that quest (You have to kill it, and it remains a static corpse upon completing the quest).

You'll be 14 before having to kill Zhao-ren. From there, 25 levels is as simple as leveling 4-5 times, waiting for a few days to accumulate rest, then collecting until you run out of rest or until you're satisfied, and finally repeating until you hit the level you want. I STRONGLY suggest watching a movie or have another game up that plays itself, like an auto battler. If you're a loser who plays gacha games, you can do that too to pass the time even more efficiently. (Speaking from experience, god save my wallet)

EDIT:
Oh my god I forgot about the daily pet battles that can be turned in regardless of location. I need to find which ones those were and add them to my list of things to make use of, assuming they don't get nerfed.

[Valnaaros]

Looks like the Purges were restored with this build.

[WerebearGuy]

Yep. Some new ones too.

NEW Nature's Grace A soothing breeze surrounds the Stag, removing 1 Disease, Magic, and Poison effect from itself.
NEW Nether Energy A pulse of excess energy releases from the Ray, removing 1 Disease, Magic, and Poison effect from itself.
NEW Serenity Dust The moth vibrates its wings, releasing tranquil dust all over itself, removing 1 Disease, Magic, and Poison effect.
Smack Smack the enemy, causing [(1 * 2 * 1 * 1 * (Ranged attack power * 0.333) * (1 + Versatility))] damage. Deals 100% more damage and costs 100% more Focus when your pet has 50 or more Focus.
NEW Sonic Screech The Bat emits a sonic pulse from within, removing 1 Disease, Magic, and Poison effect from itself.
NEW Soothing Waters The Water Strider cleanses itself with water droplets, removing 1 Disease, Magic, and Poison effect.
NEW Spirit Pulse A pulse of spirit energy releases from the Spirit Beast, removing 1 Disease, Magic, and Poison effect from itself.
NEW Spore Cloud The Sporebat shakes off excess spores, removing 1 Disease, Magic, and Poison effect from itself.

https://www.wowhead.com/news=317773/sha ... ss-changes

[WerebearGuy]

Searching for tameables on wowhead's PTR shows 6617 tameable mobs now. That's more than the last ptr patch. Time to find stuff! Also, Exotic Beasts is still incorrectly level 39.

[Aroim]

still not tameable