Random Pet Challenge [v3.0]

[Ocyen]

"Puir blighted bastards, that's aw ah can say fur th' bears ay Northrend. In thes adventure ah maunt tae sae a body ay them; but reports trickled in abit anither prowlin' th' moontains nestled atween Silervpine an' Tirisfal Glades. Ah contacted mah mukker Rayven, ah woods need tae hae some protection fur thes investigation an' whit we discovered was naethin' we expected..."

Rabid Grizzly
Diseased White Bear



A staple for undead hunters seeking a tanking pet, the Diseased White Bear has a little bit of interesting history behind it.

The first tamable mob of these gnarled looking bears can be found in Dragonblight, the level range between 71-72. Common enough if you do the quests around the area.

It's the Tirisfal Bear of Tirisfal Glades that is a really bizarre specimen. While not a rare, it has a long respawn timer, and it's level range is between 80-84. Keep in mind, Tirisfal Glades is basically the starting zone for the Forsaken. As I am only level 71 I decided to log on my rogue and do some investigating and what I found was mind = blown.

Along the walk path of this bear (level 81 at the time before I killed and skinned him) there was a ring of mushrooms surrounded by...Faerie Dragons? Level 81...Fey-Drunk Darters to be exact. What happens next has to be seen to be believed.



The Darters take up position around the mushroom circle and the music changes, it is heard nowhere else in Azeroth as they bathe the circle in light and musical notes and the corrupted deer nearby stand and watch. After some poking around I discovered this event event happens every 6 hours; so if you're out taming the Tirisfal Bear; make sure to stop by here and you may be in for a treat.

Thus far, no rhyme or reason in-game has been given for this event; making it even more special. Screenshots do this no justice, so instead have a video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPQXpOHwWag

The Tame: Back to the bear, the Diseased White version was a hell of an easy catch. No trap needed, just ran up and woo'd the big bastard. Seriously, after the Faerie Dragon event everything was sort of muted for awhile. Basically, any hunter of level can grab this bear with no troubles (even with the many mobs patrolling the zone). This particular one I tamed was named Scarhide (for obvious reasons).

Skin, Sounds, Etc: By the time you are level 71, if you wanted a ragged looking bear you probably already managed to get a lower level one from areas like Western Plaguelands. Really, there's not too much variation between the diseased skins in terms of color. Sounds are shared with all bears' quiet while idle but can be quite noisy with constant growls in combat.



Use: The Rabid Grizzly is a Tenacity pet, meaning he's great for solo questing. Make no mistake though, his special attack has use in both instances and PvP. Demoralizing Roar reduces physical damage caused by all enemies within 8 yards by 10% for 15 sec. This means in raids your tank is taking less damage and in PvP you are taking less damage.

Bears are also one of the few families of pets that have a bonus ability, this one being Rest. Before Pet happiness was nerfed, it would cause your bear to drift into a slumber for a few moments and restore some happiness...now it just...takes a nap? Yeah, that's about it.



Final Word: Another successful adventure, this one with a pleasant surprise. Too bad I really have no use for Scarhide at this time and he will be released back into the wilds; maybe with the strange little Faerie Dragons.

Ready for a 4th run, hook it up!

Name: Ocyen (Dwarf)
Level: 71
Exotics: Yup, have BM as off spec as well.
Restrictions: No damn dirty poop flinging monkeys. Apes, they are ok.
My Stable (Not Just Rares): Oozeworm (Grubfist), Whooly Rhino Bull (Rhinox), Kurmokk (Kurmokk), Silithid Ravager (Stitch), Greater Lava Spider (Goo), Tyrant Devilsaur (Gore), Ghamoo-ra (Haggis) Tsul'Kalu (Mekanikongu), Diseased Hawk (Morgue), Pogeyan (Pogeyan), Golden Eagle (Razorbeak), Quillfang Ravager (Rahzar), Humar the Pridelord (Yang), Sian-Rotam (Yin).
Challenges Completed: Pogeyan, Orange Turtle, Diseased White Bear

[Sarantha]

Would like to add that I FINALLY tamed an Albino Eyegouger and have officially dropped Terrorpene. I did a pic-taking montage of Terrorpene prior to releasing him, though, if anyone wants to see alot of pics of an ugly-ass fire turtle. In a semi-review, I will say he was a great tanking pet and looks the part of a tank, and for people around lvl 81 that want a unique, rare, tanking pet, if you find him, get a priest to bubble you, then tame him! He's def worth it at low levels before you can tame the spirit beasts and Karkin/Madexx for your Tenacity pets.

[Ardawen]

now to learn how to use gimp *mumble*

[TygerDarkstorm]

I apologize that these rolls are coming so late.

Sarantha:
Chromaggus


Ocyen:
White Beetle


Also, Ocyen, I don't need your entire stable. That section is just meant to be for hard to get rares (BC, NR, Cata rares). Sarantha's just been giving her stable out for me to roll for because her stables are full.

[starkittens]

sorry it's taking so long to get grunter...i was out for a week and i wasn't 57 (now i am) and he's evading me now....

[dragonaa]

i thought id give it a try cuz i always have that 1 stable slot i can never fill
hunter:Dragonaa (tauren) 85
exotics:i have to many already so no
restrictions:no monkeys or gorillas im scared of primeapes
link to my stables:http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/g ... agonaa/pet

[Sarantha]

Chromaggus. To tame: Do almost the entire raid of BWL. Its best to have at least three people in your group, at least for the first room. It can be done solo, but its tough and very tricky on timing. Having a rogue also makes it faster due to the Suppression Room. Once you've got past these rooms, its all pretty cake. Chromaggus himself is an easy tame once you throw the switch and let him out. After that, there's only one boss left in the whole raid, so why not kill Nefarian while you're at it? Pics:





Top shot of Chromaggus. I love his coloring. Its like a mixture of purple and several other colors. Vali is giving a cute little corehound roar in this pic too:



Vali swimming. He really just looks like he's walking. He has no real swim animation, methinks:





Sara and Vali, sitting in Hyjal, like all my reports end with:



All in all, Chromaggus is my favorite corehound. You have to be BM to tame him and use him, and you have to do pretty much the entire BWL raid to get him, but he is worth and is a guaranteed tame if you can find the group/time to do BWL. He is not a rare mob, but he IS rarely seen, at least on my server. People on my server tend to use the white corehound or the green and yellow one. I always get lots of "Wow, where'd you get that pet!?" comments and once I tell them, they usually say "Oh, thats way too much trouble" so I think Chromaggus will stay rare for awhile on my server. Also, if BWL is removed, there is a chance you'll NEVER be able to get him again, so tame him while you can, in my opinion. He's a great corehound. He is also Ferocity, so his dps is pretty good. As the sole GOOD BM hunter in my raids, I get asked to bring Chromaggus a lot because of his Ancient Hysteria, a hunter's version of bloodlust. He's very useful and a great pet.

Name: Sarantha
Level: 85
Exotics: Yes
Restrictions: Can only review pets. Have not reviewed: Loque, Arcturis, Sambas, Karoma, Madexx (red and green only), Skoll, Anthriss, Brilliant Macaw, Albino Eyegouger. Also have an entire report done on Terrorpene, even though I released him, so I can still review him.

[starkittens]

ok after have a very bad rare finding week i finally got grunter! i had aslo gotten spiteflayer too but this is gruunter spot.


grutner is a lv 57 rare spawn and the only other boar like him is in shadowmoonvalley. he is a good tanking pet and got me though a couple dungeons when the tank left..
his but wiggler is so cute.
i don't particularly like his swim movements....

[starkittens]

reroll?

name:starkittens
level:60+
exotics: not yet
restrictions:only old world rares (outland and NR rares are accepted too)

[Ocyen]

"Th' Ruins ay Ahn'Qiraj is nae picnic, lit me teel ye. When th' society sent me tae catalog a mingin' lookin' white beetle; ah hud tae search it a hunter 'at hud awreddy bin thaur. While Ahn'Qiraj is mostly silent noo, rumors persist 'at a mirk force is takin' residence...buildin' an army. It was in an it fur mah companion Twigget an' ah, thankfully we didne rin intae th' soorce ay these tales..."

Spitting Scarab
White Beetle



Currently, there is only one white beetle skin and that's a level 60 elite found in the 10-man raid Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj. So would be hunters need to keep those facts in mind when seeking a very unique and in my opinion, the creepiest beetle skin to date.

The Tame: This one took a little organization. As a level 71 hunter, it's not like I can just stroll in and hope for the best. To even get to a Spitting Scarab you need to pass by two bosses (this isn't taking in the fact that you need to be in a raid group). Twigget and I joined forces and stormed into AQ 10, blasting anything that resembled a hostile mob.

It was deeper into the raid (the Reservoir area) that you will find large groupings of these beetles. This is where some planning is required. As soon as you start taming, it's going to make the whole lot of them angry and they have a vicious knock-back that will ruin your day. For maximum taming awesome, freeze trap one of the Spitting Scarabs and nuke the rest. Seconds later, you will have your prize.



That above screenshot? That's how to NOT do it. We wiped so hard that Charmin is naming a toilet paper brand after me.

Skin, Sounds, Etc: The Spitting Scarab (now named Khepri) creeps me the hell out. There are tons of beetles in game, but there's something about a stark white one with black markings that seems so unnatural. It's this fact alone that I may just hang onto Khepri for awhile. His model also stays nice and big, something I look for in my pets.

Sounds are another thing, the insects just get no love in this game and share their sound files with almost every bug/Silithid in Azeroth. At least he doesn't make that crazy "thump" sound the boss Silithids do. Khepri is also silent until attacking.

Use: Tenacity = Tanking. Again, beetles get no love as they share the exact same special ability as turtles. Honestly, I would love to see some new ability thrown in or even retain the Acid Spit post-tame.

List of Abilities Pre-Tame

1. Acid Spit: 30 yd. range, 2 sec cast. Inflicts nature damage to an enemy.
2. Berserker Charge: 30 yd. range. Charges at an enemy, knocking it back and inflicting normal damage plus 300.

List of Abilities Post-Tame

1. Harden Carapace: 1 min cooldown. Hardens up, reducing damage taken by 50% for 12 sec.
2. Bite: 25 Focus, Melee Range, Instant Cast, 3 sec cooldown. Bite the enemy, causing (186 + ((RAP * 0.40) * 0.20)) damage.

Don't bother with PvP, even with an Intervene macro and the look to intimidate another player. The main use for a Spitting Scarab is questing and a back up tank in dungeons.



Final Word: It takes a friend and some planning to fetch you a Spitting Scarab, and if you're already max level you may not even need/want another tanking pet. Really, it's the look that stands out for me. Also, dear Blizzard: Make this a mount. Thank you.

Also, Ocyen, I don't need your entire stable. That section is just meant to be for hard to get rares (BC, NR, Cata rares). Sarantha's just been giving her stable out for me to roll for because her stables are full.

My OCD prevents me from complying, it's more for my benefit.

Going to up the ante here and go for a re-roll on both my favorite hunters.

Name: Ocyen (Dwarf)
Level: 72
Exotics: Yup, have BM as off spec as well.
Restrictions: No damn dirty poop flinging monkeys. Apes, they are ok. No 25+ man raid mobs.
My Stable (Not Just Rares): Oozeworm (Grubfist), Whooly Rhino Bull (Rhinox), Kurmokk (Kurmokk), Silithid Ravager (Stitch), Greater Lava Spider (Goo), Tyrant Devilsaur (Gore), Ghamoo-ra (Haggis) Tsul'Kalu (Mekanikongu), Diseased Hawk (Morgue), Pogeyan (Pogeyan), Golden Eagle (Razorbeak), Quillfang Ravager (Rahzar), Humar the Pridelord (Yang), Sian-Rotam (Yin), Spitting Scarab (Khepri)
Challenges Completed: Pogeyan, Orange Turtle, Diseased White Bear, White Beetle

Name: Mezcaal (Human)
Level: 85
Exotics: Yes.
Restrictions: Only the rares I have, no monkeys and no 25+ man raid mobs.
My Stable (Not Just Rares): Chromaggus (Bleek), Phase Hound (Mephit), Skarr (Onyx), Gondria (Blink), Silithid Swarmer (Crystalis), Gezzarak the Huntress (Cyvern), Frostsaber Pride Watcher (Freya), Terrorpene (Genbu), Arcturis (Jaga), Ghostcrawler (Karkinos), Karoma (Karoma), Sambas (Maahes), Angered Arakkoa Protector (Razorbeak), Centipaar Sandreaver (Scorn), Cinderweb Spinner (Spindle), Harakiss the Infestor (Spore), Hive Controller (Tumor), Loque'nahak (Tezcatlipoca), Skoll (Vulpes)
Challenges Completed: None

[meepitco]

Ookay, time for my Blue Madexx report.
Yes my friends...blue madexx. Do you FEAR her awesome colours?
Okay, on with the report...
Morrigan is a female name (Morgan being the more..."simple" name) for the Celtic Goddess of War, Death, Ravens, Fertility, the Dark Goddess, and Fate. Pretty epic, eh?
Okay,
The Tame:
I had been wandering around Uldum after doing my FIRST report, the yellow(or blue) turtle. NPCscan blares, and I really thought it was going to be Bronzie or Green again...yeah no. Blue madexx was waving it's claws going, HAI THAR. Landing, and dismissing my Turtle, the tame was simple.

DO YOU NOT AGREE WITH BLUE MADEXX?
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Ahem, on with the report..
Animations and Coloration:
Blue Madexx has an amazing color scheme, and animation. I personally like ALL scorpids' animations, but her color scheme really made me attached to her. I can say, if you can spend a few months at the time camping for this color, go ahead. It's worth it. Very..very much worth it..

Hanging in storm peaks.

I'd like a reroll if possibly :3
Name: Lysara (my baby hunter, if you must say XD)
Level: 28, but I am leveling fast.
Exotics: Too low =/
Restrictions: No Monkeys, No apes, No crockodiles. Possibly match me with a Victorian Gothic coloration type pet? (Purple, Black, White, Pink, red, stuff like that)
My Stable: White/Grey Wolves, Red spider, Humar the pride Lord, Takk the leaper.

[TygerDarkstorm]

We wiped so hard that Charmin is naming a toilet paper brand after me.

This gave me quite the laugh, thanks!

My OCD prevents me from complying, it's more for my benefit.

All righty, if you feel like listing them all then go right ahead.


Sarantha:
Brilliant Macaw


Starkittens:
Grubthor


Ocyen:
Beige Chimaera


Ocyen(Mezcaal):
Phase Hound


Meepitco(Lysara):
Green Beetle

[dragonaa]

sence you missed my request i thought id post it again edited
i thought id give it a try cuz i always have that 1 stable slot i can never fill
hunter:Dragonaa (tauren) 85
exotics:i have to many already so no
restrictions:no monkeys or gorillas im scared of primeapes

[TygerDarkstorm]

Dragonaa:
Orange and Purple Ravager

[dragonaa]

i didn't wanna come off as rude but ill get on him right away

[Finduilas]

Here I am again. Finally. I arrived in Sweden on Monday and didn't find the time to do my report on the brilliant Macaw before my departure. Then I noticed I had left my screenshots and everything on my computer home and didn't have it on the laptop, so my fiance had to send them via email to me first. So this may not become my best report ever, but please excuse me.

The Brilliant Macaw is one of the five parrot skins that can only be found in the Deadmines. There are always the green/red, the red and the grey one, but for white and purple you have to bring a lot of patience with you. Although those two birdies are not marked as "rare" they are pretty rare. They only appear sometimes when you run the dungeon, so you have to be very lucky to find one of them during a random run there.
Nerdanel was level 44 and I did the first runs solo, but it took me some time to kill the bosses and some groups so my fiance came over with his rogue to help me get through the dungeon faster. The parrots can be found almost at the end of the dungeon where the ship is, so it takes some time to run there, even with one-shotting everything. At run number 9 I found the Albino Eyegouger, the white and yellow parrot. I tamed him and named him LuckyCharm to help me doing it over and over again. I posted a pic of LuckyCharm in Sarantha's request for pics of the white parrot, so if you want to see it, you have to look it up there (don't have the pic on the laptop).
The "problem" with dungeons is: you can't enter them too often. So after 5 runs Wow always didn't let me in again and I had to take a break before I could do the dungeon again. The positive thing about all my runs is: Nerdanel was able to collect so much cloth (especially wool) to improve in first Aid. I had to do 25 Deadmine runs before the Brilliant Macaw finally was there. The taming itself went without problems and beauty was mine.



I named the parrot Snickers. I don't know if you know the ad for the chocolate bar (If it takes some time eat a snickers - or something like that), but my fiance came up with the name and it fit very well.

Appearance:



Snickers really is a beautiful pet and for me he is the most gorgeous parrot ingame. He is not as bright and colourful as the other ones with green or blue and not so "normal" like the grey one. His feathers are a deep blue-purple tone at their tips, while his body is a soft white with a purple shimmer and purple spots on it. He perfectly matches the mini pet miniwing and I really wait for the day Nerdanel can do the quest in Terrokkar to get it. In the presentation you can see two pics of Snickers from behind. I wasn't really able to catch it, but sometimes his body looks kind of bulky and like a barrel. But asides from that his animation is pretty smooth and nice.

Animations and sounds:

If you don't like flapping pets, Snickers is the wrong pet for you, but if you can cope with flappy wings, he really makes a good companion. His wing sounds are not very loud, they didn't bother me. He doesn't make any sounds while flapping next to you, except his wings. In combat he makes some parrot like screeches, they sound like my grandma's parrot, so this is appropriate. He attacks with his talons and a flutter of wings and is a blur of colour in combat all the time flapping and screeching and making quite a fuzz. I couldn't take any proper combat pics of him, he is just too fast to catch
Like all birds he doesn't have a swimming animation but does a majestic slow wing flapping under water. I like it but I would prefer that birds just fly over the surface when their masters are swimming, it just looks kind of odd when they flutter at your side half inside the water half outside.

Use for fights:

Snickers has like all the birds of prey a cunning talent tree. I specced him towards pvp and dps, as his ability to snatch my enemie's weapons makes him really nice for duells with warriors, dks or rogues, or melee heavy bg. I really like using birds in pvp, they have already often safed my life. But I did run some dungeons with Snickers, too, as at his level the talent trees just don't differ that much. I also take birds to some heroic dungeons with my other hunters, as their ability works on some bosses, too, and it prevents the tank from getting too much damage if the situation is getting difficult. Birds do good dps, so don't fear to be kicked off somewhere because of using a bird, but personally I would recommend a carrion bird if you are into flapping creatures

Conclusion:

I absolutely love Snickers to pieces. He is the most gorgeous pet and was defenitly worth the 25 runs. I will get the matching mini pet as soon as I can.

This is a final pic of Snickers and Nerdanel with some curse on them that made them a lovely purple

[dragonaa]

i had the Gore-Scythe ravenger (orange and purple).
When i got to their part of blades edge 1 ravager decided he didn't like me landing where i landed.

i decide he was the 1 id get to know so i tamed him.

unfortunately i didn't know he had friends and another ravager was on me.

soon he was mine. a silly gnome was like why are you here! i feigned death the ravager killed him i was suprized but then again his speical ability is pretty nice.

i named him venom as he seemed to be poisonous.

i hearthed back to org and ran around with him for a little bit and hit a dummy watching his movements and subtlety's. even takeing him for a swim in the org pond

overall i dont like ravagers maybe its their underbites maybe its the tiny legs what ever it is i let venom go. if you can over come the ravgers strange looks they good pets with their specail abilty ravage increces phisical damage taken by 8%. i may get 1 in the future but right now im not ready to keep 1.
may i have another?
hunter:Dragonaa (tauren) 85
exotics:sure
restrictions:no monkeys or gorillas im scared of primeapes also no ravagers

[Sarantha]

Brilliant Macaw. Sorry it took so long for me to get on it. I've had a lot of job interviews this week. Anyway, to tame this guy, run Deadmines over and over again until he spawns. Thats pretty much it. He's a low level mob and does next to no damage, at least at lvl 85. No Hyjal bear cubs have been harmed in the making of this photo shoot. Here's my gorgeous parrot:





A behind and side shot of Gabey. He's so damn pretty:





Gabey and I enjoying the hotsprings in Winterspring. Or not, in Gabey's case. He doesn't look too happy:





Sara and Gabey, in Winterspring, my favorite zone of them all, and it matches Gabey's colors:



I love my Gabey. The Brilliant Macaw is definitely worth taming if you find it. For me, he was a consolation-prize pet at first, as I was searching for the Albino Eyegouger. After using him more and reading about how rare he is, I realized just how lucky I was to have him. I fell in love with him almost as soon as I tamed him, so I wasn't about to let him go, even if I found my Albino. In pvp, he's great because of his disarm ability. In pve, he can't hold aggro too well, but he's still not bad because he disarms the mobs with weapons, making them hit a lot less hard. Gabey's a keeper! One of the most gorgeous pets in the game.

Name: Sarantha
Level: 85
Exotics: Yes
Restrictions: Can only review pets. Have not reviewed: Loque, Arcturis, Sambas, Karoma, Madexx (red and green only), Skoll, Anthriss, Albino Eyegouger, hunched, shiny, red/green eyed Tiger from Uldum. Also have an entire report done on Terrorpene, even though I released him, so I can still review him.

[Finduilas]

So it's been a while since my last challenge. I got settled a bit here in Umea and feel ready for the next challenge for Nerdanel.

Name: Nerdanel (belf)
Level: currently still 44, but you can give up to 47 (might be a goal to level for!)
exotics: not yet
restrictions: none, but I would appreciate something that goes with her white/blue/purple stable theme
rares: Ashtail, Bayne, Nix, Mazzranach and of course brilliant Macaw, I wouldn't own him, if he hadn't been a challenge

If you like to, I can look my alternative roll up, you posted it for me to be able to tame something instead of the parrot, I think it was the white bear. I could go and tame one and write a review over him or you can give me an other roll, everything is fine.

[meepitco]

Okay, after a few days of leveling, on and off camping for TLPD, here is my Green Beetle report
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The tame was pretty easy, set trap down, pull with tame, blah. I took a few moments to look at him, since he being a rare and all. The pattern on his back is very pretty, and clashes really well with his green shell. I didn't have a name for him at that moment, so I named him Shamrock
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He looks like any other beetle, and has pretty simple moves. He looks left to right most of the time. It's pretty cool to watch him, though.
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Lysara's personality goes pretty well with his looks, so he's a keeper. The purple markings, also, fits into my "Victorian Gothic" stable.
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I want a reroll for Lysara ^_^
Name: Lysara
Level: 34, but leveling fast
Exotics: Too low =/
Restrictions: No Monkeys, No apes, No crockodiles. Possibly match me with a Victorian Gothic coloration type pet? (Purple, Black, White, Pink, red, stuff like that)
My Stable: White/Grey Wolves, Red spider, Humar the pride Lord