Okee, so while I'm waiting around for my guild wars event to start, let's write this up!
Pet:
White Jormungar Worm
Now I haven't run properly with a worm for quite a while, and have never given the jormungar-style a chance since I decided I didn't care for the original color scheme. I haven't looked at the new ones, so let's give it a go!
...Actually, first check that out. I guess that's why it's called Dragonblight, eh? Ah well. Undaunted, I went into the nearby cave and found myself some wormies!
Yeah, that one looks good. Moonseeker is completely disinterested in this hunt for another invertebrate, so I told him to go on home for now so I could tame him up!
Say hi to the nice people, Blanche.
...Okay, or don't. That's okay too. Whatever. Anyway, the first thing I noticed was he hadn't seemed to shrink much from the taming, like most pets. So I went to check! Turns out no, no he really doesn't shrink much, if at all.
Okay, so time for a closer look. C'mere, Blanche! Let's see your happy face!
Very good~
The details in this model are kind of fantastic, if I do say so myself. He has tiny little scales on his belly, which is a different texture than the rest of him. he has TEETH inside his mouth, not just the usual "here have some pixels you can pretend can't you?" teeth. And more teeth on the inside of his mouth to suggest more rows of them! The tooth fairy might like him. The beak is okay, the tusks are nice, though I kind of miss seeing eyes on my pets.
Oh! And he drools! I hadn't noticed that at all until I got a good look. It's kind of hard to see in this image, but he's pretty much constantly drooling little thin drips. It's almost as bad as Drooly the Corehound, but way less obvious. It doesn't bother me, just an interesting thing!
His animations are smooth and nice, as well. His wriggling around, his idle swaying to and fro, the way he burrows when doing his AOE (though I'd like a proper emerging animation, plz), I like them all. Especially his swimming animation, which I did not get a picture of, oops. He flattens out and wriggles through the water like it's nothing! A nice bit of detail is when he swims his spiked along his sides undulate so nicely, almost as though he's trying to use them to help propel himself.
All in all, a pretty charming fellow!
And he smiles so prettily!
Oh! there is one thing about him...
His coloring. He isn't so much "white" as he is "light colored."
"Well Dara," you begin to say. "Of course he's white! Are you blind?" Alternately, "Well, white IS a light color." If you're a jerk
Luckily I have pictures!
Now if you'll refer to the shot above, you'll see Blanche in several different lights. He really picks up the color of the ambient light more than any other pet I've noticed. It's kind of neat, or it would be if not for the one teeny thing distracting me.
Yeah, he's got that mane. The standard "here have some 2D mane and pretend it's okay" bit. It normally doesn't bother me on pets, but on Blanche it's kind of a distraction.
Okay okay, so it's not just a review on his looks, let's talk about COMBAT.
I wasn't feeling up to much today, so I took Blanche on my hunt for the ever-elusive white hawkstrider, which means it was time to hunt blood elves!
There was just one problem. If you'll look above, Blanche's thunderstomp ground effect is HUGE. I don't know if it's because he's so big, or what, but it seemed larger than my other pets' effect.
It also seemed to reach farther, because you don't know it but that thunderstomp also pulled the boss. Oops. So that was fun. I let Blanche die because we were swarmed by everything in the room at once and it wasn't pretty, then we reset and pulled more carefully. Things went more smoothly after that, though.
I'm used to tenacity pets, so I kind of knew what to expect there, though the fact his burrow drops aggro... ehh. So we did it the hard way and I dropped some traps and he burrowed and we just kind of faked it.
No mount, but there's always tomorrow!
OVERVIEW!
The white worm was nicer than I expected, and I seem to enjoy talking about him. I don't have room in my stables for him, so Blanche is off and away again, but if there was room I'd consider it! Maybe for another hunter.
....Eh, I've got one day before patch, so let's do one more.
Daranara: 85, exotics okay, no crabs or worms, please :3
this time.
) The demon dogs, and especially this color, just aren't for me and little Brat will be making a return to the wild.
for me this time. I hadn't tamed an old model croc since waaaaaaaay back in vanilla when you had to tame pets to learn skills from them and I needed a new rank of bite. I don't remember liking them too much but why not give them another chance?? 
. So I had to drive to tigerdirect and buy a tiny little adaptor. Anyways, computer is back up to full strength and wow is pretty again!
