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Re: Random Pet Challenge Mk II

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green hairy spider review.

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Pet Model: 7 Its actually a pretty neat model. Its more like a crab than a spider with all its enormous segments. only real fault is only 6 eyes.
Pet Skin: 7 Colouration and shading are fine. its kinda metalic in bright light. Not sure i like the hair placement.
Pet Sounds: 6 Sounds are fine.
Pet Animations: 6 He's firly active when idle. Mandibles always in motion. Walk and combat actions seem fine if a bit "busy" to see just what hes up to.
Pet Ability/Utility: 6 Hes Cunning with a root. Seems fine in PvE.. not bad at holding the mob in place for a bit while I open up with my shots. Holds aggro well enough, and even when he loses aggro he still "holds" them in place!
Overall: 5 Hes a spider, with a look I'm not fond of. He's very low to the ground which is good for targeting. A different colour might be better though this one is surprisingly nice.
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Re: Random Pet Challenge Mk II

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/pokes Acherontia

We've had the tarantula up for 4 days now. Can we get something else please?

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Re: Random Pet Challenge Mk II

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I'm not Acherontia, but if you just want a skin, I have an RNG right here. *Pokes RNG* *Looks in numbered list*

Saturo's Inofficial Pet of the Day is... *Drumroll* WHITE MOTH!
http://wow-petopia.com/look/mothskinwhite.html

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Re: Random Pet Challenge Mk II

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I'm not sure there's enough interest tbh. There's only 2 or so reviews each time.

Plus, Petopia is running like **** for me lately--2-3 minutes to load a page. Anyone else having this issue?

I'll update this one but will see how the interest is.

Edited, forgot my filthy mouth there.
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Re: Random Pet Challenge Mk II

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Don't forget that the other thread also went through some slumps. I'll still say that the other thread, with a pet specifically rolled to your specifications (yeah I know it's a lot of work) worked better. I mean, I wouldn't get a pet I already had or one that was too high for my toon. Anyway, don't give up on the thread just yet.

Edit: Just to contribute, I'll review the scorpid I have but consider the skin of the day

Pet Model (1-10): 9 - I love scorpids, they feel very finished and have great idle animations
Pet Skin (1-10): 6 - I'm not entirely keen on the colour (ok, I hate pink) but I love the blue eyes and charcoal-greenish spots. I had a look at it in the wowhead model viewer and did you know it's bright blue under the scales? ... this pet is growing on me.
Pet Sounds (1-10): I honestly can't score this, I don't play with game sounds unless I'm on vent with the headset, which only happens in raids... I've heard they "click" as they walk? If so, that's kinda cute. :)
Pet Animations (1-10): 10 - love 'em. They give the scorpids a lot of personality, I always get the feeling my Aoi (the beige scorpid from Durotar) is looking for danger, watching my back, keeping me safe. :D
Pet Ability/Utility (1-10): Well, the family skill kinda sucks now. I've always been an aoe tanking kinda person, so a single-target ability (disarm no less! :?) seems pretty useless to me. I don't think I can score this more than a 2.
Overall (1-10): This particular one I score a 6, but if we're talking the family (choosing a model of your liking) I'd say 8.

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Re: Random Pet Challenge Mk II

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Trust me, there's interest.

I don't really have time to play right now -- have a 3000-word essay due this week (I'm just killing time between classes in the school computer lab at the moment), but I'm a HUGE fan of Scorpids, so I'll do a review.

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Pet model: 9
Pet skin: 7
Pet sounds: 8
Pet animations: 8
Pet ability/utility: 8
Overall: 8

I've been pretty much in love with Scorpids since Cerah's starting pet quests, way back at level 10. The Orc starters required you to tame a bronze scorpid, and I loved it so much that's the first pet I tamed on my own. When I restarted Cerah on my own account, she once again tamed a Scorpid for her first pet, though the black and red skin this time. (I like to say he molted -- some arachnids, like some kinds of tarantulas, actually *can* be quite differnt colours after a moulting). Scorponok's been with Cerah ever since -- her level 10 pet, whom she'll never, EVER abandon.

Leata recently tamed her own scorpid, Quickstrike, for the other thread -- a bronze scorpid, just like Scorponok's first skin. You can read about hers and Quickstrike's adventures here

For the pink scorpid skin, I've always thought they were quite pretty while I was exploring Taranis with various toons, and at one point considered Scorponok having another "molt", but by the mid 40s, I liked Scorponok just the way he was. The "pink" scorpids do look more white against the Taranis desert background, however. Though I like the bronze and red and black skins better, I think Toeph or Lydia just might pick one of these beauties up when they level. All my Hunter toons seem to need a Scorpid of their very own.

For pet sounds, I always found something endearing about a scorpid's cute little chirps and bug-shrieks. They do have quite the personality,and their vocalizations express it perfectly! Animations also support this. I love how they're always moving around, skittering in place, their claws swinging back and forth -- they're almost as active as a silithid. I even find their faces cute.

For abilities/utility, I have to say that I liked Scorpid Poison better than their current Disarm. When they stinged an opponent in the past, it meant I didn't have to use my Serpent Sting shot, plus the DoT effect really, really helped out Cerah in low levels. Even if scorpids don't have a family-specific AoE, there's always Thunderstomp. My guildies would affectionately refer to Scorponok as the "Tiny Tank" -- he even helped me solo Chillmaw, the frostwyrm you have to kill for an Argent Tournament daily. Quickstrike's disarm is kind of handy in pvp situations, but I think that would have been more appropriate for a Cunning Pet. Honestly, I don't know why they didn't just leave Scorpid Poison the way it was. Since I got Daggoth, my Jormungar, Scorponok's been taking a well-deserved rest in the stables when it comes to extreme soloing, but especially for non-BM's I'd still recommend a fully talented Scorpid as a fun Tenacity Pet, even if they're aren't quite as useful as they were before 4.0.1

Overall, I love Scorpids. I love their pretty, colourful looks, their attitudes and personality, just about everything about them. They may not be the most useful Tank in turns of family abilities anymore, but they're still a fun pet to have, and talents like Thunderstomp may make up for the lack in family ability. Anyone who loves bugs, or who just wants a more unusual non-exotic Tenacity pet, I think would still love Scorpids just as much as I do.

I like the white moth too -- I'll do a review for that one as soon as I dig myself out of my pile of schoolwork and can get my authenticator out of its anti-temptation hiding place.

Please don't give up on this thread -- I for one love it!

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Re: Random Pet Challenge Mk II

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I love this thread as well. I'm arachnophobic and as much as I've tried, I've never been able to keep a spider pet for very long in the game, they eventually just start creeping me out so that's why I didn't review that one. I'll do a review on the pink scorpid for my other hunter later.

Mmk, went out and tamed a pink scorpid on my troll huntress. ^_^

Pet Model (1-10): 8
Pet Skin (1-10): 8
Pet Sounds (1-10): 6
Pet Animations (1-10): 7
Pet Ability/Utility (1-10): 5
Overall (1-10): 7


Model: I like the scorpid models, I've always thought they looked pretty decent without any large oversights/errors/etc.
Skin: I actually surprised myself in really liking this skin. He matches my troll hunter quite well and I love the way the pink color looks. Named him Pinky and will be looking for a brain bug in Cata to name Brain. XD
Sounds: He makes little buggy sounds that are pretty cute and suiting to the species, nothing big or fancy. People who don't like super noisy pets should like it.
Animations: I love this guys animations. They're nothing big or fancy like the devilsaur roar, but they're cute and I love how he looks like he's throwing out a challenge when he waves his claws around.
Ability/Utility: The disarm's okay. It's nice against meleers in PvP, and that's really going to be about it I think. I kinda wish they would have left the tank pets with tank abilities and kept cunning pets as the pvp utility pets. Took this guy through a BG and even disarm barely helped me against melee so if I keep him it'll probably be for looks.

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Right! I'll do this one too :)

Pet Model: 8
Pet Skin: 5
Pet Sounds: 8
Pet Animations: 6
Pet Ability/Utility: 8
Overall: 6



I like the Scorpid model, although it's got a bit of a lack of face. That isn't a design issue, though--as far as I know they're rather faceless really :lol: They do come across as spiky and threatening, though. I like these better than the upcoming Cataclysm ones, actually, design-wise.

The skin is... interesting. It's a pale blush tone, which I don't really associate with spiky stinging arachnids :P I think it looks better than some of the others out there, though, and could make a nice theme pet.

The sounds are great. I love the chittering and the aggro sound in particular, which I can't even describe--but it's rather cute :D It's sort of a croaking giggle O.o

The idle animations are great; the scorpion will lift his claws and wave them around, threatening or curious I'm not sure. The running animations, though, are rather poor--he sort of does a watery waving thing with his whole body that doesn't seem to match up with the movement of his legs.

Pet Ability/Utility: The first time I tried a scorpid in PvP, I was in the WSG flag room. I realized that there were 2 healers with me, so I dismissed my Spirit Beast and called my scorpion. AS I did this, a warrior leapt down from above and hit Bladestorm... and the pet immediately Disarmed him, as in, before the first tick. We all just kind of stood there staring at this poor, startled, impotent warrior :lol: It is definitely a useful ability, and a Tenacity pet's quite good in PvP right now. I actually really liked it, and I would keep it if I had stable space.

Overall: The color isn't my thing, but the pet is great. I would keep a black one, probably, if I had room. Yeah, yeah, 25 slots... AND ALL HAVE PLANS. /shifty
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I had some time before work so I decided to do the bat challenge. I've been meaning to give the family a try especially since their stun costs no focus--I wasn't disappointed. ^_^

Pet Model: 7
Pet Skin: 8
Pet Sounds: 7
Pet Animations: 4
Pet Ability/Utility: 8
Overall: 8

The bat models aren't horrible, but compared to some of the newer pets, they seem to be showing their age a bit. Their face is a tad cartoony, but I suppose that fits the style of WoW.

I kind of surprised myself in liking this skin color. The deep purple body fur and red wings are quite striking and, for me, create a pretty unique look. Sadly though, many of this guy's textures appear low res (claws mostly) and the mane fur kind of reminds me of the tauren ones.

This guy is sort of lacking in animations which made me a bit sad. Like most (if not all flying pets) he just flaps idly in place, but when you go to run with him, his wings don't flap at all (like the drake bug that existed for a while) and he just glides everywhere which is kind of weird. It is kind of cute, however, to see him swing his butt forward to attack with his back feet.

His sounds are pretty cute as well. Nothing too loud, nothing too quiet; they worked for me.

The stun ability with no focus cost turned out to be pretty win in SotA combined with Intimidation. Two seconds isn't very long, but the lack of a focus cost makes this readily available when you want to use it as opposed to some other pet abilities. The stun combined with a disengage could make a nice, quick escape from melee as well.

Overall, I really surprised myself by liking this guy--a lot. I really love his colors and I synced with him in my BG better than when I had tried a wasp. His ability came quite handy. I think ol' Mortimer will be staying in Vitani's stables. :hug:

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Re: Random Pet Challenge Mk II

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Red Bat review:

Pet Model: 6
Pet Skin: 7
Pet Sounds: 7
Pet Animations: 5
Pet Ability/Utility: 6
Overall: 7

I first became interested in this guy when I saw his skin in classic Shadowfang Keep along with a white bat, Vilewing was the red one's name. I desided since this whole dungeon was being revamped, it would be cool to "rescue" this bat -- thanks again for my fellow Petopians, Saon, Tarnah and Norje, who helped Toeph through the instance!

Ozai (named after Firelord Ozai, the main antagonist from Avatar: The Last Airbender) makes a pretty cool pet. Out of the bat skins, this one is my favourite -- I love the bright, red wings, and his face, while cartoony, like Tyger said, seems strangely suiting. He was also fun to have out at Hallow's End as he matched the Bat costume perfectly! Wish I had a Vampiric Batling to complete the effect.

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Toeph and Ozai are in here somewhere!

I haven't played with Ozai much yet, but for a cunning pet he seems to do quite well, based on how he handled the rest of Shadowfang Keep (though I think Norje was handling most of it) I always liked the flightpoint bats' little shrieks, and Ozai's are about the same. I don't mind the animations either, as they remind me of the flight point's gliding. Again, it's fun to be gliding around yourself in the bat costume, with your pet bat gliding behind you.

I think I need to play more with Ozai before I can make a more accurate assessment of his utility, but overall, I'm impressed with this pet. He's a keeper, and not just because he's a rescue.
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Re: Random Pet Challenge Mk II

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Waylaid by RL right now but I'll grab the latest pet as soon as i get a chance.
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