Haha, it's fun to see someone else's take on nether rays that doesn't depend on scribbled on hats!
Anyhow, it's time for another episode of Daranara's Darlings Digest! (man I love alliteration)
*cough*
Anyway! Our subject this time:
The brown bear.
What's not to like about bears? They tank like champs, they eat everything, and their special is pretty snazzy! As it happens, I feel that their low points lie pretty much in their looks, what with their split lip and posture problems. But let's give this bear a shake, shall we?
So when I meant to start my hunt, I hit what I thought was my hearth, then walked away to get a drink. To my surprise, I hadn't hit my hearth, but rather my Area 52 teleport-a-ma-jig. This explains my lack of nelfiness in some of these shots.
But since I'd hit that one, I went ahead and hit up my Winterspring one too, figuring I could just fly from there. As I flew, I remembered something about a bear in Felwood? A quick check revealed that hey what d'you know? Mongress lives in Felwood, and she's the color of bear I want!
...so of course she wasn't up. Going south, I flew into Ashenvale to find one. Right away, I had luck!
A quick trap and I had myself a bear!
A quick check assures me that pet bears are large enough to be gnome mounts. Good to know!
In thinking up a name, I remembered as part of my hunter's backstory, her very first "pet" was actually an Ashenvale bear cub one of her father's friends had brought her to help take care of after it's mother had died. Remembering that bear's name, I decided it was appropriate to give my new friend here the same one.
But taming is hard work, so Tanavar and I promptly took a quick nap.
So yeah, bears are pretty solid, if clunky things. They're a big sturdy looking pet, but they suffer from lip-splits, a perma-snarl, and a back like a slide, as seen here:
If they could fix those things, then they'd be pretty swell, looks-wise. At least they can close their mouths now, though!
We said goodbye to Tana's friend, then we were off for adventures!
...Okay, it was off to Dalaran to see about getting him fit for some riding gear. As luck would have it, though, Dara's IC husband caught up with her about then to remind her that (hopefully) the gnome-shape wasn't permanent. Also to let her know he didn't really want any part of whatever it was she was up to, since he was pretty sure his associates back in Stormwind would have some choice comments about a human and a gnome together, so Dara decided to just stay in Dalaran for the night.
Overnight the gnomeshape wore off, so when she woke up she was back to normal. Since we were in Dalaran, Tana and I decided to have a look to see if there was anything to read.
There was a fascinating children's story about mages that Dara wanted to take home for her daughter, but Tana ate it. Oops.
So then we were off to Tol Barad! Because what's better than more dailies? (don't answer that I'm five mounts away from a hundred).
As expected, Tanavar was a champ at dailies. He held aggro and took adds and we got them down easy. Life is good there.
I wanted to do more with him, but I don't have to run Magister's Terrace anymore, so what to do...
Oh yeah, blue protodrake! Let's see if we can solo this!
I'd never actually tried before, so this was an adventure for both of us. I managed to sneak my way to Skadi without having to kill a single other thing, thanks to camouflage. But getting there's always the easy part! Could we down him?
Turns out, yeah, we can. It was a little bit messy, and took a bit of time, and there were a few close calls, but we managed it! No mount today, but hey! Now that I know it's doable, I can farm it until I can has it.
A quick return to Stormwind and an accidental discovery of my warrior twin! Oh Tana, you're so photogenic sometimes.
And there you have it! A girl and her bear, ready to take on the world!
I've had a bear before, but it was the dark brown skin, and I couldn't imagine myself with any other one. However, I was surprised at how natural this lighter brown felt. I ended up liking him better than I expected.
The down side, of course, is stable space. I have four other tenacity pets to spend time with, and so my bear wasn't getting any love. I'm afraid this will be the same story here, too. He's nice, and I'm going to be sending Tanavar over to Daranara the Younger for a happy and hopefully permanent home.
That said, how about another, please?
Daranara
85
exotics okay!
no restrictions~