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what color is your Larva?
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 8:49 am
by GormanGhaste
I'm pretty sure I caught this larva as a secondary to a spirit crab in 5.0. What's even odder, the journal picture shows as beige, but I can only summon it as white or yellow:

Re: still have color changers?
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 3:04 pm
by peanutbuttercup
I wish I'd taken a screenshot of the one I found just last week (so 5.1 of course).
I tamed a rare primary Dung Beetle in Uldum. During the battle it was light gold in color, and I was excited because I had an uncommon of the same color, so it was exactly the replacement I wanted (yes, I have to have 1 of every color, and that was the only light gold beetle I had at the time).
I went to my journal after taming it. It showed up as black in the journal. But when I summoned it, it would only summon as orange. Disappointed, I released it and ended up taming another rare primary from the same spawn trio, but this one was orange and remained color stable.
Re: still have color changers?
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 4:38 pm
by GormanGhaste
So it seems like multi-color pets are even more unpredictable in 5.1. Now I'm paranoid, and will be going back and checking many of my pets. After 5.1 when I was checking to see if I had all the colors, I sometimes just checked the journal pic instead of summoning them to be sure.
Re: what color is your Larva?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 5:07 am
by GormanGhaste
I'm revisiting this post, as I'm wondering if there are any more beige Larva at all. When I had a rare spawn as a secondary in a battle, I could only make it show up as either yellow or white.
When checking on your Larva's color, please summon it rather than relying on the color displayed in the journal.
Re: what color is your Larva?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 5:53 am
by Wain
I only have a yellow one so far, but I'll check more tonight!
Re: what color is your Larva?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 8:36 pm
by Wain
Well that went well... I only saw one and it was yellow. Didn't even find any as a secondary. Hopefully better luck tonight

Re: what color is your Larva?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 9:59 pm
by Vephriel
Mine's yellow!
Re: what color is your Larva?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 10:03 pm
by Wain
It's possible that people who posted pics on Wowhead were confusing it with the Maggot, which shares the same zone and comes in brown and white.
But one of the picture-takers was Kurasu and he's pretty spot-on usually

Re: what color is your Larva?
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 12:12 am
by GormanGhaste
My hypothesis is that they Did come in beige in 5.0, but something happened in 5.1.
Re: what color is your Larva?
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 1:23 am
by Nachtwulf
I have a Larva! It appears to be white both in the journal and when summoned.

Re: what color is your Larva?
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 9:02 am
by Wain
I'm absolutely convinced they only come in white and yellow, now.
I found one as a secondary tonight (and then a bunch more!) and I spent a good 10 mins restarting the fight and they only appeared showed up as yellow or white.
Weird that the model shows up as brown in Wowhead and in the journal!
I'll let the WCP staff know about it anyway. I'd check with Noah but I haven't seen him in a long, long time.
Re: what color is your Larva?
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 10:07 am
by GormanGhaste
Thanks everyone for checking, and thanks for doing more vigorous testing Wain. I was so happy to finally have found a rare, that I wasn't as thorough as I should have been
I'll see about correcting the wild pet color guide today.
Re: what color is your Larva?
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 11:40 pm
by Wain
WCP have updated their site to remove the brown option:
http://www.warcraftpets.com/wow-pets/be ... cts/larva/
That crew aren't exceptionally big on responses, but I'm sure they'd like to thank you

Re: what color is your Larva?
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 12:09 am
by GormanGhaste
I think it's just that we both sent in a correction, and Quint happened to get to mine first. She appreciates you, too!