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Hello

I have been wondering for long time what this pet at 1:00 in this video is and where u can get it? Since there is a lot of hunter here, i am hoping someone knows?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B3meu5rhRU

That hunter also has many other videos which are kind of funny

Hm. It almost looks like they're using a pet that was dismissed with a debuff that AOE's with poison. It's a super old exploit that has long since been fixed. I say this because there are no foxes with the orange-ish/brown color that walk around with such a buff on them to give them that coloring. That being said, its clearly just an exploit with dismissing.

I suggest not attempting to recreate the exploit since it will result in a perma ban. A few people I know on another site used to do such an exploit over and over again with multiple accounts and were met with some very harsh consequences for their actions.

Bowno wrote:Hm. It almost looks like they're using a pet that was dismissed with a debuff that AOE's with poison. It's a super old exploit that has long since been fixed. I say this because there are no foxes with the orange-ish/brown color that walk around with such a buff on them to give them that coloring. That being said, its clearly just an exploit with dismissing.

I suggest not attempting to recreate the exploit since it will result in a perma ban. A few people I know on another site used to do such an exploit over and over again with multiple accounts and were met with some very harsh consequences for their actions.

^ This pretty much. It's not rare. It's an exploit that gives them an advantage, if I recall.

I don't recall ever seeing a fox with this but I have seen other pets with similar buffs. all of which would get you an instant perma ban if you were ever caught with one. There are a few threads on petopia floating around that tell you the history and location of various macro tamed pets with appearance buffs similar to this (although those buffs are all purely looks and do not give you any sort of fighting edge.)
Sadly, ALL appearance buff pets are now impossible to obtain due to people exploiting the damage buff ones. So if you wanted the fox for the damage, tough luck. but if you were just hoping to get a cool looking pet, then cross your fingers because Blizz is considering allowing players to tame some pets with cosmetic buffs in the future.

What it necks down to is that Blizzard doesn't care if a pet looks shiny and unique, but rather that a lot of that SFX stuff is coded in as a sort of buff. And since there's no way to code, distinctly, buffs-that-look-interesting from buffs-that-do-something-tangible the way they are now, the only way to prevent people from abusing the bonus of buffs-that-do-something is to make the taming process strip all buffs off across the board.

The change will involve coding the models directly to have effects on them. We've already seen a few. The lightning sparks on Skoll are intrinsic to his model and not to a buff, and the licking flames on the new lava spiders. Still, I imagine that it's just not something they're going to go back and mess with since in most cases those buffs were originally to add challenge/variety to a mob and thus specifically require the functionality. (Functionality that can't be allowed to persist on a hunter pet.)

So no one else found it odd that his stampede was a bunch of Dire Trolls? O_o

SpiritBinder wrote:So no one else found it odd that his stampede was a bunch of Dire Trolls? O_o

I had to glance over the majority of the video as I only watched for the foxes before and wtf there are dire trolls later on in the video o_O Not the easiest to spot but there's his brown fox and four dark skinned dire trolls. I don't know the time but its probably like 3/4ths of the way through the video, he's up against a mountain side killing a player when you see them running around before returning to him

Bowno wrote:Hm. It almost looks like they're using a pet that was dismissed with a debuff that AOE's with poison. It's a super old exploit that has long since been fixed. I say this because there are no foxes with the orange-ish/brown color that walk around with such a buff on them to give them that coloring.

I saw a hunter using those pets today at Alterac Valley, but he refused to tell me how you get them..