More spiky crabs (and colours) tameable

[Wain]

This patch may seem light on new pets so far, but it did give me crabs.

In the latest patch, a number of the deep-sea spiky crabs in Vashj'ir are now tameable:

Green Sand Crab - green
(Agitated Green Sand Crab also tameable)

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Spineshell Pincer - red

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Sandskin Pincer - black

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Silversand Burrower - orange

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That leaves blue as the only "basic" spikey crab colour that isn't available. (Note that the blue pyreshell scuttler that is mentioned on Petopia isn't a basic colour at all, as detailed below...)

UPDATED:
Pyreshell Scuttler - currently a colour-changer but has biolucent markings. Can be one of four colours when summoned:
Blue with purple markings:

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Black with purple markings:

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Black with blue markings:

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Green with blue markings:

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EDIT: updated the biolucent Pyreshell pics with better shots

I've seen Critter versions called "Crab Hatchling" that exhibit other skin/marking colour combos, such as green/purple, red/purple and orange/purple. Basically any skin + purple markings. All biolucent markings are either blue or purple, and I presume all combinations are possible, but are not all used in beast versions.

[The Insect Man]

Excellent news - and about time.

[Rottingham]

Excellent news - and about time.

^ this

I am very happy now Thanks for the great news!!!

[Wain]

If I could get on my "freeze on login" Alliance hunter I could test out the bioluminescent crabs... anyone else able to do this?

[Sarayana]

Eeeeee my red crab!!! Thankyouthankyouthankyou!!! <3

[SgtMakkie]

They look really cool!

[Doth777]

If I could get on my "freeze on login" Alliance hunter I could test out the bioluminescent crabs... anyone else able to do this?

Same issue here, and that's the same crab I want

[Wain]

OK, so I'm an idiot. My Horde hunter WAS high enough to tame the Pyreshell Scuttlers:

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The good news is they keep the markings after taming (and resummoning)!

The BAD news is the colour is unstable. It changes with each summons.
So it can come out as blue with purple markings:

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Black with purple markings:

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Black with blue markings:

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And finally, green with blue markings (the colour on this one is subtle so I'll also add a behind shot that shows it better):

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Those are the only colours I got after many repeat summonings and they're also the only colours I saw on the NPCs.

[Wain]

If I could get on my "freeze on login" Alliance hunter I could test out the bioluminescent crabs... anyone else able to do this?

Same issue here, and that's the same crab I want

BTW, it just let me log in as my main hunter, Frej. I tried to log in a lot of times first. Maybe it eventually took mercy on me. Just before I was able to finally log in it actually disconnected me (rather than froze up like usual), so maybe it was resetting something? :/

[Saturo]

Yaay! Crabs!

[Ixnay]

I think this is my favorite new pet model so far.

[Zeilla8]

If I could get on my "freeze on login" Alliance hunter I could test out the bioluminescent crabs... anyone else able to do this?

Can't get on my 85 character, but I'll see if I can do this on one of my other level 80 copies. Really excellent news and post, as always Wain!

[Wain]

Can't get on my 85 character, but I'll see if I can do this on one of my other level 80 copies. Really excellent news and post, as always Wain!

Thank you But I did get on a toon that could tame the pyreshells and updated it

[Qraljar]

I've got a big bag of crabs here.

[Grigg]

The BAD news is the colour is unstable. It changes with each summons.

I actually like the color changers. This is fantastic news to me.

Unfortunately it appears to be the only way to get it in blue though...

[Galahandra]

Orange...my favourite colour <3

[Kalliope]

This patch may seem light on new pets so far, but it did give me crabs.

<3!

Lovely finds!

[Worba]

RED CRAB. WANT. WANTWANT.

[Kayb]

but it did give me crabs.

Sorry to be immature, but ROFL. I nearly choked laughing at that

[Wain]

but it did give me crabs.

Sorry to be immature, but ROFL. I nearly choked laughing at that

Not sure if you're on the beta, but there's a quest in Vashj'ir that will really crack you up then At least for Alliance, but I think for both factions.