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On the quest [Testing The Antidote] your to apply the antidote to Hulking Helboar (Red/Black). In doing so, you transform them into Dreadtusk (Black/Green). Did not see them labled anywhere here and sinse their only available for a 60ish quest I'm not sure if any beta testers have tried them yet.

From what I understand...ALL helboars are tameable.

I haven't tried it yet. Not sure if anyone else has. At least that colour is also available in SMV on Felboars.

I checked the tamable pets and noticed the Black/Green hellboar from SMV was listed, but that is the only one. Dreadtusk is a spawned hellboar, kinda.

That would be fascinating, if the "spawned" version turns out to be an utterly different mob which retains the new coloring. I foresee bugs!

Acherontia wrote:That would be fascinating, if the "spawned" version turns out to be an utterly different mob which retains the new coloring. I foresee bugs!

Well so far I never got it to spawn in the first place after the patch. And I zapped around 50 hellboars for the damned antidote quest.

It's possible the dreadtusk itself was the bug.

It was bugged for awhile, and didn't work at all, but was fixed a few months ago I think. Could be wrong on dates though!

Acherontia wrote:It was bugged for awhile, and didn't work at all, but was fixed a few months ago I think. Could be wrong on dates though!

I'm unsure if you mean the dreadtusk appearing was a bug- or not appearing. Because if it was the latter, that's when I did the antidote quest the day the 4.0.1 patch was released live, and nada.

Funny thing is I've never seen Dreadtusk in black/green unless I come across someone else doing the quest or find it's corpse. The boar that I convert as part of the quest always looks like the boar it was before for me! (red)

I've not tried taming him as I would have done that quest a long time ago.

Not appearing was a bug. He's meant to grow massively large; I don't know about the color. But for awhile a he didn't appear at all, though that was fixed--if you're saying it happened again recently, then the bug may well have reared its head again : /

I tried to tame him and got a warning that it was an 'Invalid target'..

Phlerb, did you try on beta or live?
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Phlerb wrote:I tried to tame him and got a warning that it was an 'Invalid target'..

They're still demons on live. We're waiting for the Sundering for any of the hellboars to become tameable.

Yeah, they're still Demons on Live. Just a little bit longer!

If I remember right, they do have a color change when it is transformed. It goes from being Red with black spikes to red with reddish spikes. Lemee see if I can find a WoWhead... Okay, I'm misremembering. They stay the same color. Under Dreadtusk though, apparently (according to the comments) with 4.0.1 Dreadtusks are Gray with Green spikes; so the same ones in SMV, I believe. o:

I've done that quest four times, and everytime I've done it Dreadtusk was Green... Also, whenever i saw someone else doing it he turned green...

Gimlion wrote:I've done that quest four times, and everytime I've done it Dreadtusk was Green... Also, whenever i saw someone else doing it he turned green...

I suspect this is a client-side bug, then. I've done it on all 6 of my 80's (with a couple tries on my hunter to see if it was tamable) and I've never seen him change color.

Maybe Helboars after the patch this week...?

Well, we can hope!

Antares wrote:Maybe Helboars after the patch this week...?

Well, we can hope!

I feel like I can say with certainty that it will happen "soon (tm)".

Seriously, though. I just looked at the calendar and with 4.0.3 tomorrow, according to MMO-Champion, that means we'll see the shattering in 2 weeks tops, possibly even next week. 0_0