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Why would they make this item? Can someone explain what it does?

Its a way to deter others from killing a hunter's potential pet I guess...dunno how effective it'll be.

It's just a flavor item. There's not really any need to look farther into it than that. Perhaps it will deter a few people, but overall it's most likely just a nod to hunters from Blizz.

Magnakilro wrote:Its a way to deter others from killing a hunter's potential pet I guess...dunno how effective it'll be.

Deter?...ts worth 25 gold. Thats weak. People would kill for that

Well considering you could do 2 dailie and get around that much...whereas this item could take weeks to find...it might work to an extent.

It seems like a nod to hunters to me. Especially since Blizz seems to be giving a lot of other 'nods' in a way...aren't a lot of these special tameable rares showing up REALLY hard to kill right now? It's like they're made specifically to be tamed, not ganked for an item to AH.

~VelkynKarma

Ghostcrawler immediately comes to mind lol.

Vephriel wrote:It's just a flavor item. There's not really any need to look farther into it than that. Perhaps it will deter a few people, but overall it's most likely just a nod to hunters from Blizz.

Pretty much this. Like the Broken I WIN Button. It doesn't DO anything, but it is an acknowledgment of people's gaming experiences.

And I agree that it won't really deter people from killing these rares. A lot of the time, people kill rares without knowing or caring what the loot table is. People swarm the Sewer Beast every time he spawns, and all he drops is a couple grey items worth perhaps a couple silver.

Kryte wrote:

Vephriel wrote:It's just a flavor item. There's not really any need to look farther into it than that. Perhaps it will deter a few people, but overall it's most likely just a nod to hunters from Blizz.

Pretty much this. Like the Broken I WIN Button. It doesn't DO anything, but it is an acknowledgment of people's gaming experiences.

And I agree that it won't really deter people from killing these rares. A lot of the time, people kill rares without knowing or caring what the loot table is. People swarm the Sewer Beast every time he spawns, and all he drops is a couple grey items worth perhaps a couple silver.

This is true. I've managed to suppress the instincts for tameable rares, but I constantly find myself wanting to murder any silver dragoned mob I see.

Raydex-of-the-dawn wrote:

Kryte wrote:

Vephriel wrote:It's just a flavor item. There's not really any need to look farther into it than that. Perhaps it will deter a few people, but overall it's most likely just a nod to hunters from Blizz.

Pretty much this. Like the Broken I WIN Button. It doesn't DO anything, but it is an acknowledgment of people's gaming experiences.

And I agree that it won't really deter people from killing these rares. A lot of the time, people kill rares without knowing or caring what the loot table is. People swarm the Sewer Beast every time he spawns, and all he drops is a couple grey items worth perhaps a couple silver.

This is true. I've managed to suppress the instincts for tameable rares, but I constantly find myself wanting to murder any silver dragoned mob I see.

Sadly, that response is a programmed part of our WoW culture. Silver Dragons = Rares. Rares = Loot. Breaking people of the habit of auto-killing any Rare they come across will be difficult.

Once it becomes knowledge that these rare potential pets only drop 25 gold, perhaps there will be more /1 any hunters around? etc. I can see eventually hunters tipping 50g or so (kind of like how tips are expected for a mage port).

It will take time for the other non hunters to realize that several rares only will net them 25g.

Question, does anyone know what the non-tameable rares drop? Curious if those ones drop a blue item or something, I know the hard 5 man rares probably will drop high blues or perhaps lower level epics, but i'm just curious about the other rares.

Thats text almost make me cry ._.

I'm happy they're trying to prevent cool pet killings,but I'd rather it gave copper instead of gold.

It's a cute flavor item. It's not a deterant.

25 gold is 25 gold you didn't have a second before. Thats no deterrant.

A sell-price of 1 copper, that might be a deterrant, but honestly....probably not. A drop only deters after you killed it and get the drop.

And WoW will always be filled with kids who will kill a tamable rare simply for the griefing value. Those folks don't care what it drops.

All part of teh game and the community, no sense gettign worked up about it I spose. I've done my fair share of griefing in other, more truly PvP, games.

Warfish wrote: 25 gold is 25 gold you didn't have a second before. Thats no deterrant.

Considering some hunters offer up to a thousand gold for someone to hold a rare for a few seconds for them, it may be. I'm almost ready to drop 15k for a Krush tame (I wouldn't, but it's hideously tempting).