One of the more interesting – and contentious – pet changes in the Cataclysm beta so far was way that two previously-tamed rare silithids were becoming Buru-like ‘brain bugs’.
If you need to catch up on exactly what was happening here, check out my previous post on the topic: Bug Boss Bug in Cataclysm.
The situation has changed.
In my write-up of the new Call Pet functionality in Cataclysm last week, I mentioned a bug you could run into when your pet died and you called another one. The few days later, however, Blizzard hotfixed that bug.
Now Ghostcrawler has posted to clarify how all of this is supposed to work.
I logged into the Cataclysm beta tonight to test whether or not you can use Call Pet in combat. This would be particularly useful to call a new pet immediately after your previous pet dies.
And … I can no longer use Call Pet when my pet has died. When I try, I get the message:
You already control a summoned creature.
I have to revive my dead pet and then dismiss it before I can switch to another.
Beta build 12759 contained a bit of a surprise for hunter: three brand new pet families!
Monkeys, which had been grouped with gorillas into the Primate family, are now on their own. (And gorillas have gone back to being Gorillas.)
Meanwhile, foxes and mastiffs both moved out of the Wolf family into the Fox and Dog families respectively.
Hunters have had 5 ‘active’ pet slots in the Cataclysm beta for several weeks now, but until yesterday (build 12759) we didn’t have any way to call them to use without using a Stable Master.
Call Pet, our one and only way to .. err … call a pet, would only ever call the pet in the first active slot. And Call Stabled Pet did not actually let us move pets around.
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The Cataclysm beta realms were updated with a new build (12759) tonight and there’s a whole bundle of interesting hunter changes in there.
But I’m not going to tell you about them.
Unfortunately for me – and therefore for you – I am very nearly dead on my feet right now. So I’ll round up all the info I can into some coherent form and post it tomorrow. If you want to follow the exciting discoveries as they happen, you should be reading the Petopia forums anyway.
WARNING: This info from beta very likely to change!
The hunter pet community – or at least the WoW Petopia Community, but I’m pretty sure lots of other hunters too – is very excited right now about some news out of the Cataclysm beta.
Boss tank silithids. As pets.
Sort of.
I’ve recently become quite fond of a couple WoW blogs that don’t have anything to do with hunters. This is so out of character for me that I wanted to draw your attention to the blogs in question.
Good news, everybody! That gorgeous silver fox that nobbie told us about two weeks ago is now available for Alliance hunters as well as Horde.
At the time, the fox showed up during a phased section of a Silverpine Horde quest chain. Now, however, all hunters can see – and tame! – the lovely Highlands Fox in the Northern Highlands of the Ruins of Gilneas. There are also some nice mastiffs in the area, although they are not (yet) flagged as beasts. The foxes and the mastiffs are in the 13-14 level range.
And in very southern Silverpine, there is another interesting find: a color-changing Cataclysm crocolisk. The level 18-19 Marsh Crocolisk randomly chooses either a green Cataclysm crocolisk look or a white Cataclysm crocolisk each time it appears.
