While I’m on a plane back home today, I’m going to take Messyah’s suggestion and ask you guys what kinds of pets you have. Tell us your pet’s species, name, when you tamed it and why you love it!
Mania's Arcania
Flotsam from too many sites
While I’m on a plane back home today, I’m going to take Messyah’s suggestion and ask you guys what kinds of pets you have. Tell us your pet’s species, name, when you tamed it and why you love it!
I started with Alhandra, a lovely Ghost Sabre. She fit in perfectly with my draenei’s backstory, a ghostly feline that she swore was a reflection of the spirit of one of her comrades lost at the hands of Kael’s cohort. However, I got tired of that, having tamed her a long time ago, before they got so bloody popular and common. (I swear, I can’t swing a dead crocolisk in IF without seeing two or three other hunters running around with ghost kitties. Crazy!)
So I went for something different, and now I have Ashkara, a red windserpent that nicely matches my very blue draenei. It’s quite distinctive and I’ve taken to it quite well, although sometimes clicking around the big flyer can be tricky. But the world needs more windserpents. (And I didn’t have the patience to get someone Hordeside to go through all the necessary contortions for me to pick up Arikara, and then go through all the hassle of levelling her.)
Well, while I have three pets right now, two of them are used for experimenting in the Arena. One is a Ravager and the other a Scorpid, and I’ll keep whichever seems to do the best in there.
My other pet though is my baby. She’s one of those lovely dark grey tigers with white stripes from Darkshore, and I’ve had her every since I was high enough to tame her. Her name is Raika, which roughly translates to “lightning strike” or “flash of lightning” in Japanese. I’m 70 now, have been for some time, but Raika has always been at my side and always will be.
Also, being a Tauren, and completely new to the game at the time, making the run to where she was to tame her was quite the adventure for me!
I have a white tiger named Lassie. She started out as King (okay, I guess Queen) B and I tamed her right after I hit 43. I love her because Blizz got the cat animations perfect. I love her because she matches my hair. I love her because after 37 levels she has as much RP personality as my hunter does. My guildies send her fish to eat and if they see me with whatever’s currently occupying one of my other two stable slots (changes. All. the. time.) they tell me to go back and get her, now. Yes, everyone and his inbred brother-in-law has a King B, yes, I’m not original, yes, cats are uncool and REAL hunters have a ravager/scorpion/randomuglythingoftheweek but she is MY CAT and the leetpeoples had better stay away from her. There there sweetie, Daddy won’t let the bad men hurt you.
Doh- No, I dont’ have a level 80 cat :( Make that 27 levels.
I have the white lion Sian Rotam.
Originally had Echeyakee and got her to 60, but needed Sian Rotam as i was changing the name. Sadly Echeyakee shared the name of a player on my realm who caused aggro in the guild so i had to get rid. The lion is now called Kimba(name taken from Japanese Manga, Kimba the White Lion)
For me its the best looking pet in game and as an Alliance hunter on a pvp realm, its super rare. Stuff the ghost saber, the white lion is king!
I have also have a green Blades Edge Raptor i wanted to call Yoshi but its not allowed (must be trademarked i guess) I use the Raptor for Instances as his AR is maxed. Looking to change him for something else and praying the ZA eagles become tamable.
I had a sporebat for while called “Mackus” he’s a Shammy in our guild who does rather good dps (but i tell him he’s crap just to wind him up ;D ) He keept pestering me to name a pet after him. So i got a Sporebat and named it after him, as its the most useless pet you could have. Bad thing was that any time i forgot about what pet i had, and had Mackus out i was insta ganked by hordies. Even had a lvl 60 come attack me as he knew how crap the pet was! Lol
Now replaced Mackus with a black armoured boar to level up as my new grinding pet. I’ll passive level him through instances.
My pet has been a red crab from the Echo isles since dinging lvl 11 and taming it. Periodically, I bring out a raptor named Tethys (guess where from!) for instances, but I’ll always have a soft spot for Kayrab. He may not have the “epic skillz” of a cat or windserpent, but as a casual player on an RP server, it works for me.
Nookni, Troll hunter of Farstriders-US.
I have a wonderful Snow Leopard. Her name is Daciana and I have had her since we were both around level 11. I chose her because they are the only cat that looks like she does with the exception of the ghost saber, but I didn’t want the transparent look. I am only level 40 myself and have just gotten into WoW a couple months back. This is my first character and pet. I had also tamed Bjarn and still have him but he is about 15 levels behind at this point.
My main pet is Echeyakee. As an alliance hunter I wanted a fairly rare pet skin and figured that Echeyakee is about the best I could get. My brother rolled a character horde side and leveled it up in order to summon this cat for me. Two reasons I will keep this pet are:
1. Its a fairly rare skin alliance side and the pain involved in leveling it from 16 to 70. I was 70 when I tamed him.
2. My brother uses Humar as his main pet. The combination of Echeyakee (Kaiser) and Humar (Kane) is pretty neat.
I have George. He is the Rake from near Thunderbluff. I went over there around level 12 (or w/e level it was) all by myself. A poor lowbie alliance lost in the midst of Chuck Norris and the horde. Scary. :) He has been my faithful companion and I just can’t seem to get rid of him.
I also tamed the pink flamingo, also from the Thunderbluff area. She is named Molly. (Pink Flamingo is Pretty in Pink = Molly Ringwald.) She’s just for show tho, still level 20ish.
My next adventure (but also just for show) will be the Sherbert coloered Flamingo on the floating island in Terokkar.
Ghost saber in stable: was not my first, but I got it as soon as I could! Was my only pet until 49/50 when I grabbed a boar and fell in love with the aggro generated by charge! Simply too good to pass on! Will be making the switch back to my cat and level it from mid 50ies to 70, if I ever get my hunter to 70 and start doing instances… I still love my cat more than the boar, but the boar is just so much more pratical for grinding! :)
My current pet is Mordecai, a dark purple/green ravager from Hellfire Peninsula. I had been using a white saber from Winterspring as my lvl60 BG pet, but the ravager is a better fit for a Tauren.
Prior to that, I leveled to 60 with a turtle from the Barrens that I named BigBlue.
When I created Zetaa, I wanted a orange and green color matching scheme between myself and pets. I tamed the Clutchmother at level 20. It proved to be a bit hard due to the two younglings that wander with her and I think she had a kickback ability that would interrupt the tame. I non-creatively named her Betaa. At level 30-something, I tamed an orange tiger from Stranglethorn and named it Thetaa. I have come to love Betaa so much that I feel she very much deserves a better name. It’s a shame we can’t rename our pets. If I could, I’d call her Pookybird.
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I’m the sort of Hunter who tends to change pets every 10 levels as he goes, just because I wanted to try everything, see everything. I did, however, from time to time find pets that I stuck with for longer than normal. In order of how I tamed them as I was leveling up:
Washte Pawne — The first beast I kept for more than 2 levels. I saw him and was struck by the sight of the giant (comparatively to the other windserpents in the Barrens, anyway) red-and-gold beauty just ambling around. I went after him, but a Druid in stealth had already marked him for the kill, and started to attack him. I ground to a halt and just watched, hoping this mysterious (I was very new to WoW a the time, and didn’t even think of looking up online pet resources) snake didn’t take forever to respawn.
However, the Druid paused her assault and asked me if I wanted him–to which I instantly replied yes. So the Druid changed shape and cast a quick Hibernate on Washte, standing back to let me tame him while he snoozed. I didn’t come up with a name for him until after I’d found him again, later, and killed him for the quest–at the description of the “shock of pain” from looting the quest feather, I promptly named my Washte “Painfeather.”
Silt Crawler — Yes, that’s right. The bronze-colored crabs from the Swamp of Sorrows. Not a special beast, just something I saw skittering along the sand and thought I would try out. I hadn’t been there to get a pet–I had just been exploring the area because I was proud of my brand-new Violet Raptor, and wanted to go everywhere on it that I could reach without being killed. The pet I had at the time I have no memory of, I was not very attached to it. On a whim I tamed one of the level 40 crabs.
The real thing that kept this unusual critter by my side (clear until level 64) was his name and my Guild at the time. Ever one for creative and/or silly names, I named my new crab “Skuttlebus,” and informed my Guild “I have a Skuttlebus.” It was an instant hit. My Guildmates loved Skuttlebus–a bit more than they liked me, as I found out shortly before transferring servers. For a while he was even the Guild mascot.
It also helped that Skuttlebus was immortal. Sure, he couldn’t pump out the damage like the ever-popular cat, but unlike them, he almost never needed me to cast Mend Pet. He went on and on and on, slowly and steadily hewing his way through anything.
Blackwind Warp Chaser — I was very mixed on Warp Stalkers in general when I first saw a few in use. The weird head, like a turtle crossed with a horned cobra, was not how I had interpreted the sleek and deadly creature in the concept art. The squat, gecko-like body, when I had thought it would be closer to a feline anatomy. None of those things thrilled me about what I had at first, when I saw the concept art, thought would be the most awesome mini-dragon to ever. It especially irritated me that, at first, they did not have a proper running animation–just the curse of Kodos and drakes, that Blizzard simply made the walking animation high-speed.
But their Warp ability sounded quite interesting, and they still were interesting. I finally wound up picking one up, once I’d hit 70 and spent a while hanging out with them in Skettis. I named him “Harpheart,” and grew a bit fond of him.
It helped a lot once they added a proper running animation. Harpheart is still sitting around in my stable, mostly retired but still there.
Takk the Leaper — Yes, my most recent tame, as a level 70 Hunter with a steadily increasing collection of epic flying mounts, was a level 19 raptor. I tamed him before they added Dash, hoping that by the time they did I would have him up a bit. I sort of underestimated how bad leveling him would get once he hit 60–it was like my poor dinosaur had just ran straight into a brick wall, as far as progress went.
I eventually did get him to 70. He’s my current companion, with the morbid name of “Bleak,” fitting his smoky-bruised complexion. While he doesn’t have nearly as much personality as old Skuttlebus, he’s a good fighter and I’ve put a lot of effort into him.
I’ve had my Prairie Wolf Alpha, Gunnar, since the beginning. He was the first pet I tamed after my taming quests were through. I’m level 70 now and can’t imagine parting with him.
The Johnny-Come-Lately of the group is Kotori, my Skettis Kaliri. He comes out for PVP, and, that’s about it.
I’ve got two hunters, both with a fairly unique stable fulls. On one account, I have a 70, and he’s got the rainbow colored owl that I named Lashanna, got that one from Sethekk halls before they were introduced as non elites above Allerian Stronghold. I have one of those purple/green tallstriders from Terrokar, that one I named him Torque. And my favorite on the 70, is Frostbite, the white furred, blue skinned Uhk lok ape that took me 3 days to successfully tame when i was 53.
On my other hunter, he’s currently 39, and has a tiger that I tamed at 10, ran all the way to Durotar for that one, also has the black lion from the barrens that I got lucky one day passing through. And my pride and joy, Dawn, my red lynx from the blood elven starter area. Went to get him at 18 and still to this day is one of two semi-high/high level red lynx’s I’ve seen on the alliance side.
I started with a Nightstalker runt from Azuremyst like every other little draenei hunter; her name was Solitary. I tried a ravager (named Epicentre) very early because I had the liberty to, but decided against leveling a second pet while I was still beensy, so away he went. When I hit 14 or so, I decided I wanted to try out an owl, so an owl I got from outside Darnassus, and her name was Tempest. Tempest, Solitary, and I chugged along for a while until I was 19 or 20 (and had gone on an extremely epic journey all around the Eastern Kingdoms to get a bunch of flight paths as well as Screech 1 and Claw 3 for my pets), and decided I wanted a ghost saber. Enter Nemesis, exit Solitary. So it was Nemesis, Tempest, and I until about 34 when I decided I wanted a scorpid… (That was a Scorpashi Lasher named Momentum, followed by an Elder Shadowmaw Panther named Testament, with a succession of “disposapets” named after Pokemon I learned pet skills from…)
This went on for a while with Nemesis being my only “fixed” pet until around level 51, when I really fell in love with wind serpents. My first wingsnake was one of the orange-winged red Vale Screechers, named Nephilim–I’d tamed her “temporarily” to get rank 4 of Lightning Breath, but “temporarily” turned into “for the next few levels” because I really loved the swimming animation for the family. (They tuck their wings in and wiggle! It’s awesome!) (Well, Nephilim wasn’t really the first–I tamed the all-red rare in the Barrens when I ran across him by luck, then ditched him immediately when it turned out he was a caster.) This lasted until I ran into another hunter with the identical skin who hadn’t even named her pet (“Wind Serpent, indeed!”) and I decided I needed a rarer wingsnake–so it was back to Feralas to camp out and wait for the all-white Arash-ethis. Lo and behold, just as I was about to give up on her respawning and head to Uldaman, she appeared and I tamed her–she became Redemption, and I still have her to this day.
Now, because I know I don’t need any new pet skills until level 64 (I’m 62 as of this writing), I’m back to a bird in my third slot–Hepatica, one of the red, two-headed vultures from Hellfire Peninsula. Almost no one has carrion birds on my server (I’ve found Shattrath is a great place to hang out and scope out what pets are popular in end-game), and I’ve absolutely fallen in love with their ability to AE-tank mobs while I’m grinding–AND pugging. She’s tanked Scholomance!
So those are my current pets–Nemesis the cat, Redemption the wind serpent, and Hepatica the vulture. It’s hard to say which of them I love best; I know it’s going to be a real hardship to let one go once I hit 64 and need to go train new ranks of skills. :( All of the families are really great at what they do; I don’t even feel bad about having two “DPS” pets because they handle so differently, at that. At this point, I’m figuring I’m just going to have to raise a whole herd of hunter alts so I can get all the pets I want…
I got an owl because I wanted a pet that was different from the cat/raptor/boar/ravager everyone have. But with time I really started to like him. His name is Lunatic, not very original but it was the best idea I had at the time.
Unfortunately I learned later on that people don’t like flying pets on groups much because it is hard to click the mob. So I am now considering switching to a wolf for doing quests and get a spider for PvP hoping to find an enemy with arachnophobia. : p
If I get crazy enough I might change the idea of getting a wolf and get a turtle. Not sure about it yet.
My main pet is a blue turtle (formerly Kresh of Wailing Caverns), whom I named Frohike (after one of the Lone Gunmen from “X Files”). I tamed him because 1) I was so sick of seeing Darkshore cats everywhere, 2) I’m crazy about turtles IRL, and 3) they eat fish (free food). I still don’t see too many turtles on my server (Hakkar). Pity, they’re great pets (and so bloody cute, too)!
I also have a frostsaber huntress named Yukiko. I tamed her because I wanted a cat for PvP, as well as something of a memento from Winterspring, which remains my favorite zone.
My third stable slot belongs to a yellow boar from Teldrassil named Hickory. He’s a bit of an experiment, to see how long it takes to get from lvl 1 to lvl 70. Never did get started on that.
My main pet is my owl, Tux, originally a level 8 Strigid Hunter from Teldrassil, now level 61 and counting. Tux the penguin is the Linux mascot, and since I play WoW exclusively on the Linux operating system… I wanted to make a tribute.
I also have Rak’Shiri, now renamed Locke, after an English philosopher (which Hobbes also was.)
For a while I had a raptor named Wash, named after the character in Firefly who plays with dinosaurs in the first episode of the series.
I love naming pets. I love coming up with just the right name, and if they’re a little clever that’s even better! Might be one of the reasons why I have so many hunters…
I like to use the name “Mohammed” for my pet boar.
Over a year ago, I joined an PUG instance with two other hunters already there. They each had boars out. When I called my boar, the druid healer said, “Oh, great. Mo’ ham.”
Abrams
70 Turtle
Black and gold shell from shore of The Hinterlands
Lynux
70 Cat
High level Lynx from Netherstorm
Cat (Humar)
61 Cat
Decided to go with a black scheme on my pets so I camped Humar. He is taking forever to lvl though. I am sure glad Blizzard improved pet leveling in 2.3…. Oh wait…. Yea…
I have a undead boar, Napoleon. I named him after a rl pig I had for awhile. He is the best lil’tank you could ask for. I love boars, they seem to have their own personalities.
Bjarn level 11? elite white bear in Dun Morough
I got Bjarn on my blood elf hunter because I thought not many others from the horde are going to want to go to the doorstep of Ironforge to find a pet, and I love that bear for any hunter. It’s my favorite tank option.
Humar the pridelord level 19 elite black cat
I absolutely adore Humar the pridelord he is mah kitty.
Usually those are my two I run with. I’m gotten broken tooth, I’ve tried the wolf in Duskwood that used to do shadow damage, got killed by the shadow-transparent cat in Darkshire the instant I tamed him (never got him back)- tamed hoggar (hate boars) and might try out a dinosaur.
Species: Cat(Shadiowclaw)
Name: TonyT
When I got him: Lvl 13
Why I Love Him?: Greatest pet in he history of WoW, I’ve had tons of pets in my WoW time and none have killed, tanked, and just utterly destroyed mobs and players like TonyT. I garauntee I will NEVER EVR let him go.
I used to change pets very often, but I kept Loki (Humar) from the beggining to lvl 70, so lovely, a good match to my orc huntress. When I reached outland I wanted to take the other two slots for my favorites and got Garnet (oldcliffy) and Midna (bloodfalcon) Now I have a problem, I would like to go everywhere with them all!
I have my Boar Dom. Boar Dom, Boredom. Get it. :)
Anyway he’s one of the yellow maned (do you call it a mane on a boar or is it a tuft?) Young Goretusks from Westfall. I wish I could say I tamed Princess, that would have been cool. He was my second pet overall and we leveled together all the way from level 12 together. I really like the Charge he does and it’s really funny to watch him stretch when there is a gnome standing next to me.
I also have a blue Wind Serpent named Quetzalcoatl. He was fun while doing 70 level instances. My final pet is one of the level 70 Ravagers, named OrangeCrush, I got when they came out. I like him, but he doens’t hold aggro or survive as well as good old Dom.
Dark gray wolf (the sleek kind, not the Worg)-Gaspode
Netherstorm Lynx- Greebo
If your a Terry Prachett discworld novel fan you should be laughing right now. It was my girlfriends idea! Love em both and the names bring a smile to my face whenever I bring them out. Gaspode scratches his fleas and I just crack up more.
Going to keep up the trend and get a windserpent or turtle (going to be a pain to level)as third slot pet and name him “Bugrit.” I just cracked myself up!
Crab, lvl 59 blue crab from stv. He is to be named this weekend where I hope to successfully auction the rights off. An intesting concept. We’ll see how it goes, if anyones interested, how much I get for a bid, and what his name becomes.
In the stables I can’t bring myself to delete Glacius. The white ape from UnGoro. Tamed him at lvl 52 when he finally spawned as a lvl 52 rare (killed him three times as a lvl 53 rare). Loved him dearly but…his diet is a nightmare for me. And very expensive.
So I stick with Crab and so far, so good :)
Hers
Lvl 70 Frostsaber Pride Watcher
What can I say, I think he’s pretty. As one could guess from my character’s name, I am unoriginal when it comes to names so he just got stuck with “Hers”.
Snuggles
Lvl 70 Bear (Mongress)
He has the biggest butt I have ever seen. Snuggles just seemed right.
I use the black and white carrion bird trachela, who has served me well as a perfect tank, with screech serving as a great agro holder. plus guild loves the screech de-buff in raids. =D
Troll: A tan Ghostpaw Lynx from the Ghostlands named Maia.
NElf: Currently, a Silvermane wolf from the Hinterlands named Luther. I don’t know if I want to keep him though.
I use a scorpid, tamed from the thousand needles. Its a rare pet, called Scorpid Sting. He looks pretty cool, and as in fact, with his skills, hes delivering lots of damage:) His name is “Idegbeteg” witch means on my language /im Hungarian/ “nervesick” why? because hes always moving around, like some nervesickened crazed idiotXD Before him, i used a pet called “Szissz”, he was a snake, from the Wailing Caverns. The first one was actually a boar, called “Pusztító”, in english “destructor”:P
Thunderclaw-frostsaber pride watcher
I was hunting Rak’shiri for a few weeks in winterspring. while there i tamed thunderclaw for instances/grinding and I eventually got atttached to him. His name comes from the colour that was used for the thunder element on legend of dragoon.
Chaoswing-bloodfalcon
I think i spent a week trying to get a botanica group just to tame this guy, and as far as I know there are only a few other people who have him on malfurion. he got named after his breath went off a few times and hit some cc’d guys after seeing the little taste of chaos that came after the name just came naturally
70 Alliance hunter.
Leveled Vultros to 55 on my old hunter, before abandoning everything and remaking due to awful gear and blue, nightelf hair.
Made a new, prettier hunter and leveled one of those red ravagers up to 55, but then replaced him with a 51, black wolf from The Hinterlands. he lasted me until I hit 65ish, and then I replaced him with a yellow raptor. Got the raptor to 70, but I’ve no attachment to him.
Wolf is 68 at the moment, but I’m gonna chuck whatever is in my third stable slot, and tame a bird. I miss screech…
I would have a spider, except for the fact they only have ONE skill. Buff plz. T=T
Current pets:
A blue Wind Serpent(Deviate Dreadfang) named Tobias. First tamed when there was a wave of Windserpents entering the Hunter scene, and the vast majority were Red (Sons of Hakkar). Decided to be a little bit different and levelled up a alternative colour, and have no intention of getting rid of him any time soon.
A dark brown Owl from Sethekk Halls. Not yet named, as nothing has occured to me yet… Had a red Carrion Bird for a while before taming this Owl, and decided to get a replacement. Originally intended to get one of the red Owls from deeper in Seth Halls, but couldn’t find an amenible group. Eventually just soloed my way to the Darkhawk and tameed that. May get replaced (perhaps temporarily) in WotLK when I have to learn new moves.
A red Widow Spider (Naraxis) named Reaper (crap name). Originally tamed a long time ago when it was thought that Spiders would be getting Gore in TBC, and I am still keeping hold of him just in case Spiders get a new move. However, I am rather bored of both the appearance and the name of him and, whilst levelling my Druid, I saw a possible replacement Spider: http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/skins/skin_tarantulaskinmagma.shtml I find that skin rather attractive, and may level one up as a replacement, should Spiders ever actually become viable pets.
Previous pets include:
The Rake, Broken Tooth, a black wolf (not Worg), a random Boar, and a number of others which I cannot remember.
Oh. Post 32.
Vultos was named Vultros (I was a very unimaginative n00b)
Raptor was named Raptor (Found nothing that suited him yet)
And Wolf is named Snuffles, because of the sniffing animation.
Ravager was named Sparky, I think.
Like you Mania, I have a few hunters (7 at the moment), so a few ‘main’ pets…
{I liked Piru’s format :) }
Species: Cat(Durotar Tiger)
Name: Toby (Tobyas)
Partner (Owner): Krush – 70 Tauren
When I got him: Lvl 10
Why I Love Him?: Krush is on an RP server, and over the years (and levels), Toby has become more famous than Krush :P he is speced for Instances/PvE, but does a good job in the PvP area…
Species: Windserpent (Washte Pawne)
Name: (Mr.) Clean
Partner (Owner): Gorekill – 45+ Troll
When I got him: Lvl 25
Why I Love Him?: I have another wind serpent for PvP (below), so I wanted to play with one in a more PvE environment. I love the Winds; they rock in my book. I also like the old world style better, so will be keeping him.
Species: Raptor(Young Jungle Stalker)
Name: Kermit
Partner (Owner): Knat – 45+ Orc
When I got him: Lvl 37
Why I Love Him?: Wanted to play with a raptor again when it was announced they were getting Dash. Started to look for Takk, but never saw him, so grabbed a green one while at the level. (was perfect timing). Was difficult getting him apart from its mother :) Suprisingly, Kermet gets many compliments on his coloring. Again, I like the old world raptor looks more than the Outland look.
Species: Cat (Ghost Saber)
Name: Dervish
Partner (Owner): Tarmak – 35+ Blood Elf
When I got him: Lvl 19
Why I Love Him?: Doesn’t every hunter need at least one Ghost ? Spec’in him for PvP, though also on an RP server, so have a nice story how I “saved” him from some crazy Night Elves :P
Species: Wolf (Prairie Wolf Alpha+)
Name: Krash
Partner (Owner): Kelev – 60+ Night Elf
When I got him: Lvl 10
Why I Love Him?: A wolf was another pet I wanted to play with, so got him and have kept him ever since (though he has changed looks a few times, looking at Ironjaw next :P)
Species: Owl (Strigid Hunter)
Name: Who
Partner (Owner): Eaon – 25+ Dranei
When I got him: Lvl 10
Why I Love Him?: Always wanted to try an Owl (I’m usually lazy with the food department, so usually stick to fish eaters). so far, I’m enjoying him.
Species: Wind Serpent (Deviate Stinglash)
Name: Ho Ho
Partner (Owner): Kupkake – 19 Night Elf
When I got him: Lvl 17
Why I Love Him?: Tis my “I’m not a Twink’ie” pet…
Have also had a Carrion Bird (Wilber), but have not been able to keep up more than one pet till hitting 70, a Serpent (Solomon), a WarpStalker (Blink – the nice green ones), a Scorpid (Ishtar – back when Death Flayer was fast :) ). And there have been other tests that didn’t last long (Bear, Croc, Crab). Last, I keep saying I’m going to try a Boar and a Ravager, maybe I should roll another hunter :)
My favorite pet and definite keeper has to be Flamenco the Mazzranache (one of the most famous pets, but… Level 9 rare spawn in Mulgore). Mazzranache was one of the first “special” pets I was aware of in my dim pre-Petopia days, and he happens to be my favorite color. As soon as my huntress could tame beasts I got a guildie hunter and mage to port me to Thunder Bluff and Aspect of the Pack me over to grab him.
His goofy pink appearance is a delightful contrast to my butch-looking orc huntress. I even have a Pink Mageweave Shirt and a Swift Pink Warstrider to match with him! He may not be as strictly effective as a cat type pet, but he is a lot of fun, and his “Raaaaaarrr!” sound never gets old.
I have one of those purple rators near the collosus hes now level 70 and i cannot imagine being without my bug. His name is Ripitout after a great Ace Frehley song.
heh sorry about above hit click by accident–
i am a level 70 BE hunter
same as above cept its a ravager
Firemane – Springpaw cub: As a draenei, it was the hardest thing I could think of to tame, and he’s perty! I tamed a dragonhawk at the same time (I was level 10, I went to Eversong as soon as I finished my taming quests.) Unfortunately, the dragonhawk (who was named Fireflower (Think Mario) was abandoned after not doing terribly swell later on.
Persnickety – Avian Ripper: Figured she’d match my orange kitty cat, and I loved how screech boosted her aggro.
Winston – Plagued Swine: Replaced poor Fireflower because pigs are the uberness. Woulda preferred to have tamed a rotting Agam’ar earlier instead, but that’s what I have on my newer hunter than I’m leveling anyhow. =)
I really wish they’d boost the abilities up to being on the same level, and give abilities to the pets that are lacking them. A lot of the pets feel like total pigeonholes if you want them to hold aggro and whatnot.
I tamed a gorilla from the first level they came available. Knothead has taken the form of an off-white, black, red, and finally Uhk’loc the unique white and blue ‘rilla. It is my deepest wish that they give the gorillas an outlands skin similar to what the raptors received, but I doubt it will happen. The ability to run low level characters in my guild through instances with the best crowd control pet out there (thunderstomp ftw) is helpful. The butt scratching and “ook ook ook” is good for a few laughs now and then. Add to that my companion Bananas (non combat pet from the card game) and I have quite the primal family.
Beyond my namesake pet, I have Knottail (Sian-Rotam) for DPS in instances and because no hunter should be without a cat…
I also had a ravager, raptor, and carrion bird… I was not happy with any of them. I currently have Knothide (Grunter) and am working on leveling him up so I can see what sort of pet the boar is at level 70… Really, if they gave gorillas another attack like punch or headbutt or gas cloud or something to augment bite (gorillas bash things… how often do you see a gorilla bite someone? give us claw and call it ‘bitchslap’ or something… please…) I would never use anything but Knothead. If you haven’t ever used a gorilla, I would highly suggest one. People are amazed at his resiliance and usefulness in instances when crowd control fails and I thunderstomp the mobs after a misdirection… Sure, Knothead might die, but the players live. Isn’t that the important thing? Knothead has died more times than I can count but it doesn’t reduce his usefulness…
My kingdom for a new gorilla skin and ability… hell, even dash would be nice…
Stark – “Timber” the light blue dire wolf from Dun Morogh. He’s my very first pet.
Lannister – “Humar” Got him as soon as I was able to tame him. My friends call him “Ol’ Faithful” he’s never let us down.
Anyone who has read George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” series (which everyone needs to)can see why I named them the way I did, with Stark being a direwolf and Lannister being a lion.
I have 3 pets, 1 is my eternal companion Raijin, a Strigid Hunter i tamed while i was leveling in darnassus 1.5 years ago, the other ones are Susaku, a blackwind cat from Terrokar Forest i use for PVP and Fudo the nethermine Ravager :P
Since I have multiple hunters, I have gathered quite a collection of pets.
Juniper, a thistle bear, was tamed as a cub by my first character when she was fresh off the boat from Teldrasil. I just didn’t want a cat or owl or *shudder* a spider pet for Jacinth. And crabs out of water seemed unnatural then. Juniper got her name from the berry bush she came roaring out of, and subsequently knocked Jacinth back into during the taming process. While Juniper is a constant, Blind Hunter from Razorfen Kraul and Hayoc, renamed Heyoka, are Jacinth’s other companions.
Horde-side, my Tauren, Tailkinker, tamed one of the black boars on her first trip to Orgrimmar. At leisure, Kneebiter is well indulged, often snorkling through her herd-mates packs and pockets for snacks. But in battle, they’re hundreds of pounds of hate on the hoof. Old Cliff Jumper, enticed into following Tailkinker home during a pass through The Hinterlands, is waiting in the stables for both a chance to see the world and for a new name.
Sidonwy also found her companion beast outside of Orgrimmar, in a red raptor named Ruby. Ruby is sleek and sharp and hard-bodied in a way fuzzy animals can’t be. In coloration and temperment, she’s a good match for the red-headed Blood Elf. Since Sidonwy took up with the mage Charinida, an endless stream of sheep to rend has made Ruby kittenish and just a little possessive of the person who keeps giving her these nice toys. Tamed during the quest but lagging a bit behind, Arikara continues the trend of lovely, loyal, cold-blooded and vicious pets for Sidonwy.
my current pets are:
Nishoba, the level 70 King B lookalike because my old King B lagged so far behind my level when outlands came out
Grimlock, the black outlands raptor from BEM because i instantly thought of Grimlock when i seen them
Kraken, the blue windserpent from Netherstorm, because with survival spec and 40% crit they do nice dmg.
I have currently two pets. My most treasured companion is Zephyr, the turquoise Strider Clutchmother. I tamed her when I was level 20 and now, when raiding karazhan, she is still with me. Ive never even seen any other Hunter on ther server with this pet. And sometimes people even whisper me where I got her :-)
My other pet is the white lion Sian-Rotam. I called him Temeraire. I tamed him with the help of a Troll Priest who was doing the quest to kill Shy-Rotam. It was quite an adventure with my husband on a low level Horde character to coordinate the coup with the Priest. He’s 62 now and it’s quite a hassle to level him to 70 ;-)
My third stable slot is reserved for ‘pet-projects’. Just so I can tame and play around with different pets to see how they are :-)
I’ve always been partial to the cat family and a pet that will eat fish is easy on the cashflow, but I always tried to avoid the FotM types. I was very miffed when everyone was running around with Brokentooth and every brown cougar was expected to be BT or a nerfed cat because it did not have a 1.1 Attackspeed. (Mind you, my kitty back then had 1.2 AS and I did NOT have to camp her for a week.)
My old NE hunter used a Thousand Needles Cougar (Kiera) and ran off to Eversong Woods to tame a Springpaw (Meri) the day I got my hands on a BC disk. Leveled that cub up during my Timbermaw grind in Winterspring while everyone else was off to Outlands and fighting bugs and frustration as well as the few mobs that were not killed the second they spawned. When I finally did go to Hellsfire she was just 1 level behind me, and we could pick our targets without ten people going for the same mob. ;P
As a testing toon I also made a Draenei Hunter and just fell in love with their animations, so when I found her at L40 I figured “why not?” and made her my new main. At L10 she did the corpse run (I didn’t know about the ghost run back then) all the way from Azuremyst to EPL to reach Eversong again for that beautiful red lynx (Meri).
When I got to mid twenties I wanted to tame a few beasts in Deviate Caverns for their skill. My brother ran me through it with his L70 hunter and told me to hold off taming until we had done most of it. We left the Serpent area for last and the first serpent to round the corner was this blue/black goddess of feathered serpents that was the last on the list. When we dropped to the pool later on and I saw her swimming animation I decided to keep her as my secondary pet. Mahal is now still 5 levels behind me, but she’s the best when out hunting for leather or sporeling snacks.
I never expected Meri to be upstaged, but when I reached STV and started on the hunting quests I met the cat that was just meant to be at my side. The black panthers just looked so great with my little black skinned Draenei that I made up my mind right there and then. With a heavy heart I said goodbye to Meri and let her have her freedom again and proceeded to tame the very first panther that came near. Asha is now my companion and best friend in all of Azeroth and Dreanor.
My current pet is a red outland raptor from the Blades Edge Mountains which I named “Kurenai” which means crimson in Japanese. She is currently my only pet and in my opinion the best.
I’ve had my ghost saber, Appirition(typoed, /cry), since I was.. About level 23, and I still use him in EVERYTHING, except when I need to farm primals. For that job, I use my trusty coilfang ray, Hedrin, decked out in resistance abilities; unfortunately he’s only level 64…
Well there you go, those are my pets. And I love’em. :) Although getting a boar sooner or later is in the plan.. I’m just so dang lazy!