Comments on: Choosing Your First Pet: Tirisfal Glades

By: Cavernaugh Clan Chief

Cavernaugh Clan Chief — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:30:45 +0000

I have a real soft-spot for “Ressan the Needler”. Unique in appearance and with a 100% spawn rate (in my experience), given time and patience, versus the very random spawn of the Blind Hunter in Razorfen Kraul, its a great pet. Most of my toons are Alliance and, while the basis of this thread is easily accessible pets, seriously, this is a very doable pet for an alliance low lvl hunter. On a PVP server there are obvious perils but they are not insurmountable.

As posted, for Horde toons the taming of any bat, carrion bird, or owl (assuming the tedious trip and multiple deaths to Darnassus is completed) will require the trip to Westfall to get Screech at lvl 16, but the aggro benefits of these winged creatures with Screech make them well worth it.

You will encounter those who decry the wings of your pet as targeting hindrances in dungeons. However, if you can keep your warlock, shaman, and druid friends from simply scaring, sheeping, and otherwise scattering creeps AOE, the benefits of the grouping and holding power of a Screech trained pet will soon become apparent. Good crowd control starts with keeping the creeps grouped and ends with keeping them from running away. A pet with Screech coupled with a hunter with concussive shot are good crowd control!!

By: Rikaku

Rikaku — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:57:42 +0000

Laz, the bat does have good skills just not when tamed. Thats the point of Mania’s little pro/con sheet for strictly a starter pet. Comparing the pets in the long run, the sheet would look different. =)

By: Ket Shi

Ket Shi — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:57:32 +0000

I actually found a method that makes going to Grom’gol to Westfall not too bad: swim there! You just have to be careful to swim far away enough from land as to not attract the attention of the crocolisks on shore, and away from the coral reef with the murlocs in the ocean. Just keep swimming north and you will soon find yourself safely on the western shore of Westfall, where Horde characters can pick up a yellow boar or Screech 1.

By: Lazz

Lazz — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:29:34 +0000

I got me a perdy white bat named Keaton, and I object to the absence of “pros”! Sure, he’s a bit of a picky eater, but he can Bite, Dive AND Screech the bejebus out of mobs. Plus, he gets all up in my opponents faces when PvPing, seriously disrupting their targeting abilities. Very cool pet.

By: Ronorin

Ronorin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:43:41 +0000

Oh man! Heh, even as an experienced Hunter I still learn new things… Such as the poster above me who pointed to the Ghost Travel link. I recently rolled a Blood Elf Huntress and had her run all the way from Undercity to Dun Morogh to tame Timber. That trip was a nightmare, getting past Dwarven guards, Arathi Raptors, and Wetland Crocolisks all at level 11. My gear was all red by the time I got there and the Worg I tamed in Tirisfal had to do most of the clearing work for me and then I almost died taming Timber, due to no armor and no repair points nearer than Kargath. Somehow it never even occured to me to just do the run while staying dead!

By: Sedna

Sedna — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:55:03 +0000

Second (or third?) on Ressan. My very first pet many moons ago was a Mottled Worg from Silverpine. Akela and I had good times together.

By: Maree

Maree — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:09:02 +0000

*Waves*
I agree with Zefram and Ametrine :3

By: Ametrine

Ametrine — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:45:55 +0000

Agreed with Zefram about Ressan. This is a very cool pet to have, if only for the rarity… other than a rare-spawn deep inside RFK, this is the only white bat in-game, and is sure to grab some attention.

By: Aok

Aok — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:08:24 +0000

To expand on Wolfingtons talk of going to difficult places, make sure you read Ghost travel tab to your right if you are finding it difficult to get to some place to tame a pet.

By: Zefram

Zefram — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:18:04 +0000

It’s worth it to not ignore Ressan the Needler — the only realistically trainable white bat in the game. He’s 11, not 10, but if you’re here anyway, he’s worth it.