I realized rather belatedly that I had goofed in the theme on this blog and left IE rendering in quirks mode. (If you don’t know what that means … you’re lucky!) So I spent some time today cleaning it up. IE users should see basically what they did before; Firefox and Safari users should see something closer to what IE users saw before. Sorry about that. :> And please let me know if you see any oddness with anything on the blog.
A couple of day ago I was contacted by the great ladies over at Epic Dolls with an invitation to join their podcast for an interview. I ended up taking up the entire episode talking about my pet obsession! It was a lot of fun to do — I had a blast talking to Leala and Haley and I’m really honored that they invited me — and hopefully I wasn’t too boring or long-winded. *grin* So go check out Epic Dolls Episode #19!
Final Name: Ripley
Continuing the Name That Pet theme: Adrenis from the blog Draining Souls wrote in to ask for help naming his ravager. He’s been patiently waiting for me to catch up since before the holidays, so I hope you guys can help him out!
Final Name: Skytalon
Caiti from the blog One Among Many still hasn’t quite settled on a final name for the Owl tamed by her Tauren hunter Hawkspirit. She’s got it narrowed down to two choices — Skytalon and Skylark — and she’s set up a poll at the top of her site to see what everyone else thinks. So head on over there real quick and vote!
This article is part of a series for new hunters on choosing your first pet.
Eversong Woods is the homeland of the Blood Elves. It is also easily accessible to orc and troll hunters — just take the zeppelin from Durotar to Undercity, then use the handy teleporter to go to Silvermoon City in Eversong Woods. (Note, however, that in order to enter Eversong Woods you must have purchased the Burning Crusade expansion.) The Ghostlands, which is the second zone for young Blood Elves, also has several creatures in the right level range. Once you are in Eversong Woods, getting to the Ghostlands is relatively easy – just follow the road south!
This article is part of a series for new hunters on choosing your first pet.
Dun Morogh is the icy homeland of both Dwarves and Gnomes. It can also be easily reached from Stormwind via the Deeprun Tram. Of course, neither gnomes nor humans can be hunters, so most new hunters in Dun Morogh will be dwarves. In addition, there are a few creatures in Loch Modan that are also appropriate as first pets as well. Loch Modan is the second dwarven zone and can be reached by following the main road east out of Dun Morogh.
As batgrl reminded us in a comment earlier today, you should stock up on mistletoe during the holiday event.
And a helpful tip to everyone while the seasonal stuff is still out - be sure to kiss the winter revelers in the inn and stock up on mistletoe. While you can’t use it on yourself it does make a lovely pet buff! I store mine up until I have a particularly squishy pet or a harder quest to run.
Mistletoe gives a +20 Spirit buff. As Wolfington tells us:
Spirit does in fact affect pets! It increases their health regeneration! Great for those, *chuckle*, “particularly squishy pets.”
In my very quick tests, the mistletoe increased my pet’s health regeneration by different amounts depending on the level of the pet (which means I don’t understand health regeneration at all and I need to do some research there). *grin* But particularly at higher levels it was a noticable increase.
On April 15th I started a WordPress.com blog as an adjunct to Petopia — a place where I could be a little more chatty, share rumors and news and thoughts about pets. On June 27th I moved that blog here and renamed it Mania’s Arcania as a tribute to the rather narrow and arcane span of my interests — pets, pets, and more pets!
