For many hunters, taming a pet is a routine activity. Sure, there are some especially challenging tames out there, but for most run-of-the-mill creatures you plop down your Freezing Trap and you hit Tame Beast, and that’s that.
Of course, things are a little more interesting when you can’t just plop down a Freezing Trap — for instance, when you are under level 20 and don’t know Freezing Trap yet.
Epicdrop, a level 25 Draenei hunter, is looking for our help naming her new raptor (formerly known as Takk the Leaper).
RFC stands for Request For Comments, and that’s exactly what this post is. I want to get your comments on hunter pets for raiding.
As many of you know, I am a very particular — and in some ways peculiar — sort of player. I am a strict soloer: I don’t group except under extraordinary circumstances, and I don’t raid or PvP. But while I am personally happy with my playstyle, it does unfortunately cut me off from a wide swath of hunter experience. So when a reader writes in to ask me for suggestions about raiding pets, I’m at a loss. I need your help.
The Public Test Realm updated again today. This progressive testing is … interesting … but it makes it hard for me to keep up.
The biggest (*cough*) news on the PTR is a bug that was just introduced with scaling. Many pets (non-combat, warlock, and hunter) are larger than normal, while Taurens and ogres are apparently smaller than normal. While amusing, this bug should be short-lived.
This isn’t strictly pet-related, but if you are on the PTR you have an opportunity to check out the Midsummer Fire Festival early — and it sounds like it’s been completely revamped! On the Blizzard Test Realm Forum Kisirani says:
The World Event Team has activated the revamped Midsummer Fire Festival on the PTR. The primary focus of the PTR testing is still on the content of the Isle of Quel’Danas, but if you could spare some testing time to review the holiday, we’d greatly appreciate it!
Katta, a hunter from Ghostlands, writes:
Katta is currently a seasoned hunter, having tamed some of the most exoctic pets that she has ever come across. Humar the Pridelord and the Ghost Saber beckoned to her the most, so she let loose her previous Duststalker and Shadowclaw in favor of these two.
I caught a post on WoW Insider this morning about a new area on the PTR. Well, not a new area, exactly — the landscape itself has been there for awhile, but now it’s populated and has a purpose (some daily quest or other). But more to the point: it’s populated with level 70 ravagers!
Meet the Razorthorn Ravager, a level 70 ravager from Razorthorn Rise on the border between Hellfire Penninsula and Terokkar Forest. This ravager does not know any skills when tamed and seems to be in all ways a perfectly normal ravager. It uses the same appearance as the Enraged Ravager from Bloodmyst Isle.
There was a time, long ago, when hunters could have a lot of fun coordinating their mounts with their pets. In some cases, you could even get non-combat pets into the mix, say with a Black War Wolf mount, a Blackrock Worg hunter pet, and a Worg Pup.
Final Name: Tremere
With so much going on — from the 2.4.0 Public Test Realm being up, to the dual events (Lunar Festival and Love is in the Air) currently in progress — I haven’t posted a Name That Pet segment yet this week. So let’s take a short break from all the excitement and instead focus on helping out Tevbryn, a level 28 Blood Elf hunter from the Duskwood realm.
I’m not real happy posting repeated “Random Notes” about the Public Test Realms, but unfortunately the entire process of discovery on the PTR is rather random, so this is the best I can do. :> Now let’s take a look at the tidbits that might concern hunters and their pets …
