Petopia Updated with New WotLK Pets
Last night I finally figured out how to get the WoW Model Viewer to work with the WotLK beta files.
I promptly took pictures of all the new pet skins I could fins (the ones that didn’t crash the model viewer anyway) and tried to match them up to the pets I have seen so far in my wanderings.
And the result is now posted on Petopia!
As I mention there, it is very likely that I have made many mistakes with these new pets — especially what they look like. It’s hard sometimes to get a good look at a creature when you can’t tame it and it lives in a strange, dangerous, oddly-lit land. So if you see any mistakes please let me know and I’ll get them fixed as soon as I can.
At this point, I’ve only explored a couple of zones — and I know I missed areas in those zones as well. So this is by no means a complete list of new pets. I’ll be adding to it as I go. And of course I let you know about new stuff here as well.
So when you have a chance, check out the WotLK New Pets page on Petopia.
My hands-down favorite so far? Surprisingly, the white spiky worg. I didn’t expect to like these guys, but I really do.
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next time u explore look 4 a new skin for tallstriders
i call them borgs= big worgs
My favorites are the leopard (I’ve always wanted more cats with that model!) and the new carrion bird.
I’m gonna have a hard time keeping my current pet, with all these new ones ;p
current pets* >.<;
I’m really impressed in how good the new wolves look! I may have to make some hard decisions since I’m keeping my very first pet, a Prairie Wolf Alpha, with me forever. I guess I’ll just need to decide whether I should abandon my druid bird with its handy screech in raid, or my snappy red Outlands raptor.. Or I can be like everyone else and hope for a 4th stable slot! ><
Oh man that new cat is awesome, and the spiky worgs, and eagles, OMG. Another Stable slot please Blizzard? I dunno what I’m going to do. All those pets look so AWESOME.
I’m going into Wrath with just my ghost wolf, but I dunno how I’ll deal with just 3 stable slots.
Think I may need to level another Hunter XD
Serenas/Luxatra of Daughters OfThe Alliance on Bronzebeard just sent me a long, long list of the pets that she and her friend Kaylink have run across so far, with screenshots. (Thanks so much, Serenas/Luxatra!)
So I’ll be updating the Petopia page again this afternoon, as soon as I get her data integrated. It also looks like I have some of the colors wrong, so her screenshots are really going to come in handy.
If I remember correctly, the new wolf models are called “Saber Worgs”.
I also can’t wait to get my hands on the Eagle model!
O.o
I love the leopard, it’s just… Great.
The carrion bird looks silly, with huge heads.
The pale bear is super, and I will probubly tame one.
Like you, I love the white saber worg.
I went on petopia to look up bite, and now I am drooling over new pets! :-)
Sorry for double comment, but I am thinking the new boars will have really spiney backs. After all, they are called “BRISTLEpine”
A friend of mine, who was in the alpha, said that hunters were having a lot of fun with a new family of pets called Protodragons, and that each color of protodragon had a different breath type attack. Have you seen any of these around or were they removed when they switched to beta?
Here is a picture of one of them, at the very top
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/wotlk/models/WOTLKX5.jpg
… lol I was hoping for a penguin.. BUT I GET AN EAGLE- if they remain tameable :D
Ok that’s it, I now need to grind my hunter alts up to lv 70 :x
I like the riding skin leopard too, I always loved the skin but hated it was on a ’small’ cat.
And the spikey worgs got worked on since I last saw them, I like the white one too, and the black and the grey.
.. wish Blizzard would give a 4th stable slot.
Kiaron: The protodragons I have run across so far say they cannot be tamed, but I will keep an eye out for any that can. :>
Great looking pets so far. Its going to be very hard to choose for me… I have a polar bear at the moment which I really want to keep, but the zombie polar bear look is so awesome too… but 2 tank bears, I dont know…
I also like the baldheaded eagle model, but so far Im not really liking the cunning talent tree, I wish birds of prey were ferocity and carrion birds were cunning tbh. Would make more sense too if you look at the talents (like eating a corpse…).
Lets all wish Blizzard will give us more stable slots huh? :)
Thanks for all your work Mania, been a lurker on your website for a long time and finally decided to post something :)
Man..this is awesome news! I looove wolves and this new model is something along the lines of what I always wanted.
Thanks for all your hard work again Mania.
If Proto-dragons are, in fact, tameble, say good-bye to cats being the most popular of pets!
These are awesome pets! I really like the new Carrion bird, looks nice.
I wonder…what kind of animations do the spikey worg have? Do they share them with the “worg” models (boring!) or with the “wolf” model (with howling animation and such)?
Thank you for all the informations so far!
Hey anyone come across any of the wendigos? they look like they use the gorilla model. maybe they can be tamed.
Not a cat fan…but man that undead white-ish bear looks awesome
And the eagles are just awesome
Very strange that the new Raven models were put in with the carrion birds in a recent patch but there’s a brown one identical to it in WOTLK that is mixed in with Birds of Prey. I’m curious to see if they end up moving the Raven.
Okay, I’ve got the new pets from Serenas/Luxatra up now. Time for lunch!
Akussa: Yeah, I’m not at all certain that I have that right.
Does anyone know what the non-diseased version of the bear is?
I think it’s http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/skins/skin_bearskinblue.php, but it looks a little lighter then that skin.
@Bhork:
I believe the Saber worgs share the attack animation of the basic worg. Their standing animation from what I have seen shows them matching the worgs. But in a video shown about them, they seem to have the attack animations of both wolves and worgs, (the video was poor quality). I love the white saberworg either way, but it’d be cute to have them howl. I also hope they fix the ghost wolf run animation someday.
I guess the protodragons mentioned above are among the exotic pets that can be tamed with the last BM talent.
As for these models, they are looking great, I guess I’m gonna get my lvl 30 hunter to 70 in time for wotlk aswell as starting again on my old lvl 70 hunter
I wasn’t plaining on a Cunning pet . . . but bald eagles? I’m a big bald eagle, my office decor is all bald eagle. I can’t not get one. Maybe they will swap the trees between birds of pray and carrion birds. (As above it doesn’t really make sense the way it is now.
Too bad Bjomolf isn’t tamable, I like the coloration.
How do u get the model viewer to work?
when i try to view file list, nothing happens
thanks
also the new pets loot awesome
Empello: I used the instructions I found here for editing the config.ini: http://www.wowmodelviewer.org/forum/index.php?topic=3463.0
I love the brown worg! He looks very werewolfish and thats what I like about him. But hes not tamable for now…
As I’ve stated before, so many gorgeous new skins, absolutely stunning Mania, thank you for all the updates! I need to go work on my second hunter now, I can’t have enough pets <3
WOW!! man, those boars i hear look like Helboars, i’d tame one. the worgs? BETTER than i excpected. i was honestly expecting them to be all bark and no bite (heh, dog joke) the moths, i dont like the skill, and i can NOT wait to see what “exotic pets” come. hopefully one of those exotic pets will be the brown/black saberworg thing
Just wondering, are caster pets stats still inferior to those of their non-caster counterparts?
So far, no Gorillas. =[
just looking at the new pets and I was wondering, are you sure you have the mob names for the the two eagle skins right? I noticed three of the names listed are on both eagle skins, including both the tameable versions, unless of course blizz has graciously left us a new colour changing pet
chaix: Ah, no — that would be a cut and paste error. Good catch! I’ll fix it.
Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot, EAGLES!
(sorry I just couldnt help myself!)
fantastic work, Mania and big ups to all you beta people who are fedding in the info. I havent had a Beta invite (yet) so this is the next best thing, damn I’m psyched about Wrath!
It looks like the Fjord Hawk shares the same model as the Dire Raven, has that been reloacted to Birds of Prey too or are they still Carrion birds?
Good job, on the big update, for upcoming “Wrath” pets!
I love the new black worg model, but I just can’t give up my ghost wolf.
Curious though, do the new worgs run with the gimpy leg animation?
Thank goodness, for 3 Stable slots! Gonna release my Z.G. raptor and Tame myself an albino raptor (a Devil saur, once I’m able to)! And I’m gonna Tame an eagle! Likely name it after a unique-named Eagle from “Lord of the Rings”. lol
As much as I like all of the new stuff I’ve seen, I still have my doubts. I still feel like they’re taking the pets out of their current pigeonholes and putting them in new ones with the Cunning/Tenacity/Ferocity stuff. Why not allow all pets to have access to three talent trees, but once you spend one point in one tree the other two are blocked out? That way a hunter could have say a Tenacious Ravager or a Ferocious Turtle. Maybe some hunters would rather their Bear be a DPS powerhouse instead of a meat shield?
Also, I’m worried that there are still a good number of untamable beasts and that caster beasts still have inferior stats. Sticking Nether Rays into the cunning template won’t change the fact that all but one skin have caster stats! :(
Wow! This look interesting!
I killed my hands by clapping when I saw the worgs hehehe..
Mania, if you head into Grizzly Hills you should find some tameable eagles with the bald eagle (Fjord Hawk Matriarch) model.
Regarding Dire Ravens vs the Hawks they share a model with: Ravens are carrion birds and Hawks are birds of prey because that’s the way the birds are in real life. So even if the colour remains the only difference between the two, don’t expect to see the ravens changing family.
Regarding the “Helboar” boars in Northrend: those models are marked “placeholder” in-game, so we have no idea how the real models will look.
Regarding caster pets: one of the blues did say that caster pets were going to go away. Even if it hasn’t happened yet, there are plenty of builds to come between now and the release of Wrath.
Regarding untameable pets: as I’ve commented before, while there are some things the devs can easily make tameable straight away, they also do additional passes for things to make tameable once zones are more fully developed. I wouldn’t be surprised to see some of those untameable pets become tameable in later builds.
Regarding protodragons: I’m pretty sure those are actually dragonkin rather than beasts. I’ll check next time I log in.
Kristy; If I were you, I would keep my raptor, untill it’s 100% certain that Devilsaurs can be tamed.
I myself, think that the blue poster was joking.
Bhork; It looks like they’ve modelled them after worgs. But maybe they’ll give them some new animations? One could always hope.
Another thing; Why the *insert random swearword* are the flutterers in Bloodmyst untameable?? And I was planning to give such a critter to 1 of my hunters.
I LOVE them hehe The new cat is just adorable.. Im a succor for riding models for cats.
And maybe, just maybe some of the untameable, like the bold eagle, is tameable with the bm talent, exotic petS? :D
Mania, doing /suggest in-game in the beta may be the best way of reminding the developers of mobs that they have neglected to make tamable (e.g. they may have only checked the Outland zones when looking for moths to make tamable).
So my current favourite pet skin (brown eagle from ZA) is now tameable, but they just go and add an even better one (bald eagle) that’s untameable? No fair Blizz!
just hope that the same skin is available later in the game. Good work Mania.
Mania, during alpha i sent you a big folder full of pet skins, did you not look at that?, it seems like you forgot it :/
This is some really exciting stuff. I look forward to taming one of those pretty blue moths!
Is it wrong that I had a dream about new Wotlk pets last night?
OMG I LOVE THE NEW KITTY!!! i soooooooo want one!!! *freaks out about new kitty*
Ehrm… Are the Spire Scarabs up for taming with the exotic skills?
And they’re not even included in the “can’t be tamed” section of Petopia :O :P
Would be cool to have a beetle running around next to you… Would prolly call him Lennon or Ringo or such :P
Are they even beasts? Most giant insects are not beasts.
*Sees new cat*
*dies of happiness*
I think I may go tame and level my corrupted blue crab from the coast of durotar again.
I don’t like how the snake is the same skin as the ZG one. Makes my scotty a lil less unique ;[
I think I will get a moth for their ability. More attack and healing.
@ keilden
Yep, Spire Scarabs are most definetly (sp?) beasts. You can beastlore them, scare them… etc etc…
Plus, it says so when i mouse over ;)
hmmm cant update old posts, or at least i dont know how.
http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=10177 for the spire scarab. Man, i’d love to tame one.
I can’t wait to tame an eagle for my Tauren hunter! Now to come up with a suitable name for him/her in the meantime, hmmm …
I noticed on Petopia today that a tamable version of the eagle model was removed from the WotLK pets roster! Do you believe Blizzard will make all eagle models untamable by the time WotLK is officially released?
Blizzard sure made one odd choice with moths when they decided the blue flutterers should not be tameable. This means that any hunters would have to tame the level 1 moths and level them up 5 times (because of the new auto-level thing) rather than being able to tame a level 10 (prettier) moth immediately. It doesnt make any sense to me, especially because you can tame the moths with exactly the same skin in Netherstorm at a higher level anyway.
Remember that its still Beta. So some beasts that are untameable now might be tameable when it goes live.
I have to say, eagles seem like a very appropriate bird for Tauren to be taming.
I’ll admit, I’ve always thought it would be kind of amusing to have a moth pet, ever since I first saw them in Terrokar. The thought of sending a big fluttery moth to attack someone in PvP just seems funny.
And of course, one of my first thoughts was of a scene similar to this in a battleground:
http://tinyurl.com/6mxkf5
Just went through the Grizzly Hills, Zul’Drak, and the Dragonblight and found a few more tameable beasts (and some untameable). I will be sending you another list with screenshots soon.
Mania, can you tell us if the new “spikey” worgs have the same animations as the old wolves or the old worgs? As in, do the new spikey worgs sit, scratch themselves, and howl, or do they just stand there doing nothing? Are there any new animations in any of the families?
The talk (again) about being able to choose our pet’s talent tree made me think of something I was turning over in my mind last night.
I know they’ve said they’re getting rid of the loyalty mechanic, which–while it will allow hot-swapping of pets, which is I GUESS a way of expanding our stable slots–seems kinda an overall loss for the feel of the hunter class for me. I’d like it if they could KEEP the loyalty mechanic, but with the following changes:
1. Leveling loyalty should just take time the pet spends with you out and active, not experience (or “virtual experience,” at max level) gain. It seems weird that time should be the bottleneck to loyalty at low levels, but XP should be the bottleneck at higher levels–so just make it time.
2. There should still be six levels of loyalty. Raising a pet’s loyalty should still reduce the amount you need to feed it to keep it happy. Letting a pet sit at unhappy long enough to go to 0 loyalty should still make it run away.
3. Talent points SHOULD NOT be tied to loyalty, nor should ability gain. These are fine as proposed.
4. However, one of two things should happen at max loyalty:
a. The pet receives one or two more talent points. Not so many to make it unbalanced, but kind of an extra “here you go” for people who’ve had their pets for a long time. (This would be my second choice.)
OR
b. You get a one-time-only chance to pick a different talent tree for your pet. Thus you could have Cunning cats and Tenacious dragonhawks. Once you make this change, it’s final–you cannot switch your pet back to its natural tree or any other tree for any amount of gold. (This is my first choice.)
I’m debating whether I should post this on suggestions, or pester someone actually in beta to add it as a reply to the “loyalty system” thread in the hunter beta forums. ;)
Again, thank you Mania, Nimizar, and Serenas/Luxatra for all the information for us starving non-beta goers. *Grins* To everyone flipping out about the non-tameables, relax for now. The beta has just come out, there is still plenty of time for fine tuning. Plus, the fifty one point beast master skill isn’t even implimented yet. They aren’t entirely done with our class, so we get to sit back and see how it pans out. That being said, I was looking over it, and Beast master better get some really interesting pets with that exotic pet line. Every other class and talent tree, and I mean EVERY other one got an actual spell or ability to use. Beast masters are literally the only talent tree with a passive ability as a fifty one point. That being said, it also has the potential to unlock several active abilities for our pets, and to allow us access to some truly unique pets of our own. Let us hope they do right by the beasties and their masters.
I know have…… a rather interesting image of a devilsaur and a moth fighting….. stuck in my head….
Thanks Nimizar… now that you mention it, I do remember it being mentioned that caster pets would go away. I sure hope they don’t forget that commitment!
Can anyone confirm if previously trained lower-level pets are automatically bumped up to 5 levels from your current, or does it only kick in for newly tamed pets? In other words, will a 70 Hunter with a 23 cat (for example) have it bumped to 65 when you log into the beta?
I THINK Mania confirmed that the pets stored in her stable were not bumped up to five levels below her. Can’t recall for sure though.
Yes, Mania confirmed that her low-level … ghost saber? I think it was, didn’t jump up to five levels below her when pulled from the stables.
OMG, choosing a pet will be a pain… Too much beautiful skins :x
Need more stable slots !
OK, thanks. Hmm. Think I’ll level a gorilla the painful way to 70 before the expansion…
Maree: Never said I got ride of my red raptor. And I am an optimist.
Does anyone have any video or animated gifs of the pets in action in WOTLK? Maybe something on youtube? Thanks
i really like the eagles, their beautiful. also seeing the color dark Brown on something else than a bear or owl makes me smile, ive always wanted a dark brown wolf.
BUT the worg models are so boring and im not dumping anny of my 3 pets.
still hopeing for 1-2 more stableslots! man..id pay 100g+ for only one extra.
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=5103070472&pageNo=1&sid=1#9
More info about exotic pets.
NYI has been lifted have you found any new pets
YES! FUCK YES! *swear words* I’ll stick with BM no matter what in Wotlk! I dont care if I’ll do lousy dps, I WANT A MOTH PET! and the new worg-wolves-things look awesome! I bet every single hunter is getting one and calling it Fenrir or Fenris..heck Fenrus! I might even reroll male be hunter and get him such a worg and call it Fenris and him Tyr (after the god who got his hand bitten off, if you didnt know)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h0KDY-TpSE
anybody know what it is? is it a new wotlk pet or not, the person who has it says its from skettis…?
I guess Private Server or bug.
Is there any video of some of the new pets? I’ve searched youtube with no results. These new worgs are pretty sweet and I’m dieing to see how they are animated. I now am actually looking forward to WOTLK. :D
omg, can we please stop being “huntards?” Yes, the worgs and mage hunter skins look awesome, but since every pet family now has it’s own standard ability, we have to take that into account. Wolf family only has Furious Howl which, let’s face it, sucks. If it had a better duration, power buff, and enough range to affect the hunter, then it wouldn’t, but as it is it’s one of the worst family skills for solo play and group pvp. The only reason to have a wolf is if you do a lot of raiding and want to bring some raid utility to the group via your pet, but even then, worms with Acid Spit or Tallstriders with Dust Cloud (if it works on raid bosses) are a much better choice. Same goes for Prowl. It was fun in pvp, especially for Nelfs with Shadowmeld, but with so many other really good family abilities, like Monstrous Bite for Devilsaurs, and Tendon Rip for hyenas, and the wasp’s poison cats are going to get knocked out of their #1 popularity spot.
Let’s please think our pet choices through carefully and not give people reasons to call us Huntards.
@ Shanrei you don’t have to be BM to tame moths or wolves. BTW, if you get the right talents and pet skills, a BM hunter can out DPS a MM any day.
Goosegrease: I’ll accept that the term huntard has some utility for a hunter who causes other players trouble through his or her lack of knowledge, but I do not accept the use of that term merely for a non-optimized hunter. My choice of pet will have absolutely no effect on you.
very true, and I apologize if I sounded harsh. I’m really just trying to help. Hunters could be the most powerful class in the game, but a lot of people get distracted by some of the “flashier” things we do and miss out on the finer points of play. I’m just really tired of our class getting dumped on by people who think pets are “gimmicks” rather than a perfectly acceptable and unique gameplay mechanic. Don’t get me wrong, those skins are totally awesome, and I really wish blizz would give the wolf family a better ability. As it is, I’m definitely going for a Devilsaur for solo because of it’s massive damage output, and a wasp for pvp. it’s still a ferocity pet so it’ll do good dps and that poison and armor redux ability will really piss off the other team. I’m looking forward to finding out exactly how much worms’ Acid Spit reduces armor by, and am eagerly awaiting the Rhino family ability to be released.
*nod* Yeah, I completely understand. And I too am very anxious to see fina and exact numbers on pet abilities. Until then, too much is just up in the air.
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