Now *this* is a pet!
Mind you, Kaet is a dwarf, and my new pet did shrink quite a bit … but still — that’s one tall lizard.
He’s got a couple of problems, though. He doesn’t have a proper run animation — he just walks really fast. And he kept his heavy thudding footsteps (although thankfully he doesn’t actually shake the ground when he walks). He has a roaring animation he does when he’s sitting around idle, but it has no sound … so it rather looks like he’s coughing up a hairball.
The Wrath of the Lich King beta realms have now been updated with build 8681.
There’s almost nothing new in the patch notes, except a note that the Calendar feature now works, and explaining the changes to mounts and non-combat pets that we heard were coming last week. (The calendar is neat: it shows in-game events like holidays and the Darkmoon Faire, and allows you to add your own events as well.)
But that’s not all the changes, of course.
Nimizar let us know just a bit ago that Ghostcrawler, the Blizzard poster who seems to post a lot about hunters, has posted more details on exotic pets — and especially what happens when you respec the 51-point Beast Mastery talent — over in the WotLK Beta Hunter forum.
The exotic pets will be different from normal pets. Ideally they might even be a little bit better, but we’re very hesitant to make them too good lest we see every hunter stampede over to the BM tree. Pets are supposed to be something important to all kinds of hunters, and the BM tree already offers some amazing pet buffs and synergy. We just don’t want to overdo it with this talent. :)
Today we have a request from the Tzeporah, a very young Draenei hunter (level 11 when she sent in the request!) from the RP realm of Moon Guard.
When the Exodar crash-landed into Azeroth about a year and a half ago, the devastation of the loss of the Draenei’s people and the havoc they wreaked on the surrounding ecosystems weighed heavily on the new citizens of Azeroth.
Tzeporah, being quiet and keeping mostly to herself, didn’t make a lot of friends to lose; and she had no family to call her own before the crash. Although the sudden landing was jarring, and she now had to learn a whole new planet of lore, customs, races, languages, flora, and fauna. This was an exciting prospect to her – but first, she needed to regain her strength and help where she could around the crash site.
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