Miyari, Content Manager (and apparently “Bearorcat Overlord”) from Wowhead just let me know that they found what they believe to be a new tameable pet family in today’s beta patch:
Core Hounds.
We don’t have many details yet because the servers aren’t up, but core hounds appear to be an exotic Ferocity pet. And you’d better believe that as soon as the realms are up I’ll be begging for screenshots! *grin* (Actually Miyari volunteered to send some as soon as she has them as well. Now that’s service!)
You can keep an eye on Wowhead’s data on the Core Hound pet family page.
And thank you very much to Miyari and Wowhead for the personal heads up. I really appreciate it.
[edit] (My laptop crashed while I was updating.)
Apparently the Core Hound family skill is Lava Breath. I thought BRK was kidding. (What is it with all the * Breath skills?) Oh, and they eat meat.
Lava Breath (Rank 5): Your pet breaths a double gout of molten lava at the target for 47 to 63 Fire damage and reduces the target’s casting speed by 50% for 10 sec. (25 Focus, Instant, 30 yd range, 10 sec cooldown)
[edit #2] Information is starting to come in:
- Xardion tells us that the Spawn of Uvuros can be tamed.
- The Kurken can be tamed and there is already a line for him in place. (Thanks to Lyonheart for the screenshot above.)
- Hounds of Culuthas are, as expected, still demons.
- Oddly, both Wrath Hounds and Lesser Wrath Hounds are also still demons (and cannot be tamed).
- Uvuros can be tamed (although not by me!)
I’d really appreciate info or screenshots from anyone who can get to the Core Hounds in Molten Core. Thanks!
[edit #3] The Core Hound family is up on Petopia. Note that I don’t yet have any actual data on whether the red core hounds can be tamed or not, so they are listed as untameable only until someone corrects me. [Update: I modified my database so I can list them with an unknown state. That makes it a lot easier for people to tell what I don't have data on yet.]
And BRK already has a Core Hound movie up.
By the way, I just changed the way Petopia lists pets that I don’t have tameable data on so it’s easier to see what I need. Look for the red ? on the pages that list the new pets, like the Core Hound page.
From where he is standing in the picture, that would be an Ancient Core Hound.
Thanks, Cuphat. I don’t know MC at all.
Core Hounds (not Ancient) are found in packs of 5. Whether those are tameable is anyone’s guess – they aren’t that special, but they all have to die together, so who knows.
Core Rager, I think can safely be flagged untameable. If I recall, there are two in the instance – they are boss adds for Golemagg. I highly doubt raid boss adds will be tameable.
Man, another late night spent typing and reading, when I should be sleeping. -_- hehe. Anyways damn, a friend of mine wants me to get a Core Hound. But I don’t know. The white Devilsaur, a white lion, a (currently) blue rhino, the albino eagle and… a (MAYBE) Silithid/Wasp/Worm/Core Hound. O_o lol I MIGHT not get that beautiful, albino eagle.
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OMG! I about flipped out when I saw the Core Hound skill. Lava Breath is EPIC in PvP…with skills like that, it may become very difficult to justify keeping Darktooth….
Oh yeah baby!
This has gotta be the first exotic I am actually going gaa-gaa over … thinking of naming mine Cerberus (Cerberos) or Orthrus (Orthros) … lol, I wonder how many people are going to do the same!
Oh my God, yes finally, Core Hounds for the win!
Thank you Blizzard for listening to us about exotic pets. This one will definitely have a space in my stable.
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?pet=45#comments
somebody posted this on wowhead, so the ancient corehound seems tameable
Now all we need is a tameable pony/zhevra
While i am glad you guys get your favorite beast as an exotic, im still sticking to Silithids…i just love them.
And btw, witch Core Hound skin looks better the MC one or the white doggy-like one?
@ BloodGod
It’s all a matter of personal taste imo. Personally, I am more attracted to Kurken’s look (pictured above).
@ Niabi
Same here, it looks like an actual beast and not a burning demon…
Anyway im a little worried that the red skined core hound will be verry exclusive since Hunters wont bother to go MC for one.
Hmmm I have a question! Did they shrink Devilsaurs?? In Big Red Kitty’s Core Hound video that Devilsaur wasn’t much bigger than that Troll… :-(
What about the Beast, from UBRS?
so who ISNT going to be beastmaster the way things are going?
not only best dps, better pets, and with the aspect of the viper increasing % base mana on hits they regen mana faster since they shoot faster. yay for keeping it 99% of hunters beastmaster.
Meh, Core Hounds look great but ill still stick to a Wasp for a DPS pet even if im BM or not.
They are simply adorable!
Nice ive always wanted one of thouse…lol
nice
Ahhh I’m soo torn now I’m gonna have to whip up a new beastmaster hunter so I can go tame every thing lol.
Wow. Been hoping for this since I first saw one way back in the Molten Core days.
Has anyone tried to tame Magmadar in MC? I’d be interested in seeing that, and if he is tameable I think I will try when Wotlk goes live. I so wish I had a beta key.
OMG THIS HAD MADE MY DAY BEYOND MY WILDEST DREAMS!!
THE KURKEN SHALL BE MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
all i can say is its about dang time…anyway, still holdin out for hydras or at least basilisks… also..anyone no if the old world silithid wasps count as wasps? always wanted one of those =]
Summoned Wrath Hound is *NOT* tameable, because it’s still a demon, I’ve checked it today. Seems to be a bug in animation/attack behaviour, because it starts to attack, then stops, starts again, stops again, and finally attacks the enemy with lava breath. If you disable lava breath it’s attacking behaviour is normal as expected (no stops). That’s a bit disappointing.
Magmadar and Omen are both ?? Bosses. You can’t tame a boss.
zifero: I checked the old world silithid wasps last night, but unfortunately they are still unclassified.
Peter: Thanks for the info on the Summoned Wrath Hound!
Good question Rikaku, I’d like to know too about The Beast in UBRS as that one would be more easy to get to and tame then going for a trip in Molten Core.
Blizzard is making this really had for me. I want to be a Marksman, really I do. first the silithids, then rhinos, and now core hounds. I don’t know how much longer I can hold out.
exactly what I was thinking Shinryu, not that I mind running into MC, but I’d like to just shadowmeld my way to the beast and just go from there. So, anyone got some beta info on The Beast” =)?
AWESOMENENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNSS
OMG THATS SO FREAKIN COOL
I’ll reiterate again that The Beast (http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?npc=10430), Omen (http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?npc=15467), and Magmadar (http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?npc=11982) are ALL level ?? Boss. Unless you, as a hunter, can somehow become a ?? Boss level’d character, there is absolutely no way for those to be tameable.
WoWHead’s got The Beast listed as ?? level too, so no taming him I’m guessing. A pity, I’d thought of that too and I already have one friend I could draft into helping me run the instance up to that point and could easily find a handful of instance-level alts for kicks and giggles.
Yes!! I can finnally get one!!!!!!!
Is there any news on phase hunters? I really wanna tame one. >>
Dogs from packs are tamable too:
http://picasaweb.google.hr/paxymus/CoreHound#5243107116003429330
Was getting too late and FD got resisted twice so didn’t continue all the way to Magy.
it kinda stinks that all the newer pets can only be tamed by bm hunters, leaving mm hunters, like myself, the old pet families (other than wasp) :(
Its our fifty one point talent….. its the meat of the talent, or at least half of it. I understand a certain amount of jealousy, but if its bothering you that bad, then either respec or make a hunter specifically to be beast master, but don’t buzz kill those of us who are excited about exotics.
And moths. Don’t forget moths.
Is kurken the only white core hound? I really don’t feel like going to Azuremyst isle, especially as horde, as I expect a lot of high level allies to be going there as well if kurken is the only white tameable one.
*hopes for northrend core hound*
Has anyone checked http://www.wowwiki.com/The_Beast to see if he’s tamable? Would be easier to get to him than get attuned to MC…
Ah ok, bummer, no beast for us then. Well it was still interesting to see. Think I’m going to stick with Kurken tho, just because the white glow is just so cool.
Man, next we’ll have hippogryphs and gryphons, and if that happens well… *faint*
I wait only El Pollo Grande http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?npc=659
I doubt Gryphons and Hippogryphs will become tamable…
Thou there are still plenty of other familys left, like: Basilisks, Mana Wyrms, Hydras.
the corehounds in MC are tameable
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kptax6e_Dq8
although i believe u already know that ;X
I took some shots of Kurken – are any of you the other hunters here? Just curious!
http://hooha.org/BlogDetail.php?pg=119
Kurken doesn’t take long to tame at all as he’s a quick respawn. Of course he’ll only lvl up to 65, so the SMV hounds might be a better better if you don’t want to bother with leveling.
And Zoblek, you rock. I would love it if that chicken was tamable!
If i ever get a core hound it has to be the MC one, i wont settle for a Kurken or a green neon one like the rest of the server.