Liveblogging Beta Build 8905
Of course you’ve read about Core Hounds already. I’ll be adding information about Core Hounds to that post instead of this one to keep everything neat.
[edit] Because of the server instabilities, I can’t stay logged in for more than about 30 seconds. So I’m calling this liveblogging post done. When and if I can get in later this evening, I’ll post what I find in a new (probably shorter and more coherent) post. [/edit]
But what else is interesting in this build? Well let’s see!
The realms aren’t exactly all the way up yet — that is, I’ve managed to log in a few times but never for more than about 60 seconds so far. So this is going to be even more disjointed than usual.
My token panel finally works! It’s a sad little token panel, though. I have 3 Badges of Justice and … nope. World server went down. Well at least I don’t have to carry those 3 Badges in my bags anymore.
Since I’m offline: WotLK Wiki is reporting the first hunter glyphs aimed at pets in this build:
- Glyph of Revive Pet: Gives your Revive Pet spell a chance to not lose casting time when you take damage.
- Glyph of Mend Pet – Your Mend Pet spell increases your pet’s happiness slightly.
- Glyph of Possessed Strength – Increases the damage your pet inflicts while using Eyes of the Beast.
[edit] Turns out Seidouyumi posted about these days ago. I really need to keep up with my own forums better!
I haven’t been able to look at these myself in-game (the servers just came up after all) so keep in mind I might have this wrong. But I am happy to see these — I’d been figuring I’d mostly ignore glyphs (the same way I mostly ignore enchantments), but that Glyph of Mend Pet looks like something I can definitely use.
Hey, I got back in on my Death Knight bank alt! I thought he might work, since he’s standing in the bank in Orgimmar.
… where all the NPCs are now hostile to him.
Oh my. I wonder what happened here. They keep pelting me with … is that rotten fruit?! And talking about holding an execution. Oh, boy. How am I going to get out of …
World server down. Whew! That’s a relief.
Seriously, though — as a bank alt he’s now somewhat screwed. I wonder if this is the pre-WotLK world event or something.
So, this is turning out to be a very boring liveblogging session! Anyone want to hear about the ant problem in my closet? *grin* (Don’t say yes to that.) Okay. I’m going to call this quits until the servers calm down a bit and let me in. Sorry for the false start!
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I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s part of the whole world event thing. I did add those glyphs to the form a bit ago, but they may have been updated. That one that boosts happiness is going to be in huge demand.
At least it’s just rotten fruit and not other things. Best run to Ratchet.
Seidouyumi: Ack! I managed to miss that post entirely. I’m sorry.
Yeah, if I could stay logged in more than 30 seconds now I’d head out of town. Theory on the beta boards is that turning on the event was an accident and it’s crashing the servers, but at any rate all of the world servers are coming down every minute or so right now.
It’s ok, Mania. You’re busy with work, Beta, more Beta, updating the site, and can’t always catch the posts. I just wanted to let you know that I’d grabbed them, posted them, and we discussed the Glyph of Mend Pet as an almost Must Have for any raider. I’m currently unemployed and facing the sinking realization that the only place I can work that I can walk to is Walmart. But, it’s better than nothing.
http://img242.imageshack.us/my.php?image=corehoundqt2.jpg
Personally I’m stuck at work starring blankly at my computer screen…. so if you wanted to start talking about that ant problem. I’m good with that.
Well it looks like someone can get in …
Thanks, Xardion! I’m going to add this link to the Core Hound post (unless you rather I make a local copy).
Here’s the talents it is indeed a ferocity pet
http://img527.imageshack.us/my.php?image=talentsof2.jpg
Mania, death knights are treated exactly one step above scourge in main cities it seems. I wonder if that will changed based on your rep, or if death knights will just always be the outcasts of Azeroth?
“So, this is turning out to be a very boring liveblogging session! Anyone want to hear about the ant problem in my closet?”
I remember Florida, if it wasn’t the ants, it was the roaches, if it wasn’t the roaches, it was the spiders, if it wasn’t the spiders, your house probably burned to the ground or was blown away by a hurricane. I don’t need to hear about it, I remember having that same problem growing up.
Cheer up, the servers will be back soon.
Bugger, should have dug around a bit more before posting. AFTER you finish ALL of your quests in Ebon hold, you’ll catch up to the time line, and be treated like anyone else. Seems like Mrs. Mania here skipped a few quests and the rest of the world still see’s her as one of Arthas’s boot lickers.
Actually it makes me want to make a death Knight and just not do the quests, somehow being attacked by my own faction’s NPCs amuses me greatly.
Palladiamors: That makes sense. I finished all the quests, but that was some weeks ago — I bet they added more since then. :>
Seidouyumi: The worst bit is when the ants get into my underwear drawer. It’s no fun putting on a bra and immediately getting bit.
Mania-
I remember it well. And I was twelve at the time.
As for the whole “I’m being attacked by my own people, RUN!” makes sense given that you really don’t want people skipping those quests.
I would imagine that the bra would be the least of my worries for the underwear drawer… I wouldn’t want anyone to see me walkin’ funny or nothin’
http://img527.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot090608001930yu7.jpg
The icon for moths is a lot prettier.
Yea, if I read right they added some new quests to the death knight starting area, but I can’t remember when…. *Laughs* This ‘attacked by your own faction’ thing was also only added this patch, so it may be feasible that they added said new quests just now, so that most people would experience that rather cool new behavior first hand.
Here something interesting.
http://wotlkwiki.info/index.php/8905_Icons
New Hunter pet icons.
Excellent! New icons for the new pet families. I’ll get these up on Petopia ASAP.
Sorry if this is already known.. but:
http://rynamcbegg.googlepages.com/corehound.jpg
Lava breath looks interesting. It doesn’t look to be an AoE type ability like the dragonhawks. That makes it entirely more useful in raid.
Hmm…might have to try out one of these babies. Although I’ll be grabbing the Kurken. I don’t care if he’s in alliance territory and the cave he’s in is surrounded by furlbogs. If I like a core hound, I might take it as my exotic instead of a silithid…and keep my spore bat for laughs.
I’m glad they have another ferocity pet. 2 exotics per tree is perfect imo.
I went and snagged the core hound that’s pictured in your previous entry – because I’ve always loved The Kurken and the quests over there, so it just seemed the right thing. Plus I just don’t like neon green for some reason. Now if we can ever tame those hounds in MC – oh, I have some long boring afternoons that those hounds owe me for. And how cool – I’d get to revenge tame an MC hound just like I can eventually revenge tame a devilsaur – there’s something so fun about having a pet that was once a huge annoyance.
Though I’ve given up trying to log back in – I just kept getting kicked off. Will try and actually go play with the hound tomorrow. Oh best part for me – three other people had tamed The Kurken when I showed up. And they waited for me to tame him – so I have a 4 Kurken screenshot I’ll post tomorrow. And the only sad part – all three were blood elves and my night elf was saddened to only see all the hunter chat in /say and missed out on it. We did a lot of friendly emoting though. Good times. :)
Hey wait, one of them had a name starting with S – was that you Selesti????
Here ya go Mania, you do indeed have to take your DK back to the starting area if you want to keep it is a bank alt:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=9679628072&sid=2000
*as!
(Good thing Mania doesn’t keep post counts, or Palla and I would get to count all our posts twice…)
No joke, that’d put us WAY ahead, but not for any good reasons…. *LAUGHS*
The Ancient Core Hound in MC is tamable, but only the most dedicated and non-lazy hunters will go there for one( most of them will grab Kurken or the SMV ones), makeing them a trophy for BM Hunters.
Eh, if I get the kurken it will be because I love the skin, not from any sort of laziness. I just have at thing with white pets.
Well, doesn´t have anything to do with pets, but I yust read on a german wow-page that theres a new Questline that introduzes the Deathknights into the Horde/Allianze, so maybe you have to do that one to become unhostile in the cities ;)
Sadly I wasn´t able to find out where to do this quest, yust that it has something to do with Highlord Morgraine.
@batgirl No it wasn’t me. I, unfortunately, do not have a beta key.
And I agree with Palladiamors. I love the skin of the Kurken…I just don’t care for the “melting face” look of the others. Though if I talk my guild into going with me to MC for one, I just might grab a red one. :P
I understand, but it just feels that the ‘molten hounds” arent getting the same atention as the other two skins…and its not becouse people dont like it, its becouse most of the hunters cant tame a MC hound without a healer and would rather pick one form SMV or Azuremyst.
Oh and at the topic of the Core-Hounds… would be interresting to look if Magmadar is tameable ;-) I for myself would get me one if it´s posible xD
Coldarra (the EU beta realm) is partly playable, Kalimdor and most of the BC areas are not affected from the 30 secs reboot syndrom. So I am unsure if a DK spell or just an instance entry can corrupt the whole northrend continent. I guess they didn’t test it enough and just want to keep the community busy ;-)
Meanwhile the open beta from WAR knocks at the door (tomorrow), I am curious if there are similar char classes like the hunter with pets also. May be it makes sense to extend then Mania’s Arcania by WAR pets ;)
I doubt Mamadar can be tamed, but that doesnt stop you from getting an Ancient Core Hound.
There is a dk spell that crashes the server, and someone uses it and crashes the server…
Thanks agin for the pic info mania!
Oh good the MC ones are tamable! I’m impressed that someone managed to do it – not that MC is hard, just that the server crashorama of late has meant that it must have taken them a while to do it.
Thanks, everyone. I got my Death Knight sorted out last night between the server restarts and I can get to my bank again. :>
The death knight spell Unholy Blight rank 2 is causing the servers to crash. Storm Peaks is down for the count, can’t be hot fixed up and will require a patch, and they have disabled the spell that is responsible for the crashes everywhere else, might help with the shut downs.
Peter, WAR has two direct pet classes in the War Lion and the Squig herder, and two indirect in the engineer and something dark elfy that I despise. War lions play like rogue meets hunter, with positional abilities that require you to strike from behind or the side while your pet has attention. Your war lion matures as you level, and goes from a cub to a senior looking, badass war lion. From my play time with it it requires a bit more managing then hunters on live are used to, both with your positioning and your pets, but still makes for a fun experience. Squig herders are the opposite, they tame different types of meatballs-with-teeth to do different things, from ranged combat, to AoE combat, to even having the squig herder hop into its mouth and control it directly. The squig herders themselves are ranged combatants. I know for a fact that even if the squig herder dies, the squigs will keep fighting, but I am not sure on whether or not the war lion will, or if it goes feral and just tries to eat anyone near by. Course it could just disappear, I’ve yet to die before my lion.
The other two classes are just turrent summonable pets, with each having an AoE, a long ranged, and a short ranged summons that sits beside them and attacks the nearest target.
anyone know the minimum amount of people you would need in order to get a molten core core hound?
I would gues 1-2 healers and 1-2 additional hunters for misdirection to keep the aggro on you.
@Palladia: The War Lion sounds like it would actually be really fun for me, since I enjoy micromanaging my pet in WoW to a degree most hunters probably don’t. ;) Alas I don’t think I have the brain power to manage two MMOs…
I really enjoy the war lion, and you can switch your focus around as you see fit via mastery points, or talents. One mastery puts you and your lion on equal footing as far as strength goes, buffing both master and pet in equal parts. Another focus’s on your pet being a distraction, for your sneak attacks and such, and the final one makes YOU the distraction, while your pet performs the sneak attacks. And I am at current managing WoW, LoToRO, on and off Tabula Rasa and RF online, and I just said goodbye to EVE. I am a patient person, but taking weeks on end to train up a single skill got a bit ridiculous for me in the end, especially since you can only train up on character per account at a time.
As a side note, yes I have a life. I work in sales and have a steady, loving girlfriend ((Thank god)). I also find time to write during the day, though I have been slacking on that a bit lately. Back to work for me!
Double post for earlier clarification, the AREAS of Storm Peaks and Icecrown are down and will need a patch to be fixed. I thought they meant servers, sorry about that!
Palla-
I think as soon as I have a job (I’m applying to Walmart YUCK) I’m going to end up playing both games.
I’m also doing a lot of writing, and got roped into writing for a blog and making a bit of a splash already too.
Squigs don’t persist after the Herder dies, unfortunately. They need to fix that on the main site.
Kurkan will be way more common than other varieties of Core Hound.
I wish they made its lava breath be more of a mist/blizzard than actual lava though, but I’d understand if they didn’t do that and just have it be effectively a reskin of the normal CH.
I suspect that The Kurken will be more common simply because of location, especially for the Alliance, and his level.
Did they null that? Probably for the best, really. I wonder if they made it into a mastery? The goblins are hilarious, but I was having way to much fun with my sword master and war lion.
Palla: As far as I know, despite what the Squig Herder description says on the site, Squigs have never persisted after the goblin’s death. Given the RVR emphasis of the game, it’d be appropriate to have all pets persist after their owners’ death to add a layer of complexity when choosing which target to spike down first in PVP.
I want to play a Herder just so I can use their detaunt skill, the animation for which features the herder soiling themselves loudly complete with a little puddle appearing under their feet. This is 100% winship.
And Seidouyumi: Yeah,that goes without saying, but also because the Kurken is a more, er, friendly model than the slavering, pseudo-siliconic version that you see in MC and Outland.
A final note for Hunters that want to play Herders: If you’re looking for a furry companion that you can bond with, understand the herder’s squigs are disposable living ordnance and not an actual ‘companion’ pet. You literally summon a different squig each time, you don’t ‘resurrect’ the same one. You cannot name them.
I actually kinda prefer the feel and aesthetic of the WoW hunter TBH, but that’s a stylistic thing, the herder is still a great utility RDPS class and it has three distinctly different builds that support it.
Huh, I could have sworn I remembered early closed beta people talking about it…. oh well. But thats the squig herder, not the white lion though, Infares. But I do have to agree with you, although it is probably just from years of playing WoW and only playing WAR on laggy servers for short periods of time. WAR has the potential to get you uber attached to one pet, much the way many of us find one pet that absolutely screams out to us or our characters, and keep it forever. That being said, I definitely don’t see it being for everyone. The RvR or PvP emphasis will turn many people off, though the PvE content is fun in and of itself. That, however, is a potential problem I see with it. I nearly enjoyed the public quests more then I enjoyed the RvR.
My father-in-law got a beta key for Warhammer online and gave it to my husband and I. It’s really fun, but there are still bugs and crashes. I have a White Lion, and the war lion is awesome. It even changes colors each time it’s summoned. Haven’t tried a squig herder yet…
I know a lot of people that are planning on getting an MC hound – but since beta means you can’t keep anything you work for, everyone usually focuses more on just testing the pet, seeing if everything works, that sort of thing. (I’ve already been volunteering my druid for MC Taming Parties when the patch goes live.) And I really like the orangey MC hound over the neon green one. The one thing I’ll say that’s a big plus for Kurken is that his flame/aura/smoke/whatever you call it that trails after the hound – is whiteish and almost transparent. Which will be nice if you’re not into having that effect trailing all over the place. I’m not as into the neon green flame/smoke – but I do like the MC hound’s orange effects.
Meanwhile the Death Knights are too cool. We’re going to be knee deep in them, and it will make us all crazy because they’ll be all over the place. But at the same time I’m going to encourage everyone to try the class just because the start zone quests are too much fun to miss.
I’m the other way around. I’ve no urge for the orange (( and apperently harder to get)) Core hound. I’ll be going for the neon green myself. But then I love green and he’s perfect for my green orc, who has a green Ravager and a green outlands spiky raptor. The green two headed dragondog will fit right in, in the stable. Now if we can just keep him from eating the other pets. Mmmmm Maybe a few gnome snacks now and then….
I have a question! Don’t forget my question people. “Did they shrink Devilsaurs?? In Big Red Kitty’s Core Hound video that Devilsaur wasn’t much bigger than that Troll… :-(“
Well for one Christy, keep in mind that trolls hunch over, so that they aren’t much bigger then a human. For another, the devilsaur was still much taller then the core hound. The hound just a ton more substance. That being said, I have no idea, and haven’t heard one way or the other if they have been shrunk or not.
Kristy* ….yes, yes, double for me….
Thank you Pall!
As far as i know, they shrink. They dont stay big as a building or tree in darnassus. But they’re still bigger than many other hunter pets. From screenshots I’ve seen, they are taller than the player characters by a bit. But hey, last I knew, they make a loud stompy noise when they walk! :)
One mildly amusing bit with the exotic pets is that when you first log in, they’re often their pre-taming size for a second or two before shrinking down to their normal (but still quite big) pet size.
So I happen to know that the first floor of a gnomish inn comes up to somewhere around Tyrantus’s hip bone :)
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