First Spirit Beast Found
Evara has found the first confirmed example of the new exotic Spirit beast family!
The beast is Loque’nahak, a rare level 76 that Evara found in Sholazar Basin, southwest of Nessingwary Base Camp. The model matches the new cat-like model we’ve heard described: a snow leopard-like cat with glowing blue eyes. Beast Lore on the untamed beast describes it as an Exotic pet. And when tamed, the beast’s name becomes “Spirit Beast”.
This raises as many interesting questions as it answers! Is this the only spirit beast, the only one we’ve found so far, or the only one that’s been added to the world yet? Will they all be rare? Will they all use this cat-like model?
And you know, this is the first silver-dragon rare of any kind that I have heard about in Northrend. Have all the rares been added with this build? Can any of them can be tamed? What kind of respawn time does Loque’nahak have, and how is his loot? (As if any hunter would kill him rather than tame him at this point!)
(By the way, I am safely back at home and trying desperately to catch up with all the news. Please keep the posts and comments and e-mails coming — I’m compiling the info you are all contributing as I make my way through it!)
[edit: By the way, I wanted to give a big thank you to Skosiris from Wowhead for letting me know about the new Spirit Beast exotic family almost before I even knew there was new build happening.]
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First post YEAH!
I can only imagine the line of hunters to tame him…hehe!
Like mentioned on a previous post on petopia, I really hope that the spirit beast family contains spirit beast forms of all types in the ferocity tree such as the current discovered cat model, wolves, and any others, though that might be hoping too much :P
Yeah, if Hydras dont make it as an exotic pet then atleast the ghost one should!
And the thing is it doesnt matter if its a Hydra or a ghost crock, all “Spirits” have the same skill since a ghost is a ghost, no matter what his species was before!
Id like to see the magehunter maybe move in here.
An eagle model with a skin like Loque’Nahak would be awesome!
FYI, these use the same model as Har’koa, one of the Drakkari Trolls’ animal gods whom you get to interact with in Zul’Drak. Except she’s also a hell of a lot bigger and definitely untameable.
Interestingly, at one point in the quest chain you have to save her kittens, who inexplicably use a different cat skin (white with stripes, I think.)
Im quite curious as to what new skin will be added.*crosses fingers for Spirit Hydra*
BRK should make a movie of one in action, thats if he can get his “paws” on one.
Now does it’s special skill stack for yummy dps?
Some people claim it does, and Noodlebeard sayed it uses the animation from the Moonfire/Starfire spell for its Spirit Strike ability.
BTW its a Ferocity pet.
spirit beasts only cats?
No we dont know, but why would they name it Spirit Beasts and not Spirit Cats if it was a family of dead Kittys?
We will have to see if new skins are added to this family.
Anyway its the only pet that can deal arcane damage.
Icehorn, a rhino rare spawn I saw earlier today, can’t be tamed.
Has BRK made a movie about him yet?
This might also be a way for Blizz to make a pet family that can be changed and stuff added without much conflict as in “Man ppl want a new hydra pet but how can we add a whole new family?” Hey lets just make it a spirit beast and add the skin to that family!” Just my 2 cents.
Grimlord thats what i’ve been trying to say, and its a good solution for pets familys that Blizzard doesnt have time to implement before WotLK goes live.
And besides:
Spirit Hydra> Hydra
It just occured to me, this guy is going to be like Broken Tooth back in the olden days :P
Perhaps…
Whats takeing BRK sooo long with that movie!
God, why’d it have to be a rare spawn D= Now there’ll be 6 million hunters campin’ him XD
I’m camping his spawn on Northrend at the moment. No dice yet!
Hes not respawned yet?
They should atleast speed the respwan rate for it so people can test her!
I think he’s a boy, since he’s the mate of Har’koa, and Har’koa is referred to as ’she’ in quest dialogue.
[...] First Spirit Beast found. Let the impending rat race to tame him begin. Mania’s Arcania First Spirit Beast Found [...]
Okay, now all of my Stable slots will be filled! Weird name for a “male” animal. I’m really glad it’s white-ish. I like the blue spots on it. I really hope they add more cat-like Spirit Beasts. Take other dang Hunters away from the Spirit Beast that I want! I love the SIZE of the Spirit Beast too. Really do not want them shrinking them! If they give any more “wantables” for me, I’m gonna complain that we need MORE Stable slots!
Did anyone notice that this pet has Spirit stike as well as prowl? is that because its a cat or is that all spirit beasts ability? cause if its just cause its a cat then you could get a spirit wind serpent (if they ever put one in) and have lightning breath and spirit strike
Hehe looks like no amount of stable slots will ever suffice….
This is cool news.
Now we have all but holy damage pets. . .Which I doubt we’d see, because there isn’t a holy resist in the game (yet). Which would make a holy damage pet an “all situation” killer.
The problem I see is that in any given instance a boss may be “Arcane immune” so you don’t want the “spirit beast” But the next boss may be “Nature immune”. Not to mention the various “situational” skills that our pets will have, knockback, silence, webs, etc. . . so do I run back to town between pulls to get the other pet out of the stable?
Having used the UI portion for mounts and vanity pets on the PTR, I think it would be wonderful to have our Hunter pets stored there too. (Which Ghostcrawler mentioned as a future possibility) I know this has been said many times before, but with all the situational options available to us, it makes even more sense now than it did before.
After all a lock has all his “situational” pets with him. No one thinks they are OP because of that fact. (And that fact only)
*sigh*
Looks like felines will once again be the most popular pets in WoW. Things like this make the entire new pet system seem pointless.
Their not realy cats, and there might be more skins like ghost wolf or Hydra.
Besides i would still go for a Spore Bat/Wasp/Silithid.
Raze: If you don’t want to use a feline. Don’t. Simple as that.
Some people prefer felines cause they prefer cats irl too. Like me. Some people prefer wolves because they are dog people irl. Some people just find the rarest of anything and latch onto that.
I think with the changes to the pet system and the many new pets to choose from its kinda silly to declare a popular pet this early.
PS. I am pretty darned excited to hear about this. Being such a BM geek and fan of new cat models and skins.
It’s a great thing to wake up to.
I see one problem with every ones theroies. Is the engine WoW is run(does it have a name?)able to assign diffrent foods to individual creatures in a family? Home much sense would it really make to have a spirit beast bat(just an example)eat meat? None. I can under stand prowl since the pet is ethreal and should be capable of such a thing, but the food is a problem.
I agree with Harleigh, i would grab a Spore Bat now over any pet family!
Destructive_Noob.
If the WoW Engine can assign the basic family their food then I would think that they could possibly program it so that the food preferences are linked to the pet’s model and and not specific family. If they were to go this route I think it’d be the best and easiest way to go.
it IS possibly but would blizz do this? ..and with the first spirit beast revealed would the other “hopeful” spirit pets, the ghost hydra, ghost wolf etc. follow the theme of this pet family?
to me.. if anything.. (this is my wild interpretation) i think we would see a handful of pets who look like they are “charged” with arcane power. The cat’s spots almost resemble runes and markings instead of fur patterns and its eyes and mouth are glowing with what seems to be.. arcane energy.
Is it ferocity?
Have they added pet talent tree info to beast lore?
Yes its ferocity…now if only we can get another Tenacity family (tehir left behind).
Anyway Harleigh that idea isnt that wild, i read somewere that this family has/had bite aswell. (not on this skin thou, might be a left over skill)
The only sure thing is that this is only the tip of the iceberg on one of the pet familys with the most potential.
Lorewhise Spirit Beasts are actualy beasts that died or are not physical beeings at all… but they are most useful for beeing the only pet with an arcane damage skill.
And here I thought spirit pets (wolves) didn’t fit in with hunter lore.
Harleigh,
I would agree with you idea, but Blizzard has never seemed very willing to go that extra mile for pets. This Xpac seems to be about more about asthetics than anything for every class (if this needs an explantion let me know), but have they ever been that kind to hunters? Many of the changes were seeing in terms of pets are things weve been asking for since I can remember. What makes me even more doubtful is that Blizzard seems hesitant to let go of cats and I dont say this simply because they have two abilities, but because a blue (I cant remember which one) made a post that gave me the impression that pets are being balanced around cats.
For all those people whining “aww another cat??” It’s not a cat. It’s a spirit beast. Look at Core Hounds though, the Kurken looks vastly different then it’s counterpart the actual Core Hound and Uvuros. The Outlands Chimeras look different then their cousins, the Winterspring Chimeras. Majority of the Exotic pets don’t all share the same model, let alone skin.
These guys JUST barely got implemented, don’t start downing them already D= The first chimera was a rare spawn, and then more skins got added, I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the case with this guy. Who knows, maybe the next spirit beast will look more like a spirit wolf (not a ghost wolf, a Northrend gothicy wolf model different then saberworgs). It’s so hard to say now.
Let’s just see how this plays out first before calling shots out. =)And with that, Im going back to the pvp ptr, the Horde is invading SW en masse.
Erm i am looking at my post and it seems like a big QQ its not ment to be one. I was juat voicing my concerns and was looking to see if some oen could give me a precedent BLizzard has set to ease my fears.
Will all the “Spirit Beats” be Cats or will they be a mix? (I hope so)
Can this mean that maybe the Ghost Wolf/Plains Vision thing be tameable again as an exotic? :O
Besides this is not the first nor the last exotic pet family to be implemented.
Harleigh, good idea, yeah! I wouldn’t mind the “charged” looks of Spirit Beasts at all.
Rikaku, I hear ya! :-(
@ Destructive_Noob
If you’re reffering to your post about pet foods, no, my post isn’t directed at that. It’s not directed at anyone in particular, just the “aww it’s another cat” posts.
As for food, Blizzard isn’t going to be specific in what an animal would REALLY eat for a game. Warp Stalkers would probably eat alot more than just fruit, and wolves would eat fish, and so on and so on, if Blizzard wanted to be realistic. Blizzard just wants to make it general so not all pets eat the same thing. Some Hunters (like me) pick pets based on what they eat since I cook most of my food. It’s alot easier on me if my pet eats meat as I run into it alot more frequently than say, tallstriders and cheese.
So in short, just because a beast is etheral or a spirit doesn’t mean anything to Blizz. It eats meat and thats that. It’s not really supposed to be realistic.
If their engines were realistic, what would I feed my Ghost Wolf? O_o
i seriously don’t see why everyone is so down on cats. if you go on the ptr everyone has an exotic pet.. and most of the hunters ive seen lately on my server has owls. i love the cat pets but I mainly use a carrion bird named Léon with the druid flight skin.
@Rikaku: Ghost meat.
@Avelara: I don’t even want to know how one goes about getting ghost meat XD *hums the ghost busters tune*
I like the cat I have had an owl/carrion bird, cat, and wolf as my three pets forever. I was crazy enough to go out and tame a Red Lynx at 70. What I dont like is that other hunters would need a BM spec for what is currently another cat models. I just came up with the precedent I was looking for though, Birds of Prey. Thats a family with three very diffrent models, but similar physiology. If more pets models get added that are new I will be happy with the new family.
Are you lucky motherf***ing beta testers on some sort of gag-order? I have not seen a single post regarding quest reward gear and how the free Greens blow away our end-game raiding tier gear.
@Messyah:
Um, It’s a hunter’s PET site. There’s not going to be posts about armor. If you’re looking for that kind of information, there’s alot of other sites with that. MMO-champion for example would have that, or even some of Wowhead.
There’s no reason to act like that just because you’re browsing the wrong site for that kind of information.
I’m no upset that it is, in essence, a cat.
Nor am I upset that it will probubly be waaayyy over hunted.
Why does it have to be exotic????
I never liked the BM tree, Surv is more my style, so I’m not all thrilled that the new kitties, the rhinos, the chimeras, corehounds, devilasaurs,slithids, and probubly more (that will apear out of Northrands nooks) are all exotic. Just because I’m Surv/MM doesn’t mean I don’t want a pretty pet!
P.S. Ignore my ramblings. Just had to put that into text.
i honestly hope ghost wolves will NOT BE TAMEABLE, I like how unique my pet is, only like 2 other hunters on Korgath with it
I sure hope they don’t change the existing ghost wolves into exotics. I don’t want to have to switch to BM just to pull out the wolf I’ve had since before the expansion.
Well, this was a surprise. I couldn’t imagine they would make two pet families that basically look the same. Actually, I still can’t imagine that they will do that so plain logic seems to require that there has to be some other type of Spirit Beast that does not look like a cat.
By the way, how about that new 69 boar listed on wowhead? Has anyone tamed him?
Want to buy even more stable slots :( So many new pets but such a connection to my old ones… Gogo Small Pet/Mount interface for normal pets…
Wicked, wicked skin though on that new cat…
I’m all for this pet family being exotic. It just ties into what they’re looking for with the entire idea of there being exotic pets… if you’re a hunter who doesn’t focus on being a beastmaster, guess what… there are some beasts you can’t tame because you’re not dedicated to that aspect of the class… just like how BM doesn’t get the perks of the MM or SV trees. I’m curious to see what else is out there in this pet family, i’d be a bit shocked to see if they made a new one for just one rare spawn (I honestly hope that this tree is ONLY rare spawn pets in every standard pet family… this is a spirit beast cat, there can be spirit beast worgs, bears, owls etc…)
Still camping. ZzZzZz….
@Thoreau
I’ve been looking for that boar on a number of occasions and it’s never been in the area listed by wowhead. :(
I wonder what glowy, cat-like pet we’ll get next. Kinda curious.
You know, at first I was a little flustered about the spirit beast being a cat as well, I love cats but it gets a little annoying to see that a lot of things are based towards them. Especially when this has popped up now! However, I read about the possibilities of the spirit beast having other forms such as wolves and hydras and now I can sort of believe that idea. It does have a cat icon but I hope we do get other forms of this type of exotic creature. Like what Rikaku said, it’s not Spirit Cat but rather Spirit Beast. :P Also They should be making more normal pets for MM and Surv hunters because now they’re all going to bump into BM just to look ‘cool’ x.x;;
I must say though, that is an awesome skin.
Has anyone also noticed that we basically have 6 slots? …. POKEMON!! Gotta catch ‘em all!! xD
Sp, non-BM Hunters in WotLK get what, two new species? Wasps and Moths?
Lame.
Guess FotW it is.
Well getting two new species is better than none. MM and Surv shouldn’t get all the beasts. I’m all for you guys getting a bigger variety of species, but BM needs a large buff to our talent. Surv 51 point talent is AMAZING. If I weren’t a dedicated BM Hunter, I’d take Surv just for that skill. BM hunters didn’t change much. The pet talent system was revamped for every spec, not just BM. BM just got a 4 pet talent point increase and exotic pets. In a scale, that’s fairly weak. BM needs more “perks” for being a BM. Surv’s perk is explosive shot, BM’s perk is you get two headed demon dogs and spirit beasts.
There’s tons of new skins and model of the Wolves, Cats, Moths, Birds that any spec Hunter can tame. So I wouldn’t be too bummed out over it. Wrath’s new pets are going to look better just for the fact that Blizz knows more of what to do to make things look better, just like TBC cats looked more well-textured than the Azeroth ones.
Guess we’ll agree to disagree. I am simply dissapointed that I have almost nothing, pet wise, to look forward to in WotLK.
He looks pretty cool, but I’m not interested in taming him. Kudos to the find though.
I like the skin and the cat. I’ll be trading my ghost saber in for one.
For those of you all “Awww it’s just another cat” I refer you to the link on Petopia of “New LK pets” and look at allll the others that arn’t cats.
I personally hope we get a spirt beast wolf of some sort. I personally started playing wow AFTER the spirit wolves were taken off the market, and while the very very few that have them like their uniquic pet…. to be 100% honest.. I care more about my wants than your wishes of exclusitivity. If more people can tame them all the better. I get why those with them now don’t want them opening up, but I’d say they’re a very small minority, and majority rules in a business that get’s it’s money from the majority, not the minority. I’d take an ‘updated’ spirit wolf like this ‘updated’ cat. I think the cat looks amazing.
We’re not completely disagreeing. (I thought I wrote this in there, but once again I thought too slow XD) I too believe that there should be more non-exotic families. 2 isn’t alot, I just don’t think you guys (Survs and MM’s) should get Spirit Beasts, Core Hounds, etc. I meant for my previous post to sound different then how it came off. I just mean that right now, Exotic pets are probably taking priority to Blizz since it’s basically a 51 point talent.
However, you never know. TBC was out for awhile before they added the Dire Ravens. I wouldn’t say there’s no new families yet for sure. Keep your hopes up.
I’d probably cry, but at least then they’d have to fix their stupid speed-walking. Thats why I think they made them untamable in the first place personally.
….What? So there’s fewer new species for non-BM hunters….who cares? All of the existing pets that didn’t have unique family abilities do now! That’s a LOT more options than we used to have. After all, pets that hardly anyone tamed before will be more viable.
The first of the spirit beast family looks fantastic and I do think that Blizzard intends to add more. The spirit wolves are likely candidates (my apologies to those who worked so hard to tame the originals). I am HOPING that the ghost saber will not be changed (I’m not usually BM myself, so this would be potentially devestating to my family of pets), although I wouldn’t be surprised if they were. Other possibilities might be the ghostly ravens the arakkoa have in Terokkar and STV, and (even more likely) the spirit hydra that had been spotted before.
PepsiJedi:
Lol that phrase kinda made me laugh. “I care more about my wants than your wishes of exclusitivity.” Cause I’m sure all the ghost wolf owners probably think the exact same thing only vice versa. However, with Shaman’s new spirit wolves, and the fact that the majority uproar after the ghost wolf hotfix, I doubt it will be a Ghost wolf (of the Grimtotem Spirit Guide) variety.
However! I’m not saying “No spirit beast-wolf!” No no. In fact, there’s a couple Place Holder wolves still in beta, that may be re-skinned and become “spirit beasts”. It’s not unheard of for blizz to change an entire species to another species in beta. We saw that with the boars.
I really hope theres a spirit-beast-wolf. I’d love to get a sexy new wolf.XD
If all the spirit beasts were different families with the same sort of design as this spirit cat, I’m going to end up with a stable full of etherial ferocity pets D:
About spirit beasts looking like cats…
Y’all realise that birds or prey and carrion birds look pretty much identical, hey ;) Granted one of them isn’t exotic, but still.
Congrats are in order for getting one, so Evara, CONGRATS /smooch
And with that, I bid a fond farewell to the Beta… For 2 days now I have not been able to log on. I was nearing the end of a full explore of the entire new area - then as I had the gates of Horde landing area in view - I was kicked out. Something about a memory problem as it tries to open the game. I have sent in the reports at least 20 times. Yet, my regular WOW has no problem.
So, in a fit of hissy, I deleted you LK beta. :)
You other folks keep up the good work! I will enjoy reading about your exploits in the new wilderness area! As I sit dreaming of the new lands….
@Sigrdrífa:
Wow that sucks ><!! But omg I’d just about die for a beta key right now T-T
I agree, Misty.
I love ur name too. I have an IRL siamese cat named after Misty, the pokemon hunter..
ps. I was 16 when i named her.. gimme a break. lol
pokemon trainer i mean.
Wow, thats amazing! I hope theres going to be more Spirit Beasts and more models than just a cat..I hope they make a wolf one! (Im a wolf freak, dont mind me)
i have a ghost wolf and i still wish they would re add them,or add new ones without the glitchs (i like how mine walks and doesnt make alot of noise).but i DONT want them to be classed as exotics,even though im pretty much beast4life.
as for the cat(and it IS another cat).love the skin.not to keen on the modle.its skinny legs and neck look weak.cant say much about the face since we only get the side view of it.does it make noise while idleing?
at least theyre adding new things…
Just to put my 2 cents in on the “only 2 new pets for MM/surv”. You’ve actually got a lot more than that, all the pets are usable in some way now so where as before we had 3 really viable pets and then maybe 5 more that were strong we now have all of them so I think that is a bonus but I can see where your coming from. But to an extent I agree and say I would have liked /would like to see more new pets but still, they may release pets as we go. Also I’m slightly more driven to go MM just to keep my wolf as a viable pet, he would stand out and I would get to keep him. I have to say though unless we see what else comes with the spirit beasts I’m not overly impressed tbh that might change as we go with these but for now I’m not to high hoped.
Still camping the area….Doop de do.
BM lovers FTW <3
As happy as I am for hunters getting this, it pisses me off, as a druid so much. They implement this awesome cat model for hunters, who have a myriad of choices already, and they can’t change our hideous druid models that have been out since release.
I actually like the night elf model for cat form….. tauren model is ugly as sin, tho’. And this is coming from some one who has a feral. However it was stated that cosmetic changes for ferals won’t make it into Wrath, but most likely in a later patch.
Beast master is about the PETS. It only makes sense that beast masters get a talent that gives them access to a wider array of fuzzy friends. I am starting to get more then a little tired of the people complaining that its not fair. Marksmen and Survival both have perfectly viable and usable all the time fifty one point talents. Beast master has a skill that gives them the OPTION to tame exotics, and to increase the effectiveness of our pets by for points. The four points are active all the time, of course, but are only a mediocre increase in ability ((As much as I like the four extra points.)). The other capability, exotics, gives us access to a line of pets that are, at best, fractionally different from regular pets. Before ANYONE tosses up monstrous bite, its being nerfed. Its being given a longer cooldown and less of a damage increase, the last time I checked. Other wise, family skills are fun, and deriviate from the norm a bit, but aren’t anything massive or over powering. ((I may have to make an exception for rhinos. Sending people flying without a mount is the most fun I have had in years.)) Don’t believe me? Respec and go grab an exotic your so hot to use as your tree. You’ll find out real quick that the power doesn’t come from the exotic itself, it comes from the tree. The exotics are icing. Oft times beautiful and uncommon, but icing none the less.
Sigrdrífa, try reinstalling the program. New beta build release also solved the problem in my case. :3
I was hoping these creatures wouldn’t be Exotic, though I will be speccing BM in live.
If I happen to spot this ..”cat”, I’ll defo try looting him. Not interested in taming, though it’s indeed pretty cool looking pet.
its been about 6 hrs now -_-
Unfortuntely Ceron, this is still beta. That means a lot of thing are likely to be wonky. One other scary thing to keep in mind is that some rare spawns have an obscenely long respawn time. I think they’ve chopped them down, but there were some that only spawned once a day, back when.
Server reset. :( Maybe this will get my hunter un-stuck since I crash now every time the load bar gets full. :/
I wish this reset wouldn’t affect spawn timers, but I am pretty sure it does.
Humar has a 12 to 18 hour respawn rate… but what’s really scary is some elite named ones.. like the one there.. can spawn only once a week or so… THAT would suck
Kinda hoping that a lot of the pet families get at least one representative in the Spirit Beast family. Considering all of the races in Azeroth and Outlands and what they all worship, you know that there have to be spirits of bears, crocolisks, wind serpents, raptors, etc.
So here’s hoping to one from each family being a Spirit Beast!
“Harleigh:
I agree, Misty.
I love ur name too. I have an IRL siamese cat named after Misty, the pokemon hunter..
ps. I was 16 when i named her.. gimme a break. lol”
Haha well, thanks! Thats my real name, and let me tell ya, I get both ‘that’s my cats name!’ and ‘like from Pokemon?’ ALL. THE. TIME. :)
Also, I have a flame-point siamese :) His name is Gabriel.
“Beast master is about the PETS. It only makes sense that beast masters get a talent that gives them access to a wider array of fuzzy friends. I am starting to get more then a little tired of the people complaining that its not fair.”
Amen honey. With BM hunters, most of their damage (or at least a good chunk of it) is coming from the pet. I’ve know Marks and Survival hunters to never use pets at all. I also agree with the earlier post that alot of the old, overlooked pet families are now becoming good options because of the addition to pet family skills to all of them. Besides, who knows? They may still add new families. And as Palla pointed out, BM hunters don’t HAVE to tame an exotic…I still can’t make up my mind on one as it is.
Not a big fan of the cats, but that is a nice looking feline. Hope it’s not the only option though- i would not enjoy camping out with the other hunters trying to tame it.
@Ceron
Patience is a virtue. I had camped Rak’shiri for three days. She was killed/tamed infront of my eyes various times, so just wait for it. ;P
@Drood Dude
..Tell me about it.. I’d like a different tree form look for NElves.. and change Tauren cat form, totally hideous..
@Mitsuhide
Maybe the ‘ol spirit boars in RFK? I would love one of them. Good thought though.
On another note, I too, have a ghost wolf. I hope they do not re-use the skin.. but maybe re-skin if if they were to make a wolf spirit beast. Maybe like this current one here with the blue eyes n’ stuff.. Looks awesome. I think I will be keeping my Grimtotem until I can get one of them demon-looking wolves.. IF they stay tameable come launch. I hope they do.. I am rather un-interested in a lot of the new exotics, save Core Hounds and Chimearas. Everything else is just.. meh. Spirit Beasts are looking like something I’d like though. :3
So far I’m definately looking at: Loki - my ghost wolf, Cerebus - The Kurken, and Artemis - the Spirit Cat, and probably that cool exploding warp stalker… now I just need a decent tenacity pet.
Misty:
SIAMESE CAT OWNER POWERS… ACTIVATE!.. Form of.. awesomeness.
I think thats a really super cute name thou. I might even name a daughter Misty. =}
Well.. either Misty or Mathilda.
Ok.. to get back on track.
Druid models are pimp. They are druid models for a reason.. but tell me the truth.. you just want a new pet looking model so you can sneak up on people and scare em.. like “Ahhh a named is chasing me.. ands not resetting.. oh crimeny! its actually a druid! Ahhh!!” Just kidding! dont flame me!
And i completely agree with a number of posts in the last few hours/minutes whatever. BM is all about pets. We put the pets first and truly keep them as companions more than tanks and extra dps. I also think that true blue BM hunters do deserve to have cool exotic pets since.. well.. as i said.. we’re more pet oriented.
I don’t know about all of you but i’m not dps crazy. I don’t even raid. Whatever gear i get is from regular dungeons or pvp.. (very very light pvp thou) I just like running around like a complete geek and farming rep, farming for pets.. just enjoying a slower paced and less stressful game with my pixel companion Léon
Myst, I didn’t realize you were horde until I saw your hunter waiting for Loque’nahak. I was the silly dwarf /pointing and /tapping my foot at the placeholder cat.
Exciting! I’m disappointed that this cat-clone got in when lots of (IMO) more interesting families still aren’t tameable, though. :(
Nevermind.. i dont have a siamese cat anymore… he was just killed because of my familys carelessness… now i’m going to stay at me friends or risk murdering them all in their sleep tonight… my poor little baby
SIGRDRIFA, hey man if you still cant get hat o work on your computer/you think your donewith beta testing, I will be more than happy to take that beta key off your hands! im freaking going nuts here waiting to try out the new hunter stuff and will go so freaking printscreen picture crazy Blizzard would never be able to remove all my photos! (have webcam and digital camera option as well for video and what not). PLEASE lol Anyways, upside:psyched about all the new pets and I am BM despite how awesome explosive shot is Downside: can’t they jsut freaking change dragons to beasts already and call it a day? I mean, silithids wasps didnt have a class before so making them beast now was ok…….fucking bullshit technicalities. if you can change that, you can give us dragons……tho you may never see another cat again, lol. enjoy people
BM Hunter Bldcrow, 70 tauren, slavering black worg and humar the pridelord, Stormrage server
MISTY NOOOOO, what the hell happened?! (i am prevet) That makes me so sad! Pending story, dont bother with the overnight, just kill your family. What happened to Gabrielle?
They should move the Grimtotem ghost wolves, and Darkshore ghost sabers into this category. The only thing though, is that they would have to make the wolves and sabers already tamed into a non-exotic version of Spirit Beast so today’s hunters do not have to respec just to be able to keep using their favorite pet. I have a wolf myself, and the prowl would be nice, and wouldn’t be a bad trade off, spirit strike too. While the wolf is no longer tameable, newly tamed ghost sabers could now require Beast Mastery talent, without going against the hunters who already tamed them previously. Maybe modify the ghost saber to this model too, just a thought. Long live the hunters!
MISTY….. don’t tell me things like that… *Sniffle* I am sorry!
Oh Misty. I’m SOOOOO Sorry. I hope you’re doing ok. You’re in my thoughts. My deepest condolences.
Sorry, Misty :( Hope your cat’s beautiful soul is set free to find its way back somehow.
i agree with e-syringe. my current siamese seems to have the soul of one of my older cats who was stolen and put to sleep by an evil neighbour.
anything can happen.. and does.
Oh no, that’s terrible! Siamese are my favorite breed too, along with silver tabbies.
Many years ago, I lost a puppy in a family carelessness situation too.
This is now the ‘Comfort Misty’ blog.
So sorry to hear that you’ve lost your furry friend.
Misty: Aww! That’s horrible to hear! I’m so sorry to hear that ;_;
It’s never easy to lose a friend, if you need to holler you know where to find us. All of us with furkids have you in our thoughts.
“As if any hunter would kill him rather than tame him at this point!”
I would. Then again, I don’t like cats, and if it looks like a cat and does moves like a cat…
Gimme moths, gimme bears, gimme Ancient Core Hounds. Huh.
I’m sorry to hear that for ya Misty. And don’t whine, you Marksman and Survival Hunters. Although it’s just typical when people COMPLAIN. It’s about time, finally, that the Beast Mastery spec got some Epic love. I’m all for Exotics! And there are already ALOT of non-Exotic pets. I’m really glad they added ANOTHER Exotic. They should. Go Blizzard! And like someone already said, there’s ALOT that YOU GUYS have that we don’t. :-P. And it’s funny, about the COMPLAINING, whiching this around, bluntly, there would be complains from the 2 specced Hunters, if 1 from Marks or Survival got buffed. Anyways no, predatory birds do NOT “look” like scavenging carrion birds. Anyways wouldn’t surprise me if they added the Vargul Blight Hounds to “Spirit Beasts”. It’s glowy.
Oh gosh, Misty, I’m so sorry. You don’t even know who I am, but every time I hear about a cat losing its life for any reason, I feel awful–our four are too precious to contemplate losing.
My thoughts are with you.
Heh, my twenty are to precious to me… *Is still sniffling*
Misty you should “tame” your cat as a Spirit Beast if it comes back to haunt you!
Anyway im sorry to hear about her death, i dont know what i would do if id lose my puppy!
As for MM and SV hunters: All the other pet familys are now viable… and besides you complain about non diversity in pets for non-BM but all you do is running with the same wolf/cat/ravager/raptor pet and complain that your pet options are boreing.
Has anyone tried taming Illusionary Wraiths?
Dont know…Blizz will add more skins to this family in the next build i guess.
Another perfect pet for a draenei hunter :)
Agh! Thats terrible, Misty! Be sure that his soul is still around, in your memories and heart. I fall apart when pets die…
Sigh. . .I go away for a while and spend ages catching up.
Misty, I am sorry to hear about your cat. I know I’d be furious if something happened to my Sally.
Palla, I agree with you that a lot of the whining is mostly just for the sake of whining. Beast Master is about, well, the pet not the Hunter. While everyone’s focusing in on those exotic pets, they’re not really focusing on the true power of that 51 talent point and the four extra talent points that it gives our pets. That can give our pet an extra end tier talent all by itself. That can make a pet pretty strong just on its own. You are right how those exotics are more icing than anything else.
Hey i just found out that Bristlepine boars in Howling Fjord are now tamable! just take alook here-
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?npc=27681#same-model-as
Honestly, it boggles my mind that MM/Survival Hunters would even *think* about griping about pets. Your *whole* spec is centered around you! Not your pet, not at all. I really appreciate Blizzard giving Beast Mastery their own pet families, seeing as the entire tree is devoted to the sole purpose of boosting and bettering your pet. As far as MM/Survival Hunters only getting two new pet families.. No! Certainly not. You have far, far more open to you now than you did in TBC or prior. Almost every single pet family is viable in some way, so you aren’t exactly stuck with a cat, ravager or raptor. You have far more options open to you than you did before, and yet there is still complaining. Honestly, if you’re so dead set on the pets you have and what they can do, maybe you aren’t in the right spec. Its kind of like giving BM Hunters Chimera Shot or Explosive Shot. There needs to be some level of exclusivity here, otherwise why even go deep in *any* tree if every spec gets the same thing? :P
<33333 Beast Mastery (for life!)
@Zaidae <3 exactly, many of the MM/survs want to look cool though, even though they already have some pretty cool abilities of their own.
I understand, but at the same time.. You’re giving up the “cool” pets so that you can focus on your own *personal* DPS rather than beefing your pet. Ironically, as a BM Hunter, I don’t foresee me taking a lot of exotics. I guess its because I’ve just waited so long to finally have a viable, DPS efficient wolf that I can’t really consider having a different Ferocity pet (not for the majority of my play, anyway!). Currently, my Hunter (on Beta) is playing with an eagle and wolf. I need to go out and tame a tanky pet. Don’t get me wrong, I love the idea of exotic pets. At some point, I’ll probably nab a chimera (so awesome) and a spirit beast. Beyond that, I’m not sure what else I’ll tame right now. :)
Emerald Skytalon would make a good “spirit beast” variety cause it doesn’t have a “real world” look to it. I use “real world” very loosely since we are talking about the “world of warcraft” here.
As far as who is getting the love? Simply all specs are. It seems like on the PTR that my hunter itself does better damage as a MM than as a BM. But as BM and an exotic pet (Devilsaur or Core Hound atm) Things even out a bit. As far as pets go, its already been said that ALL families are getting a unique family skill which means they’ve practically made 10 new NORMAL pets/skills. Sure you could tame some of them before, but now they have practical value instead of just “looks”.
Exotics have to be “exotic” and somewhat more powerful to make that 51pt talent something worth spending the talents for.
..Damn Misty, what happened? I’d be pissed if anything happened to my gray tabby kitten or my big ‘ol black cat.. (You don’t need to answer what happened, I’m just waaaay too curious about everything.)
:< I loves them both. *Hugs* That’s terrible though.. Now I feel bad T_T Losing a pet is horrible.
/comfort
Misty, I’m so sorry for your loss! I, myself, have a herd of kitties and each and every one is as spoiled as the little princes and princesses should be! I work in a vet’s office as a tech, and I hate seeing people come in having to lose their best friend, so I know what you’re going through!!
I have no idea what I’d do if I lost my prize kitty! He’s an Egyptian Mau, aptly named Captain Jack Daniels. My heart and prayers go out to you Misty, and I’m sure your best friend is right by your side, trying to comfort you, and he’ll always be there, trust me!
Blessings be Misty!!
This is a PET web site. So pets are more than so-called “just icing” here. Yeah, way too much whining from Marksman and Survival Hunters. Plain, regular pets outnumber Exotics 18 to a mere 7 (currently). Anyways I really hope they added ANOTHER Exotic to round out the numbers evenly (I like even numbers, like Mania). Come on, Blizzard!
Agreed, Kristy. :D
I’m not upset that it is a feline species. I rather LOVE cats myself personally but the name BEAST implies that this isn’t a set skin for the species. Sure the Chimera’s have 2 different skins, but one is Outlands Related while the other is Kalimdor, etc. related. As you noticed several beasts got new skins when they came to Outlands (Basalisks, Raptors, Spiders, etc.) so this could be just the beginning of what’s to come.
AND YES! We need another tenacity pet darn it!
Woot! Thank you Zai! :-D lol
Kristy and Zai,
I think what Palla and I are saying is more that the extra pets is a bonus to that skill above and beyond what is a solid boost to pets in general. Heck, I’m even debating getting that talent without having an exotic pet since, except for one or two exotics, I’m not interested in them. I don’t like Rhinos all that much. Chimera don’t thrill me. Worms aren’t something I’m big on. Except for Devilsaurs and maybe Core Hounds, exotics aren’t something I’m desperate to have. But those four extra points, now those are worth the 51 talent point.
I have to agree with Palla nd Seidou. I am not really looking forward to the exotic pets so much as I am looking forward to the extra 4 points in the pet talent trees. I really would like a core hound, but if I do go 51 points in the BM tree, it’s not gonna be because I want one exotic (really do want The Kurken). Yeah, I’ll go nab The Kurken, but making my other favored pets 4 talent points stronger is what really interests me. That’s 16 levels worth of talents points (if my math is still good, and if they are still giving a point for every 4 levels). So, even though a lot of hunters may go for the 51 point talent, that doesn’t mean they are all going for the exotics. By the way, how do I take a screen shot? I tamed a new pet and I am really stumped on a name for him. I like this pet, and he may even take over my spider’s role as main pet. So, how do i take a screen shot and how do i submit it for “Name That Pet”?
Many would disagree about that. When Beast Mastery gave 5 extra points, you could put together some pretty good Tenacity builds. 4 is not enough, all you’ll be getting in any tree is a bit more health and resistances. I don’t consider that to be 51-point quality.
My real concern with the talent is that it effectively restricts your choice of pets. If you take it and continue to use a non-exotic, it really is a very weak talent for you. I think it would be better if it gave pets an overall buff, rather than the exotics being stronger on their own.
Seveil-
If I have this correctly, with just four points, you can get all three top tier talents. That’s actually quite a boost to your pet. If you have twelve invested in the lower talent rungs, you then are free to put a total of eight talent points anywhere you want. Honestly, that twenty-first point was just superflous and not needed. You can actually set up a pretty strong Tenacity pet just with twenty.
And, honestly, most Exotic pets are not stronger than the average pet. Rather, their a tad harder to counter. A lot of their talents blend two things rather than be super strong.
Sorry for the rather.. cryptic.. post. I was hysterical at the time and this page was open when I ran upstairs in a fit of tears. Heres the story:
He was just a kitten, ~4-5 mo. old. I had been keeping him in my room for fear of something like this happening. My brother was visiting… and my family was all pestering me to let him downstairs to socialize with the other pets… So I conceeded… And while I was up here (camping the Spirit Cat D:) they opened the door and left it open to move some stuff into the garage… and he apparently got out when they weren’t looking… and was promply ripped to pieces by our neighbors beagles… my step-dad found what was left of him by the front porch… he was so little, he couldn’t even defend himself. My poor poor little angel…
This careless mistake is only half of it though.. they didn’t even TELL me. I came downstairs calling him because I hadn’t seen him in a couple hours… and my step-dad just said non-chalantly ‘It’s dead. Dogs killed it’ I thought he was freaking kidding! (my step-dad has a horrible sense of humor, he would actually kid about this) I said ‘Shut up, where is he?’ ‘I said it’s dead.’ ‘Nuh uh. Stop saying that, it isnt funny.’ ‘I’m -not- joking.’ ‘…….. WELL WHERE IS HE?’ ‘I threw it into the woods.’ ‘WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!!! WHERE IS HE?!’
At this point I went hysteric-mode and ran around the house screaming and crying and looking for a flash light so I could find his body, but I couldn’t find one. After more screaming and crying I ran upstairs and messeged my best friend (and posted that message on here) and then went to her house. My mom called and said my step-dad had went and got his body so I could bury him, but I was already half-way to my friends house and was none to pleased with my family for their apathy and carelessness in the whole matter. So my step-dad buried him, and I went to my friends house and haven’t really stopped crying since. Back home now.
…. ;_;
That’s messed up…. being a proud pet of 3 cats myself, I can totally feel your pain. I’d have totally freaked out if that happened to any of the cats that claim me.
Very sorry for your loss.
And your stepdad is a total dick.
My Siamese cat escaped and was never found, but he was huge and had all his claws and often beat the crap out of our GSD, my take on it is he got out, approached the first person he saw and found a new home, cause… well there was no sign of him and it had only been an hour… >.>
Sorry for your loss Misty… but you CAN call animal control and have the neighbors dogs cited most states have a dangerous dog law that states an animal that kills another animal is to be labeled dangerous. And it forces the owners to keep them contained, if the dogs killed your cat on YOUR property the dogs will be confiscated and the owners charged a fee at the very least, as its against the law to let dogs roam at large.
Lots of people do it here.. and I don’t want them to get killed. They’re beagles, they have a huge prey drive and were bred to hunt. It wouldn’t be fair for them to be killed because they were doing what they were programmed to do. He was an INDOOR cat… he was supposed to be INDOOR. Poor thing had never been outside in his life…
That is why I kinda hate dogs..
My two cats are strictly indoor cats. If anyone just as much as hinted at them going outside. I would seriously beat the crud out of em.
I don’t know if it would make you feel any better.. but looking at animals makes ME feel better when im terribly sad. If you want to see.. I was doing silly crafts all day and I dressed my siamese up in t-shirt scraps. I made her look Haute Couture.
bless you.
Misty,
It was callous of your step-father and cruel to do what he did. He should have told you right off that your cat had gotten out and gone out to find him. Even if he hadn’t noticed, he should have told you and done so gently. I’ve lost numerous cats over the years. It is never easy, and to break it to you like that just made it much, much worse.
Harleigh, CUTE!!
Seidouyumi, I know he’s a jerk but.. he was raised that way… that ‘men don’t feel emotions’ mindset is still pretty common where I live. My brother says he’s been talking about it all day and how bad he feels for being the one to let him out. But he wouldn’t dare say he was sorry to my face, that’s just kinda how he was raised. Sucks but, I think he really does feel bad, and my brother does too. :( It all really sucks.
I’m thinking of getting this cute snowshoe kitten on petfinder ;( I can’t bare to see his empty food dish and all his toys laying around, and sleeping without him is unthinkable.
So has anyone else been able to tame Loque`nahak yet?
no but i will easier now that you arent there mwahahahha /wave hehehehe
NOT SLEEPING TILL CAT IS MINE
Also 20000 g to the hunter that finds him and lets me tame him >.>
No seriously… I have 20k gold…
YOU CAN BUY A MAMMOTH>.>
Snowshoes look like they would have the same temperament as a Siamese cat.
If you get another kitty be sure to get one that is a lap cat that will snuggle and sleep with you. You deserve a snuggler.
Arreyona; you remind me of myself when i was trying to get Humar the first time around. I did sleep thou.. but i have this weird way of waking up the EXACT moment something is supposed to spawn. Its pretty interesting.
But no one knows when its supposed to spawn! I stayed up for 52 hrs straight ot get Numaroc… and then he never showed up so i logged out annoyed and logged in later to give up and hearth and as I was hearthing guess who attacked m e!?!?!
I logged off and on looking for Humar over maybe.. 6-8 hours. He was supposedly on an 8 hour timer but cannot be up while the zhevra runner is up. I didn’t know this at the time so i just waited more.. At this time I used to sleep wayyyyy in.. but for some reason that night i woke up at 4:23am. I said what the heck and logged on.. poof.. guess who spawned a few seconds later? Humar! Yay.. I named him Ares. =D
Misty, my deepest condolences for your loss. As a proud and loving owner of 4 cats, and a dude btw, I am so sorry for what happened to you.
Best wishes.