Hopefully you’re already aware of this, but if not I wanted to remind you: The Big Bear Butt Blogger is running a holiday raffle benefiting Child’s Play, the gamer-driven charity.

Child’s Play is a really cool thing in and of itself, and this raffle is a great way to reward people for who donate. Basically all you do is donate to Child’s Play either via PayPal or Amazon, then e-mail BBB a copy of your donation receipt. And voila! He enters you into the raffle. Raffle prizes include a 2009 Petopia calendar, a WoW TCG loot card, T-shirts, and the absolute coolest prize ever — a WoW class icon quilt. Yes, a quilt. With the class icon of your class of choice. Is that not cool?

This is one of those things I really should have posted about before now, but … it’s been a busy month. :> Anyway, BBB has extended the raffle until Monday morning, so if you haven’t donated to Child’s Play yet, do it now! And if you have already, make sure to send him your receipt so he can enter you in the raffle!

Ghostcrawler has continued the habit of active dialog that he established during the Wrath beta, but he hasn’t said much lately about pets and so I haven’t had much to say about him. *grin*

But today he did answer a question about Spirit Strike, the Spirit Beast family skill — and specifically why this skill doesn’t hold up better in a DPS comparison with other pets:

We’re aware of the Lovegevity bug. We’ll get that fixed and then adjust the dps as necessary. It should be a choice equivalent to a Devilsaur, but we don’t want the Spirit Beast to be far and away the best pet choice. I don’t think any of you are asking for that, but sometimes my quotes have a way of being taken out of context. :)

I’m glad to hear that the Spirit Beast will be brought into line with other exotics but won’t be the best pet choice. It’s already frustrating enough trying to tame Loque’nahak without him being uber powerful as well as uber gorgeous.

RFC stands for “Request For Comments” — which basically means that I need your help (again!). I’m getting a lot of questions about the pros and cons of each pet family and in particular the pet family skills. But there’s no way that I really test all the pet families in every situation myself, so I want to hear about your experiences with them! (And yes, with 32 pet families this could take awhile.)

Today’s RFC: The Boar family and their Gore skill.

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Do you remember that presumed bug back in beta that let hunters tame a ghostly crocolisk, plus a ghostly hydra and an ooze that thought they were crocs?

Yeah, well … apparently it never got fixed.

That’s me there with my new pet “crocoslime”, who is as yet unnamed. Isn’t he just soooo adorable?

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World of Warcraft launched on November 23rd, 2004. I know that because when I logged in this morning I had an in-game mail from Blizzard letting me know that today was their fourth anniversary — and giving me a really cute baby polar bear. Err … Baby Blizzard Bear, that is. I also earned the Feat of Strength achievement [WoW's 4th Anniversary].

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