Here’s what my evening looked like …
| Task | Status |
|---|---|
| Login | Done! (Eventually.) |
| Turn on Colorblind Mode and Preview Talent Changes | Done! |
| Stack Arrows | Done! (Okay, maybe not such an essential task as to stand on its own. But I’ve been looking forward to this for weeks!) |
| Tame Gondria | Postponed. (Er … yeah. I got bored after two loops around Zul’Drak and gave up. Good luck to Trique, the other Horde hunter who was already out looking on my realm.) |
| Spend Talent Points | Done! (Yes, I flew around Zul’Drak twice looking for Gondria before I realized that until I put the points back in Beast Mastery I wouldn’t be able to tame him even if I did find him.) |
| Replace Quiver | Done! (The Clefthoof Hide Quiver has been stashed in the bank and replaced with a Frostweave Bag. What? Of course I saved the quiver! It has sentimental value.) |
| Buy Call Stabled Pet | Done! |
| Unlock Dual Specializations | Done! (The second spec is staying unspec’d for testing purposes.) |
| Mourn Bank Balance | Done! |
| Start the Argent Tournament | Done! (The easiest way to get there, by the way, is to chat with the Argent guy on the helipad in Dalaran. He’s got a big banner and he’s sitting on a hippogryph — you can’t miss him.) |
| Turn on Colorblind Mode and Preview Talent Changes — Again | Done! (Apparently crashing out caused them not to save properly.) |
| Buy a Black Skeletal Horse | Done! |
| Buy a Black Wolf | Done! |
| Buy a White Kodo | Done! |
| Find a Sprite Darter | Done! (Oh, the carnage! Thankfully the Sprite Darters respawn like crazy — there were enough to keep three level 74+ Horde hunters busy with no real downtime. It took me just under an hour to get my egg, not counting two short server crashes.) |
| Fish Up a Sea Turtle | In Progress (And probably will be for quite a while!) |
The much bigger task — the one that isn’t on this list — is figuring out what to do with my full stable. Which pets I should keep, which I should switch out … and how to spec everyone. And that’s what I’ll be contemplating for the rest of the the week, most likely.
Things I’ve noticed: Gimpasaurus Rex is no longer gimpy (King Mosh didn’t ALWAYS run before, sometimes he shufflewalked, but now he seems to run fine all the time), my plaguehound no longer shuffles either (yay!) and…
I rode out and double-double-triple checked the sholazar wasps, and they all have the same model (silithid) as they always have. The weird mapping over the old-world wasp model must have been some peculiar localized glitch because all the wasps here in the basin look normal.
Erm…somewhat off-topic, but as I was playing a bit ago, I fell in the water with my kitty mount. As I crawled out of the water, I blink, and see my spiky hellfire wolf Iorek is by my side.
While I was mounted.
Did Blizzard pull a sneaky one on us and made it so our pets ran by our side, or was it the game still thinking pets come in water, cause I “dismounted”.
-Fire, Iorek, Moonlight, (Rak’shiri ftw) Firefly, (Broodmother moth), and Aayren, (polar bear!)
Here’s another pet fix: I noticed my hydralisk was silent! A very welcome change!
Dunno about the crocoslime, hope he’s silent too!
Wait, let me get back at that, he is not completely silent, but he is more silent then before.
Nachtwolf:
Your plaguehound runs? My friends still doesn’t O_o Maybe mine is lag though XD
So much to do. Update my site, get my builds in order. Realize i have more gear planning to do. Kick myself for not updating my addons before raiding, update my addons…yeah still havent. Fish up that sweet turtle mount, and then on top of that ive been procrastinating rl stuff and its all crashing down on me
i am overwhelmed, but unlike most of the time this happens, im not stressed about it. I dont know how that is, but i wont complain!
After reading Nachtwolf’s post, I ran on Rosa [closest to a stable master] to get Dante.
DANTE RUNS :D
And Dante was a NORMAL black saur from Un’goro.
HE RUNS :D
Still no jump animation but he runs! No shuffling! No herkjerk motion that makes me queasy!
:D
Ihlos: probably giddy over the somewhat better hunter changes?
AND double posting not just for that.
Corehounds swim :D
So this morning, I decided to try and contact some friendly looking hunters on the opposite side to relay some information on rare spawns and when they were killed/tamed in the Basin. It just started, but it’s already had it’s own small successes and trollings. I thought about starting a thread on the wow realm forums about it, but lightbringer has a kinda nasty troll population that’s been embedded for some time since it’s a pretty old server. I’d like to know, do you guys think I should start a new thread for aotona/krush/loq information on these forums, or just add info to a particular existing thread on the matters of hunting for the rare spawns?
It’s mainly meant to help out all hunters on cross sides, and to hopefully not get them to grief either side…
Got some bad news.
I don’t think the Sunreaver hawks are tameable by Horde anymore :/
I’m not sure if it’s only because Ryai’s done some of the turny quests or not. But I can no longer go ‘At War’ with them.
Ryai: Ack — you’re right! That probably puts them in the same boat as the Silvermoon dragonhawks — only tameable by alliance.
Would some kind Alliance hunter like to check that out for us?
Wow… a very annoying error. Look at my stats:
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Blutkessel&n=Alondik
I have respec’d yesterday (to get rid of my exotic pets, see entries above).
Have spent 51 points for beastmaster, NOW after one day Patch 3.10, I got only 33 points. And for marksmanship I spent 13 points, which I still have.
So in total I got 46 talent points for a level 80 char.
That’s really ridiculous, never ever had such an error.
I guess I bave to spent once again gold to respec (but I am not responsible for that!) – already opened a ticket, but after 2 hours I gave up.
Peter, you may want to wait until they get the problems straightened out — they may even give you another free respec at that point. On the other hand, you’ll be waiting instead of playing, so … not great choices, I suppose.
Definitely be waiting ’round. Kinda humorous, I’ve had an open “report an issue” ticket sitting on my main for over a day and a half now. I’m sure there’ve been worse, but it’s a new record for me!
I was having talent point issues also, a few were missing, they eventually showed back up though. Sounds like a few people are having this problem. Instances are constantly going down on my server too, we tried running nax last night and patchwork was just standing there evading. Anyone else having this problem? I have not been able to run a single instance since the patch…
I thanked you in my blog. 2,500 hits
Well just saw some sore person razzing dual speccing [not cause of the price]. Razzing it cause oh it’s ruining the game because now hybrid classes can tank- or dps, if they have the gear!
I’ve been in dozens of failed runs BECAUSE of the lack of tanks and or healers on my server, it’s why I originally rolled a paladin. And why I respecced from ret to prot.
And now he whispered me claiming oh it’s only a reward for hard core raiders!
Sigh some people.
I do appreciate most of the changes this time around, but one im not jazzed about, but hasnt yet been fully understood is the making of bosses immune to taunts from pets. I haven’t completely confirmed this yet, but it seems to be the case, and its the first big nerf to pet tanking weve seen, so kinda sad there.
Also, ill be keeping my quiver equipped. How else is it going to show up on my back? A little spring cleaning cleared up enough bag space to make room for my pet tanking set, so im good.
Meanwhile I got an answer with a predefined text. They told me I have to rename my Interface and WTF folder. As I already stated, Wow armory shows on their web page the same stats, so it is definitely not dependant from my PC.
I am really and seriously disappointed about Blizzard.
Edit: This was the most confusing, laughable and flip flop argument over Dual Speccing ever,
My only ‘hatred’ for it, is the cost, and ofc allowing it to be open so early [lv 60 would have made even more sense] but whatever.
So first the guy claimed, it ruined it for real healers and tanks cause people with no skill would be healing/tanking! No wait this was after he was ‘disgusted’ that people actually would level as dps.
Then he went on to say that it only rewarded hard core raiders- and that it shunted pvpers into the corner. I ofc pointed out it doesn’t. You could have PVE and PVP specc, like for warriors, you can’t really pvp well as tanks most of the time can you?
Then he tried to be all ‘it ruins the character building yada yada’! I ofc pointed out Hellscream is not an rp server anyways :/
Then there was ‘omg you have to choose to retalent at a trainer!’ when I pointed it out it’s basically the same. Then you know I went and said how is this any different than doing that? Once compared to constantly? And evidently the responce was ‘YOU CHOOSE!!’ and just.
I can somewhat admit that if you leveled as a tank it’s not unreasonable to be fearful some idiot who doesn;’t know how will buy this, think up a tank specc, and yada yada- but the thing is, as I repeatedly said, Skill > Gear, and what about the ones who know how to do it all in hybrid classes? Especially Paladins and Droods? And this benifits guilds, hardcore or not.
:/ I mean I was only blah over it over the price, but I’m getting it for my drood when he’s high enough and I have the money for it. I wanna be Feral tank/dps and dps caster Chicken.
Ihlos: I’m hoping possibly that it only affects ‘Taunt’ and not Growl. But if it does affect growl, you are partly right. But if worst comes to worst, I can flip growl off, turn bite on, on Erebus, and just keep spamming misdirection on him.
Thunderstomp SHOULD make up for it.
If it’s not affected too.
After being drained all day from the Gondria camping, I finally hit gold!
Posted a vid on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ-J9RUX-PU
Never give up! :D
Gratz also on the Sprite Darter Hatchling dude!
Now it’s just a matter of trying to get the Turtle :(
Aotona again today. No dice, though I did make some contacts to relay information between so not all was lost.
Gonna try the morning hours server time instead of evening hours. I suspect I may have a better chance then. Course watch me get a mail that she was found while I was sleeping.
I’m also trying to figure out if server crashes or region crashes (Northrend) effect the respawn rates. I know rare spawns won’t respawn on a server reset/crash, but I’m wondering if their timer gets altered/reset each time a crash happens…
ok, I know I sound like anoob and all… But what’s a Spirte Darter?
It’s a cute little non-combat pet that used to be Alliance-only. Here’s the info on Warcraft Pets.
I think the game NEEDS more faction only pets, and not less to be honest. Give people some incentive aside from racials to play something different. Heck, I’ll go so far as to say race only non-combat pets as well.
Course they won’t do it, because then OH at the whining!
Man, first time I’ve EVER been lucky with a rare drop pet.
Got my Sprite Darter on the *very* first kill. ^__^
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Hey guys, noob question because I’m one (hehe!)
I removed my Quiver and it still requires Arrows to fire a shot-sting etc.
What am I doing wrong? :(
thanks,
xxx
Maria: At this point we still need to use arrows (or bullets, as the case may be). But we no longer need to store the stacks in a quiver in order to get the speed benefits we did before. And since ammo stacks to 1000 now, many hunters are just keeping a stack or two (or 10) in their normal bags and skipping the quiver.
Awww,got it now. Thanks a lot Mania!
Quick Newb question: if you dual spec BM and SV or MM can you still have epic pets (Gondria)?