As I sit here working on this very boring contract, I just happened to see a blue post slide by that I thought you guys might be interested in.
Ghostcrawler has posted that Blizzard is working on a new way to let our pets scale with all our important stats.
Did you see the news? Our druid brethren are finally getting some color choices in their bear and cat forms!
In honor of that (and also because of the many recent comments on the topic), I thought it only fitting that we celebrate the color-changing pets of Azeroth and Outland.
(And yes, I basically expanded the comment I made the other day into a full post. But I was surprised at how many people e-mailed to say that they have never heard about color-changers before.)
I’m still trying to catch up with recent news — so it’s likely that you, my dear readers, know more about these things than I do — but nevertheless I wanted call out some of the more interesting bits of info that have shown up in the comments here and in my e-mail recently.
Today let’s talk about summoning effects: It seems that all pets have lost any special summoning animations or effects they may have had. This means that Arikara the wind serpent no longer appears in a poof of dust, and Gezzarak the Huntress, warp stalker extraordinaire, no longer sizzles into being with an impressive flare of light.
So yeah, I haven’t been posting much lately. I thought I’d take a moment and tell you about some of the things I’ve been up to, both in and out of WoW.
Patch 3.1.2 graduated from the Public Test Realms to the live realms this morning. You can find the full patch notes on the World of Warcraft site, as always.
The big news is the triumphant return of the Equipment Manager and the changes to the Argent Tournament mounts that introduces ten new mounts. Hunters only have a handful of changes: