Liveblogging the 3.2 PTR
The Public Test Realms for Patch 3.2 finally came up this evening, so I logged right in! I haven’t done a ‘live blog” in a while, so I thought it might be fun to relate my not-very-adventurous adventures on the PTR as I have them. I’ll keep updating this post as I go, but I’ll update it one final time to let you know when I’m done.
So! When I logged in I found four characters — two from the Patch 3.1 PTR phase and the two new ones I copied last night. (Note that copying characters before Blizzard gives the go ahead is always a bit iffy, but I tend to copy at least one as soon as possible regardless because I can’t stand waiting to get in.)
I logged in on the fresh copy of Mania and recalled to Dalaran. I decided that my first stop would be the Argent Tournament to check out the coliseum, the new daily quests, new mounts and new mini-pets. I hit a snag almost immediately, though — the Dalaran flight master wouldn’t give me an option to fly to the Argent Tournament. Now I’ve had that flight point forever (well, okay, since Patch 3.1) so this was a bit of a surprise. I logged out and logged in the older copy of Mania, from the 3.1 PTR, but she didn’t have the flight point either (although she should have since she got it on the 3.1 PTR).
Okay then! I’ll fly there myself. So I flew up to Bouldercrag’s Refuge and then flap manually over to Icecrown. Once there I talk to the Argent Tournament flight master — who obviously recognizes me (no green !) and who is perfectly happy to give me a ride anywhere I like — but when I fly back to Bouldercrag’s … well, I *still* can’t find a flight path to the Tournament.
Other people don’t seem to be having this problem, and when I manage to get a pre-made to Northrend he does have the flight point. So for now I just report it and go on.
Oh, interesting thing: I noticed Midsummer Fire Festival tents in the Storm Peaks as I flew over. I could have sworn that the Midsummer event wasn’t happening in Northrend yet, but Midsummer will be long over when this patch goes live. Did I just miss a bunch of tent in the live realms, or is this new?
Anyway, back to the Argent Tournament. First I hit the Sunreaver Pavilion to see what new goodies the quartermasters are selling. And … I don’t see anything new. But then I realize that there is a new quartermaster in the tent! Vasarin Redmorn, the Sunreaver’s Quartermaster, sells:
- Sunreaver Tabard – 50 Champion’s Seals
- Sunreaver Dragonhawk – 150 Champion’s Seals
- Sunreaver Hawkstrider – 100 Champion’s Seals
- Shimmerling Wyrmling – 40 Champion’s Seals
All of these items require you to be Exalted with the Sunreavers. The Tabard doesn’t seem to do anything special.
Unfortunately, like an idiot, I spent all my Champion’s Seals on a hippogryph just a few days ago so I can’t afford any of these items to see what they look like. However it seems likely that the Sunreaver Hawkstrider is akin to the ‘vehicle’ version that you ride as an Aspirant, and the Sunreaver Dragonhawk presumably looks like the new dragonhawk at the flight master — a rather metallic dragonhawk with black and red armor. (Interestingly, when I flew out of the Argent Tournament area my taxi was a lovely unarmored black dragonhawk.)
There are also two new daily quests in the Sunreaver Pavilion: A Leg Up (recover tallstrider meat from Hrothgar’s Landing) and You’ve Really Done It This Time, Kul (rescue people from Deathspeaker’s Watch). I’ll try those out as soon as I have a chance. Both of these seem to require Sunreaver reputation since the pre-mades can’t access them yet.
The Argent Tournament has a different feel now that the coliseum is finished. It has’t much changed the surrounding area, but the coliseum looms over everything else now.
Oh wow! The most gorgeous cat just ran by me! And … it’s a druid! A black Tauren druid. When I whistled at him he stopped to preen and turned into a bear. The bear looks nice, but man is that cat an improvement! I’m really impressed.
Okay, let’s hit the Argent Pavilion. Several new daily quests in here as well — which presumably require Argent Crusade reputation. It looks like you’ll get one of either The Fate of the Fallen (kill Fallen Heroes) or Get Kraken! (kill things from a hippogryph vehicle) each day, and always be able to take Mistcaller Yngvar (kill him) as well. There is also a continuation of the Black Knight’s tale, The Black Knight’s Curse. That one’s not a daily, but I’ll check it out after I finish here.
Ooh, and here’s the Crusader’s Quartermaster, Dame Evniki Kapsalis. She sells:
- Argent Crusader’s Tabard – 50 Champion’s Seals
- Argent Warhorse – 100 Champion’s Seals
- Argent Crusader’s Banner – 15 Champion’s Seals
- Argent Pony Bridle – 150 Champion’s Seals
The Tabard allows you to teleport to the Argent Tournament with a 30 minute cooldown. The Warhorse is an epic ground mount and the pony provides a mount for your Argent Squire that “allows your squire to run distant errands for you.” That’s presumably the thing that let’s you use your squire for mail, bank, or vendor. It requires level 78 but doesn’t mention a cooldown.
None of the Crusader items mention a reputation requirement, but I assume that there is a requirement of some sort on the quartermaster herself. I really, *really* wish I had saved some Seals, though, because if you didn’t catch that above … Mania can get a pony! Yes, the Argent Warhorse is available to Horde. I think I’m going to faint …
Speaking of which, the new Quest panel is very nice — just like the DoubleWide addon. It makes quests much easier to read. Unfortunately they haven’t done the same with the profession window yet. But it’s a start. The quest objectives on the world map doesn’t seem to be operation yet, though, or perhaps it doesn’t work for daily quests. Oh, no, I take that back — they are working for some quests but apparently not for the newest ones yet.
… Ugh … Short break while I mollify my husband. No one seems to be reading yet anyway so you probably won’t even miss me. *grin*
[edit] We had an emergency contract come up. I’m going to have to continue this later (in another post, most likely). Sorry about that, everyone! Feel free to tell me what cool PTR things you discovered in the comments. *yearnful face*
[edit #2] Ahha! I’m back! Probably not for long, since it’s already 4:30 am here and I need to get to bed, but I can sacrifice a little sleep for the PTR.
Here, for Ryai, is a screenshot of the Obsidian Hatchling sold by Breanni in Dalaran for 50 gold (minus faction discount). I want to try finding some of the other raptor mini-pets as well, but I haven’t had a chance yet. The angle isn’t the best on this shot, but it’s really hard to find an angle that doesn’t make him look even weirder than he is anyway because .. well, he’s pretty weird-looking. (Reminds me of a mal-nourished Savannah I had once.)
Well, hanging around Icecrown begging other people to buy an Argent Warhorse so I could see it didn’t work, but Rikaku did send me this screenshot (and thank you very much for that!).
After that failure I headed for a mount I can afford — the new skeletal warhorse. I have a thing for horses — even skeletal ones — so I am very happy to be able to buy another fast bony pony to ride. Especially for the new low price of 8 gold (after faction discount)!
The Ochre Skeletal Warhorse has some very interesting tints that show up differently in different lights. The shot here is from Dalaran to give you an idea. Notice that it has the same striped trappings as the expensive purple Argent Tournament skeletal warhorse.
While I was taking the screenshot of the skeletal warhorse, a player linked their new Venomhide Hatchling in Trade chat. I didn’t see it myself, but the item information says that the hatchling may only be summoned in Un’Goro, Tanaris, or Silithis. So … not a normal mini-pet. The owner told me that he got it in the new quest line in Un’Goro that took a long time — so long, in fact, that he wasn’t going to bother continuing it for the mount. On the other hand, the PTR hasn’t been up that long so it can’t be that bad, right? *crossing fingers*
Shortly after that another interesting item came through Trade chat — there are new categories in the LFG tool, including ways to look for any dungeon or heroic dungeon or any daily dungeon (regular or heroic). Not something I will ever use, but I’m sure those will be popular.
I relogged briefly onto an Alliance pre-made to check out the other new racial mount, the slow Striped Dawnsaber (now available at level 20!). Unfortunately I forgot that I wouldn’t have enough Darnassus reputation on a pre-made to buy one, but there were plenty of night elves in the area who were willing to let me get a screenshot. This cat looks a lot like the Striped Frostsaber, except that it has an interesting cinnamon cast.
So it’s getting late and I’m getting tired. Time for one more thing before I go to bed. Ravasaurs or Northrend orphans? Hmmm …
Ravasaurs. Definitely ravasaurs. *grin*
Flap flap flap down to Un’Goro, reading Junkfood Science while I fly. Then gallop gallop gallop down to the road from Tanaris, where we can once again find Mor’vek the Ravasaur Trainer, now mounted on a ravasaur (and oddly, with a Young Venomhide standing beside him). He tells me to go get poisoned by Venomhides 20 times … and he lets me know that learning to ride a ravasaur will take “a long, LONG time”. Oh, joy.
I accept the first quest, Toxic Tolerance, and go find some Venomhides to poison me. I was hoping to run across the Ravasaur Matriarch as well, but no such luck. And there aren’t nearly enough Venomhides in the area, even with only a few people here. Or maybe I missed the bulk of them somewhere. Although .. I punch the first Venomhide once (unarmed) and then stop attacking while I fiddle with my inventory, and when I look back up he’s posioned me twice. Perhaps this won’t be so bad.
Unfortunately, after I kill him I can’t find any more.
Ahha! There’s one! I get naked and punch him to death as slowly as possible. He splashes me with his venomous blood. And again! And again! Whee!
*cough* Okay, I feel a little weird about this. Should I really be enjoying getting splashed with venomous blood while naked? Heh. Anyway, I’m almost halfway done with this quest.
Oh here’s an interesting thing: my pet has a new icon on the mini-map. Instead of a blue dot, he is now a yellow X with red outlines. I wonder what that’s about.
In fact it only took me four Venomhide Ravasaurs to complete the quest, but finding that last Venomhide took almost 15 minutes. I timed it. :/ And I suspect it will be a bit tougher for anyone who isn’t level 80 yet.
Next up: a quest called Venomhide Eggs in which you collect … Venomhide eggs! From Venomhide nests … oh which there seem to be plenty, thankfully. After that is They Grow Up So Fast, in which you get that Venomhide Hatchling I heard about on the Trade channel. Apparently it will shed teeth as I run around with it out and when I have collected enough teeth I can … grow it into a mount? I’m not certain.
But in order to get the teeth, it looks like I have to do daily quests. The first one (and possibly only one) my Venomhide Hatchling offers me is Hungry, Hungry Hatchling — collect 15 pieces of fresh dinosaur meat in exchange for one baby tooth. At this rate it will take 20 days to get my mount … although 20 easy dailies is still probably better than the Winterspring Frostsaber. Especially since I seem to be getting a 100% drop rate on the meat.
After feeding my hatchling 15 pieces of meat, he’s full … and I guess I am done until tomorrow. Which is probably for the best since it’s almost 7 am and I am supposed to sleep sometime tonight …
And so I’ll bring this live blogging adventure to a close! Good night all. *grin*
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Wow, interesting stuff! Thanks :) With regards to the Midsummer Festival: there are definitely tents, and bonfires, in Northrend at the moment. Because there’s no achievement for it, a lot of people didn’t realize this. I presume the test realm is also showing them just because of the date (or because they were using it to test their bug fixes for the event before they patched it??)
It’ll be interesting if any new hunter pet skins, such as the “Phase Hunter”-like warp stalker skin that Rika noticed and posted about on the forums, will be found in this patch.
I’m curious about these argent warhorses? You say horde can get them, weren’t those supposed to be Paladin only mounts?
Or is it this “Argent Charger” I’ve seen in the patch notes that paladins get?
Andrea:
Argent Warhorses and Argent Chargers are two different Argent tourny mounts. Both require you to be a Crusader already (aka have obtained the Crusader title).
Argent Warhorse: Any class with Crusader title can ride. Looks like an Argent Warhorse you use during the daily quests. No horn, no aura. AKA first non-epic pally mount.
Argent Charger: Only Paladins who are Crusaders may purchase this mount. Looks like the Argent Charger you see at the Argent Tourny. Horn, has aura (I believe gold aura). AKA recolored epic Pally mount.
Hope that clears it up =)
And Mania, we’re always reading ;)
Yes, Midsummer is on in Northrend (live realms) – there are Horde and Alliance tents in every zone except Icecrown and Wintergrasp.
For the Warhorse – like Andrea, I also thought the Argent version was paladin-only.
…Whoops, posted too late – looks like Rikaku cleared the Warhorse business up :)
mmo-champion have a post with new ingame models
What i noticed is that they listed a picture of what looks like Blackmaw
Have they made changes to the model? Is there a new beast in 3.2? Or is mmo-champion just really slow :)
wow, sounds like this nex ones going to be great!! I am really looking forward to the druid changes…hmmm might have to go feral for a bit :P
Hmmm, i guess I should actually do the argent quests and dailies there…i need to make a clone so I can stay home and play, and the clone can go to work!
*****Important note for Mania*****
The Brood of Anzu, summoned during the anzu fight, are NOT tamable. beast lore tested June 22,09.
I don’t want green warpstalker, I want red. Reeeed. RED /weep.
Anyways since it seems once again the ptr is denying me, I’ll be relying on Mania and MMO.
Oh btw Mania, when you get a chance would you see -which- obsidain raptor Breani[did I get it right?] sells in Dal? Cause there’s two pet models MMO shows, a normal one and one that makes me think ‘dear god Crackbert and Crackjr have a new Cracksibling’
Thank you Rikaku! I can’t wait to see the Argent charger in action. :)
Wain & Phyllixia: Thanks for letting me know about the the Midsummer stuff in Northrend. I missed that completely!
Ryai: I added a screenshot for you above. :>
Haha thankyou Mania, it does look better ingame [personally I think they went for the 'Chomper' look from Land Before Time .. whatever number], and glad to see it’s NOT the wide eyed one, which is the one that got my cracksibling comment.
Anyways as again, thankyou. I have a hunch that the dusky grey one [like Takk the leaper] might drop from Takk himself, or mass killings in WC.
Tameable bone spiders!!!!
The Necrotic Webspinners by Icecrown Citadel are tameable. These mobs are phased out while you are doing the Argent Tournament “Citadel” dailies, but are visable at all times otherwise.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/alinaya/necrotic.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/alinaya/necrotic2.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/alinaya/necrotic3.png
Nirvana: That’s excellent news! Thanks for letting us know.
I heard some people refer to the Ochre Skeletal Warhorse as “belonging to a circus when it was alive”. Lol. I like it though, it’s very unique.
I find it rather odd that venomhide raptor pet is limited to a few zones, especially ones people don’t spend much time in anymore…
3.2 Mount Snippets « Warcraft Mounts: News - June 24th, 2009 @ 6:55 am UTC
[...] did some live blogging about the Patch 3.2 PTR this evening on my slightly-less-mount-oriented blog, Mania’s [...]
Such a cute raptor. I have set to be able to get on the PTR to check anything. I keep getting randomly errors and such. DX So hopefully I will be able to get on fairly soon. I’ll be on the PvE server. >_>
Kinda wanna makes me want to copy a character to the PTR….it’s hard to choose. The 80 hunter or the 61 druid… >.>
Does anybody know if this bad looking beast is tamable on the PTR . Link is here …
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/june/modelviewer07.jpg
I so hope it is, because that pet would fit perfectly with hunter t8 set and also t9 set. Will look deadly. :D
Wow, I checked out Junkfood Science…and..it’s really science-y….
Very interesting – especially the part about the ravasaur trainer. Always nice to see the devs giving a little love to the old world!
Well the ravasaur looks better than when I last saw it.
And oh god. ‘Hungry, Hungry Hatchling’. Aha. I need the PTR to start working.
And Mania about the pet dot change- it might be because it could get confused with other dots of classes, ok not that much but still everything looks like a circle when you can’t afford to glance at the mini map for more than a few seconds.
And.
‘Ahha! There’s one! I get naked and punch him to death as slowly as possible. He splashes me with his venomous blood. And again! And again! Whee!
*cough* Okay, I feel a little weird about this. Should I really be enjoying getting splashed with venomous blood while naked? Heh. Anyway, I’m almost halfway done with this quest.’
You made my day. I couldn’t help but giggle. Aria said the same thing though, there’d be naked 80′s running around once this happens. Ok first, getting my DK’s their 350 blossoms for a pet.
THEN, ptr hitting with a bat.
I finally got some sleep after the PTR madness @_@ Gonna see if I can spot any of those images as new pets. I’m almost certain that “Blackmaw” image everyone is seeing *not* a new spirit beast, but rather an in game mini pet called “Onyx Panther”.
If I do find anything new pet/mount, I’ll let you know Mania =)
Cool!
TIME TO ROLL A HORDE HUNTER!
Drooling over Ravasaur mount.
The question I have is: if you currently have a Sunreaver Dragonhawk as a pet (the ones belonging to the flight masters of the Sunreavers, which is now not tameable), will its skin change to match either the red and black armored mount model, or the unarmored black one you said you flew on?
Raenne:
No. Only the model file for the Sunreaver got changed. The actual file is now called a SunreaverDragonhawkmount (or something like that) instead of the placeholder file which was the current pet coloring you see on live. Hunters with this pet need not worry, your pet will remain unchanged.
That is an interesting thought if that will be changed over…
A living horse for the Horde? YES PLEASE!
Non-phased Icecrown bonespiders tameable! Nice to see that if I absolutely need to send Pishacha on a vacation, I’ll know which station to pick her up at=)!
Any changes on the summoning animation pets, or old world wasps?
Also, I’ve never had a Frostsaber mount. Does that one scale with riding speed or is it only +60%? I love that Ravasaur, but will be sad is she ain’t as fast… Plus would be cool to have an unarmored raptor that is epic just for something different…
(also I’d join the PTR but I’m on an older laptop and don’t have the patience, connection, time, or disk space to screw round there, so sorry if I’m askin’ too many questions about what it’s like over there…)
Saranette:
So far, no changes on summoning animation. Which frostsaber mount are you inquiring about? To my knowledge, no mounts other than the DK’s bone gryphon and the Blizzcon Bear scale with riding speed. The new Striped Dawnsaber is only a 60% mount.
Hmm, Blizzard certainly has invested some time into the ravasaur mount. Can’t wait to get it myself.
I just heard that it takes about 20 days to get the Ravasaur mount. Not sure if that’s true or not, but I will do more research into it. It does, however, have a feat of strength in obtaining one.
I love the look of the new Sunreaver Mount – though I am concerned for all those people going for the 100 mount Achievement. Seems like taking their thunder that some players (of right faction) can get a Sunreaver mount without getting 100 mount acheivement.
Perhaps this mean they’ll change the 100 mount reward. Otherwise that’s…just kinda crappy. Takes away from the rareness – IMO – of the 100 mount reward (even if the look is different…)
Just seems kinda off…
Saranette: It will be like the Frostsaber. Require basic speed but be a 100% speed mount. These are the only two in game like that, they don’t scale, they are both 100% speed mounts. They’re just unarmored like the unarmored talbuks.
20 days of grinding isn’t bad, compared to my netherdrake rep grinding of half a year lol.
Edit: Wintersaber rather… whatever. Ravasaur will be like purple cat.
I agree Koriani. Keep the blue alliance dragonhawk since it looks distinct enough on it’s own, but change the horde reward for 100 mounts. A bat would be cool, since they haven’t used them yet!
While its nice to hear about the new content…. any news in regards to the actual hunter changes??? Anyone???
Awww! The hatchling is sooo cute! *crush hugs the hatchling* ….Aww.
hmm.maybe the hatchlings only useable in those areas because its for the quests?
Teleporting To Quest Hubs | MMOFire - June 24th, 2009 @ 8:01 pm UTC
[...] Mania has hit the 3.2 PTR’s and, amongst other things, observed that the Argent Tabard costs a mere 50 Champion’s Seals. The Tabard allows the owner to teleport back to the Argent Tourney grounds, on a 30 minute cooldown. The teleport ability was announced in advance, and I may or may not have heard the price previously, but hearing the two facts together caught my attention. [...]
OMIGOSH OMIGOSH!!! LOOK HOW CUTE THE RAPTOR MINI PETS ARE!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH TOOO CUTE!!! It will take me FOREVER to get too level 80 but I’m trying double hard now for these CUTE mini-pets! I’m asking a friend to buy that raptor for me!! Ahhhh!!! SO CUTE!! I now have a new love for raptors and OMIGOSH a pony!!! THIS IS JUST WAY TOO MUCH!
hmm I forgot to say thanks for informing us AHHH RAPTORS
I’m assuming that there’s going to be one raptor baby of each of the colours that the old-style raptors were available in? (Grey, blue, green, red, pink, orange, yellow and brown) Also, I see that in the MMO-Champion raptor picture, there’s two brown ones… I see the one with the bigger-looking eyes is the ravasaur hatchling and the other one is the obsidian one bought from Breanni… Otherwise, I’d say that the remaining raptors are farmed off of the Gundrak raptors, Takk the Leaper, the Ravasaur Matriarch, Dart, the Razzashi raptors from Zul’Gurub, the deviate raptors of Wailing Caverns and lastly, off of the Ravasaur Matriarch.
That’s all a guess where those other raptors come from, BTW.
The reason theres 2 raptors that are “obsidian” hatchlings is one is a regular mini-pet and the other has something to do with the Ravasaur mount (or at least a specific quest).
All the other hatchlings are drops off rare & elite raptors throughout the world.
I copied over four premades, none of which have made it to the realm yet. I was really looking forward to testing the new druid skins.
I’m moving tomorrow, so I will check here for updates on the ptr whenever I can find an internet connection.
You’re my “lifeline” to wow mania!!
Knarcus: Be glad you got them copied, I finally got the ptr patch to work, go to the copy character screen. The queue for both are FULL. I NEVER EXPERIENCED THIS BEFORE.
AURG.
Raggle fraggle.
Anyways, as I told Aria that’s what I figured for the raptor hatchlings, and it’ll probably be easiest to farm the instance/raid ones as, once my paladin gets to 80 as I’ve started leveling him again, I can just go destroy everything mwahahaha.
I mean er find an orphaned hatchling. Yes. Truly. It’s not my fault..
The screenshot Rikaku provided says it’s been moved or deleted. Got another URL, Rika? :P
A question:
1) Is the Ravasaur learned like a normal minipet?
if so, I hope alliance can farm it off ravasaurs. heh
Well Blizzard finally decided to copy my premades over earlier this morning, and the pve realm didn’t crash once!! (omgwtfbbq!?!?)
Anyway, I, once again, forgot to pick hunter as one of my premades, so I can’t comment on that..though I did see a few BM hunters outside Org dueling, so maybe that is a good sign??
One of the more interesting, and rather humorous bugs I have found is shamans get unlimited grounding totems with no CD.
As far as the druid skins go..I love the cat form..love everything about it..especially the darker skin. Bear form, however, is a completely different story.
They have the exact shape of the bear mounts, including the HUGE backside. It’s very distracting and obstructive when trying to tank when all you can see is your bear’s huge round butt.
For those interested, and please forgive me if this has already been posted here(any of this post actually) it’s been a long night of refreshing the character copy status screen.
Anyway! For those interested, the Zeppelin to Thunder Bluff From Orgrimmar is on the same tower as the one to Northrend. The Flight takes approximately three and a half minutes, and has some decent scenery of the Barrens, and it docks on the Thunder Bluff side on the Elder Rise.
As far as the portal to Outlands from Orgrimmar, I never found it.
Oh yea..almost forgot..the new 40man battleground, isle of Conquest..is fun, but the games are maybe..7-10 min. long. First team to get the airship wins. Not really any way around it unless they cap how many can ride the airship, or give some form of interior defense for the General.
Sorry for the huge wall of text..probably going to end up being another tl;dr type deal, but for those that read the whole thing, thanks lol.
I doubt I will be able to post anymore after this, so I figured why not just say it all in one post?
-Knarcus
I am very excited to go see if there are any new tameable hunter pets (like the bone spiders we discovered) but the PTR isn’t letting me play! I coppied my toons, updated it all, installed it all, and now it’s giving me an error saying I do not have Lich King installed (which obviously I do! lol) any advice?
Zhanael:
Which screenshot? I’m not sure which one you mean. Let me know and I’ll fix it.
Takuro:
The Obsidian hatchling (aka ravasaur with the regular evil eye) is purchaseable from Breanni in Dalaran. The other 8) one is part of the Horde ravasaur mount quest and to my knowledge, not obtainable for allies as it is not a real minipet. But I’m not 100% sure.
Knarcus:
I was in a non-premade Isle and it took a long long time. Like 15 mins to accomplish. I think the fact that so many people are using pre-mades with some wicked gear is having an effect on it’s timer =o
Tillamooke:
This is an actual bug, the best I can tell you is go to wow’s main forums, and go to the PTR forum. There’s a long thread that a blue/dev is posting in right now for people experiencing that problem.
Mania:
Dunno why my link in your thread isn’t working, but here’s the link to it again for others. If it still doesn’t work, I’ll link you my public PTR pics and that should do it.
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o270/Suzaelos/WoWScrnShot_062309_215011.jpg
Hey, I know I might seem like a noob for asking this but I was wondering…
Since the horde can get ravasaurs, what do alliance get? or is it a special thing for horde, and the new alliance thing is the dawnsabre? idk :P
Rottingham:
The Alliance have always had something. They didn’t get anything “new” because they’ve always had the Winterspring Frostsaber (aka Wintersaber). This is the Alliance equivelent of the Horde’s new Ravasaur. Both are basically rep/quest grinds that earn you a Feat of Strength upon earning the mount.
Wow, a lot of nice new content. Can’t wait for Patch 3.2!
Question about the Ravasaur mount quest. What’s the minimum level you can start it at? I really hope you’re not required to be 80.
I would say at least high 40′s to low-mid 50′s since the raptors in Un’goro are around 50-54-ish.
Add on top of that the fact that you have to be poisoned twenty times for one of the first few quests.
I’m having trouble with my network today, so everything is a bit slow. :> (Clarification: I am a bit slow because my home network is having problems. The site should be fine — or at least as fine as it usually is.) But I fixed the link to the screenshot — thanks again Rikaku!
Mitsuhide: Whoops — I meant to include the quest level but I forgot. But I *believe* it was marked level 48. It was very definitely grey to me at 80, and completely doable by someone of appropriate level for Un’Goro.
R.I.P Michael Jackson
Strategy to do the raptor quest with one ravasaur-attack to low health. Feign death. Punch to low health. Feign death. Etc.
Also, there are more quests than Hungry Hungry hacthling. Mine made me ger 6 6 Searing Roc Feathers.
@Mania – Ah, thank you. Excellent, I’m lvl 52 at the moment, so maybe this will be my second gift for hitting 60, the first being my Devilsaur pet :D Any idea when the patch will be ready to go live?
I expect it will be awhile — a month, at least, would be my guess.
Mitsuhide:
As Mania has already answered it, I wanted to further agree with her timeline. The patch will not be out til probably late July to Early August. The reason being that the patch will also bring a new Arena season with it. Generally these seasons end on a fairly predictable pattern, so you can expect it to probably be a month at least til patch time (as Mania said)
Does anyone else wish the cower bug was fixed already? This is sad that 3 major content patches in and its STILL not fixed lol
Rikaku I really doubt the cower bug is fixed, tho I hope it is, having problems just pulling pets in and out of my stables. all skills on petbar on! all skills off! Growl off cower on and it’s like BAD EREBUS U R TANK U DONT COWER.
[Ahune madness \o/]
Anyways.
I would suspect that you can grind for the mount before lv 60, as my DK was I think lv… 59? when I started grinding rep for the damn wintersaber trainer. Dinged 60 when I got to friendly lol.
MUHAHAHA
im back!!!!!!!!!!
ok for the leg up quest it did say tallstrider meat yippee looks like ther bringing back the tall the tallstrider that is
Ryai:
Oh I know it’s not fixed, I just joked that I know I can’t be the only one wishing it was. Seriously, three content patches is enough time to fix it D=
Oh god, Ahune… *shudders* Poor Kokakola will never be the same after that madness XD
The real madness was when the three of us tried to three man him in hc mode and Ariamodasu died and then it just went from crap to there.
THE GAME IT LIES. KEAL’THAS GOT EASIER IN HC. AHUNE GOT HARDER.
I think I might get a bear tho for Brewfest, Erebus is nice for ZG for the control fights, and for the raptor god, since Bad Attitude allows him to keep threat up on the raptor :)
but just all the water elementals, my god. It was like, beees. BEEES.
And sorry Rikaku, I didn’t mean it like that, just, as much as I do wish it was fixed, mean doub they are going to fix it Dx
.. and scarily I think it’s getting worse.
The meat daily is not the only daily from the little Ravasaur. You can also get Poached, Scrambled, Or Raw? in which you have to get 12 Silithid eggs to feed to your little Ravasaur.
So, I assume a majority of people have seen this on MMO-champion:
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/june/modelviewer14.jpg
Does anyone know if perhaps the warp stalkers from The Arcratraz are now able to be tamed or if perhaps a new model of these critters has been put in Outlands somewhere? Something else that comes to mind is the fact that ages ago MMO-champion had information in regards to a warp stalker mount that had the same skin as Gezzarak the Huntress. It never hit live realms but perhaps this is a different version of it?
Following up on Nirvana’s “Tameable Necrotic Webspinners” post, I’ve confirmed on the PTR that the Deep Crawlers in Old Kingdom are still not tameable.
Feel free to check up on any other possible tameable bone spiders (Terror Spinner, Hadronox, etc.). The PTR keeps crashing way too much for me to do much testing. :(
anyone know if the quest items that need to be fed to the Ravasaur baby.. like eggs & meat are farmable now? would be a great AH item when the patch hits =D
NanoTrev: There’s a new Stable Master outside the Horde tent at the tournament with that warpstalker as a pet.
My guess would be that’s what that model is.
Meh –
No, the meat/eggs (and I just got a quest for Roc feathers from Tanaris today) seem to be quest items only…
-However-
The quest for the mount requires:
20 teeth (from dailies)
80 gold (from pocket)
and one stack of (20)Rugged Leather + one stack of(20) Runecloth.
If you’re planning on farming anything, I’d stock up on those :)
Well Rikaku it seem’s one bug hasn’t been fixed, Wild Hunt. well it has but hasn’t, decided to grab Aurelius out to stand out against ALL THE TROLLS WITH WOLVES- tho a tauren stands out anyways. I tab 2/2 wild hunt, doesn’t take effect, note Aure’s power before miounting, then dismounting. She went from 1440~ to 1600~ and gained about 2k hp.
That seems to be fixed atleast- hopefully cower and etc are too.
Edit: I take that back, I pulled Jupiter out and EVERYTHING had turned off. Including Spirit Strike And Claw.
As far as the devilsaur quests.. Do we need to be exalted with darkspear to ride one?
Ravasaur* not devilsaur. And no- just because he says he”s with the Darkspear tribe, doesn’t mean you have to be exalted. Ravasaur =/= Troll mount, even if it looks like one. It’s like the Wintersaber, tho you have to grind rep with them, not grow a hatchling into a mount.
Savannah? you had a Savannah? Now I’m totally impressed and jealous. I hesitate to ask why malnourished.
very nice. wanted one for years. and years. ::sigh:: actually, want a pair, so they can have a good time together.
/shibumi
It’s advised that you don’t keep two monitor lizards together except for a few hours to a couple days for breeding unless you have a room-sized enclosure for with two basking spots etc. Just some advice from a savannah owner.
Thanks alot for all the good info. Don’t have anything too important to say just that your efforts in live blogging are appreciated.
Devilsaur/Ravasaur same diff =P LOL
I couldn’t think of the name. Sorry.
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