ETC: Tallstrider Bonanza
[edit] An explanation, since I’ve confused people without meaning to:
These are my two newest Elite Test Cadre characters, code-named J and K. (I’ve been naming my characters in alphabetical order. And I’ve already forgotten their actual names.)
J and K are bound for levels 58 and 64, respectively. After my last post about the ETC project, your comments convinced me that I should at least try using Refer-A-Friend to speed things up, and it’s working like a charm.
In this screenshot, my two characters are level 10 and have tamed Greater Timberstriders as part of the Draenei hunter taming quest.
Because these tallstriders aren’t real pets — they are just temporary tames with the quest wand — they didn’t shrink down the way that pets do when you tame them. And so they tower above my Draenei characters in a most impressive fashion!
(The apparent difference in size between the two tallstriders is because one is rather closer to the camera than the other. I had a lot of trouble getting them positioned. Where is Eyes of the Beast when you need it?!)
I wish I could have gotten an action shot. Because these birds are so tall, they seem to run in slow motion, bobbing along majestically like geese about to take flight.
Table of Contents for Series: Elite Test Cadre
- The Joy of Data
- ETC: Elite Test Cadre
- ETC: Tallstrider Bonanza
56 Comments
O.o
invasion of the giant Striders?
Um… whats this about? Someone drink some noggenfloggin elixir?
can’t be noggenfogger elixer- it requires lv 44[?] and is BoP.
maybe the striders ate mania o-o
Papa Hummel’s Pet Biscuits?
I thought it was pretty obvious, but I suppose I was wrong. :>
So.. What is this madness? D: Giant Tallstriders taking over the world? A new Tallstrider class that can tame hunters?
Ohh, no wait… Mania is dual boxing?
What’s this madness? if there are tallstriders that big when tamed then I want one! could it possibly be from patch 3.3, the tallstriders become the size of Devilsaurs?
The hunters could be Baby-Spiced
I just made a new little hunter – this is the hunter quest at level 10, the “pets” don’t scale down. I was so sad, when I went and tamed Mazz, that he became tiny after taming one of these guys and having him be HUGE! ;o)
Could someone explain this to me?
Yeah, it’s from the draenei hunter quest at 10. When I first made a hunter and tamed a pet, I was excited because I thought they were gonna be that big forever. How sad I was when I discovered that was not the truth.
Even when they hit lvl 80, the tallstriders are not “taller”. I wish they were tho.
it is the draeni pet quest it is really odd tho but from what i learned both r wild it is just some 1 use a growing spice to make 1 look bigger
both r hunters on live
Also it could be after but with that grown up spice on 1
Maybe i’m silly, but i’d just imagine that 2 D. Hunters baby spiced each other :P
Err.. Hunter used a gnomish shrinking device? or something like that?
O.o I have no idea what this is about. Explain Mania! lol
look at the surroundings
I am guessing these are toons in mania’s Elite Testing Cadre guild. So I would say the pic above represents pet growth between character levels.
Eochaid
I’ve added an explanation to the original post. These are indeed the Greater Timberstriders from the level 10 Draenei taming quest. I apologize for the confusion — I thought it was just a neat shot.
Heehee I remember seeing my draenei with her overgrown bird and wishing they stayed that big.
Thanks for the explanation, Maina :)
I wish there was certain pets that didn’t shrink down. It’s cool having a pet tower everyone.
Well, there’s still beast wrath.
Devilsaur+BW+3x montrous bite still gets pretty big, its about 2-3 times the size of my tauren, love devilsaurs just wish i could find skoll already =P
This is simply because of the taming quest. While hunters complete the taming quest(s) at lvl 10, the pets you tame does NOT shrink. :)
Chrizesu, don’t forget those giant wasps from Sholazar !
It was watching the tallstriders slowly bounce through Darkshore that hooked me on them, years ago. I was so happy when the cap hit 80; mine scaled enough to stop that broken run they had at 70.
good thing is you could grant levels from those characters on any others you want to level
<3 my devilsaur in arena
bw + 3xmonstrous bite + heroism = big ass dino
…geese are not majestic. They’re nasty little buggers. D:
My first Tallstrider was named Dinky because of the shrinkage. He was the size of a chicken!!!
I like to tame tall Mazzaranche for the sole purpose of PvP. It isn’t because they are ferocity, or because of dust cloud. It’s just because handing some one their rear on a platter with a giant pink flamingo is priceless.
Repair bill to get to Mulgore at lv 10: 2g
Spending time hiding from stalker cows: five hours
Taming Mazzaranche and owning people with a flamingo: Pricless.
There are some things you can do as a paladin. For everything else, there is hunter.
:c couldn’t resist.
I’ve already got two striders, Clutchmother on my elf and rather bizzarely, a WHITE strider on my level 14 dorf which is a constant source of :O with the lowbies wondering what it is :) By my god they look tiny on the character screen!
I don’t get this whole multiboxing thing. You’re playing both (like, 2 screens?) or just having 1 of the hunters on following?
And if that’s the case, what are you doing when you come across “pick X things up” quests? Or just have to turn quests in in general?
Sorry for the noob. I’m really clueless about this..
Mania. I just got Skoll. I was shaking. Look at my post.
Good job with the catch, Guntitan!
I caught Loque, and then Skoll, but was forced to abondon them both when I wanted to dual-spec survival without wanting to give up Krush, Vile Sting, or my elite Tan Silithid, or Gezzarak for that matter. Vile Sting went to replace Loque when I decided I wanted him again for sentimental reasons. I picked up the purple 80 warg from the storm peaks that was fighting a Jormungar to replace Skoll since I was going Survival on my other spec.
Also, about the elite pets (the “(Elite)” you get when you mouse-over a pet that was an elite before the tame) were intentional. I didn’t know how obvious or not obvious it was so I asked a GM for clarification if it was a bug or not. They told me it was most likely put in as a reward for the hunter to show off after they’d tamed a pet that was elite.
I have a habit of doing the ‘dangerous tame’ pets, myself. :) My dwarf made a suicide run to the Blood Elf newbie lands at 20 to get himself a Dragonhawk, a tauren had a white bear, and another got an owl. But I think my most epic tame was getting my level 11 tauren into Northrend to get himself one of those Dire Raven skins…
Tame a Ravager as a Horde character when you hit level ten and make sure the one you’re taming is level ten as well. That’s a dangerous tame. :P
I hate you, Nanotrev. SO hard. I can’t even find Loque ONCE.
I took my newly minted level 10 draeni hunter through the plaguelands to tame a dragonhawk. That is an interesting run, lemme tell you. Though I think far worse would be horde trying to tame a low level owl.
lol some people are so much luckier then me, been lookin for skoll for almost 2 weeks, cant check during early hours like everyone recommends b/c of school but gratz to those able to find him =P
There are some birds that level in the Steam Pools in Borean i believe
Palla: Oh yes it really is worse, let me tell you. Running naked up to darkshore, running naked with gaurds after you for clipping to close, then having to run naked while dead to get into a ship to run get to Teldrassil’s shores only to rez, get five feet and die again.
Rez timers exist why? >(
Gimlion: Regash means the lv 7-10[?] crows, in northrend. They’re near where the ally come to shore, attacking rats and etc in Howling Fjord. Note, not the ones that are near Vengence Landing.
For a better reference, they’re in the place where UK/UP is.
Kinda on the lines of long runs… took an Orc over to Bloodmyst Isle to get the Zarakh spider at level 19. That was a terrible haul. Try it sometime. It’s terrible.
Actually Dweezill, that’s a pretty easy haul compared to getting into Darn. Mean outside of drowning yourself to rez on the boat and out of the guards reach; it’s a clear and fast trip thru Azuremyst to bloodmyst. Unless you clip Exodar.
Or are on a pvp server.
tho I’m reminded of dragging an orc and a cow all the way up to Dun Mogor for a white bear and a white wolf.
Reminded me of the good ol days of stripping and running thru STV :v
Yea, I did that one pretty easy ten to get a ravager. The trick is to actually AVOID Auberdine, by swimming out and drowning under the boat to Azuremyst. Then you rez on the boat, and viola!
I can’t even imagine trying to run to Dun Morough as a hordie. All of the dwarven sentries and hostiles close to the road would just make that hell.
Actually Palla, the dorfs are the easy part. as i’ve done the run so much horde wise to get to Badlands; as it’s really the only safe passage to badlands, thanks blizz! Anyways I basically know where they’re at for the most part/where they pat.
It’s only my own stupidity I keep taking the HARDEST TUNNEL IN 8D
The hard part is how long it takes and all the other mobs. I found two ways to get there, one was basically gromgol-westfall-hug the water right near the continent to not get fatigue and start swim hopping to wetlands, [note trash pet does help slightly from here on].
Ironically I only really started dying when I got to where the dragonmaw were at in the tunnel things.
The other way is just as long, if not longer cause of how far you have to go. Aka Tirisfal glades – Silverpine – Hillsbrad – Arathi – Wetlands – Loch.
>_o Arathi also has those lovely formerly elite guys that path randomly. Ran into them once. quite litterally thanks to lag.
It wasn’t petty Dx
Yeah, I also have a horde lowe level hunter that has has clutchmother and a white bar. I never really play that toon as I have too many 80’s to keep up with on my alliance server. And I do play on pvp servers. For some reason,i still had a harder time with getting the spider thanI did the bear and the clutchmother. Maybe becaue I far more familiar witht he Dwarf and gnome areas thanI am with the Draeni. i don;t have one level 80 draeni. lol I hated their strting areas. lol
I wanted a snow leopard the other day on a lowbie hunter, and found the Thalassian Pass trick still works. Long long run, of course. Die in the Ghostlands and cross the portal at Thalassian pass through to EPL as a ghost. Then you can rez at any spirit healer, and not return to where your body was. So, I ran as a ghost to Dun Morogh, and rezzed there. Took a while, but was an easy way to get a pretty cat at 11 :-)
Yeah, I once made the trip to get myself a red Lynx on my young dwarf (not Gimlion) that wasn’t terrible, until i had to get through the city to actually get to the red lynxes… But it was a lengthy trip to say the least…
Yes, yes I will buy one of these giant tallstrider pets you speak of…then I will comemce my taking over of the world.
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