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
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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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hey Mania, i got some pet tame updates for u and nice screen shot btw. The Scarlet hound in western plaguelands are tameable, so are the White elite wolves from UP instance. just wanted to give everyone a heads up and start new tames :)
Goraan: I thought the white wolves in UP were always tameable o.o
oh no wait, I confused them with the Hodir wolves I bet
Just did this quest on my new hunter, and just pointing out, the cat you tame for the quest is AS TALL as you, so, naturally, it’s quite huge as well. :D
So, the draenei beginner pets are basically prehistoric behemoths?
sorry for double post, but I just thought of simething that Blizz should also do in an upcoming patch…
Ghoul emotes.
I’ve been risen as a ghoul twice (and also had a scourge disguise) and wanted to see what their dance is… or how they slept… or how they sat… and I found out that they do nothing!
Rottingham: I doubt it. Ghouls used to -speak- when clicked upon. Taken out. Ghouls used to only need to be resummoned when they died. Not anymore, now anytime you do anything you summon a ghoul from the ground automatically and that means I have to wait 30 seconds for it to cool down, if the ghoul dies imideately. There’s also a glitch with this in instances too!
Working as intended I was told!
Anyways.
I’ve noticed with the belf cats, the red ones, not had a yellow-red or killed one lately yet, is that well. They have NO SFX. I mean NONE. Not when fed. Not when attacked. Not when attacking. Not when killed. It’s just they’re all erriely silent.
I also don’t think the starting zone Dragonhawks have an sfx when fed either O_o
But could the cats atleast get some sound effects?
Yeah, I just checked it out. Those cats could use some sfx…
I know this is off-topic, but has anyone checked out the video of the Goblin starting area on MMO-Champion or Youtube?
Baboons!
Also turtles and raptors (brown outlands skin) and sharks without lasers on their heads yet.
Sure hope those Baboons are tamable. And wouldn’t hurt if you could teach them the /moon animation once tamed, heh.
Could be a source for low level monkies, I suppose. I’d have rather seen a new pet family, but I didn’t see any real sign of that in the videos.
Palla, remember Baboons aren’t exactly like gorillas, so I don’t think, if they are tameable, that they’ll be in the same family. As well most tank pets really are bulky and beefy to use Thunderstomp [at the moment] and the Baboon seems more of a cunning/ferocity possibility.
I also saw I think pink Pterodaxes too, not sure. Might have been a grey skin, or greyishpink. Idk.
And remember this is only 4 minutes in the starting area, and it could be like Mulgore. Tauren’s have pigs, striders and cats in their very first starting area. Near Bloodhoof it changes to wolves, striders, birds and cats.
There’s also Flamingo :D
So I’m hoping that there’s more that we’ve not seen yet.
Oh, I think there are bound to be more. I’m just curious as to what the beats in Gilneas will be. Perhaps some cats or bears that are mre ferocious looking because they, too, were infected with the curse.
\And maybe, if Blizz does that, then we’ll know what the worgen druid cat and bear forms might look like
I thought the Lost Isles were told to be like the DK starting zone, not able to enter unless you’re a goblin? Same with Worgen?
I think that since they are doing the phasing like the DK starter zone, worgen and goblins won’t be able to see other players that come until after they are done witht he phasing quests. You can still probably go tot he Starting zones and capital cities like all the other races, you just probably won’t see anything that was happening before the phasing
And you still can get into the DK starting zone- technically. And I doubt they would make pets available to -only- Worgen and Goblins. I know Blizzard are callous and ignorant to things, but even they can grasp that if they did something like that, there would be to much rioting.
I thought that they weren’t going to have their own capital cities? I think the wogen are moving into Stormwind and the Goblins to Orgrimmar or something.
I heard that the new captial cities will be gnomeregan and probably a troll one but I’m probably wrong.
I thought that the Undermine was going to be the Goblin one and I forget the name of the Worgen one but…
Undermine is, as long as i know, unfortunately, destroyed in Cataclysm :( But from what i understood, the Goblins are building their own capital, i saw a screen from Blizzcon of some quarry which supplies the building process.
And Worgen can’t live in Gilneas City, since it was announced to be actually a Battleground.
So if i understand right, the worgen are getting their own gothic spooky district in Stormwind, while the gnomes are moving back to Gnomeregan.
To balance it on the Horde side, trolls are staying in Orgrimmar, while Goblins will build their own capital.
Oh great just what I need for SW. MORE CONFUSION T_T
Are they just getting rid of the Gnomeragon Instance then? Or will it be more like RFC where there’s a raid inside of the Capitol city?
But also won’t it be strange having two main cities in the same startin zone? Maybe the Cataclysmic events are going to change that, but I have no idea :P I’m sure some of you out there do, though.
Also a worgen district in Stormwind, THat seems pretty cool. I bet lots of Grim grinning ghosts will come out to socialize there during Hallow’s End.
No published info on Gnomer – just rumours that gnomes will finally reclaim their city.
As far as Lost Isles/Gilneas go, I believe the major phasing happens on the trip to level 5 (which is part of the reason why Blizz skipped to the higher level for the Cata demo systems). The 5-10 experience may still involve phasing, but the zones themselves shouldn’t change fundamentally after that point.
All pretty up in the air at the moment though – we won’t really know for sure until Cata gets into beta.
Not quite, Nim. While it hasn’t been OFFICIALLY announced, it has been hinted at several times that the reason we haven’t seen gnomish priests is because of their work on reclaiming Gnomeragan, same with other gnomish fighters. Just those in particular, since I seem to recall there being medics that were functionally priests in Gnomeragan. There were a couple if blue posts regarding it. Regardless, that seems to be the direction that things are going. Worgen won’t get a home city, Goblins will, last I chest, in Azhsara.
Palla: So then in theory it should be possible to go from Azshara -> goblin starting zone?
Cause those low level raptors just scream ‘make an alt come try to tame me’.
Azshara will definitely be connected to Lost Isles by a boat, i can’t wait to see the Goblin capital though. I imagine like, strings of huts hanging from the cliffs of Azshara, mechanical lifts, tunnels inside the cliffwall, darn i can’t wait if it’s like this :)
We know goblins are getting something in Azshara, but if it is only on par with Sen’Jin Village then it wouldn’t need a new Alliance city to balance it.
The other thing that makes me doubt it though is the fact that Dun Morogh was only flagged as being in for a light overhaul in that colour coded map. Obviously, Blizz could have changed their minds since that map was created, but the area around Gnomer plays a fairly significant part in the quest flow for levelling gnomes and dwarves, even if you don’t get sent into the dungeon itself until much later.
After all, it isn’t like the blues would ever make misleading comments that are strictly and literally true, but designed to get people to leap to the wrong conclusions just so they can be amused by the wild speculation that results ;)
I’m not saying I’d mind if Gnomer was cleaned up and made partially Alliance controlled with a shorter instance left behind – I just don’t expect it to happen.
Nimizar: They’re retconning Arugal’s history hard and fast for Cataclysm, even going so far as to make out the Worgen as the holders of the curse/infection and the Worgen as the ones being vile/evil etc etc, and Arugal as one of those anti heroes/dark heroes, what have you, you know ignoring the fact he’s evil T_T
So that probably means several quest changes/instance changes to SFK, but they’re already going to be making a … lol .. heroic version of sfk…
._. wat.
Anyways I would not really care if they did change Gnomer. Hell make it shorter. And less confusing.
Was in a run there on my dorf hunter and we were there for like an hour :/ getting lost and etc.
Soo… Im the only one that tought when saw the ”codenames” of the characters ”Men in Black”? (Agent J and Agent K)
Really hope that Gnomer gets reclaimed and the gnomes get some real lore. They’re enire civilisation seems to have just grown out of the ground.
The goblin captial should be good though. I really wanted to see Undermine but the new one should be just as good. I hope for lots of explosions. In a good way.
If we really are getting new goblin and gnome capital Blizzard is going to have a tech fest, with each city trying to out do the other.
ooo tech fest. I hope so. I smell various new daily engineering events waiting for us if that happens! heh
Something just popped into my head while I was takig a shower. now, follow me here…. Blizz made Bestal Wrath’s duration 10 sec down from 18 secs because they didn;t want hunters relying too heavily on our pets. Now, in this patch (which hit today) they give our pets the “Culling the Hurd” ( I am pretty sure that is what it is called). This is an ability that gives the hunter and the pet 1/2/3% damage increase when the pet crits…… is it just me, or did Bizz just make themselves look like huuuuge hipocrites? This is an ability that depends on the pet, and Blizz said they were going away from that. Don’t get me wrong, I love getting a new ability that ups my dps, but this seems to go against everything that Blizz said they wanted to do. I also realize that all hunters will benefit from this, and that is cool too, but if a oet dies it hurts BM the most. Just don’t understand why Blizz would do something they said they were trying to get away from. If anybody knows anything, please fill me in.
They nerfed Bestial Wrath down to 10 seconds from 18 for Arena reasons. The 18 seconds of immune-to-crowd control was deemed to be too powerful. To most players it was an over-reaction, and I myself miss it very much.
But when the 18 second immunity was already working people over in Arena, it made it hard for Blizzard to buff BM dps back up to where it should be, and still be fair.
not only was it reduced due to arena… but it was also only ONE arena match… ONE FREAKING arena match… apparently blizz just didnt think one match could go unheard, even tho they won fair and square using CC/Imobilization reduction…
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