Ancient Turtle, Volcano Turtle

Vephriel's TerrorpeneIn Cataclysm, there are two ancient turtle boss-types roaming around the new Mount Hyjal zone.

Tortolla is the good guy turtle, a quest giver, and apparently a demigod and ancient guardian. (Note: My facts may be utterly wrong here.)

Nemesis is the bad guy turtle. I’m not sure what his story is.

There’s also another bad guy boss-type turtle who looks like Nemesis in the goblin starter area named Volcanoth.

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Parrots Ahoy!

If you’ve been concentrating on the big hunter pet news from Cataclysm – like beetles and brain bugs and spirit beasts – you may have missed one of the smaller additions to our potential pets.

Well, if you can call seven (!) new looks a smaller addition …

I’m talking about parrots.

Right now on the live realms, the only parrot we can tame is Aotona, a level 75 rare elite in Sholazar Basin with lovely blue and purple feathers.

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Karoma the Wolf Spirit (Beast)

Frej And Karom The Wolf SpiritYesterday, another spirit beast appeared in the Cataclysm beta.

See, this is what I mean. I planned to log into the Cataclysm beta yesterday to finish rounding up the data on common pets so I can merge it into the Petopia database, but two minutes after I logged in the server came down for maintenance.

Okay, fine – the pets will still be there when it comes back up. And they were – and so were another five-ish pet looks to tame. I just can’t keep up!

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Boss Silithid Follow-Up: Brain Bugs for Beast Masters

Five boss silithids that can be tamed in cataclysm.Back in August we talked about two rare silithid pets with new models in the Cataclysm beta: Haarka the Ravenous and Soriid the Devourer.

At the time, taming one of these silithids on live and then transferring your character to the beta gave you a boss silithid model akin to Buru the Gorger.

Shortly afterwards, Blizzard restored Haarka and Soriid to the normal silithid appearance and created two new rares with the new appearance: Harakiss the Untameable and Ainamiss the Super-Exotic. Neither could be tamed.

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