Mania’s Arcania

Ghostcrawler has posted a thread in the WotLK Beta Hunter forum looking for feedback on pet talents:

We need to finalize the pet talents pretty soon, so I wanted to created a thread that focused on their discussion. There are already some good posts on the topic, but they are mixed in with threads on various aspects of hunters.

So please give the pet talents some love here.

Focus on specific talents, and on how the trees are put together. Please don’t use this particular thread to discuss more global pet issues (like feeding, leveling or PvP burstability) or pet stats in general.

So if you are in the beta and you have anything to say about pet talents, please get over there and give feedback!

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The Wrath of the Lich King beta realms were updated tonight with beta build 3.0.2 (8926). The realms are not yet up, but early reports from the normal data-mining sources (like MMO Champion and WotLK Wiki) indicate that a number of pet abilities have changed in terms of damage.

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I’ve been sitting on a number of news snippets for a day or two waiting until I have enough of them to make a complete post. And none of these are exactly breaking material in their own right.

Harvest Festival

The Harvest Festival has started! Make sure to visit a capital city for your faction and pick up the free pet food! I mean … err .. tasty harvest feast.

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I just got an e-mail from Xardion, a hunter in the beta who has been quite helpful with tips and screenshots. He noticed a little something odd today …

All the spirits from the Oracle daily quest “A Cleansing Song” are marked as crocolisks and tamable. (This is probably a bug.) They are skinned as a ghost croc, ghost hydra, and a slime.

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Unfortunately I was a little distracted this morning, but I wanted to share some of the great Core Hound screenshots and videos that have been coming out of the beta.

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Of course you’ve read about Core Hounds already. I’ll be adding information about Core Hounds to that post instead of this one to keep everything neat.

[edit] Because of the server instabilities, I can’t stay logged in for more than about 30 seconds. So I’m calling this liveblogging post done. When and if I can get in later this evening, I’ll post what I find in a new (probably shorter and more coherent) post. [/edit]

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Miyari, Content Manager (and apparently “Bearorcat Overlord”) from Wowhead just let me know that they found what they believe to be a new tameable pet family in today’s beta patch:

Core Hounds.

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The Wrath of the Lich King beta servers are down for ‘maintenance’ as I type this. Now I was initially disappointed, because ‘maintenance’ usually doesn’t seem to include a new build, but Tigole says:

We’re going to try to patch today.

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Short answers: “Lots”, “Soon”, and “Because it’s a good idea.”

Need more? Read on.

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As I type this, the Wrath of the Lich King beta realms are down and being updated with a new beta build: 3.0.2.8885. And I am busy downloading all 458MB of the client patch. As usual, I will be live-blogging this build as I check it out, although I may have to stop early.

[edit] And now I’m done! Feel free to read my adventures at your leisure. [/edit]

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