Thanks to an extremely generous set of screenshots submitted by Warhammer this morning, I now have most of the silithids up on Petopia, on their very own Silithid family page.
(I’ve moved the new WotLK families onto their own pages because otherwise they bloat the WotLK New Pet page too much. But there are links to the family pages from the top of the pet page, of course.)
I have been sadly lax in cataloging new pets from the beta. Thankfully, other more reliable hunters have been on the job!
Serenas/Luxatra and her friend Kaylink, both of Daughters OfThe Alliance on Bronzebeard, have been exploring Northrend like … well, like little exploring fiends! … and sending me screenshots of all the Beast Lore’d beasts they meet. So I updated Petopia’s WotLK Pet page tonight with 13 new pets, including hyenas and (oddly) wind serpents. I also straightened out some mistakes I’d made with skins. (You can expect that to continue for the entire beta — both the mistakes and the straightening out.)
Last night I finally figured out how to get the WoW Model Viewer to work with the WotLK beta files.
I promptly took pictures of all the new pet skins I could fins (the ones that didn’t crash the model viewer anyway) and tried to match them up to the pets I have seen so far in my wanderings.
And the result is now posted on Petopia!
I’ve added the new dragonhawks from the Isle of Quel’Danas to Petopia. None of them can be tamed, but at least they are pretty to look at! I also went ahead and added the Dire Raven, with a note that it will apparently be tameable in 2.4.2. The Dire Raven hadn’t even appeared on Petopia before because without being able to tame it, we didn’t know which family it might be part of.
Petopia now has a short WotLK page that summarizes what we know about hunter pets in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion — which isn’t much. The most useful bits are the links to TKA Something’s BlizzCon coverage and the video & screenshots of the potential new worg-or-wolf model.
As always, please let me know if I’ve made any mistakes!
Petopia now has a listing of retired pets — pets that could be tamed in the past, but can’t anymore for whatever reason. You can find the Retired Pets page under Rare & Special Pets.
Please give it a look and let me know if I missed any pets. Thanks!
The ‘fake’ pet skills that I posted about here a bit ago have been added to the Big List of Pet Skills on Petopia. There’s a short list at the bottom of the page, and a link to a Fake Pet Skills page with more info.
In addition, the individual pet pages at Petopia now have links to Allakhazam as well as Thottbot and Wowhead.
When you have a chance, swing by Petopia and take a gander at the new skin I uploaded tonight. I’ve been working on it off and on for awhile now, and I have to say I’m rather fond of it. But of course I want to hear what you think. *grin*
Important Note: If you are seeing any weirdness with things overlapping improperly or colors that don’t look like this picture to the left, try forcibly refreshing the page. (On Windows this is normally Ctrl+F5.) And next time I will remember to change the name of the stylesheet so that isn’t neccesary.
I’ve been working hard the past few days on cleaning up the backend of Petopia in the hopes of getting actual new features and content up sometime soon. (This will be particularly useful if we are indeed anywhere near the WotLK beta, although I have my doubts.)
Most of my changes so far should be relatively invisible to users (with the exception of some relatively unpopular pages I am having trouble converting, which have disappeared temporarily while I wrangle with them). But there is always a chance that I’ve messed something up badly! So please let me know if you notice anything odd about the site. Thanks!
I realized yesterday when I was working with the Petopia pet database that I have contradictory notes on some of the Karazhan beasts. Since I’m not able to go in there myself to check, I was hoping that perhaps some of you might know — or be able to check for me.
