I’ve been desperate for Uldum to open ever since I got into the Cataclysm beta. There are ways – unapproved ways – into Uldum right now, but since my main interest is (of course) the creatures there, and since the zone at this point seems mostly unpopulated, getting in doesn’t do me much good. I need the zone to be done. Or at least opened by Blizzard.
I’m not done with the Cataclysm Safari by any means, but I’ve delayed the next … section? episode? chapter? … for a moment while I concentrate on getting basic Cataclysm information up on Petopia.
As galling as it sometimes is, many more people read Petopia than this little blog – by many orders of magnitude! – and so sharing information there is, well, more effective. At least when we’re talking about pretty tables, like what pets live in the new Cataclysm zones or what new looks may be available.
I haven’t seen much about these two little taming tidbits yet, other than a quick mention here or there, so I thought I’d draw your attention to them.
Back before the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, most hunters would avoid low-level pets. Well, most sane hunters, anyway …
Let’s go on safari to the new/old zones of Azeroth! Today I’ll share brief pet-oriented reviews of Mulgore, Durotar, Azshara, and the Northern Barrens.
Normally I wouldn’t do four zones at once, but there weren’t all that many changes in these zones.
Before we start our safari, you should read the disclaimers and caveats in the Cataclysm Safari: Intro.
Venaal asked yesterday in a comment about Deepmoss Webspinners in Cataclysm to “see this spider thing”. So I got some screenshots.
Some of these were taken from the ground and some from a flying mount. Because scale and orientation can be hard to see in cropped images, I’ve linked the full screen pictures from the thumbnails below. But even the cropped versions are pretty big.
Today we continue the pet-oriented tour of Cataclysm zones with brief reviews of the changes to Ashenvale and Stonetalon Mountains.
Before you start the tour, you should read the disclaimers and caveats in the Cataclysm Safari: Intro.
Surprisingly little has changed in Ashenvale in the way of pets.
We’re going to kick off our pet-oriented tour in the home lands of the night elves … largely because that’s where I happened to have a beta character logged out.
Before you start the tour, make sure you read the disclaimers and caveats in Cataclysm Safari: Intro.
Nothing changed.
Cataclysm beta testing continues apace, and although we are still very far from pinning down talents, skills, and pet skills, Blizzard is marking more and more of the old Azeroth zones as ready for testing.
Now ready for testing does not mean done. These zones are going to see additional changes, I’m sure, even outside the necessary bug-fixes.
But we’re beginning to have enough information to get a decent feel for the distribution of beasts in the post-Cataclysm world.
Frequent commenter and sharer-of-screenshots nobbie of WorldofWar.de contacted me with some excellent news from the Cataclysm beta: the appearance of a silver fox!
(No, not Wolverine’s lover.)
Usual disclaimer: This information comes from the Cataclysm beta which, as I write this, is still in a pretty early phase of testing. So this information could — and probably will! — change before Cataclysm launches.
Remember the monkey screenshot that Riske of Shadow Council shared with us a couple of weeks ago? Well she’s back with a truly intriguing discovery:
I’m sure you’ve noticed that the new monkeys are “color changers” at the moment, or at least all of the ones I have tamed are changing colors every time I call them, but it turns out that when you tame one of the pickaxe-wielding monkeys in Lost Isles… they keep their pickaxe!
