Blizzard has updated the Wrath of the Lich King beta realms with a new build: 8770. As usual with beta build, the patch notes are not significantly updated so we’re largely on our own for finding changes.
I’m done with the liveblogging thing now and this post is complete. Fair warning — it’s rather scattershot. :>
Final Name: Kame
One of the things I love about posting Name That Pet requests is the different types of players and pets we get to see. Sure, there’s a lot of cats and wind serpents — but there are also a lot of other pets, including more crabs that you’d expect.
And today we have a turtle! Seryth, a dwarven hunter from the European (German) realm Azshara, writes:
I’ve been quietly adding data to the WotLK New Pet page on Petopia as folks send it in to me. Many of these changes are pretty minor - clarifications on levels or locations. But there have been a couple of really interesting additions in the past week or so that I wanted to share.
Nakari, an Orc huntress, wrote this morning to let me know that she and a paladin friend named Jaydn managed to successfully tame Gezzarak the Huntress — the level 72 black warp stalker that is summoned as part of the group quest Adversarial Blood in Skettis — on the WotLK beta server.
A number of hunters have been very curious about potential changes to pet hit percentages and pet resilience in the Wrath of the Lich King beta. In particular, everyone wants to know if these will be scaling with the hunter’s +hit or resilience.
A few days ago, Koraa the Blizzard Class Designer posted on the WotLK Beta Warlock forum that all pets will be getting “the master’s +hit%“. We assumed that all pets probably included hunter pets, but of course we wanted confirmation.
A friend of mine pinged me earlier to day to let me know that some hunters have hit a small snag with Blizzard’s new Recruit-A-Friend program, announced yesterday.
Apparently the triple experience that you and your recruited friend can get when you play together doesn’t apply to hunter pets. So it is all too easy to leave your poor pet behind as you and your friend go merrily skipping off together through the levels.
Not a huge problem, perhaps, but definitely non-optimal if your newbie friend decided to play a hunter. I’m hoping that Blizzard will decide to fix up this behavior — not least of all because they might easily extend such a fix into allowing our pets to benefit from our rested XP, and I would dearly love to see that.
Final Name: BloodTide
Ankihe, a troll hunter from Moonrunner, wrote to me the other day looking for help naming her pet newest pet, a crab-like Silithid Protector.
Ankihe, who is also my 2nd hunter, is an ambitious, adventure looking sort who searches for many creatures to take along with her, so long as they hold a common trait; -Red-. While she considers the color a natural indication of not only ferocity, with which to help protect her, she also sees it very much as compassion, which she shows for each of her own pets.
Speaking of belated news, a hunter named Zuty sent me this picture of a warpstalker some months ago. He’d run across it and wanted to know where he could tame one.
But so far as I know, this particular warpstalker appearance cannot be tamed. So does anyone know where this handsome fellow came from?
Somewhat belated news, to be sure, but that great pet add-on PetEmote has shipped version 1.5, including new extremely customizable emote functionality.
You can download PetEmote 1.5 directly from the developer’s blog or from Curse.com.
In addition, there is an excellent FAQ (including a link to a tutorial for the new customization) at Jorna’s blog as well.
My husband think it’s a bad idea to rename the blog for some reason, so I’m going to have to be content with naming theses posts “Ghostcrawler’s Arcania”.
Anyway, our favorite beta crab had a lot to say over the weekend and on Monday. And there’s some interesting quotes for Koraa (a class designer) as well. Here’s a quick round-up:
