Who's that Warcraft Pet?

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Who's this Warcraft pet?

Blog Azeroth Share Topic - What raid-drop Pets would you like to see?

This weeks Blog Azeroth Share Topic comes from Effraeti  from Effraeti's RP and says

While running through MC, BWL, AQ40, and Naxx over the weekend, I got to thinking...
If a future patch adds more raid-dropped pets like those introduced in 5.1, what pets would you like to see? What raid and boss would they be available from?

I love this idea! At first I wasn't sure I could think of anything but the more I thought the more ideas I came up with. I'm only doing pets for BC and Wrath raids because it's a lot of different pets to get though. So first up are the Burning Crusade raids.

Burning Crusade

Kara

The three bosses I think should drop pets in Kara are The Curator, Netherspite, and the Chess event.

• The Curatror could drop an arcane guardian magic pet that shares his appearance. 
• Netherspite could drop a netherdragon that resembles him as well.
• The Chess event could drop a chess piece. It would have to have a more generic appearance than the pieces Medivh plays with but I think it would be pretty neat. It could be any piece but I'd really like a knight.

Serpentshrine Cavern

Three bosses that could drop a pet are Hydross the Unstable, The Lurker Below, and Morogrim Tidewalker. These pets would just be aquatic pet versions of the bosses.

The Black Temple

The Black Temple has a couple of bosses with great potential for pets but the three I would most like to see are Supremus, High Warlord Naj'entus, and the Reliquary of Souls

• Supremus would drop a minfernal magic pet with blue coloring like himself.
• High Warlord Naj'entus would drop a humanoid naga pet that looks similar to him
• The Reliquary of Souls would drop an undead pet that could changes it's appearance when summoned to one of the three different phases the Reliquary goes though.

Magtheridon and Gruul's Lair

After a bit of thought and some back and forth I figured the last three pets could come from Matheridon's Lair and Gruul's Lair

• Matheridon would drop a humanoid pit lord pet
• High King Maulgar from Gruul's Lair would drop a humanoid ogre pet. It could be any ogre model.
• Gruul would drop a Gronn pet.

Wrath of the Lich King

Ulduar

I have fives bosses I would love to see drop pets in Uld. They are Flame Leviathan, Ignis the Furnace Master, Auriaya, Freya, and General Vezax

• Flame Leviathan would drop a mechanical pet that looks like the boss
• Ignis the Furnace Master would drop a magical Iron Construct pet that would change color when pulled across fire and then put into water. 
• Auriaya would drop a beast pet cat with glowing eyes and the dark metal look to them
• Freya would drop a magic tree guardian pet
• General Vezax would drop a humanoid lost ones pet

Trial of the Crusader

The bosses that would drop a pet from this raid would be the Northrend Beasts, Lord Jaraxxus, the Val'kyr Twins, and Anub'arak

• The Northrend Beasts would drop a Snobold humanoid pet
• Lord Jaraxxus would drop an elemental Mistress of Pain pet
• The Val'kry twins would drop a humanoid val'kry pet
• Anub'arak would drop an undead nerubian pet that could be similar to him or be a different model

Icecrown Citadel

Bosses that would drop a pet in ICC are Lord Marrowgar, Icecrown Gunship, Professor Putricide

• Lord Marrowgar would drop an undead pet version of himself. This is the one I most want since I imagine it spinning around and yelling "Bone Storm!"
• Icecrown Gunship would drop a mechanical flying ship.
• Professor Putricide would drop an undead flesh beast. Festergut and Rotface's little brother Festerface! or maybe it should be Rotgut! hmm...

That's a total of 24 different pets and bosses. I don't know what achievement pets I'd give for collecting them all but it would be pretty fun.

Project plan

I've had this maggoty idea floating around in my brain for a while and since it won't leave I'm going to give it a try. I recently dug out my Pokemon games which got me thinking about the Pokemon cartoon and how during the commercial break they would have these Who's that Pokemon? and then a reveal after the break. So I thought this Saturday I would have my first Who's that Warcraft Pet? and then Sunday shows the reveal. It's not going to be particularly hard but I would love to have people comment and guess. My goal is to put together one of these each week and I'm also thinking about having some prizes but I'm not thinking of anything too big or even all the time, more random. But for this first week the only thing I'm giving away is virtual hugs.  My goal would be to post the first one on Fridays but Saturday at the latest. So hopefully it goes well and people like this project.

And a fruitless week of hunting

I really want Mr. Bigglesworth. It's a cat, 'nough said. But I also really want to get the other pets too. So I put in another week of trying to get them and I've got zip. Zilch. Nada.

I started in Naxx, went to BWL where Razorgore kicked my butt a few times before I got sweet revenge, and than finished up at AQ40. I didn't go to Molten Core because I had gotten all 3 from there and Tyledres doesn't get much gear for transmogs from Molten Core. Anyway, I hit up all 3 places and they were dry. Nothing. Not even a pet we already had. I than tried to think about what alts I could take though since there's no point in having alts unless you can make them work for you. But all I could really think to do was to take my Shaman Mnementh though AQ40. I don't need the pet from the first boss but from the slime and the twins. I figured Mnem could kill the slime and we could try twins but I didn't expect her to be able to get twins down solo. It pretty much went as expected and no pets for her either. I don't think I can get the twins down on any of my toons other than Ty and while I know there are things you can do to get the frost damage  on classes that don't have frost damage I'm not feeling in the mood to go try. I don't think I have another toon that I want to take though Naxx and I'm not feeling up to trying Razorgore on another yet either. Which just means I have to sit quietly for a week and try again next one.

It wasn't a total bust this week though. Tyledres got Legplates of the Blazing Light as a drop. Now I just have to see if I can put together a transmog set from them.

More Raids and pets

I might be soloing but I'm never alone

Last week I attempted to work though the four raids that drop the new pets and managed to get Naxx and Molten core but got stopped at Blackwing Lair. I did put an attempt on AQ40 but the twins kicked my butt and the previous bosses didn't drop a pet. Still I ended the week with 3 of the pets which seemed like a good start.

This week I again started with Naxx. Tyledres managed to get though the place with ease and even Gluth didn't present much trouble. Unfortunately the only pet to drop was the Fungal Abomination which is what I had gotten last week.

Molten Core went quickly and I got the Ashcore pet from there. 3/3 of the Molten Core pets found.

So than I went back to BWL. I've done some more research on this fight and put in several more attempts. Ten of them. On the eleventh one things were going really well. So well that I finally managed to destroy all the eggs! But I didn't get any new pets from BWL.

So I headed to my last stop AQ40. I got a Mindflayer off the first boss and I was pretty excited about continuing my pet hunt. Viscidus died pretty quickly but as a frost dk it's not a difficult fight. Then it was time to attempt the twins. This time I knew which twin was the physical damage one so I was attacking the correct one and I summoned my army and my ghoul and things seemed to be going well. I had him over half-way there when my army started dying and then I noticed that I just couldn't seem to do much damage on him. I wasn't taking enough damage that I worried about dying but I also wasn't doing enough damage to overcome his healing. In fact he was back to full health. Then it hit me. Frost damage. I was a frost death knight and he was ignoring my frost damage. I needed to be using pure physical damage with no magic. And I realized I wouldn't be able to do this fight as frost. So I let myself die and so I could start the fight over as blood. I kept myself in dps gear but did change my weapon. It worked out really well. It wasn't a rapidly quick fight but I was steadly able to burn the boss down. I didn't get a pet but I was still pretty happy at being able to kill the twins.

So at the end of two weeks I've got 5/12 of the new pets and I now know the I can hunt for these pets completely on my own. Although I don't think I'll have any easy time with BWL anytime soon.

Dear Greatfather Winter - Blog Azeroth Topic

Noahdeer on Blog Azeroth says:

Winter Veil is around the corner and it's time to sit upon Greatfather Winter's lap and answer the important question, "What do you want for Winter Veil?" Is it that expensive grand expedition yak? a nice transmog custom outfit? or a Red Ryder carbine-action, two hundred shot Range Model air rifle with a compass in the stock?

What is on your Winter Veil wishlist?

So I present to you my Christmas list.

Dear Greatfather Winter,

I hope you've been doing well. I've been very good this year. Well at least as well as I can be. And I know my wish list will sound a bit like a broken record but what I really want for Winter Viel is a cat. Yes, I know I've asked for a cat since I was old enough to write and after twenty years of waiting I finally broke down and bought my own house cat but hopefully you can make up for all those years of disappointment and therapy by getting me my very own Cinder Kitten! 

Isn't it just adorable! And Fluffy! Well, ok, not fluffy but it's still so adorable and cute. And a cat. That's flaming. In fact, that's all I really want for Winter Viel. Surely that's not too much to ask?  

Thanks so very much,

Tyledres

Changes

My new pet :)
For one quest at least

I've been feeling a bit off Wow lately. My guild decided to become a social one and I've found myself at level 90 with nothing much to do. I've been leveling stuff and wandering around but I haven't felt like playing my death knight much. And than I didn't feel like playing my alts much either. So I turned off the game for a bit and tried to think about if I was unhappy with the game or my situation and what I was going to do about it.

I've decided I just wasn't happy with a social guild especially one that wasn't doing any events at all. But I don't think I'm a hardcore raider either. So I've found a casual guild that wants to get into raiding soon. I'm hoping it will work and be a good fit. But I also feel better about playing Tyledres again. I've been running dailies, a few dungeons and even raid finder.

This has only been my third week running raid finder and my first time running the new raids. But these are some really cool fights. And I tend to die a lot. It makes me really glad I'm running as frost instead of blood. But I've noticed something about raid finder loot. I'm way too lucky. I haven't come away from a random raid yet without a piece of loot or three. And I hadn't been using my charms but since I had maxed them out I figured I better get started. I haven't seen much loot from the bonus roll but I did get a repeated item once and I realized I should keep an eye on the loot tables so that I didn't do that again.

During the raid finder I won a token for shoulders and chest so I headed out to pick those up for Tyledres. I really love the tier look for death knights. It's a skirt! Well, robe if you want to be technical but it makes me think about the original armor set that death knights wore. It's nice to see them wearing a skirt again. And the shoulder and helm are amazing! I wasn't sold on them at first but I love the skulls and the little roses on the helm. Well, I don't have the helm yet but I will get one! While I love the look it does feel a little strange to be in a robe and I keep thinking I look something like a warlock. I think it's the bright bit of color at the bottom of the hem that makes me think of warlock tier 8. I suppose it's a good thing I love this set because I still haven't managed to come up with a transmog look that I really want to track down for my death knight.