Can't believe its been a week since I posted!
RL things getting in the way of my WoW time again but hoping to play catch up this next week with various achievements I have on my mind at the moment.
In other news... We finally killed Horridon - YAY!
He's such a meanie, well his adds are, he is absolutely fine. Those adds are a right pain in the bum, but our lovely guildies got the disrupting/silencing to perfection on the second door, tanks got the hang of swapping from adds to boss and healers did a grand job keeping us all alive, all of that can only result in a dead dino!
Big grats everyone <3 Onwards to Council!
I also managed to pluck up the courage to go to LFR, the new part of Throne of Thunder, which in the end wasn't too bad, but there's alot going on with all those bosses! I didn't read the tactics before queueing but thankfully the other tank had been before, otherwise that would have been one hell of a mess. Fun bosses, however I bet they are horriblly mean on normal mode, but I am hoping we get to them someday and experience it!
Other news follows on from a previous post, concerning upgrading all my wild pets to rares, and I have managed to complete that in one zone so far, Dread Wastes. It felt great to complete a zone, and really hoping I can strike lucky in more zones very very soon to further my pet score on WarcraftPets.
A new WoWing week starts tomorrow and the last part of Throne of Thunder LFR opens up, looking forward to trying Lei Shen!
The start of a WoWing week is always good when everything has reset and your good to go and try again for transmog, pets, upgrades or whatever your hunting for and this week has paid off!
I mentioned last week that I wanted to tick off some of the mounts that I was missing from my list and I can finally check the Swift White Hawkstrider off that list! I didn't have any luck from Tempest Keep Kael, but Magister's Terrace Kael was very helpful \o/
I think it must be a lucky week as a friend earlier today tweeted that she had finally got her Horse from Karazhan! Congrats again! :D
I have tried ZG today also, sadly no luck there but keeping my paws and claws crossed for a panther mount to head my way soon. For now I am more than happy with my hawk :D
Jaedia was singing the chocobo theme song when this achievement popped up in guild, had to google as I did not know the song, but then realised I do but only through the beak of a certain little parrot -
This lil fella is so clever! Sings other game related tunes also! <3
Yet another screenshot post from me, its not a cop out I swear! I have literally just sorted through all my recent screenies and had to share my favs <3
Enjoy!
Twinsssss and Fluffling - Look at his claws, eek!
My Dragon Kite pet in the drivers seat of a recently deceased Mimiron..
Raggy :D
Deathwing popped over for a coffee
The sheer terror on that pandas face at seeing this giant with a massive pink bow!
MANY MOTHS! HANDLE IT! (Literally if this was IRL I would have collapsed from fear)
The phrase 'LFG MGT HC' used to make me shudder with the utter horror that was Magister's Terrace heroic. It probably didn't help that I was a healer at this point, and that dungeon was EXTREMELY mean to heal. Now of course I get my revenge for the many hours spent in there and wipe the floor with the lot of them on my DK!
I wanted to take the time to post some screenies from the event/cut scene which you see after clicking the scrying orb within the dungeon, as at the time, the anticipation to getting into Sunwell after seeing it really was amazing. Sadly I never got to experience it at lvl 70, really wish I had though, but for those of us who couldn't, could still feel included.
Here's my favourite screenshots from the cut scene - Enjoy!
With hearing the news of the next mount achievement target, it has spurred alot of people to try and get as many mounts as possible to hit the 200 target asap, or if your like me and weren't really fussed about mounts but would like them in your collection anyway, highlighted that there are some mounts that I could be grinding and that I am not.
My current list stands at:
A'lar from Kael'thas in Tempest Keep Blue Proto Drake from Skadi the Ruthless in Utgarde Pinnacle (heroic only) Vitreous Stone Drake from Slabhide in The Stonecore (on both normal and heroic) Drake of the North Wind from Altarius in The Vortex Pinnacle (on both normal and heroic) White Hawkstrider from Kael'thas in Magister's Terrace (heroic only) Panther from Zul'Gurub from High Priestess Kilnara (heroic only) Armored Razzashi Raptor from Bloodlord Mandokir in Zul'Gurub ( heroic only) - {Can't solo /cry}
I have been running Tempest Keep for a few weeks and sadly no drop as of yet, but definately want to try and get into the habit of running the other dungeons as much as possible with the hope of perhaps increasing my chances on getting the Armored Dragonhawk.
/pawsandclawscrossed ;D Though I think Ryyus may murder me if I managed to get any of these..
Just a quick post to highlight my latest pet achievement!
So pleased to have hit the 75 mark, and grabbed myself a new pet in the process..
Has to be called Jiminy right?
Wonder what the next achievement target will be! My guess is 150 or 200. My last Pet Battle achievement on the 'Level' tab is to get 30 pets up to level 10, I'm currently 16/30, so shouldnt be too long before I get that one and I have a very VERY long list of pets I want to start leveling so now its a case of who to pick first.
Fellow pet collectors will know that WarcraftPets.com changed the way they score pets to order and rank people on pet score rather than pet quantity. Obviously this makes a lot more sense with the whole pet grading system from poor to rare quality pets being in game. So naturally those who have more rare quality pets should be ranked higher. I personally didn't even think about this and when I was going around catching pets, I didn't go for all of them to be rare quality, I was quite happy with uncommons if I got them, but commons I took also just to actually have that pet.
Now the task in hand will be to go around each zone, taming all pets to rare quality to up my score as much as possible, to get into that elite top 500 list! Thankfully I can filter pets by the current zone I am in and see which pets spawn there and if I need to upgrade them, which no doubt will be the case!
Hoping to start this next week will hope to post my progress as I go!
I just HAD to post about the lovely new pet additions WoW will be getting in patch 5.3! My friend Dan highlighted that MMO-Champion had posted them and there's so many lovely new things! /excited!!!
Awwww!
Thankfully the baby Triceratops, or Stunted Direhorn has made a re-appearance, and it is so incredibly cute, everyone MUST want this! To obtain him, players must win 250 PVP pet battles with level 25 pets via the Find Battle function, very obtainable in my opinion, but that number could rise before it hits live, we'll just have to wait and see. Also mentioned is a new red robot pet, Bad Robot - LOVE the model. Unfortunately I haven't seen/read anything mentioning Pierre, I may have missed it in the excitement of the Direhorn, so please inform me if there has been any mentions!
Other pets to mention would be the Unborn Valkyr pet, which has an amazing model and will spawn in Icecrown it seems, Cory Stockton posted this on twitter to tease all pet collectors! I'm curious to know what he means by "her spawning is certainly unique" very very curious. Other pets that have popped up on the datamined lists are the Quivering Blob, Dark Quivering Blob,Filthling, Gastropod Shell and Gahz'rooki. My guess on these would be that they drop, the Filthlings are on the Isle of Thunder, Gastropods appear in Throne of Thunder and Gahz'rooki has to be from Zul'farrak? Sounds quite plausable to me.
There is also the second installation of old raid content pets which drop from Karazhan, Tempest Keep and Serpentshrine. Absolutely over the moon that they have continued this and I loved the first Raiding with Leashes. The reward for getting all 10 is your very own Tito dog pet, Dorothea's pet dog from the Wizard of Oz opera event in Karazhan.
Besides the pets, there is a lovely new Faerie Dragon mount, which I have to own! So so cute, and the model is just fantastic.
Another mount mentioned is the Armored Dragonhawk which is the reward for collecting 200 mounts, increasesd from the 150 achievement that is currently available to mount collectors.
Other items which caught my eye included:
Unclaimed Black Market Container - This could potentially be really really exciting or really really disappointing, much like the TCG card Landro's Gift Box. 9/10 times you will end up with the lesser items, but that hope of getting something amazing is something WoW players will definately buy into, I know I will!
Exp increasing pet food! In the form of the Pet Treat which increases exp gained by 50% and the Lesser Pet Treat which increases exp gained by 25% Very excited to see these added, hopefully the effect will stack with the Safari Hat.
A weekly pet battling PVP quest? I definately think Blizz are wanting to increase the number of players PVP pet battling as opposed to just doing the dailies and battling wild pets, with the reward of the Direhorn for pet battling and now I have noticed this weekly quest which rewards valor points, lesser charms and a Brawler's Supplies bag. Wonder if anything besides the usual chance of stones and bandages will appear in this? I do hope so!
Massive thanks to WoWhead, MMO-Champion and WarcraftPets for having all the news and up to date info <3
Will be watching very closely over the next few days/weeks to see what else will appear in WoW very soon I hope!
Apologies for the lack of posts, I haven't been able to WoW as much this week, but hoping to back at into it asap!
I did however manage to add another pet to my collection today, thanks for the vigilant eyes of my good friends and guildies Ryyus and Jaedia, who tweeted me to tell me a Spectral Kitten was for sale on our auction house. I thought it must be the BMAH, but nope! The ACTUAL auction house. The price was 150k bid and 200k buyout. I was a little short at that, but a big thanks to Ryyus who sent me some gold to tip me over the 150k mark and secured the kitten for me. It's an amazing feeling to finally say I own one, but would not be able to do so without my friends looking out for me <3 Massive MASSIVE thanks to them.
I used a pet biscuit on him for these screenshots, he is quite a lot smaller than shown here! So cute <3
Other pet news this week included me being able to bag the bargain of a lifetime on Ebay to obtain an unused collectors edition of Wrath of the Lich King to add Frosty the undead whelp to my collection! He is such a cutey, and just love his model. Possibly my favourite whelp next to the Netherwelp and Lil Deathwing!
And finally I was able to get the last panda from the Beasts of Fable daily quest.. I never have to do that again! THANK GOD! It really does take a hell of a lot of time to get through, and a couple of times I actually just ended up with junk which was quite annoying after so many battles.
My pet total now stands at 521! I hope to get to do some serious Tiny Carp pet farming very soon to boost that total to, hopefully, 525. An Ethereal Trader pet is next on the list of very elusive pets though, so will apologise now for my tweet spamming hunting someone down to trade for him.
One final note regarding WarcraftPets.com, they have now introduced the Pet Score rankings, rather than the amount of pets you have ranking system, which means needing to do some serious need of pet leveling to boost my score! Hoping to get into the top 500 soon!
I'm sure this topic has been asked many many times around on other websites and blogs, and I think I may have answered this a couple of times too! However, in the past week/month I have noticed some different models which would definately make pet collectors /squeal if they could get their hands on one of their own.
Litter of Xuen: These guys are scattered around The Temple of the White Tiger in Kun-Kai Summit and they are just so sweet. An updated version of the Spectral Kitten really, but really love this model.
Magenta (found next to the Horde Pet Trainer in Vale of Eternal Blossoms): Haven't seen this model used anywhere until just literally standing getting my Beasts of Fable quest on my priest this week. It looks sooooo angry, WoW's version of grumpy cat?
Purple Chicken/Ash Chicken: I first saw these models when doing the quest in Burning Steppes, and thought it was cute, and now the Panda npc in Kun-Lai uses one of these in his team. So unfair that he gets to have one and we don't! Hope to see those in game soon.
We were discussing in guild chat earlier this week about 'that song with the ducks mugging people in the video' and we would love to now see a duck pet in WoW. A little mallard would be cute waddling beside you. Other suggestions have been a baby shark, a badger and a hedgehog. Now I know there has been a few porcupines, but something with less erm MASSIVE spikes, and more like this: "Hey you! Lady in the bow!" Love that advert!
What's your thoughts on this? Comment on here or tweet me @KaitzWoW
