RFC stands for “Request For Comments” — which basically means that I need your help. I’m getting a lot of questions about the pros and cons of each pet family and in particular the pet family skills. But there’s no way that I really test all the pet families in every situation myself, so I want to hear about your experiences with them!
Today’s RFC: The Chimaera family and their family skill Froststorm Breath.
This is just a quick note to my poor abused readers to say, “Happy New Year!” and give you a quick status update. Feel free to skip this post if you’re more interested in hunter pets than in the rest of my life. (Goodness knows I am.)
I’m going to be spending the next several days with family and friends, so I probably won’t be posting again until sometime next week … unless something interesting happens or I get the urge to say something. *grin*
In the meantime, I hope that all of you enjoy whatever holidays you celebrate to the utmost.
Before Patch 3.0, I would often get e-mails from twink hunters who wanted to change pets but weren’t sure how feasible that was. Unfortunately, it usually wasn’t very feasible. The problem was that if they were already at their chosen level (say, 19) and tamed a new level 19 pet, they still needed to earn XP to get its loyalty up — XP they could often not afford to earn if they wanted to stay level 19. And without loyalty, most pets had no skills.
Thank goodness the situation has changed! Of course, if you tame a pet lower level than you are, you may still need to level it some. But for twink hunters who are already at their peak level, they can at least tame a pet their own level and use it immediately, no leveling required.
When I made my WoW blogger gift round-up post a week ago, BRK didn’t have any t-shirts available — but he does now!
The Big Red Kitty Pet Shirt store is once again open for business — from now until Christmas Eve, apparently. The T-shirts feature a Core Hound, Gorilladin, and Rhino, each with a snazzy tagline. Check it out!
RFC stands for “Request For Comments” — which basically means that I need your help (again!). I’m getting a lot of questions about the pros and cons of each pet family and in particular the pet family skills. But there’s no way that I really test all the pet families in every situation myself, so I want to hear about your experiences with them! (And yes, with 32 pet families this could take awhile.)
Today’s RFC: The Cat family and their two family skills: Rake and Prowl.
Reminder: The Feast of Winter Veil event started on Monday. You can find out more about Winter Veil on Blizzard’s Winter Veil page, and also at WoW Wiki.
Thanks to Nimizar for pointing out this post by Ghostcrawler about how the upcoming dual spec feature (which should make an appearance in Patch 3.1, the next big content patch) will work with hunters:
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Obviously they’re going to have to do something for hunters. Otherwise, they won’t be able to switch between BM and anything else on the fly.Yup. I think you’ll like it though.
Inspired by an extremely flattering post by BBB, I spent some time yesterday adding items to Mania’s Arcania Emporia, my awkwardly-named CafePress shop.
The Emporia now features a variety of items with original artwork from the 2009 Petopia calendar (including Loque’nahak, Blacksting, Nuramoc, Tyrantus, the jormungar, the dragonhawk, and the rhino) and the 2008 Petopia Calendar (namely the ghost saber, Mazzranache, and KingB).
I’ve added all the clothing I can reasonably add (so you should be able to find a style and color shirt that you like), and today I’ll be adding more items like coffee mugs and other fun stuff.
Patch 3.0.8 is apparently on its way to the Public Test Realms! As I write this, the Test Realm Forum is still locked (but the note about the last testing phase is gone) and the PTR 3.0.8 download is “not authorized”. But the patch notes are up and I was able to copy a character, so things are obviously in motion.
As always, you can find the complete latest PTR patch notes on Blizzard’s Public Test Realm Patch Notes page. I’ve just snipped out the hunter bits for interested parties.
