Friday Updates

It's that day. That one day of the week that marks the ending of the work week for some and the beginning of the work weekend for others. That's right, it's Friday. Here be the updates of the week for this blog and of course for myself (because I know you're super interested!).

WoS Updates
Nothing really mind blowing to report. This blog is in need of a few updates (all of the tabs could use some TLC), a new poll needs to be put up, and I should probably clean up a few other minor things. None of this has been taken care of yet, but hopefully should be done in the next week or two. Assuming I find time and whatnot.

In-Game Updates
- I'm now up to four level 85s.
- My DK is in the works. Leveling her as blood, which is by the way more fun than should be allowed. Still a bit surprised that she's getting leveled at all, but hey, there ya go.
- I've managed to tame two new rares, much to the thanks of some friends. Aotona (renamed Saylind) and King Krush (renamed Drama) are now my new pals. Now all that's left for that one is to level the her to 85 for the Cataclysm and possibly eventually the Firelands rares as well.

RL Updates
Grandma is doing excellent. She's 300x better than she was a few days ago. Turns out one of her medications was mixing badly with her pain killers which was causing her to go a bit woofy, so they switched her pain meds and now she's back to her old feisty self. She's now back in town at a nursing home for physical therapy and is expected to return home in the next 18 days or so. It's pretty crazy how a painful but non-life threatening issue with a pancreas and a mix up of meds can result in thoughts for the worst.

Grandpa is pretty awesome to hang around. Thankfully he's not too picky of an eater and seems to be able to stomach my so-called cooking alright. Other family members (my aunt and uncles) have been in and out all week to help out and take my grandfather on the journey to Green Bay. Turns out a few of my family members were working 12 hour shifts, which is a completely valid excuse for not being around as much. Others are still a bit MIA though, which is irksome.

Other than a few minor issues here and there, things are much better. I'm eager to get home again, but I'm trying to at least enjoy my stay here. Otherwise, nothing much else to report. Life is life, and it keeps on keepin' on.


Have an excellent weekend all!

I Cannot Brain Today, I Have the Dumb

Ahhh brain fry, how you plague me so! All day it seems that I have been severely affected by the dumb, which has incapacitated my ability to brain. Lost? Good, me too.

In other news, I'm still here! No groans from the peanut gallery now. Weather's been holding me in, and I'm kind of thankful for it. That's not to say that the weather's been terrible, or that I'm here to stay for good (I wish it where true! The staying part that is...), but I'm here for possibly a few more days. Having a broken windshield wiper motor is kinda pro /sarcasm. Who knows for sure how long I'll remain here though. Needless to say, the weather has been working in my favor. Let's hope it stays that way.

Game wise, not a lot has been going on. I've attempted to do the quest line to obtain the new Flamefly, but of course a part of the line bugged on me (har har, I made a pun), I've been taming beasts like crazy on the Hunter, farming Anzu like it's my job, and pretty much just messing around. I also finally redid Saz's gem set up despite the fact that Cataclysm is just weeks away and there's not a snowman's chance in hell I'll get to raid before it launches. I have my reasons behind it though, so I'm not 100% mad. It's kinda nice to see 8k steady on the dummy again, even if Searing Totem is being a wanker.

Further exploration has taken place in the Ruins of Gilneas. Anything Worgen-related architecturally is just simply too fantastic. I'm completely in love with all of the Worgen settlements I've come across. I'm really hoping that there's some big plans for them once Cataclysm goes live, because if it was truly meant for just baby Worgen and/or PvP, it would be a huge waste. Also, the underwater image above? There's a Shadow Priest hiding in it. See if you can spot her, all Where's Waldo style.

Apparently I didn't wait long enough to bring my Rogue back out into public. Today she got feathered...needless to say I was strutting around being highly amused for the duration of the transformation. Ahhh holidays.

Completely random image for the day: The bear taunting the cat instead of the mob.

I absolutely love Google and its image search function.

One last thing...the new Saltspray Gull pet? One of the most random, idiotic, badass pets ever. If I decide not to be the idiot who only raids with spirit beasts or if I happen to decide against using my wolf Gingervitus, this just may be the pet I will use. The boyfriend named him. Kinda win if you ask me.



Less random crap coming soon, I promise!

Minor Update on Things and Stuff

Just as the title states, this is yet another update post : P

For those of you who may have been interested in this week's installment of "The Rack," I'm terribly sorry that I didn't get around to it. I've been semi busy and incredibly unorganized. Hopefully in the next few weeks I'll be able to get to that.

Yes, you read that right: weeks.

Later on tonight, weather permitting, I should be heading home once again. This means no more internet for a bit. I'm not a fan, but sadly that's how things are. Therefor it may be a few weeks before you see another post from me.

I know I know, I can hear all your hearts breaking. Don't you fret though, I always return!

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WoW-wise I've been keeping busy. New fishing/cooking dailies, more exploring, new pets are being tamed daily...you know, the usual pre-Cataclysm activities.

If you haven't already done so, I highly recommend going out to Gilneas to explore. Sure it's a ghost town, but it has some beautiful structure to it and amazing little details galore (creepers in the windows, news papers blowing down the streets, etc). I've also decided that Greymane Manor is mine. Seriously, I want to live there.

 Greymane Manor entry hall.

 Streets of Gilneas

 Creepers in the windows.

 Accidents happen. Gravity works.

The Cathedral

I wish more than anything that I could present these images to you in a higher quality. The details of this place must be pretty spectacular in a higher resolution. All the more reason for you all to go spend a bit of time exploring this place for yourselves  : P

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Hunter pets...yes, I've been more than a bit obsessed lately, but can you really blame me? I'm a hoarder after all, and there's just soooo many new pets to claim as my own. The latest added to the collection? Why, a monkey of course!

This is Zulu. He came with me to explore Gilneas. He's kinda cool, though I may just like the fox a bit more. Neither of the new guys can beat my spirit beasts though!

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If you haven't already, go check out some of my new tabs that are located up on the top of my blog. All of them are now live, and I have a pile of screen shots all put into nifty slide shows over in the Photo Gallery. You can certainly expect more to be added later on in that department : )

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Well, that's it from me for a bit. Hopefully luck will shine upon me and I'll return sooner than expected. Until then though, keep collecting and have fun!

/waves

I'm Praying For Tidal Waves

Warning, this video contains language not suitable for young ears or the work place.

This song listed above has more or less been my theme song for the past 24-48 hours, and for good reason.

Today we saw Armageddon in Azeroth.

Zul'Gurub is now empty, Booty Bay is cloaked in seaweed, Menethil is mostly underwater, and Stormwind has had a make-over. There's new animals to tame, new adventures to be had, and new area's to explore. It's a whole new world, haunted now by a giant molten dragon.

I have yet to see Deathwing myself, but there has been sightings of him already. The newly redesigned areas are gorgeously done as far as I can tell (low settings ftl), and there's certainly many new touches added to Stormwind. I reeeeally cannot wait to be able to fly around Azeroth and explore everything properly.

In the world of Hunters, there's a handful of new tamable pets now available. Apparently Deathwing's wrath has brought many critters out of hiding. As you can see from the image above I now have a fox! Her name is Erin. Pretty neat pet in my opinion.

Today also unlocked several new class/race combinations. Pictured above is my new baby Troll Druid, Trançe. I'm not sure at this moment whether or not I'll ever get her to 85, but it would be kind of fun to have a kitty with a mohawk to raid on once in a while.

Thanks to my old pal lag I have yet to properly explore everything. So far though Deathwing's influence on the world as we knew it has my approval. Perhaps more to come soon on a few of the in game changes and my take on them ; )

Goodbye, Hello

Well, today was my last venture into Zul'Gurub on my Shaman, assuming that the shattering happens on Tuesday that is. I have to say that I'm pretty disappointed and just a bit crushed that I no longer have any more opportunities to try to get the tiger and raptor that I've been seeking for well over two years now. Ah well I suppose...

Farewell Zul'Gurub, you've been fun while you lasted!!

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Today certainly was not all bad though. No, not even by a long shot. After waiting for the past week, and multitudes of hours logged camping one spot, Arcturis finally spawned!

There was only another Hunter in the area was a Hordie, and thanks to my macro (which was set up wrong, you can see it spamming me the fact that YOURNAME isn't playing) and twitchy fingers, I managed to tag and tame this guy within seconds of NPC Scan screaming.

His name is Cammy, and he's a badass.

Now I'm in hot pursuit of Skoll and Gondria. I have a slight lead on Skoll at least, but Gondria is still a mystery as to when she's going to spawn. Hopefully I can get these guys soon so I can move on to the Basin to nab a few other rares : P

I guess I'm off to seek Skoll for a bit now. Perhaps more later!

More Adventuring

Hooo boy, the past few days in Azeroth have been a bit busy. This post may end up a bit more lengthy than my usual posts, and will most certainly be image heavy.

Once again my Priesty friend had an idea for an adventure, and we set out to go exploring. She had heard about a hidden farm out the Eastern Coastline of Hillsbrad Foothills. So, off we went!

It was a quiet little farm run by two male ginger Dwarves. They had a little house, a pen for their rams, a plethora of cats, and a ton of rodents. The outhouse smelled of roses. The Dwarves had an amazing dock, which sadly was devoid of any boats or chairs.

Wanting to see more hidden places around Azeroth, we set out to find Quel'Thalas. And find it we did!

 

Soon she left me to go see Harry Potter, but of course my adventuring didn't stop there. I went off to ZG, then proceeded to attempt to farm for Nuramoc some more. Soon I grew weary of Netherstorm though, and decided to move on to Northrend. Since then I've been attempting to camp Arcturis, and when I bore of waiting for him, Gondria. Sadly, neither have yet to spawn, but I did acquire one new pet!

His name is Mikey, named after my WoW buddy who had passed away a few months ago. I must say, I've never much fancied Wind Serpants until now, but I think this guy is really freaking cool. I got him on one of my rounds through Zul'Drak while looking for Gondria. Speaking of Zul'Drak, I've been making an awful lot of Horde Hunter buddies out there. One even logged over to a level 1 Alliance toon to say hi to me! They've been very sweet so far, wishing me luck and /waving. It's things like this that makes me happy to be on a PvE server : D

In other news, I've been slowly working on both my Death Knight and my Rogue. Not much to report on them, other than I got to do the quest where you have to save the baby Murlocs over in Borean Tundra on the DK! It's pretty much my most favorite quest ever. Baby Murlocs are the cuteness. If only they stayed that way....

My Rogue had a run in with the Elemental Invasion of Stormwind the other day. Thankfully stealth allowed her to simply look on without getting nuked.

Yesterday saw the finishing of the red portion of the Scepter of the Shifting Sands quest line (WHOOO HOOO!!!). I have some of the most awesome of WoW friends, and they helped me get through the torture chamber that is Blackwing Lair. While in BWL there was a spot of trouble with two of the three Elementium Ingots that dropped: only one ended up in my bags. Thankfully a GM was able to restore them to me this morning, and off I went to the Swirling Maelstorm to take on Maws!

So the most epic quest line of all quest lines is now complete. Even though I didn't get to bang the gong, get a uber nifty mount, or a fancy dancy title, I still had quite a bit of fun.

Since I have been driving myself a bit mad with farming Spirit Beasts on the Hunter, I decided to do a bit of lag PvP on Saz. I honestly should have ran a heroic or two before hand just to get used to my new HealBot bindings. I had some rather unnecessary deaths simply due to me not knowing my dispel combination or using the wrong heal in the wrong situation. Over all I did okish despite not really being able to go after objectives due to excessive lag. I managed to score some killing blows though and after the first rocky BG I was able to stay in the top 5 with healing done. 

A word of advice: If you lag, don't attempt to do AV. Most of my deaths were caused by lag. I simply couldn't heal in time/run away. It's also incredibly headache inducing, and I'm not just talking about the 12 year olds bickering about why we're losing because everyone's bad...it actually makes me motion sick if I lag too hard for too long. I should only have to suffer through a few more lag BGs though before I have my tabard that I'm needing. Hopefully I can be done with that either later on today or Monday.

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I think that's all I have to report for now on the adventuring front. Blog-wise, the "Projects" tab is now live and I should be updating that regularly, both the "About Me" and "Contact" tabs are completely live, and the "Photo Gallery" is slowly being brought up to fully being live. I should be getting these finished completely in the next few days.

Stay tuned for more adventures, articles, and updates!

Happy Thursday!

It's that time of the week again. I'm sure you're all waiting on pins and needles for the latest installment of Hoarders, aren't you? I knew it! Well, I'll be putting that up shortly, but first! I feel the urge to babble about what I've been doing. Go ahead and roll your eyes if you'd like, I'd just like to keep a record of the order of events that have been going on as of late.

It's what, day 3 now of me looking for Nuramoc? Still no sign of him. Matter of fact, I'm watching for him right now. Mad multi-tasking skill, eh?

The past two days have consisted of rep grinds for me on both my Shaman and Druid. Tonight mainly consisted of me spending an unhealthy amount of gold on the Thorium Brotherhood rep. I'm roughly half way through revered, so hopefully just another run or two through MC and I'll have enough cores to pop me through exalted. On the topic of MC, I got no Sulfron Ingot love yet again, nor did I get any Blood of the Mountain love. I did however score two relatively cheap ingots on the AH a bit ago (800gish...not bad imo), but now that I'm back down to 20k gold, I put a halt to my purchases for the evening. Hopefully I can get the last of what I need for the legendary mace verrrry soon here. I'm getting close!

Last night (that is to say, 24 hours ago) I managed to get Kelebek her Bloodsail Admiral title, which was pretty exciting. Now just to get that on Saz as well! First things first though, I must finish the Scepter quest line...which I actually have good news about. That book bit that didn't drop off of Onyxia? It was restored to me by a very sweet GM. I also bugged him about a few other minor things...a UI bug for one that I'm having on Saz, which he emailed me a fix for, and for two I pestered him about my Spirit Wolves AI. Lately they've taken a liking to going after mobs that are no where near me. Like, opposite of a large room no where near me. Apparently they didn't have any flags about it, so hopefully they'll dig into it and fix them soon. Doesn't happen all the time, but when it does, it's usually right before they despawn and I end up being a dead Shaman on defloor (insert a Jose Jalapeno accent onto that last bit). So uh...yeah, the blue part of my scepter chain is almost done! I just need 6 more Elementium Ingots (oh boy...that's gonna hurt the wallet), and to finish the red quest. One more little step after these two are completed, and then I believe I'm done! I'm actually really nervous about making it by next Tuesday...by nervous I mean hella worried. Like, bad.

Also on the topic of rep AND the scepter quest line, one more complete run through AQ40, plus turning in all the bits for my AQ gear (which I have all but one idol I believe), plus the rest of the scepter chain, and I should just barely squeak out an exalted rep with the Brood. Kinda pumped.

So! The to do list for this week is kind of a doosy. 
- Get a full clear AQ 40 run.
- Get the full AQ 40 gear set.
- Clear BWL and successfully do the red quest (/scared to mess it up)
- Finish the Scepter of the Shifting Sands quest line
- Farm MC trash for cores and Blood of the Mountains
- Find Nuramoc and make him mine!
- Maybe get some peeps to run BT so I can finally be exalted with the Ashtongue Deathsworn 
- Get Bloodsail Admiral on Saz
- BG farm to the best of my laggy abilities to get the last tabard needed for Twenty-Five Tabards 
- Level the DK a little more so I can go mining without dying.
- Remember to eat/sleep/shower/drink/do other general RL things

This, my friends, is a horribly daunting list. I WILL get this done though! I'm determined...crazy...but determined.

Innnnn other news, as neat as this pre-Cataclysm event is, it needs to be done. The earth shaking, the invasion, the constant slaughter of my poor little alts as they try to check the mailbox for the newest shipment of gold sales...it needs to be over with already. Today I moved all three of my bankers to the Exodar simply because every time I logged over to them, I saw the following:

Never failed. Amazingly only my Mage managed to not die to the elementals, though she came close last night. Her hearth was set to Shattrath, so moving her was no big deal (I've since learn how to teleport on her, thanks to the trainer in Shatt). The Paladin and Warrior were a different story though. The Pally only died once while on her way to the docks of Stormwind...the Warrior? He got his poop pushed in twice. Irritating to say the least. All I wanted to do was mail things from my guild bank to Saz...

What was kinda neat at first has just become a royal hassle, especially now that everyone's lost interest and the invasions seem to last three times as long now simply because no one cares. Go go Deathwing, destroy some shiz so we can go back to semi normalcy, kthnx.

My wish of the week - besides wishing that my list of things gets accomplished that is - is wishing I had something that could fraps Deathwing destroying the royal crap out of Azeroth. If anyone's doing something of that nature and posting it on youtube, hook me up with a link! I'm sure it'll still be cool in the low settings/low fps version, but I long to see Deathwing in all his destructive glory! So yeah, hook a girl up ;  )

Okay okay, enough Saz babble. I'll go get to putting this week's Hoarders up.

The Sky is Falling!

Alrighty, so I've been meaning to start up another segment in my writing, a column I suppose you could call it? Unfortunately I haven't quite gotten around to it yet, seeing as though I'm actually able to play WoW again! One of my buddies suggested that I should simply put WoW on an external hard drive, since I didn't have enough room on my laptop's basic hard drive. He then dug up this external hard drive over on Newegg.com and I proceeded to order it. I must say, I'm in love....and it was only $30. 120g hard drive for $30? Can't go wrong.

So I've been busy lag-playing like crazy. I've been attempting to get caught up on all of the event quests on both Saz and Kelebek, farming Anzu on both of these toons, farming ZG as much as I can on Saz (both mounts still fail to drop for me), attempting to get the rest of my pages for the Scepter of the Shifting Sands and I've been camping rares on my hunter.

Today I finally migrated my Shaman from Battle of Serenity over to Easy Company. Honestly, it was crazy to be able to speak to people in guild chat again. I'm pretty darn excited for the change. It's going to be an adjustment not having to deal with the management of a guild, but it should be good for me. Much less stressful, to say the least.

I managed to get my paws on the chapter out of MC for the Scepter quest line, and after EC ran AQ40 tonight, we ran Onyxia's layer. Sadly, there was three of us on the quest line, and not a one of us got our chapter from her. Hopefully I can get both the Ony and BWL chapters tomorrow, and hopefully I won't have to buy a ton of elementium to finish this bugger...

As far as mounts are concerned, RNG is still being a hater.

Trying to complete the Elemental Invasion events is bring problematic. The spawns in Northrend are a bit difficult to track down, but at least we now get credit for closing the rifts in either IF or SW....assuming your video card doesn't die from spell over load that is (which mine kind of does). It was pretty fun getting to do the old bosses once those were opened, to say the least.

A piece of advice for all you Hunters planning to fly around to try and tame rare pets: get epic flying! I've been putting around on my little 100% bird on my Hunter, and it's pretty maddening after being spoiled by my Shaman's and Druid's 310%. I'm now attempting to hit the 30k gold mark so I can buy her at least 280% flying to help out in my mission to catch all kinds of rare animals. So far though I've managed to tame four of the twenty-something pets on my list. Nothing too fancy yet, but I'm working on fixing that ; )

 Loka

Serenity

Greg

Widdershins

Currently I have my Hunter parked out in Netherstorm, waiting for the opportunity to tame Nuramoc. Hopefully I'll get him soon so I can move on to Northrend critters!

So that's what I've been up to. Hopefully I'll have the time/ambition to write up a new article for you all either later on tonight or sometime tomorrow. I think some of you may really dig what I have in mind. In the event that I get to preoccupied to start up my new column, you all will at least still get this week's edition of Hoarders. Are you pumped? I'm sure you are : P

Quick (Hunter) Pet Post

Just released over on MMO-Champion, Ghostcrawler! Too cool. Well played Blizzard, well played.

So there's this guy and supposedly a spectral crab coming our way in Cataclysm. They both fall into the "Spirit Beast" category and they're both gorgeous. Hopefully their spawn points are a bit more spread out instead of just being in one, camp-able place like Arcturis. If not, I more than likely won't get this guy until our NEXT expansion...thank you my dear, sweet, high population server /silly sarcasm.

That's all for now, hopefully I'll have something more to share tomorrow : )

Hoarders: Azeroth Edition - Get 'em Fido!

Welcome to another edition of Hoarders! This week I've decided that I'm going to be doing an article on rare Hunter pets in celebration of Hunters now being able to have up to twenty five different combat pets. Now, you may have been expecting this series to consist of only items, but this simply is not the case! Be sure to keep tuning in, for I shall cover pets (combat and non combat), mounts, and random collectible items that you may randomly find off of various mobs around Azeroth and Outlands.

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All too soon my Hunter's stables shall be over flowing with creatures that have tusks, claws, and fangs. I plan on making an attempt to tame some of the more rare and unique creatures in the game, and I'd like to share with where you can find these beauties yourself. Let's get started then, shall we?

First, I'd like to begin with what I already have. While not all of these pets are necessarily rare, they seem to be at least semi-unique over on my server.

Brody - A white lion with a mane.
Not really incredibly rare, but he is a bit problematic to get seeing as though he is spawned from one of two quests. I was lucky enough to have a good friend of my to ask me one day if I would like him prior to me having to level all the way up to my 50s to be able to take a crack at Sian-Rotam. So, I ran my little level 20-something self all the way through Stranglethorn Vale (with the help of a kind soul who took pity on me getting killed by mobs every 10 feet or so), and managed to get over to the Barrens. Once I arrived my friend hopped over to his horde character and promptly spawned Echeyakee for me. A few excited moments later, he was mine! I really love all of the male lion skins, but he is by far my favorite.

River - A ghostly white leopard. Not a spirit beast.
This one you don't see all too often. This is another recommendation to me by the same friend who helped me obtain my beloved Brody. He actually came out to help me search for the cat figurines that spawn this interesting pet on his Dwarf Hunter (treasure finding ftw!), and within a half hour or so I was taming my dear little River. Here's more information on how to find this leopard.

 
~Random Fact~ Yes, she is named after River Tam for you Firefly fans out there. My guild for the past year has been <Battle of Serenity>. Yes, I'm a total geek.

Tyson - A black devilsaur.
No, he's not rare, but he's still cool looking! I got this guy out in Netherstorm, but he's also obtainable in Un'Goro Crater. He's named after a friend of mine, and the temper kinda fits : P

Gingervitus - A red worg.
Again, she's by no means rare, but I had to have a ginger wolf! For I am a ginger myself. Good reasoning, don't you think? Easily obtainable in Burning Steppes.

Jambi - A leopard spirit beast.
This is currently my pride and joy of my small collection. Loque'nahak is a rare spawn out in Sholazar Basin. He has a semi lengthy time spawn and have several different spawn points within the basin. To catch this beasty, I highly suggest reading the comments over on that wowhead link that I just gave. As with any spirit beast, your best weapon is information. This guy is highly sought after for both Hunters and those after the Northern Exposure achievement, and is located in a very high traffic area thanks to the farm-ability of the area. I actually got extremely lucky with this guy. After finally admiring defeat while hunting for the bear spirit beast (more on him later), I began to level my Hunter in the basin. One morning I logged on to take a quick cruise around this guy's spawn points just before the servers went down for maintenance, and there he was! NPC Scan screamed at me, and after a few false pulls that almost killed my little Draenei butt, he was mine. If you've never experienced the incredible rush you get when you finally nab something this rare, I recommend it.

Okay, enough talking about the kids that I have, now to talk about the ones that I want! This list is a bit long, but I'll try to stick to the rare(er) ones!

Arcturis - A bear spirit beast.
He is certainly not for tanking, but man, he is mighty purty! Prior to getting Jambi, I had actually spent a good amount of time camping this bugger in Grizzly Hills. After one shift of 12 straight hours of no spawn (for he only has one spawn point), much grief from various level 80s threatening to steal him from me, and being rather tired, I called it quits and continued to level on. Someday soon he shall be mine!

Skoll - A blue saber worg spirit beast with lightning.
This guy is incredibly gorgeous. I have yet to try and farm for him, but I'm looking forward to the day that I tame him. Oh yes, he is far too pretty for his own good! You can try your luck at finding him at his various spawn points in Storm Peaks.

Gondria - A purplish ghostly tiger spirit beast.
This is another spirit beast that I have yet to attempt to farm. She is one spirit beast that I originally didn't care much for, but she's definitely grown on me. Gondria has multiple spawn points over in Zul'Drak. For those of you who follow WoW Insider, you may have seen this epic post about some wonderful guildies who spent about 7 hours kiting this amazing spirit beast around until their guild Hunter got online to tame her. Pretty cool stuff, Batman :  )

Aotona - A blue parrot.
Oh Aotona, what a beauty you are! (Oh my...I'm beginning to sound like the Crocodile Hunter...) She's another one of Sholazar Basin's handful of rare spawns. She has several spawn points, and like Loque'nahak, is a requirement for the Northern Exposure achievement. On my server I have perhaps seen one tamed Aotona, so you can see why I'd love to have this bird in my collection!

King Krush - A green devilsaur.
Same model as my Tyson that I already have, but instead of being black he's green! He's the third rare tamable spawn out in Sholazar Basin, and like the other two, he has multiple spawn points and is on the kill list for Northern Exposure. I can't really recall ever seeing this guy being sported around any of the main hubs, thus again, a must have!

Uhk'loc - An all white gorilla.
This is the only all white, tamable gorilla currently in game. Honestly I'm a bit torn between this guy's model, and the dark grey version. Naturally though, I'll more than likely end up getting the rare guy! Just because that's how I roll. Uhk'loc is currently hiding out somewhere in Un'Goro Crater.

Tallstriders - They're...well, ostriches?
In general these guys aren't rare. They're all over Kalimdor in fact, but...there is not one, nor two, but THREE different rare colors for these guys. Honestly, I'm torn as to which one to get! The pink one - can be found out in Mulgore, the purple one - can be found in Terokkar Forest, or the turquoise one - can be found out at Darkshore. Tough choice really, but I'm leaning towards the purple, with pink coming in at a close second!

Nuramoc - A purple chimaera.
This guy I've actually managed to kill a few times (while I'm on anything but my Hunter I tend to kill anything that pops up on NPC Scan...), but he's really a rare spawn out in Netherstorm. I'm not a huge chimaera fan, but this dude looks kinda cool, plus he's rare. Therefor, he's cool in my book!

Scion of Quetz'lun - A white spiked wind serpent.
He's pretty neat looking I must say, for a wind serpent. I'm not too partial to wind serpents myself, but this guy may just be worth going after. You can try your luck at finding him over in Zul'Drak.

Firefly - It's a yellow bug!
These guys aren't rare...in fact they're everywhere if you simply head out to Zangarmarsh. I really just wanted to end my "currently available" list on a geeky note! Once I tame one, you can be sure her name will be Serenity. <3

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For now I consider this list to be finished, but I may very well do a Cataclysm edition (Get 'em Fido 2.0 or something to that nature) in a few months time. If you'd like a complete list of all of the currently available pets, and for a sneak peak at those that shall become available when Cataclysm rocks our world, head on over to Petopia to check 'em out!

Happy hunting hoarders!


Edit: I meant to dedicate this post to a good friend of mine who had passed away a few months ago. He's the one who helped me acquire both Brody and River, as well as point me in the direction of the Tallstriders. Today is his birthday, so happy birthday Weezie! You're loved and missed by everyone who knew you over on Aggramar. We love you buddy. <3