I posted that last post a little too fast. Cory Stockton (@mumper) just announced via twitter that there is another new pet coming in 5.3.
Unborn Val’kyr
We don’t know for sure yet. But I’m guessing this is going to be a difficult pet to find. Super-Rare.
Posted in Patch 5.3, Pet Battle System, PTR | Tags: Pet Battle System, Unborn Val'kyr
Blizzard is getting ready to release patch 5.3 to the PTR and so they published some preliminary patch notes. And it looks like we’re getting a new Raiding with Leashes achievement. If you’re not familiar the original Raiding with Leashes sent you into old world raid dungeons to kill bosses and collect the pets that they dropped.
Raiding with Leashes 2 does the same thing with the Burning Crusade raids (At least the ones that remain un-upgraded). So we’ll be entering Karashan, Serpentshrine Cavern, and Tempest Keep killing for pets. We don’t know for certain yet which pets drop from which bosses yet. But we can hazard a guess.
The achievement rewards you with a pet named Tito which is Dorothee’s dog from the Wizard of Oz Opera Event.
I had a lot of fun going after the pets in the original achievement and I’m really looking forward to this one. Speculating on their locations is fun too.
Patch 5.3 should hit the PTR soon!
UPDATE: (5/1/13) Updated the pets. Now we know the source for all of them.
Vol’jin: Shadows of the Horde by Michael Stackpole has been pushed back to July according to Amazon. Yes, I know that isn’t an official source. But we haven’t heard anything official from Blizzard. I think if they were releasing it in April like they originally announced we would have heard something by now.
Last night new shoulders (Fissure-Split Shoulderwraps) dropped for Zal in the new LFR. They look very trollish and the T14 Pope hat didn’t look very good with it. So I mogged it to the old Collar of Bones from ZA. Much better now.
In closing….The name of this blog is “Raiding (not so) Casually,” but lately I haven’t been posting about raiding very much. My raid team, the Gangsta Gerbils, is on a short hiatus right now. During patch 5.1 we lost a few key raiders to Real Life and right now we’re trying to recruit some new players to replace them and regroup. The final member we’re looking for is a TANK! We raid Tuesday and Thursday evenings 7:30 pm until 10 pm MDT. If you’re interested please give me a holler.
For some reason I found myself wide awake at 4:30 am this morning. Maybe it was the time change or the fact that I went to bed earlier than I usually do. But I was awake, and not able to go back to sleep. So I decided to do some pet collecting.
First thing I went to Felwood and a Minfernal was sitting there for me. With no campers in sight I swooped dawn and picked him up with my Terrible Turnip. I didn’t want to kill the guy after all.
I wondered if any of the other rare pets were up. I teleported to Dalaran and flew to the Argent Tournament. I saw 5-6 Scourged Whelplings on the ground as I flew over, but that doesn’t mean anything. I’d be in a different CRZ when I land and there’s usually none there then. But this morning there were two of them up.
My luck was running high, so I headed down and picked up Spawn of Onyxia and a Giraffe Calf as well.
When Pandaria went live there was a bug in pet battle that didn’t register some pets as you collected them. This meant that they didn’t show up on the collector achievements. I wrote a ticket on the problem way back when. And I got the usual “Thank You, We are aware of the problem,” etc. etc. Never gave me an answer or told me it’d been fixed.
Well, playing around with things I noticed that they partially fixed the problem. Your original catches did not show up on the achievement list, but if you go out and catch a new one, that will be recorded and give you credit.
So I also went out and collected the 5 or six pets that I needed to catch again to get credit.
Now I only have TWO pets left to collect for the World Safari achievement and the “Zookeeper” title.
The Baby Ape spawns on Jaguari Isle in Stranglethorn Vale but only when it rains there. And the Qiraji Guardling only spawns in the summer-time. According to some WowHead comments summer in-game starts March 20th. So We’ll see.
Like many of you I’ve been trying to kill the Haywire Sunreaver Construct to try and get the pet to drop ever since the patch dropped on Tuesday. Well today while I was doing dailies with my daughter the construct suddenly popped up on my Silverdragon add on. We hightailed it to the beach and were the first ones to tag it. A few seconds later some other players joined in, thankfully, which gave me time to deal with the group of Saurok I had accidentally aggro’d while racing to the Construct.
After the saurok died it was a pretty easy, if long, fight. At the end both myself and my daughter had the Sunreaver Micro-Sentry pet, and a Key to the Vault room.
In other news my raid team is on hiatus until the first week in April. A few of our key members will be on vacation. This gives us some time to recruit. We lost a few members to real life during 5.1 (I hate when RL gets in the way). So we’re looking for new players in all rolls. If you’re interested in raiding with the Gangstas please drop me or Ruction a line.
Finally, last night we held a guild run into Heart of Fear(LFR) and the thing I’ve been working for ever since Pandaria’s launch finally dropped for me. Kri’tak, Imperial Scepter of the Swarm is mine! I quickly dropped my Legendary gem in it and had it enchanted. Now my Mindbender looks like a little Sha!!! Gotta love it!
Posted in Mists of Pandaria | Tags: Kri'tak, Pet Battle System, Sunreaver Micro-Sentry
Will of the Emperor
The Gangsta Gerbils of From the Ashes defeated Will of the Emperor last night, clearing Mogu’shan Vaults.
I know, It’s about time!
We’re really looking forward to Heart of Fear, Terrace, and Throne of Thunder.
Posted in Heart of Fear, Mogu'shan Vaults, Raiding
Blizzard was kind enough to give all of the PTR testers a bunch of level 25 battle pets. So now we can go out and do battle with those epic pets that strategically located through out Pandaria. Among those pets that we received are some of the new pets that are only available in patch 5.2. I though you might enjoy seeing them. So here are just a few of them.
Electrified Razortooth
Red Panda Cub
In the next picture you’ll see the Sunreaver Micro-Sentry and also one of the interesting bugs on the PTR. All of the moths that fly around that area were replaced with the Blizzard Bear Cub model. LOL
Sunreaver Micro-Sentry
New Frog Model
Trying to capture one of the new frog models on the Island of the Thunderking. It ultimately failed due to the server going down before the match was complete. /shakefist at Blizz!
Posted in Battle Pets, Mists of Pandaria, Non-Combat Pets, Patch 5.2, PTR | Tags: Battle, Pandaria, Pet, world-of-warcraft
The Gangstas defeated Elegon for the first time the other night. I had no doubts that we’d get him. Our previous attempt was really the first time we’d seen him and we almost got him into his final phase. So this time we pushed and pushed and he hit the floor.
We also got the “And…It’s Good!” Achievement which is hilariously fun to do. It involves being punted through the “goal post” by one of the adds right before Elegon. Fun Stuff!
And… It’s Good!
Oh! I almost forgot! If you’re looking for a raiding family then check us out. The Gangsta Gerbils raid team is part of the From The Ashes guild on the Horde side of Perenolde-US. Right now we’re recruiting a Healer and a few good DPS. So if you’re interested please drop us a line.
Posted in Mists of Pandaria, Mogu'shan Vaults | Tags: Achievements, And... It's Good!, Elegon, Gangstas
I spent the day working on Battle Pets and WOW did it pay off…Finally! First off I earned 400 Achievement points in Pet Battles so I got the “Time To Open a Pet Store” Achievement and the Jade Tentacle.
Jade Tentacle
After that I decided to hit the auction house and I found the Phoenix Hatchling (Leveled to level 25 already), Ashstone Core, and a Pandaren Earth Spirit for very cheap. So I snatched them up. I’ve been trying to get the Phoenix Hatchling forever, it seems.
Phoenix Hatchling
During dailies I picked up a rare quality Arcane Eye near Karazhan.
I did a run through Molten Core and didn’t get any pets. I did pick up some cool transmog gear in there though.
Late in the day I decided to try my luck at Blackwing Lair. I’d never done it before and wasn’t even attuned for it yet. So after a short trip into UBRS I was attuned and went into Blackwing Lair. Where I got more pets. Woo Hoo!
Untamed Hatchling
Deathtalon Whelpguard
Chrominius
I am the most excited about picking up Chrominius. His attacks are awesome. I’ll be leveling him up ASAP.
Some people have asked why I always play Roswynn when leveling Battle Pets. Well, there is a lot of travel involved and she’s a Mage. Using her teleport spells really cuts down on the travel time.
Posted in Mists of Pandaria, Pet Battle System | Tags: Chominus, Pandaren Earth Spirit, Phoenix Hatchling
Bethesda began taking sign ups for Elder Scrolls Online today. I’m a huge fan of the series, even though I didn’t get to play Oblivion. I did play the heck out of Morrowind and Skyrim. Check out this awesome trailer!
Posted in Cinematic, The Elder Scrolls | Tags: Elder Scrolls, Morrowind, Oblivion, Online, Skyrim
