PTR Notes: Pets aplenty
by Mike Schramm 
Apr 27th 2007 at 1:35PM
The good people over at Petopia have posted a lot of new info about pets seen on the PTR for 2.1. First, there's been four new pets found so far-- a new Blackwind Warp Chaser, a Ravager from Hellfire Peninsula, the Sky Shadows in Deadwind Pass (that scared the heck out of you even before the expansion was released), and this amazing purple tallstrider called a Dodostrider (that last one has hunters buzzing).One pet will be made untamable-- apparently there are issues with the Death Ravager that gets spawned in a quest in the lowbie Draenei area, Azuremyst Isle, and so hunters won't be able to tame him any more. Also, Petopia has PTR info on two new trainable pet abilities, Avoidance and Cobra Reflexes. Avoidance has two ranks and reduces the damage done to pets by AoE (this is aimed directly at endgame PvE pet viability), and Cobra Reflexes has one rank and increases attack speed at a cost to damage done.
As usual, all this info is still subject to change. But it's great that Blizzard is getting more and more pets (and pet abilities) in the mix. Here's hoping the trend continues.
Filed under: Hunter, Patches, Items, Analysis / Opinion, Tips, Expansions, Draenei
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Savok Apr 27th 2007 1:46PM
Issues with the Death Ravager? You can't buff it, heal it or use it to attack other players. Goes a bit beyond "issues".
Honestly, they should give the Death Ravager's skin to a rare spawn somewhere, because lets face it, it's a great looking Ravager and that why so many people got lvl 10 Warriors to help them get it.
Jeff Apr 27th 2007 1:51PM
I'm hoping Blizz fix the Serpent problem, since they are tameable, the serpent lv60 in ZG are having lots of bugs ; They cant move correctly (stopping at each yard) when trying to do their Ability (Poison Spit) and the ability was so much nerfed its now useless at level 70. It did 275 dmg over 8 second at level 60, instant cast, now its 3 sec cooldown, and its 75 dmg over 12 sec... LOL that about 25 HP per tick... WTF ?
Ovcydian Apr 27th 2007 2:39PM
I hope they introduce more boars in the 65 range - like a tameable hellboar type - I'd hate to pickup anthor dead boar thing from e. plaguelands and level it from 60 to 70. What a pain in the arse.