Wrath's Fetch Ball lets you play with your pets
by Mike Schramm 
Aug 4th 2008 at 2:00PM
This is hardly going to be one of the most amazing items in Wrath to those who clamor for epics and full dungeon sets, but for those of us who like the flavor that those cute little noncombat pets add, the Fetch Ball is a dream come true. The first thing you can see in this beta video is the pet and mount interface (which not only will let you choose pets or mounts, but also see a preview of each before you summon them), and the second thing you can see is, well, let's just say that Blizzard finally gave the noncombat pets something to do. And it's easy to get -- you can pick it up, along with a few other pet-related objects, from the NPC vendor named after the founder of the Warcraft Pets site.
Incredibly cute, and we're so glad to finally see some life from the little guys who've been following us around all this time. And who knows what else this will open the door to -- today, the noncombat pets can fetch, tomorrow they can pick up our loot, play dead or even go to a minigame battle? Maybe the whole "noncombat" term isn't quite their style anymore.
[via WoW Ladies LJ]
Filed under: Items, Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Wrath of the Lich King
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
OnniHopeDream Aug 4th 2008 2:07PM
Haha, very cute, really fun feature here. Just another cool thing wrath will offer. And maybe they could get in more ideas to o with the pets ;p
SpaceDog Aug 4th 2008 2:09PM
That is adorable.
Juliah Aug 4th 2008 2:14PM
I love this! What a fun addition! Yay for fluff!
Naix Aug 4th 2008 2:15PM
They should make the pets trippable. Meaning you can park you pet and if someone runs over them the person falls.
Baluki Aug 4th 2008 2:18PM
That's great. I wonder if the balls will be fetchable by other peoples' pets.
Also, they should have certain pets retrieve the ball certain ways. Sleepy Willy could use an eye beam to retrieve the ball, instead of going to get it himself. The Rocket Bot could shoot a rocket at the ball and blow it up in mid-air (I sure hope they're cheap). Flying pets could swoop up and grab it in midair. Mini-Diablo and Mini-Tyrael could just ignore the ball, because playing fetch is beneath them.
Harmun Aug 4th 2008 2:20PM
Unless I can play fetch with that new massive tamable devilsaur, I'm not interested.
Also, I demand that instead of a ball, I throw gnomes for it to retrieve.
Jp Aug 4th 2008 8:46PM
That was my initial thought,
"Why does it only work for vanity pets? I want to make my devilsaur fetch!"
Also, fetching for those pets would be pretty funny for other classes. Succubus, Water Elemental... Death Knight's Ghoul...
ninjasuperspy Aug 4th 2008 2:22PM
Hah! Fetch, Diablo! Roll over! Aaaargh!
tehvoid Aug 4th 2008 2:26PM
Great fun addition!
That can be used in raids to give directions too! ;)
Too bad that players still don't have a skill/spell to make their compet pet go to a exact place directly (without Eye of the beast).
evestraw Aug 4th 2008 2:32PM
DOES IT work on orphans?
William Aug 4th 2008 2:41PM
Wow... just wow... that's all i can say.
Frank Aug 4th 2008 3:02PM
holy crap, i love this so much. :))
Retro Aug 4th 2008 3:06PM
Been suggesting for years that non-combat pets be able to act as limited shop bots. You'd be able to send your pet to retrieve mail, buy a stack of items, or refresh a bid at the AH. It would have a long cool down, of course. With vanity pets being a built-in feature, there's no excuse for players not to always have access to one.
Arras Aug 4th 2008 3:14PM
that is very cool...wonder if that would work with hunter/warlock pets as well?
Tuhljin Aug 4th 2008 4:28PM
I should hope the demons warlocks summon have more self-respect than that!
Jaynitan Aug 4th 2008 3:20PM
What other pet items will Breanni have (also her comments at the bottom of her pages for each pet are awesome!)
Spiraea Aug 4th 2008 6:32PM
All that's known so far (and this is from Breanni) is the Fetch Ball seen here and a Rope Pet Leash which does as you'd think. Attaches a line between you and your pet, I would really love to see this action too.
I've been collecting pets mainly as of recently (have 35 thus far :)) and stuff like this makes me just want to collect more and more and more!
zappo Aug 4th 2008 3:21PM
What I'd like to see is pets interacting with each other. For instance a cat trying to hop up at a parrot, or the smaller ones on the ground chase each other around sometimes. It would give you another incentive to have them out just to see if you bump into someone else with a non combat pet out just to see what they'll do.
Eliezer Aug 4th 2008 3:22PM
awwww...
Zone99 Aug 4th 2008 3:41PM
"even go to a minigame battle"??
How about: "I choose you! Pikachu!!!"