Four year anniversary pet and feat of strength achievement

by Adam Holisky Nov 22nd 2008 at 9:00AM

Those of us waking up today and tomorrow will log into Azeroth and find in our mailboxes a little Baby Blizzard Bear non-combat pet. This pet will also give you a feat of strength achievement celebrating World of Warcraft's four years online.

This is a nice little way for Blizzard to thank all of us for spending years in the game. With over 11 million people playing WoW, and Wrath becoming a hit overnight, there's definitely a lot of celebrating to do over at Blizzard HQ.

The little bear that you get looks a like a small version of the BlizzCon Polar Bear Mount those of us lucky enough to attend BlizzCon this year got. It's a perfect traveling companion for you as you adventure around Northrend.

Edit: The pet is active on US, EU, and Oceanic servers.

Thanks to Mangowire for sending us the pics you see below.

Gallery: WoW Anniversary Pet

Tags: baby-blizzard-bear, blizzard, breaking, feats-of-strength, in-game-mail, joystiqfeatures, mail, mailbox, non-combat, non-combat-pet, pet, tweet-this, wow-four-year-anniversary, wow-pet

Filed under: Blizzard, Achievements

Reader Comments (Page 5 of 5)

edward Nov 23rd 2008 2:47AM

nice surprise, but whats with the bear having such a big head hmm?

carrie Nov 23rd 2008 3:25AM

Infants often have heads that are 1/3 the size of their body. Someone once told me it had something to do with evoking a protective instinct.

Elfshine Nov 23rd 2008 3:49AM

On Skywall-US we started getting them at 0300 eastern time. That's midnight pacific. Server ground to a halt as people were logging alts in and out, and the mailboxes were flooded. We are so easily amused.

And I absolutely love him!

cinisistra Nov 23rd 2008 5:09PM

sometimes, when i see a pet like this, i really really wish that Blizz would implement a /dropkick emote for me.

grravie Nov 23rd 2008 10:08AM

is this for everybody or just those of us who have been playin since the start?

shane Nov 23rd 2008 2:14PM

Holy cow this was such an awesome addition to my day

Mashy Nov 24th 2008 5:47AM

My girlfriend has a lot to answer for, preventing me from logging in at that appropriate day :(((((( I have 2 accounts, been playing since march 2005 :((((((( I deserve a blizz pet too :(((((

I suppose requesting blizz to give me the pet would be pointless :s

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