Petoholics Anonymous

All the weirdos are out

// November 26th, 2007 // 1 Comment » // Random Stuff

I had some very strange experiences this weekend with other players. Now, it was Thanksgiving in the USA (here in Canada, we had it a month ago) so I’m maybe wondering if that had something to do with it?

Let’s start of with a very “special” level 40-something blood elf hunter that I met on Hydraxis realm that I will refer to as “John”. Khaja was in Orgrimarr selling her wares when I noticed John asking numerous times on trade chat where to buy a mount. Everyone else seemed to be ignoring him so I decided to be helpful and asked him what kind of mount he was looking for. This lead to a rather confusing conversation paraphrased here (I talk in all lowercase in the game just because it’s faster to type):

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I’ve got a lovely bunch of hunter pets

// November 20th, 2007 // 1 Comment » // Random Stuff

Hi, my name is Faeldray, and I am a petoholic. And it turns out that I’m not the only one out there. Mania, who was away on work, asked for everyone to talk about their pets and why they love them. I know I’m writing this a little late but it’s taken me a while to compile all the stories about the pets I have. I do have 7 hunters, ya know

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Cats, leveling, and bye-bye Loch Modan!

// September 26th, 2007 // No Comments » // Hunters and Pets

Fhionn, as you may know, is my cat lady. She will only tame cat pets. Right now, she has Irusan, a Durotar tiger. I had to run all the way to the Echo Isles to get him, not without the help of a guildie of course. But now I have been thinking of getting Dishu, a rare cheetah-skinned cat from the Barrens. Why these brightly coloured cats for a night elf that can get any number of purple or white cats? Because she can Hey, nothing like a little bit of contrast. So why Dishu? There’s always a little more satisfying to tame a rare or elite as opposed to a regular pet. Also, he’s the only cheetah below level 25 and I haven’t seen many hunters with cheetahs.

Machalor went from level 29 to level 31.5 (so she now has the incredibly useful Feign Death) so she’s only 2 levels away from taming a scarlet tracking hound.

Aithne is now level 20! That’s one down, 3 to go to cross that off on my to-do list.

Jorthwyn is on her way to level 20, not with the help of quests in Loch Modan however. Has anyone else had problems finding quests in this dwarven area? Doesn’t really matter because now Jorthwyn and Freki are enjoying Darkshore, where there are lots of quests.

Brighit and Nicora…sorry, haven’t done anything with them.

Wailing Caverns sure lives up to its name

// September 16th, 2007 // No Comments » // Hunters and Pets

At least it did for me. Alright, let me give you the situation. Aithne is level 14 and has her blue crab Lapis. As beautiful as Lapis is and as much as I love her, I know that she is not a great pet. After all, all crabs can learn is Claw. I head over to Petopia and after choosing a few pets, taming them, and then deciding that I didn’t like them, I got to the raptors. They’re a viable class, able to learn Bite and Claw (and Dash come patch 2.2). And they look pretty cool too. After 20 minutes or so of browsing through the different looks, I decided that I liked the grey one the best. That meant taming a deviate stalker.

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Wanna know who I play?

// September 16th, 2007 // No Comments » // Random Stuff

I have now created pages for each of my hunters that I play, all six of them. This way it’ll hopefully be easier to keep track of who’s who on what realm, who has which pet, etc. The About page also has more info about me and Petoholics Anonymous. So if you’re on Hydraxis or Farstriders or Nazgrel, don’t be afraid to drop me a line! It would be nice to know that someone is actually reading this stuff somewhere out there

As for character progress, I’m just trying to level everyone except for Nicora and Machalor up to level 20. I will post about Aithne’s tame of Rath, and I’m in the process of writing a beginner’s guide to the hunter class based on my experiences. So more to come soon!