Petoholics Anonymous

Character and pet name generators are still live

// June 18th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Random Stuff

For those of you who are looking, here are the links for the PANDA WoW name generator and the Pet-o-licious Namerator for hunter pet names.

Twas the night before release…

// November 12th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Hunters and Pets

And all through fair Azeroth,
Players were anxiously waiting,
Even the hunter with the moth.

Well, I never claimed to be a spectacular poet or anything. The point being is that I finally added all the new pet families to the Pet-o-licious Namerator, and just in time for the expansion. In a short little while I will be huddled outside in the wonderful Canadian Prairie winter, waiting to grab my own copy and hopefully, oh so hopefully, it will be a Collector’s Edition. Later I’ll have to make more posts about what I’ve been up to in the game. Enjoy the new names and wish me luck!

Updating Pet-o-holics Namerator for WotLK

// October 15th, 2008 // 9 Comments » // Random Stuff

So I’m reinstalling WoW on my laptop (don’t ask >.< ) and while I was staring at the progress bar inch ever so slowly along, I realized that with the new patch, there’s new pet families. Families that aren’t in the Pet-o-holics Namerator! This calls for an update!

I figured it would be best to not only include the Patch 3.0 pets but also the Wrath of the Lich King pets. After all, it’s less than a month away now. I’ve already added those families to the suggestion form on the Namerator’s page. This is where you come in, my fellow Petoholics. I need your name ideas for all these new and wonderful pets that Blizzard has given us. I need at least 10 for each family before I can add them to the Namerator. So please do flood my inbox with your suggestions!

While I’m at it, I want to link you to Big Red Rhino, a hunters blog that specifically covers tenacity pets both on the live realms and in the WotLK beta. Personally I love Grakoth, Niqora’s warp stalker, and I used Ihlos’s review of the tenacity talent tree to help decide where I should put his talent points.

And here’s a quick callout to Snake in the Grass, who listed me in her blogroll as a Pet Master, right under Mania. I don’t know if I’m so much a pet master as a pet fanatic. But I can quit whenever I want…really. >.>

*goes back to staring at the progress bar*

I’m flying! And I’m skilled!

// September 7th, 2008 // No Comments » // Hunters and Pets

Technically Niqora was flying before, but now she’s flying in style! If you check my Twitter account, she got her flying mount way back on August 14…but that’s beside the point. From the moment that Niqo got her normal flyer and was trying in vain to keep up with Azjin, I was determined to get the epic as fast as I could. I did SSO dailies almost every day and didn’t spend her gold on anything. I was at 4000g when I had a sudden stroke of luck and an enchanting recipe dropped for me…one that Auctioneer said was worth 1500g! I ended up selling it within 10 minutes for 1000g, which I didn’t mind because I’m not greedy. The buyer, a level 70 decked out in the latest raiding gear, didn’t even blink an eye at the price. So I then had 5000g which went to buy the riding skill, and Azjin lent me the remaining 200g for the mount itself (I paid him back the next day with the money I got from my dailies). Following all of this were gleeful cries of “Wheeeeeeee!” as I spent half an hour flying all over Nagrand. It was expensive but boy was it worth it! I love it and would never give it up! Here are some screenshots I took of my first epic flight trip as well as random ones that I just felt like snapping:

Now, after I bought the epic flyer, the next thing on my mental to-do list was to get all of Niqora’s skills maxed out. Skinning had been maxed out for a looooong time, and fishing and cooking didn’t take that long because I was fishing lots of food for Grakoth and cooking it as well. My first aid I have to say was sorely neglected, having sat at about 145 for the longest time. One night I decided to get it up and spent the evening buying cloth off the AH and flying back and forth to Hammerfall with the doctor guy is, the one that teaches you about 4 different bandages. It wasn’t hard to do but it was a little boring. However, I am glad that I did it, the bandages have come in handy lately I’ve found. The last skill was of course…leatherworking. Just a few hours ago, I finally managed to get it to 375. As a result, I have a lot of Bags of Many Hides and Drums of Battle lying around that I know I won’t get my money back on but I’m glad it’s finally complete. The next thing of my list: getting Niqo the Netherscale Armor set!

P.S. One little update on the Pet-o-holics Namerator: All the names I have received have been added and now 10 random names will appear in the Namerator instead of 2. Thank you all for the wonderful success it’s been and keep those names coming!

I think I’m getting carpal tunnel

// August 21st, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Hunters and Pets, Random Stuff

So the word about the Pet-o-holics Namerator is out thanks to WoW Insider and Mania’s Arcania, which spread to many many other sites. Now, I was expecting some interest in it..but not this much interest! Over 4000 views in one day AND there were over 200 name submissions waiting for me in my mail box! One person even submitted names 38 times! Does everyone have a hunter or something?

However, I wanted to say a big thanks to the hunter community for your love and support of this project. My wrists may be hurting a little from entering all those names (and I’m not even half done) but it really makes me feel good to see that I’m not the only one obsessed with pet names. Some of them are very imaginative and funny. I now have it in my head that I’m going to tame the ugliest scariest beast and name him Sparkles or SimpleSensations, just so I can giggle about it every time I log in. Keep the names rolling in and thank you all again!

An aside: One day people will remember that it’s PetOholics, not PetAholics, and that I am a female, not a male. >.>