Yeah, it’s pretty much doing that, post-patch that added the Achievement system, to get the achievement. 
(My priest is surnamed Jenkins.)
One more noob question:
Is there any in-game advantage to taming a silver-dragon-rare pet? Do they keep their higher stats for their level? Or is it just for the kewl factor?
If it’s the latter, I think I’ll just keep my piggie, at least until I can get a gorilla.
Check the Petopia link I posted earlier in the thread, as I’m not sure if there are any differences any longer. Sometimes people tame rares (with uncommon/unique “skins”) for the bragging rights, but I thought Blizzard had fixed any stat differences that existed in previous pet types for rares vs. normals.
Back before the Burning Crusade expansion, I used a guide on Petopia to get my lvl 17 Horde hunter onto the Alliance boat at Darkshore, and into Teldrassil. This involved 6 deaths and a PvP flagging when I had to enter Darnassus. (I waited out the flag at the graveyard on Teldrassil, then rezzed.) For this effort I snagged an owl, which were otherwise unavailable to Horde hunters until you got high enough level for Felwood. It was the subject of curious and envious tells from other hunters, too.
For the most part, silvers don’t retain any special abilities outside the norm for their character once you tame them. However, they usually look more like they did as a silver, so if you want a raptor of a different color, the rare is the one to train.
Also, you can have the bragging rights of taming a rare (which will get renamed automatically to Cat or Raptor), and you can name it whatever it was before (a hunter in my guild tamed the turtle from Wailing Caverns, Kresh).
There are a rare few which have special abilities. The only two I know of are a flying snake which spawns in as part of a Horde quest: it has the ability to occasionally vanish in a poof of smoke; and a ghost cat which is spawned in by clicking on little kitty artifacts in northern Darkshore, which is usually transparent, so when you tell it to Prowl, it becomes really freakin’ hard to see, which is useful for PVP.
Hmm… interesting thought. The ravagers in the Dranei noob area are tameable, right? That could be fun…
Yep! They’re effective little chainsaws, too.
Warning: The Gamespy site has a comic strip about a Horde hunter getting an owl pet at the moment. Flintlock comic, if you know it.
http://pc.gamespy.com/flintlocke-vs-the-horde/episode-1-a-horde-of-many-colors/905954p1.html
I was just thinking about linking that. Pretty good comic.
That strip is brilliant! Thanks for the link (it took me to the first comic, though, not the one you wanted).
Clue me in on the lingo here: what’s “pween” (as in PSI: Pween Scene Investigation)? Ain’t heard that one before.
The other level appropriate areas you can go check out is Westfall and Loch Modan.
Westfall: Take a boat from Auberdine to Stormwind. Head out the main gate of Stormwind, follow the road south to Goldshire, then west to Westfall. You will find a bunch of level appropriate quests at Sentinel Hill. (Grab flight points in Stormwind and Sentinel hill.)
Loch Modan: From Stormwind, ride the tram (found in the north/Dwarven section of town) to Ironforge. Head out of the main entrance of Ironforge, follow road downhill, then cross the little frozen river to the south, then follow the road east. The road eventually will take you to the Loch Modan province. You will find level appropriate quests in the town of Thelsamar, and the guards in the southern valley (Valley of the Kings). Grab Sotrmwind, Ironforge, and Thelsamar flight points.
No. Guild Tabards (and later, faction tabards) will cover chest armor, but you can’t turn chest armor off. If you go explore your options tab, you can turn off helmets, cloaks, and shoulders, if you find those ugly. But unfortunately, you can’t show off your snappy red silk shirt without swapping it out with your chest armor.
There is a quest in the hunter’s lodge in Loch Modan, where one of the rewards is a red shirt that drops into the “shirt” slot (as opposed to your chest armor slot), but it won’t overlay your chest armor. You might be able to see the sleeves or cuffs peeking out…
You better ask you guild officer’s first. Everyone’s policy may be different.
In my guild, stuff in the guild vault is not put there so that you can enrich yourself. You can use it for crafting if you ask first, but not for putting it up on the AH and making gold for yourself. (Ditto the guild gold in the bank. That gold is for buying raid related stuff the guild can’t make or farm on it’s own.)
‘pween’ ‘pwn’ ‘own’. They investigate ownings.
There are two series. Flintlock, which is Alliance side, and the new Horde side one. That’s correct, I sent you to the first comic of the second series. The owl shows up later, but really, without context, it’s just not as good.
Yes, it can.
Back when my Tauren Shaman was level 70 and WotLK hadn’t come out yet I helped a level 10 Orc Hunter in my guild tame a Ravager. I escorted him up to the Dranei starting area, which proved to be quite interesting. (He needed the escort as he was completely new to the game and would have taken a long time just to find his way out there otherwise) Once we hit Auberdine the town guards kept spawning and spawning and spawning… They couldn’t kill me, but I couldn’t kill them fast enough to keep the hunter alive. So he stripped down to his underwear (armor/gear you aren’t wearing takes no damage when you die - remember that folks, it can be handy) and he corpse-dragged out to the docks while my cowgirl fought her way to the proper boat. After that, it was a matter of locating the proper Ravager and keeping the hunter alive long enough to do the taming. (My character was so overpowered for the area I think her body odor alone was able to kill mobs). So, he got his Ravager.
Then we decided that fighting our way back to a Horde flight point was not something we were interested in doing.
So we hearthed back.
And that’s how the level 10 Orc Hunter came to have a Ravager named “Hearthback”
I think I need to rethink my approach with my orc warrior. He’s getting owned by quilboars in The Barrens. For some reason he’s aggro-ing nearby enemies in a way that my tauren hunter never did. I’m not sure what’s going on there. I know I’m supposed to avoid melee as a hunter, but back when Chimtahna was level 12-13 — before I knew better — he could run right up to a quilboar and whack it (or my pet could do it), and that other quilboar over there wouldn’t notice. But Pinezensuuz charges up to a quilboar and starts smacking it, and within seconds he’s mobbed by every other quilboar within shouting distance.
I’m thinking the size difference between tauren and orcs is part of the problem. An orc isn’t much bigger than a quilboar, but a tauren dwarfs them. So I think there’s something about the angle of view, where the tauren is looking down at an angle at the next enemy over, the orc is looking at a more level angle, and so I’m misjudging just how far away that next enemy is. Just a theory.
Or maybe one of the warrior abilities is doing it? I dunno. My night elf warrior doesn’t have this problem.
I’ve also reached the conclusion that tauren stink in caves, just because they’re so big. It gets really frustrating when there’s a wall behind Chimtahna, and the camera can’t move back far enough. Chimtahna completely fills the screen and I can’t see a damn thing that’s happening. Maybe I need to pull clear up into first-person mode in those instances?
http://pc.gamespy.com/flintlockes-guide-to-azeroth/introduction/897826p1.html The first Flintlocke series. Enjoy!
I’m no expert but I think it has something to do with “threat”. A warrior generates more threat than a druid, basically saying “Attack Me!” to nearby hostiles. They are meant to tank.
BTW I finally found and killed** Steelsnap**. He was in a centaur camp roaming around so I had to carefully pick off the centuars before engaging him and his buddies.
There may be no real answer to this, but I’ll ask…I’ve been having a good time playing my horde characters on a PvP server. (archimonde). None of them are very high level and most times I’m solo. My orc hunter just made level 32 last night. (I could have probably made 33 but I spent my limited playtime gathering ore to sell for the most part)
I’ve come across several alliance players and 9 times out of ten I lose any fight. Now, I’m not one with “mad pvp skillz” but I usually lose because I’m woefully outmatched, even if I’m not outnumbered. Before I logged for the night I took a quest to hunt frostmaw in the Alterac Mountains. As I travelled by the area of Tarren Mill I saw an alliance character coming down the road. we stopped and looked each other other. I can’t see his lvl because it just says “??”…I was debating on whether or not to attack or flee. He dismounted…so he’s going to attack. I dismount. (he had three friends that came running up behind him, so I figured I’m gonna lose but i can at least take this guy out before I go down when his buddies catch up.) I thought I had a chance seeing how the level range in Alterac and Hillsbrad for alliance quests is about early mid 30’s.
It was no match. He killed me and my pet before I could even begin to fight. There has to be some method to tell if an opposing faction player is too tough to tangle with. Seriously this guy and the others I’ve fought were always too high for me to really win. I don’t blame them, hey, its pvp. I guess I just have bad luck when it comes down to it, as I keep running into alliance guys that severely outlevel me. If he can kill me in one or two shots he must have 8 to ten levels on me. Any advice for me out there? Should I just avoid all alliance players if possible until I gain 10 or 20 levels?
(I logged out after reaching the crossroads where the ogres are…I thought as i went to bed I should hang there for awhile and sneak up on the next alliance guy that comes by for the defias quest or the ogre quest just for a slight feeling of revenge. :mad:…it’ll be suicide most likely for me. Even if I win they’ll probably come back with reinforcements from southshore and wipe the floor with me.)
If his level is shows as a ?? or skull he is too high for you to have a chance (unless he’s AFK - sometimes you can take one of those down because they’re not fighting back). So the information you sought was already there, you just didn’t have the knowledge to interpret it correctly.
I did not know that. Thanks.
What does he see if I see “??”? Does he see my level or ?? too?
That explains why I saw the levels of the duo that teamed up on me awhile ago. They were lower than mine. What is the range on that? +5 or +10 or so?
“??” on mouseover/skull in target box is 10 or more levels higher than you - this is true for both the other side’s players and for NPCs/monsters. Your opponent will see your true level if you are 9 levels higher down to anywhere lower, and vice versa - you can always see the true level of an opponent in that level range as well.
If you’re really curious about another player, go to Blizzard’s Armory website and type their name in. You can see level, gear, PvP points/ranking, all sorts of stuff.