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Adventures in Beta: Hunter pets are not cuddly

I was wandering, lost, through an orc encampment in Hellfire Citadel the other day when I came upon a nice hunter who offered to show me where the quest mob was. We grouped up, and I meleed while she stayed back and shot the mob. After it was dead I turned around, directly into the face of ... this THING. This horrible, horrible thing.

It turns out the THING is called a Warp Stalker, and it is a kind of baby dragon that istameable around level 63. Warp Stalkers have the new ability "Warp," which lets them teleport right to an enemy and gives them a 50 percent chance to miss its next attack. Pretty handy! And after a while, the warp stalker began to look kind of cute. At least compared to some of the other offerings in BC.

Petopia, the ultimate hunter pet site, has a whole section on the new pet families available for taming in Burning Crusade. These include:

  • Dragonhawks, cute little flying casters that come both in very low and very high-level versions. These guys can use Fire Breath, an AOE cone effect that causes damage over two seconds.

  • Nether Rays, low-stat fliers that can use all passive abilities.

  • Spore Bats, well-rounded pets that look kind of like jellyfish.

  • Ravagers, high-DPS insectoids who can bite, dash, gore, and use many other abilities.

There are also new models for cats, raptors and windserpents, all of which you can see at Petopia's site. Check it out!