Tag Archives: New Warlords Pets

New hunter pets in Shadowmoon Valley

Shadowmoon Valley had a wider variety of tameable pets than Frostfire Ridge did (a lot of the ones in Frostfire weren't yet flagged as tameable on the alpha). Some of the ones in Shadowmoon still can't be tamed, but that'll be fixed in time. Is your stable full? You might want to make room for some … Continue Reading ››

Pet of the Week: Echidnian Hydra

These lumbering beasts wander the shallows of the Nightmarsh in Shadowmoon Valley. Hydras are one of the 3 new hunter pet families being added in Warlords of Draenor, the others being Rylaks and Riverbeasts, which I'll feature shortly. Hydras bring the Keen Senses (mastery) buff. There's a little bit of a bug … Continue Reading ››

WoD Alpha Huntering: Day 1

I've been in betas before, but never in something as early as a F&F alpha. I'm used to betas basically being finished products, minus some balancing or minor issues. This is a lot different from what I'm used to. A good deal of my time is filling in bug reports or crash reports it seems, … Continue Reading ››

Hook Wasps are joining the Wasp family, Rylaks will be exotic

The previously announced Hook Wasp exotic pets are going to be folded into the regular Wasp family and will no longer be exotic. Replacing them as the new exotic family in Warlords will be the Rylaks. If you're wondering what a Rylak is, it's the same thing as an Iron Skyreaver mount (minus the rocket … Continue Reading ››

Savager Ravagers

Sorry. I couldn't resist. Blizzard teased this new mount on twitter yesterday. Remove that little saddle, and you have yourself the new Warlords of Draenor Ravager pets. Darkbrew was also Continue Reading ››

A closer look at beast mastery hunters in Warlords

Update 8/22: This article is still mostly accurate but is slightly depreciated. It will give you a good overview of the  overall changes but you may want to view more recent posts under the Beast Mastery tag for more info and recent opinions. If you missed it earlier, Blizzard released the first version of patch notes … Continue Reading ››

New Hunter pets and pet buffs in Warlords

More fun hunter stuff from the Warlords of Draenor alpha has been datamined! First up, it looks like all buffs will be able to be provided by non-Exotic pets, including bloodlust/heroism.  It appears that some exotic pets will be getting new special abilities instead of having access to exclusive buffs. We currently know about 5 new … Continue Reading ››