Updated Achievement Rewards, Hooray!

blizzard's feeling generous for 4.2, eh?!

latest PTR build notes from mmo-champion:

- littlest pet shop now rewards celestial dragon (previously awarded nuts' acorn)
- menagerie now rewards brilliant kaliri (previously awarded magical pet biscuit)
- petting zoo now rewards nuts' acorn (previously awarded magical pet biscuit)

talk about a curve ball. did. not. see. that one. coming. it's a good thing, i promise! *insert massive amounts of squeeing and confetti throwing here*

it's good to finally see the celestial dragon will soon be available to players. it was datamined quite a while ago but never made it past that stage. i'm absolutely thrilled that blizzard finally decided where/when to release it.

i'm also very eager to find out what the brilliant kaliri will look like! the original kaliri creature found in outlands was a bit dull imo (although the ones found in the blade's edge mountains and terokkar forest were pretty colorful), so i'm hoping a "brilliant" version will mean a gorgeously colored bird.

UPDATE: wowhead has a 3D model of the celestial dragon. make sure your flash and/or java are up-to-date and go check out this little guys' neat idle animation. you'll be starry-eyed, i'm sure. (lame joke is lame lol)

Nuts Knocks You Out!

the image above is faint and might be hard to make out, but what you're seeing is the result of a crazy little squirrel. yes, the new 150 pet achievement reward is indeed a squirrel! and he's nuts!

after patching, i logged onto the PTR to find nuts' acorn waiting for me in the mail sent by breanni herself. this companion is indeed a little squirrel, as many have speculated. he'll innocently wash his face and idle about... until he decides to hurl an acorn at your head! or any nearby head for that matter lol. he even had the nerve to throw nuts at the royal stormwind guard. there's even an awesome *thunk* noise when the acorn lands on its intended target!

note: while the animation looks like it stuns the target, the animation doesn't actually prevent or hinder movement.

i'm so excited to see this companion and i can't wait to acquire him once patch 4.2 goes live. of course, i have to remind myself that this is the PTR, things could change between now and when the patch is implemented, and not to get my hopes up too high, blah blah blah.

but i can't help myself! *bounces* perhaps this pet has started to rub off of me... and i too, am going... nuts. har har :P

4.2 Pet Achievement(s)

since i don't want this to get buried within my other rambles, repost of the update in my previous post!

mmo-champion has datamined another change to the pet-collecting achievements in the latest PTR build!

- 100 pets (petting zoo) - awards a magical pet biscuit (same as papa hummel's old-fashioned pet biscuit)

- 125 pets (menagerie) - awards a magical pet biscuit (same as papa hummel's old-fashioned pet biscuit)

- 150 pets (littlest pet shop) - nuts' acorn (i'm guessing most likely a squirrel pet)

the above isn't fully reflected on wowhead's ptr site yet, and mmo-champion has it mixed up on the list, but the tooltips should be accurate.

also, it hasn't been confirmed yet, but there's another new achievement that MIGHT award a pet:

- complete the 'vigilance on wings' daily quest in mount hyjal 10 times. (the 'unbeatable?' pterodactyl: BEATEN.) - awards a chirping box

i say "might" because so far the chirping box doesn't have a trainable spell attached to it (yet?) and that's as far as the tooltip goes. let's hope that blizzard turns it into a trainable item and we'll finally be able to receive a second jouster (maybe?) or even a new bird-like companion. i mean, it's a box! and it's chirping for a reason, right?

I'm On a Boat

or a horse. or a pig. no wait, i'm on the 4.2 PTR! finally!

after some errors, a few hours of fixing said errors, and then a few more hours of updating, i can finally start testing and previewing 4.2 content. hooray!

first thing that i observed on the PTR... two separate in-game mails from breanni! apparently both the newest 100 and 125 pet collecting achievements now have rewards attached to them (although wowhead does not reflect this atm).

for each of the above achievements, breanni seems to be mailing out one (1) pet biscuit with a note of encouragement to keep collecting.

note: the only achievement that i can confirm 100% has a reward attached to it on the PTR is the 125 pets achievement. since the achievement interface doesn't allow me to view the tiers below the highest earned, i can't actually see if the 100 pet achievement says that it specifically awards a pet biscuit as well. however, since i received two separate mails, each containing one biscuit, my best guess is that both 100 and 125 will award a biscuit upon completion.

it's not a pet or a title as many have requested for, but it's still better than nothing at all. plus it will be a nice treat for those who do no have access to the TCG loot card or item. :)

UPDATE: mmo-champion has datamined another change to the pet-collecting achievements in the latest PTR build!

- 100 pets (petting zoo) - awards a Magical Pet Biscuit (same as papa hummel's old-fashioned pet biscuit)

- 125 pets (menagerie) - awards a Magical Pet Biscuit (same as papa hummel's old-fashioned pet biscuit)

- 150 pets (littlest pet shop) - Nuts' Acorn (i'm guessing most likely a squirrel pet)

the above isn't fully reflected on wowhead's ptr site yet, and mmo-champion has it mixed up on the list, but the tooltips should be accurate.