A Scary Seed's Secret

Last night while tending to my farm on the beta, I looted an Ominous Seed! Naturally, I planted it right away.


Now all I have to do is wait for it to finish growing and harvest it at midnight tonight. Hopefully the rumors are true and it drops the Terrible Turnip for me. :)

Here are some extra details that may be significant or may not be:

- Droprate?

I got the achievement Till the Break of Dawn last night as well. I'm not sure if this means I also planted 100+ crops, or if the achievement counts each item received (crops are like herb nodes and can yield anywhere from 1 to 5 of that particular plant). Take that information however you please, but remember that each player will likely experience varying droprates.

- Increased chances?

The seed dropped from a crop (Green Cabbage Seeds) that I chose to plant not because of any recommendations from an NPC or anything like that, but because I needed the mats to continue leveling my cooking skill lol. So I can't confirm whether or not there's anything to boost the chances of looting an Ominous Seed. The trick may just be to keep on planting and harvesting until you find one.

It really does seem like a random drop from any of the crops you plant and harvest on your farm. I don't think reputation with the Tillers has any impact on your chances, but who knows?

Anyway, take this all with a grain of salt for now. More information from other sources will need to be gathered to get a better idea of the Ominous Seed.

I can't wait to check back tonight to see what I get!

Itty-Bitty Withers

It looks like Withers received another update or is bugged (again) in the latest patch. He's shrunk down even more!

Here's what he looked like originally:


As you can see, Withers was nearly as tall as my nelf.

Post-patch 5.0.4, he's been sized down significantly, and when summoned Withers will be about the same size as the Teldrassil Sproutling now. I would say he comes up to about my nelf's knees (standing).


When Withers gets dehydrated and thirsty, he becomes even tinier than usual. He comes up about to about mid-shin when next to my nelf (standing).


He's not bugged anymore, btw, and will drink from a nearby water source which will cause him to regrow to his summoned size. The emote for him drinking seems to have disappeared, though.

Is this an intentional change? I don't know, but I kind of adore him in this new super mini-size. :P

WowInsider's Pet Party

In celebration of account-wide pets, WowInsider's It Came From the Blog guild is hosting a fun get-together to collect pets!

When: Friday, Aug. 31 at 11 p.m. EDT (8 p.m. PDT, 9 p.m. realm time).

Where: The courtyard of the Ruins of Lordaeron on Zangarmarsh (US-PvE-H).

Who: Any level Horde character, but you will be happier with a mount and some cash.

How: Ask any member of It came from the Blog for an invite, if you are not already in our family of guilds.

Some gold will be provided for those who are low on funds, as usual. We'll be shopping around the world (of Warcraft) and perhaps doing some questing and farming, time permitting.

Even if you don't have anymore pets to collect until MoP, it might be fun to join in and possibly help others find some companions. Spread the love of pets!

If I have the time, I may just tag along too for funsies. :) I've never been to one of these events though, so I might just be a brief lurker lol. We'll see!

Pets Will Not Be Automatically Removed

There's a rumor floating around that come MoP, if you have more than 3 of the same pet, those extras will automatically be removed.

According to a Tweet by game developer Mumper, THIS IS NOT THE CASE. Pets will not be removed and players will be able to retain duplicates for caging and trading.

However, if you have over 500 pets, you will still not be able to add any new pets to your journal. In order to learn a new one, you'll need to drop below the cap first. This hasn't and will not change.

Anyway, breathe easy collectors! You won't have to get rid of all your duplicates prior to MoP. So sit back, relax, plan for some reorganizing in MoP, but mainly enjoy your account-wide collection. Don't forget to start renaming those babies! :)

"New" Pets in Patch 5.0.4

This is just to consolidate information. Technically, the only new pet that's been released is the Lucky Quilen Cub, but the sources for the other two are recent changes that should be worth noting.

As of Patch 5.0.4:

- Lucky Quilen Cubs are being mailed to players that purchased the MoP Digital Deluxe Edition. Players that ordered the box CE version will have to wait to receive their copy of MoP to redeem their pet.

- Warbot and red/blue fuel can be purchased from the toy vendors in SW, Orgrimmar, and Dalaran.

- Fox Kit can be purchased from either faction vendor on Tol Barad Peninsula. Players must be exalted with their faction to buy this pet.

I think that's it? Again, nothing extraordinarily new. Just some changes and updates. All the new stuff will come once the expansion's released. :)

I'm a Stag

UPDATE: Toy vendors now sell the Warbot and the red/blue fuel! I guess Blizzard decided to sneak it in with the patch. :) Looks like we won't have to wait for MoP for battling bots lol.

So! Patch 5.0.4! No new pets, but a few interesting things to play around with. :)

Apparently the Lucky Quilen Cub and mount are being mailed to players that upgraded to the MoP Digital Deluxe Edition. Guess Blizzard forgot to turn off that portion of the patch? XD

This almost makes me want to buy the DDE for the expansion. Almost. Doing so would probably make me crave ALL the CE pets, and my wallet just wouldn't be able to handle that.

Instead, I think I'll save up for the SC2 CE. The Baneling looks so kick ass!

Anyway, so far I'm enjoying the challenge of coming up with names for all of my pets. I may skip over the ones that already have proper names, though.


Finally! Lumpy on my main. :D Still, this pet will forever be the black mark in my collection. It's the only pet that I didn't collect on my main toon. Sadness. :(

That's about it for patch day for me.

Oh but this is a thing lol.

Hoping For a Happy Patch Day

Bring on Patch 5.0.4! I'm nervous yet eager for the patch tomorrow. One might ask, "There won't be any new pets to collect, so what's there to be excited about?"

Well, for starters, I'll finally have access to Lumpy on my main toon! My druid was unlucky last year during Winter Veil, but my hunter managed to loot the pet. With account-wide pets, my druid will be able to summon Lumpy and enjoy.

Secondly, nicknames for pets! Actually, I haven't seen any official confirmation that the ability to rename pets will be available in Patch 5.0.4, but I'm guessing it will be since the new Pet Journal will be released. Renaming is done in the journal UI and doesn't require any extra special item or action, so since they're tied together, it would only make sense that renaming would be in once the Pet Journal is in, right? Hopefully I'm right, because I'm looking forward to giving my pets personalized names. :)

I'm planning on holding off on completely re-organizing my collection, though. Since caging won't be available until MoP, releasing pets will be the only way to bring your collection under the max cap (500).

But! Just in case some changes are made to which pets can be caged and traded, I don't want to risk losing any duplicate pets that I may have (which shouldn't be many since I don't collect on any other toon besides my main).

Instead, I think I'll just review my collection and write down a list of notes so come MoP I'll be ready to sort things out properly. Gotta get under that cap so I can add more pets to my journal!

In general, NEW STUFFS!! That's what I'm looking forward to lol. Crossing my fingers that it won't be too buggy or laggy and the patch will roll out on time and smoothly.

Confusion About 5.0.4 Duplicate Pets

There's some confusion about how many duplicate pets collectors will be allowed to have post-patch.

Originally this is what developers announced:

- Day one migration from Cataclysm has been changed. You will now get all of your extra pets directly in the journal (rather than pet crates in your bags/mail) These pets will be allowed to exceed the 500 total/3x per pet limits for this one time event. Note that unique pets will be merged into one. - Mumper

However, since then, it appears that things have changed:

- All standard pets will be merged, with a limit of three per type. Players who currently have more than three of the same pet across their characters will see a total of three after the migration. Examples of standard pets: Orange Tabby Cat, Brown Prairie Dog, Crimson Whelpling. - Kaivax

It's unclear if the most recent blue post about duplicate pets is talking about it in general or if developers have really changed the plan going forward.

Players will still be allowed to exceed the cap of 500 for total pets right after Patch 5.0.4, but unless there's some clarification, we'll have to wait and see about the 3x companion cap.

Personally, I'm torn about the limits.

Red Vs. Blue

Goldacc from WarcraftPets discovered where the Warbot and the Red and Blue Fuel might come from!


All three items are currently being sold from toy vendors in Dalaran and SW/Orgrimmar on the beta. The pet costs 400 gold and the fuel costs 20 silver.

Side note: I wasn't able to check if there are any differences between the original Warbot and the vendored one. The pet is unique, so I can't have more than one in my journal on the beta. I'm going to guess that there's no difference, though.

Finding it on a vendor is an interesting turn of events since the recipes for both the Warbot and the fuel still exist. Perhaps there will be two sources for these items - we'll be able to purchase it from the vendor or craft them ourselves? Or maybe the vendored pet and fuel are simply placeholders and for testing purposes, while the actual way of obtaining the Warbot and fuel will still be from Engineering and Cooking?

Things could change between now and release. We'll have to wait and see where this pet will wind up.

As far as I can tell, the Warbot and fuel won't be available until MoP, but maybe we'll get a surprise come Patch 5.0.4.

Oh and last but not least, two Warbots battling each other (not in an official Pet Battle, but just idling after being fueled up) don't reduce their health in the Pet Journal. Battling bots, go! ;)

Blizzard's Patch 5.0.4 Pet Notes

Blizzard released an official Patch 5.0.4 guide for pet collectors. I've already covered a lot of what is mentioned, but there are some new notes that should be kept in mind.

- The migration will not convert more than a total of 1500 pets for a player.

- Pets that can only be used by characters of the other faction will be greyed out.

Such pets can only be summoned by characters of the proper faction.

Examples include: Balloons, Moonkin Hatchlings.

There are certain pets that will not be account-wide. Examples include: Guild Page, Guild Herald, Argent Squire, Argent Gruntling.

- Pets that your characters have learned are going to be merged, and will be account-wide thereafter.

Pets that are items will be unaffected.

- All of the characters on all [WoW] licenses will share all of the pets in that Battle.net Account.

- Only one player per Battle.net account can be in a Pet Battle at a time. Any other players on that account who are logged-in will be able to summon the shared pets as companions, but will not be able to enter Pet Battles.
- Kaivax

So if you have extra pets saved in your bank, such as holiday companions, I would wait to learn them AFTER Tuesday's patch or even after MoP. If you're looking to make some gold from these pets, remember that you won't be able to cage or trade any BoP pet until after MoP's release date.