May 2008   « Archives | Current News »

NEW FEATURE! Have you ever wanted to share the story of how you got your latest pet? Or perhaps you've wanted to share your characters' names and realms with other so you could meet and talk pets in-game. Or maybe you simply want to tell everyone about your top 10 favorite pets. Now you can!

The new community comment feature allows you to post anything you choose, so long as you respect the User Guidelines. Update your profile today!

I've further enhanced the new community comment feature in two ways:

First, I added the ability for members to format links within their comments so that others can simply click the links without having to copy and paste the entire URL.

Second, I updated the Member Profiles and Top 50 listings so that an icon appears next to those members who've provided a comment. This allows you to easily identify individuals who have something to share. That'll come in handy the next time we're all looking for something to pass the time on a Maintenance Tuesday.

Many of you have indicated that you're currently trying to collect the baby croc pets and you're having little luck. I'm right there with you. But remember, these pets only drop from the bag rewarded from the Crocolisks in the City fishing daily. The other four fishing dailies will, unfortunately, never drop one. So if the crocs are all you're after, be sure you're not doing the wrong quests.

Additionally, remember that the odds of getting one of these crocs is about 1.2%, or 1 in 80. So there are really two factors of luck involved in finding a baby croc: having Crocolisks in the City come up often enough on your server, and being lucky enough to have a croc drop from the bag reward.

I feel your frustration. In the past two weeks, this quest has only come up on my server once. And yet there are other collectors who have already collected all 4 among their alts (with undoctored screenshots to prove it). What can I say? Lady Luck is fickle.

A picture turned up on the Internet in recent days that suggests a new baby dragon whelp will join the pack. This one is appears to be a Frost Wyrm Whelpling. Those of you who've played Warcraft III will remember the mighty undead Frost Wyrms who hailed from Northrend, the continent featured in the next expansion. So I'm betting that this little fella will make his debut in Wrath of the Lich King, which is expected to hit stores in late 2008 or early 2009.

Further speculation suggests that this could be the special Collector's Edition pet. It would follow logic, as The Burning Crusade Collector's Edition gave us the Netherwhelp, a creature indigenous to Outland.

UPDATE: As of July 18, 2009 it's confirmed!