Breanni's Comments

We understand there are concerns about this change. We're entering into an era when data collection and stoarage policies are being questioned in the US (as they have been recently in the EU) with an eye on giving users more control over their private data. That's a good thing. But the side effect of that in WarcraftPets' case is, unfortunately, less than ideal.

 

That said, in order to preserve the spirit of the leaderboards, we're planning to capture the last known pet score and pet count BEFORE deleting the imported data of a user's collection. This will allow folks to retain their positions on the leaderboards, even though their collect data is removed.

 

We'll continue to monitor these changes and do what we can to make our site as useful as possible while still remaining in compliance with Blizzard's API.

@Rosqo - The majority of the money will be put toward community-focused contests and giveaways, the bulk of which will be run on the Discord channel. A small portion of the money given will go toward site-based expenses, on an as-needed basis.

Congratulations to Guccia, Jelstang and Elena, the three winners of our WarcraftPets Meet-and-Greet raffle! Check your email for a special message from me with instructions so you can redeem your choice of pet from the Blizzard store. Once again, grats! :-)

Remember ... this is a work in progress. We are continuing to tweak and listening closely to your feedback. This was just the first step. It's very likely we'll offer a way for people to choose whether to view realm lists as individual or connected.

@Killerkarl - Pretty close. Some people say it's the most faithful modern rendition of that game. Personally, I can't say since I never played MoM back in the day.

Thanks for everything, Curtis. WarcraftPets won't be the same without you. I wish you and your new wife the very, very best. Be sure to come back and drop us all a line every now and again. ;-)

@Veyska I'm not 100% sure, but I think this same Armory bug will prevent the additional levels gained on these nine combat pets from adding to your score. Can anyone confirm that they've done this and it worked? The pets should show up in your collection as level 25.

Thanks for letting us know about the macros page. Fixed!

@Weizen - Go with Candygram. Love the reference, btw. :-)

@Bwana: You deserve the props. :-)  Thanks again for your suggestions and for explaining them so well in our forums.

@Mystical: We've re-toggled the Sky Lantern as a manual add. You can add it to your collection manually underneath the import button.

@Mykro9: Yes, pet rarity still accounts for more of your score than anything else. But leveling your pets will also give your score more of a boost now. With the new formula, each level 25 pet adds 1 point to your score.

Let the commenting begin!

We're aware of a bug where Murkalot is not showing up for our EU members as "collected."  This is a result of a bug in the official EU WoW Armory.  It’s not something we can easily fix on our end.  Until it’s corrected on Blizzard’s end, there’s little we can do. :-/

 

If you're one of the collectors affected by this bug, bring it up on the official WoW forums for your region.  If enough people are vocal about it, Blizzard might address it that much sooner.

@Maorae: Thanks for letting us know. I've updated the Grell's sound and idle animation info.

We've updated the drop rate to 1 in 100 --scratch that-- 1 in 250 based on the feedback we're getting. We'll see if that holds after a week of data.

Wow.

We've had pet commenting for over a year and no one has ever commented on this pet. Poor lil' guy.

I still <3 you, Tree Frog.

@Alein: Pet rarities are based on the number of WarcraftPets users who have collected a given pet. Since we just added this one to the site yesterday, it came up as ultra-rare. But I agree, that's confusing so I manually changed it to uncommon. We'll see what the stats say in a week or two and we'll update it again.

Looks like Murkimus is back for the 2010 Arena Tournament. I'm assuming they will keep him in rotation for years to come, so I have updated his profile accordingly. At least this gives everyone who missed him last year a chance to get him this year. Happy PvP'ing!

Remember everyone -- just because most of us are unable to get this pet doesn't mean we shouldn't be happy for those who are. Players in Taiwan are unable to get many of the pets we take for granted.