@ Arve: yes, that does help, thank you! I can now assume that it's probably supposed to be this way. Nonetheless it seems a rather peculiar game design, to make the item that teaches you a pet Rare, while the pet itself is Uncommon. That would only make sense if there are other sources to learn that...

I just bought a Jade Owl and a Spirit of Summer (which is called Captured Flame before you learn it) at the AH. Both items were blue=Rare before I learned them, but now I have learned them, these pets show up as green=Uncommon in my PJ. What happened here? 1. These pets ought to be green=Uncommon bu...

Hi,

EDIT: I get your idea. Level them up against lvl 25s and swap them for a lvl 25 in my own journal before they die, so they still get the XP of that single hit they did.

Hadn't thought of that. My guess would be that a lvl 3 won't stand a single hit of a lvl 25, but I'll give it a try.

I need to auction a bunch of my pre-MoP pets. I don't wanna sell them as lvl 1 (who would buy them on the AH anyway). I fast-levelled a couple from lvls 1-3, but now I want to raise them up to 10. Anyone any advice where I can do that best (meaning: a lot of pets, and preferably no interferences) Th...

Do other people have similar experiences? Regularly, I am not allowed to catch a pet when my Pet Journal says I own 498 pets - which, imho, leaves room for two more (and ithe pet I wanna catch isn't one I already own three samples of). But I've also had a situation where I hadn't checked for a while...

I don't have time to camp! There's so much to do at the moment, like mending my garden. Besides, sofar I feel kinda lucky concerning the rares I've catched sofar... Many of the pets I've caught sofar are Rare or Uncommon; only a few are Common or Poor. But I haven't been hunting that long, so I gues...

Lol, I logged at my Worgen after quite some time (months, maybe more than a year) to obtain the Worg Pup, and on my way back to Zangar'mash I wondered why the hell the flightmaster at the Dark Portal at HF Peninsula wouldn't help me. I forgot there was a Horde and Alliance side there :) I think the ...

Am I the only one who - at least at times - tries to be polite and/or friendly towards players of the opposing faction? I don't want to portrait myself as Mr. Nice Guy because I don't act like that when on a gathering quest - but I wouldn't be friendly or polite towards players of my own faction eit...

Thanks for the feedback. It does seem like kind of a pointless description for pet items though, since the item is gone once you learn it. That was my idea. But maybe Lysi has point in that it has to do with the 're-cageability' of the pet (which would make sense to be possible for BoE but not for B...

Actually the first battle in Howling Fjord, Northrend, rendered me a <Rare> Shore Crab.

I already had a <Poor> one I will now release.

As for phased pets, I suspect Effervescent Glowfly and Gilded Moth might also be part of the list. What do you mean with 'phased pets'? I know that catchable lvl 1 Gilded Moths show up at the Shrine of Two Moons (Vale of Eternal Blossom), in and around the right-hand entrance when you face the buil...

What you describe, seems like what happens when a hostile NPC runs into you... Except there is apparently no NPC (otherwise you wouldn't have bothered to write this post). Unless it's a very low-health NPC and already dead when you realize you're dragged out of the pet battle. There are flies etc. i...

Currently I think you can do 4 pet battle dailies per day? Do the stones drop from dailies?? I was under the impression that they were a low-chance addition to winning a pet battle and/or catching a pet. I'm gonna read the patch notes again. EDIT:this is from the official patch notes at http://us.b...

It is when epic stones come (and according to Mumper on twitter, they will come, just not in 5.1), then the catching system will be pointless. I think it's kinda bad design that the stone achieves an absolute outcome instead of a relative one... I mean: from a game design point-of-view I'd prefer s...

I saw the expression BoU in a news item on the frontpage, and I' wonder what it stands for.

BoE = bind on equip
BoP = bind on pickup

But BoU... Bind on use? But that would make it practically equivalent to BoE, and that expression was also used in the news item.

So, what does BoU mean?

Doobjanka wrote:That's exactly why when I'm rare hunting I only use the Terrible Turnip. Weakening Blow will never kill.

Thx for the tip! Mine is only level 10 atm though, and I'm in Terrokar (around lvls 17-19)

My Stripe-Tailed Scorpid just blew my chance of catching a rare Squirrel. Squirrels health was about 420, and my Scorpid's hit should have done 378 damage. Squirrel died

Actually there's nothing I want to ask about that or so. Just sharing my pain

I just run into the 4th Rare Skunk right now, in Terrokar Forest. I'ver never actually seen a Common or Poor Skunk, and only one Uncommon (which I released afcter catching the Rare).

1. The battle-stones are not soulbound and can be purchased on the AH. 2. You can trade/sell your battle-stones, which is a round about way of psuedo-selling rare wild battle-pets. Personally, I'm conflicted over whether or not the flawless battle-stones should be soulbound. I forgot all about that...

Temperama wrote:there is a ram that comes in as a second pet in the wetlands that is full sized and non captureable

Yes I've seen a few of those too (although I can't remember their rarity). Bit weird, imho.