Feb 18 2009

Shop Smart, Shop Pet… Smart Achievement

Category: Guides and Gameplay @ 11:08 am

I mentioned a while back that one of my WotLK goals was to get the 50 mini-pet Achievement (and the awesome skunk pet that comes with it!). I realized a few days ago how close I’m getting to the 50 mark, so I decided to start looking for the last few pets that I need.

I’ve always used WarcraftPets.com to look through the different pets and find new ones that I can get, but they recently started a great new function that lets you track your pet collection and find new ones more easily. If you are interested in getting the 50 (or 75) mini-pet Achievement, I highly recommend using this tool to help you keep track of everything.

They’re Mine, All Mine!

Right now, I’m at 44 pets, so I need 6 more for the Achievement. Here’s my collection so far, broken down into categories as to how they are obtained. If you’re looking to start your own collection, a lot of these can be obtained fairly easily.

Rare Drop – 1

    Green Wing Macaw

Vendors – 30

    Ancona Chicken
    Black Kingsnake
    Blue Dragonhawk Hatchling
    Blue Moth
    Bombay Cat
    Brown Prairie Dog
    Brown Rabbit
    Brown Snake
    Cockatiel
    Cockroach
    Cornish Rex Cat
    Crimson Snake
    Ghostly Skull
    Golden Dragonhawk Hatchling
    Great Horned Owl
    Hawk Owl
    Mana Wyrmling
    Orange Tabby
    Red Dragonhawk Hatchling
    Red Moth
    Senegal
    Siamese Cat
    Silver Dragonhawk Hatchling
    Silver Tabby Cat
    Snowshoe Rabbit
    Tree Frog
    White Kitten
    White Moth
    Wood Frog
    Yellow Moth

Quested - 6

    Jubling
    Mechanical Chicken
    Miniwing
    Smolderweb Hatchling
    Westfall Chicken
    Worg Pup

Created - 3

    Lil’ Smoky
    Mechanical Squirrel
    Tranquil Mechanical Yeti

Seasonal - 3

    Father Winter’s Helper
    Peddlefeet
    Winter’s Little Helper

Other - 1

    Baby Blizzard Bear

Sorting Through The Rest

According to Warcraft Pets, there are currently 111 mini-pets in game, counting all sources (drops, quests, vendors, TCG loot, etc), but there are a bunch of pets that I either can’t (e.g., one-time event) or won’t (e.g., TCG loot) obtain. After throwing out all of those, there are a total of 84 pets that I can get, and I have 44 of them so far. So I’ve got 40 pets remaining to try and get my hands on.

Rare Drop – 10

    Azure Whelpling
    Phoenix Hatchling
    Mojo
    Black Tabby
    Crimson Whelpling
    Dark Whelpling
    Disgusting Oozeling
    Emerald Whelpling
    Firefly
    Hyacinth Macaw

Rep Grind – 7

    Tiny Sporebat – Exalted with Sporregar
    Pengu – Exalted with The Kal’uak
    Nether Ray Fry – Exalted with Sha’tari Skyguard
    Cobra Hatchling – Chance to get it at Revered with The Oracles
    Proto-Drake Whelp – Chance to get it at Revered with The Oracles
    Tickbird Hatchling – Chance to get it at Revered with The Oracles
    White Tickbird Hatchling – Chance to get it at Revered with The Oracles

Fishing – 6

    Toothy
    Snarly
    Muckbreat
    Magical Crawdad
    Chuck
    Giant Sewer Rat

Created – 1

    Lifelike Toad

Seasonal – 13

    Tiny Snowman
    Whiskers the Rat
    Willy
    Winter Reindeer
    Wolpertinger
    Speedy
    Spirit of Competition
    Spirit of Summer
    Scorchling
    Sinister Squashling
    Peanut
    Mr. Wiggles
    Egbert

Achievements – 3

    Stinker
    Little Fawn
    Kirin Tor Familiar

Moving Forward

Of those 40 pets, not all are good choices for obtaining immediately-ish. The seasonal pets obviously have to wait until their season comes around, and two of the three Achievement pets are rewards for getting pets, so I’ll have to wait to get them. The Kirin Tor Familiar, though, might be a good option, if a bit difficult to get.

The Lifelike Toad is definitely a great option. The recipe is a world drop, so it’s a bit difficult to get, but the mats aren’t bad at all and I’m sure I can find someone to make it easily. So there’s one of the 6.

It’s looking like anything else going to be a grind of some sort, whether it be rep or mobs. I think I’ll probably go for one or two of the dragon whelplings, because I’ve always admired them ever since I started playing WoW, but never had the money to buy one or the desire to grind the drop until now.

I think I’ll go with this:

Lifelike Toad
Pengu
2 of the dragon whelplings
2 of the Oracle-Revered pets

And that’ll be 50!

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Feb 16 2009

My Complete List of Addons

Category: Addons @ 10:53 am

One of my guildies, overcome with jealousy over my super duper uber UI, asked me to post all of the addons that I use so he can start improving his own UI. So, here we go…

UI

Bartender
FuBar
Satrina Buff Frames
XPerl

Combat

Deadly Boss Mods
Decursive
TellMeWhen

Raiding

Loggerhead
Omen
Recount

Other

Achievement Snap
Ackis Recipe List
Auctioneer
Bagnon
Gatherer
ItemRack
Map Notes
Monkey Quest
Mounted
Postal
Quest Helper

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Feb 03 2009

Satrina Buff Frames

Category: Addons @ 4:44 pm

I mentioned last week that I was in the search for a better buff addon to clear up some more space on my screen. Azande suggested that I try out Satrina Buff Frames. And, in a word, SBF totally rocks. It’s everything that I was looking for in a buff addon, and I think it’s not overstating the matter to say that SBF completes me. Not just as a WoW player, but as a man.

Anyway, here’s how I’ve got things looking.

sbf

The great thing about SBF is the ability to divide your buffs into different sections. I’ve done mine into 4 different groups. Group One is where all buffs go by default. You’ll notice that there is no Group One in that screenshot. That’s because this group never appears on my screen! I don’t need to know about at least 50% of all the buffs I get, so this way I can pick and choose which buffs appear. I don’t ever have to worry about the buffs in this group, or have them taking up valuable screen space.

Group Two, which is in the top right corner, is the group where all of the important, but non-combat buffs go. This is for things like my Blessings, which I need to be able to keep an eye on but don’t need to see constantly, and for buffs from other classes, such as Fortitude and AI. This group disappears when I enter into combat, as you can see in the screenshot below.

Groups Three is where I’ve got all of my debuffs showing. As I mentioned before, there are often times when debuffs are of critical importance, so I’ve got that box right where I can keep an eye on it. Group Four is for all of my most important buffs. All of my Seals show in there, as well as Divine Plea and Avenging Wrath.

sbf2

I highly recommend SBF to anyone wanting to improve their buff UI. It’s fairly easy to set up, incredibly robust, and comes with in-game help files to explain just about everything that you could have a question on. I’m trying to think of a complaint about it, but I honestly don’t think that I have a single one. It just rocks. Go give it a try!

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