Team Rocket Transmog!

 

Our evil Team Rocket Transmog! Luxygaga as Jesse. McTacky as James. Navimie as Meowth.

 

Also appearing are Navi's K'iri, Luxypie's Hello Kitty and my Pikachu.

 

Prepare for trouble!

 And make it double!

 To protect the world from cataclysm!

 To unite the Horde under our feudalism!

 To denounce the evils of ninjas & spam!

 To extend our reach to even the outland!
 Luxy!

Tacky!

 Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light!

 Surrender now, or be ready to fight!

 Navi! That's right!

  

 

Tacky's Transmog Pieces:

 [White Tuxedo Shirt] [Frostwoven Belt] [Imperial Plate Leggings] [Netherweave Boots] [Netherweave Gloves]

 

Original Pic without Photoshopped Navi:

Day 10 - Design a Pet!

Day 10 of Navi's (The Daily Frostwolf - Druid Edition) 10 days of pet battles Topic.

Design a pet! What model would your pet have, where would it come from and what abilities would it have?

Pikachu

Row 1: Thunderbolt, Light Screen, Double Team
Row 2: Quick Attack, Agility, Volt Tackle

 

Location: 5% chance to appear in Long Grass in Viridian Forest.

Location: Daily Spawn around Thunderfall, The Storm Peaks

 

Thunderbolt: Deals 15 Elemental damage; 10% chance of stunning the target.
Light Screen: Reduces up to 5 damage from each attack against you. Last 5 turns
Double Team: Increases your team's speed by 25% for 9 rounds.
Quick Attack: Deals 15 Critter damage. This ability always goes first.
Agility: Increases your chance to dodge an attack by 100%. 4 Turn Cooldown. Lasts 1 rounds.
Volt Tackle: Deals 30 Elemental damage against the target; Deals 45% of that Elemental damage back against itself. 10% chance of stunning the target. 1 Turn Cooldown.

Source: http://kaiseredo.deviantart.com/ (http://fav.me/d21niv1)

Note:

* Each of these moves are moves that Pikachu can learn while leveling up in Pokémon except Volt Tackle which is is a sigature move you need to breed to learn.

* Quick Attack already exists in the game.

* Light Screen will make Volt Tackle hurt yourself less, not just enemy caused damage.

* Volt Tackle in Pokémon is 33% Damage hitting yourself. This version was made to be 45% to be like Stone Rush.

* I swapped what Agility and Double Team do for Warcraft version of Pikachu. Also made Double Team help your team.

* Considered making Pikachu a Critter Type like the other Mouse in the game. But I decided that it would be Elemental. Same rational to how a Phoenix is Elemental not Flying like other birds. Pikachu is a living battery.

Day 9 - Favourite Pet Abilities

Day 9 of Navi's (The Daily Frostwolf - Druid Edition) 10 days of pet battles Topic.

What is your favourite pet ability? If you could have a pet with your favourite abilities, what would they be?

What is your favourite pet ability? Any pet ability that is different to it's Type.

For example my Feline Familiar. The move Onyx Bite are strong against the Flying Family since it is a Magic Type move. Feline Familiar is in the Beast Family, and Beast moves are Weak against the Flying Family. Having Onyx Bite gives Feline Familiar an edge over the Flying Family that a member of the Beast Family usually wouldn't have.

But Feline Familiar is clearly a magic cat, so there is a reason for it's Magic Type move while being a member of the Beast Family like other cats.

 

Source: http://nestly.deviantart.com/ (http://fav.me/d2tqcb8)

It is similar to my prized Plankerchu. A Pikachu with Surf Move. Pikachu is Electric Type Pokémon. It's Electric Attacks cannot damage Ground Type. But I obtained with Pokéwalker a Pikachu with Surf, a Water Type Move. Water does double damage to Ground Type. But Pokémon has STAB (same-type-attack-bonus) gives a type a 50% boost to attacks of the same type, so it isn't quite the same thing.

With World of Warcraft Pet Battles without STAB, there is no incentive to stick with moves from that class. If you go just adding moves that are from another class it robs that battle pet of its identity. There has to be a reason for Pet X to have Move Y.



If you could have a pet with your favourite abilities, what would they be?

Feline Familiar is clearly has a magic broom, you could also justify adding a flying type move as well. So I would replace Pounce with Alpha Strike. The two moves work fairly similar already, it is only a Type Change mostly. (Side Note: you can also get a Pikachu that knows the Fly Move, I would call it Pikachute).

The Magic Attack (Onyx Bite), Beast Attack (Devour) & Boost Attack (Prowl) would remain unchanged.

Now for the other two skills: Stoneskin & Call Darkness. Not replacing any of these with a heal because Feline Familiar is clearly Arcane not Holy Caster. You can get some health back with Devour and you can boost defence with Stoneskin. Keeping Call Darkness for synergy reasons and nerfing the enemy's ability to heal.

A normal Feline Familiar move set looks like:

Row 1: Onyx Bite, Stoneskin, Devour

Row 2: Pounce, Call Darkness, Prowl

So the modified Feline Familiar move set would look like:

Row 1: Onyx Bite, Stoneskin, Devour

Row 2: Alpha Strike, Call Darkness, Prowl

In the end after considering all the balance and placement issues, I ended up only changed one move. Pounce to Alpha Strike. I decided to design it so you couldn't have both the Flying & Magic Attack on your set list at the same time. It would be not balanced otherwise.

Also went with Alpha Strike not Nocturnal Strike. Having both Nocturnal Strike & Call Darkness would be unbalanced for this Feline Familiar with this much Type diversity. The Gilnean Raven and Crow ONLY have Flying Moves + Call Darkness &Nocturnal Strike so they have a clear weakness and can be dealt with.

Everything else, by coincidence, remained in their same spots. It has become clear to me during this article that some real thought into move composition has already been done by the Blizzard Development Team.

Day 8 - Stupidest things during pet battles

Day 8 of Navi's (The Daily Frostwolf - Druid Edition) 10 days of pet battles Topic.

What is the stupidest thing(s) you have ever done in a pet battle?

I could mention all the things I did wrong. Start a fight with too low or too high a battle pet. Starting a fight with no health. I do those all the time. But the most stupid, the one that is the crowning glory is something I didn't do, twice.

Not catching a Minfernal when I had the chance. TWICE.

I ignored them the twice while flying across Felwood. Each time I was on a different task and decided to ignore the Minfernals and just make a mental note to go back for them later...

Yeah. Wrong call. Twice.

Well back to camping.

/facepalm

Day 7 - Pet Mods

Day 7 of Navi's (The Daily Frostwolf - Druid Edition) 10 days of pet battles Topic.

Do you use mods? If you could only have one pet mod, what would it be and why?

Do you use mods? There are four mods I use at the moment:

Pokemon Trainer - Shows Weakness & Strengths of the Moves Vs Pets. Also one of the first mods to show Rarity Colours on pets before they were captured. Downside is that the UI still appears after you hit Alt-Z in pet combat.

PetTracker - Puts the spots on the map & gives a tracker. In this example the map is showing all the pets that aren't rare and the tracker is listing the two pets I don't have.

 

PetJournal Enhanced - Adds rarity colours, specialisation icons & sorting options to the Pet Journal as demonstrated in this Before and After images. (also it shows I have 8 more Unique Pets since my post Nine Days ago)

  

 Auto Safari Hat - Automatically equips Safari Hat during pet battles. McTacky in this screenshot is wearing his Safari Hat.

I used to have:

Pet Battle Pokemon Mod - Adds Pokemon Music during Pet Battles. I didn't end up getting it again after coming back to WoW.

 

If you could only have one pet mod, what would it be and why?

PetJournal Enhanced hands down. It just makes sorting though my pets much faster.

Day 6 - Team Pets

Day 6 of Navi's (The Daily Frostwolf - Druid Edition) 10 days of pet battles Topic.

What pets have you got in your favourite team(s)?

Honestly I don't have preset teams. At the moment I am trying to get one of each class to 25, and mix/match them depending of the foe.

So my overall pool I make my teams from:

 

Aquatic - Dancing Water Skimmer

 

Beast - Feline Familiar

 

Critter - Dung Beetle

 

 Dragonkin - Celestial Dragon

 

 Elemental - Phoenix Hatchling

 

Flying - Cenarion Hatchling

 

Humanoid - Pandaren Monk

 

 

Mechanical - Darkmoon Zeppelin

 

Magic - Shimmering Wyrmling

 

Undead - Fetish Shaman

Day 5 - Most Wanted Pet

Day 5 of Navi's (The Daily Frostwolf - Druid Edition) 10 days of pet battles Topic.

What pet do you want more than any other pet? What would you do to get it?

I suppose the Ethereal Soul-Trader, but I wouldn't spend the $200 for it on that . So how much WOULD I spend on it? $60 at most. I understand it is too rare to cost only $60.

Ingame, the answer would be Minfernal for Kalimdor Safari. So far I've created a Death Knight on a low population realm and camped it in Felwood. I've also camped my Mage on my home realm of Dath'Remar there.

BUT would I steal a Minfernal from someone else? Would I run ahead of someone and cut them off? No. I wouldn't be able to do that.

But camping it? Yeah, I can see myself doing that.

 

Edit: 27th May 2015 - Ethereal Soul-Trader obtained via AH! Also I have tents now.

Day 4 - Epic Battle/Capture

Day 4 of Navi's (The Daily Frostwolf - Druid Edition) 10 days of pet battles Topic.

What was the most epic pet battle/capture you ever had?

I've had some down to the wire stuff mostly when I've forgotten to heal before entering a fight. But that is nothing compared with what happened in the early hours of today. Today when I was trying to catch an elusive Scourged Whelpling.

The first problem I made was that I started the fight with a level 14 in my group.
The second problem was my Phoenix's attacks were weak against the two cockroaches.
The third problem was one cockroaches was Rare, the other Uncommon.

So I was stressing out, afraid I was going to lose my chance of getting the hard to catch Scourged Whelpling.



 

The screenshot above has Dancing Water Skimmer's Pump loaded, ready to demolish the Uncommon Cockroach, but it misses. I get hit for damage.

In the next move I load another Pump. I get hit for more damage.

 

So now I have a Pump ready to go and my Dancing Water Skimmer is getting low on HP. So I use the turn to heal. The heal is now on a cooldown.

 

So I need to hit this Cockroach with a Pump. If this misses, there is a chance my Dancing Water Skimmer will be knocked out before the Healing Wave comes back up. Then I lose my chance to catch the Scourged Whelpling.

I push down Pump...

 

It is mine!

Day 3 - Who is your favourite pet?

Day 3 of Navi's (The Daily Frostwolf - Druid Edition) 10 days of pet battles Topic.

Who is your favourite pet? If you could bring it out into the real world, tell me what you imagine you would be doing.

 

Who is your favourite pet? - The [Phoenix Hatchling]!

Beyond being the symbol for the Blood Elves, the Phoenix has always been so awesome!

 

 

If you could bring it out into the real world, tell me what you imagine you would be doing. - Calling the fire department.

Day 2 - What pets don't you like and why?

Day 2 of Navi's (The Daily Frostwolf - Druid Edition) 10 days of pet battles Topic.

What pets don't you like and why?

Top 6 Worse Pets:

6# Mr. Wiggles - That Pig just looks so smug all the time. I can't stand it!

 

Edit Pic Added: " Try looking from another angle!" -Luxypie (Veluxia)

 

5# Mechanical Chicken - You know why Mechanical Chicken, you know why!

 

 

4# Enchanted Broom - Yeah, I ask you to fill the well and you bring me so much water that I drown! A real jerk.

 

3# Magic Lamp - No Wishes as Advertised.

 

2#  Blighthawk - An undead Vulture. Just looks creepy.

 

1# Twilight Fiendling - Just gross.

Day 1 - My first day Pet Battling

A Topic from Navi's Blog: The Daily Frostwolf - Druid Edition.

I want to hear all about your pet battles! I know you're just dying to tell me! So to all my readers who blog (and even those who don't!) I would love to hear your stories. So I made up a 10 days thing so I can get to know more about your pet battling (and hopefully learn something too!)

Day 1: Your first day pet battling:

I come from a background in Pokémon. Gen 1 to Gen 5. I have all the Pokémon except Meloetta. Traveled traveled on a train for hours to obtain Keldeo. So on the day of the Expansion Mists of Pandaria I barely had time for questing. I had no time to protect the world from devastation or to unite all peoples within our nation! No time to to denounce the evils of the Sha. No time to extend the Horde's reach to the continent below! I was out there, Pet Battling!

My rule: never run from a Pet Battle, even if defeat seems unavoidable. I'm sure the rule came about from the Grindy Levelling of Pokémon and avoiding the EV nerds. Sure, go ahead and kill 252 Zubats to max our your Speed Effort Value, leaving 252 and 6 EV for two other stats. Sure, I'll use a Power Bracer while grinding, but I am not going to Min/Max the fun out of the game.

*Ahem*

Back to World of Warcraft. Here was the problem: I wasn't going to leave an area before I managed to capture a rare of each type. Just rare, ignoring it's stats (health/strength/speed). Also the addon I had on the first day couldn't tell if the pet you were battling was a Rare until I caught it. So I had to try to catch everything listed as captureable on wowhead.

BTW First Rare: [Dung Beetle]! Caught near the Cataclysm Portals, on the clifftop above the Tauren District.

Eventually I had caught the rares of Orgrimmar and I moved onto the other Capital Cities and Starting Zones. It was only after many hours of Pet Battling I decided to go out and look at Pandaria for the first time.