Blizzard. Please fix how this battle pet in Zerith Mortis works.
With the new Snail Racing reputation in 10.1, there are a number of quests you can turn in by showing the NPC level 25 battle pets that are specifically snails. Looking through my collection, I had almost every single one besides the Predatory Helicid. I looked up where it was, a wild pet in Zerith Mortis and thought to myself “Oh that’s easy, nice!”
Little did I know, this battle pet is not always there as a capturable pet. Well that’s usually fine, you can usually just kill the critter version and have a chance to respawn as a capturable pet. But not this one!
According to the Wowhead comments on this pet, you want to kill every critter OTHER than this one. Okay, sure.
So, I spent the next hour killing every single other critter in the general area while keeping the Predatory Helicids alive. Nothing happened. None of them became capturable. I decided to log off for a bit and came back, spent another hour killing critters, and still nothing.
This is absolutely ridiculous for a random wild battle pet. All I ask is that Blizzard makes all Predatory Helicids that spawn capturable. There is no reason for how it works right now. Let us collect our pets and move on and have fun.
Thank you.
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Yup, welcome to the world of blizz where they just have to whack RNG on to things that really don’t need RNG.
The went ahead and expanded on an older concept of pet skins this xpansion, at first pets could have a chance at a really rare skin. Cool, worked well, was 1% on pets that are backline (so can find a pet on the backline in the right breed and reset till it has the skin.)
I just KNEW they weren’t going to leave it there though, and I was right. This patch they whacked rare 1% skins on primary only pets, and on one they did on a pet that rarely spawns. So its layered RNG (first of all has a low chance to spawn in the place of another pet and then that has a 1% chance to spawn in that rare skin color.)
Like are blizz for real? They don’t need to RNG ify EVERYTHING eyeroll
Yup, was the last one I needed, and I have now spent 4 full hours killing ALL critters, killing just the snails, killing just the others, NOT killing, and server hopping, the only battle pet I have even seen was one of the frogs, and it didn’t have it as a backline pet. This is absurd, why is a wild pet this difficult? Sent in a ticket just in case.
They have been doing this for the last couple of major patches. Lookup up Deepridger or Scarlapod in the Zaralek Caverns.
Crimsonspine was pain to catch due to its very limited spawn locations and it wasn’t a guaranteed spawn.
Of the ZM wild pets only the Scarlet Proto Avian was the pain to get
i’ve a couple of these snails up on my realm atm, if anyone sees this in the next hour or so while I get some more motes. I can make a group in custom if anyone want to come get one.