Vanity Pet #109 - Blue Clockwork Rocket Bot

Patch 3.3.3 has introduced another vanity pet that you can buy from an NPC in Dalaran: the Blue Clockwork Rocket Bot.

It is sold by the dude in the toystore in Dalaran. Unfortunately I can't recall his name but you shouldn't have a hard time finding him. It costs 50 gold or 40 gold if you are exalted with the Kirin Tor.

Vanity Pet #108 - Tiny Crimson Whelpling

The Tiny Crimson Whelpling is yet another pet that I bought from the auction house after looking for it for months. It's funny but at one point, many months ago, there were many of these for sale for around 1000 gold. This time, when it finally showed up, I was glad to pay 2000 for it. This pet is a very red pet!

Vanity Pet #107 - Gundrak Hatchling

The Gundrak Hatchling: another pet that I bought from the auction house. Been watching this one for a long time and it seems to be pretty scarce so I paid 2600 gold for it.

Vanity Pet #106 - Hyacinth Macaw

Finally, the culmination to my pet-collectin' career: the Hyacinth Macaw. This is the rarest pet in the game and also currently the most expensive. I see them very rarely on the AH and the last time I saw it it sold for 17K. I bought mine for 16K. A bargain, really. I figured that I don't wanna risk waiting until Cataclysm to buy this pet because who knows what the hell will happen to Stranglethorn Valley where it drops. Better be on the safe side. Besides, I was sitting on 260K gold anyway...

Here's this awesome parrot in all its glory.

Vanity Pet #105 - Razzashi Hatchling

Here's another pet that I bought from the AH: the Razzashi Hatchling. This one seems to be more expensive than the other varieties of hatchlings and it goes for about 2000 gold on my server. Well, considering it drops in Zul'Gurub, maybe the price isn't so out of whack. I bought mine for 1500.

10 new pets

So I took the plunge and bought like 10 new vanity pets from the auction house, for my hunter. I now have 104 pets. Unfortunately there's no achievement for having 100 pets. I haven't taken any screenshots this time on account of being too many.

Sen'Jin Fetish 700G
Ammen Vale Lashling 400G
Teldrassil Sproutling 250G
Mechanopeep 350G
Tirisfal Batling 870G
Durotar Scorpion 1000G
Enchanted Broom 1000G
Mulgore Hatchling 1000G
Ravasaur Hatchling 940G
Deviate Hatchling 750G

Total spent: 7260. Sounds like a lot but in fact I didn't even feel the dip in my finances. These days it seems that gold makes itself.

Here's the state of my menagerie.

Vanity Pet #94 - Disgusting Oozeling

These days I've started spending some of that hard-earned gold and I'm using it to complete my collection of vanity pets. I'm buying those rare ones or the Argent Tournament pets that can be found on the Auction House.
I finally bought the Disgusting Oozeling which is one of the rarest pets in game and I paid 2400 gold for it. It might seem a lot and some of you might suggest that I should grind for it instead but for me it is simply not worth it to waste a lot of time in the off-chance that it might drop. So I bought it. Funny thing is that by the end of the day my total gold amount had remained the same, due to selling a bunch of stuff.

So here it is, in its full glory. It gives you a nice debuff of -20 to all resistances and defense so if you want to piss off your raid mates, make sure to have this pet out during a raid.

Vanity Pet #93 - Peddlefeet

Today I got enough Love Tokens after the second day of Love is in the Air to get my Silver Shafted Arrow which summons your own personal Peddlefeet. That makes it #93 in my collection.

It also gives the Perma-Peddle achievement.

Vanity Pets #90, #91, #92 - Darting, Leaping and Razormaw Hatchlings

I took the plunge today and bought 3 new vanity pets from the Auction House, for about 250 each. Just because I can. They are: Darting Hatchling, Leaping Hatchling, Ravasaur Hatchling.

Vanity Pet #89 - Giant Sewer Rat

Well folks, it finally happened, and just when I was least expecting it. The Giant Sewer Rat dropped while I was fishing for the Dalaran daily, Jewel of the Sewers. I never attempted to fish specifically for this pet, although I hear the drop rate is pretty high. Instead, I just did my Dalaran dailies whenever they occurred, hoping that eventually it would drop. And it did.

Of course, fishing this rare pet awards you the I Smell A Giant Rat achievement.

Though in real life I don't like rats, this one has a very cartoony feel about it and it looks pretty funny. It reminds me of Ratatouille.

Vanity Pet #88 - Perky Pug

Well dear readers, the Perky Pug is in the house! In case you still don't know how to come by this pet, let me fill you in. You get this as a reward for completing the Looking For Multitudes achievement, which requires you to group with a total of 100 random people in heroic instances using the new LFG tool.

I completed this achievement today while on an Utgarde Pinnacle run. As soon as I got to the first mailbox I found the Perky Pug. This wasn't a hard pet to acquire, it was only a matter of time, considering that I ran the random heroic daily and sometimes I did 2 or 3 heroics a day using the tool. Roughly speaking, 100 random people means 25 heroic runs. A determined person can easily run, say, 4 of these dungeons in a day or even more and get the achievement in less than a week.

The pet itself is very cute and, as far as I'm aware, it is the only dog model currently in the game. It has a hilarious animation where it drags its butt along the ground.

Vanity Pet #87 - Winter Reindeer

Now that the Winter Veil presents have been laid under Christmas trees throughout Azeroth, there's a high chance of getting one of the several pets which can only be obtained during this event. Or afterward, from the AH, for a premium.

As luck would have it, the Jingling Bell dropped in one of the gifts and I have added the Winter Reindeer to my collection. The pet is a very cute and also very tiny deer. Like all the other pets found randomly in these presents, it requires a Snowball to summon so make sure you stock up on those during Winter Veil if you want to be able to summon these pets during the rest of the year.

Speaking of pets, now's the chance to get your hands on the 4 that can be found inside the Gaily Wrapped Present. The pets are: Winter Reindeer, Snowman, Green Helper and Red Helper. Apparently each of these has a 25% chance to drop from the present and the present should always give you a pet.

Since you need a character of minimum 20 to open the Gaily Wrapped Present, make sure you have all your characters 20 and over open the gift. You can add the pets to your collection or sell them on the AH for a nice sum. Currently there go for 100 gold on my server but I would keep them and sell them in a few months when most of the stocks have been depleted and you can charge something like 200 gold for each.

Vanity Pets #85 & #86 - Albino Snake & Calico Cat

Along with patch 3.3 come 2 new vanity pets that you can purchase for a mere 40 gold (if you're exalted with the Kirin Tor from Breanni in Dalaran. These pets are the Albino Snake and Calico Cat. Here they are below. I have to admit, the snake looks good in white but the cat is common. Here they are below.

Vanity Pet #84 - Core Hound Pup

Patch 3.3 is here and with it, a surprise pet. No one saw this coming but some of you might find a new pet in their mailboxes when they log in after the patch. It's the Core Hound Pup which looks very cool for a vanity pet and has some neat animations.

If you're one of those who didn't get the pet, I'm afraid it's tough luck for you, unless you buy an authenticator. Yep, the pet is a sort of reward for those who use authenticators to log into WoW. I'm not sure if that's also the case for iPhone authenticators but I would assume so.

I've been known to chastise Blizzard for various reasons but this time I'm actually praising them. That's a very nice gesture they did with the new pet. And yes, even though you need to purchase an actual item in order to get the pet, the authenticator is worth so much more than its $7 price. No one has any excuse for not getting one if they live in the US especially. It's the best way of securing your WoW account from being hacked so go and get one!

Vanity Pet #83 - Plump Turkey

As I was saying yesterday, I completed Pilgrim's Bounty in 2 days and as a reward from the meta-achievement I got the Plump Turkey pet in the mail.

This is definitely one of the funniest mini-pets in WoW so if you're a pet collector then you need to complete this achievement.

Vanity Pet #82 - Onyxian Whelpling

Simply log in during WoW's 5th anniversary and you will get the Onyxian Whelpling in the mail. This is one of the reasons that compelled me to renew my subscription sooner than I had planned. I'm sure I could have waited a few days longer but Pilgrim's Bounty also gives a pet if you complete all the achievements so I thought I should get a head start on that.

This pet is fairly cute, which cannot be said about my face after it's been transformed by the Mohawk Grenade.

Vanity Pet #81 - Sinister Squashling

One of the more interesting pets in the game, the Sinister Squashling can only be obtained during the Hallow's End event which is currently under full swing. Last year I missed this pet because I was only involved in trick-or-treating and skipped the Headless Horseman entirely. Back then I wasn't interested in completing these events. This year, I decided that I might as well try to complete the uber-meta achievement What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been, in order to get the 310% speed Violet Proto-Drake, which is a beautiful specimen if I say so myself. Truth be told, I'm more interested in the 310% speed.

Anywhoo, this year I killed the Headless Horseman and on my very first try I won the roll for the Sinister Squashling. I guess I was lucky. This also allowed me to complete the Sinister Calling achievement since I already had the Hallowed Helm since last year.

Vanity Pet #80 - Mr. Chilly

Here's one pet that everyone's gonna get, on the condition that they convert their WoW account to Battle.net. Since conversion is mandatory (you've probably noticed the notification in your WoW client at the login screen), Blizzard offers this free pet to everyone who has created a Battle.net account before the 11 November deadline to "soften the blow" for those who are reticent to change.

Since I've converted my account a long time ago, all I had to do was pick the new pet from the mail. If you haven't converted to Battle.net yet, you won't see the pet but don't worry. Sooner or later, if you still want to play WoW that is, you will have to convert. As of today there are 27 days remaining. Tick tock.

This rounds up my collection nicely to 80 pets.

Vanity Pet #79 - Firefly

I finally caved in and bought myself a Captured Firefly from the Auction House. Price? 1300 gold. Before you laugh at me, you should know that I've been watching the price for months and this is the lowest it's ever been. This pet is one of those rare drops and I'm definitely not gonna spend any time grinding for it.

Vanity Pet #78 - Pint-Sized Pink Elekk

Today being the 2nd day of the Brewfest I managed to get all the 100 tokens required to buy my Pint-Sized Pink Elekk. He's a cute little critter, this one. Of course, it makes reference to the fabled "pink elephant" that only very drunk people are able to see. Since in WoW there are Elekks instead of elephants... well, you get it. It's obvious that only at the Brewfest you can obtain pets such as this one or the Wolpertinger.

Since my menagerie has swollen to considerable proportions lately, here's an update on my collection:

http://www.warcraftpets.com/account/profile.asp?user=bankalt#col