Posted by Juggynaut on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 - 36 Comments
Tags: 213, 3.1, dalaran, kirin tor, lengendary, mmo champion, mounts, one handed mace, Paladin, patch 3.1, pets, Priest, ptr, ring, Shaman, test realm, val'anyr
MMO-Champion has been bringing the thunder this morning with tons of news that has been cascading out of the public test realm. With a build of patch 3.1 live on the PTR, players have been given the first full look at an almost overwhelming number of changes and additions to the World of Warcraft. Big, drool-worthy news for Paladins, Priests, Druids, and Shaman is that a legendary One Handed Mace looks like it will be making its way to those classes’ hands eventually. The classes mentioned will have the ability to collect 40 Fragments of Val’anyr and combine them, creating Shattered Fragments of Val’anyr, which begins a quest, eventually rewarding Val’anyr, Gavel of the Ancient Kings. Here’s to hoping there’s a version which certain enhancement shaman might be able to use.
Players have also discovered that inscribed versions of the Kirin Tor rings (the ones that cost 8000g and teleport you to Dalaran) are available for an additional 1000g. These rings will be item level 213 and require the original ring to purchase.
Finally, MMO-Champion revealed that new mounts and pets are being added into WoW, including Mimiron’s Head, which summons and dismisses a rideable mechanical gnome head! This thing reminds me of Bowser’s clown faced aircraft from Super Mario World. A full list of the pets and mounts can be found below.
New Pets
- Spring Rabbit - Right Click to summon and dismiss your Spring Rabbit.
- Plump Turkey - Right Click to summon and dismiss your Plump Turkey.
- Teldrassil Sproutling - Right Click to summon and dismiss your Teldrassil Sproutling.
- Tirisfal Batling - Right Click to summon and dismiss your Tirisfal batling.
- Dun Morogh Cub - Right Click to summon and dismiss your Dun Morogh Cub.
- Durotar Scorpion - Right Click to summon and dismiss your Durotar scorpion.
- Alarming Clockbot - Right Click to summon and dismiss your Alarming Clockbot.
- Elwynn Lamb - Right Click to summon and dismiss your Elwynn lamb.
- Mulgore Hatchling - Right Click to summon and dismiss your Mulgore hatchling.
- Ammen Vale Lashling - Right Click to summon and dismiss your Ammen Vale lashling.
- Strand Crawler - Right Click to summon and dismiss your Darkspear Strand crawler.
- Enchanted Broom - Right Click to summon and dismiss your enchanted broom.
- Argent Squire - Right Click to summon and dismiss your Argent Crusade squire.
- Mechanopeep - Right Click to summon and dismiss your Mechanopeep.
- Argent Gruntling - Right Click to summon and dismiss your Argent Crusade gruntling.
- Curious Gorloc Hatchling - Right Click to call or shoo away a Curious Gorloc Hatchling.
- Curious Wolvar Pup - Right Click to call or shoo away a Curious Wolvar Pup.
- Gorloc Orphan - Right Click to summon and dismiss the orphan you’ve agreed to look after for Children’s Week.
- Wolvar Orphan - Right Click to summon and dismiss the orphan you’ve agreed to look after for Children’s Week.
- Murkimus the Gladiator - Right Click to summon and dismiss Murkimus the Gladiator.
- Sen’jin Fetish - Right Click to summon and dismiss your Sen’jin fetish.
New Mounts
- Aquatic Riding Ray - Summons and dismisses an Aquatic Riding Ray. This is an aquatic mount.
- Swift Stormwind Steed - Summons and dismisses a rideable Swift Stormwind Steed. This is a very fast mount.
- Great Azuremyst Elekk - Summons and dismisses a rideable Great Azuremyst Elekk. This is a very fast mount.
- Swift Darnassian Mistsaber - Summons and dismisses a rideable Swift Darnassian Mistaber. This is a very fast mount.
- Swift Silvermoon Hawkstrider - Summons and dismisses a rideable Swift Silvermoon Hawkstrider. This is a very fast mount.
- Great Mulgore Kodo - Summons and dismisses a rideable Great Mulgore Kodo. This is a very fast mount.
- Turbostrider - Summons and dismisses a rideable Turbostrider. This is a very fast mount.
- Swift Ironforge Ram - Summons and dismisses a rideable Swift Ironforge Ram. This is a very fast mount.
- Swift Sen’jin Raptor - Summons and dismisses a rideable Swift Sen’jin Raptor. This is a very fast mount.
- Forsaken Warhorse - Summons and dismisses a rideable Forsaken Warhorse. This is a very fast mount.
- Swift Orgrimmar Wolf - Summons and dismisses a rideable Swift Orgrimmar Wolf. This is a very fast mount.
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By Pwnzor on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Aquatic mount! AWESOME
By Rob on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Ooh…. I want Val’anyr, Gavel of the Ancient Kings. It would be very cool to have on my priest. Well, hopefully it will be.
By Sno on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Aquatic looks like i was right on my pre-wrath guess on the new mount type =)
By Vitolas on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
aquatic mount??? what could that be?
By Henry on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Legendary Mace!!!! Oooooooh yeah!
By Tumbrel on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
OMG!!!!!!
By Wml on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
OMG ENCHANTED BROOM PET FTW!!
By Joenips on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Aquatic Riding Ray - Summons and dismisses an Aquatic Riding Ray. This is an aquatic mount.
does this mean will we are going to have spending more money on training for a mount?
By Dovehill on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Well, seeing to the classes that will be able to get the legendary mace, it will be a healing mace.
However, if there will be choice at the end of the quest, I’m hoping my shammy will be Enhance his way to it too.
By M on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
What is the point of an aquatic mount? are there gonna be dungeons that now are done completely underwater? or is it just another way to go faster, even though there are barely any quests that are done underwater.
By Aldei on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Finally! Aquatic mount! We can finally swim around northrend….that’s didn’t sound helpful. Anyways, hoping there will be an underwater dungeon, to be completed within 3 minutes or the raiders die. No seriously, there should be an Atlantis dungeon to run through
By HerofTime on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
AQUATIC!! blizzard, stop reading my mind. This game cant get any better! (unless the fix the LFG system /sigh)
By ghostler on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
When you look at mmo-champion it says you need 40 Fragments of Val’anyr to create the quest item but it also says that it’s a unique item and you can only have up to 30 of those fragments?
Is there a mistake or something?
By BobCharabini on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
@ Ghostler, Blizz didn’t want people to be able to get it on the PTR, so they made it so you could only obtain 30.
And I believe most of those pets and mounts (excluding Gnome head and Manta ray) are from the new Argent Tournament, a vehicle “arena” type thing.
By Sean on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
“Sen’jin Fetish - Right Click to summon and dismiss your Sen’jin fetish.”
Err, a pet fetish? Isn’t that illegal? Or at least, morally wrong. o_O
By Heyshorty on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Hmmm an aquatic mount…… dont see much point when i could simply dare i say it, fly over the water
By churchill on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
maybe it is a totem that follows you around, this could be a new way to stop shaman QQ over totems (there is not much, but less QQ more pew pew is always a good thing)
By kevin on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
i seriously think that blizz steals my ideas. a long time ago i came up with the idea of people having some kind of skill to let other people ride on their mounts and they came out with grand mammoths and motor cycles for 3 people. I also came up with aquatic mounts which looky here an aquatic mount!
By Felaryn on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Finally there will be more pets. It’s really hard to get them right now without a ton of money or a ton of luck, but from the look of the names, they might be relatively easy to get. Here’s hoping…
By Zaraken on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Ah cool, more mounts equal easier mount achievement.
Lol at Bowser clone car comment. Sort of want to make an alt with a Bowser like name and get that mount. Maybe if I ever go play horde again.
By Felaryn on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
After looking back at the names, it seems to me like some pets might be race specific. I really hope I’m over analyzing, because if they are that cuts the amount available in half.
By Soullfrost on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
lol if the mounts are race-specific then that means that us BEs get turkey hatchling O.o
and i already got that achievement friend or fowl, so how odes that work out?
By Cuppincakes on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Ooh, more troll stuff! I can’t wait to see the Sen’jin mount and pet.
By CappyG on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
“# Gorloc Orphan - Right Click to summon and dismiss the orphan you’ve agreed to look after for Children’s Week.
# Wolvar Orphan - Right Click to summon and dismiss the orphan you’ve agreed to look after for Children’s Week.”
Hmm… that’s interesting!
Could we see 3.1 live before the end of Children’s Week?
Otherwise it looks like some achievements will get easier to acquire.
By Littleraven on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
ok….im officially excited now….i may have a reason to buy that kirin tor ring now….and also aqutic mounts should be awesome…im a druid but its gonna be cool to have an actual water mount….and the mimirons head just sounds f&$*in awesome lol
By Voldenmist on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
AWESOME!!! I’ve been wanting an Aquatic mount forever!!! I need to find out how to get one!!!
By Barishi on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Since it takes 40 of the fragments to get the quest item for the hammer does anyone know where they drop/what the drop rate is/is it an item that is rolled on like other loot?
By Dan on Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 at 12:43 am
These mounts better be available to all classes. I don’t care if they cost a ton of money and require a kamikazi run into an enemy city. I just want some cross faction mounts.
By Dksev on Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 at 1:33 am
YAY Aquatic Mount i was more hoping they would make a flying mount that carrys more then 1 guy…=(
By Atlas on Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 at 3:11 am
wolvar pup pet
my prayers have been answered
By Fronken on Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 at 6:41 am
Aquatic mount, wtf? :S, is it just me or is that really Really uneccessary…i mean there’s not really all that much water, and wtf would you want to do In the water to begin with? :S
That being said im very excited about the “Great Mulgore Kodo” for my UD dk, i just wonder how it will look and what it will do :S
By teeters on Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 at 7:33 am
:O i was excited about uldar anwyay but now theres a legendary mace… it better be a healing one!
also aquatic mount sounds pretty cool XD
and “Murkimus the Gladiator - Right Click to summon and dismiss Murkimus the Gladiator” no idea wat thts gonna be but a pet gladiator can’t be a bad thing me want!
By val'anyr on Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 at 10:42 am
“Is there a mistake or something?”
They’ve probably made it unique(30), but require 40 pieces so that no one on the PTR can make it yet. They probably want to save the world first for the normal servers.
By Alayea on Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
I can’t wait for there to be an aquatic mount. Means that my alts that can’t do some form of water-walking will be able to ride a mount on water in Kalimdor or Eastern Kingdoms.
By Gullsnikk on Saturday, February 28th, 2009 at 3:28 am
Hmmm, I’m VERY interested in the new mounts, an aquatic one is nice, but does anyone else think that the gnomes head looks a little like a submarine too?
And I can’t WAIT for the new City-fac mounts, I hope they go back to the natural armoured look, I hate the glowing eyes they have on these things!
Geez, I swear patch 3.1 is going to be the most game-changing thing yet…
By kael on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 at 12:27 pm
All that changes sound great but got a question. To start the q for legendary mace u need 40 shards but the shard says 30(Unique) that means u can have only 30 in inv :S hope its a bug