One of my little side hobbies in World of Warcraft is collecting vanity pets. These are the little companions that run around behind you and offer absolutely no value to you other than their looks. Any pet collector knows that the definitive guide on minipets is Brianni’s WarcraftPets.com.

Brianni (AKA Brian Brolin) has added an excellent pet collection tracker to the site. The tracker allows you to see what pets you have and which you still need. Additionally, the collection tracker can be updated by plugins, saving you the tedium of updating the site each time you get a new pet, or more importantly, the first time you start using the site.

If you’re curious, check out my collection.

There I stand in the murky waters of Orgrimmar having just fished up Old Crafty. I’ve got the rascally little devil in my off-hand.

And yes, that’s my pet chicken swimming under water.

It took me two sessions to fish up Old Crafty. In total, I caught 132 fish before earning the achievement. The drop rate is supposed to be much lower than that, so I’m assuming I got really, really lucky.

The other day, the Dungeon Finder was kind enough to pair me up with an “interesting character.” This level 61 death knight had queued as a tank. He was fully specced into unholy which isn’t an impossible tanking spec, but unholy tanking seems to be the least popular option. Unfortunately, this “tank” had none of the 5/5/5 talents considered required for DK tanking.

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Once you’ve reached level 57, you can use the Dungeon Finder to queue for Hellfire Ramparts. Since the XP earned in The Burning Crusade is much higher than classic WoW, you should be able to level much faster. Additionally, TBC dungeons are much shorter than classic dungeons and can be run several times.

This information is verified to be accurate as of World of Warcraft Patch 3.3.x.

When it comes to choosing an Alliance race for your new hunter, you have three choices: drainei, dwarf, or night elf. Each race has unique talents that may or may not be useful to the hunter class. If you are interested in choosing the best race for your new hunter, you’ll need to take these racial talents into consideration. That being said, I strongly recommend you choose a race that best fits your play style or personality. Racial talents have changed over time, and basing your character decision on a racial talent that exists now may end up backfiring in the long run.

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