I can tell you a few things, but I can’t tell you everything. There are lots of variables when it comes to this new Decor tool.
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I put up two beds. One in the air and flat, one in the air and vertical. The flat bed held my Baby Blizzard Bear just fine. This surprised me a little bit because a while back, I’d made a room with ramps and platforms out of rugs and the pet would fall through even as I stood on the unit. So – the Pet Bed is solid. If you have a tall character for this screen shot, one can jump and hit their head on it! I have placed a Pet Bed on a table with a staircase and the pet moved up and down on it fine.
The vertical version, the spider simply slid out of the bed, fell to the floor, and began roaming about.
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Next test was changing the walkers to flyers. The flyers were fine with flat or vertical, they did their job and flew about.
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Now I pushed the vertical Pet Bed to the wall, a typical choice when designing.
The flying pet would roam about and then fly through the wall; it saw no barrier there. And it looked terrible. However, I can imagine covering that wall with Creeping Ivy and then when the flyer disappeared behind the wall, it would look natural and would break up the predictable roaming pattern. I think so anyways, it might be worth trying.
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Finally — what about the ceiling? I had flipped the rug, so to speak, so the face was down. But when placed on the ceiling, I saw no pet at all. I think that “up is up” and the pet existed above the ceiling and out of sight. When I lowered the Pet Bed down a few feet, then the pet pathed in view at the top of the room (flyer).
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There has to be a whole lot more to this Pet Bed business because each pet seems to have its own roaming characteristics. Some pets roam very far, like the Nordrassil Wisp and some just fly in very predictable short paths like the Whelplings. The walkers seem to honor the wall but the flyers blip right through the barrier. Height is different too; the Dragon Kite pet might have its bed on the floor but settles down up at the ceiling.
So, if there are any Pet Bed rules, I’d say that each pet must be assigned and tested but, in general, cats are cats.
I’m excited to add the Pet Bed Decor with the roaming Nordrassil and Hyjal Wisp to my serene nature room.
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The Sea-Glass Baubles that you see floating in the room have a purpose. They are holding a pet bed inside of them so that I can get the wisps to be higher up in the air. I have plenty at ground level and a few that are floating, roaming higher.
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These wisps also do a cool thing. Now and then they’ll throw out a droplet of magical water, and a tree will come out of the ground and blossom. Then it will fade away. It is very easy to miss but we’ve got magic!
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I have a Trading Card Game pet that I bought on the Black-Market Auction House during Warlords of Draenor when I had a ton of gold! It is called the Dragon Kite. And it is a kite; it looks like it is held in place by a string. On the Pet Bed side, we don’t see a string. If my player has the pet out, there is a string.
After changing my ceiling to Vault, I now have a dragon flying in my serene room! It is way up there even with my Pet Bed set at ground level.
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One step led to another, so there is a dragon outside too.
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And there is never too much in housing. I have a dragon up over my house too.
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It is fun finding a new little thing in Housing and using it and getting to know it. I recommend this wisp very highly for any home.
That title might be a little sneaky, like those bait articles that you see online.
I’m here to crow to the sky about the terrific Hyjal Wisp and its brother the Nordrassil Wisp.
To be used as Decor via the Pet Bed system.
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I tried, I really did; to get a screen cap but it was merely a tiny lit-up dot in the grasses.
Indoors, roaming, you know these guys. You’ve seen it everywhere in the game since you bought your first subscription. It adds magic to the area. If you have any kind of grassy area or water effects, it is worth taking a look.
I’ll try not to get too wordy here. This is my new mount. As you can see from this screen cap that it is a great looking mount and that I have 867 mounts. That mount number means that at one time I was a mount hunter but at some point, I got saturated and decided to not “go for” mounts.
But I did go for this one.
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This mount is won by fishing. Or rather earned. Once your rep on the Coiled Isles with the fishing guy gets high enough, you can purchase this fishing rod. It is loaded with fishing stats. My current one also has the Grand Line enchantment which means even more Perception and that I can get two treasure chests when they show up.
With this rod one also earns “Venom”. You catch fish and the venom number goes up, then you turn it in for a currency. One needs 2500 of the currency to buy the mount. One can get about 100 in half-an-hour, so 25 half-hour days of fishing which is half-a-cup of coffee in my world. I started on the Coiled Isle but learned that I could gain Venom while fishing in the Eversong Woods and those fish could be well sold!
In this screen shot, please note that I have 120 Venom right now, ready to turn in for currency.
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One motive, besides a cool mount, was that my guildmates often show off their ho-hum KSM mounts. Well, I KNOW that they don’t fish and that won’t have THIS one!
Here is a “live shot” if you will allow. That venom on the chest really does drip, it is animated. Beautiful, no?
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One reason that I’m posting is that I am oh-so-very disappointed that the designers at Blizzard did not follow through with the entire job. When I am mounted, my buff bar shows “Venom Serpent – Purple” and not Sea-Dwelling Isle Serpent. This is a huge blow to the “show off factor” on my new mount.
“Wow, what mount is that?” then “Oh, some serpent thing”.
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I have a flashy mount macro that gives me a rainbow long tail when I’m flying and so on. When I did the copy/paste naming in the macro, it automatically changed to Venom Serpent – Purple. How odd.
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I do appreciate the fishing in Season Two. I liked the dailies and the humor of the Tortollen. I liked the mount and enjoyed the journey to get it. It is a terrific show-off mount because not many people will do the fishing, they’d rather be doing other things.
And, I am sad to say, my buff bar does not reflect the name of the actual mount. I’d guess that it is so far down any list at Blizzard that it will ever get fixed.
At this stage of tackling my massive Level 12 housing layout, I have at least something in each room!
Now it is time to expand and fill in and add new pieces.
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The outdoor view is always better from higher up. The wonderful globes continue to dominate, and I have a few “in the air” things to expand the view a little higher than just ground level. For a whimsical reason and no more, there is a little chess board on my lawn.
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We now have lily pads. I did put a frog on it but the point was the lily pad itself. Gone are the days of using a comfy cushion with little tufts of grass poked in the middle to fake it. The cost is still five decor points, so you only see one.
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The new Brewfest Wreath is on my front door. It was the first thing that I bought from the new holiday vendor. I like it, it is quaint.
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Indoors I have the Dark Portal pushed way down and scaled way up. It should look like he is crawling out of the Chaotic Void Maw. I had to add two candles to feature him or her a little better.
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The decor rewards from the current raid are slowly making it to my inventory. These two guys are pretty bold. For the most part I don’t really like them so much as that they are new! We have downed Ula’tek twice on Normal and got in some pulls on the Heroic first boss.
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I’m glad that I came over here to post this image for this blog posting. The little holiday tree is made from Duskwood Sagebrush, stacked and scaled to make a unified tree. My final touch was to add the lantern on top since I don’t have a star. I thought to myself, “This looks pretty good, it lights up the wall and adds to the piece”. But now, with a screen shot, I see the warm light of the lantern has darkened the top of the tree and so it will have to go away!
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New rooms, corners, walls all need a good look. I’ll be honest, I’m starting to like my house.
Maybe one of those things where everyone knows but me. While I was being Neighborly, I came across a guy who was selling a new decor item (to me). A stack of mugs! He was just down the road from the main middle area of Founder’s Point. And I remember one decorator putting cups in the sink. So: here y’go.
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The other new thing, to me, was a Griftah guy outside of Smuggler’s Cove. He was selling three new things.
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Along with the Holiday Decor Vendor, I wonder what other additional things have been tucked into the recent patch.
Yes, by golly, you can put those globes outside. If you landed at my cornerstone, would you be interested?
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Come at night or use the Inky Black Potion. Right now, it looks like, “Okay, he found the Tortollan Endeavor vendor.” We need trees and plants and fountains and water.
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And I AM using the new turtle guy stuff. I like the streetlight style lamps, it is subtle, but they have an animation to them, maybe like a lightning bug is inside.
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I have some room to do stuff:
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I finally have a neighbor. A returning guildie plopped down a plot near me. Here is the view from HIS yard! I hope that I’m inspiration and not obnoxious.
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So far, so fun. What made the indoor version really work was the butterfly assortment and that they could path around. Outdoors they are stationary and small and not worth the decor price. And so, well, it just isn’t as good!
I’ve tried before and will keep trying to make lovely rooms that you want to sit down and enjoy, maybe even relax. The key elements are the lighting; some water sounds and a bit of greenery.
And now we have butterflies. They make all of the difference and are terrific.
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This is a large room. As you can see, there is still a lot to be done. Lots of exposed wooden floor.
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Starting to fill in the corners, you’ll hear no buzzy void stuff here. Eventually I imagine some more plants or maybe a monument.
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Pepe continues to be irresistible!
The large globe is warm in color. Even though you might mentally be thinking cool while you are away from your computer, it is a warm light and needs warm supporting light.
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My favorite fountain will look like an afterthought eventually, there’ll be boulders or grasses or a seating stand. It sure is pretty though and … serene. I’m very glad to finally have the rep for the floating plant holders, they are cool.
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This build would look great on the lawn, but I don’t know if the globes can be outside and the budget is severely limited.
So — indoors it is! Again, the butterflies make all of the difference.
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Seating stands. I know that visitors just blow through rooms and might even dance inside of the globes (you can walk inside of them!). But I like the idea of viewing stations so much that I might just keep doing them.
My raid team (and me) got some pulls in on normal Ula’tek this past weekend. This means that we’ll get ’em on this coming weekend and then normal will be “on farm” and we’ll slowly roll over to the heroic version of the raid.
What this REALLY means is that the pressure is off (of me) and I can swing over to my house and get some build time in! This is good news indeed.
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Ancient Memories of the Sea is the headliner for the Tortollan endeavor. Typically, I just say, “the turtle guys” but a blog is a wee bit more formal.
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This is a cool piece. It is very bright; it has fish and baubles and bubbles and beads floating about inside of the globe. So, yeah, kind of magical and animated. And look at that, you can see it beaming away far (far) down my hallway.
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I’m excited. The sidewalk is clacking a tune, and the windows are whistling faint notes in the breeze, it is time for “A Build!”. Gray skies are gonna clear up.
Just starting, this room will be fun. I can see a pathway through grasses and maybe some waterways.
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Never enough, I began working on a window treatment. I left a little window so you can stand on the table and look inside. It has the Horde Roost guy and Fishy and a couple of waterfalls (so far). I like how it looks but it needs … a little something more.
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Because the new things are fun, I used the new Centaur fence, pushed down for the spiky tops, to make a barrier.
A barrier that you can easily jump over! This makes it fun. I hope.
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Okay then. It’s time to close this blog and go open up the shop!
