Raiding with Leashes: Wrath of the Lick King Ability Throwbacks

Posted 2016/10/28 at 12:20 PM by Serrinn

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Magma Rageling - This pet is a mini-version of the awful exploding trash mobs Magma Rager before Ignis the Furnace Master! This fight was healing intense with lots of fire on the floor and the famous moment of being thrown into the molten fire pot (Hot Pocket (10 player)). The pet mimics these fiery perils with abilities such as Volcano and Magma Wave.

Runeforged Servitor - This pet is a mini-version of the Hardened Iron Golem trash before Kolagarn and the Iron Council. Defeating the Iron Council on hardmode was needed to start the Archivum Data Disc quest chain.

Winter Rageling - This pet is a mini-version of the Winter Revenant trash before Hodir. This frosty encounter periodically froze players, dropped icicles, and applied Biting Cold to stationary players, reflected in the Ice Spike and Slippery Ice abilities.

G0-R41-0N Ultratonk - This pet looks like the base of the completed Mimiron construct, V0-1T-R0N. It has an ability named after the scary XE-321 Boombot trash that surrounds Mimiron's room. In the Mimiron encounter, players fought different parts of his construct, and then a challenging version fused all together. Perhaps the most fun part of the encounter was hitting the big red button to start hardmode! In Legion, Mimiron is now an ally and helps players obtain the Beast Mastery Artifact.

Ironbound Proto-Whelp - This pet is a miniature Razorscale and shares the ability Wing Buffet with the Ulduar boss. Razorscale was a fun boss with a cool harpoon mechanic to bring her down from the air. This pet is also a baby version of the Reins of the Ironbound Proto-Drake mount.

Sanctum Cub - This pet is a pet version of the Sanctum Sentry adds summoned by Auriaya. The mobs were notoriously difficulty to deal with, using Pounce on players and dealing increased damage if not separated. Defeating Auriaya without killing any cats awards the Crazy Cat Lady (25 player) achievement.

Snaplasher - This pet is similar to the Detonating Lasher adds that spawn during the Freya fight. These adds exploded when killed, dealing huge amounts of damage. These became even deadlier on hard mode with the abilities Brightleaf's Essence and Ironbranch's Essence.

Creeping Tentacle - This pet looks like the tentacles that spawn on the Yogg-Saron fight and also have the ability Creeping Insanity, a reference to a mechanic in the Yogg-Saron fight. Yogg-Saron was an incredibly difficult fight and required you to keep your sanity low while also precisely killing adds and killing his brain. Obtaining the Realm First! Death's Demise achievement awarded the title.

Stardust - This innocent little star bunny has two of Algalon the Observer's most difficult abilities - Phase Punch and Cosmic Smash. This was a stressful fight since, when he was released, raid teams only had an hour a week to work on him - afterwards he would disappear. Obtaining the Realm First! Celestial Defender achievement awarded the title.

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Dreadmaw - If Acidmaw and Dreadscale from ToC had a baby Jormungar, this would be it! It has both fire and poison abilities, like the boss fight from which it drops. In this encounter, the Paralytic Toxin ability which applies a stun can only be cleared by the Burning Bile ability, which deals damage to players.

Nerubian Swarmer - This pet is a mini-version of the adds that spawn during the Anub'arak fight in ToC. Most of the fight, until the very end, was dealing with Nerubian adds by placing Permafrost on the ground to kill them on, which prevented them from borrowing and also cancelled out Pursuing Spikes in Phase 2.

Snobold Runt - This pet is not included in the actual achievement because it has a low drop rate. It is a reference to the Snobold Vassal which would sit on player heads during Gormok the Impaler and cast silence via Batter. They had to be killed as quickly as possible, unless you were going for the Upper Back Pain (25 player) achievement.

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Boneshard - This mini Lord Marrowgar has the famous phrase BONESTORM as 3 of his abilities - each version costs progressively more of your total health. Bonestorm was deadly if raid members who were Spiked during the fight were not freed in time.

Blightbreath - The baby version of Festergut/Rotface. These bosses were gross - lots of bile and vomit and gas during all phases of these fights! The Slime is a reference to Professor Putricide's important ability Slime Puddle. This pool would spread, dealing damage to players, and it was contained by having a player transform into a Muted Abomination and Eat Ooze.

Drudge Ghoul - Scores of these would spawn during the first phase of the The Lich King fight. You had to use these adds to bounce around the Necrotic Plague during the fight in order to kill other, bigger adds - the Shambling Horror. Letting the plague stack very high was needed for Been Waiting a Long Time for This (25 player).

Blood Boil - A reference to the ability on the Heroic version of Deathbringer Saurfang, Blood Nova. This fight was a serious DPS race - outpacing the damage of the blood abilities was difficult! When Blood Nova hit multiple players, Saurfang would generate more Blood Power and deal additional damage.

Soulbroken Whelpling - A baby, un-undead Sindragosian whelp. Famous for her line "Your pathetic magic will betray you!" this fight was all about managing your debuffs and placing ice blocks appropriately.

Wicked Soul - This pet looks like the ghosts summoned by Vile Spirits during the The Lich King fight. When you were inside Frostmourne on the heroic version of this fight, these ghosts had to be killed and exploded upon death.

Comment by dle0105Either I have horrible luck at getting these pets or they are just an insanely low drop rate. :(Comment by OvahealzLove all of these pets! Can't wait to farm them and get them all :DComment by FlenopI love how even the folks on Wowhead left the achievement name as "Lick King."Comment by dWhisperMy luck on these pets has been somewhat scattershot. I got Boneshard on a second run, and he's worth it just for watching the little guy yell "BONE STORM!" and start to spin around randomly. Otherwise, hadn't had much luck in ICC with three runs.

Trial of the Crusader I netted the "extra rare" Snowbold Runt, as well as the Swarmer, but haven't run around with them out yet.

I had far better luck in Ulduar, grabbing three of them on a single run (Servitor, Proto-Whelp, and the Sanctum Cub).

My guess would be that these are running on similar drop percents as the previous Raiding With Leashes, which was somewhere between 10 and 20% for most.Comment by DraccyGreat guide, especially the Burn'em Down guide, because even at 100 (or maybe it was 90), I think you still needed a second person to help with Leviathan? Can't remember.

I've only got one pet so far, but I'm enjoying farming them and coming back to these areas. ToC is a free 250 gold a week, haha; and the rest is decent pocket change. Along with some appearances I didn't have.Comment by cgilm2526Ok, Im a little confused here. When I mouse over the achievement link at the top, it lists 16 pets to collect. Yet, there are 18 pets listed in the help guide. What am I missing?Comment by sakeraOk, Im a little confused here. When I mouse over the achievement link at the top, it lists 16 pets to collect. Yet, there are 18 pets listed in the help guide. What am I missing?StardustSnobold RuntComment by MeiluyOk, Im a little confused here. When I mouse over the achievement link at the top, it lists 16 pets to collect. Yet, there are 18 pets listed in the help guide. What am I missing?Comment by ShelassaI love how even the folks on Wowhead left the achievement name as "Lick King."Comment by LyssaWoWEither I have horrible luck at getting these pets or they are just an insanely low drop rate. :(Comment by arduousfrivolityI love how even the folks on Wowhead left the achievement name as "Lick King."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PunComment by ZookeeperScottyI love how even the folks on Wowhead left the achievement name as "Lick King."Comment by ZygosWeek 1: I did a full 25-man heroic run of all three raids... not a single pet dropped. Not one.Comment by 1090338the droprate for these are about 10% less for snobold runt, so it is easily possible to hit all 16 drops without seeing a single pet, and it's also easy to see 6 in one clear of the three raids. Some might be at 5%. This is clearly meant to take time, even with alts.Comment by JDaileyEither I have horrible luck at getting these pets or they are just an insanely low drop rate. :(Comment by FlenopWhy does everyone assume this is a typo?Comment by choitoyThe first Raiding with leashes, I think I got them all after three run throughs (usually going through a the dungeons, I would at least get a couple per, with just one or two that were pesky and wouldn't drop). The second took a little longer, and the third longer still. This week, I was only able to do a Ulduar 25 man run, and only got one to drop. I think they really adjusted the drop rates to force people to come back more often. Oh well, since I'm still missing all the mounts from these raids (achievement and drops), I guess I don't mind having to run these. If only some of the boss dialog wasn't so long or if they were skippable.Comment by kodora1316I'm so glad they've kept the model for Frosty unique! My heart sunk when I saw the achievement announced because I thought everyone would be running around with my favorite pet. Thank you, Blizz! (Note: I am not being sarcastic at all. I'm very happy my little frosty is still unique!)Comment by kodora1316The first Raiding with leashes, I think I got them all after three run throughs (usually going through a the dungeons, I would at least get a couple per, with just one or two that were pesky and wouldn't drop). The second took a little longer, and the third longer still. This week, I was only able to do a Ulduar 25 man run, and only got one to drop. I think they really adjusted the drop rates to force people to come back more often. Oh well, since I'm still missing all the mounts from these raids (achievement and drops), I guess I don't mind having to run these. If only some of the boss dialog wasn't so long or if they were skippable.Comment by AlfaWhy does everyone assume this is a typo?