sporeling snacks

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:31:11 +0000 (UTC), John Gordon
<gordon.RemoveThis@panix.com> wrote:

>In <lOixj.21134$497.648@newsfe14.phx> "Gumby619" <Gumby619.RemoveThis@cox.net> writes:
>
>> I made some of these for my pet and he ate them with no problem but now the
>> "your pet doesn't like that food" thig comes up. Does this food go bad or is
>> it only usable in certain zones or is my cat just turning finicky? My owl
>> won't eat it either.
>
>Are you sure you're using it correctly? Going by the item text, it looks
>like *you* eat it, and the buff goes on your pet. I don't think you're
>supposed to feed it to your pet like normal food.

The Sporeling Snack is a " USE " item. Click the item in your bag, and
it casts a buff onto your pet. You do not have to have your pet
targeted and you can not buff another player's pet.
For hunter's, do not use your Pet Feed ability with this item, as your
pet doesn't eat it like other food for your pet.

There also a higher level pet-buff snack, avaible via a random reward
from doing the cooking daily quest:
Kibler's Bits
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=33874;source=live
This one functions the same as the Sporeling Snack.
 >> Stay informed about: sporeling snacks 

John Gordon <gordon.TakeThisOut@panix.com> wrote:
> In <lOixj.21134$497.648@newsfe14.phx> "Gumby619" <Gumby619.TakeThisOut@cox.net> writes:

> > I made some of these for my pet and he ate them with no problem but now the
> > "your pet doesn't like that food" thig comes up. Does this food go bad or is
> > it only usable in certain zones or is my cat just turning finicky? My owl
> > won't eat it either.

> Are you sure you're using it correctly? Going by the item text, it looks
> like *you* eat it, and the buff goes on your pet. I don't think you're
> supposed to feed it to your pet like normal food.

You're not. But you don't eat it either. You just use it, like a potion
or a bandage or a bomb.
 >> Stay informed about: sporeling snacks 

"Gumby619" <Gumby619 DeleteThis @cox.net> writes:

>I made some of these for my pet and he ate them with no problem but now the
>"your pet doesn't like that food" thig comes up. Does this food go bad or is
>it only usable in certain zones or is my cat just turning finicky? My owl
>won't eat it either.

You don't feed them to your pet in the usual way, just right
click on the sporeling snack. This is a user interface
inconsistency probably due to some difficulty in having the
feed pet effect add a buff to your pet, so it's done as
a generic "use this thing" right click.

---
Merlyn LeRoy
 >> Stay informed about: sporeling snacks 

Thought of another reason why sporeling snacks don't
get fed to pets the same way - warlock can also use them
on their pets, and warlocks don't have a "feed pet" command.

---
Merlyn LeRoy
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On Feb 27, 2:45 pm, Brian Westley <west....DeleteThis@visi.com> wrote:
> Thought of another reason why sporeling snacks don't
> get fed to pets the same way - warlock can also use them
> on their pets, and warlocks don't have a "feed pet" command.
>
> ---
> Merlyn LeRoy

This all seems really counter-intuitive.

Hunter's are used to feeding their pets. They've been doing it since
level 10 (and if they haven't, they probably no longer have a pet to
not feed). So you hand them an item that when "fed to their pet"
buffs the pet. So a hunter would most likely do what comes natural,
cast feed pet and click the item, only for nothing to happen.

Warlock's on the other hand have never had any need to feed their pet,
and Consume Shadows, Health Funnel, and Mana Feed don't count as
feeding. You hand them an item that when "fed to their pet" buffs the
pet, and I bet most warlocks say "feed my pet, I'm not a hunter" and
dismiss the item as hunter only.

Its only after reading the tooltip a little more carefully do people
see that its an on use item, and not actually something that uses any
specific class abilities.
 >> Stay informed about: sporeling snacks 

"lcpltom" <lcpltom.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:7f2ba1c5-1d3e-403d-8cdf-b52435cfadf8@f47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
> On Feb 27, 2:45 pm, Brian Westley <west....TakeThisOut@visi.com> wrote:
>> Thought of another reason why sporeling snacks don't
>> get fed to pets the same way - warlock can also use them
>> on their pets, and warlocks don't have a "feed pet" command.
>>
>> ---
>> Merlyn LeRoy
>
> This all seems really counter-intuitive.
>
> Hunter's are used to feeding their pets. They've been doing it since
> level 10 (and if they haven't, they probably no longer have a pet to
> not feed). So you hand them an item that when "fed to their pet"
> buffs the pet. So a hunter would most likely do what comes natural,
> cast feed pet and click the item, only for nothing to happen.
>
> Warlock's on the other hand have never had any need to feed their pet,
> and Consume Shadows, Health Funnel, and Mana Feed don't count as
> feeding. You hand them an item that when "fed to their pet" buffs the
> pet, and I bet most warlocks say "feed my pet, I'm not a hunter" and
> dismiss the item as hunter only.
>
> Its only after reading the tooltip a little more carefully do people
> see that its an on use item, and not actually something that uses any
> specific class abilities.

Thaks for the info, I feel retarded now, duh.

Gumby619
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Bruce <superior_elec.DeleteThis@bellsouth.net> writes:
>targeted and you can not buff another player's pet.
>For hunter's, do not use your Pet Feed ability with this item, as your
>pet doesn't eat it like other food for your pet.

Be thankful for that, it's a relatively recent change which made sporeling
snacks and kibler's bits taste bad when fed to pets. You used to be able to
waste them by feeding your pet with them, to no effect. *
--
* PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
like corkscrews.
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