Ryken's Profile

I've been collecting pets since Vanilla launch, where pets took up nearly all of my bank and bag space (I rejoiced the patch where we could "learn" pets).  The first pet I ever got was the Dark Whelpling, when levelling through Badlands on my main back at launch.

I'm sort of weird in that even though I love account bound pets and mounts, I still collect them on only my main, so I don't buy any caged pets or use alts to camp wild pets, I feel its more personal, more my "style" (Of course I made the exception for Horde Balloon/gruntling >.>). 

I never named a pet when playing Pokemon, and I've taken to that here as well, even though when I see a really clever pet name I laugh hysterically.  Pokemon was an addiction as a child, and still is as an adult, and this has bled through to WoW pets, and now that we can battle with them, oh man! :D

My goals are pretty much the same as many of you:  Get every pet and then make every pet as high quality and level it to max.  I'm a pretty patient guy, and pretty miserly, so I won't trade/buy stones, and it's working out pretty well.  I get 3 level 25's a day from trainers, and a stone on average nearly every day, so at this rate my goal should be complete sometime in April.  This sorta helps not getting burnt out and relaxes the system, 'cuz I think if I powered through and leveled/grinded stones it'd kill the fun.  Slow and steady is the motto for me!

In terms of pets I don't have yet, the two big ones are obviously Murky and Tyrael.  I don't know if I'll ever put the money down for them, but its a pipedream!