High quality chicken skins

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High quality chicken skins

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Not sure if I mentioned this already. I couldn't find a prior post, anyway.

Hidden in WoW's database, there's the potential for much higher quality chicken pets than what we have currently.

The skins are the same art style as the Rooster Mount, but they don't have saddle/harness art pasted over them, which means they're ready to use for critters and pets. There are four colours.

The unfortunate part is I can't find a version of the rooster model that doesn't have a saddle. So I can only model these skins on the mount. This leaves a couple of weird bumps, but it gives you a good idea of how awesome they'd look as pets/critters:

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Surely it'd be easy for the art team to whip up a model variant with the saddle gone!

Oh, and as for what the skins are doing in that folder... they are actually used on crated chickens in the market in Uldum. However those birds use the old low-polygon model and don't look nearly as pretty:

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One other thing to dream about is that the the harness from the mount skins could very easily be applied to these skins to make more rooster mount colours. How cool would it have been to farm not only giant vegetables but giant livestock in V4W and raise your own giant chicken mount? Ah well... maybe they can find a use for them elsewhere at some point :)
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I would kill for better chicken mini pets. KILL. Especially loving the red and black ones!

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Incidentally, here's what the black, white and red ones would look like as mounts. I pasted the harness on from the mount skin. The texture is a little lower res as the skins are only 256x256, which is a quarter of the size of the mount skin.

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It reminds me of a vision I had in MoP of sprites invading a farm and stealing their chickens and riding off on them....

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OH MAN

RAISE YOUR OWN CHOCOBO MOUNT???? YEAH.
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Every time I get on a hawk strider, I turn on the chocobo race music...my BF think's I am crazy...maybe its the deranged giggling he hears over the music...

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They'd make good easter mounts.
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cowmuflage wrote:They'd make good easter mounts.
They would actually! Shame there's already a tallstrider one as this one would be cooler. Maybe if they ever add a proper noblegarden boss to fight it could drop one :) Defeat the Giant Chicken of Noblegarden!
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Aaahhh wow these are so pretty! Especially the black and red, wow!

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Id love a black chicken!!! I have the magic rooster mount and its the funniest thing when my druid goes boomkin form and rides it hahaha!! My GM and friend from Singapore thought it was the best thing ever...hearing an excited man with a chinese/singapore accent squeeling on vent "oh my god sakurie has a chicken!! Its a chicken riding a chicken lah!"

And yes add these for noblegarden!!! El Pollo Grande has your easter eggs! Kill it and get em back. Your reward satchel can be an egg and you can get the chicken in it!!!

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