Valnaaros wrote:They look a bit odd when attacking. They'll be standing in between attacks, then suddenly start flying and perform an attack before landing again. I know that they have no ground fighting animations, but the animations just don't seem very fluid. Smooth.
Anyone that is testing these, if you have access to twitter, feedback is certainly welcome and even asked for...
Just shooting off the cuff. And this might get up some folk's ire but I'm wondering if her pet only shows as tameable because the hippogryph models are AND there's a second corrupted hippo somewhere and it's not her pet that's the tamable corrupted hippo.
An NPC's pet has never been tamable in the past so I don't think they'd start now. I could be wrong but I don't think so. Muffinus said the corrupted hippogryph was there "if you can find it" but that doesn't mean its specifically her pet.
Lalathin is, literally, the only Corrupted Hippogryph in WoW. There are no other versions. Myself and others have thoroughly searched the DB and have only found her.
You are putting it in the same category as other minions/pets to mobs have been in the past. It isn't going to be sitting next to her in the Nighthold raid, let alone any other place where you see Elisande. It is meant as a clue and a point of lore - that it was Elisande's pet, but she is dead now. It is probably in Suramar or Suramar City, where Elisande has been for ten-thousand years.
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@Muffinus Any hints on Corrupted Hippogryph? Is it truly Elisande's pet???
Hopefully he'll take pity and give a hint. Since it's in the PTR and not found.
And I know her lore. Like I said. I read a lot. But blizzard has no qualms in going completely away from lore sometimes. That's been my whole point in my posts about this. It pathing around the entire Broken Isles might explain why it's not being found in Suramar even though people have looked very hard for a very long time to find it.
Then why tag it as such? If it has nothing to do with Elisande, then why even call it that?
By now, someone would've seen it if it was flying around the Broken Isles. Unless it is stealthed, of course, but that seems awfully cruel to have something stealthed and flying through various zones.
Wain - I just checked its animations. No combat animations at all.
It's a shame that they couldn't program a system where once a model goes into combat mode it briefly changes in animation, so they fly towards their target, or when gaining any movement speed increase it changes to be airborne.
I would imagine Wyverns having similar issues with their wingspan (loud noises) as well. Don't tamed Gryphons constantly do their idle roars? Basically it's like if you combined the loud noises of Hydras and the constant idle of a cat.
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Wain wrote:Wonder if the elite wyvern model got combat anims. Hmmm. Can't check for a couple of days.
Can't see any, but could be wrong.
zedxrgal wrote:Hopefully he'll take pity and give a hint. Since it's in the PTR and not found.
Call me crazy, but I quite like the fact that there are some secrets that aren't found in the PTR, or even for a patch or so. It gives them a chance to be genuinely stumbled upon (like lighting paw), and for those without the ability/time to download/access the PTR a chance to engage in the hunt too.
It just makes the world a little more mysterious
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But yeah, I'm kind of at odds with the Wolfhawks. On one hand, they're awesome alternate wyvern+wolf babies. But the fact that they can't chase down their target while airborne kinda ruins the fantasy for me a bit. Though Wolfhawks come across to me as masters of both air and land at first glance, much more than the original Wyverns.
Though I am DEFINITELY using two Wyverns in PvP. Hordie for life.
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PorrasouxRex wrote:But the fact that they can't chase down their target while airborne kinda ruins the fantasy for me a bit.
Agreed. I have made the suggestion to have their flight animations trigger by combat, that way they will fly down and attack targets, and settle then into running when there is nothing to chew on.
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zedxrgal wrote:Just shooting off the cuff. And this might get up some folk's ire but I'm wondering if her pet only shows as tameable because the hippogryph models are AND there's a second corrupted hippo somewhere and it's not her pet that's the tamable corrupted hippo.
An NPC's pet has never been tamable in the past so I don't think they'd start now. I could be wrong but I don't think so. Muffinus said the corrupted hippogryph was there "if you can find it" but that doesn't mean its specifically her pet.
Her pet isn't actually controlled by her though. It's just a tag, a title. It's not like it's summoned by her in the fight. And why would they add an old model hippogryph named elisandes pet in 7.2 when we're done with her, unless it's for hunters?
I just highly doubt Lalathin isn't the tameable corrupted hippogryph... it makes no sense, unless they want to tease us. And even if she wasn't tameable, why haven't we found her yet? She's obviously hidden for a reason.
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SpiritBinder wrote:[Call me crazy, but I quite like the fact that there are some secrets that aren't found in the PTR, or even for a patch or so. It gives them a chance to be genuinely stumbled upon (like lighting paw), and for those without the ability/time to download/access the PTR a chance to engage in the hunt too.
It just makes the world a little more mysterious
Oh I'm all for mysterious adventure. Part of playing games like this. But a wee hint would be nice even if it was "it's somewhere in the Broken Isles" type hint.
I've always wondered how long they would let something like this go undiscovered on live before they dropped hints or lowkey told someone. A patch cycle? New xpac? Players figured Kosumath (spelling?) out, so hopefully our crew can figure the remaining out. I want it found just so the database and Petopia can be updated.
Well, shoe shine kit toy has been in since launch, and the team that found kosumoth has long given up on it. We've looked everywhere... convinced it's bugged.. but no hints.
The mask of artful dodging and rat pack, which WERE bugged but said to be fine, don't really give me hope either.
Hopefully with these pets though we don't get to that point.
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