A few new skins for beastly things in build 15640

[Wain]

Out of the new files in the latest patch I found three skins of interest from a beastly persepective. Well two beasts plus one beastly elemental...

Firstly, and probably least excitingly, there's "DragonTurtleBlack" which looks superficially like the current RidingDragonTurtleSkinBlack, but (i) it has red eyes, (ii) the shading is subtly different and (iii) it lacks a lot of the ornate patterns on its carapace. In fact the carapace folds go the other way...



I'm honestly not sure what to make of it. The shell texture doesn't seem to fit the model as well as the current ones and the naming convention for the skin is different to all the others. I guess time will tell.

Secondly, and more excitingly, the Amber version of the Horde Scorpion (aka Madexx) model! The textures are different to the current Madices and it's really very pretty:



The textures also exist in the files for the amber armour, for the datamined new Amber Scorpion Mount, but I can't get them to render currently. I may have to tinker with it a bit.

Finally, there's a new Amber skin for the gyreworm. These aren't beasts anyway, but they're close enough to be of interest. Again the skin isn't just a recolour... it's has quite a few texture differences to the current skins:



I love the big blobs of amber on it!

The fact that there's two new amber things in one patch makes me wonder if they're linked.

[cowmuflage]

Least they got the amber colour right XD I had that feeling it would use the brown skin.

[Kalliope]

Amber, eh? I smell a Jurassic Park reference in the near future.

The scorpid and gyreworm are quite lovely! (Turtle is okay, but only small changes...)

[Lupis]

I adore that scorpion, really gorgeous.

[Lisaara]

Scorpid. I want it.

[Meggers]

Scorpid. I want it.

^

[Miacoda]

Dat scorpid. If its tameable, it won't replace Mia's Madexx... But man, it might look really nice next to Sarahma!

So gorgeous, though!!

[Wain]

It just occurred to me... that new scorpid would make the perfect new brewfest mount Not only is he amber, he could easily hold a keg in each set of pincers.

[Sasrei]

Im thinking its 70

Mount N/A Reins of the Amber Scorpion
not sure if they will have a tameable version but it looks like there will be a mount version.

[Aquillian]

DAT SCORPID.

[Wain]

Im thinking its 70
Mount N/A Reins of the Amber Scorpion
not sure if they will have a tameable version but it looks like there will be a mount version.

Yeah, there's no doubt of that part. Unfortunately, as I said, I can't get the mount version of it to render properly. But they'd almost certainly be tempted to put in a non-mount somewhere

[Miacoda]

DAT SCORPID.

IKNORITE??

[Kyria]

DAT SCORPID.

IKNORITE??

Yes. Exactly. Get in my stables RIGHT NOW. 8|

[Mozag]

That's scorpid is quite astoundingly pretty. Can't say I like it over the Madexx skins, but it's definitely an eye-opener when it comes to detail.
The worm...is lovely. And a depressing reminder of the fact that I can't have the gem worms as pets.

I really like this dragon turtle as well, the red eyes are gorgeous and stand out so nicely.

[Shinryu Masaki]

The worm...is lovely. And a depressing reminder of the fact that I can't have the gem worms as pets.

Totaly agree with you there! Though I still hope that maybe one day we could get one as a Spirit Beast, as that might be the only way for Blizzard to give them to us, and Worms being exotic anyway we'd have to be BM to tame them in the first place. I can dream, can I?

[Ellaran]

Dang, Blizzard is really doing well with the textures in Mists, those are some beautiful-looking beasties.

[cowmuflage]

It just occurred to me... that new scorpid would make the perfect new brewfest mount Not only is he amber, he could easily hold a keg in each set of pincers.

That there is a wondrfull idea!

[Chimera]

SWEET Amber scorpion is so friggin sexyyyyyyyy!