Talbuks

[felren]

What is all the hype with the Hydras? I mean they are cool and all, but will be heavily overused. Instead they should make Talbuks/Stags tame-able! I mean really, they have enough models of them lying around, and they could just re-color the Malorne model for a spirit beast or rarespawn.

[Kurenio]

Stags I'm all for.... malorne model no just no....

[Aleu]

Didn't we have this discussion before? oO I'm for Stags becoming mounts at some point, but keep Malrones model unique. Stags and Talbuks would just look silly as pets to me.

[Chimera]

There was a lot of discussion and a few threads that werent so great i believe (i dont know though) by the time they ended, a lot of heated discussion and argument about Malorne, i stayed out of them for the most part

Hooved animals in general would be awesome seeing as we already have Rhinos (though Rhinos dont actually have hooves but it would still work since they're all very large and bulky) and i would def tame a talbuk, but no, Malorne (my WoW god too lol, my druids a druid of the antler and ive been in love with malorne since his lore was created), should not be tameable, or a model like it. Id be devastated to see a hunter throwing my beloved god over and over into some horrible enemy he thinks he can take on solo only to continuously die @_@

[Mychelle]

In my own opinion, I really do not want the whole Stag-model of Malorne used for anything other than...well, Malorne. But, I am -not- against like...an "Avatar" of Malorne with a *SLIGHTLY* similar model. Something ghosty, yah know. I personally think something like that could tag out well into Roleplay for some Hunters. But I'd be under the impression if they did put something like that in the game, they need to make it -extremely- hard to tame. Or -extremely- rare. Maybe even if it only spawned once a week, or it takes an entire raid group working together just to help a hunter tame it. Something along those lines. Make the whole experience extremely epic, so that not everyone and their mother actually owns it.

[Ana]

i would´t mind riding on Malone....(though not in his stag model, prefer his human one)

[Chimera]

^ *stifles giggles* you and me both

[Lazurianis]

Yes this has already been discussed and decided: Talbuks nor Stags will NEVER be tameable. It will mess up a lot of the Lore not to mention Malorne being tameable? He is a Druid Spirit which would mess up the lore even more. Hydras are a big deal because they are a huge factor in the game, not to mention: Most hunters have been wanting one sense Pre BC when Alcaz Island was released and when blizz screwed up on the Ghost Hydra/Slime.

[Loki]

Yes this has already been discussed and decided: Talbuks nor Stags will NEVER be tameable. It will mess up a lot of the Lore not to mention Malorne being tameable? He is a Druid Spirit which would mess up the lore even more. Hydras are a big deal because they are a huge factor in the game, not to mention: Most hunters have been wanting one sense Pre BC when Alcaz Island was released and when blizz screwed up on the Ghost Hydra/Slime.

Where exactly was this decided ? I don't remember hearing it. And what possible lore reason could there be behind not taming stags/talbuks ? Also, no one has ever said let us tame Malorne, the actual lore character, only a stag mob with a similar (because it looks much newer) model. What have hydras ever done to be a huge factor in the game (there's like 1 or 2 hydra bosses and some hydra killing quests, great) ? And on that last point, why then aren't they thinking about letting us tame the slimes ?

Every time I see someone say "OMG, never allow stags/talbuks/giraffes" I get quite annoyed. I really want to be able to tame these beasts and you don't see me going round saying "Oh no, you can't make Hydras tameable because I don't approve/it doesn't fit the lore/whatever else". As far as I am concerned any new family is a good addition. If I recall correctly, Hydra mobs didn't even use the Beast type in early vanilla (feel free to correct me if this isn't true).

[MeAjur]

Hooved animals in general would be awesome seeing as we already have Rhinos (though Rhinos dont actually have hooves but it would still work since they're all very large and bulky)

Actually, they do. Rhinos are in the order Perissodactyla, the same order you'll find horses and tapir in. All members of that order have an odd number of hooves. Technically using Rhinos as an example of why Stags should be tameable is unjustified since the odd-toed ungulates are molecularly more closely related to carnivores than to the even-toed ungulates. The argument you really should be using is that since boars (which is in the order Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates) are tameable, so should stags.

However, its the zevra I wanted to tame, which is odd-toed. My theory was "riding horses counts as taming them, so why can't we tame zevras?" up until they introduced the zevra recruit-a-friend mount in which case my theory turned into "seeeeeeee? Zevras are tameable!!! Let me tame one now, pleeeeeeeaaaaaasssssseeeeee???"

[Chimera]

^oh man, lol i wish i understood what that all meant on the scientific level >_> rhinos are the closest connection i have to big bulky and tall animals for World of Warcraft, not the real world. Im talking about in-game creatures, the Rhinos have big toenails but not hooves and i just feel that stags and talbuks, because of the size those 3 animals have compared to our characters, and because they to me at least and im sure there are other posters who will probably agree to have them put under 'rhino' family (but have the family renamed, should be pretty obvious why it'd be weird for a talbuk to be under the rhino family lol), it would be a good grouping, and renaming something is easier then making an entirely new family imo

Blizzard doesnt listen to reality.. :/ And for all the posts talking about this 'lore' tied to talbuks and stags.......................................... there is no lore........ there isnt even a stag mount yet

[Makoes]

Talbuks/giraffs/zhevra/Deer/gazelles I do want to be able to tame.
Malorne model, although really neat, I could only see being a spirit beast, with some slight ulterations, though personally I woulsnt want to tame it for the sake of Malorn being a god and all.

But I have always wanted to tame Bache'lor, and talbuks in general since I first saw them. I love deer and other hooved animals and it always make me sad that we have so few hooved tamable pets.

[Vephriel]

Ungulates ftw!

I do understand if Blizzard does not want to go that route and make them tamable, but I fervently would love to see them as a family, particularly stags and talbuks.

[Aeladrine]

I've wanted to tame a stag since I first made my first character six years ago. Please?

[Dvatori]

...not to mention: Most hunters have been wanting one sense Pre BC when Alcaz Island was released...

I've been begging for stags since I first wandered into Ashenvale and saw this lovely;
Shadow Horn Stag
Looooove him!
Personally, the hydras never really grabbed me like the stags and talbuks, though I know so many of you love them (Why can't we have both?! . Totes-magotes agree that Malorne shouldn't be tameable.

[GormanGhaste]

I've been begging for stags since I first wandered into Ashenvale and saw this lovely:
Shadow Horn Stag

^This

[Dvatori]

Oh, I'd also love to be able to tame rams and shoveltusks! They could all be in the same family.

[Akyo]

im all for talbuks and stags. stags in real life can and have killed people so thinking of em as Bambi is truly not the right thing.

Personally i think id be more scared off a almost 2 m(with the antlers) stag came charging at me than i would be of a wolf. the wolf have to open its mouth wide and bite ya. A stag...just have to headbutt ya or run you over.

just saying <_<

However the Does of teh stag family should remain untameable as they would rather flee than fight.
Rams could be in the same family as it would fight in the same manner.
Shoveltusks...i honestly dont know where i would place those.

[Qinni]

Rather have an all year round stag mount (not x-mas themed) over having one as a pet.

[yaginoashi]

spirit stags..............