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Personally I love the direhorn concept. Might wish to further extend it. Do remember Orc use demon chain to control dragon, perhaps hunter can go through a long legendary quest to obtain it too. Atleast we can chain a proto drake.

Considering dragons are sentient creatures, that's likely never going to happen, nor would I want it to happen. I like my dragons untamed by bad hunters.

I'd have to agree about the dragon taming, Blizzard have been pretty standard about us not being able to tame them. Though the idea of the direhorn concept making a comeback or extending it further, I think would be a great idea. I'm not 100% sure in what way or for which pet family etc, but it was a really neat concept

I'm gonna move this to the pets forum, since it's not really WoD, just an interesting idea

I agree, I'd love to see more scenarios like the direhorns, where you have to earn something specific in order to learn how to tame a type of beast.

I wouldn't agree with dragons as, as others said, they're pretty much people. I actually wish they'd used this concept in Cataclysm where we could have learned how to tame Basilisks and Shale Spiders only after becoming friendly with the Earthen in Deepholm. It would have been a fun twist.

The same concept could be applied to some of the other more elemental beasts, like fire hawks, gyreworm or hell hounds, if they ever changed their minds on those. Some sort of cool, epic hunter quest, even if it was just a short chain, to allow that would be wonderful.

Wain wrote:I actually wish they'd used this concept in Cataclysm where we could have learned how to tame Basilisks and Shale Spiders only after becoming friendly with the Earthen in Deepholm. It would have been a fun twist.

The same concept could be applied to some of the other more elemental beasts, like fire hawks, gyreworm or hell hounds, if they ever changed their minds on those. Some sort of cool, epic hunter quest, even if it was just a short chain, to allow that would be wonderful.

OMG THIS!!!!!!

That would be such a great idea! Just make the "Tomb of Hellhoundmancy" or "Tomb of Gyremancy" or whatever on the faction/rep vendor for those areas? They already have the tech for it now from the Direhorns, oh my MAKE IT SO!

Yesss...that would be amazesauce! All my yes! Wain, you're a genius. Why aren't you working for Blizzard? XD

Wain wrote:I'm gonna move this to the pets forum, since it's not really WoD, just an interesting idea

I agree, I'd love to see more scenarios like the direhorns, where you have to earn something specific in order to learn how to tame a type of beast.

I wouldn't agree with dragons as, as others said, they're pretty much people. I actually wish they'd used this concept in Cataclysm where we could have learned how to tame Basilisks and Shale Spiders only after becoming friendly with the Earthen in Deepholm. It would have been a fun twist.

The same concept could be applied to some of the other more elemental beasts, like fire hawks, gyreworm or hell hounds, if they ever changed their minds on those. Some sort of cool, epic hunter quest, even if it was just a short chain, to allow that would be wonderful.

I agree completely. I really liked the idea of learning to tame the Direhorns. My only complaint is that it was too easy to get and kind of a disappointment after the buildup for it. A series of quests would have been much better. The rep tie in would also be nice.

Sadly the best time for quests linked to elemental beasts would have been Cataclysm, since it was all about that. But I imagine therell be other opportunities.

The other one that occurs to me is if we'd had kunchong taming linked to Klaxxi rep, or even after the chain where you help raise Kovok. Ah well :/

Wain wrote:Sadly the best time for quests linked to elemental beasts would have been Cataclysm, since it was all about that. But I imagine therell be other opportunities.

The other one that occurs to me is if we'd had kunchong taming linked to Klaxxi rep, or even after the chain where you help raise Kovok. Ah well :/

Or even a recovered tome that you could dig up via archaeology? There are so many ways to possibly integrate these "Tomes of Taming" in clever ways, but again I guess they all take development time, even if some of it might seem quite minor.

That would work for some! Much as even the thought of archaeology now brings me nightmares.

I would dig up *all the things* if I got to tame a Kovok!

A tomb that teach us method to gear up our pet , will be equally cool

erictks wrote:Personally I love the direhorn concept. Might wish to further extend it. Do remember Orc use demon chain to control dragon, perhaps hunter can go through a long legendary quest to obtain it too. Atleast we can chain a proto drake.

I like the idea of a Legendary Taming Skill, however, I don't like the concept of taming dragons, quite frankly it's extremely cliche in most MMORPGs with a Hunter-based class. First of all - often times, dragons are extremely intelligent meaning taming one would never work, as they have a free-will and a conscious. Second - from a lore standpoint, it wouldn't make sense. Third - We ride dragon or dragon-like mounts. It would be strange honestly.

This would be sooo cool. and to those saying the chance to tame element pets has passed, may I remind you that outlands today is filled with all sorts of nasty, flamey fel style elements that could have created beasts in the past that would bow to an exception such as this. (i'm especially looking at you, TK/MGT phoenix!) so who knows what things will look like in outland's past? we have also seen Blizz revisit old zones and make new skins/models/families available so we cant rule that out either.
personally I would like to see more dinos unlock and possibly some snakes as well. I would love to do a quest line/rep chain that unlocks elemental beasts and I think that an archeology find would be a great fit for creatures tied to dead/hostile races or ancient species. (although if its not class specific I think it should be bou/boa so if its really rare, non-hunters don't have to waist their time on it for nothing.)

as far as the dragon things goes I think its obvious we wont ever get dragons from the various aspect flights but maybe someday we will see the more beast-like dragoniods pop up under a requirement such as this. (I think the fae dragon,proto drake and cloud serpents are all beastlike enough that at the very least an offshoot from that family could one day be considered- but I wont get my hopes up for it and wouldn't be heartbroken if it never happens.)

SylviaDragon wrote:as far as the dragon things goes I think its obvious we wont ever get dragons from the various aspect flights but maybe someday we will see the more beast-like dragoniods pop up under a requirement such as this. (I think the fae dragon,proto drake and cloud serpents are all beastlike enough that at the very least an offshoot from that family could one day be considered- but I wont get my hopes up for it and wouldn't be heartbroken if it never happens.)

Nay to the Fae, I say. If you remember from the Hyjal quests, they speak just like you and me, helping you find the Twilight Cultists after you feed them a berry to earn their trust. So they'd fall on the intellectual side.

The Cloud Serpents are also extremely intelligent. They may not talk, but the Pandaren mention their intelligence too and we see those that live long enough to become Heavenly Cloud Serpents are able to speak(typically).

So I don't think either of those would work.

Proto Drake....maybe....that'd a bit iffy though cause they're the ancestors of the drakes we ride today. We don't know a whole lot about them other than that. x3

But yeah, just thought I'd pipe up about that. I'm a dragon defender, what can I say? Lol!

Wain wrote:Sadly the best time for quests linked to elemental beasts would have been Cataclysm, since it was all about that.

Let's not forget that Draenor was extremely shamanistic prior to the burning legion's influence. The chance of getting a hell hound is practically zero, but there is still a relatively good chance of seeing some tameable elemental beasts.

manbear wrote:

Wain wrote:Sadly the best time for quests linked to elemental beasts would have been Cataclysm, since it was all about that.

Let's not forget that Draenor was extremely shamanistic prior to the burning legion's influence. The chance of getting a hell hound is practically zero, but there is still a relatively good chance of seeing some tameable elemental beasts.

That is true! I'd love to see that.

I like the direhorn method, where you have to earn the ability to tame a type of pet, but I think it should be more interesting than just farming. More like if you had to get a certain rating in BG or Arena, then you'd unlock the ability to tame new models/skins/family of a pet that's decent for pvp (having to tame it *during* a bg or arena would be even funner.)

Or for pve, something along the lines of getting an hour long "kochong tameable" buff, if you got the buff from Kaz'tik the Manipulator in Heroic SoO.

Junrei wrote:Considering dragons are sentient creatures, that's likely never going to happen, nor would I want it to happen. I like my dragons untamed by bad hunters.

As far as that goes blizzard has for the most part ignored this concept when it has come to taming/catching dragons in the game. Hell we can even train them to be our mounts. Blizzard has given up on most of the RPG aspects like this and focused more on what people want in the game. So i don't see this taming dragon concept to farfetched at all.