faerie dragon mount?

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D: Well, PTR is early and still testing stages, hopefully they'll revert to normal by the end..

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o_o Big sprite dragons. Wooooooah. Maybe they'll change them to mini size? I like the old model too. :( Love them both. But wow they're big dragons now.

Maybe they can keep the old model as Sprite Darter Hatchling and have the newer one as a wild battle pet? The new model could have a name like Monarch Darter or some other related butterfly name. c:
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So I think what the current findings tell us is we don't know anything yet about mount or pet sizing or which minipet(s) may change. This is almost certainly a mistake (or deliberate purely for temporary testing) as it is now.
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Inb4 it turns out to be a TCG or blizzard store mount. (They always gotta nickel and dime us!)
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It's way too early to say, but I wonder if this could be Blizzard's way of granting people a "dragon pet" that hunters have been pining over for as long as the game has existed. :) Though, honestly I think at least the size of the pet is a slip-up if not the whole model.

On the subject of models; I am completely in love with this new model now that I saw it in game without any armour junk on. ^^
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Yoruko wrote:It's way too early to say, but I wonder if this could be Blizzard's way of granting people a "dragon pet" that hunters have been pining over for as long as the game has existed. :) Though, honestly I think at least the size of the pet is a slip-up if not the whole model.

On the subject of models; I am completely in love with this new model now that I saw it in game without any armour junk on. ^^
One would hope if they were already able to be tamed, then we could tame the new model also, but I'm not sure a upgraded model to an already untameable NPC warrants them becoming tameable now. (Not that I don’t think it would be neat if we could, just sadly don't see it happening.)

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Yoruko wrote:On the subject of models; I am completely in love with this new model now that I saw it in game without any armour junk on. ^^
so far I agree with this ten fold. The in game armorless models are amazing.
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That thing is ugly. It needs to die in a fire :x
It hardly looks like the Faerie dragons we know and love. Blugh.
And that head thing... I dont.. I just dont.. what? I dont get it D;

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Spiritbinder wrote:
Yoruko wrote:It's way too early to say, but I wonder if this could be Blizzard's way of granting people a "dragon pet" that hunters have been pining over for as long as the game has existed. :) Though, honestly I think at least the size of the pet is a slip-up if not the whole model.

On the subject of models; I am completely in love with this new model now that I saw it in game without any armour junk on. ^^
One would hope if they were already able to be tamed, then we could tame the new model also, but I'm not sure a upgraded model to an already untameable NPC warrants them becoming tameable now. (Not that I don’t think it would be neat if we could, just sadly don't see it happening.)
Ah, I didn't quite it mean it like that. :) I doubt they would be tameable by hunters at all since they're dragonkin. What I meant was that every player and their dog have been asking for dragons as a pet (not just whelps) and instead of making them a hunter pet, this would be a sort of "meet you at the half-way" compromise. A pet-battle dragon that comes in a hunter-pet size.

Edit: But I would like to emphasize that I was merely speculating the above case IF this was intentional, which I find highly doubtful.
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I still like the look of them XD
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I'm sure the model change is a bug. It's got to be. The old sprite darters are way too cute to get rid of for no reason.

inb4 everyone and their mum wanting these as hunter pe-- ... too late.

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Me and my dog respectfully do not wish to tame dragons on hunters. :P

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Miacoda wrote:Me and my dog respectfully do not wish to tame dragons on hunters. :P
Me neither Mia, but I was talking about the more generalized population of the player base, rather than the tiny portion of us here on Petopia. :) At least I keep running into people in game who say something of the sort to "I just want to tame dragons already!"
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So apparently, after looking around in my pet journal, the model itself is going to replace the current one, or at least on the Hatchling. Seeing as I love the model, I honestly can't wait to see what the spectral one looks like.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and now I really regret selling my Hatchling on live.
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I've always loved the stripes and spiderweb-ish pattern on their wings, so I like this mount a lot. I prefer the cutesy chameleon appearance of the original models, but this one's still pretty neat. I like it without armor best, I'm not too keen on how every mount needs armor hiding the new models, but at least this armor isn't too outrageous.
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Calling it now....The Sha of Pride will drop this mount ^.^
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Poearia wrote:Calling it now....The Sha of Pride will drop this mount ^.^
No offense but I'm not sure how that would make sense. Especially since I dont attribute sha and faerie dragons like at all. I personally think a sha touched pandaria phoenix would be great for the sha of pride since they resemble peacocks and those birds are certainly prideful.

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new blizzard store mount i'd bet my account on it
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Murderface wrote:new blizzard store mount i'd bet my account on it
Thats where I'm putting my money it has every aspect of a Blizzard store mount.

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Doctress wrote:
Poearia wrote:Calling it now....The Sha of Pride will drop this mount ^.^
No offense but I'm not sure how that would make sense. Especially since I dont attribute sha and faerie dragons like at all. I personally think a sha touched pandaria phoenix would be great for the sha of pride since they resemble peacocks and those birds are certainly prideful.
In reference to the gay pride flag :o
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