Quick question [PTR]

[Pent]

This is where I'm seriously confused but I also haven't had time to read the entire thread as I'm currently posting between Magmaw wipes...[/b][/i]

Then be confused no longer!

There IS a new common Madexx skin on the PTR live right now. ATM it's a color changer. It's been confirmed the color changers are turning to, yeah you guessed it, Bronze! *jazz hands*

Heeh ^_^
Thank you for saving me from reading to catch up

Ahh, but one thing was left out...

On page one of the thread it was noted that on the PTR that some of the Madexxs that were tamed and copied over had changed colors... Blue went to Red, and Bronze went to Green. People thought this was because the blue and bronze were going to be on the common color changing Madexx-skinned scorpion... and a lot of people were rea... err... REALLY REALLY mad about this.

Wain then went and asked a secret developer guy who works at Blizzard (we call him Noah) about it and Noah said it was an error for the scorpions to have changed colors. Then some people were relieved while others were REALLY REALLY mad, because they didn't want the bronze or blue scorpion if the color was going to be placed onto a common scorpion albeit a color-changer.

I've heard back from "Noah" already. It was a mistake. Somebody (not him) mistakenly changed something on them they weren't supposed to. It's already been fixed and so I guess should appear in the next PTR update or two. You can all stop hyperventilating Madexx's colours will go back to normal.

and then Wain said...

Ok, last I heard (and I'm not saying the situation won't change, but this is the last I heard) Madexx will retain ALL his current possible colours. Even if some were removed from his spawn possibilities, the NPCs of those colours would just be removed from spawning and not have their skins changed, so anyone with that colour already would NOT have it changed from under them.

and then Wain said...

OK, latest update. I had to double check what I thought I knew and check what I could say:
1. The new common spawn Venomscale Spitter will be moving to a single, stable colour: brown. The least flashy of all Madexx's colours
2. However Madexx will continue to spawn in all 5 colour possibilities (including the brown), with all NPC ids retaining their current colour from live. Whatever colour you tamed in 4.0.3 will be the same in 4.0.6, regardless of what it is on the current PTR patch. If you find Madexx in brown, in 4.0.6 you're gonna be a bit unlucky. Then again most people seem to have a single colour in mind when they look for Madexx, so any other colour they find is already a bit unlucky. I feel bad for them

I suspect some people are gonna be upset about the double brown thing, but at least it's not going to come as a surprise now.

The bolded part on that quote is still making me feel like we still don't have the entire story... and I am curious what, if anything, is being NOT said. But who knows... it might just be something I am reading too much into.

We'll see sooner or later.

I left out all of my ramblings about what could be done to make it better for people, and I also left out my slipping into craziness parts.

I also left out a lot of happiness and sadness from different people. This thread is an awesome read even though it is a little dark and spooky sometimes.

[Pwncess]

Well, if this raid ever ends this evening, I will give it a read. (:

[Novikova]

Honestly? I don't mind if blue becomes 'common'. I just don't want mine to be changed underneath me. Granted, I do like red too... so I wouldn't pitch a hissy.

[Wain]

and then Wain said...

OK, latest update. I had to double check what I thought I knew and check what I could say:
1. The new common spawn Venomscale Spitter will be moving to a single, stable colour: brown. The least flashy of all Madexx's colours
2. However Madexx will continue to spawn in all 5 colour possibilities (including the brown), with all NPC ids retaining their current colour from live. Whatever colour you tamed in 4.0.3 will be the same in 4.0.6, regardless of what it is on the current PTR patch. If you find Madexx in brown, in 4.0.6 you're gonna be a bit unlucky. Then again most people seem to have a single colour in mind when they look for Madexx, so any other colour they find is already a bit unlucky. I feel bad for them
I suspect some people are gonna be upset about the double brown thing, but at least it's not going to come as a surprise now.

The bolded part on that quote is still making me feel like we still don't have the entire story... and I am curious what, if anything, is being NOT said. But who knows... it might just be something I am reading too much into.

Nothing. That's the whole story as I know it. I just had to check it was ok to post it all.

[Kalliope]

Making blanket statements harms no one unless people know that they are that way, and then it is their fault if they think I am talking about them.

It harms the tone of the community and it's completely unnecessary.

The whole subject has been argued into the ground. If others have nothing further to say on the subject, you berating the community at large to comment is not going to change that. It's very unproductive behavior.

I see what you are saying, but where were you earlier in the thread?

I'm one of the people who's pretty much done with these debates that've gone on in multiple threads with the same people involved and the same points being made over and over again.

I've seen you go through the up and down cycles repeatedly. I just couldn't sit idly by when comments started crossing the line, y'know?

I do hope that you two and everyone else searching for a particular Madexx find him, I really do. But beyond offering my condolences and general support, there's not much more I can say. Keeping fingers crossed!

[Garadan]

My first post here as well. I have just completed my collection of every unique skinned rare pet currently available, which includes Madexx. Unfortunately the Madexx I tamed is brown. After spending so long camping I am very much against either having to try again to get another colour or having the colour I currently have become available on a common mob, removing the distinctiveness of the pet I have. I am just wondering how practical it is for the Madexx model skin being used on the new common scorpids to be a totally new colour (say a yellow version) with the same model. This would allow everyone with Madexx to keep their current model and know it will still be rare while allowing everyone access to the model in at least one colour. Would this help keep both sides happy without massive effort?

P.S. The website is a massive help for a pet collector and I am grateful to the mods and the posters for all the information.

[Cialbi]

OK, latest update. I had to double check what I thought I knew and check what I could say:
1. The new common spawn Venomscale Spitter will be moving to a single, stable colour: brown. The least flashy of all Madexx's colours
2. However Madexx will continue to spawn in all 5 colour possibilities (including the brown), with all NPC ids retaining their current colour from live. Whatever colour you tamed in 4.0.3 will be the same in 4.0.6, regardless of what it is on the current PTR patch. If you find Madexx in brown, in 4.0.6 you're gonna be a bit unlucky. Then again most people seem to have a single colour in mind when they look for Madexx, so any other colour they find is already a bit unlucky. I feel bad for them

I suspect some people are gonna be upset about the double brown thing, but at least it's not going to come as a surprise now.

The bolded part on that quote is still making me feel like we still don't have the entire story... and I am curious what, if anything, is being NOT said. But who knows... it might just be something I am reading too much into.

We'll see sooner or later.

They could be (and probably are) toying with ideas, trying to decided for certain what will happen in 4.0.6, but would rather keep quiet until a decision is made. Clearly what Wain had posted has been decided upon for now, and they were willing to let Wait share it with us.
In other words, Wain didn't want to say anything that would be erroneously assumed to be Blizzard's intended course of action.

Oh, and this is all postulation on my part.

[Pent]

Meh, it doesn't matter right now... I just swooped down in Uldum and killed like 3 regular scorpions and leveled my Terrorpene up to 85.

I am on a high right now.

[Garadan]

Does anyone know what the ratio of the different colours is by the way?

[Ziarre]

Random.

[Garadan]

OK, thanks. Will just have to hope they either come up with a solution that keeps the brown skin rare or that I hit some luck again on my laps of Uldum.

[Garadan]

Has anyone on the PTR noticed if the colour changes previously seen have been reverted yet? I am still hoping that Blizz changes their plans and finds some way to keep all 5 madexx skins rare, maybe by recolouring the new common scorpid to yellow or purple or something not yet used.

[Shade]

Thought I'd post here instead of making a new thread.

Have any PTR players seen anything new in the Blood Elf starting areas? I know stranglethorn got a few new rares in it. The BEfl areas have no rares in it that I know of. Perhaps that has changed?

[Wain]

Thought I'd post here instead of making a new thread.

Have any PTR players seen anything new in the Blood Elf starting areas? I know stranglethorn got a few new rares in it. The BEfl areas have no rares in it that I know of. Perhaps that has changed?

The only thing I know of is that a certain mana wyrm there should have changed colours (and nobody has noticed certain eels in Outland that had mana wyrm models? )

[Kurasu]

The only thing I know of is that a certain mana wyrm there should have changed colours (and nobody has noticed certain eels in Outland that had mana wyrm models? )

I admit that I had, but since it wasn't pets, I hadn't considered saying something. Bad me!

Hadn't seen the 'color-changed mana wyrms' yet though. Spending too much time hunting tameables.

[Celi]

I'd love a mana wyrm pet!