sabiitoothtiger wrote:
Thinking about it more if they were to make a white/black version of Sambas' skin it'd be smart to make it rare. I'd see it becoming very, very popular and a lot of Hunters may kick themselves for waiting however long for Sambas when they could have had this neat black/white version so much easier.
I strongly believe that models should not be unique to rares. It is just unfair to wait 6 years for a good cat model and then praying and camping for months that the RNG gods are with you.
Spirit Beasts for example do not have a unique models but rather a very unique skin and therefor I don't care if they are rare or not.
I am also not a fan of the "PEOPLE SHOULDNT HAVE WHAT I HAVE I WANT TO BE SECIAL" regarding pet models anyway. I have a lot of rares, none of them are unique models tho.
If there was to be a different color of the samba model that was more common then people who got the original sambas would still stand out. King Krush still stands out doesn't he?
While I understand what you are saying, if the Sambas model were to be put on a low-level rare with a short respawn timer, I wouldn't complain.
Still, in a side thought, it would be neat to see more beasts with unique skins that aren't hard to find but rather quite a challenge to tame. Determinedly running back into The Beast's lair try after try requires the determination needed to camp a rare (heck, you can sometimes get rares just by doing flybys), but it certainly isn't a mind-numbing test of determination. Maybe I'm romanticizing pre-4.0.1 struggles to tame The Beast; it really got frustrating, and asked for a lot of patience on the part of the healer (who had to run away every time The Beast had to be reset to prevent the creature from dying).
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Cialbi wrote:While I understand what you are saying, if the Sambas model were to be put on a low-level rare with a short respawn timer, I wouldn't complain.
Still, in a side thought, it would be neat to see more beasts with unique skins that aren't hard to find but rather quite a challenge to tame. Determinedly running back into The Beast's lair try after try requires the determination needed to camp a rare (heck, you can sometimes get rares just by doing flybys), but it certainly isn't a mind-numbing test of determination. Maybe I'm romanticizing pre-4.0.1 struggles to tame The Beast; it really got frustrating, and asked for a lot of patience on the part of the healer (who had to run away every time The Beast had to be reset to prevent the creature from dying).
Low lvl rares with short respawn timers work too.
The good thing about really hard tames that you can try whenever you want, is that you actually work on something and it takes skill instead of extreme luck (Krush you needed both luck and skill but it was just a nice skin).
Pets that used to be colour-changers but were fixed to be a stable colour (eg. the purple spiny Zul'Drak raptor), have the other colour they used to be as the 'default' image when viewed in the stable window, character screen, etc. It's a very minor nitpick, but seeing your pet as a completely different colour than it should be is a bit off-putting. I know there were a few that had this behaviour, but I can only recall the raptor for certain.
Vephriel wrote:Oh, one small detail I just thought of:
Pets that used to be colour-changers but were fixed to be a stable colour (eg. the purple spiny Zul'Drak raptor), have the other colour they used to be as the 'default' image when viewed in the stable window, character screen, etc. It's a very minor nitpick, but seeing your pet as a completely different colour than it should be is a bit off-putting. I know there were a few that had this behaviour, but I can only recall the raptor for certain.
The blue chasm stalkers have this as well; they appear green in the preview window. Would be lovely if this could be fixed easily!
Starting to feel like hunters are going to need more stable slots soon. There are so many new rares to tame, and pets in general to tame for raid buffs, that it is extremely quick to run out of room. I have no room left as it is and need to start getting rid of pets, which is kind of sad having to choose who to let go. Considering how much gold we can make with minimal effort now, I don't find it unreasonable to make it say a thousand gold per new stable slot, in an effort to ease any burdens on the servers.
make jadefang not drop the mini pet and instead have it spawn in a chest or something.....really annoying that hes one of the hunter tameable rares and he doesnt drop the tear but drops something people care alot about
Vephriel wrote:Oh, one small detail I just thought of:
Pets that used to be colour-changers but were fixed to be a stable colour (eg. the purple spiny Zul'Drak raptor), have the other colour they used to be as the 'default' image when viewed in the stable window, character screen, etc. It's a very minor nitpick, but seeing your pet as a completely different colour than it should be is a bit off-putting. I know there were a few that had this behaviour, but I can only recall the raptor for certain.
The blue chasm stalkers have this as well; they appear green in the preview window. Would be lovely if this could be fixed easily!
Oh, same with the Lost Ravagers in that weird Winterspring cave (Mazthoril, I think it was called). Had me very confused for a day or two after I tamed one of them.
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I had written a LONG post on this but it got lost when i hit the keyboard with my thumb *sigh
gonna try and hit the main points.
Not enough Hyena types. PLEASE add some Striped varieties. The Egyptian Hyena has stripes.
Add more into the Rhino family. Clefthoofs, Kodos, Elekks and Mammoths. (elephants have been used in warfare for milenia)
I like the idea of mongoose, ermine, mink, etc (add rats in this as well maybe..good Undead Hunter pets)
Albinos... every species in the Animal Kingdom have them..yet we have very few available. A lot of hunters do the "white pet thing", having an Albino of each Family would be more than mildly awesome.
Unique skins.. I agree that Rares should be Unique. That is not to say they should have purely Unique Models. I tihnk every Model should be available but Rares should retain their Uniqueness. Black Sambas? Remodel Pitch. White Sambas? Remodel Siam Rotan.
i would like to see more things like the mousy family too (god that sounds like horrible grammer or whatever it is)!! (in refrence to mongoose, ermine, mink, wolverine, weasel, beavers, GIANT RATS that look damn friggin epic!)
also one person made a black n white warp stalker graphic on their comp, it looks amazing!! same as the idea of white and black versions of sambas.
i agree with ^ about albinos (and for that matter from everything ive said so far in this post, everything he said)
Wanted to add a few more thoughts here and I shall add them elsewhere as well actually.
Lynxes. Lynxes are my favorite cat model in game. I think we should have more Lynx skins. Maybe a rare black Lynx in Ghostlands named Shadowpaw for instance. The normal lynxes around that area are called Ghostpaw Lynxes so the name makes sense. The model was originally used as the nelf catform but as all of the druid cat forms have been updated it should in theory be free to use. A lot of areas have low level indiganous rares nearby but Blood Elves do not. (Spotted rare leapard in Nelf starting area, Dark tiger rare in darkshore, Timber and poalr bear in dwarf starting area, whitish bat in Undead area, etc)
Also..white Lynxes. I was hoping to find them in Northrend when Wrath came out but no such luck. Grizzly Hills would be the perfect place to add Snow Lynxes.
I am writing this on behalf of a guild member who is not on Petopia. I realize this isn't 100% your area, but I promised him I'd pass on his concerns nevertheless. Said guildie is a resto shammy, and he is a bit upset at enhancement shammies having spirit wolves and he as resto not having anything as cool. So, he'd like some spirit ducks. Why? Because ducks like rain, and he can cast healing rain, and the ducks could wander around in the rain.
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Well, that's what he said, and if it makes sense to you then I congratulate you on a creative mind. It doesn't make any sense to me. There might have been alcohol involved prior to our conversation... There was definitely steak involved! Mmmm steak!
I see some of the wishes here are coming true in the next patch. Good to see and look forward to possibly more in time if blizzard is able. Just mention again maybe one more page of stable slots? Now with all the skin changes, there are more I would like to have yet have already put work into my special ones I have. I do have multiple hunters yet there are a couple I would like to get on my main hunter yet only have 1 space left now and want to use that for something ultra special in case we don't get any more stables spaces. So many pets, so little time and stable room. Thanks for all the love for hunter pets so far.
Devilsaurs! It is kind of a bummer only king krush as a unique skin! There is a boss devilsaurs in a dungeon I like to tame but since it has the same skin as a common who will even know that I went into a dungeon an tamed a boss???? Doesn't make sense at all! Please change boss devilsaurs from the common red skin to it's own unique skin color! So a hunter can be proud of his tame!
Ran out of room within three days of Cataclysm!
