Kayro wrote:
True true. I don't mind how it's inplemented, I'd just love to have one
some don't like it's...venom sacs? Is that what they are? I've no idea, but people seem to dislike them. I think it just adds to the savage factor of it all. You don't exactly see cute fluffy Rylaks waddling around in a land of savagery.
Pandaria was, don't mind me, pants in the way of pets imo. We got a few families, nothing truly outstanding and most were fluffy. Fluffy porcupines. Fluffy kitties (although they did look cool) and all around it looked more majestic. Let these Rylaks be savage! It's a change form peace loving pandas
Well, the venom sacs and the large pincers seem like defense mechanisms from a time where living conditions were even harsher, and those seem like an evolutionary trait that was lost when Draenor became a lot less primal and harsh (imagine, an even worse Draenor. I believe it existed when creatures like the colossi/earth giants/grom still existed), and as such, those tools became less of a necessity for survival, which is why, for instance, the pincer tail could have shrunk down to a less functional size.
And yeah, Pandaria wasn't bad, but the pets were quite underwhelming. I know it made a lot of people happy, but for the most part, it just felt.. meh-y. It didn't help that Pandaria also made other people think of "hur hur childish pandas" (I don't agree, but that was the general thought of a lot of people), and then they made a lot of the animals that could invoke a more dangerous and behemoth vibe non-tameable in favour of stuff like silkworms, goats and porcupines.
Yes, I know a lot of people were happy with those, and that's your full right, of course. I just think that neglecting the more imposing beasts in favour of the more critterish-type ones didn't help the idea that "MoP = childish". Aside from that, we also had cranes in their own family, which felt like a bit of a waste. Otherwise, MoP was pretty conservative with pets. Oh, yeah, and the whole spirit beast thing, where it was said that they'd be pretty cool, only to give us RGB transparent porcupines was a bit mehy. I think a lot of us were hoping for a cool, sha-touched pet or something.
That aside, of course they don't have not give us anything, but it has become an expectation over the years, and I think MoP just wasn't the best expansion. Not bad, and I am not ungrateful for it, but it was just not very.. exciting. For one, the rares also seemed barely like rares. The track tame system was awesome, but the rewards, aside from Portent, were a bit meh-y to me.
To finish this, though. I was still happy with MoP, even thought it didn't feel like the best hunter pet expansion. But to put it all in perspective, I think WoD more than makes up for it so far, and will continue to do so as time progresses. I just hope that there are a few more creatures that make it in, including the reptilian rylak (pretty much near the top of my list, now, after others were confirmed tameable, and some others were said to come in the future, possibly: sandreavers, kunchong, pterrorwings, mushan, etc.), which I very much want for its awesome model, as well as the potential it can have, if they build something around it. Even if they don't, though, it's still an awesome and desirable model.
As for "WoD more than makes up for MoP.". I know they don't owe us anything, and they don't need to give us anything. I mean it positively. MoP was pretty underwhelming to me and a lot of people in terms of hunter pets, but WoD is amazing for hunter pets, and is growing even more amazing every time Jeremy Feasel tweets about another tameable pet, or replies to a question with a "yes" or "possibly likely in the future", or when we see that creatures we wanted became tameable in the beta. It is amazing, and I think we're not even done yet.
I'd love that model as a tameable mob, and the idea of it being the last of its kind is pretty cool. Until you see many of them wandering around next to hunters. Perhaps it could be a brood? The mother is dead/dying and her young children are the last of their [i[brood[/i] and you can either kill one or take one. Making it specific for hunters would be cool,and as I've heard Garrisons are deep embedded in your levelling experience, why not make it a quest that only hunters can receive from there? Like a little mini scenario. A scout returns with tales of a huge Rylak that isn't like anything they've seen before. You, as a hunter, go check it out. It's second nature 
you see the dead mother, and see the children. They're bound to die without her, and so you take one home with you. 
For example, shalespiders would then be seen as just spiders..which they kinda are, but you see the point. 
Now if I can just get that reptilian rylak and most importantly, a pterrorwing... I can die happy.