New Draenor boar colour: red!

[Wain]

Not sure how I missed this before now, but the new patch brings a new colour for Draenor boars: red. I don't think any other site has reported this, but they do tend not to notice things that don't have a new model for them.

It looks perhaps a little demonic, like an Eredar piggy. It hasn't appeared in the game yet (that we know of) but I guess time will tell what its purpose is.




(And in case anyone is wondering, I haven't noticed a corresponding red mount skin. Would be awesome, though!)

[Wain]

Had to see...

[Makoes]

I was surprised that there wasn't a red version sooner, considering the old outlands red felboars...Seems their counterpart may finally be making an appearance. It would make sense for them to appear in Taanan considering it is the counterpart of Hellfire peninsula

[Divixon]

blizz should make more of the unused skins too

[Arthur]

Nice picture haha

Not fond of boars but it is a nice color!

[Dodongo79]

blizz should make more of the unused skins too

Not just for the boars. There's quite a few unused skins for many of the animals that are just spectacular. Wolf, Cat, Boar, Birds... you name it.

[Wain]

blizz should make more of the unused skins too

Not just for the boars. There's quite a few unused skins for many of the animals that are just spectacular. Wolf, Cat, Boar, Birds... you name it.

There are still some but perhaps not as many as you might think. Jeremy 'Muffinus' Feasel has a long history of getting missing skins into the game, going back to the Cata beta.

Here's what is still unavailable, except for maybe a few recent things:
http://forums.wow-petopia.com/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=4290

If you scroll down a few posts you'll see a list of the literally hundreds that have been added to the game since Cata. Almost all are Jeremy's work.

[Kalhoun]

Yay, I collect red pets.

[Castile]

Oh red is my fav colour mmm i need this piggy

[Lisaara]

Want!!!!

[zedxrgal]

Totally digging that.

[Ana]

Finally a Draenor boar for Kahlua lovely color!

[SpiritBinder]

As there has not been a true new "Felboar" my Guess is that this Helboar may be attached to the new BM 4p Tier.

• Beast Mastery
  
  2P Bonus: Arcane Shot and Multi-Shot increase the duration of your Focus Fire by 3 sec.
  4P Bonus: Your Focus Fire effect also summons a Fel Boar to assist you. The Fel Boar lasts for the duration of Focus Fire.

I really hope a tamable version of this piggy makes it into the game, it really is a stunning colour.

[Wain]

Oh! Now that's a good thought. You could well be right!

There's nothing in the spreadsheets of the current patch to indicate the skin is being used yet. Hopefully the next one

[Bendak]

As there has not been a true new "Felboar" my Guess is that this Helboar may be attached to the new BM 4p Tier.

• Beast Mastery
  
  2P Bonus: Arcane Shot and Multi-Shot increase the duration of your Focus Fire by 3 sec.
  4P Bonus: Your Focus Fire effect also summons a Fel Boar to assist you. The Fel Boar lasts for the duration of Focus Fire.

I really hope a tamable version of this piggy makes it into the game, it really is a stunning colour.

Currently the old Outland Felboar is summoned for the 4p bonus. This NPC specifically: http://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=95021/felboar

Perhaps a green version of a Draenor boar is still to come.

BTW, the T18 gear is supposed to be available for testing in the next build (hopefully tomorrow)

[SpiritBinder]

Hmmm, I wonder if that's just an over site... I've yet to see them use one of those BC boar models yet in WoD.

But then Alliance STILL have the BC model Talbuks mounts as the zones special in Nagrand, so who knows

But as always, time will tell.

[Wain]

Currently the old Outland Felboar is summoned for the 4p bonus. This NPC specifically: http://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=95021/felboar
Perhaps a green version of a Draenor boar is still to come.

Cool, thanks for that info! I had that felboar on a list of unfound NPCs, but that explains it. It does seem very likely that it's a placeholder for a new boar. While they still do place old models in Draenor it seems extremely unlikely they'd use an old one for a fancy new armour proc. I guess we wait and see if it's the red boar or if there's a new fel one. I'm hanging out for the next build!

Off topic, but the fel thing reminded me... shouldn't all the orcs in this zone have green skin by now??

[Boven]

Regarding green Orcs, I thought it took long term exposure to fel energy/warlock'ish type stuff for them to turn green. I don't think it's just a result of drinking demon blood.

[Wain]

I can't seem to get onto the PTR yet, but if the database is anything to go by then the red skin is still not in use, and there are no more new colours.

[Dodongo79]

blizz should make more of the unused skins too

Not just for the boars. There's quite a few unused skins for many of the animals that are just spectacular. Wolf, Cat, Boar, Birds... you name it.

There are still some but perhaps not as many as you might think. Jeremy 'Muffinus' Feasel has a long history of getting missing skins into the game, going back to the Cata beta.

Here's what is still unavailable, except for maybe a few recent things:
http://forums.wow-petopia.com/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=4290

If you scroll down a few posts you'll see a list of the literally hundreds that have been added to the game since Cata. Almost all are Jeremy's work.

Oh, no doubt! I know there have been several that have been added over the years. I'd LOVE to see these added to the "tameable" category:
http://www.wow-petopia.com/look/spectra ... ctral.html
http://www.wow-petopia.com/look/spectra ... urple.html
http://www.wow-petopia.com/look/ironhordewolfbody.html
http://www.wow-petopia.com/look/wolfdraenorfire.html
http://www.wow-petopia.com/look/bearskinspectral.html
http://www.wow-petopia.com/look/tigerge ... thyst.html
http://www.wow-petopia.com/look/draenor ... ungod.html

I'd also LOVE to see more Horse mounts available to the Horde. There's just not enough of them and it's not worth switching to Ally just for a mount, IMO.