The War Within Beta - Beasts Thread

[Wain]

Xishorr is a rare spider in Pillar-nest Xesh in Azj-Kahet with a unique look. She has a shadow aura that is retained after taming, plus she keeps her name!

(Regular black spider on the left, for comparison)

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[WerebearGuy]

The edgiest spider! Good to see some aura tames. We really need more of those.

[Wain]

I've finished my first pass on all four zones! I need to check out delves some more (though very few things in them are tameable) and dungeons tonight and then I'm done with the bulk of the Petopia dataset. At least until more changes come in. I'll aim to get everything up by tomorrow.

[worgpower]

Xishorr is a rare spider in Pillar-nest Xesh in Azj-Kahet with a unique look. She has a shadow aura that is retained after taming, plus she keeps her name!

(Regular black spider on the left, for comparison)


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This Expansion so far has the best spiders. Both the undercrawlers and the Threadlings. They are both different than most spiders we were given. Undercrawlers look menacing with their claw like mandibles, and threadlings are somewhat adorable with their six legs. Xishorr looks amazing as well. I’m going to run a lot with a threadling in the beginning of the expansion

[Wain]

Ok, pet data is up.

The TWW looks page is still pretty rough, but it'll show you whether looks are available or not:

https://www.wow-petopia.com/tww.php


I've been up all night getting this done, so I'll spend more time on the page after sleep (and decide on which untameable looks are most important and should be recommended to be added before release). Luckily I don't have to work today. Anyway, I'm off to bed now!

[Kööna]

Am I the only one that's concerned with the lack of new-looking beasts in the current Beta?

Stagshells - Beetles - 14 colour/model variations
Swarmites - Blood Beasts - 16 colour/model variations
Lynxes - Cats - 2 colour/model variation
Ramoliths - Gruffhorns - 53 colour/model variations
Skippers - Toads - 5 colour variations
Candleflies - Moths - 6 colour variations
Moles - Rodents - 19 colour/model variations
Undercrawlers - Spiders - 5 colour variations
Threadlings - Spiders - 5 colour variations
Shalehorns - Stags - 5 colour variations
Cinderbees - Wasps - 6 colour variations
Jawcrawlers - Worms - 14 colour/model variations
Sea Slugs - Worms - 2 colour variations (I highly doubt they will make it to Live)
Rock Snails - Carapids - 1 NEW colour variation
Hermit Crabs - Crabs - 1 NEW colour variation
Spiked Crab - Crabs - 1 NEW colour variation
Dustmoths - Moths - 4 NEW colour variations

I did not include the Underlight Queen, and Karokta. I also did not include the beasts that will not make it to Live like the nightmare, and hatchlings.
159 new looks which 33% of them are VARIATIONS of the same sheep. Most of the beasts in the zones are also recycled from Nazjatar and Dragonflight. They're using the same colours, and all.

[worgpower]

I have to say the same, I expected more coming from war within Hunter pets, everything feels missing and incomplete. From missing older looks to more new color variations for more new models. War within was the best opportunity to add in the dark peafowl and the azure eel serpent as a new color, but nope. There was also a missed opportunity to give us tameable deep flayers considering how widespread they are in the ringing deeps. The fact they are still untameable makes me disappointed whenever I see them. As for the amount of beast variations, blizzard has taken it way too far. The amount of horn variations on ramoliths and the amount of different parts on the somnowls say a lot. It was fine during expansions like shadowlands, and legion which only had a few variations like Argus talbuks and vombata crest shapes. All the 1000 variations started on dragonflight, where we got only a few mobs during each patch with 10000 different variants. I used to have fun nitpicking a certain look for a pet, now it’s a slightly tedious treasure hunt. Heck I even found a missing watchful somnowl look a few months back, I’m very happy to have it in my stable, but still. In my honest opinion, they should take the amount of variations down a notch. It should be more old school like I said above with Argus talbuks, rather than the unnecessary randomness of the new mobs like moles for example. I wish that there would be more feedback on hunter pets, nowadays hunter pet feedback gets neglected, but still gets feedback for the core class itself. The new Hunter spec changes are amazing, still crossing fingers for more lynx variants to be added to the feral sharpclaws

[Kööna]

I 100% agree with you, Worgpower.
There are so many things they could've added. I don't think I would be annoyed at the lack of new family if they would've made previously untameable beast tameable. Old snails, old beavers, old dragonkins, etc. I think it'll be the first time I'm not excited to tame "new" pets. Imagine coming up with a new beautiful lynx model, and only giving us 2 tameable options.

[worgpower]

In very excited to run around with the spiders, they are the best new models made, another level of excitement will be achieved if I can tame storm wolves on survival, there’s a small chance they will be, but we’ll see

[Wain]

I should add that there are more pet and look additions happening and they should show up soon. Tidying up pet stuff is usually something that happens late in beta testing, while what we see earlier is partially due to chance / area designer whim without much concern for hunter pets. I don't know how many more looks we'll see yet, but there will be some (and the peacock and serpent were among recommendations I made and I hope we'll see them).

The sheer number of ramoliths was due to one event: I got talking with a creator from another WoW fan and info site and he has a contact in the team for Dorn. He showed them my ram data and they were keen to add more rams, which they did just recently. And they did such an amazing job that it really blew out the number of ram variations in one week! I've been trying to convince someone to make the floral sheep tameable, but haven't had any luck, yet. I'm still trying

[worgpower]

Despite expressing a rant on the amount of looks, I gotta show my wanted ramoliths
Gotta tame this one which looks so cursed, it’s literally Zovaal

There’s Something about this one I love, the grass color compliments the copper color very nicely

[Tsukina]

Oh god... now he's reincarnated into a goat? I see it... ShadowOfGoatLands

[WerebearGuy]

I still stand by my statement that hornless ramoliths are absolutely cursed. Goatvaal is just proof of that.

[Talihawk]

I do like the rams. I'll definitely be picking up some. I just really hope they change their minds about the gryphons and they allow the other colors of the lynx to become tamleable too.

[Boven]

Wow, that's a lot of rams. I'll likely tame a hornless one and one of the overcompensating-for-something...er.. I mean, extra curly types.

I really want to like the lynx, but...something just looks off about it to me

I definitely will be taming a pair of mudskippers. I love those lil guys and they're so adorably derpy in the beta.

[Wain]

Two of the new cinderbee looks I can tame now I'm 80.

The pale one is Tephratennae, a rare. Unfortunately she doesn't retain her name but hopefully they'll fix that. The dark red & yellow one is the Cinderbee Knight. I can only ever find one of those up at once but it's not flagged as a rare.

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[Wain]

I thought these cute threadling looks (with small mouthparts) weren't available, but I just found them in a TWW campaign quest in Azj-Kahet.

It's a one-off quest instance, so you may not be able to obtain them once you complete that quest (but maybe party sync will work - I'm unsure).

I had to abandon and restart the quest a bunch of times before I could get all three colours, because Anduin and Alleria mow them down really quickly if you don't draw one off as soon as it spawns. Fortunately, they spawn in the very first wave so it's very easy to do that.

But hopefully the looks will be added to somewhere more easily obtainable!

(There's a fourth colour with small mouthparts - lavender blue/purple, but it's already available from an easier source).

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[moonone]

cant post pics - but the docile cloudrooks in Dorn by the rare storm rook are tamable - not sure if thats new to todays build - didnt notice them before - kinda ne on a small island

[worgpower]

cant post pics - but the docile cloudrooks in Dorn by the rare storm rook are tamable - not sure if thats new to todays build - didnt notice them before - kinda ne on a small island

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Yes indeed, this gryphon is tameable, just one color, they are located on the island on the left of the crash site, what a magnificent gryphon, I also hear Talihawk celebrating in the distance

[worgpower]

New lynx color found, uses the dark color, theyre called escaped lynx, right where shalehorns are after entrance

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