Patch 11.2.0

[WerebearGuy]

Very unlikely. Most store mounts and pets are one-offs (and in some cases, far too many-offs like those ugly plush pandas), and aren't indicative of incoming new NPCs. Winged crocs would be neat, but no way would the notfelbat croc be a pet. I would love new crocs, and winged crocodiles would be nice, but these are almost certainly just one-offs.

Still upset that they didn't give me the retail pet with the six month sub. I don't want a worthless classic pet when I don't even play that garbage.

[worgpower]

As for store mounts that became hunter pets, only these things pulled off

We got the armored bloodwing during MoP and it became a hunter pet in WoD

We got the grinning reaver during MoP and it became a hunter pet in WoD

We got the Winged Guardian during Cata, it became a pet in shadowlands, not exactly the same, but larions are based off winged guardians

We got the iron skyreaver during late MoP, it became a pet during WoD, literally there’s a few looks just like it.

We got the imperial quilen as a MoP collector’s edition, now a store mount, became tameable in MoP, but got similar ones during BFA

We got the dread raven as a WoD collector’s edition, now a store mount, became tameable in BFA

We got the Mystic Runesaber during WoD, became tameable during legion

We got the luminous starseeker during legion, became tameable at the exact same time

We got the vulpine familiar during BFA, became tameable during shadowlands

We got the Sylverian Dreamer during BFA, unexpectedly became tameable during Dragonflight

We got the Swift Windsteed during MoP, almost became tameable during shadowlands, but got replaced and reclassified rather quickly

We got the Nether-Gorged Mana Wyrm during Shadowlands, became tameable in Dragonflight

We got the Viridian Phase-Hunter during shadowlands, now it’s about to become tameable during this coming patch

These are cases of creatures that do and ended up fitting into the game, many mounts we get nowadays, holiday themes and themes that don’t really make too much sense in the world don’t get added to the world. I’ll be surprised if anything will get added, I’m waiting for a owl that resembles the charming courier, the hybridization just looks too good not to be added soon enough

[Wain]

It’s hard to know with mounts, now.

It used to be common for unusual mount art to turn out to be related to art from the next expansion.

But now we seem to be getting a lot of creative projects from art team members that are simply that and not linked to game content. I.e., many of the trading post mounts.

So who knows which the croc is

[Valnaaros]

It’s hard to know with mounts, now.

It used to be common for unusual mount art to turn out to be related to art from the next expansion.

But now we seem to be getting a lot of creative projects from art team members that are simply that and not linked to game content. I.e., many of the trading post mounts.

So who knows which the croc is

Agreed. Mounts used to be a hint as to what is coming, but Wain is right in that a lot of mounts are now just fun projects. And honestly, I can't see winged crocolisks being added in. If we're going-off of the mount's description, it is from Uldum. The next xpac is centered around Quel'thalas and northern Eastern Kingdoms - possibly the Arathi Empire's land, too. Now, they could just add winged crocolisks that are from someplace else, but I just don't see it happening.

[Talihawk]

I still hope we get some beasts that are like the fire kitten mount. Elemental animals that aren't all just rocks or over simplified proto-creatures. Gimme more flame, ice, void, light, plant friends!

[WerebearGuy]

We probably won't see any fun void-y critters until 12.0, but yeah. We definitely need more IMAGINATION applied to the wild critters we can tame.

[worgpower]

I could see us getting a skill during midnight to tame void hounds, void creepers, devourers, probably any sort of aberration, K’aresh is filled with void creatures, I can see the first patch of midnight be void-y and dimensional, soul eaters I could see also being found somewhere in midnight or becoming tameable since they are very similar to aberrations

[Wain]

Indeed! There are some cool aberration-y beasts that would make great pets for Midnight. Cross fingers!

[WerebearGuy]

So, I can't even open the latest PTR build. Just gets stuck on a load screen, both with an older ptr character and a freshly copied one. Kind of concerning since we're pretty close to release for the patch. It's not a release build (thankfully), but still. I doubt any major pet content is left for us, outside of hopefully getting the remaining bugs fixed, making the rest of the limited razorwings tameable, and doing some slight NPC skin swaps so we don't miss any colors. I mean, I'd LOVE to be wrong, but we're kind of parched on pet stuff for the rest of the expansion it feels.

[Valnaaros]

I checked the ptr yesterday. Nothing has been changed.

[pop]

Are the new hormed cappies wont be tamable or they aren't in the patch at all?

[WerebearGuy]

You mean the demon capybara battle pets? Those were confirmed to be trading post bloat, unfortunately. There was no chance that they'd be tameable NPCs.

https://www.wowhead.com/ptr-2/npc=24666 ... el-snooter
https://www.wowhead.com/ptr-2/npc=24666 ... el-snooter
https://www.wowhead.com/ptr-2/npc=24666 ... el-snooter
https://www.wowhead.com/ptr-2/npc=24666 ... el-snooter