Midnight Alpha/Beta Thread

[WerebearGuy]

There are wild hawkstriders in Eversong Woods. The guy I'm watching a video from, wowcrendor, doesn't hover over most things and is playing at night, so a good screenshot isn't really an option. Still, there's hope for new tallstriders there!
Plant hydras make a return, but once again, they're Elemental. There's also new hermit crabs, though I don't know if they're new combos or not. One was black with a clean shell, I think. Again, crap video quality and no attention to the details.

God can Wowhead just do a model dump already...


EDIT:
The weird plant birds are called "Petalwing". There are black varieties of the Eversong cats. Nice new purple mana wyrm (this thing's massive in the wild) too.

EDIT 2:
Black dragonhawk and a new toad skin, both looking snazzy (or as snazzy as a crap youtube video will allow).

EDIT 3:
Another new toad skin, and a bird I don't think we've seen before.

EDIT 4:
Another bird, possibly different from the perched ones?

[WerebearGuy]

This one deserves its own post. Elemental taming all but confirmed. We've seen these plant raptors as hunter pets already, so we know they are confirmed as pets.

EDIT: These plant raptors overall are called "Saptor". I love whoever decided that.

[Valnaaros]

Beast Mastery will be losing Multi-Shot. A new ability focused on Beast Cleave will be used instead.

[Ana]

Beast Mastery will be losing Multi-Shot. A new ability focused on Beast Cleave will be used instead.

Siiiiigh first barrage, now multi shot. Beast Cleave prob would not be that great for farming...

[WerebearGuy]

If only we had people on the alpha who were NOT mindless parrots who only have praise and zero criticism... Who knows, beast cleave COULD be multi shot, sort of lol.

[WerebearGuy]

A few more screens from a vide- LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT BOY. Plant devilsaur, or "Tyrannosaptor", is just out and about as a normal elite mob in Eversong Woods. No worries about it being limited as a raid boss like the promo made it seem. Also, a new worm or serpent is in the same area, but of course, the youtubers just don't take their time and look at everything. Chances are this is another worm, because screw non-BM hunters am I right? lol

[Valnaaros]

A slightly better view of the new beast that uses the Crawg rigging that could only briefly be seen distantly through fog during the Gamescon footage

[worgpower]

I know this is a beast thread, but I have great news for Survival hunters. First of all here’s the elephant in the room, we will finally be able to dual wield 1h swords, axes, and daggers(bummed out I won’t use maces, I guess no fish slapping or flail hunter). And they got basically a full on rework. The rexxar fantasy is finally coming. I’m laughing at the fact that hunters will be able to use daggers since it’s a rogue thing to slash with daggers. All the pets are real exciting, I saw the deep dive and we got at least 3 new cat models, I saw a fluffier lynx somewhere too, unless that one is a baby. I think midnight is going to be peak fun for me when I could finally play it

[Valnaaros]

There is a lynx/cat at 7:37 that uses what could be an Amani/Tribal lynx variant. Since it is dancing, it could be a Druid in cat form, but at this point we don't know if the Amani have Druids, but we do know that they have lynx as hunting companions


Another view of the new capybara


A very brief view of a new bird of prey. It can be seen earlier in the deep dive, but it is even further away.

[Vephriel]

LeystTV has some mount previews and I think this will be the Bird of Prey model (without the adornments)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVEv-88V3ko

[Valnaaros]

Yes, I think that you're right, Veph.

[Valnaaros]

It looks like cocker spaniels are added in

[worgpower]

Not new models, but I spotted a few new colors watching Wowcrendor’s Quelthalas video, a new dreamrunner recolor, which looks to be pink, I saw more but couldn’t find any good shots, and a good shot of a new dire toad color, this one looks to have a dark olive color with striking eyes

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[WerebearGuy]

I wouldn't call those pink. The lighting might be hitting them in a way that makes them pink. It could be a new color, though it might just be this brown and white skin for dreamrunners. Of course, his video quality and lack of inspecting any beasts up close aside from the tyrannosaptor didn't help lol.

[Baihu]

My mind is blanking right now, did we always have ‘Pet trainers’ or is this new? They’re not for battle pets, they’re next to a Devilsaur, and the Hunter trainer is in the back to the right. Are they just oddly named Stablemasters?

[Jangalian]

My mind is blanking right now, did we always have ‘Pet trainers’ or is this new? They’re not for battle pets, they’re next to a Devilsaur, and the Hunter trainer is in the back to the right. Are they just oddly named Stablemasters?

Those are a really really old relic from when we had to train our pets individual spells back in vanilla. Thank god that's not a thing anymore!

[Valnaaros]

It looks like the Pandaren heritage armor will finally be added in.

[Valnaaros]

A really nice view of the Pangolin, as well as a (potentially) fiery Dragonhawk.



In a video by someone that got into the Alpha, I saw a green hawkstrider out in the wild. So far the red and the green variants have been seen.

There are Dragonhawks that use the Light-infused variant, so possibly there might be one for us to tame.

[Valnaaros]

These might very well not be used by any normal beast and are just meant for Haranir Druids, but it could hint at new beasts, such as a more normal looking axolotl

[Valnaaros]

Based-off of datamined info, there is a new family "Exotic - Whiptail". I'm guessing that these are the two-tailed cat creatures that are in the Void and that they'll be Exotic.

The large, muscular beasts seen in the Voidstorm are called Berzerkers.

The scalehide plant beasts are called Grove Crawlers.

Lynx from Eversong have a black, red, blonde, and dusky blonde variant.

The plant people are called Rutaani, and it seems that some of the animals (like the plant bird) are created by them.

New snails that are primarily composed of plants, with eyestalks that are flowers.

There are seven Dragonhawk variants.

Four Sporebat variants.

All of the normal Hawkstrider variants have been updated: white, black, blue, green, red, and purple.

BE Paladins will be getting an updated mount.

There is a Void-corrupted Mana Wyrm variant.