Soriid + Haarka - Potentially Changing Silithids

[Kalliope]

Boooo, now I have to change my sig to a normal silithid. Maque's a keeper, regardless; he matches too well.

Ah well, now we have a specific request for Blizzard when we ask for new skins.

[Irie]

I have Soriid, Haarka and Zavas on this toon. Lapress on my 83.

Could just be disabled until they have time to sort out the new models tamed size.

[Vephriel]

Well, look on the bright side guys. It's been fun while it lasted with all the speculation and discoveries. There's some great screenies and videos that will never be gone, and you never know...as Kalli said, perhaps Blizzard will consider them for a future addition due to their popularity.

Well, going to go let go of the Soriid I have now and grab another friend.

[Irie]

Unggoy

Try deleting everything in your cache folder in World of Warcraft Beta/Data/Cache. Fixes most errors people are currently having.

[Twila]

*sob* No more cool bug?!

[Slickrock]

*sniffle* Ah, it was too much to hope for wasn't it.

Still....*mourns awesome giant purple beetle she would have had*

yep.. sigh..

[Slickrock]

Might keep Haarka on Slickrock for a while, and possibly go back and get an armoured boar or my fav cat. On Naak, back to hunting Loq' (still have the rare tan Silithid, that one's a keeper).

[Twila]

Well... I guess that means I can toss away my blue bug...
so I have a stable slot thats free.

Can wither camp the hellpiggy
or try for oil stained wolf.
Hmm..

[cowmuflage]

ah i knew that was going to happen had that feeling :/

[Twila]

yeah, gona hang around until next beta path... but still.. very sad.

[Slickrock]

If I find Loq', Sorrid is gone. No big rush on Haarka. No rares that I really want at the moment.

[Kalliope]

I'm actually considering still getting Soriid on Kalli. I've seen him so much that I think I'm going to have to tame him, just once...

[Twila]

So, if the bugs are indeed back to normal.

What do you think I should try for? Grunter or the Oil slick wolf?

[Ariamodasu]

Hm if they stay "gone" suppose best inch my way up to 60 for a Devilsaur before the masses come again, even if it does mean temp dropping my favourite Worg.

[Allua]

Oh, that's really sad, even though I released my Haarka last night to tame an oil-covered wolf (I really liked the brain bug model but Haarka was my only pet without the emotional bond, so he had to go). I kind of hoped for more stable slots prior to Cata to retame him.

[Qraljar]

Don't worry. I am sure Blizzard does it solely for rescaling. I mean, I am a hundred percent sure they wanted to give Haarka and Soriid and mayhaps others too, different models. It was their intention, now they can do a few things to the current Haarka/Soriid holders. They can change the model ID of the pets to a normal silithid ( it could be that the beta Haarka/Soriid is still a brainbug model while the pet is a normal silithid, in which case it means game over), they could wholly remove the model, therefore the pets and Haarka and Soriid's new model while they roam around in the wild. Ooooor it could be that it was all their intention and they are taking their good time to rescale the pet to a proper size, I mean -- look at the loading screen size of Soriid and you just should agree. I love big pets, I am on my way for the Sholazar Wasp which is by itself pretty big aswell, but this. Soriid and Haarka are just both way too big. Who knows, soon enough maybe we are in for a whole treat. First thing I would check now if I was you are the models of the wild Haarka and Soriid.

Sorry if I am overly optimistic but I really don't think Blizzard would remove those models, it's obvious it was their intention to give them that model and I feel the other rares are going to go swell up too soon. You don't just accidently give two mobs a model which in Haarka's case even fits with his former color on the SAME kind of pet family, unlike the pet Wolfsnake or something. I'm still gonna wager and say; ''Grunter the Helboar and Soriid and Haarka were intentionally granted that skin'' in which case Grunter is already confirmed.

THERE. That's it

EDIT: What's funny is that WoWhead now DOES list Soriid as a brainbug. Whilst last build it did not O_O

http://cata.wowhead.com/npc=8204#.

[Vephriel]

It was definitely intentional that the two rares received the new models in Cataclysm, however those rares were then flagged as untameable. It was not intentional that people would find a way to transform their current pets into those by transferring to the beta.

[Qraljar]

It was definitely intentional that the two rares received the new models in Cataclysm, however those rares were then flagged as untameable. It was not intentional that people would find a way to transform their current pets into those by transferring to the beta.

Who knows, maybe they are still supposed to be tamable, just the resizing wasn't done. Can't blame Blizzard tbh. There is just not much else to protest, no lore reasons for it to not be tamable. As said, I am very optimistic about it and not doom and gloomy at all so I still have my bets on next build(s) for it to return. Just you wait and see! Pessimists! My prediction shall prevail!!!!

[zedxrgal]

Pessimist reporting for duty. I seriously don't think Blizz is doing this one by accident. To much lines up.
No one has it, someone gets it, hunters go crazy over it, videos are made about it, talked about on forums, several tamings then copy over to beta, latest patch ................ GONE. Hhhhmmm let me think. May be a pessimistic view but I don't think it's a rescaling of size.
The system was cheated in sense and Blizz never takes to kindly of that. So problem solved and they're back to 'normal'.

I went and tamed them both to in the hopes that it would stick. But alas it's clear that's not going to happen.

This is going to sound harsh (but it's really not meant that way) this is why this should have been kept as quiet as possible. Not secret per say but surely not have received the press it got and the removal is why.
Again, not trying to sound harsh or point fingers. <-- smile to show not meant harshly

I really hope it's a scaling issue as said. But I doubt it.

[Slickrock]

Well, I might keep Haarka around just because I don't have an urge to go out and tame anything else. The black armoured boar and red lnyx will be around in Cata, so, no rush. But, as I said, if I find Loq', then Sorrid is gone.

But it wouldn't really surprise me if come Cata those of us that held onto Sorrid or Haarka suddenly have properly scaled brain bug pets.

Who knows...

Anyone seen Loq'?...