Skins from untameable families

[Wain]

I've been wondering a lot about snakes as an untameable. We have serpents, but the new pandaren Death Adders and Imperial Python are gorgeous models and are summoned a lot in the Dire Beast, but sadly...aren't tameable. Their size and fight animations as a dire beast look wonderful to me xD.

A lot of people would like to see them! I've actually got them listed on the second third post of the Pet skins that are still untameable thread, since they'd belong to an existing family but use a new model.

[pop]

Wain, have you added the RAF Hippogryf model?

[Wain]

Wain, have you added the RAF Hippogryf model?

Since there's sadly only the one skin with no possible "saddle-less" version I didn't bother for now.

[Qraljar]

Wain, have you added the RAF Hippogryf model?

Since there's sadly only the one skin with no possible "saddle-less" version I didn't bother for now.

Would something like that be okay?

[Wain]

Well, just ripped out Clefthooves, Stags, Talbuks and Gazelles. Yay!

If any colours turn out to be unavailable I can add them to the untameable skins thread instead.

Removed:


Clefthooves
Outland Clefthooves
Available:
CleftHooveBlack: Aged Clefthoof
CleftHooveBladeEdge: Banthar
CleftHooveBrown: Clefthoof
CleftHooveLightbrown: Clefthoof Bull
CleftHooveRed: Brokentoe
CleftHooveTerokkar: Decrepit Clefthoof
Draenor Clefthooves
ClefthoofDraenor_Blue
ClefthoofDraenor_Dark
ClefthoofDraenor_Gray
ClefthoofDraenor_Pale
ClefthoofDraenor_Red

Talbuks
Available:
TalbukSkin : Bach'lor
TalbukSkinBlack : Talbuk Sire
TalbukSkinBrown : Talbuk Thorngrazer
TalbukSkinSilver : Talbuk Stag
TalbukSkinWhite : Talbuk Doe in 4.1, formerly brown
TalbukDraenor_Black
TalbukDraenor_Brown
TalbukDraenor_Purple
TalbukDraenor_Red
TalbukDraenor_White

Gazelles
Available:
GazelleSkinBlack : Rikkilea Strider
GazelleSkinDiseased : Felrot Courser
GazelleSkinOrange : Rikkilea Strider, Sunchaser Gazelle
GazelleSkinStriped : Rikkilea Strider, Longstrider Gazelle

Stags
Available:
WapitiSkinArctic : Moongraze Stag etc.
WapitiSkinBrown : Darkshore Stag etc.
WapitiSkinGreen : Shadowhorn Stag etc.
ReinDeer: Marsh Caribou, etc.
Pandaren Stags
Unavailable:
PandarenStagPurple
Available:
PandarenStagBrown
PandarenStagGreen
PandarenStagGrey
PandarenStagOrange
PandarenStagWhite

[SylviaDragon]

I found a Kunchong that is not labeled here. during a quest in townlong steppes you are shooting matid with a rocket as they fly across a canyon. you shoot down an orange Kunchong named Voress'thalik and are given a quest called "Devastation Below" where you are told to finish him off.
while fighting him i noticed that he has a damaged look not listed here. this is the best screenshot i could get. the panda that comes with you tends to kite him face first into a wall and then get stuck there. >.<



he has deep cuts on his belly, arm, leg and above his head... and half his face is gone.

[Wain]

Oh cool. Thanks I wonder if there's one in each colour. I'll have to get pics

[SylviaDragon]

I had my suspicions about there being a blue one. I never finished the quest line in 4 winds but i remember someone saying a giant Kunchong busts through the wall and is later killed. did some quick research and found out that it uses the damaged model after you fight it but it dies right away. so it could never be tamed but there is in fact a blue version out there. That is the last one i can think of though.

[Xota]

There's a new ram model, for the pvp mount. It's armored, but maybe blizz can strip that out like the pvp raptor's armor. Also, what about a nerubian family? There's two types that are beast-like, the Nerubian spiderling and the Nerubian flyer. If not as their own family, then they could potentially fit in silithid, spiders, and/or beetles.

[biscitandchina]

Well I would tame a white hippogryph or gryphon in a heartbeat I also love those windsteeds.

[Wain]

The following have been removed.

Since they're coming in Legion! (yay!)

If any individual skins end up being unavailable I'll add them to the missing skins from tameable families list.


Mana Wyrms
ManaWurmSkinBlack : Nether Beast etc.
ManaWurmSkinGreen : Mana Serpent
ManaWurmSkinPurple : Phase Wyrm
ManaWurmSkinSilver1 : Mana Shifter etc.
ManaWurmSkinWhite: Mana Snapper & Mana Feeder

Stegodons
ThunderBeastSkinBlack : Spiked Stegodon etc.
ThunderBeastSkinBlue : Rejuvenated Thunder Lizard etc.
ThunderBeastSkinGreen : Thunderhead etc.
ThunderBeastSkinGreyGreen : Thunderstomp (Rare)
ThunderBeastSkinLightBrown : Plated Stegodon etc.
ThunderBeastSkinRed : Stormsnout etc.

Mushan
MushanBeast
MushanBeast_Black
MushanBeast_Blue
MushanBeast_Brown
MushanBeast_White

Kodos
KotoBeastSkinBrown : Kodo Matriarch, etc.
KotoBeastSkinGray : Aged Kodo, etc.
KotoBeastWoolySkin : Recovering Kodo, etc.

Sandreavers
SandreaverSkin_Blue2: Sarinexx
SandreaverSkin_Orange2: Kurinnaxx
SandreaverSkin_Yellow2: Fankriss the Unyielding
SandreaverSkin_Blue: blue unmarked version
SandreaverSkin_Orange: orange unmarked version
SandreaverSkin_Yellow: yellow unmarked version
SandreaverSkin1: pink unmarked version

Shoveltusks
ShovelTuskBlack : Shoveltusk Stag & Wild Shoveltusk
ShovelTuskBrown : Shoveltusk Forager
ShovelTuskPale : Island Shoveltusk etc.
ShovelTuskRed : Longhoof Grazer

Yaks
YakBlack
YakBrown
YakGrey
YakWhite
YakYellow

[Wain]

I updated this a bit today and removed the Feathermanes and added scythehorns.

[Quiv]

Thanks for updating, great list except for the flagrantly offensive omission of beavers. :O

Seeing those scythehorns, there are some amazing color combinations that haven't been used yet. I especially love the dark with purple and the brown with blue. I really hope they consider a future family for those.

And honestly we don't have many left. It would be relatively easy to account for most of these either as a new or move into existing.

New challenge family, Elemental: Elemental birds, gyreworms, hell hounds
Undead: Bone carrion bird, skeletal raptop/windserpent, ghost pets etc
Leatherwings: Pterodactyls / Skyscreamers / Pterrordaxes
Hornsteed/Hoofsteed/Somethingsteed: Dreamrunners / Scythehorns / Zhevras / "Unicorns", Horses, Windsteed
Tuskface: Elekk and Mammoths, move shoveltusk to it
Cloud Serpents: Not touching that one with a 10 foot pole

And they could easily finagle some of these into existing families or make branches.
Crocolisks: Diemetradons / Incendosaurs
Riverbeast: Frogs/Beavers (similar to the clefthoof/rhino relationship)
Goat: Rams
Silithid: Kunchong

With the exception of ones like camel or cloud serpents, I could see these being perfectly viable.

[Wain]

The more I think about it the more convinced I am that rams and goats belong in a broader stag/buck group of hooved mammals that butt with horns or antlers. Their mode of combat is pretty much the same across all creatures, and the entire group is actually related in the real world (ignoring fictional beasts ike talbuks and shoveltusks) - in fact antelopes are more closely related to goats and rams than deer, and they're already grouped in Stags. What to call the wider group, I'm unsure. Maybe Bucks.

[Inay]

Thunderhoof? (For like, the sound when they're galloping) Hoofbeasts? Ungulate?

[Quiv]

The fact they could be grouped/named a multitude of things is what I find so exciting about them. Outside of a technical issues that we aren't aware of at the moment (such as a broken animation for example), that makes them great candidates for creative families.

[Wain]

Removed the following because they're being added as new families, or added to existing families, in BfA. Any looks or models that are still untameable can be handled as missing skins for the family:


Pterrordaxes
Unavailable:
None. All accounted for!
Available:
PterrordaxSkinBrown : Pterrordax in 4.1 (formerly grey)
PterrordaxSkinGray : Fledgling Pterrordax
PterrordaxSkinGreen : Frenzied Pterrordax
Thunder Pterodactyls
Added in 5.2
Unavailable:
ThunderPterodactyl_Purple (original) (removed from the database during the 5.2 PTR)
Available:
ThunderPterodactyl_Blue
ThunderPterodactyl_Green
ThunderPterodactyl_Purple
ThunderPterodactyl_Red
ThunderPterodactyl_Yellow

Diemetradons / Incendosaurs
Sail-finned, fire-breathing crocolisks. What's not to love?
Unavailable:
None. All accounted for!
Available:
DiemetradonSkinBlue : Subterranean Diemetradon. Used to be a colour-changer but now only spawns blue
DiemetradonSkinGreen : Felfire Diemetradon
DiemetradonSkinRed : Incendosaur
DiemetradonSkinYellow : Elder Diemetradon etc.


Dreamrunners / Scythehorns / Zhevras / "Unicorns"
They have a nasty horn and look like they'd be good attack beasts...
Scythehorn "horse2" model
Unavailable:
These skins were originally developed for the mount version but were copied to the wild model folder:
Horse2MountBaseBlack
Horse2MountBaseDark
Horse2MountBaseGreen
Horse2MountBaseLight
Horse2MountBasePurple
Horse2MountBaseYellow
Available:
Horse2_Brown
Horse2_Dark
Horse2_Green
Horse2_White

Original model
Unavailable:
UnicornSkinEvil : Not used in game. Would make a good corrupted or Twilight beast
UnicornSkinIvory : A real unicorn! Currently only used on the Quel'dorei Steed, suggesting a link to high elves in EK. But would also would look great in Moonglade, or in the forested terraces on the northern edge of Feralas, or in the hidden mountain area of Tirisfal with the faerie dragons
Available:
UnicornSkinBrownZebra : Zhevra Runner etc.
UnicornSkinPurpleZebra : Swiftmane (Rare)
UnicornSkinZebra : Elder Zhevra


Frogs and Toads
This might seem silly to some, but giant frogs of the new model may appear as dire beasts on the Timeless Isle
Unavailable:
ToadBrown
ToadGreen : used for Swamp Croaker wild battle pet, but no beasts
Available:
ToadBlack : Bufo
ToadBlue : Gulp Frog