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cowmuflage wrote:You know what? Screw Shoveltusks as pets I want a mount! >:(

Yeah idk, I always found their face eerily creepy, it's almost 2 humanoid for me with that long flat face and them beady eyes

Okay I get it now! Shoveltusks are just Druids who really suck at turning into Stag form

cowmuflage wrote:Okay I get it now! Shoveltusks are just Druids who really suck at turning into Stag form

Druids of the Shovel!

Yeahhh that's the same vibe I get from their faces too, always weird me out a little.

So let's have a beauty contest between pets. Chimaeron vs Shoveltusks. The hydra abomination vs the Night Elf Druid that failed to transform into a stag.

PorrasouxRex wrote:So let's have a beauty contest between pets. Chimaeron vs Shoveltusks. The hydra abomination vs the Night Elf Druid that failed to transform into a stag.

Mm Chimaeron. He's way cuter than...whatever the night elf did to his body. I didn't think night elves being contortionists was a thing probably why I won't be taming one. They scare me. If I've got to go the long way around to get past a herd of them, so be it. Plus, unless I've missed something, we know for certain that Chimaeron is tameable, at least for now so....
Chimaeron:Shoveltusk
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SpiritBinder wrote:

cowmuflage wrote:You know what? Screw Shoveltusks as pets I want a mount! >:(

Yeah idk, I always found their face eerily creepy, it's almost 2 humanoid for me with that long flat face and them beady eyes

^ thiiissss. I thought they were kind of cool until I was running my alt through some quests where I had to deal with them. i got a good close look at their faces for the first time... and left the zone soon after. I can only hope that this guys brothers were not able to track my movements in hopes of revenge after I went into hiding. Too creepy for me!

I dunno, I kinda like their creepy faces, in a sort of Brian Froudian way.

Wain wrote:I dunno, I kinda like their creepy faces, in a sort of Brian Froudian way.

Yeah, I like their faces too. Not every beast has to be beautiful.

SpiritBinder wrote:

cowmuflage wrote:You know what? Screw Shoveltusks as pets I want a mount! >:(

Yeah idk, I always found their face eerily creepy, it's almost 2 humanoid for me with that long flat face and them beady eyes

And that's exactly what I love about them the most Just imagine sicking a stampede of such creepy faces at someone...

Someone should edit that and make it say "Does this look like the face of mercy?"

Wain wrote:Just to follow up on the Shoveltusk thing...

I did find that Wowpedia has kept a copy of the official WotLK bestiary, which I think no longer exists on the Blizzard site.
http://wowpedia.org/The_Wrath_of_the_Li ... Shoveltusk

Their description reads:

The powerful and ferocious shoveltusk are easily identified by the massive curved antler which protrudes from their heads and the twin sloping tusks that extend from their jaw. The moose-like beasts use their tusks primarily to dig for food, whereas the antler makes for a fearsome ramming weapon in contests to establish dominance over other males.
The shoveltusk are territorial and will protect their feeding grounds with deadly force. Adventurers traveling in Northrend would be wise to avoid these cantankerous and unpredictable beasts.

While shoveltusks are clearly not meant to represent real-world beasts it does give some insight into what the creators were thinking regarding them.

There's also the original concept art here:

Yeah, I mean.. I like the faces in an "old man" way, but that in turn makes them less beastlike, and too humanoidish. It gives sort of a "human face on animal" type feeling. So I probably would've liked it if they went with the head on the concept art. It would have been a really cool beast then.

SpiritBinder wrote:
I thought I see if I could find a bigger pic of the shoveltusk concept art, but no luck. But I did stumble across the concept art so someone else that I don't recall seeing before.



I was all "Hmmmm I've seen you some where before... Now where was it...."

Hmhhhh...

The shoveltusk's bizarre WTF AM I vibe is half the reason I love them haha. That and that wild bizarre antler/tusk combo. Its neat Blizz thought them moose-like. Wow needs more meese.

I love the kind of squeaky door, almost piggy noises they make too. They're just very off-beat.

Shoveltusks would be awesome lol But I wonder if Zhevras and horses made it in to this category? Probably not, but there are wild horses in Grizzly Hills.

The shoveltusks do have a "long face", but it really doesn't look humanoid to me. It almost reminds me of a bison.
I've been wanting to tame one since I first saw one at level 70... there's no good reason not to let us tame them along with all the new mammals that have been added!

Equeon wrote:The shoveltusks do have a "long face", but it really doesn't look humanoid to me. It almost reminds me of a bison.
I've been wanting to tame one since I first saw one at level 70... there's no good reason not to let us tame them along with all the new mammals that have been added!

Oh, I'm not against them being tameable. Just that I personally would probably not get one. Or I would.. their "grumpy old man" face does make me chuckle.


"Getoffmahlawn" the level 100 shoveltusk.

OMG SHOVELTUSK AND YAK IN SAME GROUP (OX)? YOU HEAR IT FIRST HERE!!

SpiritBinder wrote:Yeah idk, I always found their face eerily creepy, it's almost 2 humanoid for me with that long flat face and them beady eyes

Yikes, never noticed that before! (Then again how often am I standing in front of one to notice?)

pop wrote:OMG SHOVELTUSK AND YAK IN SAME GROUP (OX)? YOU HEAR IT FIRST HERE!!

Really?!