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pop wrote:Guys, Hydra guys is this a bug guys, I'm not sure about this Hydra change...
Azsuna Hydra
??
Beast (Hydra)
Tamable (Exotic)
HYDRA IS RARE GUYS THIS IS HUGE NEWS!

Wain wrote:So... so far it's looking like current tameable families can be applied to not only beasts but also mechanicals, undead, elementals, etc.

For example, a regular stag is class: Beast (Stag), but the new tameable Ironhorn Buck is: Mechanical (Stag); and a new untameable undead bird called Dread Falke is class: Undead (Bird of Prey).

So the fact something isn't a beast may no longer immediately mean it isn't tameable.

This makes me wonder if they intend that we won't have a "mech" family, but instead will distribute mechanicals among existing pet families. So the mechanical axebeak would effectively be an Axebeak. In some ways this would be very cool, I love this kind of categorization. In others it may not make sense that a mechanical version of a beast could have the same powers as the true beast. Could a mecha basilisk petrify someone? Could a robot chimaera breathe frost? Maybe we assume part of the mechanical process is to add electrical functions that simulate the beast's powers.

Anyway, the above is still speculation.

It does also make me wonder if, say, pets in the undead and elemental classes would require special learning devices, similar to what we saw for mechanicals. Maybe an ability to tame undead creatures would come as default for Forsaken hunters, but other races would have to learn it from an object made by Death Knights. That kind of thing. Hopefully we'll know for sure soon.

Wain wrote:

pop wrote:Guys, Hydra guys is this a bug guys, I'm not sure about this Hydra change...
Azsuna Hydra
??
Beast (Hydra)
Tamable (Exotic)
HYDRA IS RARE GUYS THIS IS HUGE NEWS!

Why is that huge news? It's so far a boring old Draenor hydra. Really, they might as well have grafted Draenor onto Azeroth for all the lack of differentiation between them now.

Equeon wrote:I think it's probably just a mistake. It's only one mob, and was probably just flagged incorrectly.

Wain wrote:

As for the Hydra, I see what you mean now I agree it's probably a mistake. I think it's extremely unlikely they'd make a class exotic after it's already been broadly tameable. They wouldn't want to effectively take pets away from players who have been using them for ages.

pop wrote:

Equeon wrote:I think it's probably just a mistake. It's only one mob, and was probably just flagged incorrectly.

I don't know.. I"m actually all for Hydra being exotic. I mean, just look at them, they are not really just a bear or a cat, they are based on a mythological creature, and actually do look like an exotic pet. I just think aesthetically they fit better as an exotic pet.

pop wrote:

Equeon wrote:I think it's probably just a mistake. It's only one mob, and was probably just flagged incorrectly.

I don't know.. I"m actually all for Hydra being exotic. I mean, just look at them, they are not really just a bear or a cat, they are based on a mythological creature, and actually do look like an exotic pet. I just think aesthetically they fit better as an exotic pet.

Ickabob wrote:

pop wrote:

Equeon wrote:I think it's probably just a mistake. It's only one mob, and was probably just flagged incorrectly.

I don't know.. I"m actually all for Hydra being exotic. I mean, just look at them, they are not really just a bear or a cat, they are based on a mythological creature, and actually do look like an exotic pet. I just think aesthetically they fit better as an exotic pet.

I really hope not. They worked fine enough as non exotics, there's no real reason to do this. It's gotta be an error.

Equeon wrote:

pop wrote:

Equeon wrote:I think it's probably just a mistake. It's only one mob, and was probably just flagged incorrectly.

I don't know.. I"m actually all for Hydra being exotic. I mean, just look at them, they are not really just a bear or a cat, they are based on a mythological creature, and actually do look like an exotic pet. I just think aesthetically they fit better as an exotic pet.

The Survival players who were using Hydras since back in Wrath would be pretty upset, then.

pop wrote:

Ickabob wrote: I really hope not. They worked fine enough as non exotics, there's no real reason to do this. It's gotta be an error.

LOL you are using a Hydra as your avatar, yup definitely one of the people that would get annoyed if this change goes live lol

Zalani wrote:

pop wrote:

Ickabob wrote: I really hope not. They worked fine enough as non exotics, there's no real reason to do this. It's gotta be an error.

LOL you are using a Hydra as your avatar, yup definitely one of the people that would get annoyed if this change goes live lol

I didn't know Avatars had an effect on what someone posts.

But in all seriousness and considering this is Alpha it is most likely mislabeled. I would take major changes like this with a grain of salt...not to mention the forum rage that would happen.