Midnight Alpha/Beta Thread

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Valnaaros wrote: Tue Nov 18, 2025 9:03 pm It looks like Blistercreeps are here to stay. More of them have been made tamable, but they are much smaller in size compared to before:
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So happy to see they are staying, they will make an amazing addition to the blood beasts, and it’s different on top of that
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Oh that makes me happy, seeing the blistercreeps be intended. Please dear god let this be an omen for the older ticks to become tameable too...

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Unless I’m mistaken, there are three fluid sac colors. The body can come in four different colors. So the bodies and fluid sacs can be swapped around, so this is 12 possible combos. I believe that there are five of the combos that are currently available.
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Valnaaros wrote: Tue Nov 18, 2025 9:03 pm It looks like Blistercreeps are here to stay. More of them have been made tamable, but they are much smaller in size compared to before:
This is awesome!! I'm usually cautious about 'baby' models becoming hunter pets but these hold up surprisingly well at large size.

I'm also at the stage where I get grumpy when I have to add more Midnight pet looks (desperately need to get on to doing 11.2.7 mounts then Midnight mounts!) but I'm excited to add these :)
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I don't think these are really "baby" models. They're small, sure, but I don't see an "adult" anywhere nearby. I don't think I wanna know what a theoretical "adult" of these things would look like, unless they were armored alien crawgs lol.

EDIT: I said that and had to doodle it. Drawing with a mouse is so bad, but the point is being made lol.
a really badly doodled concept based on my own passing comment. Blizzard, you know what must be done!
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Yeah, I don’t think that they are babies. I think that the ones from BfA are babies of the flying ticks.
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There's a new horse model in the database (I think for 11.2.7, though I'm looking at it in the Midnight database now).

I'm not sure what it's for. It uses the same skins as the BfA horse and the textures are the same resolution.

Its head is angled a bit more upright, and its body is a bit longer. Seems odd to go to so much effort for such a small change, unless it has a specific purpose.


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It's possible that the new horse model was made to match some animation changes? Though if it's just a new model, the new one looks so much better.

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I wonder if all the existing horses will be replaced with the new one.
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Neat. While minor, they fixed the missing Kunchong arms. Our buggy boys have both of their large mantis arms again. Didn't think that'd persist for long lol

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I saw that sheep got a new identical model to the current one but uses ramolith animations. They were made for player housing. I would totally add a normal horse to my stable if their animations change
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Maybe they want to give them the new running animation that the two? newer "horse" mounts have? Which I think would be pretty cool, because it looks really good.
Wain wrote: Tue Nov 18, 2025 11:43 pm There's a new horse model in the database (I think for 11.2.7, though I'm looking at it in the Midnight database now).

I'm not sure what it's for. It uses the same skins as the BfA horse and the textures are the same resolution.

Its head is angled a bit more upright, and its body is a bit longer. Seems odd to go to so much effort for such a small change, unless it has a specific purpose.


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I finally got around to copying a hunter over to beta, as well as creating a new level 10 one. What area contains rares that can drop the new taming book?
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Boven wrote: Wed Nov 19, 2025 9:28 am I finally got around to copying a hunter over to beta, as well as creating a new level 10 one. What area contains rares that can drop the new taming book?
It can be found around harandar. Just go after any rare mob you can find until it drops
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worgpower wrote: Wed Nov 19, 2025 9:41 am
It can be found around harandar. Just go after any rare mob you can find until it drops
Ah, thanks. I hadn't gotten far enough into the quest chain in Eversong to get to Harandar yet. I'm trying to scout out some tames for when the expansion goes live. So far, the only beasts I've not found are capybara.
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Boven wrote: Thu Nov 20, 2025 9:04 am
worgpower wrote: Wed Nov 19, 2025 9:41 am
It can be found around harandar. Just go after any rare mob you can find until it drops
Ah, thanks. I hadn't gotten far enough into the quest chain in Eversong to get to Harandar yet. I'm trying to scout out some tames for when the expansion goes live. So far, the only beasts I've not found are capybara.
Capybaras (tamable ones) are only found in Zul'Aman.
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