I think using spirit beasts to make currently untamable families tamable would be better. 2 cats, 2 wolves, bear, crab... They're all tamable!
What I'd like to see is a spirit zebra! Or a frenzy (fish)! I mean why not? I'm sure some of the different beast classes will never be tamable, but still look awesome, why not make a ethereal skin for them and label it Spirit Beast? I'd be thrilled to have a Spirit Sea Lion
WildcatTM wrote:I'd like to see Spirit Beasts with its related beast's special, in addition to what all Spirit Beasts have. I.e., Ghost Crawler with the Pin ability.
Hmm.. That would be debatable as the cats share the roar of courage with spirit beasts, and imagine if the wolf spirit beasts got both the crit roar and agi one. That would homoginize pets like back in WotLK
No, I don't think that's what he meant. In the case of wolf spirit beasts, they would get Furious Howl (5% crit) instead of Roar of Courage (+x agi&str). I imagine that all Spirit Beasts would still get Spirit Walk and Spirit Mend, though.
This is what I think he was suggesting, mind you - I could easily be very wrong.
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I think the only thing standing in the way is they'd still have ensure a full set of good-looking animations for any beast they choose. Not all of them would already have that. That and the fact that once a family was used for a spirit beast everyone would start nagging endlessly for the rest of the family to be made tameable. Still it'd be great to see
of course, you'd HAVE to carry around with you at all times a couple bottles of water to splash your pet... because without it, it'd just shrivel up and die.
no more "pet fidelity".. replace it with "pet moisture"!!!
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Personally, what I want to see more than anyhting for the Spirit Beast family is one beast, just one, with a unique skin - and a spawn timer that is 5 minutes or less. Seriously, we have to camp rarespawns in order to get a decent self-heal?
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Cialbi wrote:Personally, what I want to see more than anyhting for the Spirit Beast family is one beast, just one, with a unique skin - and a spawn timer that is 5 minutes or less. Seriously, we have to camp rarespawns in order to get a decent self-heal?
Alot of the WotLK spirit beasts are pretty easy to find these days, as is Ghostcrawler.
Floating Shark would be awesome! I mean, it's a "Spirit" beast right? Their spirit walk ability talks about how it moves in between dimensions, so why not? I don't think they'd have to elaborate on too much when it comes to the animation department. Most mobs have their own unique combat and idle animations.
Cialbi wrote:Personally, what I want to see more than anyhting for the Spirit Beast family is one beast, just one, with a unique skin - and a spawn timer that is 5 minutes or less. Seriously, we have to camp rarespawns in order to get a decent self-heal?
Alot of the WotLK spirit beasts are pretty easy to find these days, as is Ghostcrawler.
Floating Shark would be awesome! I mean, it's a "Spirit" beast right? Their spirit walk ability talks about how it moves in between dimensions, so why not? I don't think they'd have to elaborate on too much when it comes to the animation department. Most mobs have their own unique combat and idle animations.
Define 'easy'. They're still being camped on a regular basis on my main realm, Cenarion Circle, and not at all easy to find. I've only been able to find one Spirit Beast since Cataclysm, and that was at a ridiculously late hour, server time. In fact, I spotted King Krush once - and he was dead in less than a minute later because I wasn't the only one to spot him. There still are people leveling through Northrend, and rares are still dropping like flies once they spawn. So, they may be easier, but don't confuse that with easy.
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I definitely agree, I've always thought the Spirit Beasts presented a perfect and unique opportunity to throw in various other creatures (like, for example, a Stag), that don't have their own entire family but can be categorized under the all-inclusive Spirit Beast group. I do hope they branch out in the future when it comes to new additions. Would be a shame to pass up that opportunity.
Haha, just had a crazy thought, and I'm not saying they should do this, but what if we could que as healers? O_o lol
Like we could have a special pet that doesn't attack but heals the whole time instead, and you could direct him. That would be soo weird... o_o;;
Just a crazy "what if" thought ^_^
Litlemouse wrote:Haha, just had a crazy thought, and I'm not saying they should do this, but what if we could que as healers? O_o lol
Like we could have a special pet that doesn't attack but heals the whole time instead, and you could direct him. That would be soo weird... o_o;;
Just a crazy "what if" thought ^_^
I've though of that too before actually. Lol. Not a hunter per se, but a pet class which would have a healing spec which it would heal with the help of set pets.
Well, if I was going to redesign Spirit beasts... and fix the exotics some folk get huffy about..
Remove the spirit beast family.
Remove exotics.
Add a BM talent or short quest where each pet family can gain an extra ability when handled by a BM hunter, and second state that would be the "spirit beast" state (which would use the ghostly skins that some of the spirit beasts have now).
So any pet family would be capable of being exotic, and could also be turned into spirit beasts.
You do realize that with that plan, Loque'Nahak and Skoll become completely unobtainable. Arcturis too, for that matter - that spirit beast is based off the following skin: http://wow-petopia.com/look/bearskinspectral.html
So, let's say that Blizzard does go ahead and announce that next pact will be removing spirit beasts from the wild. Where do all the hunters who want a soon-to-be-discontinued pet, and all the &%$#ing griefers, flock to? The only winner would be Algalon, venturing out to feed upon your tears one last time.
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Re: Blizzard should use Spirit Beasts differently.
