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If I'm reading this argument right, it's like King Mosh and a regular Tyrant Devilsaur. Sure, you can go and tame a plain old brown devilsaur. But why not when you can tame Mosh. Removing brown Madexx is like removing Mosh. Because after all, 30 ft away is that plain old brown devilsaur. Or Rak'shiri and Sian-Rotam. I could've gotten Sian's aqua skin. But I wanted Rak'shiri. I camped him. Having him turned black striped and forced to get crummy old Sian tore me to pieces. Utterly crushed me. I can't bring myself to play my hunter because that isn't MY Moonlight. He didn't face hordes of demons and undead with me. He's some newbie I picked up because Blizz messed with my poor kitty.

I never, ever, ever want someone to feel the way I did. Because it is a horrible, heart-wrenching feeling to know they are taking your pet and screwing with it. And then everyone tells you to go tame a new one, but you can't. Because that's not your pet.

That's the whole point of Madexx. I think it's a neat twist. With so many rares, you can just sit and voila-there it is at some point. But Madexx takes the luck element to the extreme.

So yeah. Leave as is.

evil950510 wrote:Spawned again and guess what color he was BROWN, four times in a row now.

Azunara wrote:To quote myself in a prior post:

If I'm reading this argument right, it's like King Mosh and a regular Tyrant Devilsaur. Sure, you can go and tame a plain old brown devilsaur. But why not when you can tame Mosh. Removing brown Madexx is like removing Mosh. Because after all, 30 ft away is that plain old brown devilsaur. Or Rak'shiri and Sian-Rotam. I could've gotten Sian's aqua skin. But I wanted Rak'shiri. I camped him. Having him turned black striped and forced to get crummy old Sian tore me to pieces. Utterly crushed me. I can't bring myself to play my hunter because that isn't MY Moonlight. He didn't face hordes of demons and undead with me. He's some newbie I picked up because Blizz messed with my poor kitty.

I never, ever, ever want someone to feel the way I did. Because it is a horrible, heart-wrenching feeling to know they are taking your pet and screwing with it. And then everyone tells you to go tame a new one, but you can't. Because that's not your pet.

That's the whole point of Madexx. I think it's a neat twist. With so many rares, you can just sit and voila-there it is at some point. But Madexx takes the luck element to the extreme.

So yeah. Leave as is.

evil950510 wrote:I have camped for Madexx three times now each time he spawns he brown. Why did Blizzard leave the brown Maddexx skin in the game? If I wanted to get his brown color I would fly a few feet over and tame a Venomscale Spitter, no need to camp for them. It is extremely aggravating to wait hours on hours for him to spawn over and over in his brown skin, and lazy on Blizzard’s side to not have removed this skin from him. Only option has been to kill him each time in order to reset his spawn timer.

Worba wrote:

Azunara wrote:To quote myself in a prior post:

If I'm reading this argument right, it's like King Mosh and a regular Tyrant Devilsaur. Sure, you can go and tame a plain old brown devilsaur. But why not when you can tame Mosh. Removing brown Madexx is like removing Mosh. Because after all, 30 ft away is that plain old brown devilsaur. Or Rak'shiri and Sian-Rotam. I could've gotten Sian's aqua skin. But I wanted Rak'shiri. I camped him. Having him turned black striped and forced to get crummy old Sian tore me to pieces. Utterly crushed me. I can't bring myself to play my hunter because that isn't MY Moonlight. He didn't face hordes of demons and undead with me. He's some newbie I picked up because Blizz messed with my poor kitty.

I never, ever, ever want someone to feel the way I did. Because it is a horrible, heart-wrenching feeling to know they are taking your pet and screwing with it. And then everyone tells you to go tame a new one, but you can't. Because that's not your pet.

That's the whole point of Madexx. I think it's a neat twist. With so many rares, you can just sit and voila-there it is at some point. But Madexx takes the luck element to the extreme.

So yeah. Leave as is.

Except there is a difference between Mosh and regular tyrant models... or rather there was once - back around 3.0 Mosh was one of the toughest outdoor units in the game, for his level. So, taming him was a big deal.

Now granted since then he's been turned into fluff and no harder than the others, but I think he's still desired for his aura of once-upon-a-time-badassery.

Fast forward to present and compare brown Madexx vs brown scorpid, and there is neither difficulty nor aura. Outside of DIY RP backdrops, he is just another brown scorpy.

Not a huge deal - sooner or later we'll all get the color we want (right? right??), but it is (and I speak from experience) frustrating to camp him only to repeatedly get the mundane color.

Speaking of which, time for another visit to Uldum...

Worba wrote:But that's still not apples / apples, because that was a case of Blizzard taking existing tames, and changing their appearance.

Unlike Rak'shiri and Shy Rotam, the brown Madexx wasn't changed - they just added common versions to keep him company.

...aaannd I am now officially off the gripe list - just got a red Madexx.

EDIT: lol bronze. It's like saying "Tar-JAY" instead of Target. Brown Madexx is brown.

EDIT 2: I do feel your pain about having an existing tame changed on you, esp when the change involves taking something that was rare / unique and making it... not.