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I agree that they have a lovely model, especially considering how old they are. I've never been too big of a cat person in WoW, but I've always had a soft spot for the lynxes, even if I don't tame them myself.

I honestly don't know if they'd go back after all this time and make new skins for them with the improved artwork that occurs with each new expansion, but I've always hoped they'd add a black one at some point.

There's the oddity in WMV of being able to apply the original lynx skins to the new druid cat forms. Not perfect of course, since the necklace things and the teeth don't map right, but it may be an idea at what an updated lynx model could look like:

Yeah, I'd really like to see new lynxes that look more like real lynxes. And that has some thick fur.

I can't help but forever think they're a blood elf thing, and they have the TBC-green eyes.

Vephriel wrote:There's the oddity in WMV of being able to apply the original lynx skins to the new druid cat forms. Not perfect of course, since the necklace things and the teeth don't map right, but it may be an idea at what an updated lynx model could look like:

I do like these....just different colors plz! hehehehe

Yeah I'd prefer them on the new model...I feel there's a reason they swapped out the old night elf cat model for druids. XD;

I'd like to see Wain take his hand to the Lynx's

i would love to see more colors of the lynx, though i preffer the old model over the druid model.
It doesnt look sharp and deadly.

My first hunter tamed a lynx at level 10 and stuck with him all the way to level 80.
But then, I almost always pick a "perfect match" for my hunter and simply deny to break them up again.

Oh man, those were the days when you had to get by 10 levels on your own before you could tame your first pet and even then had to bring in 3 tamed critters before you got the skill...

Even though I don't have my own lynx, I would love to see them more and in some newer colours. I actually like the model too, despite it being older.

Also, Veph, how do you apply skins to a model like that? There's a few things I'd like to test out.

Bhando wrote:
Oh man, those were the days when you had to get by 10 levels on your own before you could tame your first pet and even then had to bring in 3 tamed critters before you got the skill...

Eheheheheh i remember the days where, if you tamed a lvl 6 pet and you were max lvl, you had to lvl your pet up from 6.. XD They were good times. I always made sure to not get too far ahead of a desired model out of fear id have to do the horrendous pet grind..

As for lynxes.... i prefer the old model for sure, and id love to see some more vivid contrasts such as white, black, a dirt-brown rather then the sickly-brown, maybe a brownish red since the red ones are so painful to look at color wise. Some cream/tan/sand colored ones would probably look good too. If they ever were willing to keep the old skin but add new print to it, id love for a more 'realistic' patterned one, and maybe some where they have a bit of creative flair added to their markings. Though if they were to give pattern to the lynxes, or even new colors in general, they would probably switch them to the new night elf model, or introduce the new colors on the new model opposed to reskinning the existing ones for those who prefer old to new.

I remember taking several pets to Terrokar forrest just to level them, remember losing my first pet because I didn't feed it and it got unhappy on me, remember having to go tame a cat just to learn a new level of prowl, and bags and bags full of arrows, or running out of them at the most inoppurtune time

Xakaal wrote:if you tamed a lvl 6 pet and you were max lvl, you had to lvl your pet up from 6.

Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that!
Could be a real pain to do that. And to tame other pets to get the next level of whatever petskill!

But somehow, this made playing a hunter a very unique and cool experience, did it not?

Ceravan wrote:I remember taking several pets to Terrokar forrest just to level them, remember losing my first pet because I didn't feed it and it got unhappy on me, remember having to go tame a cat just to learn a new level of prowl, and bags and bags full of arrows, or running out of them at the most inoppurtune time

Oh god, those nostalgia feels!

Everdeen wrote:Even though I don't have my own lynx, I would love to see them more and in some newer colours. I actually like the model too, despite it being older.

Also, Veph, how do you apply skins to a model like that? There's a few things I'd like to test out.

In the case of the lynxes anyone can do it, their skin options show up in the dropdown menu when looking at the night elf cat druid form.

Vephriel wrote:In the case of the lynxes anyone can do it, their skin options show up in the dropdown menu when looking at the night elf cat druid form.

Oh right. xD Damn, would've been fun to see some skins on different models. (E.g. Black lion skin on Sambas model.)

The nostalgia is wonderful, the reality was less so. Some of those things were really a pain in the arse to deal with back in the day...for instance, although you had three pet slots you effectively only had two, because one always had to be open for learning skills with. Sucked hardcore because you could not keep ANYTHING other than the bare neccessities...sentimental bond to an old pet? Forget it, no room.

Ziarre wrote:sentimental bond to an old pet? Forget it, no room.

That is where I'm in advantage. I always think about what pet would best fit my hunter (since I am a role player, this matters a lot to me) then I go tame it and stick to it.

My Tauren hunter Ashone tamed a boar as soon as possible. Later on, I tamed one of the armored boars found in some quilboar dungeon. So, when I went around playing the game, the boar was up in arms running beside me, when I was roleplying in some "civil outfit", he was walking without armor beside the Tauren. Gave them the same name and there ya go.

Each and every of my hunters always stuck with the one pet he got as "his match" all the way up to max level.

I'd have to disagree on the sentimental part to. As soon as I could, I tamed a hyena, when at lv for SM, I traded my barrens one in for the a red hyena. I've had Nanaki ever since (3+yrs) (Slaverjaw when red hyena's turned mutt...but to me he's still the same one from SM) Still managed to learn ever single pet ability before that was removed, and kept my pets at my level.

As to Lynx, I love the cats, the model in game bugs me a bit because of the nose, but I would love to see more varieties of lynx in game. It really is a nice model.