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The Canyon Cloudwing hippogryphs are currently tameable as Birds of Prey! They're in western Suramar (around Anora Hollow, not far east from those Manashell stony turtles).

I presume this is a mistake but it'll be fun to try out for now! They make awesome pets




I haven't seen any other tameable ones so far.

Admittedly, they're *way* more 'Birds Of Prey' than parrots and toucans are, but it still stretches the family a bit thin and wide for me.

I *would* love to have them be tameable, though. They're gorgeous. So adding them to birds of prey would definitely be an option, if not as appealing an option as making 'Rylaks' into Chimeras and putting the 'Rylak' family power on gryphs instead.

Wain wrote:I presume this is a mistake an amazing and totally legit inclusion so it'll be fun to have them forever! They make awesome pets

Fixed

Heres hoping! I'd love to see the basic taxi mounts become pets.

I also think it's a bug, but I would love it if it isn't. The new hippogryph model is really nice.

Now if we could get Wyverns and Gryphons next that'd be greaaaaaaat.

PorrasouxRex wrote:Now if we could get Wyverns and Gryphons next that'd be greaaaaaaat.

If hippogryphs did become officially tameable then they could easily form a family with gryphons. Aside from the horse's arse and the antlers they have a lot in common.

Now I'm gonna be even more disappointed when I can't tame hippogryphs, gryphons and their wyvern cousins.

(Isn't it odd that those three (and dragonhawks?) were said to be relatives of dragons, while chimeras aren't?)

Probably just a bug so I'm not gonna get my hopes too high for it.

They would be a more interesting exotic family than mana sabers (which could just be included with cats). "Gryphs" could include hippogryphs and grpyhons. Windriders (I'm never going to call them 'wyverns', since they're more like manticores) should also be tameable, but I don't know which family to put them in. If there wasn't a particular beast called chimaera, that would be a better name than 'gryphs' and windriders could be included. But Chimaera get two families, go figure.
I wonder how many potential pets have been missed for lack of a good family name.

Aw, I really love the look of them as a hunter pet. It's a shame it's most likely unintentional because I agree they'd make a great new family! (better than the unnecessary mana sabers which could easily just be added into cats or spirit beasts if needed, we have enough cats, we really don't need an additional branched off family)

Xota wrote:I wonder how many potential pets have been missed for lack of a good family name.

There's probably some truth in this

And yeah, Windriders is a much better name for the "wyverns that aren't wyverns", and if they resemble anything from mythology are more like lion-headed manticores. And you're right, they do have a lot of simliarities to chimaeras, just with one head:

Ahhh, I wish these would be tamable...I remember when I first started playing wow and I saw a Blue Hippogryph in the wild...beastlored it in the hopes that I could tame it...

That and 'chimera' literally means an animal that's composed of parts of different species. Like gryphons, manticores, hippogryphs (the mythological ones too), peryton, classical chimera, owlbears, and crocoducks. Ironically, wow chimaeras' parts aren't as distinctively stuck together from other animals.

Their family could be: Taxi