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Midnight Alpha/Beta Thread

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 10:38 am
by Valnaaros
Getting this started. No idea when the Alpha will be starting up, but likely within the next month or two.

Re: Midnight Alpha/Beta Thread

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 6:11 pm
by Valnaaros
Some new images show what looks to be a new beast of some kind, but it is too hard to tell exactly what it looks like from a distance, but it can be seen in a few shots of Zul'Aman.

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Another view of the new frog model

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A new fungal jellyfish (the purple mass near the mudskipper)

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Higher-res image of the fungal dragonhawk

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Re: Midnight Alpha/Beta Thread

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 6:17 pm
by DannyGreen
Valnaaros wrote: Wed Aug 20, 2025 6:11 pm Some new images show what looks to be a new beast of some kind, but it is too hard to tell exactly what it looks like from a distance, but it can be seen in a few shots of Zul'Aman.

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I'ma take a guess, This looks like the thing in the trailer... The one that was bathed in light, with the split mouth. It's using the gargoyle/gorilla/devourer skeleton... Looks like there's stuff on it's back. I dunno if it'll be tamable.

Re: Midnight Alpha/Beta Thread

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 6:56 pm
by Lee
My wishlist is an updated dragonhawk with the model like the mounts. I'd never even really thought of using one as a pet before, but the new model is so cute...

Re: Midnight Alpha/Beta Thread

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 7:00 pm
by Valnaaros
Lee wrote: Wed Aug 20, 2025 6:56 pm My wishlist is an updated dragonhawk with the model like the mounts. I'd never even really thought of using one as a pet before, but the new model is so cute...
They are confirmed to have a new model that is like the mount's. There pictures aren't in this thread, but I posted some over in the 11.2.5 thread :)

Re: Midnight Alpha/Beta Thread

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 7:06 pm
by Valnaaros
So, I got a better image of the unknown animal. You can see three of them in the image. I don't think that they are that plant gorilla thing. These kind of look like giant Pangolins. Their heads/faces look kind of similar to them, plus they look to be covered in scales.

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Re: Midnight Alpha/Beta Thread

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 7:09 pm
by worgpower
I just got a slightly close look at the face of these pangolin things, the front of the head looks either reptilian, or a mammalian predator face, and by the looks of them, they use a new skeleton, as for that gorilla plant thing, if it’s a beast and it becomes tameable, I will scream

Re: Midnight Alpha/Beta Thread

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 7:35 pm
by WerebearGuy
Watched the six shorts on Wow's page, screencapped everything that looked beast-like. Some repeats others have shown, but some I haven't seen posted yet. Also, I SPY A PLANT HYDRA. Also, I will be calling the Harandar spore dragonhawks Sporehawks, and not a single one of you will change my mind.

Re: Midnight Alpha/Beta Thread

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 8:00 pm
by Vephriel
I'm so obsessed with the mushroom brutosaur but I don't have much hope for them being tameable... :(

Re: Midnight Alpha/Beta Thread

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 8:06 pm
by WerebearGuy
Yeah, they definitely won't be made tameable. I won't say how I know this, but brutosaurs would not scale down properly. Even if they did, their animations do NOT work well with player race heights. I will not elaborate, but if you know what Brutosaurs do in their idle animations, then you know why. At best, we can only hope for a mushroom bruto mount (that isn't obscenely expensive).

Re: Midnight Alpha/Beta Thread

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 8:48 pm
by Valnaaros
I saw and posted about most of those. I didn't notice the cat in Eversong, the blood beast, or the flying creature in the Void. The reptile cat/wolf thing is seen in another picture standing next to the new void hydra. I'm going to move my pics over to here:

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I'm going to guess that we're going to get a Plant family or one similar to how Undead pets work.

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Looks like there is either a new reptile or just another hydra in this image
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Not likely to be tamable, but there are Void Jellies
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New Hawkstrider model
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The giant mushroom in the water is an animal. You can see the legs underneath the water. Like a fungus Brutosaur.
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New Frog model
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Faraway view of the new Dragonhawk. It has three pairs of wings, just like the mount does Image

Looks like the spider model from Shadowlands, but maybe a new color
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New mana wyrm model based-off of the new electric eel from Undermine. A purple variant can be seen in the second image.
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Got a closer view of the Hydra. It is a new model. There is also some sort of canine or feline animal next to it
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Looks kind of like a giant raven, but different than what we currently have. Might be based off of the mount.
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Another view of the pet that the Haranir hunter was with. Looks like a cross between an ottuk and a Salamanther
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You can see its head sticking out of the water. It might be using the lapbug model.
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Better view of the Plant Devilsaur
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Also, the Ghostlands have largely been healed and are teeming with life.

The resolution isn't great with some of these images:

Seeing as we're getting a bunch of other plant animals, it is likely that we'll be getting Mandragoras, too. They are in one of the new zones. You can also see the new bird model, though not terribly well.
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Another new mana wyrm. Blue variant
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New model for Nalorakk. Probably won't be tamable, even on a different mob.
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An up close view of the new mana wyrm
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It looks like that mana ray/sporebat is a fungal dragonhawk
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A new bat/gargoyle model
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Could be a new gryphon model, based-off of the ones from the trading post
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Re: Midnight Alpha/Beta Thread

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 8:57 pm
by Valnaaros
Went and updated some of the pics with higher-res ones.

You just barely see it, but there is a new beast that looks like it uses the carapid rigging.
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The flying void creature is seen in the video for the raids (though not a clear view of it).

You can see its void tail poking out to the left of the A in All. You can see it again before the scene changes. It uses the same model as the flying Nerubian boss in Nerub'ar and the flying creatures in K'aresh.
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Re: Midnight Alpha/Beta Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2025 10:24 am
by Valnaaros
So, those beasts outside of Zul'Aman are most likely giant Pangolins. Blizz confirmed that the bear form for Haranir will be a Pangolin. This means that the Pangolin is using the Druid Runebear/Werebear rigging, which would fit the stance that the Pangolin outside of Zul'Aman is taking.

Also, there is a Void and Light Dragonhawk that doesn't have the armor/saddle, so there might be tamable versions of them:

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