Comments on: Liveblogging WotLK Beta Build 8770

By: Dweezill

Dweezill — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:09:50 +0000

Once again, I was thinking. This time thogh, thinking didn;t get me in trouble. I was just thinking about how back in the day, some of the rare spawns (Deathflayer and The Rake, just to name a couple) were beefed up versions of normal critters. Any chance of going back to that and maiing them “exotic” It would be nice to have a cat with a hit rate like The Rake, or a scorpid like Deathflayer. Go back to makinf the rare elites more powerful, but make them exotic. That would be kinda cool to me.

By: Ansawa

Ansawa — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:47:59 +0000

Re> worms and silithids…

It’s unclear how much intelligence individual drone silithid have ANYWAY. Remember, they were bred as a servant race for the Qiraji; they’re not direct descendants of the Aqir the same way the Nerubians and their Qiraji masters are. I’m willing to bet that other than hive-controller-type silithids, they don’t have much more than animal intelligence. That a hunter might be able to lure one away from the hive mind to tame as a companion doesn’t seem all that crazy to me–even if they were of intelligence nearly on par with one of the intelligent races, we have precedent for taming that, too. Raptors in WoW wear jewelry and appear to have a fairly sophisticated (if extremely primitive) society, pointing at them being more intelligent than simple animals. (I always imagined that hunters who “tamed” raptors actually made a deal with them on the level of one intelligent being to another–help me, fight with me as a packmate, and I’ll take care of you and feed you.)

For worms, why not? They’re beasts, they’re aggressive. I find people wanting to tame things like giraffes and zhevras weirder, since there are no aggressive members of those families anywhere, indicating they have no form of predatory or territorial behavior… Which is kinda what you’d want to see in an animal you want to train to fight for you. Even the “vegetarian” pet families (sporebats, moths, bats, tallstriders, etc.) boast at least one aggressive mob and usually more in the family.

By: Dweezill

Dweezill — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:11:36 +0000

PS
I raelise I spelled “meat” wrong, and my typin gisn;t great in the last post, but I had to work 10 hours today. Give a guy a break. lol

By: Dweezill

Dweezill — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:09:27 +0000

OK, osmeting just crossed my mind and I have to ask a question. Don’t know if this is the place for it, but I am gonna post it here anyway. So, here is my question…. Cunning pets will get a talent called carrion feeder in their talent tree. Some of the pets in that tree an’t eat meat. So, my question is, will these critters that don’t eat meat still be able to use carrion feeder? i am guessing yes, but it would seem odd that bats and sporebats (pets that can’t be fed meet) would be able to scavenge a corpse? Anybody know anything about this?

By: Bradagore

Bradagore — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:40:48 +0000

Hmm – Wowhead’s updated site has bats’ Sonic Burst on a 10s cooldown still – which would be monstrous for a 2s stun – any beta testers have a bat and can confirm the true position?

By: Dnchunter

Dnchunter — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:26:27 +0000

One question mania how are the worms doing dps wise. I just seen they where ferocity but there spti would own for pvp

By: Tinski

Tinski — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:58:37 +0000

I hope that Bristlepine boars will come back whit new cool look ;3

By: Shinryu Masaki

Shinryu Masaki — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:16:13 +0000

@Shrinlah

It’s possible that the Silithids found out what the Lich King did to their Nerubian cousins, and that some of them are willing to fight alongside the Alliance and Horde in order to get revenge on the Scourge and their master for the atrocities they commited against the Nerubians.

I know they’re very evil, but when you factor in what the plague is doing to your body and mind, if I where them, I’d be worried that it can not only wipe out my race, but also turn friends and family against me. Assuming I myself don’t get killed, then continue to “live” on as a walking corpse, which is something many would rather not have happen to them.

By: Shrinlah

Shrinlah — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:09:03 +0000

I really don’t like the fact that worms and silithids are tameable =/ I don’t really know why… Maybe because they don’t have the hunter feel to them =/ At least to me they don’t… It’s mostly the silithids though. I’m sure they’ll make good pets stat and ability wise, but something just isn’t right…

By: Kristy

Kristy — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:42:22 +0000

“So yes, the min/max BM hunters may consistently use the same 3 or 4 pet families”

You don’t know that they aren’t gonna come out with MORE “Exotic” pet families!