Tamed Worgen are Now Winterskorn Worgs [Updated]
It appears that in today’s maintenance, all the remaining tamed versions of the worgen changed to the normal ‘white worg’ wolf skin.
In addition, I’ve seen several reports that worgen who had been leveled by their hunter have been reset to the level they had when tamed (that is, either level 71 or the hunter’s level – 5). In addition, these wolves seem to have reset to level 68 (or the level of the hunter – 5, whichever is higher).
On the plus side, these wolves are once again proper Wolves, with talent trees and pet skills.
I haven’t yet seen any official Blizzard comment on this, but I’ll keep an eye out.
(My thanks to the legions of people who e-mailed and commented to let me know about this change!)
[Update] After looking at the Armory page for Kaet, my dwarf who tamed Garwal, I believe I have found the answer for the odd de-leveling.
My white worg — the same one who was once Garwal — now displays as a Winterskorn Worg, a level 68 white worg from the same area.
If you view the page source in a browser that handles this well, such as Firefox, you can see the following XML text:
pet catId="23" family="Wolf" familyId="1" icon="ability_hunter_pet_wolf" level="68" name="Cry" npcId="24076" npcName="Winterskorn Worg"
A quick trip out to Howling Fjord found that Garwal remains unable to be tamed (although Beast Lore still doesn’t recognize that fact).
So it looks to me like Blizzard merely replace all the tamed Garwal worgs with Winterskorn Worgs. Fascinating!
Table of Contents for Series: The Garwal Worgen Saga
- Pet … Worgen?! [Updated]
- Blizzard on Worgen Fate
- Worgen Hotfixed; Blizzard Speaks
- Speaking of Worgen …
- Tamed Worgen are Now Winterskorn Worgs [Updated]
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Yes, my lovely, useless fishing buddy is now a white wolf. A plain Northrend vanilla white wolf. Sigh. I can go tame a level 80 just like him anytime. I now officially hate blizzard and am off to lick my own wounds and mourn the loss of my wounded DreamWalker. May he rest in peace.
I half-expected this, at least I can release my Worgen-wolf without any second thoughts now. But it’s still a bummer. Oh well, it was good times Maxwell.
Only thing I’m annoyed about is losing the levels I did earn. At least then I’d remotely desire to keep my wolf, but with just taming Old Cliff Jumper recently, I think it’s time garwal and I said goodbye =/
As I said on the other forum abotu the new worgen and goblin races:
Why would Blizz be so quick to fix the worgen, and even make it another beast model, if they didn’t have a plan for worgens in the future? My pet hydra and ooze are not crocs, and there are a few people I know who have Ghost wolves that didn’t change to white wolves or grey wolves or whatever. They must have a reason for changing the worgen so fast while it took a bit of time to change the others. My bet is that Worgen will probably be the next playable class…
In loving memory of FullMoon, May you run in Forests of soft moonlight somewhere where Blizzard can not hurt you my friend..`sniffles`
My jack is gone as well since I already have a 80 wolf I am letting him go. Thanks blizz. I refuse to play a worgen toon as I think it is a stupid idea.
hmm even though im not on a rp server im still gonna pretend that he chose to become a wolf again
I thought something was up. Now I know. Worgen pets are over. Oh well, I’ll have a slot for Skoll.
I sadly let mine go, but if I get to be a Worgen then I guess I can let it slide.
My Hunter is 71, along with her Garwal (tamed at 71), and now it’s level 68.
I’m guessing everyone had their wolf drop in level to some extent regardless of what level it was.
At least he’s not ginormous on the log-in screen anymore :o
Good night, sweet prince
QQ
At least I did take a load of cool screen shots with him, but hey maybe in the next expansion we all can be Worgens. So if that holds true that may be the reasoning of a not so tamed Worgen.
*sniffles* Goodbye, Arugalson. I will miss you!
To all the people who are, might, or have been complaining about the other pets that where removed from the tame table (ghost wolf, hydra, ooze, black warp stalker, etc), this is what is actually the case.
Those pets weren’t bugs.
All those retired pets where working normally. Ok, I know some of them had slight problems, like the ghost wolf’s fast walk, but it’s not like other pets that are still tamable didn’t have those problems too.
The thing with the worgen is that, at its base, it wasn’t a worgen to begin with. It was just a wolf. And said wolf had a hidden worgen form buff that he applied to himself when you took him to 50% health. The proof of this is that when you where actually taming Garwal in his worgen form, when the tame ended he reverted back into a normal wolf. This was also the case when you took him into an arena.
Tame beast removes all mobs based buffs when it ends, so that we don’t end up with a pet that has a buff that it’s not supposed to have for it’s family. Arena also removes all buffs prior to the start of the match. When we tamed Garwal, we forced the game to not remove his hidden worgen form buff when tame beast ended. If Blizzard wanted to allow us to keep our worgen pets, they would have had to completely reprogram Garwal to have the worgen form has its base form. This would have been a lot more work than just flagging him as untamable.
Blizzard is also quite addamant about it. They did clearly say that they refuse to have worgen as a hunter pet. Though they never gave any reasons as to why, aside a “we don’t want to” kind of statement. It’s possible that they want to make worgen a playable race in the future, but only they know, we can only speculate.
In the end, our worgen pets where just wolves in disguise that we got through a bug. The end result was inevitable.
Does anyone know if this may have caused the massive glitches I experienced (e.x.: One of my pets disappearing, never to be seen again, and only being able to withdraw my Worgen and Deadlock)?
I’d like to point out to all of the people who are saying “What about the ghost wolf/croco-whatevers and such? They weren’t taken away!” that while it might not be so difficult to convince an ooze or a hydra or even the ghost of a wolf to be your ‘pet’. Taming humanoids is more like slavery than anything. A worgen is a humanoid, intelligent creature, like an ogre or a dryad. So while it was cool to have our worgen for awhile, I would have been shocked had blizz actually left them in.
I let my Worgen pet live free and got Grondia =D
so i guess only warlocs are alowed to have slaves even if it is only highly intelegent demons i meen it is only a demon after all . or unless it’s some how game (npc) related then it’s ok for a oh lets say druid in bear form to be enslaved …but hey that’s “story related “
I knew it was coming, but as always, it came without any communication. I just wish they’d talk to the playerbase more about things like that. People didn’t get a “We screwed up, we’re going to take them out now.” Just silence, and a quick fix on a Tuesday maintenence.
@Shinryu Masaki
Very true! You have put a lot of thought into this. It seems very logical. But what about when you or your pet die? Doesn’t your pet lose it’s buffs then, too? So if the Garwal died, or you died, wouldn’t he have reverted back to his wolf form then? From what I understand, since I never had it, nobody has had that problem. It may be that I am thinking about this wrong, but It’s just a though…
Thats for pointing out the level discrepancy, Clawclaw. Mine is also now level 68.
In addition, I apologize beforehand for anyone I may snap at today. I just spent the past 4 hours in an urgent care center — my husband broke his finger. He’s fine; it’s minor — but it’s made me irritable.
Also, @tanzar
I agree with your statement.
Sorry about your husband, Mania…
After poking around a bit, I think I discovered what happened with these worgs. I’ve updated the post to match.
RIP WarGarurumon, you definitely turned some heads. :)
Space is now reserved for Skoll. Shu’Halo beware, angry blood elf wants her spirit beast THIS TIME…
I’ll miss you, Varali-buddy! I have named my Chimera after you, because as far as I’m concerned, you just transformed my baby into a Gorewing!
I think it’s a little unfair that Blizzard took out the Worgen for those that tamed it. In a world where Warlocks bind extra-planar demons to do their will and Death Knights can reanimate corpses to do their bidding, it doesn’t seem like such a stretch to let Hunters keep their Worgen as pets. Oh well, sorry to those that had him. I wasn’t high enough to even try :)
*shrug* The quick response to this still strikes me as fuel to the rumour of the worgen as a playable race in the next expansion :)
Yep, I’d leveled mine to 77 and it reverted to 75. Back to a Ghostpaw Alpha for me! :S
i was happy with the original fix they did that made them completely useless, but to remove them completely was just uncalled for. i guess the worgen/goblin as next races is true then for them to take it this far. seriously gonna quit my hunter an roll a priest. im tired of everyone hating my class.
Mania:
Not to be off-topic, but there was an interesting question on the forums that caught my eye. According to the PTR notes (that I just read) there’s no changes to Rake, Wild Hunt or anything else pet related. Am I missing it or was it reverted?
Just checked the PTRs, Rikaku, and all of the previous changes are still in place.
Palla:
Thanks for the update. For some reason the PTR hates me and I can’t update. I blame my authenticator. (like I do every patch XD)
But again, thanks for the update =)
Worgen Pets would look cool, sure enough. But Like every Other Cool Pet, eventually Every Hunter would have one and you’d look cooler with a Tiger coz everyone else has a Worgen ;p
Like the White Lion, My Hunter had that when it was a Horde Quest Spawn so was Cool for an Alliance Hunter to Tame, now the Winterspring Quest is Both Horde and Alliance Every Hunter can Get the White Lion with ease. I abandoned my White Lion
i wish to make a site as a memorial to them but i dont know how, can someone explain to me how? also i may let him go and get Skoll, he will have become reincarnated into this worg. Gonna miss him /mourn
Worgen are HUMANOID. Taming one and having it as pet was obviosly a bug. I think that all speculations about worgen as a playable race have nothing to do with the “worgen-pet nerf”. Simply, Blizzard didn’t want us to have a humanoid as pet.
@Wildstalker
Ture Worgen are Humanoid, but i spent some of my low lvl life killing them to level skinning, so when can i start skinning, furbolgs or tuskarrs?
13-
“In the end, our worgen pets where just wolves in disguise that we got through a bug. The end result was inevitable.”
I have to agree. You can argue it from many different angles (many if not most of which result in stalemate), but this is really what it all comes down to.
It saddens me to know the door is now firmly shut on the possibility of a future “restore”, but at the same time I have to admit that was never a realistic hope, and so in a way it’s just as well they did this.
so many people thinking they’re smart…. hurts… mmmy.. brain… so.. much.. stupidity…. UUugggghhhhh
@Shinryu Masaki
Uuuhhh no. :P and yes =D
Yes it was a bug from a hidden script but, so you’re saying that people having tamed the slime, the hydra, or the ghostwolf wasnt a bug??? If those werent supposed to be tamed then WHY did Blizz make them untamable? Riddle me that! And yet those people got to keep their “Bugged” pets. And yes those are bugs, obviously Blizz had no intention of allowing those pets to be tameable yet they were, thus they were bugged. So shut it!
@Tyger
You’re right about people being all over pets and then they become a common occurance BUT, the worgen was made untamable the nite after I got it, soooo…
I would’ve been one of the few, the proud, Lime’s Owner. Just the same as no one else can get a ghost wolf or a spectral tiger mount.
@Tanzar
I totally agree, apparantly Demons are all mindless beasts just WANTING to be controlled by a sentient being. Nevermind that a werewolf is more of a wolf than a human, I dont see human in the name but i do see wolf… O.O
I mean comeon, anyone ever seen a werewolf make out with somebody?? NOPE So its definately a beast, Blizzard is just a buncha freakin jerks. Only caring about the easy fixes to keep the 11M accounts going and pull in that 100M and some every month! This kind of crap is what happens when you PATCH a game too much. The game is too old… End of Story. Time to go find a new game. =D
Bye Bye Logan… you will be missed
what people are still going on over warlocks enslaving demons and hunters can’t have worgen? Even I never used that in my argument as I wasn’t wanting worgen persay but a wolf with a worgen skin.
Look. Hunter’s tame their beasts. They make friends.
Warlocks are for the most part power hungry/sadistic/twisted/warped creatures. I mean heck in a story I’m rewriting my lock got out of control and started to try and summon a PIT. LORD. [yes my warlock is that insane and power hungry]
And no this isn’t what happens when you patch to much, or would you still want to be on vanilla wow? WoW is a BIG MMORPG. It needs ALOT of files for EACH SEPERATE PACK.
Or would you rather wait 3+ years for an expansion pack that’s had little beta testing, if at all? It’s why PTR’s exist. It’s why beta’s exist. It prevents you from having to install something that’d take a week.
BIG DEAL!!!! Roll a Worgen hunter next exp.
Well unlike all you other QQ hunters, I wanna say ty blizz. I’ll miss my worgen as much as any of you BUT, my stables were full and I had a pet that didnt work taking up a slot I could use for something better. Speaking of that I vote we get more stable slots, hint hint bliz. But you guys knew it was gonna happen so get over it.
“so many people thinking they’re smart…. hurts… mmmy.. brain… so.. much.. stupidity…. UUugggghhhhh
…
I mean comeon, anyone ever seen a werewolf make out with somebody??”
I lol’ed
@Rottingham
It’s possible that it was a buff that didn’t get removed from death, like how Flasks are.
@Budwyzer
They weren’t bugs because they where just normal beasts that where flagged as tamable. The only thing Blizzard did to them was to switch the flag to untamable, nothing else. Garwal, just like you said yourself, has a hidden script, and we bugged it to make him keep his worgen form after the tame. This has no relation at all to the other retired pets, which didn’t have anything scripted into them like Garwal had. And please, try to stay polite. Thank you. =)
If worgen are humanoid how come the one in UP is listed as a beast? I think blizzard did not like us hunters getting a cool pet because it was cooler than their oh so fantastic spirit beasts! So worgen are part humanoid and part beast – spirit beasts are part beast and part spirit maybe so the differnce between the 2 is?
Here we go, Budwyzer. Of the trio of ghost wolf, hydra, and slime, only the slime stands out as a good point at all. The reason being is that ghost wolves and hydra are set as beasts, while the slime is unset. That being said, it is a lot more likely that slimes could be considered beasts then worgen, and it makes more sense to be able to keep something as a pet that is normally unset as opposed to permanently humanoid.
It was a glitch. Due to the worgens transformation into a wolf, it’s internal coding listed it as a beast, and thus tameable. If I remember reading the way to tame him right, basically your tame had to go off the SECOND he transformed back into a humanoid mob, before the coding had time to change him back over to a humanoid. An obvious, unintended taming.
You obviously know little or NOTHING about werewolves, or even worgen. They are more or less half human, half wolf, and it shows. Did you even pay ATTENTION to the quests in Grizzly Hills? HELLO?! Those hunters in the lodge didn’t SEND werewolves after you, they WERE were the werewolves that came after you. Some of them can control their transformation, and some of them transform at night. Only a handful of the worgen in game are the true worgen kind, and even THEY are fairly intelligent in their own special way. So now, having a worgen pet was in no way really acceptable. Was it cool? HELL YEA! But it was a massive, and I mean MASSIVE glitch in the system. The only mistake Blizzard made was in not adequately communicating with the playerbase, but after four years, that’s not really shocking to me.
Personally I always thought the Slime pet was weirder than a Worgen pet. However, the quick fix and turnaround on the Worgen pet, and the switcheroo on all tamed Worgen to make them normal wolves– this STRONGLY suggests to me that Blizzard is going to make Worgen a playable race. Blizzard has always been against taming anything humanoid-ish– for example, I always thought it would be cool to tame Ursangous or Claw the bear druids, but that’s never even been considered by blizzard.
I disagree strongly with all the argumenst about Why Blizz should be OK with taking away the Worgen. I feel Hunters were bent over, no reach around, no dinner, not even the courtesy of Vaseline.
Quick Rundown then Ill not be posting about this again. The Worgen In grizzly Hills are the Arugal variety, Most Worgen in game are Arugal contaminated. Those are Werewolves, not true Worgen.
Slave issue…Worgen are semi intelligent but so are many other pets including Raptors. And yes Warlocks have demons..They Enslave.
Body style… We have Gorillas. Enough said.
Coding… Blizz can Code, encode or decode anything they want. This si the only Game I know that everything seems to fit anywhere. They did their Homework. Thiss was an issue they did not See. Agreed. But they should be Applauding Ingenuity not Berating it. Its not liek people found a loophole that allowed a player to Kill Arthas or found a glitch that increased their damage times 10 versus Loki, etc, etc. In otehr words..it was harmless. Gave a Goal for bored players and something to Have as a Combat Trophy.
Storyline…Who really cares? Has it ever mattered to anyone Why they were allowed to Tame a certain pet? IS Roleplay THAT important to why you could GET it? Not really. It might be important AFTERWARD..so you have a Reason for having it..but how often do you set down and say “Hmm what is my roleplay reason for running my level 10 Blood Elf all the way to Darnassus to Tame an Owl?” You Dont. You do it because its a cool pet and you want it.
Im very dissappointed in Blizz for doing this.
This is really starting to boggle me. Never, in the history of WoW, have we EVER been able to tame humanoids, and ALL WORGEN ARE HUMANOIDS. The ghost wolf, hydra, and hell even the slime were different matters entirely. THIS IS NOT A PET HUNTERS ARE ENTITLED TO
Continued, because I managed to hit enter early. I am a pretty anti-Blizzard person myself, ask any of the normal posters on this board. But this isn’t something I think Blizzard screwed up on. Everyone doing it needs to stop trying to make excuses for why we SHOULD be able to have worgen. Blizzard is NOT going to bring it back, like it or not. It was a mistake, and they fixed it. Like I said, Blizzard should have SAID to people “Whoops! That was unintended, sorry but we’re going to have to take them away.” If your going to be angry, be angry about that, but stop trying to act like it’s a pet type we SHOULD have.
@Budwyzer
Would you be crying like this if garwal had been a skeleton, harpy, murloc, gnoll, kobold, zombie, or any other non-pet?
I’m willing to bet that you would.
If worgen were normal pets that anyone could tame, nobody would even look twice at them.
Epacsten, speaking of zombies, there is a way for hunters’ pets to become zombies. Temporarirly. :D
This brouhaha is still more entertaining than a three-ring circus. :)
Also odd was that every site I saw posting the taming instructions (including here) started with a disclaimer saying “Look, hunters aren’t meant to tame worgens, Blizz will probably make Garwal untameable soon and may even take him away from those that have already tamed him, don’t bother unless you’re prepared to accept the risk of being left with just a few screenshots rather than getting to keep a novel pet”.
Why are people so upset that Blizz acted exactly as predicted?
I CAN STOP THIS FIGHT OVER WORGEN.
GO TO MMOCHAMPION. LOOK A FEMALE. OGRE. MASK.
EVERYONE SCREAM.
[seriously can we all drop the issue? It made me sick[er] and I just had to leave Petopia, until I just started coming back]
*Chuckles* It’s not really a fight. Some people are just bitter, and other people are just getting annoyed.
And Ryai, your not allowed to leave Petopia. It’s in your contract, fine print.
Lies I can when the arguing gets to bad :c
And yeah I can sympathize with being bitter, but I’m just bitter with how Blizzard originally handled it, and I was paranoid about it until I chatted with a GM and got enough courage to ask about it [as I said I was paranoid about getting a ban or something] but the GM reassured me I was in the clear, and this just lets me know I really am. And I can finally log onto my main.
And then go back to leveling my paladin. uuurg 67. And need to get to 75+ before brewfest for gear and crap and urg.
but seriously tho FEMALE OGRES.
My pet Worgen Roarz is in a better place now TV land
I had to make something to explain he is gone and i did they r in TV land now like all those dead shows r at
i think we should all gather in song over r bleoved worgens ” love hearts love stinges BLIZZARD sucks WILL MIIS R WORGENS BYE LOCKJAW
seriously, i’m upset with blizzard, not because they took away my worgen pet, but because HOW they took him away. if they had just taken them away immediately, by changing the skin, that would have been acceptable, but to leave the skin and rape them of abilities and talents gave some false hope of future restoration. to log in, pull him out and see that it’s a wolf, and not even the right level, kinda lame. they should have just done this to begin with and not teased us. this was definitely handled wrong. HOWEVER, from a financial standpoint, if worgen are implemented, and are of alliance faction, i will be faction-changing all my 70+’s. back before BC hit, my friends and i defected from alliance, and once Blood Elf was announced as the horde race, i thought it was lame and hoped for something awesome of the ally race, and swore the only thing that would draw me back to alliance would be worgen. That was 3 years ago, and i’ll stand by my word.
Here’s to hoping blizzard actually pulls through for me once.
Ok so many of you feel that being able to tame the worgen was akin to slavery due to it nornally being humaniod,a nd thus having intelligence…
Intelligence indacates that it should have been smart enough to ignore our commands as a hunter and either flee or fight back.
Just a factor i felt like pointing out.
Blizz would of done it b4 next expation anyways
This was a VERY dumb move altogether on Blizzard’s part. There are tons of pets out there that hunters have and got to keep that are now untamable and they can use them like normal pets but the worgen got singled out. People will say stupid things like, “oh but worgens are really humanoids”, well, at the time it wasn’t or else we wouldn’t of been able to tame it.
There are pets that people have right now and can use that aren’t labeled “beasts” in the game itself, like the ooze pet that people got from the bugged Oracle dailies, so that is NOT a good enough excuse. Blizzard needs to go and take away all of the pets hunters have that are now untamable and they weren’t suppose to tame in the first place to make it fair to us hunters that took the time and effort to get our worgen only to get screwed over and lose him.
How about we all stop with Worgens and actually look at the fact blizzard had a represenative, aka Ghostcrawler, who has ACTUALLY SAID THIS IN Q&A on mmo.
‘I’ll add that the melee attack issue for hunters themselves is something we keep discussing. While we are unlikely to go back to a melee-focused build for hunters, we might consider a model where hunters don’t run away most of the time but switch to melee attacks – perhaps even a single punishing attack on a cooldown before the hunter Disengaged or whatever. This would be one of those things that helped hunters feel more different than actual magic casters, and might make them care about melee weapons as more than stat sticks. Additional feedback from the community on this sort of thing would be appreciated.’
Look people, it may not be as epic fail as the poor droods Q&A, but this is something that’s gonna affect us all, more and harder than a worgen being removed. Cause what did I say people, Blizz proved they didn’t truly care about hunters when they handled Garwal [not removing him but how] and now they want to give us MELEE ATTACKS before oh we disengage or whatever.
The only melee attacks I use are lol a trap that usually fails or gets broken in 2 seconds, or wing clip- but I’m usually dead anyways. Well when I still pvp’d.
There are MORE important things than worgen people :/
Well I never had a Worgen but hey if ya tamed one blizz should let ya keep it!!Now my big question is this if the worgen Is a humanoid then why can I skin them? I mean kinda morbid if ya think about it and i have skinned tons of them!!so thats all i have to say about that?
So one of the big points of contention is that Worgens are humanoids… Look at a Worgen and a Felguard side by side, they both look vaguely human.
Oh, but it’s okay to ensalve demons you say? “Arugal used Ur’s research to summon extra-dimensional entities to bolster Dalaran’s diminishing ranks of his own. Arugal’s summoning brought the ravenous worgen into the world of Azeroth” (WoWWiki). How does that make them so different from other extraplanar creatures that just happen to be aligned with the burning legion?
And what about silithids for that matter, their species is clearly sentient (you get quests from their cousins the nerubians for Azjol’Nerub and Old Kingdom), why is it okay to “enslave” one potentially sentient species, but not another?
Seriously, with the long track record of unintended tameable pets ranging from a cobra (before snakes were an intended pet), to a big green pile a goo, all of which players were allowed to keep, the only reason this pet would be treated differently is because it’s going to be a playable race in the expansion.
Out of respect for Ryai I am going to drop the worgen argument.
Ryai, they have been saying since 2.9 that they were going to work on hunters melee range capabilities, but I haven’t seen anything come of that yet even though it was promised in the next patch or two. This is our second major patch since the announcement, and nothing.
Also, not to panic or overjoy anyone prematurely, but it seems like Blizzard might be thinking of switching hunters over to an energy based system like rogues.
“Q: Are there any long term plans to possibly removing the need for hunters to rely on a different resource system then mana?
A: I hate to do this to you, but this is a great BlizzCon question. For these Q&As, we’d like to keep the focus on each class’s current status and short-term plans, but at BlizzCon we’ll be happy to go into some more detail on our long-term vision for them.”
Which translates into “I can’t talk about this right now.”
Dangit! I was hoping to have a little bit of fun with my worgen in upcoming blog posts…oh well, I guess maybe I can play with it within this week before people forget that worgen existed as pets
god blizzard is dumb why not just let us keep it and fix the taming glitch but no they have to ruin it and and give us a stupid white wolf they said they wouldve if it was a beast not a humanoid well a blob sure isnt a beast and alot of people tryed hard for this guy but once again blizzard screws up again if they pull this kind of crap in the new movie world of warcraft will have 11thousand not 11million anymore
R.I.P. SilverFang
Sodaz: 1st off, Gosh*… and 2nd off, i highly doubt a movie will cause that detremental of a loss to WoW… if anything it will bring in new peeps… and 3rdly, Blizz said that it was unintended and that they werent sure if it would be able to be kept or not… PLUS the original few who showed us how to do it said it is most likely a glitch and that we should not plan on keeping him, and if worse comes to worse we might even get banned, so you, and everyone else who tamed him took the risk of losing him… if you did not expect, or at least knew there was a possibility of losing him, OR your account, that is completely your own fault, and you basically set yourself up for disappointment… Sorry if this angers you, or anyone else, but it is the blatant truth…
Sorry for double posting… but also, you claim Blizzard is dumb… if they are so dumb, then i suggest you don’t play their game… Why pay $15 a mo. for a game made by a “dumb” company… OR, you could even try to make as Many high selling games as Blizzard has (Ex. Warcraft 1-3, Starcraft 1-2, Diablo 1-2, soon to be 3) AND a MMORPG such as WoW with 2 expansions… it isn’t easy, and they work hard to make the game fair, and fun for EVERYONE, not just hunters… so, chances are, they AREN’T dumb…. just doing their jobs…
my worgen actually disappeared from my stables about a week~ ago :(
I was a sad li’ll puppy, but then I also went and got me gondria :)
@Everyone nerdraging about humanoid pets and slavery and how it shouldn’t be in the game:
IMO temporarily enslaving the mages in Borean Tundra and using shock needles to get information out of them is far worse than “OMG U TAMED A HUMANOID.” The tormenting baby softknuckles to lure the mother out quest in Sholazar is far, far worse. I don’t think it’s even a fair argument when you consider so many of the quests in the game.
My only solace from this change comes from the potential of Worgens being the new race.
Awww..just noticed this thread and immediately checked my pets. Jackman is now a wolf *cry* I’ll really miss my worgen buddy, but I do have lots of screen shots to remind myself how cool he was :D
I disagree with earlier comment about people not giving them a second look if everyone could tame them – I would still have tamed one and loved him just as much :P
*hugs* to all hunters who are missing their worgens, but as the saying goes “better to have owned a worgen once, than not at all…”
ok, nevermind to my worgen disappearing – it did disappear, but now it’s back – as a lvl 68 wolf ofcourse… :S
I don’t know why people are complaining how Blizz didn’t warn us about taking the worgen. Seemed to me they made it very clear that they NEVER wanted us taming him in the first place, and that they would be fixing it. Just read between the lines. I expected he would either turn back into a wolf or disappear entirely. Frankly taming him was practically a hack and anyone who tamed one is lucky not to have gotten banned for it. I’m honestly glad I had KILLED this guy long ago.
Also, about worgen becoming a playable race. Sorry but I don’t see it coming at all.
The degree and polarity of emotions this event has elicited is phenomenal. It still makes me chuckle.
Selesti, I wouldn’t be so sure about that NEVER. It took them 2 maintenance Tuesdays to make their final decision. One would think if they NEVER wanted us taming him, they’d have hotfixed it that way the first Tuesday they nerfed him. I’ll say it again — they were pretty wishy-washy about it.
Laike, he was never really gone. If you saw an empty stable slot, that was him. If you swapped something into that empty slot, he would become your active pet.
As for myself, I reverted to my preferred wolf model (WolfSkinArctic) wihtout a second thought.
Fail.. the worgen issue is epic fail… instead of being mature about it and waiting for the next cool ass bugged (beast) pet to come out.. you have completely ruined our chances of blizzard supposedly (carelessly) over looking the tameable/untameable flag because of your arrogance.. I doubt if they bestow any more untameable pets in the future.. Blizz did that on purpose.. A special reward to the hunters who were high enough.. and did their research.. and when they felt the time was right.. they hotfixed it. thats why the hydra/croc/wolf/slime remain because they didnt have a problem with it.. they meant for it to happen… do you honestly think they would accidentally not patch up the wolf, then warpstalker, then the queen wasp, then the croc/hydra/slime trio? lol get real they did that on purpose.. now with the worgen that really was a screw up.. and they hotfixed it immediately. But it seems that you all were in such a blind rage.. you didn’t stop to think about it.. and with your whining and saying blizz this and blizz that.. I hate blizz.. I’m pretty sure we wont be seeing any more unique, supposedly untameable mobs in the future.. lol way to go worgen-lovers.. You win the EPIC FAIL award. But I aint mad though.. It’s only a game.. enjoy your award though.
Flanagan …
Just… Wow.
I don’t know who King Flanagan is talking to, and honestly I don’t really care. :> But let’s not get violent, okay?
No offense Mania.. but I was talking to whomever felt I was talking to them.. If you feel that I was offensive I sincerely apologize.. I am not a troublemaker in the slightest.. I am however blunt and sarcastic.. I looked at what I wrote and didn’t see it to be violent in the slightest.. I just thought that the whole issue was dumb and like the millions of other people who wanna bring in slavery and Blizz hates us and all that crap.. I simply voiced my opinion.. and I meant what I said.. and I know what I said is true.. Take it however you want it.. You’re still cool in my book and you’ve done a many a hunter countless favors with your Arcania. Later Ms/Mrs. Mania. Until Flan writes again..
Just to be clear, I was responding to Reginleif. I edited what I considered a violent suggestion out of his comment. In retrospect, however, you’d have no way to know that since you didn’t see the unedited version. Heh. Sorry about that.
What you posted, King Flanagan, skirted the edge of what I might ask you to tone down in some discussions. But I didn’t feel the need to here.
You know I am actual sad that they took it out, I was trying to power lv my hunter just to get it, and if it was a tamable pet I still would want it. Maybe its for the same reason I would want Takk or Humar, because it looks fucking cool. But then maybe some people dont understand why others want a different looking pet.
A werewolf is no longer a sentient being when they transform, they turn into a wolf which is a beast, so by taming it you only would be taming a beast not a human.
As well, when can I start skinning Taurens if I can skin Worgens?
As for Worgens being a class race like goblins that would be a little screwed up, I can not see either being playable, I mean seriously what would that fall under alliance or horde? Yeah the alliance gets the crappy goblins and the horde gets the worgens.
I can’t for the life of me see why people would try to bring up the RP aspect to this issue, when we have so many non-combat pets and trinkets that are humanoids. There were no reason to nerf the worgen pets, it had been enough to make Garwal untameable. I am very disappointed with their sollution to the problem.
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Well my relative had the Worgen… He was annoyed to have found it as a Worg later without warning. :\
But I don’t really get the whole “They’re intelligent, therefore you can not has cheezbgr” story. Think about it. Don’t we ride Drakes? Drakes can turn into us! It’s not like Warlocks who actually enslave things (Christ…), it’s a friendly companionship. If we can ride intelligent Dragonkin that can turn into humanoids, speak and live in communities for hours on end, then why can’t we have Worgen pets?
At least the playable Worgen race is assured… ^_-
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