Hydras – Triple Bite: attempts to bite the target with all 3 heads, dealing [rank] damage per head. there is a 100% chance to bite with one head, a 75% chance to bite with 2 heads, and a 50% chance to bite with all 3 heads.

Basilisks – Petrifying Stare: The Basilik Stares into the targets eyes, making them unable to move, attack, or cast spells for [rank] seconds.

Diemetrodons – Fin Smash: The Diemetrodon turns sideways and smacks the target with its fin, dealing [rank] damage and stunning it for 5 seconds. (I wanted to do an ability where it absorbs sunlight, but that would make no sense when used in places like Swamp of Sorrows, Shadowmoon Valley, and Icecrown)

Pterrordaxs – Wing Beating: the Pterrordax grabs on to the target with its beak and smacks it with its wings, dealing [rank] damage per second for 10 seconds.

Shoveltusks – Shovel: Shovels the target with specially shaped tusks, lifting it into the air and dealing [rank] damage. (fall damage would also be included)

Mana Wyrms – Burst of Mana: The Mana Wyrm unleashes a Burst of Pure Mana, dealing [rank] damage to all enemies and giving [rank] to all party members within 5 yards.

What I want is for there to be a new wasp, that looks a bit similar to the firflies but with a differently shaped head and a bulkier body. And then have it Yellow and black striped… Then it would be a real wasp!

In re: new families I’ve wanted beetles/scarabs since classic, and felt a little spurned when wasps and silithids were made tamable, but not the beetle/drones… I mean c’mon wouldn’t the *least intelligent* type of silithid be the most tamable?

And speaking of wasps, even though they’re not a new family I’d love to see the old world wasps become tamable – I’ve never really been that wild about the BC fire flies, and while I like the AQ boss model, it’s *still* not as cool as the “basic” silithid wasp – probably a good half the reason I got my sapphire hive queen is because I felt pushed into it by the tame nerf in 3.1…

And changing the scholazar drones to use the old style body but with the blue and red speckled boss skin didn’t do it for me either – their eyes look too googly. Or something.

What I want are the basic green/blue/yellow carapace with shiny black cleavers/stingers, and squinty little eyes that you can barely see (and of course Qirot…).

In re: ungulates/heffalumps/etc… an elekk might be nice perhaps as an exotic, though the others don’t really do much for me.

“if they do continue to produce spirit beasts of different families, and they all just have prowl and spirit strike, then it’s just going to be boring. By giving them each their family ability as well it puts them a step above the norm as far as damage dealing goes, and might got a long way towards buffing beast mastery in general.”

Exactly – I said this back in the beginning when no one really believed non-cat spirit beasts would ever be released… and some valid points were made, primarily being that it would be harder to program if they stop using the “one size fits all” code model, but I think nowadays as the initial excitement with “rare glowing pet!!” has faded, and people (including me) are thinking about teaming up with a cat-wearing-a-ghostly-bear-suit, players may start pushing back on Blizzard to take it back to old school programming somewhat for spirit beasts.

Here’s hoping anyway.