Blue cat > Horned catFollow

I am a big fan of horde and all the characters I have played for more than an hour have been horde. I recently rolled a druid on both Horde and Alliance and am finding the Ally cat much more appealing than the horned feline. I didn't mean for it to be like this, it just happened.

I'm very fond of taurens despite being a night elf, but my poor horned druid friends have one of the worst made models in the game. Visually it's a hack job, functionality it's broken. It's really sad that after all this time players have to continue to deal with it. GhostCrawler (A Dev) does promise that we should have some form of customization / revamped models in the near future. (Certainly not 3.1, but hopefully before the next expansion.)




>..> Me thinks that is *because* your ally. goober.

At least you get to see your crazy weapons with enchant effects etc. I get my brand new Polearm, Black Ice, and don't get to show it off :(

The only thing that annoys me about the models is the flight forms - we started off with Horde having this lovely black bird and then out of the blue one day we got swapped over to this horrid dung brown color. Even swift-flight form looks terrible in that color scheme and in the mean time the Allies got to keep the beautiful black version. >_<

Man I'm with you guys on this one.

I /love/ My druid, and I love feral, even when we were god aweful dps wise compared to others.

But..


We hordie cats look like a giant pixely twinky that got into a tussle with a hair brush.

It's aweful. I was just in H OS the other day, when I realized the EGGS in there are better textured then us, lol.


Not to mention we look like the inbred cousins of the wind rider wvyerns, what the hell is up with THEIR face, let alone ours? It's awful, rofl.

Though I have to say, our bear form looks a LOT better then Alliance bear form, their bear form is just... scary. The face is like a vampire bat or something. Creepy.

I'd be happy even if they just left us with the nasty looking cat we have now, if they'd just UPDATE the texture. Seriously. Stand a horde cat next to ANYONE or ANYTHING in the game, even vanilla WoW, even with your settings all the way jacked up, and our texture will still blurry and pathetic looking :[.

I don't normaly complain, let alone this much, but it's one of the few triggers that sets me off with this game.

.. But luckily, PLAYING the druid, I don't have to look at it's face :D. Just it's floppy ol' butt. [seriously, it flops. Not as weird look as moonkin rear when it runs, but close enough rofl].


I'm really excited that GC has finally said theres somthing coming for us since they had to "figure out" a new way to implement it since people on the oboards went apesh*t when they said it was going to be done via glyphs.

Hell, I would have prefered it done through glyphs and looking like cat models already in game then being stuck with the same cat form I've been staring at for 60 levels, and the same bear form for 70. Not to mention the years of playing =P.

But hopefully sometime after 3.1 they'll at least give us a nod that they're activly working on it.. Right? We can hope right ; ;?

Edited, Feb 18th 2009 1:55pm by Lolism

I can understand how it is a low priority as druid is not a huge population class. The art and code needs are fairly large as well.

But I also don't think they realize how happy it will make every druid to have new forms that reflect their toon's look and possibly gear.

It would be like Christmas.

Our (Night Elves) color scheme is always been heavy on blues and purples while Taurens are earth tones. This comes the fact that Night Elves are known as the "Children of the Stars" in their own language and that coloring fits with an ethereal night sky. While Taurens worship the Earthmother the representation the land hench the browns. So while not your favorite colors it does fit.

When flight form was first introduced many Taurens dismayed at looking just like the night elves so blizzard changed the color to fit better with their color scheme. Not that it matters much now that Swift Flight Form is trainable, it really is just a temporary model (AND Swift Flight Form is SHEER awesome for both Factions!)

BTW NE Swift Flight Form is purple. :p

WTB Tree-B-Gone glyph.

I'm so sick of this form, I hate it.

Love alliance kitty though, I hope it doesn't change :)

[quote[I can understand how it is a low priority as druid is not a huge population class. The art and code needs are fairly large as well.

But I also don't think they realize how happy it will make every druid to have new forms that reflect their toon's look and possibly gear.

It would be like Christmas.[/quote]

I do recall people linking some screen shots of what were to be new druid form apperances back before the xpac but maybe those were fakes?

Showing gear in cat and bird form would rock for us though - figure helm, shoulders and maybe chest gear could be shown up in critter forms and that'd definately add some flavor to us ferals.

Problem is that it'd be pretty tough to do that for trees and chickens.

I'd like something that "scales" with gear, though I imagine that'd be much harder to imagine.

I found this a while ago, maybe some of you have seen it. Not 100% sure but if I remember correctly it's fan-made and would work only client-side and would constitute infringement of the ToA or some such.

Regardless, look and weep. I'd love to get an update like this.

Yeah, I noticed the link in the picture and gave it a look.

I'm trying to decide if I wanna risk trying to use the pack... they really look much, much better than what's in the game right now. :/

Umm, those ones that never actually made it to live? There are no form chainging glyphs in game at the moment.

I still think gnomes should be able to ride druids.