Aw nuts, I was having fun abusing Ice Floes to mount and Survey while moving.
They are doing it because people will buy it and yes...it is in the store already and a guild mate has already bought one. I used the hitching post from her last night. Pretty cool.
OMG that Mystic Runesaber! Best looking In-Shop mount I have seen. Me want!
tipcal another awesome mount you can only get with recruit a friend, they should just remove the recruit a friend feature can hardly find friends to recruit anyway ¬.¬ put the RAF mounts in store or have to earn achivements.
MMO-Champion states Hogs is a reward for winning the now-removed anniversary BG: http://ptr.wowdb.com/npcs/76873-hogs edit: Wowhead's data shows this as well: HogsI hope this is just a placeholder thingy, as this would really, really suck, adding something more palpable than a Feat of Strength to removed content - which was quite tedious to begin with (as you can guess, I tried it a few times, but never got a win, and standing >30min in a crowd, throwing spells at the other crowd, was very, very boring)
The battle pet Hogs was datamined last year and nothing has changed since then. The related pet info isn't new to this PTR, it said it was from Victory from Hillsbrad months ago.It's come to light because the 6.1 item Hogs' Studded Collar and unused beta item Hogs both link to the beta battle pet. This isn't even the first time we've seen a Hogs item.Normally when there's new upcoming pets in the data, we see it in the PTR journal asap. For example, the Heroes of the Storm pet from yesterday's build is there, even though the model is a cube. Hogs isn't listed in the journal at all for this build when you log on to the PTR and search for it.Currently it's not retroactive on the PTR (my copied characters have the achievement) and it hasn't even been added to the journal yet. If not a placeholder, I would say the old ID is tied to TM vs SS (if it returns as an annual thing) and the new ID is from Lil Hogger but that's speculation.Edit--Bashiok made a post saying it wasn't coming from TMvsSS retroactively, I've added a link to the post.
It's not on the PTR either. I meant to reply to this after I was debunking the Hogs rumors.
They clarified that Hogs is placeholder and will not be in 6.1."It's old data. The "Hogs" mini-Hogger pet is not a reward from that achievement, and we'll correct it in the next PTR build. We haven't determined yet if/when he'll be obtainable, or from what source."
As if mages hadn't been screwed up enough to date in this expansion now Blizzard makes it worse. This is already the most ill-concieved, ill-designed and ill-executed expansion of the game. At this point I expect nothing and Blizzard continues to disappoint even with the bar set at zero. Since complaining to the idiots who created WoD that's an expansion made by idiots is pointless how about this: taking off from the Mystic Runesaber Shop Mount, how about a Steamwheedle Goblin High School Shop Project Mount? A mount that is simply goofy and cobbled together out of spare and ill-fitting parts would be actual fun instead of the re-skins of old designs that keep filling the mount tab. Oh, dear, I forgot! That would require someone in the WoD team to have an imagination. Never mind.
Found the Bashiok post, phew.
It's incredible that they didn't even bother implementing a Loremaster for Draenor at launch. It's like even those Blizzard devs who work on WoW are too excited about HotS&Overwatch to give a damn about WoW.Well good thing we'll get it in 6.1.
I can't wait for that store mount though.
nice
Noones forced to buy that cat if you are unhappy with a semi-reskin, i love the looks but would only buy at a sale...
How the fu.. you cannot understand the most people' problem with the shop mounts...?The main problem: We can see the shop mounts got more "care" I mean work while in-game mounts are just copy paste with a minimal reskin...I think the shop should only sell reskined mounts.But you know, I am just a good human, I don't want to buy a 2nd jacht to my nice....
The druid flight form change is from lv 58 to lv 1. That cannot be right; druids will be able to fly from lv 1?
Not interested in the purple cat if it can't fly.Cindermane charger now it look like I'll need to recruit a friend cause that look so boss even though it just a red skin of Hearthsteed.