I know there is no way to easily do this other than a skin and using the same abilities… but after 15+ years of bear and cat… im game for something fresh…
Let me Tank form = Gorilla holding an axe for no real reason… Or let me DPS as a Cobra. 
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Would gorilla holding 2 bananas in hands better than axe? When you press frenzied regeneration, the animation is the gorilla eating 1 banana.
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Only if I can use the bananas as a form of CC a-la Diddy Kong 
This has been asked before. There is two forms that can be added to the Druid and not break lore. Druids of the Pack and Druids of the Fang. We faced, and yes killed most, them once but a few lived and they where only corrupted by the dream. The archdruid of that group is alive. I know a lot of people would shack their heads at the idea of us being able to play a Druid of the Pack but hear me out. They add a quest chain into the game for Druids, the Specialization locked behind the quest chain, to go and find Goldrinn and have him get Blessed by Elune and so making the form controlable by Druids. The form is a normal wolf not Worgen that happened after they tried to control the form.
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I really wish they’d up the size of bear form in general, looks kinda small scale wise.
I prefer the KT bramble forms the best, just wish we had a scale adjuster, nothing crazy but something of the sort would add more flavor.
I’d love to have the druid of the flame looks from Firelands. Give me scorpion, armored fire cat forms and firehawk flight form.
It’s already in the game… let us do a quest for them.
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If they ever add draenei druids, I want a talbuk travel form. Cat form could be the panthara from Argus. Bear form would be crystal-backed bears. Flight form could be a mana ray.
I still will never understand why they have all these amazing models in the game. They release amazing new ones each expansion and only hunters can make full use of them from taming. Blizz, let us use stuff too. I’m thankful for the few travel form options that were added a little while ago but hell. There are so many cool bear and cat forms already in game. Why can’t we use them??
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Reusing the modes for druid is not as simple as reusing for hunter’s pet. When you change the beast to a pet, it doesn’t gain any new skill. So there is no requirement for new animations. But if you want the model to be used as a druid form, then at least you’ll need to add animations for “dance”, “eat”, “sit”… So it requires more work, I don’t think they have resource for new form, and they shouldn’t put the resource on anything else until they figure out how to design a talent tree.
The new worgen also completed the Ritual of Balance in order to control their worgen form, so it’s plausible that those same worgen who are druids would be able to safely enter pack form using the same principle/magic. At the very least though, worgen druids should be able to use (via a glyph) an instant-cast version of running wild as their travel form.
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Well… They kiiiind of already made those. The Werebear model can be tweaked to be more primape-ish… or… oooorr… Mega-Swampert.
Werecat for feral
Already got werecats in the game.
Werebear for guardian
a baseline werebear form we can customize
Ancient Tree for restoration,
a full form not 30sec transformation
base it on ancient tree. make it skinnier to
fit humanoid animations like riding in
vehicles and on mounts.
mutation Malfurion form for Balance
change arms and legs, add antlers to
existing characters model
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I too wish to be monke.
The main problem I see with them adding in new forms, unless it is just a glyth like item, is most wouldn’t fit our specializatoins now. They designed Feral to be a cat, a wolf or snake wouldn’t fit it. They designed Guardian to be a bear, turtle or another tanking animal wouldn’t work. This kind of leads into almost a full redesign of the class.
If they make say two different forms for Guardian they should have to change how each would play. Bear more or less can stay as is but if they gave us the option of being a Turtle then the core of this form would be different. More reliant on armor then health.
If they added in extra Feral forms, say wolf and snake, the cat form play style wouldn’t make that much sense. I have voiced that they have done the cat form dirty for a long time. The cat form should be more like a arms warrior with rogue like abilities and not straight copy of rogues. If they combined the Arms Warrior and General Rogue abilities I believe the form would play more better. If they did this the snake form could be added into the game with strong influence from Assassination Rogues. Also wolf could be added in with influence from Fury Warrior.
Balance and Restoration Druids I can’t see them changing up much and adding more forms to.
If they did this they could let us choice our paths. You pick which Guardian form you want and also which Feral form you want. This would bring interesting groups to the table, yes I understanding balancing each form and play style would be hard.
They all use the same cat skeleton? Those random mobs already have the same druid animations same for bears.
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Yeah if the skeleton are same, it’s much easier to reuse. But we don’t know what’s behind the model. So looks the same doesn’t mean they are identical. Or maybe they don’t want druid to just use a random cat model, it should be unique.