TWW End Game Rewards: What Happened?

How did we go from these:

SL KSM:
https://www.ministryofdefense.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/mythicplusmounts.png

SL Gladiator/DF Gladiator:
https://www.warcraftmounts.com/images/skins/shadebeastmount_black.jpg

https://www.warcraftmounts.com/images/skins/drake2mountgladiator_purple.jpg

DF S2 PvP Illusion:
https://imgur.com/kOl2lOp

To these:

TWW KSM:
https://wow.zamimg.com/modelviewer/beta/webthumbs/npc-row/198/121286.jpg

TWW Gladiator:
https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/1157096.jpg

TWW S1 Illusion:
https://imgur.com/dLrofjy

Comon Blizzard… you have an expansion full of nerubians that’s subterranean & you go with… mechs & FEL bats? (Fel bats from legion btw how do they even fit in TWW?) why not stone drakes/spider drakes/subterranean drakes for the gladiator mount & if you have to go the mech route for ksm why not a mech gryphon or mech nerubian brute? Something unique for both end game rewards rather than something that’s skeleton/model has been used 100x over for rep rewards?

The PvP illusion is also shameful… what is that? You guys have an incredible art team that’s 100x better than what it was 10 years ago but you’re telling me those rewards were the best you could come up with? Comon now… I know people on the forums who are 50x more creative than that.

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Because Earthen.

Because Nerubian/Haranir (no idea of their lore but judging by the aesthetic, this fits)

This is perfectly fine.

Because this isn’t Cataclysm and we just left Dragonflight. You want them to add more Drakes in a non-Drake expansion, or even if you wanted to go with calling them Dragons you want more Dragons after a dragon-themed expansion, you don’t think that’d go down worse…?

And Spiders… I don’t think that’d go down well either if I’m perfectly honest. I still remember when they added the goldsink one.

Finally the Illusion … is an Illusion. An update dversion with better VFX and colours than what we have of that particular kind of fire-enchantment. So … yeah. It is fine.

No. Just straight up … no.
If they were good enough to be hired and wanted to work on a game like that of WoW and do it where their work actually could be implemented into the game, they would already be working at WoW or another game studio as a VFX/3D modeller.

I like the War Within mech. :dracthyr_comfy_sip:

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Ty for posting Kennie.

Idk, I think it all looks fine.

I don’t like the mech’s color but that’s a me thing.

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Well, if it’s like the last 2 x-packs we’ll get recolors of it every season, so maybe they’ll have one you like.

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I want it in another colour.

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Well, there’ll probably be at least 1, probably 2 more variants.

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So just make KSM a reskin of the gold sink reward? Nah that’s lazy.

Fel bat does not fit in a non-legion expansion lol.

They added proto-drake gladiator mounts in BfA… we didn’t see a single one in that expansion sooooo…

This is cope, it’s bad & you know it.

The firelord illusion from Winter Veil looks better.

You don’t have to have a degree to have good design concepts for a game, only to render.

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A mech suit? Tinkerers confirmed

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Good thing there’s gonna be 3 more.

TWW is probably only 2 seasons long.

There’s currently 2 gladiator bats gold/silver.

Leads me to believe 2 seasons (as Metzen said expansions would be coming out faster as per Blizzcon).

I think the mech is cool. I’ll definitely be favoriting it like I do all the PvE mount.

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Hang on, is it gladiator or vicious? Because if it’s glad, then yeah that’s weird and lame. But vicious, as the colours make me think, would be pretty par for the course. They’re always some previously seen critter with horde and alliance armor slapped on them. This one looking like an alliance flavoured one.

You were the one to suggest a spider. Which model do you think they would be using…?

It ain’t a fel-bat.

BFA wasn’t immediately after a dragon-themed expansion.

“I disagree with you and cannot make a coherent argument, therefore YOU must be the one coping!!”

This literally means nothing in regards to what I said.

Have a good day!

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It’s gladiator, unfortunately.

Nope it’s gonna be 4 seasons unless you’re implying each season will be one year long lol.

He also said each expansion will be 2 years long, with the World Soul saga finishing in 2030.

Well I am stunned by that. Thunderstruck in fact!

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It… it literally says ‘Forged Gladiator’s Fel Bat’

What?

So what…? Most gladiator mounts were some form of dragon.

https://www.warcraftmounts.com/pvp.php

Stone Drakes would have made 100x more sense than a legion bat.

Okay, like… name aside, it doesn’t look like a fel bat, and it certainly isn’t a legion bat.

We spend the majority of our time in a massive cave. A huge bat feels pretty appropriate.

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Mech is an awesome ksm mount imo. Glad mount is kinda mid yeah. But how many people were even going to get it anyways lol.

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