Hello, it’s me, Baal, the guy who pushed for warlock customization options for our pets for years!
Author of this thread:
Making a thread here with 11.0 development looming and with this next minor patch granting us customization options for ALL our pets INCLUDING the CD pets
However, as we know they removed the Observer from our baseline demon options due to arguments about “pet silhouette”, that a Floating Eyeball is different from a Monster Puppy
Which, they seem to be doubling down on with the new Darkglare option.
Now reminder canonically:
- Darkglares are servants of the Legion
- Observers are demons whose only alleigance is to whoever lets them devourer and witness/learn the most magic
- Observers in the context of WoW are canonically ABERRATIONS or Demons, varying in origin between products of blood magic/fleshcrafting (eg Durumu the Forgotten from TOT) or as demons otherwise who devour minds (eg Occularus from Legion Invasion Point)
However they are all “Floating Eyeballs”, and so they are all valid for the Darkglare.
My argument is thus each pet can be reduced to the following silhouettes:
- Imp = Small Demon Caster
- Felhunter = Monster Dog/Monster Quadruped/Animal
- Voidwalker = wide/large “Spectral”/Elemental type being
- Sayaad = Humanoid that is Vaguely Sexual or has “Domination” themes
- Felguard = Humanoid that is Bigger/Stronger or Militant
- Tyrant = Humanoid type Caster
- Darkglare = Floating Eyeball as Established
- Infernal = Magical Construct that is Very Big
My main thread I linked above has the full imagined list I created, but wanted to make a separate thread here to see what everyone’s wishlist is
Ideally each person could list at least one, hopefully more, models they really want to see for each of our pet slots: imp, felhunter, voidwalker, sayaad, felguard, tyrant, darkglare, infernal.
Imp
- smaller Mo’arg
- Wyrmtongues
- Spriggans
- Imps with Troll or Kul Tiran Drust masks (there’s an imp with a mask in orgrimmar)
Felhunter
- Wicker dogs from Drustvar
- Urzul
- Chaos hounds
- spider demons
Void walkers
- Voidcaller
- Voidwraith
- Death elementals
- Fel elementals
Sayaad
- Satyr
- the blue recolor we never got
- Drustvar pigmen
- Jailer demon
- IMP MOTHER
Felguard
- Mo’arg brute
- Eredar women without the wings
- Aranasi
Tyrant
- Doommaiden (Eredar women with wings)
- Inquisitor demon
- suggestion from the Warlock Discord (Darklycid and Malacath!): greater armor diversity for the Eredar model used for the Tyrant, eg something resembling Kiljaeden, something resembling Archimonde!
Darkglare
- Reliquary of Souls / Devourer of Souls (Floating Eyeball and Floating Head, close enough!)
Infernal
- FEL REAVER
- Troll golems, Belf golems, Dwarf golems, but fel and shadow colored
What about y’all? What suggestions do you agree with, what did I not put here you’d like to see?
Down the road it would be nice for our armored pets to have race-umbrella armor options
eg Troll themed armor for our Felguard, Wrathguard, Sucubus, etc