Wickerbeasts as Pets?

Does anyone else besides me absolutely wish for the wickerbeasts in Drustvar to be tameable for hunters? I for one would absolutely adore them for this character. I'd replace all my diseased-looking pets for the wickerbeasts in a heartbeat.
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I am still holding out for mammoth. But we can all wish.
Stranger things have happened. (I'm looking at you, all you soon-to-be-tameable crawgs.)

BTW, obvious pet name: "Woody"
Absolutely, they should have been tameable by Hunters and also should have been the mount for Exalted Order of Embers.
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I wouldn't mind it. I'd like a wicker bear for myself.
ALL beasts should be tamable. I've been shook from vanilla till now because you cant tame a damn giraffe. I remember walking to barrens on my low level hunter in vanilla to tame one.... the let down hasnt stopped letting down.
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Might be enough to get me to stable the cute robot rabbit Gnomes get

Hunters are getting that manual to tame those Nazmir creatures in 8.1, wouldn't be surprised if we get a manual for these guys as their opposite in a later patch
The Kul Tiran druid travel form would be amazing as a mount. Heck, all of their druid forms (minus moonkin) would be great hunter pets.

First time I saw the druid forms I thought, "My would those be cool for an undead druid," but alas... wishful thinking. Heh.

I do hope they add a manual or something like they do for the crawgs. I'd rather the wickerbeasts over crawgs. Those things are fugly.

On a side note, my undead hunter LOVES hanging out in Drustvar with the wicker-form from that one upgraded outpost.
There's a ton of missed opportunities in BfA as far as beast taming goes. I'm hoping they address it in a later patch.
Would be neat if that they added more tomes and racial taming abilities.
Kul Tirans able to tame wicker from start, others requiring tome.
Undead able to tame undead beasts, ect ect.
I wish the animals in Drust that were "touched" and had the cool shadow like effect would retain that effect after you tamed them.
11/10/2018 06:24 AMPosted by Mirah
Does anyone else besides me absolutely wish for the wickerbeasts in Drustvar to be tameable for hunters? I for one would absolutely adore them for this character. I'd replace all my diseased-looking pets for the wickerbeasts in a heartbeat.


They are non-mechanical constructs not beasts. Other than that, I don't care. Variety is good.
They are constructs, made by Baba Yagas of Drustvar!
They are only wood, slime and bones! Not real animals!
They are just a golens / elemental, badly made, born of the disgusting magic of the drusts!
Hunters were able to tame them during the beta. Some of them are still classed as beasts but cannot be tamed. I was hoping there would be a tome that would allow us kinda like the one for blood beasts in 8.1 but no such luck.
11/10/2018 08:31 AMPosted by Mergo
Hunters were able to tame them during the beta. Some of them are still classed as beasts but cannot be tamed. I was hoping there would be a tome that would allow us kinda like the one for blood beasts in 8.1 but no such luck.


Something like that being doable in beta but not now can be for many reasons. It might have been planned then on a step back to see everything, it was determined to be a bad idea and removed. Most likely it was planned to be not an option but far down the list of priorities to not deal with during the testing.
There's a NPC out there that will be like "Bet youre looking for a new pet, huh? Well don't get any ideas. These wicker beasts are special and demand respect"
or something along those lines.

So either A. He's telling us LOLNO
or B. There's a chance we'll get it later with likely a Gara-ish questline to do so.
11/10/2018 08:14 AMPosted by Yasudra
I wish the animals in Drust that were "touched" and had the cool shadow like effect would retain that effect after you tamed them.

I know there's a goat that does, but I can't remember where exactly.
11/10/2018 06:24 AMPosted by Mirah
Does anyone else besides me absolutely wish for the wickerbeasts in Drustvar to be tameable for hunters? I for one would absolutely adore them for this character. I'd replace all my diseased-looking pets for the wickerbeasts in a heartbeat.


Yes. If we could have these as pets, I'd bring this guy back into the game.
I'm honestly unsure what their criteria for whether or not a creature should be tamable is. You can tame a stone spider but a stone worm is "too much" it seems. Gyreworms should have been made tamable a long time ago.

Hell, we can even tame mechanical animals for crying out loud!
If it were a battle pet sure.I don't know what my hunter would place that under though,magic pet?