Hello ladies and gentlemen from the forums,
please allow me to speak my mind about Zandalari druid forms and then ask you a question?
I know, I know you are probably tired of seeing a new post on the topic, I cant promise to offer you something different this time but please be patient with me.
One of the reasons that captivated me into WoW, aside from the common reasons like being an old school Warcraft player and a fan of the franchise since then, Is the variety of things they were able to put into one big open world, one of those things being dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs In my opinion are one of the coolest things to ever walk this earth and putting them In game along with the amazing artwork and design that the franchise always had was something that sealed the deal for me.
So, no wonder one of my favorite races are the trolls. Reading on their lore and relation to the dinosaurs, raptors specially made me hope that one day we would se druids turn into those amazing beasts and fight as one. Since In the lore it not only tells about the special bond trolls have with them but also that druids tend to take the form of creatures they can relate to.
Alright, alright, Ill get tot he point.
We didn’t get to see dinosaur forms with regular trolls and now with the Zandalari we do get to see them, but only as travel forms. The travel forms look amazing, I personally love the raptor design, but I cant say the same for the cat and bear forms…or better said the iguana cat and the tailless ankylosaur, whos species seem to have donated its tail to the direhorns somewhere in evolution.
Imagine yourself, a raptor, one of the fiercest predators that ever lived (and one of the most cunning too, as described by the franchise), you’re running through the jungle and you spot your prey, you charge it with tooth and nails prepared to rip and shred and in the last seconds before contact, you turn into a iguana cat to fight it…
That feels very anticlimactic…
Like many other people that asked for this, I would love to see a glyph that lets you use the travel form as the combat form, at least wile questing. If that won’t happen, could it be possible to have a mod for that? One that only changed my end of what I saw and not what other people see (In case the issue is with size and not mistaking it for a hunter pet or whatever).
Ohhh and btw, please don’t tell me “they would have to change all the animations just for one race”. Just use the ones you already have, I don’t care If they make a glyph for it and the animation are repetitive like the ones already existent In raptor npcs or hunter pets, hell they can use the same animations as the travel form when its attacking and I wouldn’t mind.
All I wish Is we had the option to appreciate the amazing job they did with the travel forms without having to switch to the “not that amazing job” they did with the battle forms.
If you got to the end, thank you for reading my little rant until the end, I’m sorry if its not well written or formatted. English Is not my main language.
Hope you all have a great week.