Comments on: When, oh when will I get new skins?

By: Tigrodel

Tigrodel — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:08:17 +0000

Face it, blizz is just lazy. They thought they could pass off the glyph on us which would only change us into another mob anyway.. Then they didnt let us have it anyway coz it was a cosmetic change. Meanwhile mages are happily turning mobs into penguins.. because it is not a cosmetic change?? O_o

So.. over 4 years of wow, minimal change for druid skins. They’re all clones, they’re all male, (cat)they’re all just a copy of a mob or wyvern..
Not trying to QQ but it damn well seems not that blizz is lazy, they’ve done alot but just that they overlook or do not care about fixing what in my opinion has been the longest running cosmetic problem in wow.

By: NO Skin Glyphs in 3.0.8

NO Skin Glyphs in 3.0.8 — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:56:43 +0000

Considering the glyphs are shown on wowhead from their tracking database and the fact that we are being reworked for the new ap and armor changes i find it completely ridiculous that they aren’t able to include the skin glyphs in this upcoming patch! The black bear and white skins are in you can even see them from in game druid npc’s such as the Ilhoof character in Ashenvale. I mean the had the very slight hump change in the tauren cat form on the wotlk launch why cant they get these skins in by then?

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:11:58 +0000

Pixie, that was linked to above. That entire thing is what I linked to in the statement, “Sadly, we know we’re not going to have new skins in time for the….” in the post above.

By: Pixiedark

Pixiedark — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:43:49 +0000

Here’s some updated info from the forums… not sure if this means no glyphs or no non-glyph related changes but I figured you deserved an update since you took the time to post the Wowhead glyph info in your blog! =)

“By the by, quote from Ghostcrawler:

It’s not going to be in for Lich King. Sorry. Doing an entire animal texture takes a lot more art than a hair change.

But we all agree it’s high time for new druid form art. It’s a high priority after Lich King.

You absolutely deserve new skins and we want to do it right, and we want to do it soon. I don’t want to promise any more specifics than that until we see what problems arise when LK ships and what we need to fix. In our opinions, Raven Lord and epic flight form set the bar

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=10043217819&sid=2000&pageNo=1“

By: thebitterfig

thebitterfig — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:46:37 +0000

RE: minor glyphs to change appearance: add some other minor effect, too. maybe cold resistance to bear form with white bear, or such.

also, i’d love to see travel form be either a stag (nelf), or a stag with cow horns (tauren). that’d be cool.

By: Tigerfeet

Tigerfeet — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:10:44 +0000

@ Bazz

“but lose the damn horns.”

Them’s fightin’ words!

Of course, that’s an example of great personal opinion, I love my shape-shifted horns something fierce, you seem to swing in the opposite direction. With glyphs or a pet salon there’s opportunity for both of us to be happy, and if I have to run around as a wingless chimera to keep my horns then I guess I’ll just have to do that :)

PS – at least we’re not clowns with poorly-rigged backs anymore!
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2455/newcatrun2qf2.jpg
and
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/1821/newtaurencates5.gif

By: Bazz

Bazz — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:18:45 +0000

I have only one thing to say about new skins:

Don’t care WHAT you do, Blizzard, but lose the damn horns.
This is a shape-SHIFT. SHIFT! get it? Taurens have horns.. we SHIFT into a Cat. Cat’s do NOT have horns. None of mine do, at any rate, though they may just be hiding them (They are spawns of Satan, after all).

Bears do not have horns. I have no direct experience with bears, myself, but all the pictures I have seen are very definitely lacking in the head bone extension department.

So.. lose the horns, plz? kthxbai

By: Andruin

Andruin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:17:36 +0000

I like the current Night Elf skins, though I think they should add female versions. I haven’t played my Tauren enough to decide if I like those skins.

As for the camera/height problem in bear form – gnomes have it too, in all of their forms.

By: Rowtan

Rowtan — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:27:40 +0000

I’m curious – what would the 1 hour cool down be for, on those glyphs? (that could be a silly question, I just can’t think of an answer, off the top of my head!).

By: Tesh

Tesh — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:14:37 +0000

Ah, modeling and texturing. That’s the bulk of my job. Andrige, if you can eke out something that looks good with a low poly mesh, you’ll be in much better place to work with high res meshes if you can get them. I’ve seen way too many meshes that could be chopped down without losing visual fidelity as long as the texturing is smart. From what I see of your work, you make the WoW meshes work better than they have a right to. It’s better in the game industry to work that way, squeezing the absolute most out of your polygons and your texture.