Comments on: Word is, new Night Elf Bear forms are up… maybe

By: L

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:39:39 +0000

@yunk, what do you mean, a female bear? A bear is a bear. A male bear doesn’t have anything major to differentiate it from a female bear. They don’t have a mane, and the WoW models aren’t detailed enough to show… parts. And both male and female tauren have horns, so… I really don’t know what you’re talking about. These forms look fine for male and female characters.

Or do you want boobs or udders on the bears?

The only model for which the “I want female versions” argument was ever remotely valid was tauren cats, since they were clearly based on lions and the mane indicated maleness. Trees don’t have human sexual differentiation, and neither do owlbears. Because… they’re an owl… bear. Owls don’t have curves, and neither do bears.

We don’t need male and female versions of our forms. And this is coming from a female player with a druid main who is obsessed with customization.

By: Pies

Pies — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:52:49 +0000

I’m probably just out of touch, but you did notice the horde models as well, right? http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/images/druid/ss1.jpg

By: skd

skd — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:43:33 +0000

Night Elf bears look 100x cooler than tauren bears. We need udders.

By: Tesh

Tesh — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:06:02 +0000

I call the one on the lower right.

…now I wanna play WoW again as a NE Druid. Maybe it’s time to fire up the ten day trial again to scratch the itch and get some screenshots.

By: Jorrah

Jorrah — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:22:35 +0000

@kikidas i’m thinking possibly because you get face tattoos so its probably considered more like an actual tattoo(not that tattoos obviously cant be multihued)..where as we have tribal paint on our faces, and the shoulder marks are supposed to be a reflection of that as well. http://www.newkiddesigns.com/horse%20images/clinkies/WACIYE_PICA_3x4.jpg example of native american warhorse paint which was probably a reference of their idea for tauren druid bear markings (from my standpoint, clearly this is all opinion based). Because I too, even being tauren, wondered why the cowbear markings were multicolored and this is what i came up with.

By: Naissa

Naissa — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:22:49 +0000

Wheeeeee! New feral form models! I like the new tauren bear models. Can’t wait to see the new cat form graphics.

By: kikidas

kikidas — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:26:04 +0000

Not that I’m bitching, ‘cuz I’m not (but I am)… by why do the TAUREN druids get different colored shoulder-designs and Night Elf druids, with their funky hair colors and facial markings, just get brown shoulder-designs?

It’s specist, is what it is.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:17:40 +0000

Is it just me or does the ‘ye olde bear’ look much better than the one in the game?

By: Kathrine

Kathrine — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:07:55 +0000

Why can’t they make a nice cuddly looking bear. Perhaps Winnie the Pooh but on steroids. Druid bears are so creepy looking. I think horde would be more embarrassed if they got mauled by something cute and fuzzy. I think they should have asked me to do the design. Adorable would be the description. Don’t get me wrong they could tear you apart…but while doing it you wouldn’t be able to help yourself but say “ahhh he’s so cute”.

By: Feralan

Feralan — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:59:12 +0000

Awesome. I was really fearing Blizzard would curse druids with wannabe-k3wl nonsense like armor plates or huge spikes or colored steam coming out of our mouth and arse. But this isn't over-the-top at all. Mind, I'd be even happier without any ornamentation beyond the glyph of Cenarius on the shoulder, but some feathers and a necklace are okay. Both the tauren and night elf bears suit the class and the race, IMO. Now, let's hope the new cat form models will be as good! The only complaint I have is fur color being tied to hair color. It sort of makes sense for a tauren, I suppose, but for a night elf? The white bear aside, I honestly can't directly associated their rainbow hair colors with one of the new bears over another. I'd much rather have an independant choice for each form. And I really want to keep my dark catform even though my druid's hair is pale green.