Comments on: Tauren Cat Art Released

By: Blacknimbus

Blacknimbus — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:10:11 +0000

People talk about the new face as looking odd?

Look at the old one! A face only an Earth Mother could love.

By: Oink

Oink — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:02:22 +0000

I am taking top right. I always roll a fully black tauren.

By: Ribeye

Ribeye — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:44:29 +0000

Hooray for putting slack-jawed, mouth breather kitty form to bed!

I’ll take top left, please. Will settle for bottome left. Or any of the other 3 that don’t scream “Durrrrrrr!” like the old form, really.

Teh Ribby, he must go Kitteh nao.

By: Consolea

Consolea — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:18:18 +0000

I mean, good gracious gods of kittens, the new looks are fantastic! So what if the head looks a bit like the one of a tauren. Isn’t that what they are in the end? I’d love to have a kitty with the white and blue-ish fur. It’s like the perfect Northrend skin. And I really think it’s a tiny bit that so many are QQing already. What did people expect? Discoballs, a build in mini bar and your own personal gnome hiding in the fur? Well. I love the news kittens. End of story.

By: Starman

Starman — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:49:16 +0000

While I find that I like it compared with the old one… the face looks extremely goofy with a basically tauren male face coming out of an otherwise gorgeously done lions body.

Overall I like the upgrade, but honestly… I’m hoping the night elf ones kick the crap out of this because I think the face is just goofy.

By: Feralan

Feralan — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:25:40 +0000

Awesome! At first I laughed out loud at the head, but the design really … fits, in a way. Fantastic colors again, too. The two leftmost lions are the best in my book, I’d have a really hard time picking which I like more, and I really want to make a tauren druid alt now with one of these two looks. Okay, the nosering is a bit weird, but if humans can inflict crap like brandings, piercings through the genitals, botox, boob jobs etc. on themselves, I don’t see why tauren can’t decide to wear a ring through the nose. We can’t have a monopoly on self-mutilation after all. ;)

I’m really sceptical that the night elf cats will even come close to this. Their colors will likely be washed-out again like the bears, and if they reuse roughly the same color schemes (as they did with tauren bears and cats) then the stylish old dark ‘saber look will be totally ruined and gone. I’d love to have a brown tauren cat. I don’t mind a brown night elf bear. But I’d hate to be a muddy night elf cat.

By: Naissa

Naissa — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:05:19 +0000

Rawr. I looooooove the new kitty form. Not a huge fan of the new bear. :( Sadly I’m all about the bear form. Boo.

By: Kailna

Kailna — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:50:42 +0000

I started out feeling very ambiguous about the new Tauren kitties, but the more I stare at them, the more I fall in love. The face does look a little awkward in some of those screenshots but I’m willing to bet that it’s the fault of the static screenshots, not the model itself. Blizz needs to implement these forms ASAP, I don’t think the druid community will be willing to put up with our old forms for another few months. The only question is what fur colour should I go? They all look so good! ];8)

And I’ve said it before, but us Lady Tauren have manes on the back of our necks, so it only seems natural to that our cat form should also have manes. I mean, sure it doesn’t happen with real live lions, so it seems odd when you first see it. But I figure we aren’t shapeshifting into lions specifically, more just a cat version of ourselves. What applies in real life doesn’t nessesarily apply here.
If Blizz does eventually decide to change our Female form, I won’t be arguing. But I’m just as happy living with my mane, even if it does confuse some people.
]:8)

By: Criven

Criven — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:00:23 +0000

Those are absolutely awesome looking. It’s enough to make me pull my Kitty druid out of semi retirement

By: Wulf

Wulf — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:46:27 +0000

It’s a 100% improvement from the original Tauren Kitty. And who’s not to say that there isn’t a female version Tauren kitty out there just under wraps. We can keep our fingers crossed that this is just a small teaser of one type of tauren model which has been changed around to show different colors. :D