All of these people getting so mad about the troll starting pet when you can go tame whatever you want...stop crying about a non issue
I'd like a real life photo of the Zandalari Pet for comparison please.
its not a horse for a starting pet, clearly alliance wants more horses! Okay sarcasm over, its safe no horse.
The bird is nice, but meh to the direhorn. Yeah yeah I understand woo Direhorn at level 20, but it is the old model that looks like it is made of stone. They should have used one of the newer or updated models.
Do remember this is still on the PTR. If you don't like one of the pets, then post your feedback on the PTR forum requesting a different pet. You can complain all you want here, but Blizzard's more likely to see/respond on the PTR forum. At worst, post your comment to their twitter feed and they might respond there as well.
I believe in 8.1.5 we get introduced to Torcali who is a Direhorn loa.
I was thinking the pet for the Kul'tirans will be an octopus or any animal of the sea,considering how much the race is bind to the sea... Similar to Inky ,Crimson Octopode, Octopode Fry or Slippy but in a bigger version.About the pet for Zandalari hunters,I think whatever dinosaur is fine xD
Blizzard needs to learn their birds. They routinely get them mixed up. This is NOT a falcon. This is a red-shouldered hawk with the moustache stripes of a peregrine painted on. There is NOTHING about this that says "falcon" to anyone who has half a clue about birds of prey.
Direhorns were the pet of choice for Zandalari npcs during MoP. But if anyone prefers to have a different beast as a pet, hunters now have an ability called Tame Beast, which allows them to get a different pet. The character has to be level 13 or above, and Zandalari characters will start at level 20.
A damn stone dinosaur? Get out, should've been a live dinosaur.
This is really cool, the Falcons are definitely a good choice for the Kul'tirans hunters!
I can understand the complaints about the Direhorn as a pet, but even thought there may be no loa represented in game right now, Direhorns are a huge part of Zandalari "beast culture" (best way to put it i guess). Go visit Warbeast Kraal and see all the trolls taming, training, and bonding with Direhorns. My biggest concern is the model....why do we have a unique MoP stone model as a starting pet when there are all manor of actual "living" Direhorns on Zandalar? It would be nice if Zandalaris started with a unique model like the Kul'tirans, but why not make it a slight color variation of a "living" Direhorn? Also I really like the Kul'tiran pet, I think the contrast in size is cool, if only you could get them to sit on your shoulder or on a bird glove haha.
In the model viewer, the bird's right leg (left if you're facing the bird) kinks outward wildly and awkwardly. If you turn the model around to view the leg from another angle, you can see that it is not connected to the rest of the bird's leg rigging - it comes disconnected and / or unhinged. If you move the model to the back, and then look up from down belowe you can better see what I'm trying to describe. The leg jets out wildly with each jarring, unhinged leg movement. It looks like the rigging was unfinished and the pixels are sliding around over a disconnected rig. It looks painful and should be fixed to match the bird's other talon's successfully completed rig. It looks injured and I can't unsee it, needs to be fixed. Please report this on the forums so the animators can see it and hopefully fix it.