This makes my day! Thanks!

Something that could be also nice, would be to have the weapon's enchant displayed in bear/cat form on the front paws.

Further, where is the gender differences? Male tauren / night elf forms looking different from female tauren / night elf forms? Even that could have gone a long way of helping this reskin be accepted more.

The new bear forms are great! I can't wait to see the others. I like the solution you found, great way to introduce variety without inflating the data stream!

Pretty cool.

I'd like it if there was some armor on them. Like those bear mounts.

But still pretty cool nevertheless.

Oooo, very sweet!

Now I'm going to be torn for weeks leading up to that patch trying to figure out which color to go with. Ack!

(Ignore the people who are whining and moaning. They obviously have issues with looking gift bear forms in the mouth.)

Great work on the forms we've seen so far - same spiritual base, but so much nicer in the details.

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For the future, seeing armor in some form would be nice, but quite frankly, the variation in druid forms is fantastic and will do me for a long time. And as a feral druid, I feel moonkin/tree druids deserve options sooner than armor on the new models.

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As a feral-at-heart druid who's currently Resto and Balance (an aberration I assure you, until I get some better feral gear and get tired of Starfall and Typhoon...) - I totally agree.

I would also prefer to see some forms sooner (especially core forms like these) than wait for all the forms to be done before any are released.

I'm a bit mixed on the hairstyle to fur mapping. It's an elegant solution in two ways (no need to reinvent the barbershop, and there is a stylistic elegance to your base form coloration affecting animal forms), but I can see where it might prove limiting - if I want *this* cat and *that* bear, then I probably have only one choice of hair color, or the option might even be foreclosed. However, if the linked groups have a good consistent 'feel' among them, I'll be fine.

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No one has said anything about it only closing while sitting. :) I think there have been some incorrect inferences.

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That was because of:

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Also, in the screenshots the bears are roaring, but when just sitting normally, their mouths will close in a toothy grin so to speak.

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Some of us interpreted it to mean 'being still' but others thought it was the sitting action.

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I can't stop grinning. Now my face is going to look like this for the rest of my life.

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It can only close its mouth when sitting, just like a real bear.

WTB NE FORMS PL0X

now that you guys are doing feral forms its only natural to do moonkin and tree! =D

Very nice!

I'd like to echo the sentiment from others that it's a little disappointing that it's tied to hair color. If the goal is customization of the character, what if I'm not a fan of the form associated with the hair color I've got associated with my character now?

This isn't "omg new forms r ruineded" -- but since it's an exciting new feature, it'd be nice if that little bit of extra UI effort was put in to get it to be really awesome. This would also lead more naturally into what I'd ultimately love to see -- the ability to actually customize specific color aspects & doodad aspects of the forms.

But this is, nevertheless, very awesome. Can't wait to see the nelf versions, and the ultimate tree & boomkin stuff.

edit: kept wanting to type forums instead of forms

Are the hair colors of bear, cat, and elf/tauren independent? That is to say, can I keep my green hair but still pick any of the colors for bear and cat?

The shown models look good, but I am not sure if what is offered here is realy what druids were looking for.

Sure, not everyone will look the same anymore. But gear still won't matter one bit look wise while in bear- or catform (boomkin, tree).

A solution that makes gear affect the ... look of the feral models would be, imho, far better, though surely alot harder to do. But then, druids are a popular class. It might be well worth it.

WOW! Those really look great! Can't wait to see them in game.

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No one has said anything about it only closing while sitting. :) I think there have been some incorrect inferences.

Just to clarify, when I said, "sitting around" that was in reference to idling, hanging out and being bearlike.

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You mean "bearing" it all?

kekekek

Please do Tree next! I really really hate that abomination of a form.

Pretty flower form or dryad form please.

Also, I don't like that it corresponds to hair color. What if I want green hair when I'm a night elf, but want a certain form that i can only get with ugly white hair. I won't be able to choose :(

Other than that good job though, a step in the right direction.

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So you know it closes because the Blue said so. We dont know it only closes when sitting despite the Blue saying so.


Kay.

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I'm trying to find the word "only" in the statement "Also, in the screenshots the bears are roaring, but when just sitting normally, their mouths will close in a toothy grin so to speak." and am somehow missing it. Can you please point it out for me? Otherwise, it sounds to me like the "normal" state will probably be closed, except when the bear roars.

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So, I take it a level 80 cat form is going to still look like a level 20 cat form???

Yes, druids were tired of the same look for 4 years, BUT that was half of their complaint.

THEY WANT TO NOT LOOK LIKE LOW LEVELS.

A level 80 warrior doesn't look like a level 20 or 30 warrior does he?

Why does the night elf epic mount have armor and an epic 80 cat form doesn't?

Why does the war bear mount have armor and an epic 80 bear form doesn't?

You took a step in the right direction, but you need to take another one and not half-ass it.

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I completely disagree.

The curse of leveling in WoW is that you're saddled with more and more ridiculous looking gear. You give two excellent examples of this: the "epic" nightsaber and bear mounts, which are covered in hideous crap, whereas the unamored versions look vastly superior.

Druids are the one class that have had a way out of this curse of silliness, by shifting into forms that retain their elegant, clean lines regardless of what monstrosities Blizzard is dropping from the most recent instance. Don't take this away!

Just as an idea for making gear show for druids, I'd like to suggest that it could be based on item level, and not the actual piece of gear. Having a 213 iLvl shoulder would yield a different look than a 223 ilvl shoulder, but all the 213s would look the same on the bear. This would mean you only have to design a new gear model for bears each new tier of gear. You could even base it on total ilvl for a toon if you wanted and then you could even add fun armor things to the bear that look nothing like the actual armor does.