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by Lesley Smith 
Jun 4th 2009 at 1:35PM
My first thoughts are actually quite positive. I love the cat versions of the Night Elf tattoos and the shiny gem collars are a lovely touch, even if the leather bracelet/anklet/pawlet seem a little weird and out of place. When did Night Elves get a leather fetish exactly? The colours are nice, all a variation on Night Elf skin tone but I confess I prefer the colouration of the old cat design. Over all it's quite a nice selection of designs and I think players are going to be rather pleased come patch day to be able to stand out in a crowd of druids, even if not everyone is going to like the new look. My only question is: what's the deal with the different coloured eyes? It's nice but somewhat creepy looking. To learn more about all the new Druid forms, don't forget you can check out Blizzard's in development page.
Filed under: Druid, Patches, Blizzard, News items, Wrath of the Lich King
Reader Comments (Page 9 of 9)
rosencratz Jun 5th 2009 8:17AM
Damn, that was in response to catiya
Drahliana Jun 5th 2009 8:26AM
Now the real important question.... why isn't the original form makred "Ye Olde Cat"!
Jeffrey Jun 5th 2009 8:50AM
lol seriously if you stare at the tauran cat form long enough you'll actually see it has some sort of monkeyish look to it haha as if being cow wasn't bad enough :D Now you can walk around like a monkey with horns rofl.
TripleEYE Jun 5th 2009 10:38AM
As always - Blizzard prefers alliance. I mean WTF? The Night-Elf's cats look waaaay more awesome & invested on than the Tauran forms. ffs Blizzard when will you stop being so racist?
Rage Jun 5th 2009 10:42AM
If Blizzard wanted to make people really, really happy then they would make it so we can customize each form independently and give them a gender look simple by using Jewelry and color options. I was thinking for Tauren they could change the horns and make them turn down or make them smaller for females. Female jewelry should be female looking kind of like the chocker the NE Cat is currently wearing now and male should be rugged (think about how Tier 6 looked, tribal with bones). Also I think face and shoulder marking colors could enhance this too. Simply lock down jewelry and color options based on the sex of the character.
Hopefully Blizzard will listen and make it so that each form is editable independently. I’m wondering if they did that because they couldn’t put a Bear or Cat in the Barber chair and thought it we can make it work just go off the humanoid forms colors. If that’s the case here’s an idea for you make a Druid Barber shop in Moonglade that lets you customize your Bear and Cat forms as well as future Tree and Moonkin forms. I’m always happy any time I have a reason to use Moonglade recall and what better reason then this!
To make this work right you would need for people when they first log-on the day this is introduced to have the same look. I would try and make it as close to the original models as possible (by this I mean color wise and don’t add any jewelry). I imagine this would make many people happy. I know I love the color of my current NE cat and bear and possibly would be happy just to keep them like the original art. But more than likely I would be headed straight to Moonglade to pimp my forms out. However it would be nice to have a classic button at the Barber shop that puts you back to old school colors.
If your reading this and you like what you are reading make sure to reply and say so post this idea on as many forums as you can get the word out and let’s make this happen!
Lykofos Jun 5th 2009 3:57PM
My kitty will be glad to have his new forms when I finally return my account from the dead. The question is which color scheme (I am NE)?
Elaine Jun 5th 2009 9:27PM
Oh my god finally :D
IMO the only downfall would be the paws.. they never seem to get them to look right
Ben Jul 9th 2009 9:20PM
I guess noone remembers about 2 years ago when the community already had released custom druid skins....
Way to be slow on the draw, blizzard.