Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Zandalari Druids Getting Reptilian Beast/Moonkin Forms

Trolls have been able to play as Druids ever since Cataclysm, and one of the unique features that they got was that their flight form was a bat, rather than a bird - we knew from quests way back in Zangarmarsh that the Darkspear consider bird spirits to be unworthy (not sure how 110 Troll Druids feel about the Lunarwing flight form,) and Trolls have a long-existing relationship with Hireek, the Bat Loa.

Well, the Zandalari are going a couple steps further. All Trolls have some relationship with dinosaurs (see the standard Troll racial mount) but Zandalari appear to have all dinosaur druid forms. Flight form will be a kind of Pterrodax. Moonkin from looks to be a saurian version of the healthy Arrakoa model we saw in Warlords. Bear form will be a big, spiky dinosaur that looks vaguely turtle-like (I believe it has the same skeleton as the standard bear.)

I wonder if, for flavor, we might see some of these forms renamed. Obviously things like Rake or Swipe work fine for a reptile, but calling in "Bear form" or having abilities like "Bristling Fur" might not quite fit.

(Image links seem to be broken, so you can see the forms at WoWhead.)

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