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Sunreaver Dragonhawk Concern
I have a question that, hopefully, a Blue will be able to give me an answer too. (I can dream, yes?)

Currently in the PTR, any Hunter that has previously tamed a Sunreaver Dragonhawk has found that that pet now has the same skin on it as the new Sunreaver Dragonhawk Mount. Most of these Hunters are Alliance, seeing as the ability to tame one of these beasts was removed awhile ago for the Horde.

My concern is that Alliance Hunters are running around with a Horde Mount pet, something the Horde have to grind Rep and save Champion Seals to get. (Same kinda issue with the Black War Wolf pet, but at least both factions can get it.)

I would like to know if Blizzard is planning to replace the old Sunreaver Dragonhawks with a seperate model and skin, rather then just replacing the skin on the old model, so that those pets tamed previously will retain the old Sunreaver Dragonhawk look, and not the new one.

(If my descriptions of this issue are kinda confusing, this article gives a better outline of my concern: http://www.maniasarcania.com/2009/06/26/want-a-retired-pet-nows-your-chance/ )

Blood Elves are akin to the killer bunny from Monty Python's Holy Grail. You just don't expect something so harmless looking to disembowl you and use your entrails as a bungee cord.
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Re: Sunreaver Dragonhawk Concern
This has been fixed and should show up on the PTR eventually.

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Kind of a buzzkill thread -.-;

Next thing you know they'll remove the spirit wolf (that is the Dustwallow one) all together and remove the Ooze-olisk. :(

Maybe we'll get lucky and hunters with the pet prior to 3.2 will at least get grandfathered in...


This is not a "grandfathered" situation as with other similar situations, as the new look for dragonhawks has not yet been live and this is a bug existing on the Test Realm alone. The new texture is being introduced in 3.2, but will now be applied to a new Sunreaver Dragonhawk that cannot be tamed.

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Wait... I'm a little confused. Does this mean those Alliance who tamed the Sunreaver Dragonhawk prior to the patch will NOT get their pet re-skinned to look like the mount? (Meaning that it will remain the reddish color it is now on live.)


That is correct. The Sunreaver Dragonhawks that have been tamed will keep the coloration they have on live realms rather than getting a new texture.

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Re: Sunreaver Dragonhawk Concern
A bat mount would not be fitting for the Sunreavers, which is the faction in question. It will remain a dragonhawk.

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