Mounts. Emotes.

[jpark]

For my undead priest after much faction work I purchased an epic mount from the Orc stable master - a wolf.

Used to riding horses - when I click the space bar the horse, if stationary - rears onto its hind quarters.  With the wolf, clicking the space bar while stationary gives a completely different response - it goes low to the ground, growls, and snaps its jaw left and right.

/fanboi on.

My reactions in no particular order:

"They actually thought about this!"
"The wolf is different than the horse even in actions"
"I wonder how the other mounts behave"

It's this small attention to detail in the game - best reflected in things like emotes or species specific behaviors - that continues to delight me about this game.  There are other examples of the same thing - the sleeping positions, laughs, jokes and dance movements are specific to each race in this game.

Again, I see themes in this game reinforced at every level in sometimes the most unexpected things.

/fanboi off.

[HaemishM]

It's called style. Blizzard, for whatever their faults, has it.

[Jayce]

The night|snow|mistsabers raise their heads and roar (silently).

They also have an idle animation in which they stretch much like a housecat (crouch down, legs forward, whole body shivers a bit).

[Rasix]

I like dancing in wolf form. The wolf gets up on it's hind legs, put its front paws out in a begging position, and hops side to side.  It never fails to amuse people this long into the game.   

And yah, whenever I'm on my raptor, I can't resist hitting the spacebar to have it toss its head back and screetch/roar (little shorten arms flailing about).

[Morfiend]

Have you guys seen a druid in bear form dancing yet? Fuckign comedy. Looks like a circus bear dancing. I cant get enough of it.

[Chenghiz]

Have you guys seen a druid in bear form dancing yet? Fuckign comedy. Looks like a circus bear dancing. I cant get enough of it.

Even better - 3 druids in bear form, one with Winterfall Firewater (makes you bigger), one with Noggenfogger Elixir (random effect, one of which makes you smaller) and a regular-sized bear, all in a row, dancing in synchrony.

[Phred]

Have you guys seen a druid in bear form dancing yet? Fuckign comedy. Looks like a circus bear dancing. I cant get enough of it.

Even better - 3 druids in bear form, one with Winterfall Firewater (makes you bigger), one with Noggenfogger Elixir (random effect, one of which makes you smaller) and a regular-sized bear, all in a row, dancing in synchrony.

I don't know if they added it with the dance emotes or I just never noticed it before but if you skin in wolf or bear form now they've added an animation for it. It sort of looks like you're burying a turd. [scratch scratch scratch]

[Strazos]

The kodo mounts kind of just thrash their head and tail back and forth.


It doesn't matter, because I just amuse myself by doing 360 Kodo Flips off of little hills.

[Jobu]

The Ogre suit you can build in Dire Maul has a sweet dance animation too.

Sadly, the furbolg form you can assume from an alliance quest item does not have a dance emote. For the longest time, it didn't even have a "sit" animation. So if you tried sitting down, you would freeze in place like a statue. I always got a kick out of crashing druid bear parties with him.

[Xanthippe]

Agreed.  These little details are very amusing, and add to my enjoyment of the game immensely.

I wish they'd put in more stuff like this.  More recipes, more patterns for fluff.

I like fluff.

[Strazos]

I wish they would make it so hunters could no longer instantly drop a trap when they feign death, even while I beat them over the head with heavy objects.

[Simond]

On a related 'fluff' note: Steam Tonks are fun.

[bhodi]

On a related 'fluff' note: Steam Tonks are fun.

If only it had the name of the pilot so you knew who to target..

Also, I think the one with the mortar and flamethrower is broken.. I owned at tonks until my summon timer wore off.

[Ironwood]

What the hell are we talking about ?

[Xanthippe]

I don't know, but I now want one.

[Ironwood]

I think this might be a new darkmoon faire thingy.

[Typhon]

I think this might be a new darkmoon faire thingy.

You are correct!

I couldn't figure out how to fire my tonk.   

[Morfiend]

If your horde, there is a fun Dark Moon game. You go up to Thunder Bluff, and there is a cannon. This cannon will shoot you to the fair. There is even a target in the river you can try and hit. Unfortunetly 9 out of 10 times you miss and end up going splat.

A few guildies and I did this thing for like 3 hours.

[Zane0]

Interesting.  Alliance has a cannon that shoots you -away from the fair- at a target, unless they added another.  What's most amusing is that the landing area is in a level 12 murloc camp or something.  One of our guildies was reduced to a slither of health by the fall damage and the murlocs killed him.  Good times!

[Strazos]

GoGo Parachute Cloak!

[Xanthippe]

My daughter has been playing with those steam tonk things.  She calls it the "Kill me, kill you" game.  (She's 7).

She has a little warrior about level 6 or 7.  She likes to run around Stormwind and watch people.  She likes to wear different clothes (not a lot of options at level 7).  She also enjoys riding my mounts around on my characters.

I keep thinking that a mmog for kids would be really popular - besides Toontown, I mean.  Something that is kind of a combination of the Sims for the features of clothing and houses and furniture to feed that dressup/dollhouse jones, plus pets and minigames like Neopets, plus some hacknslash thrown in.

(Hmm, add crafting and quests, and I would also like to play a game like that.)

[Shockeye]

Hello Kitty Online will be all those things and more. Just you wait.. oh yes... just you wait.

[Xanthippe]

Yes yes yes.  I would love it - I mean my daughter would love it - but, I think Hello Kitty Online is vaporware.  The website is unchanged in the past year or so.

[Shockeye]

Yes yes yes.  I would love it - I mean my daughter would love it - but, I think Hello Kitty Online is vaporware.  The website is unchanged in the past year or so.

They moved development underground. Only in their hermetically-sealed bunker can they finish the holy grail of MMOs.

[jpark]

If your horde, there is a fun Dark Moon game. You go up to Thunder Bluff, and there is a cannon. This cannon will shoot you to the fair. There is even a target in the river you can try and hit. Unfortunetly 9 out of 10 times you miss and end up going splat.

A few guildies and I did this thing for like 3 hours.

Now that's cool.

[Hanzii]

GoGo Parachute Cloak!

Yeah, I used to consider mine a toy, but boy does it save on travelling when going from Gadgetzan to Un'Goro Crater... just don't miscalculate your jump or you'll suffer an expensive death.

Count my vote towards more fluff. I love my Mechanical Dragons... they're even usefull to, but let us engineers build more fluff stuff like the Snowmaster or the squirrel.

... and talking about the cool animation details, there's afew missing. Like swimming animations for pets - they all look stupid gliding motionless (and I know, for I have a Diving Helmet)

[Chenghiz]

Some pets have swimming animations - cats, for instance.

[Llava]

I keep thinking that a mmog for kids would be really popular - besides Toontown, I mean.  Something that is kind of a combination of the Sims for the features of clothing and houses and furniture to feed that dressup/dollhouse jones, plus pets and minigames like Neopets, plus some hacknslash thrown in.

(Hmm, add crafting and quests, and I would also like to play a game like that.)

I don't know about the houses and stuff, but Pirates of the Carribb...Caribb...Carrib...West Indies might be aiming for this market.  They've got very cartoony graphics and positioned the game as "kid friendly"- even giving a long list of suggested pirate names at character creation (Like you'd pick Billy, One-Eyed, Bilge, and Rotter, and you'd be One-Eyed Billy Bilgerotter, or something like that.)

[Righ]

Caribbean is in the spell checker. Unfortunately, so is "Carribean", "Caribean" and "Carribbean".

[Xanthippe]

You're not talking about this are you?
http://pirates.bethsoft.com/main.html

It doesn't look like a mmog to me.