Anthriss

Not that anyone in particular cares what my opinion is on the matter, but I read Gar’s reaction and felt the need to weigh in.

If the taming “challenges” go live in a manner that is identical to their PTR incarnation, then I will count myself among the disappointed. I do, however, think they ALMOST got it right. Let me explain.

When I think of challenging tames, two names come to mind….King Krush and Terrorpene. Krush was a nightmare tame initially because he was immune to CC, hit like a truck and could break your tame with his fear. Terrorpene is a BEAST if attempted at equal level. THOSE tames are taming challenges. You needed to prepare SPECIFICALLY for the tame before setting out on the hunt. If you were lucky enough to find the beast, you not only needed flawless execution of your strategy but a little bit of luck to boot.

I think there are elements of various 4.2 rare taming challenges that, standing alone, are pretty well imagined. I LIKE the idea of having to stand in lava, putting myself in harms way in order to protect me from an element of the beasts attack. I LIKE the idea of having to beat a beast with a hughe HP pool “into submission” before I can get my tame on. I LIKE the idea of the beasts in question being able to dump truck griefers or the hunter trying to tame it.

What I DON’T LIKE is being spoonfed this information in a tooltip. What I DON’T LIKE is that the animal I have to beat down before I can tame it moves slower than mashed potatoes running down a wall (people with 4 year olds know what I mean) and I’m more in danger of running too far away and losing aggro than I am of having the beast bear down on me and one shot me.

I guess what I’m getting at is I would have preferred it if the beasts had been given a toolbox of destruction like Krush and Terrorpene were. Krush and Terropene were puzzles that you needed to figure out how to work for your own character, even though you knew the strategy ahead of time. Do I have enough HP to survive or do I need to stack stam? How much fire resistance can I get by with in combination with my HP and still survive? Is there a priest in the zone that can give me a fear ward before I go hunting JUST IN CASE I find Krush?

When I do a jigsaw puzzle, I don’t look at the picture on the box. I look at the pieces. I group them based on which ones look like they go together. Then I try putting that bad boy together and I keep at it until its solved. By putting the solutions to the puzzle in the tooltips, Blizzard isn’t simply forcing us to look at the picture on the box of our puzzle. They’re also putting numbers on the pieces so that we can just line them up in numerical order and assemble them. Putting a puzzle together like that doesn’t make me step back and appreciate the beauty of the picture and feel the satisfaction of having figured it out. It cheapens the whole experience for me and almost makes me feel like I should feel more ashamed of myself if I CAN’T do that puzzle as opposed to feeling proud that I DID do it.

When it all boils away, here’s what I am left with. I will tame the new Spirit Beasts because it is encoded in my DNA that if a Spirit Beast exists in the game, I must tame it. I will also tame Deth because he looks Bada$$ (and who doesn’t like purple, amirite?!?!…btw I call dibs on naming him Grimace). As for the other spiders….I will stop and look at them if I find them and ponder how they were A L M O S T worth going after.

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i found it dead!

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If you want new pets to be challenges, dont look up how to tame them. The challenge is figuring it out.

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