Official petition: Join me in begging the devs to give us a proper flamingo model for the Undermine launch! Let’s be real—when you think Goblins, you know you think flamingos. They deserve their own fabulous, unique model, not just a reused, recolored MoP crane or a pink Tallstrider (sorry, Mazzranache, but your time has passed). Flamingos are iconic, and it’s about time they strut their stuff in WoW! Let’s rally together and make this happen!
While I support this in general, if they´re not already part of the plan it´s probably too late to get them in the pipeline for the undermine release in ca. 6 weeks.
You first need to build and texture the model, which has to pass multiple checks to make sure it fits into the world reasonably, then you have to rig it (“Give it a proper skeleton”, so to speak), then you have to animate it, then you have to fine tune the rig because the animation guy can´t do something they want, and pass it back to teh animation guy, and then suddenly the model itself needs to be tuned again because now it´s clipping into itself when flying, requiring more tweaks to the rigging, which then necessitate tweaks to the animations… It´s not as simple as just “Build a 3d model and texture it.”
While that alone can be done in 6 weeks by 3-4 talented people, that assumes that they’re not already bogged down and /or crunching with working on anything else like finetuning the content already planned for undermine and /or working on whatever is coming next, which they almost certainly are.
and i beg them remove and revert this share skinning system in the game in order to stop all of those bots and gold selling groups of leather 2x4 farming near the dornogal and saving the leather economy and LET ME GO DO SOLO FARMING LEATHER AND ENJOY IT AGAIN please