I’m a long time player having arrived back in the day during BC / start of Lich King. Love the game and have been consistently playing since.
I fell off a bit during Legion and didn’t pick the game back up until recently. It seems however that was long enough to miss out on some awesome content, including the introduction and also the removal of the chance to earn the mage tower bear form.
I absolutely love the Druid class. As a tank main, the form quickly became the thing I desire the most. It’s so unique and looks the bloody part when it comes to taking a beating in a dungeon. I respect that I missed my chance and perhaps that specific form may not become obtainable again; does anyone however know of something in the horizon similar? Or whether the re-release of challenges to achieve these have been considered?
It pains me to look at other Druids and see them strolling around as this beast. Form variation is a big thing for Druids, and something I thought was always lacking until recently.
Sob story over. I just want a similar looking form and really hope something comes in the future. I like the idea that it had to be earned through a difficult process.
Well there’s only the big bear form that is locked and to be fair the animations are rather clunky, I prefer the glowing bear form you get from the balance of power quest line just down to lore, though the glowing kitty is rather fun =)
I think the Kul Tirans druid form is a bit bigger and you can be a turtle as a zandalari
Well, it probably wont be available again. But if that helps at all, there are not even animations for /dance and /flex for it. It doesnt even sit down.
I prefer the balance of power quest bears aswell, which you can still obtain.
A little unfortunate. I have heard things about the animations, but in all honesty the gorilla-esque look is what sells me. I love the design of it. Fingers crossed something comes out similar in the future.
I’m not really one for the flashy forms really, and also love my Night Elf race. Thanks for the suggestions though!
It doesn’t have a dance animation but it does have casting animations, unlike normal bear form. So spell animation stuff like summoning stones and flight whistles it actually has more animations than normal bear. Unless you wish to dance!
Funny trick is if you equip your werebear weapon and use thrash within about 2 seconds, it does a big ground pound move. Until the default animations come into force.
Well i know that but crouching is not exactly sitting lol.
Just feels like this form is struggling to move too much from all the muscles.
Still when my bf got the druid form pretty early in legion he was highly disappointed about the missing flex animation. That could have been so fun to look at.
I only bothered getting guardian and feral weapons later on, since I mainly play resto and boomie. I cant say im a big fan of the werebear though and missing animations is one of the reasons.
Just feels like blizz couldnt bother with doing a proper job with it, leaving it unfinished.
It wouldn’t be fair if people were able to unlock it now.
Believe or not but mage tower was not easy at the time, at least till ToS patch.
This is simply a reward for those who managed to do it. It somehow gives a great feeling of immersion.
I do agree with OP, I would do anything to get a Grizzlemaw look. I got the hidden artifact one, and some other. But when I lvld my druid to 110 and got it geared in legion, it was just late enough for the magetower to close, and I missed out on the form.
And since for us druids, the forms are really important, since that’s what we use, right?
Glowy bear, bonebear, and others, is just the same boring model with some hoozabooza stuff on it, but the Grizzlemaw is so unique. I wish they would add something similar if not the same skin later on. Like a timewalking challenge, glyph, hidden artifact, long quest line, or whatever to just get SOMETHING similar to that model, that’s why now I can’t stand playing guardian when I have seen other as a Grizzlemaw. But that’s my personal opinion tho.
tl;dr sobbing about bringing back Grizzlemaw skin for us that missed magetower…
Bump. I hope the developers take a good look at this.
I do understand that transmogs like challenge mod and other artifact weapons get removed, but for us druids, why remove a so unique form, because we need forms, transmog is kinda useless when you’re in a form 99% of the time.
I’m glad some others agree. While I do appreciate it was difficult to do, perhaps creating a more modern challenge that fits into the current expansion and limiting attempts to something similar to that of a raid (have to wait until reset to try again) would be a compromise? Essentially controlling the numbers of the form…
It just sucks to of played WoW for years and years, taken a break for a short period, and come back to find out I missed out on something so epic. I see it around quite a lot but unfortunately it’s out of reach.