There’s a lot we have yet to learn about the Drust people of Drustvar and their connection to Druidism (and what we do know I’m not going to share because spoilers) but one thing is clear - Kul Tirans have an approach to Druidism that’s unlike any other Druids on Azeroth. They made them sinister and unlike anything we’ve ever seen in WoW. Something really special happened when Blizzard designed the Kul Tiras Druid forms. That’s all the Zandalar forms we have to look at - we haven’t seen their aquatic form yet. These mixtures of cat and crocodile are definitely not particularly dinosaurian, but I love them all the same. Ironically, the combination of feline and reptilian features makes it seem a lot more like a therapsid (what we used to call mammal-like reptiles) than a dinosaur. You can see that it prowls and moves much more like a cat. It’s a beautiful form, but that image doesn’t really capture what the form will look like in motion quite like later datamining revealed. When we first featured the Zandalar Feral form, it hadn’t been datamined to have its animations included, leaving it standing like that. The harness-style garb around their limbs and necks really work well for me. I get why it’s not, but I do love this form - both of the Zandalari travel forms have excellent detail. Frankly I think, as cool as the caster form is, this is a superior one and I’d love to see it used as a caster. It’s another form I almost wish wasn’t just for travel. But there’s a lot of animations designed to work with the basic bear or cat skeleton, so I’m not holding my breath.įlight form is a Pterrordax, the WoW version of a pterosaur. I get why they went with more conventional bear and cat skeletons for their Guardian and Feral forms, but I still find myself looking at this and wishing they’d put in a glyph to use this as their Feral or Guardian forms. While I wish it had more feathers, I do love it and frankly I’m a little sad it’s just a travel form. The Zandalar Travel form is just brilliant. That pointed beak and those huge tusks make you definitely not want to be stuck in front of it. It looks powerful, dangerous, heavily armored - the perfect tanking form. I can’t really say anything negative about this form. It’s clearly built over the same skeleton as a typical Bear druid, but the skin is just fantastic. It gives the form a touch of elegance you don’t normally see in enormous reptiles with spikes growing out of their shells. I absolutely love the gold adornments on the front limbs and the tusks. Zandalar Druids will also have this form as their Guardian for tanking, and it’s fascinating for having certain elements from snapping turtles and Ankylosaurs. They kind of remind me of The Dark Crystal. It’s quite interesting and very distinctive compared to other Druid caster forms. Instead, they have this Pterrordax inspired caster form, which combines the skeleton for Arakkoa from Warlords of Draenor and a Pterrordaxian-skin to create a real monstrosity. The Zandalar Druid doesn’t have a Moonkin form at all. The images here are courtesy of the folks at Wowhead, so make sure to look over there for all their datamining.Īs soon as the Zandalari Trolls were announced as a playable race I started to hope for Dinomancers, the strange shape-changing Zandalar we saw in Mists of Pandaria who could summon and even become dinosaurs. So let’s round them all up and stare at them and be all “oooh” and “aaah” because we should. These two upcoming playable Druid options have the most unique and distinctive Druid forms ever. Look, we like awesome dinosaur-inspired things, and we also like strange wickerpunk horror aesthetic things. We’ve covered a lot of the Druid forms coming for Kul Tiras Humans and Zandalari Trolls in Battle for Azeroth.
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