#0 - Feb. 21, 2007, 2:07 p.m.
"As you Druids would know, if you follow the Restoration or Balance trees, at level 40 you have the option of having a whole new shapeshift to play around with. But looking more carefully at this I realized something, the Feral tree does not have its own shapeshift. Why would Blizzard leave Feral out in the dark? Well I'm not sure personally but here's what I think should happen.
Now now, hear me out before you start clicking that Post Message button.
At first I thought that since Bear form is upgraded at level 40, why not Cat form if you spec Feral? But then I thought that would be a tad predictable, so then I though of a new animal. Something swift and cunning, yet graceful and can hold something in its hands. And then it came to me.
Octopus.
Druids at level 40 if they spec Feral should get Octopus form, how cool would that be? But the problem with that is that Octopodes (proper noun) aren't very agile on land. So I thought, What is agile on land?
Motorbikes.
If you put an Octopus on a motorbike you have everything covered. So I quickly opened up Photoshop and made what I think Octopus On A Motorbike Form (Shapeshift) would look like.
http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/7323/druidocotopusdesignlr1.png
As you can see from this artistic rendition on the Druid's enhanced DPS form, he sits nice and snug on top of his motorbike (which is part of the form and not bought separately). The idea works. You will also notice that since Octopus On A Motorbike Form has as you would expect, 8 tentacles. It is able to hold up to 8 Main hand weapons. Since an octopus has no "main tentacle" there's no need for 1 main and 7 plain swords. Also in this picture you will notice that Octopus On A Motorbike has 8 different enchants on each of his sword so he is ready for any type of fight.
The radius of attack, or as I like to call it, the Octopain Radius, is about 10 yards around Octopus On A Motorbike, since his tentacles are as you can see quite long and stretchy.
Now I all know how awesome you think my shapeshift idea is but for the sake of it, lets have an example of what Octopus On A Motorbike could do.
You're grinding away in contested territory, you're tired, you're not paying much attention to what's going on, you're just grinding away. You hear a strange noise, one that is foreign to WoW. You shake it off as nothing and continue to kill mobs. You hear something again and turn your camera around to see if you can locate the source of the noise. There seems to be nothing there. You turn the camera back around to see a mix of coloured enchants, sea-creature and machinery and you're dead before you could even comprehend what just happened.
That is how I envision Octopus On A Motorbike.
That is what the Druid needs."
