Talk:Hydra

Intelligence
Where is it said that they're intelligent? I've never seen any evidence of this in-game.
 * --FeldmanSkitzoid 11:52, 21 Sep 2005 (EDT)

The hydra Hetaera call herself ²ruler of the ocean". It maybe a hint, why they could be intelligent. Some Hydras are also in the Abyssal Council aside with the Fire Naga. Thats another hint.

Oh yea, thanks. :)

Slang term
I've personally never heard the word "hydra" being used to describe a person's characters. If it's common, there should probably be a disambiguation page. If it's just one guild's slang, then it should be removed.
 * --FeldmanSkitzoid 17:31, 6 Oct 2005 (EDT)

That House of Valor reference was the only one I've seen to a hydra myself. If it's local slang, it strikes me as useful; many people have that character setup.

I wanted a disambiguation page, too, but I saw no help for this under Editing Help. Any advice?


 * --Kewangeder 17:54, 6 Oct 2005 (EDT)


 * I've removed the broken link, and replaced that section with a link to Dual box. I've never heard the term myself, but Wikipedia lists it as a synonym to dual boxing.--Aeleas 21:18, 20 March 2006 (EST)

Beast or Uncategorized Creature
Hmm, most (if not all) of the hydras in-game seem to be uncategorized creatures, not beasts. Aku'mai, Gahz'rilla, Gesharahan, the Strashaz, Mystlash, and Thessala hydras are all uncategorized creatures. --Beep 18:49, 11 December 2006 (EST)
 * Trigore the Lasher is uncategorized too. Are there any beast hydras? --Beep 18:52, 11 December 2006 (EST)
 * All the hydras in Azshara are categorized as beasts. --Varghedin 00:59, 18 December 2006 (CET)
 * No, they aren't. Great Wavethrasher, Hetaera, Wavethrasher and Young Wavethrasher are all uncategorized. --Beep 19:09, 17 December 2006 (EST)
 * You were right, I was wrong. They were uncategorized, but got changed.  As far I can tell from various discussions on Thottbot, etc, the change came during patch 2.01. --Beep2 15:38, 1 January 2007 (EST)
 * Yeah, I noticed that all the Bloodpetals in Un'Goro are now elementals too, whereas they were uncategorized before. I wonder if they were thorough enough to change all the hydras too, or if they just did the Azshara ones. --Varghedin 21:51, 1 January 2007 (CET)

Blood petals have been categorized as elementals since patch 1.11, or 1.12 I think.Baggins 15:53, 1 January 2007 (EST)


 * Ah, in that case the info on wowwiki was just horribly outdated :P --Varghedin 21:54, 1 January 2007 (CET)

All hydras are now categorized as beasts (by patch 4.0.3), with the exception of ones that are actually elemental lords. So removing the "unclassified" bit from the article. --W.woods (talk) 00:11, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Plural
Is the plural form Hydras or Hydrae? Rolandius ( talk  -  contr ) 06:07, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Updates - 2011
--W.woods (talk) 01:12, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Added a general statement about them to the top of the page.
 * All relevant hydras are now beasts, so removed the line stating they were mostly unclassified.
 * Changed the old wording that suggested that Outland and Azeroth hydras are completely different kinds of beasts with the same name. They're the same type of creature, just with cosmetic differences for different worlds. Much like basilisks, etc.
 * Added a caveat after the information about them regenerating and splitting in two. The statements create an expectation that you'd see this in WoW. You do not.

Tamability in Cataclysm?
Somehow I've gotten it into my head that it has been announced in the patchnotes for one of the Cataclysm patches that hydra will be tamable as a new pet family, but I cannot seem to find this nugget of information again. If anyone else has come across this information somewhere, I'd greatly appreciate a point to source. I've been looking forward to taming a black-and-orange Alcazian hydra for quite a while now Corwin MacGregor (talk) 23:00, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Yea, I heard the same from a guildee, but haven't seen anything about it. 23:37, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
 * No, they're not tameable. And at this late stage it's unlikely they will be in time for 4.1, although they could throw the switch at the last second and surprise everyone. The evidence of their future tameability is that for 4.1 they created a "Hydra" family, set all the hydras in the game to belong to it, and gave them all diets. More recently they changed the hydra family to ferocity and gave them a new family power. However to date not a single hydra has been set as tameable. The only one that players *may* have is the ghostly Spirit of Atha that was mistakenly made tameable as a crocolisk in early WotLK. Since that creature is now also set as a hydra, a few players get to test out the family. There was a full discussion on the Petopia forums here: http://forums.wow-petopia.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=10035 --W.woods (talk) 01:25, 22 April 2011 (UTC)