Legion Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[derpkitteh]

At 34:30 Russell says there will be a new ''vocal'' song in Legion like Lament of the Highborn and Invincible and he says it would be too spoilery to show. I can't fucking wait. I imagine it will be for a particular RIP. A few minute or so before you can hear the Stormheim music live.

[video=youtube;eXdTRAydiw4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXdTRAydiw4

i REALLy loved the music that starts at 5:08 in this video



i hope there's something similar to it.

[rcshaggy]

So how is specing gonna work in Legion? Like will I keep my first spec I chosen for my character's class spec?
I wouldn't mind that and a new build is great.
Wonder what they are gonna be adding to the Alpha/Beta.

[Deleted]

tier sets for people who aren't supposed to get tier sets
it completly erases any reason to raid for real if you can get the main thing people raid for by doing something an 11 year old with down syndrom can do (lfr)

Then please quit wow. Id rather player with people with down syndrome anytime then having to play with toxic people like you!

[Manu9]

So how is specing gonna work in Legion? Like will I keep my first spec I chosen for my character's class spec?
I wouldn't mind that and a new build is great.
Wonder what they are gonna be adding to the Alpha/Beta.

You can set a primary spec, speccing into that spec will be free, speccing into other specs at any given time will cost gold.

[FluFF]

Then please quit wow. Id rather player with people with down syndrome anywhere then having to play with toxic people like you!

He's never gonna quit, he's one of those guys who has a 99% toxicity rating on his 700+ MMO Champ posts and he gets a kick from it.
I've seen his posts for like a year now and the only positive point I ever saw was a screenshot and him asking '' does this mean I got in ? ''

The rest of his posts were just 763 problems which could all be solved by stopping to play the game, but rustling jimmies is fun for him.


Ontopic : somehow I feel like this build is just gonna be tuning + a fix for the Horde side of the Broken Shore scenario, but we can hope.

[Saracens]

Ontopic : somehow I feel like this build is just gonna be tuning + a fix for the Horde side of the Broken Shore scenario, but we can hope.

We can hope!

[Dragon Claws]

Yay for new build. Seriously hoping for more invites. Lots of complaints about the dungeon queue being empty of tanks and healers.

[Saracens]

Yay for new build. Seriously hoping for more invites. Lots of complaints about the dungeon queue being empty of tanks and healers.

Really wanting to try out Guardian Druid and Prot Pally. To see what I'm going to run with. :|

[Kellorion]

At 1:30

Yus! Harken back to the epicness that is WotLK.

Think iTunes will have the OST before launch?

[Dragon Claws]

Really wanting to try out Guardian Druid and Prot Pally. To see what I'm going to run with. :|

I want to try out Mistweaver. I swear they're treating the Legion alpha like they treated Overwatch. Just invite streamers and barely anyone else, then let maybe 20 people trickle in and that's it.

[Herrhaxe]

I want to try out Mistweaver. I swear they're treating the Legion alpha like they treated Overwatch. Just invite streamers and barely anyone else, then let maybe 20 people trickle in and that's it.

they need to fix this asap, 5 people cannout find everything thats buggy. i really hope i wont continue so till launch

[Saracens]

I want to try out Mistweaver. I swear they're treating the Legion alpha like they treated Overwatch. Just invite streamers and barely anyone else, then let maybe 20 people trickle in and that's it.

they need to fix this asap, 5 people cannout find everything thats buggy. i really hope i wont continue so till launch

All we can do is wait and see.

[Nihilan]

There are hundreds of alpha testers, the few streamers that got in are just getting all of the attention. But yes, there is a critical shortage of tanks/healers right now. Much of that is due to the spec gating and utter tedium of leveling one of those specs with their god-awful damage output.

Even Vengeance tanks are a rare sight and you cant spit without hitting a Demon Hunter on alpha. Admittedly, DH tanks are the least rare right now.

[Deleted]

I have a feeling that Beta is coming very shortly after this dev Q&A thing. Or might even be before it.

[Ickabob]

I want to try out Mistweaver. I swear they're treating the Legion alpha like they treated Overwatch. Just invite streamers and barely anyone else, then let maybe 20 people trickle in and that's it.

I've been getting the same feeling about Legion beta as well.

Also, a new build on a Monday? *equips [Tinfoil Hat]*

[boyzma]

I want to try out Mistweaver. I swear they're treating the Legion alpha like they treated Overwatch. Just invite streamers and barely anyone else, then let maybe 20 people trickle in and that's it.

Think you'd be surprised at the number of people who aren't streamers. I'm your average joe and got in a month ago....luck of the draw is all it is.

[Deleted]

I finally managed to get a character to L110 and i must admit, the new-car smell has already worn off. I am already sick of it. For the first time ever since launch, i am in the peculiar position of not being able to find any dps spec that i like enough to actually spend time grinding gear for. I have tried literally every one of them. Everything feels so homogenized. There is little to no uniqueness left with any of the dps specs. The spell names and visual effects may be different, but you quickly realize that certain specs are almost mirror images of others, mechanically speaking. Its especially true in the case of Arms & Ret with the pool/burst playstyle. Though i will admit that Ret at least isnt dependant on a random number generator for its burst windows.

A couple of the healing and tanking specs are fun, but right now in the current build tank and healer dps is abysmally low and i cannot bring myself to face the soul-crushing tedium of leveling at that kind of glacial pace. As dps, ive seen 4 hour long dps queues for dungeons because so few people are willing to level tanks and healers. They are out there, but they are rare. Much, much rarer than on live servers.

And while tank playstyles are somewhat less homogenized than the dps specs, they have had their self healing gutted. I was shocked to learn that my disc priest was actually tanking rares better than all but two of my tanks (Bear Druid and Vengeance DH, which are both overtuned in the self healing department compared to other specs.) Sure proper tanks are durable enough in a raid environment when they have a few healers in their pocket, but i think the general tanking population is going to be more than a little furious to find out how fragile their specs have become without healing support.

The coming tuning passes between now and release are going to be make or break for Legion. If they do not make it less frustrating to level and play healers and tanks, and remove or lessen the spec gating currently attached to artifact weapons, then the playerbase is going to fucking riot once live hits. People thought the backlash for Warlords of Draenor was bad?. That will be a drop in the ocean compared to what is going to happen with Legion when they realize that Blizzard has once again let them down. Particularly given the lofty expectations for this expansion (again). So many people have so much riding on Legion after the WoD debacle that blizzard literally cannot afford to fuck this up. And right now, things are looking decidedly grim.

I didn't really have that feeling. All classes have been similar since wrath.

They are all based on either pooling and releasing resources or dot uptime rotations with a filler or a melee spec where you just smash whatever that lights up. I'm sorry it took you a prune to figure that out.

[Dragon Claws]

There are hundreds of alpha testers, the few streamers that got in are just getting all of the attention. But yes, there is a critical shortage of tanks/healers right now. Much of that is due to the spec gating and utter tedium of leveling one of those specs with their god-awful damage output.

Even Vengeance tanks are a rare sight and you cant spit without hitting a Demon Hunter on alpha. Admittedly, DH tanks are the least rare right now.

Could always poke wowdevs and cele on twitter to invite more people.

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I've been getting the same feeling about Legion beta as well.

Also, a new build on a Monday? *equips [Tinfoil Hat]*

Call it a hunch but I figured this would eventually happen.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

I didn't really have that feeling. All classes have been similar since wrath.

They are all based on either pooling and releasing resources or dot uptime rotations with a filler or a melee spec where you just smash whatever that lights up. I'm sorry it took you a prune to figure that out.

They're all different in some way. Much more then how classes are absurdly similar in SWTOR.

[rcshaggy]

You can set a primary spec, speccing into that spec will be free, speccing into other specs at any given time will cost gold.

Well there is certain ones I want and some of my chars DO have dual specing.

Brewmaster -Monk
Beast Mastery -Hunter
Retribution -Paladin
Arms -Warrior
Demonology -Warlock
Arcane -Mage
Havoc -Demon Hunter
Feral -Druid
Elemental -Shaman
and finally
Assassination -Rogue