Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Khaza-R]

There are modular Horde and Alliance themed walls and tower "pieces" being worked on in the files and have "10" attached. Some have the codename "frontier".

If not a revamp, maybe some kind of base building/housing thing? Check this twitter thread.

https://twitter.com/keyboardturn/sta...ViEVcXDtgGhGgA

Garrisons 2.0!

Jk, idk but I am very interested to what all these building updates end up being. Definitely the biggest running mystery since Shadowlands at least.

[Cheezits]

People have higher expectations for WoW's story because it's directly competing with XIV, which is incredibly story focused. So a macguffin based leveling storyline will disappoint some people.

I do want to remind people that this is the LEVELING storyline, and if the dragons get their powers back very early it means they can focus on more character driven storylines in the max level questing. Note that we barely see Khadgar and Tyrande isn't even here yet.

I will say the Primalists are definitely the most interesting antagonist faction since the Legion: it's basically what the Twilight Cult should've been, with direct elemental themes instead of purple and metal.

[Makorus]

It's not like FFXIV isn't Macguffin and very by-the-book.

[infinitemeridian]

It's not like FFXIV isn't Macguffin and very by-the-book.

FF14's strength lies in the writing and dialogue. The overarching story on paper isn't that amazing (though it's still pretty good). The execution is just leaps and bounds better than WoW (and most games).

[Makorus]

FF14's strength lies in the writing and dialogue. The overarching story on paper isn't that amazing (though it's still pretty good). The execution is just leaps and bounds better than WoW (and most games).

Is it though?

The only MMO that has somewhat passable writing and dialogue is GW2, and even that is kinda hit or miss.

WoW and FFXIV has dialogue that sounds like it was written by people that were never actually included in a conversation.

[Alanar]

Meanwhile:

Terrible art imo.

Varian, lortemar and sylvanas all look terrible still to this day.

[unfunnymeme]

The questing gear on Wowhead looks somewhat decent. Not a big fan of the colors of the robes, and the plate needs the gloves and boots to have more thickness to them.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Ugh I hate stuff like this, the helm is completely
Ruined by not being able to put down the vizier just like the ICC pally set.

[Worldshaper]

After playing around with the Dracthyr Visage (female) in Wowhead's Dressing Room, I'm not sure how I'm supposed to play any other races again...

They just look so freaking good. And the range is insane. I was able to create beautiful and humble looking young adventurers, the only thing betraying their identities being the ears. No horns or anything. But then I could also create these insane looking dragon-esque figures with scales and colours and... blown away.

There's such a stark difference in quality too. If you look at the new Night Elf female hair options that arrived in Shadowlands for example, they have this sort of rough quality and don't look that hi-res tbh. The Dracthyr on the other hand, their hair options (the majority at least) look super high quality.

[Raetary]

Ugh I hate stuff like this, the helm is completely
Ruined by not being able to put down the vizier just like the ICC pally set.

I don't think that's a vizier, it has no holes.

It's just a solid metal plate.

[Plehnard]

The plate leveling set looks really nice:

[Hyrja]

Plate set looks nice indeed. Belt looks more leathery though.

[ArenaDk]

Meanwhile:

Holy dam, did they try to blackwash her to grab a bigger audience?!

[Nymrohd]

Holy dam, did they try to blackwash her to grab a bigger audience?!

That or someone spend too much time watching his blow up doll version of Sylvanas and thought that's how her lips actually look.

[micwini]

That or someone spend too much time watching his blow up doll version of Sylvanas and thought that's how her lips actually look.

It's just terrible fan art. A lot of the characters on the loading screens are. The Cata/Mop screens were miles ahead in quality

[Raetary]

Christ, it's just the art style of the artist.
LudoLullabi, the dude made all their old short story covers and comics

[Nymrohd]

Christ, it's just the art style of the artist.
LudoLullabi, the dude made all their old short story covers and comics

I mean, it's better than Three Sisters and Vereesa's buckteeth children.

[Makabreska]

It's just terrible fan art. A lot of the characters on the loading screens are. The Cata/Mop screens were miles ahead in quality

Not a fan art, just the style of an artist. He also made some WoW comics.

[ArenaDk]

Christ, it's just the art style of the artist.
LudoLullabi, the dude made all their old short story covers and comics

The art style of his profile picture looks familiar…… dont tell me he is the genius behind ashbringer comics ? all sins be forgiven

[Rathwell]

The plate leveling set looks really nice:
[IMG]https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/1069786.jpg[IMG]

It's going to have great transmog potential!