Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Makabreska]

This image just showed up on the Warcraft addons subreddit. Thoughts?

Do people not realize that it is an instant fake the moment they reuse already existing art? Not to mention the coloring just hurts the eyes and makes text barely visible.

[Raetary]

I'd agree that it's probably fake

Probably?

It's the legion logo but hued red with saturation turned up to 11, the expansion tag is stamped out and whoever made this clearly never formatted text in their lives.

[Ethule]

The Ashes of Galakrond OP is pretty ballsy because they put an expiration date on their leak. The entire leak gets invalidated in less than 2 weeks (2/18/22).

Honestly the Zone Revamp as an evergreen feature is such a good idea. They have the opportunity to release a new zone every month or so with a steady stream of fresh content sprinkled in between the main patches. They could even just incorporate those zone changes into the major patches with new raids and dungeons etc. I really hope this is the real deal. Imagine if we got updates as frequently as Fornite. What a world that would be.

[Teriz]

Honestly the Zone Revamp as an evergreen feature is such a good idea. They have the opportunity to release a new zone every month or so with a steady stream of fresh content sprinkled in between the main patches. They could even just incorporate those zone changes into the major patches with new raids and dungeons etc. I really hope this is the real deal. Imagine if we got updates as frequently as Fornite. What a world that would be.

Yeah, there was a lot of good ideas in that leak. Very impressive effort to say the least. Changing the concept of the dragon isles to something based on Galakrond is an interesting concept that actually makes sense.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Honestly the Zone Revamp as an evergreen feature is such a good idea. They have the opportunity to release a new zone every month or so with a steady stream of fresh content sprinkled in between the main patches. They could even just incorporate those zone changes into the major patches with new raids and dungeons etc. I really hope this is the real deal. Imagine if we got updates as frequently as Fornite. What a world that would be.

And the small updates wouldn't be that valuable. So no thanks.

[Cherry123]

If we don't get a release date for 9.2 next week, it will be sad

[Ethule]

And the small updates wouldn't be that valuable. So no thanks.

So you'd rather a "new" zone with a hand full of dailies a small introduction questline and a raid every 4-6months? That brings so much value to the game you're right what was I thinking.

[Alanar]

Ashes of Galakaros sounds awesome. What you mean?

Doesnt appeal to me at all lol.

[Teriz]

Doesnt appeal to me at all lol.

You strike me as someone who prefers cosmic expansions….

[Catastrophy349]

Doesnt appeal to me at all lol.

Honestly, most of the "leak" is story stuff (which to me sounds interesting). However, outside of story stuff, there isn't a whole lot of interesting stuff, I agree. Some leaks have mentioned dungeons, raids, raid bosses, etc.

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

At this point in time, I just either want 9.2 Release Date or 10.0 Stuff. Either way 9.2 Release Date only excites me for the World First Race and the prospect of Zovaal Cinematic finishing up all loose ties to Shadowlands and starting the 10.0 news cycle.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

So you'd rather a "new" zone with a hand full of dailies a small introduction questline and a raid every 4-6months? That brings so much value to the game you're right what was I thinking.

I'd rather have major content patches then mini small ones all the time. What you suggest is much less and well that works for fortnite and I don't want that to WoW. I also wasn't talking about dailies and small quest line either but go ahead and snark away.

[Super Dickmann]

You strike me as someone who prefers cosmic expansions….

I don't know about him but I'll skip beating around the bush and say I've always found WoW dragons boring as sin whereas the Titan and Shadowlands' stuff is at least high concept fantasy. The only main plot that hinged on dragons, Cataclysm, was fucking abysmal. But it also had the best down to earth world content post-Vanilla in the content it enabled which is what I hope that a hypothetical Dragon Isles expanson will be. Dragons as a backdrop to focusing on Azeroth and the individual races and political factions, relegated to their main story ghetto.

Ashes, which looks fake, seems to fit that latter mold, which is good. The real thing should go the same direction. Hopefully with better raids since Cataclysm was a raiding wasteland besides Firelands, which is overrated.

[Ethule]

I'd rather have major content patches then mini small ones all the time. What you suggest is much less and well that works for fortnite and I don't want that to WoW. I also wasn't talking about dailies and small quest line either but go ahead and snark away.

Clearly you didn't read the post and just skimmed then because I said smaller updates to zones sprinkled in-between or even released along side main or major content patches. I'm not suggesting they scrap the Major Patch releases for small incremental updates.

[Catastrophy349]

With the HYPE and speculation around 9.2's release date being 2/22/22, I'm curious how long everyone thinks we will wait until we get 10.0 news? Do we think March? Right after the Zovaal cinematic gets released (within days/few weeks)? Or are people thinking we are still a bit away from an announcement for 10.0? I'm just curious.

Additionally, we talk a lot about the features/expansion name/etc. in this thread but how about the cinematic trailer for 10.0? What would we like to see?

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

We could end up with a surprise announcement for 10.0 news if the Team has no confidence in the Zovaal Cinematic. If they have confidence in the Zovaal Cinematic then it will most likely be announced a few days or the next week after it shows up.

[Khaza-R]

The Grimoire thing is the most interesting part of the AoG leak to me.

On one hand, if you re-read all of Blizzard's comments, they never once call the WarCraft mobile title a game. Instead using words like "content" and "new experiences" which is interesting.

On the other hand, there was already a book released in 2021 called "WoW : Grimoire of the Shadowlands and Beyond". Seems unlikely to me they would choice name so close to this title to avoid confusion.

Regardless, its an interesting leak at least.

[Ethule]

Additionally, we talk a lot about the features/expansion name/etc. in this thread but how about the cinematic trailer for 10.0? What would we like to see?

Honestly had my dreams crushed today knowing it will never happen BUT...

Anduin shows up in Northerend with the "Crown of Wills" to purge it of scourge. Varian speaking to him like the OG LK Cinematic as he cuts through the armies of the dead. Finally reaching the top of Wyrmrest Temple he uses a massive resurrection spell and raises Galakrond from the dead.

Would have been cool but oh well. Ya'll can hate if you want. Lol I'm just a random idiot on the internet.

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

The Grimoire thing is the most interesting part of the AoG leak to me.

On one hand, if you re-read all of Blizzard's comments, they never once call the WarCraft mobile title a game. Instead using words like "content" and "new experiences" which is interesting.

On the other hand, there was already a book released in 2021 called "WoW : Grimoire of the Shadowlands and Beyond". Seems unlikely to me they would choice name so close to this title to avoid confusion.

Regardless, its an interesting leak at least.

They should've just integrated it into the game. Give a Lore Tab on the Interface.

I am not going to read updates about the lore on a fucking Phone or a Tablet nor am I going to buy DRM'd books on a App if there was a collection system it should be in-game being able to read at any time while theres' downtime.

Again, if it was in-game System I'd be beyond hyped because I've always wanted a in-game Lore Tab. But, if it is a outside App nonsense it just feels disconnected from the premise imo.

[Kohtra]

Really hoping AoG is real. It's philosophically moving the game in the direction I've always wanted since Vanilla with the whole Living World concept.