Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Kiivar86]

Eh it loses it for me with the weird way they're doing a revamp.

There was a leak I liked but I forgot where it was because I'm assuming everything is fake until we're given a date for the reveal.

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I will say for XIV you should compare their "Jobs" to WoW's "Specs."

As they don't have the kind of customization WoW classes have.

True. Different setup here, to be sure. And you can switch between them all as I understand, right?

[draugril]

Looking at their site, FFXIV's got 20 at the least, though it doesn't seem to include "base" classes (i.e. Lancer). Include those and 27, maybe 28?

You’d never include the base classes or Blue Mage, which is more akin to pet battles.

FFXIV doesn’t have nearly as much on their plate, class-wise. That’s why they can add two or three more every expansion.

[therumblings]

Ngl mixing Galakrond with Galapagos is a pretty brilliant idea and I like the leak, Tinker seems like a weird fit for that expansion but I kinda hope it's real.

[draugril]

Ngl mixing Galakrond with Galapagos is a pretty brilliant idea and I like the leak, Tinker seems like a weird fit for that expansion but I kinda hope it's real.

Considering someone was just talking about how they hoped that the Dragon Isles would be like the Galápagos Islands awhile back, this was clearly written by that person or someone who liked the idea.

[therumblings]

Considering someone was just talking about how they hoped that the Dragon Isles would be like the Galápagos Islands awhile back, this was clearly written by that person or someone who liked the idea.

That's a shame then. The believability of that leak could have substantially increased if they swapped Tinker with Dragonsworn or something similar.

[draugril]

That's a shame then. The believability of that leak could have substantially increased if they swapped Tinker with Dragonsworn or something similar.

Yep. Unified theme for the heavy hitting features. You don’t open a steakhouse and dedicate half the menu to vegan options. This is marketing 101 - something that Blizzard, for all their faults, are excellent and consistent at.

[Hitei]

That's a shame then. The believability of that leak could have substantially increased if they swapped Tinker with Dragonsworn or something similar.

I don't think they would use such an awkward portmanteau as the name, even if it was intended to be galapagos-based, especially when the name is part of the expansion's title.

[Teriz]

I don't think it confirms no tinker, that response would be highly offensive to people who have spent years and countless hours espousing how tinkers could work and fit in WoW. I actually thinks this confirms it, unless it is a new profession in a revamped system.

Or that the technology class isn't called Tinker, but something like Mechanic, Inventor, Technician, Mechanist, Gadgeteer, etc. Similar to what happened with the Brewmaster and the Monk class.

[ro9ue]

when the dragons and cross faction get bored we will return to the original leak

If that's actually real, looks like Northrend. And wonder if they would do a special Wrath classic cinematic?

[Syegfryed]

I don't think it confirms no tinker.

no joke, it kinda confirms the opposite is very likely...


We all knew when actors gigle and say "no im not in that movie, 100% im not in the movie, those are just photoshop *giggles*" and in the end, they are in the fucking movie.

[Polybius]

no joke, it kinda confirms the opposite is very likely...


We all knew when actors gigle and say "no im not in that movie, 100% im not in the movie, those are just photoshop *giggles*" and in the end, theya r ein the fucking movie.

Or they say they’re not the werewolf

[Chickat]

The expansion name seems waaay out of proportion compared to the rest of the logo.

Yeah, the whole logo looks like crap. No offense to whoever made it.

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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.

Yeah, imagine getting a new zone revamped with story content every 3 months. And still getting them after the final major patch of an expansion.

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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.

I think the idea would be to have a small team of maybe 20 devs working on it for the next 4 or 5 years until they finish every zone. The rest of the team could do the regular patch stuff. Imagine Legion patch cadence, but every .5 zone had a new minor zone to go with it.

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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.

I think tier 11 and 12 were all great. Dragon Soul wasn't terrible, just a little lazy and lasted too long. Cata had great raids and dungeons.

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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.

Why would Anduin raise Galakrond?

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I don’t even know what/who the hell Galakaros is. Blizzard is not that stupid to include a name that over 90% of players don’t know.

Pandaria. Shadowlands. Most people done read quests and probably had no idea about either of these places.

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I really like that Galakaros leak, I do not believe it to be true, but it's a strong contender in my opinion. First of all because Galakaros is lazy enough AND smart enough to be a real WoW name, as Blizzard has a history of copy-pasting real-life culture and places, in this case the Galapagos, giving it the WoW twist and linking it to Galakrond.
Second of all, the living world being a vast cross-expansion plan to make the world evergreen is also one of the best things that could happen to Wow at this point, recreating the "world" of warcraft, while still developing expansions which take place somewhere else than the old world.

I hope we get some fresh news next week!

Yep its my favorite "leak" yet. Probably too good to be true.

[Nyel]

tbf, empire of dragons logo still looks like the best candidate for actual leak

Preach. Question is only when it gets officially announced.

[Harbour]

I have two problems with Ashes of Galakaros title:

1) There is Ashes of Creation, which are arguably more fixed title in the minds of MMORPG audience. There is too much alternatives for the title for Blizzard to pick up "Ashes of...".

2) Galakaros just sounds too silly and dumb. The very fact that OP explaned the reasoning for it reeks of made up fake.

[Chickat]

I want Ashes of Galakros to be real

Same sister, same.

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If that's actually real, looks like Northrend. And wonder if they would do a special Wrath classic cinematic?

It's a cinematic for the new Necromancer class.

[Fahrad Wagner]

I want Ashes of Galakros to be real

Preach fam, preach!

[Darkarath]

Still thinking that all the leaks are fake, except for the EoD logo, because is just a logo and does not talk about features and stuff, although is probably fake too.

I believe that next expansion has to be something different, and all the leaks that we have seen are just the regular stuff that we can expect from any new expansion.

[Pheraz]

Even if ashes of galakaros is fake something like this world-shaping is coming for sure.
They always have this casual feature in there since some xpacs. Maybe it's a combination of all the tech they've developed in that last xpacs. Sharding and phasing from garisons, artifact parallel to talent tree, random generation of areas from islands and thorgast, AI from warfronts and those power ups from torghast. Maybe it's even something like in Minecraft who knows

I know many people didn't like BFAs casual content islands and warfronts but I actually I enjoyed them. Especially with the cool tmog you could gather. Imo torghast lags cool stuff to gather.

[Fahrad Wagner]

Even if ashes of galakaros is fake something like this world-shaping is coming for sure.
They always have this casual feature in there since some xpacs. Maybe it's a combination of all the tech they've developed in that last xpacs. Sharding and phasing from garisons, artifact parallel to talent tree, random generation of areas from islands and thorgast, AI from warfronts and those power ups from torghast. Maybe it's even something like in Minecraft who knows

I know many people didn't like BFAs casual content islands and warfronts but I actually I enjoyed them. Especially with the cool tmog you could gather. Imo torghast lags cool stuff to gather.

I really enjoyed island expeditions too! I wish they would keep old experiences like this relevant across expansions rather than throwing them out for something kind of similar but not really every time. That's why this "world shaping/living world" feature could prove excellent, if true.

[Revamp Man]

Still thinking that all the leaks are fake, except for the EoD logo, because is just a logo and does not talk about features and stuff, although is probably fake too.

I believe that next expansion has to be something different, and all the leaks that we have seen are just the regular stuff that we can expect from any new expansion.

That’s why I like it

It’s nothing extra
No “I used to be a dev” garbage
No lore fuck ups
Just a logo with afaik
Unique border
Unique globe