Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Trumpwonumad]

I love to see it. It's meaning is ambiguous and could mean one thing or the opposite.

Pretty much confirms no tinker thank god

[Three Faced Goddess]

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.

I've spent years espousing Dark Rangers and how they could work and fit in WoW only to be constantly dismissed, mocked, and bullied for as long. I have sympathy for every decent tinker fan out there if this reply dismisses it as the next class. I know well what this feels like and wouldn't wish it on these people. I also feel bad for them being associated with the small obnoxious group of people. Honestly, I would jump to conclusions either way.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Idk man, they skipped out on a class for Shadowlands, I'd expect to see either 2 new classes or no new classes at all. The Demon Hunter opened up the chance for smaller 2 spec classes which is why I could see two new classes being added, also there's no content better than a new class so it'd keep people busy for a long time, that's literally why games like Lost Ark, Bdo and FF14 succeed, they always offer something new to play with and it feels refreshing every time.

Do those games have 12 classes?

[draugril]

Double twist
The dragons are Elune

For some reason, I have the feeling that if dragons are revisited, we’re going to be seeing metallic dragonflights. Maybe the existing dragonflights are even transformed into them to get that needed revitalization.

Less likely: Perhaps Elune is the Aspect of one of these flights. Obviously a few cosmology notches above those we know.

[Kiivar86]

Do those games have 12 classes?

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?

[draugril]

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 it’s utterly devoid of meaning and the guy is just having a little fun?

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

I want Ashes of Galakros to be real

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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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?

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.

[MCMLXXXII]

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?

Not familiar with FFXIV but do they have specs too? Because WoW basically has 36 specs to balance.

[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.