Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Hitei]

There are a bunch of interesting spell name additions/renames as well this build, some of which might be for encounters (or something entirely different): https://wow.tools/dbc/diff.php?dbc=s...ew=9.2.0.42257

Broker City Intro RP Conversation [DNT]

Broker new race confirmed, can't convince me otherwise.

[Ersula]

Sure, you can have whatever opinion you want, but you are trying to state your opinion as a fact.

First of all, this is a speculation thread: That's what everyone's doing. Two, stating your opinion as fact is what Talesin & Bellular do for a living.

[Archmage Xaxxas]

Kind of interesting to rename a vague action into something that provides some potential context to the nature of the "Console".

[Ersula]

Broker new race confirmed, can't convince me otherwise.

I'm going to say something I will never, ever say again: I hope you're right.

[Chickat]

Broker new race confirmed, can't convince me otherwise.

We sure its not just a minor change to the dungeon?

[Joszef Kiprich]

It's impossible to see all continents when you look at a planet from far away. A satellite can because it combines different pictures. And ofcourse if Blizzard are going to add a new continent or island they won't show it already. They this stuff gets datamined asap after it goes live.

[Hitei]

We sure its not just a minor change to the dungeon?

Seems to be an addition not a change, but yes, I'm sure it's something minor. Probably a new RP bit at the start of Zereth Mortis' city, since that also features Brokers.

[Marlamin]

We sure its not just a minor change to the dungeon?

It probably is, Broker City == Tazavesh name internally (I believe). There's similar spells for seemingly older content in recent builds, not sure why but not necessarily indicative of any noteworthy changes.

Edit: I think the Zereth town is called Broker Hub but I'm not sure now, so could be that too.

[bruxx]

We sure its not just a minor change to the dungeon?

An introduction to haven was what came to mind. Not that I'd be opposed to broker early access... Though I'd be personally sad that it'd decrease the chances of ever getting ethereal.

[Izalla]

So we all know the maps and globes can't be trusted because they always get replaced when a new landmass is added (or one that already existed in lore is changed in some way), and because Blizz themselves have said it. I like that they left the entire back of that globe empty instead of squeezing Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms a bit closer together though. It is still silly that the southern points of Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms and all of Pandaria are at the bottom of the globe though because a bunch of hot deserts and jungles and then WoW-China being the south pole is just weird. How many expacs before we end up with a Southrend?

[Dracullus]

I don't have high hopes for today, but since music build was Tuesday, it's worth to check what will happen 7/8 PM EU time.

[Hitei]

Holy crap, this new music is so good!

Did you guys notice the new tavern music? Revamp team where you at!

My guess is either some sort of tribute to WoW is happening with the anniversary, for example a new tavern is being patched into the game and this music will be used there... or, they are literally revamping this thing in 9.2.5 or 10.0.

It's part of Darkmoon.

Correct, those are for the Darkmoon event.

Pride of the Seas
4438819 - Music
4438821 - Fail
4438823 - Pass
4438825 - Victory

Lion's Pride
4438811 - Music
4438813 - Fail
4438815 - Pass
4438817 - Victory

Call to Arms
4438803 - Music
4438805 - Fail
4438807 - Pass
4438809 - Victory

[Hitei]

What, like the Darkmoon Faire?

Since when does Blizzard randomly write and produce new tavern music for that?

[Darkarath]

??? That Azeroth texture is pretty much a stylized version of a satellite picture of our planet at night. You know, like that's exactly the thing the wow artists used as reference?

MY.
GOD.
Now I regret losing so much time trying to explain you my point about races and allied races the other day.
I think that you are just trolling us to see our reactions, because your argument in this particular topic about the map is pointless, not debatable at all.
But hey, if no new landmasses ever means new world revamp, I am in.

[Revamp Man]

Azeroth Cartographer: where did that new continent come from??

Explorer: ummm….magic

Cartographer: how does that work??

Explorer: ummm….magically

Cartographer: ok checks out

[Nyel]

If this is the final PTR build, wouldn’t it be marked a release candidate like the last times? Or did we get another build later on after they announced the release date? No idea how it was with 9.1 and 9.1.5.

[Lahis]

Here, have the incredibly incorrect and incomplete texture of the physical planet, which is actually mostly visible in the skybox if you wait long enough.

Oh, Quel'thalas, Gilneas and Twilight Highlands are missing. Guess they don't exist canonically. Dang. (Fun fact, I made that image during 7.3 PTR because I was frustrated with the inaccuracies and there was an entire thread on it in this forum as well with pretty much an identical discussion as this one.)

Kul Tiras and Zandalar are also missing as all those clouds aren't large enough to obscure any of them... but 8.0 beta was right around the corner? Weird. They must have known, right?

I understand why Quel'Danas is missing since it exists on Outland map and not in EK, but what I don't get why is Twilight Highlands missing in there? How do they copypaste the map with only some Cataclysm changes? None of the Cata zones exists in completely different zonewide phased maps either like Sargeras's sword or updated Arahti or Darkshore.

[Dracullus]

If this is the final PTR build, wouldn’t it be marked a release candidate like the last times? Or did we get another build later on after they announced the release date? No idea how it was with 9.1 and 9.1.5.

Last few patches they started marking build as release right after they reveal date.

[Lahis]

So we all know the maps and globes can't be trusted because they always get replaced when a new landmass is added (or one that already existed in lore is changed in some way), and because Blizz themselves have said it. I like that they left the entire back of that globe empty instead of squeezing Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms a bit closer together though. It is still silly that the southern points of Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms and all of Pandaria are at the bottom of the globe though because a bunch of hot deserts and jungles and then WoW-China being the south pole is just weird. How many expacs before we end up with a Southrend?

Yea. Given the climates on the south tips of EK, Kalimdor and Pandaria it would make more sense that the bottom end of the current map is near the equator, not south pole.

[Chickat]

I actually do kinda find it odd that they made new tavern music for a minigame when the old one was perfectly acceptable.

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Also, this cave music is magnificent.