Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Alanar]

I'm quite psyched about 9.2

What is making you psyched about this patch?..

[Dracullus]

Does the 9.2 release date really counts as something to be super excited about?

I mean.. 9.2 is not that suoet excited in general anyway. Most people just want to move on.

This may shock you, but some people like to play WoW and big content patch is something they are waiting for. Especially with current droughts. Of course 10.0 news are way more exciting, but this is something in distant future, 9.2 is (almost) now.

Personally I don't find anything groundbreaking in this patch (beside cross faction, but it will take few more months), but it looks solid and zone - big, open, with flying and devoid of Maw doom&gloom is nice change of environment. As last patch it also has advantage to be one when we can 'finish' our chars before next expansion, but of course it has nothing to do with content itself.

[LordKharon]

So, we are fast approaching middle of Feb.2022 and no date for 9.2... anyone think we will still get it this month? And 10.0 announcement? Everything seems so slooooowwwww and dragged out to the max over at Blizz

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

Mr.GM says he has a good feeling about today.

Take that how you will.

[Skylarking]

Any minute now...

[Luck4]

So, we are fast approaching middle of Feb.2022 and no date for 9.2... anyone think we will still get it this month? And 10.0 announcement? Everything seems so slooooowwwww and dragged out to the max over at Blizz

We need to be realistic, unless Blizzard releases an unfinished expansion like WOD we're not gonna see 10.0 in 2022.

While I'm eager to know what 10.0 is about, this curiosity is more to judge if it's worth staying in WoW or if it's time to leave, and less about wanting new content ASAP.

[LordKharon]

WoW is one of the biggest MMOs, with one of the biggest dev teams (i guess? or is there really only a skeleton crew left?), they make hundreds of millions every year. I would expect them to deliver substatial patches every 6 month and expansions every 2 years easily. Yes some slight delays because of Covid are ok, but that should be over now. That WoW is SO BAD at delivering content truly crazy, the ppl in charge should have been fired long ago. I guess the problem is nobody really wants to do the job of Ion

[Nyel]

So, we are fast approaching middle of Feb.2022 and no date for 9.2... anyone think we will still get it this month? And 10.0 announcement? Everything seems so slooooowwwww and dragged out to the max over at Blizz

I have no idea why people here are so obsessed with a 10.0 announcement happening either before 9.2 is live or the same time they’re announcing the 9.2 release date.

10.0 is coming, that’s for sure, but Blizzard waited for so long, they won’t overshadow 9.2 now with 10.0 news.

That being said… as Dracullus and others already have guessed in this thread, the 9.2 release announcement most likely will come today and the patch on Feb 22. If they don’t announce it today, it’ll most likely be pushed back to March 1. Both dates make sense and can be based on the average time a huge content patch spends on the PTR.

[Lahis]

WoW is one of the biggest MMOs, with one of the biggest dev teams (i guess? or is there really only a skeleton crew left?), they make hundreds of millions every year. I would expect them to deliver substatial patches every 6 month and expansions every 2 years easily. Yes some slight delays because of Covid are ok, but that should be over now. That WoW is SO BAD at delivering content truly crazy, the ppl in charge should have been fired long ago. I guess the problem is nobody really wants to do the job of Ion

Blizzard is bad at delivering content period.

Only game they can push consistent updates is Heartstone and that one is so much simpler than any other of their games that it is not even a proper comparison.

[Skildar]

What is making you psyched about this patch?..

The conclusion of Zovaal' story, and even though he is not a great villain to follow, his story is interesting. And I am very intrigued about the fate of Sylvanas.

The most interesting thing to me will for sure be the zone in itself and all the small story bits that we will be able to enjoy everywhere in it. The zone will deal with the making of the shadowlands and the first ones and i am very receptive to this.

[Lady Atia]

The conclusion of Zovaal' story, and even though he is not a great villain to follow, his story is interesting. And I am very intrigued about the fate of Sylvanas.

The most interesting thing to me will for sure be the zone in itself and all the small story bits that we will be able to enjoy everywhere in it. The zone will deal with the making of the shadowlands and the first ones and i am very receptive to this.

This. I really don't get why people are hating on Shadowlands lore just because it's something new and fresh. Yes, they totally should have teased it with breadcrumbs through Legion and BfA, similiar to what they did with N'Zoth. But besides that it's still awesome and I like to see more of the cosmic planes (but than again, I also liked the opportunity to literally raid the circles of hell in D&D).

[Raetary]

Today is the day.

Needs this one
https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comment...e_dragon_xpac/

add ascending mr incredible and gobby kotick we also need bill gates face on some wow character

Add Dark Rangers to it since it's been so heatedly debated on these forums. For the added effect have the Dark Ranger looming creepily over the tinker.

[Chickat]

Now I'm thinking about it, thinking Azeroth will come out of the Jailer encounter unharmed is kind of ridiculous considering the spells we've already seen datamined. Very curious to see what that entails. Jailer quite literally has his eyes on Northrend at the moment, with the rest of the globe being obscured. Northrend is the oldest non-updated continent outside of Outland at the moment, so maybe we'll see something primarily happen there. Would be interesting.



Fair enough. Should be interesting to see what happens, then!

Dragon Isles arent in the air. They were deep below Northrend the whole time.

[pacotaco]

I have no idea why people here are so obsessed with a 10.0 announcement happening either before 9.2 is live or the same time they’re announcing the 9.2 release date.

10.0 is coming, that’s for sure, but Blizzard waited for so long, they won’t overshadow 9.2 now with 10.0 news.

That being said… as Dracullus and others already have guessed in this thread, the 9.2 release announcement most likely will come today and the patch on Feb 22. If they don’t announce it today, it’ll most likely be pushed back to March 1. Both dates make sense and can be based on the average time a huge content patch spends on the PTR.

I don't expect 10 anouncement before they open the last bosses of the new raid (at least 3 weeks after 9.2 release), so probably late March/early April.

[Alanar]

The conclusion of Zovaal' story, and even though he is not a great villain to follow, his story is interesting. And I am very intrigued about the fate of Sylvanas.

The most interesting thing to me will for sure be the zone in itself and all the small story bits that we will be able to enjoy everywhere in it. The zone will deal with the making of the shadowlands and the first ones and i am very receptive to this.

Okey fair enough, I hope you dig it honestly!

Its just that its hard to see any positive in sl for me, i have been playing this game since alpha and for me the situation is just different, no hard feelings.

[Chickat]

This sounds like fun! @Shadochi

Yes, we must summon @Shadochi

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Mr.GM says he has a good feeling about today.

Take that how you will.

Is he in the UK?

[Alanar]

This. I really don't get why people are hating on Shadowlands lore just because it's something new and fresh. Yes, they totally should have teased it with breadcrumps through Legion and BfA, similiar to what they did with N'Zoth. But besides that it's still awesome and I like to see more of the cosmic planes (but than again, I also liked the opportunity to literally raid the circles of hell in D&D).

You nailed down the problem for many. Its hard to find it interesting when its a villain made like yesterday. Its not really about being new and fresh, but with some proper progress and and some breadcrumbs it would have been different.

The problem with Zovaal for me is that he is sddenly responsible for a lot that didnt do any good to excisting motivations etc. Its hard to like him, especially when its about him tbh.

But like I said, no hard feelings and I hope you guys dig it.

[Plehnard]

Call me when they add lyrics

Well there's one reason more not to play FF. Bloody awful music :P

[Lady Atia]

Well there's one reason more not to play FF. Bloody awful music :P

This. That song is god awful. And who in his right mind would want lyrics during a boss fight? That's super immersion breaking haha.

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You nailed down the problem for many. Its hard to find it interesting when its a villain made like yesterday. Its not really about being new and fresh, but with some proper progress and and some breadcrumbs it would have been different.

The problem with Zovaal for me is that he is sddenly responsible for a lot that didnt do any good to excisting motivations etc. Its hard to like him, especially its about him tbh.

Yeah. It may have helped if they would have released the Sylvanas novel earlier instead of trying a GoT style "surprise surprise!" arc. Or a short story/cinematic that shows how and why Zovaal got imprisoned in the first place.

[Alanar]

This. That song is god awful. And who in his right mind would want lyrics during a boss fight? That's super immersion breaking haha.

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Yeah. It may have helped if they would have released the Sylvanas novel earlier instead of trying a GoT style "surprise surprise!" arc. Or a short story/cinematic that shows how and why Zovaal got imprisoned in the first place.

Yes I agree, it seemed we just missed story with him. Why was he there.. whats this stuff with Sylvanas. It all just took to long and the small bits we got was very vague. They tried to make it mysterious, but people were kinda fed up by that take because bfa was nothing but vagueness. Always a secret plan and it was getting funny even. Weird way to tell or make people enthousiastic imo.