Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[mockingbird23]

Here's a fun recompilation of therewillbedragons's 'leaks'. I do find these ones kind of interesting, they're keeping up their claim lol

The continent/landmass/islands seems fun!

Funny thing is, he mentions crossfaction play in a post made January 27th, and the official post from Blizzard announcing crossfaction play was made January 31st

[Revamp Man]

Funny thing is, he mentions crossfaction play in a post made January 27th, and the official post from Blizzard announcing crossfaction play was made January 31st

Half the leaks mention it though

[mockingbird23]

Half the leaks mention it though

They do now, after it has been officially announced.

[Hitei]

They do now, after it has been officially announced.

No, guy. Leaks have been claiming there's gonna be crossfaction since before Shadowlands was announced.

[mockingbird23]

No, guy. Leaks have been claiming there's gonna be crossfaction since before Shadowlands was announced.

Even going back as far as 2015

https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...ce-I-THINK-NOT

Alliance and Horde players will be able to do dungeons and raids together. This will be the big gameplay feature of the expansion. At first it will only be possible via LFG and LFR tool, but might later be opened up to more areas, if it is a success. Outside of this, Horde and Alliance players will not be able to communicate with each other, for now. The team discussed opening all races up to both factions, but there was the problem of where the starting zone of the races would be, and the weirdness of the Humans starting in the Valley of Trials, so the idea was put on the backburner. If it can be done in the right way, this idea might be realized in the future. There will not be a new PvP zone in this expansion. For one, the idea of the open world PvP zone doesn't work because of many reasons. Ashran was an experiment that wasn't well received. There will also be no new battlegrounds for now, as the focus is on getting the Alliance and Horde to work together, so it wouldn't make sense to pit them against each other on a battlefield.

But those are rare occurrences.

Recently it has popped up more and more, but only after it was officially announced.

[Syegfryed]

I always lose my sides with the Ion sylvanas photosop, jesus christ, the one who did is a genius

[Ersula]

Funny thing is, he mentions crossfaction play in a post made January 27th, and the official post from Blizzard announcing crossfaction play was made January 31st

Ion first mentioned they would "consider" cross-faction grouping in an interview last year. (At this point when they admit to actually considering a feature they mean they already decided to implement it, they just don't know the timeframe.)

[Hitei]

But those are rare occurrences.

Recently it has popped up more and more, but only after it was officially announced.

They aren't, and it isn't. These are all from before announcement:

https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/2613244-Some-Leaks
https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...-the-Old-World
https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...ome-10-0-leaks
https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...WoW-Patch-10-0
https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...he-Final-Titan
https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...e-Aspects-LEAK
https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...the-Light-LEAK

This is the only new leak thread since the announcement that has mentioned cross faction:
https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...0-announcement

[Melorandor]

Here's a fun recompilation of therewillbedragons's 'leaks'. I do find these ones kind of interesting, they're keeping up their claim lol

The continent/landmass/islands seems fun!

So, Shadowlands but with Dragon Isles paint?

...yay =/

[Archmage Xaxxas]

Funny thing is, he mentions crossfaction play in a post made January 27th, and the official post from Blizzard announcing crossfaction play was made January 31st

Well, what is still -more- interesting at least about this leak's mention of Cross-Faction when compared to others that Hitei linked for example,

is that it's the only one I've seen that specifies that there is no LFR/LFD/RandomBG/OpenWorld with cross-faction gameplay.

It specifically mentions that you could only group through the Group Finder, which we know is the main way besides Battle.Net friend invites.

cross faction is in. group through group finder only. could talk in party/raid chat but not in open world or public channels. no xfaction guilds.

yeah. this was months ago so i have no idea if anything has changed since then, but that was how it was when i saw it.
you couldn't even join group with opposite faction using normal invite to group, everything had to happen through group finder apply/invite ui

Most of the other Xfaction mentions in leaks are very broad statements and not as closely aligned with the safe, limited version that Blizz is initially rolling out in 9.2.5.

[Zankai27]

therewillbedragons ' leak sounds horrible. Is there ANYTHING new to play? They say no new class, but no new race or anything? Just more "covenants"? Ugh.

[Redzonetode]

therewillbedragons ' leak sounds horrible. Is there ANYTHING new to play? They say no new class, but no new race or anything? Just more "covenants"? Ugh.

Agreed. The only way Id be okay with no new race is if they did another massive customization update without leaving any race out.

But even then, it’s the idea of having to align with a dragon covenant and them once again splitting content and story between 4-5 factions is frustrating. Wish they’d just focus on 1 really good story with a lot of content

[Revamp Man]

Even going back as far as 2015

https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...ce-I-THINK-NOT



But those are rare occurrences.

Recently it has popped up more and more, but only after it was officially announced.

No it has been a thing for weeks dude

[ro9ue]

Secrets of Elune
- Only dragons here are emerald
- All the aesthetic are purple and green
- Night Elven and Tauren lore about Elune and the Sun God, very Druidic
- Elune was supposed to protect Azeroth and messed up, now Light and Void are out of balance
- Ranger is the new class - looks like it got some of the abilities hunters lost. 1 ranged like hunter but magical, 1 melee spec looks like warden
- New zones are on a small blue moon that returned
- Craft own artifact weapon, called "Ancestral Weapon", specific options based on race and class combo
- Zones have Day/Night mechanic where depending on what phase different things are happening

[Zankai27]

Honestly doesn't sound that bad TBH

[Hitei]

When will Blizzard finally add Dragon Bards?

[Ansi]

Secrets of Elune- Only dragons here are emerald
- All the aesthetic are purple and green
- Night Elven and Tauren lore about Elune and the Sun God, very Druidic
- Elune was supposed to protect Azeroth and messed up, now Light and Void are out of balance
- Ranger is the new class - looks like it got some of the abilities hunters lost. 1 ranged like hunter but magical, 1 melee spec looks like warden
- New zones are on a small blue moon that returned
- Craft own artifact weapon, called "Ancestral Weapon", specific options based on race and class combo
- Zones have Day/Night mechanic where depending on what phase different things are happening

I like this one. Who made it up?

[Lahis]

When will Blizzard finally add Dragon Bards?

The Jailer succeeded and Azeroth is dead. We will need to collect the seven Dragon Bards to resurrect her.

[username993720]

Where did you pull that one from?

[Alanar]

Ye it doesnt sound bad.


As usual, this is it!