Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Nightshade711]

Remember that no matter how real a leak looks it can/will likely turn out to be fake.

Take the 8.3 Stormwind raid leak with the cinematic screenshot of the green ghost ships/people in the stormwind harbor for example

[Marlamin]

Remember that no matter how real a leak looks it can/will likely turn out to be fake.

Take the 8.3 Stormwind raid leak with the cinematic screenshot of the green ghost ships/people in the stormwind harbor for example

There's definitely a bunch of talented people out there. I've seen a lot of cool stuff made with assets exported from WoW, it is very possible to get to cinematic level quality renders if someone is talented/knowledgeable enough.

[Catastrophy349]

We're about to start a brand new week of HYPE, speculation, and fun, folks! Don't forget to buckle up and enjoy the ride!

[Vasoka]

So, do we get a 10.0 announcement this week? What is the consensus of the local big brains? I've been out of the loop around Lost Ark, but it's time to consume worlo content again.

[Hitei]

Don't think that is in the WoW engine (reshaded or not), likely some third party render in something like Houdini or whatever.

Yeah, could be. To me it just looked like it's been modified enough that, with the dumb angled screen photo it looks less typical than usual. Either way, looks like way too many layered post effects (chromatic aberration, lens flares) to be an actual blizzard cinematic/cutscene

So, do we get a 10.0 announcement this week? What is the consensus of the local big brains? I've been out of the loop around Lost Ark, but it's time to consume worlo content again.

imo there is just zero chance of them dropping a 10.0 announcement without giving people a heads up of at least a week, so at best this week might get an announcement of announcement.

[micwini]

So, do we get a 10.0 announcement this week? What is the consensus of the local big brains? I've been out of the loop around Lost Ark, but it's time to consume worlo content again.

Local big brain here. I think no announcement this week. 9.2 is coming out. Slight chance on friday announcement of an announcement but taht is it

[Arafal]

We may get a reveal announcement this week.

[Vasoka]

Unlucky, I'm really tired of this cosmic BS. I really want some xpac grounded to Azeroth again. BFA did many things wrong, but the setting and the fact it was fairly low fantasy (at the beginning at least) still felt like "Warcraft". I just can't connect with Shadowlands at all. I really hope they reveal something good, provided they're done virtue signaling and censoring the game to mop up after the supposed rapist Afrasiabi.

[Catastrophy349]

I have a good feeling about the next few weeks. All in all, 9.2 is two days from now. We are closer now than ever before to the future of WoW!

[Vladier]

The top of Wyrmrest Temple has already been broken off presumably by Deathwing during Dragon Soul.

I think it was by Alexstrasza, actually, in "Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects". At the very least she broke the pretty orb.

[Vasoka]

We are? 10c

[KOUNTERPARTS]

We may get a reveal announcement this week.

Week 9 of "we may get a reveal this week" ... the thread.


Tune in next week for week 10.

[Ansi]

I'm guessing they will time the reveal with the release of the last two 'secret' bosses in Sepulcher. There will probably be a plot that leads straight into the next expansion ... ?

[Ersula]

I'm guessing they will time the reveal with the release of the last two 'secret' bosses in Sepulcher. There will probably be a plot that leads straight into the next expansion ... ?

I would think a twist would be extremely cool. But considering there is zero tension or urgency in the post-raid cutscenes we've datamined, I doubt it.

At best the Jailer's attacks in his third phase devastate the surface of Azeroth & the shadowlands characters don't realize it yet.

Side note: If Anduin turns into a brooding prettyboy post domination, I'm never going to take his character seriously again: He has no reason to be angsty: He didn't do anything while dominated? Is he sad he stabbed the Archon? She's fine. And worst that development means they basically just took away Sylvanas' personaility to give it to Anduin.

[Makorus]

I mean, atleast the players and whatever NPCs come with us (Anduin, Bolvar, Sylvanas, Jaina and Uther, I imagine) will certainly realize it because Azerite is literally part of the fight.

[micwini]

I mean, atleast the players and whatever NPCs come with us (Anduin, Bolvar, Sylvanas, Jaina and Uther, I imagine) will certainly realize it because Azerite is literally part of the fight.

Jailer bossfight music is even a mix of domination music + azerite music

[Vakir]

What secret Sepulcher bosses?

Also, transposing Sylvanas' personality onto Anduin requires that either of them have stable personalities - or in the latter's case, any personality at all.

That being said, yeah. He's gonna be a mopey case for half a patch before we get another unnecessary in-game cutscene of restoring him back to bland Jesus status. Hopefully he's put on ice through 10.0 to begin with.

[TaliaKirana]

You know, Anduin's got a right to feel awful for having been used as a pawn of evil. He didn't choose it, but what he saw while the Jailer was pulling his strings is going to haunt him. It wasn't his fault, but rarely is guilt logical.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

You know, Anduin's got a right to feel awful for having been used as a pawn of evil. He didn't choose it, but what he saw while the Jailer was pulling his strings is going to haunt him. It wasn't his fault, but rarely is guilt logical.

Sure but preferably he doesn't change his personality completely.

[Vakir]

Yeah, but rarely is irrational guilt an interesting narrative hook for a very long time.

It's interesting in reality where people need to struggle with it and the emotions we can actually connect with are viscerally felt because they actually exist. Survivor's guilt or irrational guilt is also usually connected to something actually adjacent to possibility (e.g. "I convinced my parent to visit me over the holidays and their plane crashed, ergo, my fault." "I hired some workers and they left the back door open while my kid was asleep and he got up, wandered out, and drowned in the canal, ergo, my fault.")

In a fantasy setting where almost anything is possible and actual-magic influences your decisions, it has a brief shelf-life. We don't want him to be a mopey cunt on top of being a narrative black hole.