Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Polybius]

Maybe it's like, the Jailer is beaming Azeroth to kill her, he realizes he's going to lose, and then turns the beam on the bones of Galakrond, does some last-moment magicky death magic empowerment to the beam and voila! Supermegaultradragon is raised in uber-undeath and is now ready to run rampant to "kill" Azeroth.

Or, he's beaming Azeroth and the scene cuts to the "other side" of the planet where you see what appears to be massive glass domes cracking, then shattering, and voila! Galakranaonmonpolis is revealed!

Isn't Wyrmrest supposed to be linked to Ulduar and other facilities? The bridges on the sides were part of speculation for some time. Hell, even the underground of Icecrown, Azjol Nerub, is Titan architecture taken over by Nerubians.

Have been wondering about this ever since Torghast appeared right above Icecrown Citadel, the underground leads to the Nerubian's home.

[Nightshade711]

The mount also has multiple skins attached to it I thought? Which if so would be one for each flight but I think I saw someone mention that they may be just multiple layers of the one skin so not positive on that.

I don't think any of the skins themselves were datamined, just the effects attached to the mount's skeleton, which were all green.
Though I might be wrong.

[huth]

found this on 4chan

That imagery really doesn't say "awakening" to me. Same issue as EoD, the logo and the title don't fit.

[Golden Yak]

Probably the most well done fake logo yet, if indeed it even is fake. I would buy it as real.

Ironically I could buy it as legit but they were too stupid to not capitalize both words in the title.

Minor words like 'the' or 'of' don't often get capitalized in logos, including WoW ones. See Wrath's logo.

[SunspotAnims]

Probably the most well done fake logo yet, if indeed it even is fake. I would buy it as real.



Minor words like 'the' or 'of' don't often get capitalized in logos, including WoW ones. See Wrath's logo.

To add even more inconsistency, "the" in the "The Burning Crusade" logo is all caps but really tiny, which is in my opinion a worse design decision than the way this logo handles it.

[Frood]

Probably the most well done fake logo yet, if indeed it even is fake. I would buy it as real.

Minor words like 'the' or 'of' don't often get capitalized in logos, including WoW ones. See Wrath's logo.

If you’re trying to make it seem like you didn’t make it, I don’t think it’s helping!

[Golden Yak]

If you’re trying to make it seem like you didn’t make it, I don’t think it’s helping!

Ah, I would never secretly jack off my own stuff. This one has a lot more effort put into it than I ever did, the entire backplate looks completely original.

[Ersula]

The Sprites/Spriggans in Ardenweald happen to use the male Vulpera animation.

I like how the Goblin animations are no longer goblin animations. They belong to the Vulpera now, forever.

[Archmage Xaxxas]

I like how the Goblin animations are no longer goblin animations. They belong to the Vulpera now, forever.

I specified because of the /dance they have.

[Nyel]

The Awakening logo looks fabulous to be honest. Totally reminds me of Vanilla WoW because of the color schemes.

[Soulwind]

-IF- that logo is real, then Blizzard is breaking the mold and making a new style of logo. The shape, the font, the color scheme, it's all brand new and only reminiscent of the previous ones.

If it's fanmade, well, I want to see more logos made by that person, because it is very pretty.

[Nyel]

Whoever did that logo (if it's real or not), I love the attention to detail and that both the are looking the same. I guess now I have to ship two logos, Empire of Dragons and The Awakening, because both are fabulous and I can't choose one of them over the other (yet).

[Plehnard]

found this on 4chan

Beautiful work. The colour contrasts make this really pop out.

[Throren]

though I will say the black metal spiked bits around the frame give me too much Mawsworn vibe for my liking

[Hitei]

-IF- that logo is real, then Blizzard is breaking the mold and making a new style of logo. The shape, the font, the color scheme, it's all brand new and only reminiscent of the previous ones.

If it's fanmade, well, I want to see more logos made by that person, because it is very pretty.

I think it is probably fake, but it's a very good iteration of what a logo might look like if Blizzard wanted to get a fresh look as part of that whole "new book of the warcraft saga" thing. It's a very strong color palette, in line with previous logos limited in number of colors, appropriate saturation and contrast. It's a very new border but hits a lot of the things all borders have. The border has a similar photobashed look to the BfA logo. It's reminiscent of the gilding used in a lot of Vanilla UI, it has a clear dragon thematic going on.

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Things it has going against it:


The stroke for the Warcraft letters uses a harder line than this, because when you do this softer line it gets a weird haze instead of boldly outlining the letters.



The background is odd. Seems a bit too cartoony when logos have generally moved towards more "gritty" WoD+

Some of the title text seems oddly sized. Not sure they'd make the T in "The" as big as AWAKENING, and also the AWAK is for some reason larger than the ENING, strange error.

More subjectively, I don't think that they would go with the same gold for the expansion title. While the color palette is good, it's slightly too simplistic at current. This is also a problem with the border frame, which is maybe a bit too uniform in color. You'd get a better look out of making the Awakening text like an eggshell or some other sort of cream/off-white like this or something.

It's good though. Not as good as Shadowlands was, particularly in the uniformity of the frame, so I'd still say fake.

I do doubt that they'd call it something as general as The Awakening, since that's pretty hard to parse compared to Cataclysm, which kinda has a very specific meaning, but I give the person who made it props for putting the The in there to ensure it's a proper noun reference. I wonder if they browse these threads.

[Raetary]

Fake or not, its really pretty and i wouldn't mind it being the real deal.

[Sondrelk]

Personally I just can't see the name looking like that. The "the" part looks horrible when it's that tiny compared to the rest of the logo, and while other logos have definitely made the and of smaller before they also had them in the middle, making the overall composition more balanced. Comparatively this logo looks horribly unbalanced towards one side.

Personally I would have just gone for Awakening as the title. It might be more vague, but it would look infinitely better as a logo.

[Akta]

found this on 4chan

This is fake for sure, too much contrast and shadows without detailed textures. Proportions are bad. Not a quality work.

[Teriz]

found this on 4chan

I guess we've gone full circle in leak country....

[Darkarath]

IMHO The Awakening logo looks really bad, not even close to the EoD logo, way closer to Explosions of Dragons than to any other stuff. Although I have no idea about logos' quality so I could be totally wrong.

Anyway, we are getting 9.2 release trailer today, right? right? With pieces of the new cinematics that could add 100 pages in an hour easily to this post.