Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Raetary]

Aren't all of those encrypted?

The Jailer intro is a cutscene for one, and we already datamined it.

[Marlamin]

From spell names:

File ID: 4279697 - 39,553 KB - 1:23 min <-- Jailer Raid Finale
File ID: 4279692 - 78,380 KB - 2:42 min <-- Anduin Raid Finale

Other 2 are still unknown.

[Vakir]

Oh wow, Anduin's is longer.

... actually that is not surprising now that I think of it. Blue Satan is wallpaper paste bland and Anduin likely has Arthas fanservice.

[pacotaco]

My guesses:
25 sec: anduin intro
51 sec: jailer intro
1:23 sec: anduin kill cinematic
2:42: jailer "kill" cinematic

25 -> Anduin defeat
51 -> Rygelon intro
1:23 -> Rygelon defeat and Zovaal intro
2:42 -> Zovaal defeat and the fate of Azeroth

[micwini]

From spell names:

File ID: 4279697 - 39,553 KB - 1:23 min <-- Jailer Raid Finale
File ID: 4279692 - 78,380 KB - 2:42 min <-- Anduin Raid Finale

Other 2 are still unknown.

What spellnames? Are cinematics spells? Why then do we not know the other 2?

[Lady Atia]

25 -> Anduin defeat
51 -> Rygelon intro
1:23 -> Rygelon defeat and Zovaal intro
2:42 -> Zovaal defeat and the fate of Azeroth

Why should a random constellar get two cinematics?

[Valysar]

Can it be a mythic phase intro for the Jailer ?

[Marlamin]

What spellnames? Are cinematics spells? Why then do we not know the other 2?

Spells can be used to trigger cinematics by their ID and spells exist for those two.

https://wow.tools/dbc/?dbc=spelleffect&build=9.2.0.42521#page=1&colFilter[4]=exact%3A45&colFilter[25]=956
https://wow.tools/dbc/?dbc=spelleffect&build=9.2.0.42521#page=1&colFilter[4]=exact%3A45&colFilter[25]=958

Go to these (forum breaks on these as links) and you can scroll all the way to the right and hover over the SpellIDs to see the spell names.

954/957 (the other cinematics) have no spell bound to them right now, they're probably played through other means which might not be clientside at all or hidden elsewhere that I can't be bothered to find.

[micwini]

they're probably played through other means which might not be clientside at all or hidden elsewhere that I can't be bothered to find.

What does this mean exactly? That they are played outside the raid or something else?

[Marlamin]

What does this mean exactly? That they are played outside the raid or something else?

They probably can be played outside of the raid when asking a certain NPC about what happened, they usually do this for important story cinematics.

[Makabreska]

The final Jailer defeat cinematic will be the Eternal Ones coming together, having used up all of their power to help finally end Zovaal, while addressing Bolvar, Jaina, Thrall, Anduin, and the Maw Walker that "now, destiny is in your hands... and the age of mortals... has begun, again."

So like, same as in Cata? Two times the charm leggo! Although, last time it happened we went right into faction conflict so I dunno.

[Vakir]

So like, same as in Cata? Two times the charm leggo! Although, last time it happened we went right into faction conflict so I dunno.

That was the joke.

Also, really the third time. Medivh showed up to show that mortals could handle things as he said at the end of Reign of Chaos and then the story response after was "nah, people like us being helped by dragons and gods too much. It prints money and WC3 can't be a story ender if we're gonna make an MMO. Disregard."

[Fiercelord]

Hyped for Arthas to finally show up. My bet is on the "goodbye" arthas walking away into nothing.

[Lahis]

What spellnames? Are cinematics spells? Why then do we not know the other 2?

Using spells to trigger non-spell things is one of the coding/sceipting tricks Blizz uses for WoW.

Software is full of duct-taped solutions like that.

[ExiHext]

The final Jailer defeat cinematic will be the Eternal Ones coming together, having used up all of their power to help finally end Zovaal, while addressing Bolvar, Jaina, Thrall, Anduin, and the Maw Walker that "now, destiny is in your hands... and the age of mortals... has begun, again."

The Primus already stated that the Eternal Ones are not allowed to enter Zereth Mortis, so they won't appear in the ending cinematic at all.

[Nyel]

Jailer gets the short stick… like his entire life. He doesn’t deserve more. How much story will be relegated to 9.2.5 though? It can totally be the decisive patch that sets the tone for the next expansion, especially if the Jailer fight isn’t indicating anything.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

I don’t think he’ll complain about it
I mean he is a bit cunty in his personal life but he’s pretty professional when it comes to his business.

A lot of content creators are just done with WoW. I was surprised when Kaif quit back during the Hong Kong stuff.

He complained about being banned and losing some press privileges in BFA for abusing and advertising the lvling bug even while in the same video saying he knew better and shouldn’t have done it so I wouldn’t be surprised if he took the same approach if he didn’t get alpha.

[Marlamin]

Max just mentioned that he heard that when the servers go live so will an announcement. He didn't say what but implied that it was probably expansion announcement info.

I don't think he was teasing a Blizzard announcement, sounded like a Liquid announcement.

[Ersula]

Max just mentioned that he heard that when the servers go live so will an announcement. He didn't say what but implied that it was probably expansion announcement info.

They always do a new blue post when a new raid opens. That's a pretty weaksause "prediction"

[AngerFork]

From spell names:

File ID: 4279697 - 39,553 KB - 1:23 min <-- Jailer Raid Finale
File ID: 4279692 - 78,380 KB - 2:42 min <-- Anduin Raid Finale

Other 2 are still unknown.

I'm legitimately surprised, I absolutely thought that the longer cinematic would be for the end of Shadowlands. I suppose it makes sense, given how much ground the Anduin cinematic likely has to cover. Definitely excited to see it, likely later today!