Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[AOL Instant Messenger]

How would people feel about gear vendors making a return? What if the valor gear upgrade vendor was/is a sign to come? I would love a valor/justice-like vendor to purchase gear again.

I was going to make another Blizzard joke, but we've already run that one into the ground, I think. So, to answer your question, that would be very nice.

[Catastrophy349]

Lol. Does that mean we can expect JP/VP coming back in 10.0?

I was only asking a question! I don’t work for Blizzard! However, take a moment to reflect on Classic WoW’s effect on Shadowlands. Level and stat squish, “lessons learned” for bringing back core class abilities/utility, etc. Maybe Blizzard will follow a similar trend for 10.0, looking at BoJ vendors in TBCC as a positive method for additional/supplemental gearing. Furthermore, Wrath Classic is very likely coming this Fall. What did Wrath have? JP/VP vendors. Pure bliss!

[Dragon ANX]

Where are the World Revamp people at?

Did you summon me?
Everyone is here in the shadows just waiting

[Syegfryed]

I would serve my queen Azshara. You suggest it's gonna be a 3rd faction expansion?

we are slowly progression to one faction with so few players, they can't rly do a rd faction unless is pure flavour-wise., and this they kinda already did with covenants and class halls.

Personally, i wished they did class halls system again, but focusing on races instead, some class halls campaigns/artifacts were lackluster but the idea was great. This would great improve wow worldbuilding.

[therumblings]

WoW : Eminence
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- level 70
- Dragon Isles are just a shrine with a portal to the Lost Realms. A part of pre-sundered Azeroth frozen in time where the dragons have flourished
- Murozond and Azshara. Everyone wants a vial of eternity
- Naga are new race. Can transform back to highborne at will
- New Cities : Lordaeron and Nordrassil
- New undead and NE customizations based on story
- Sylvanas apologies to Forsaken. Asks Bolvar and Calia to lead and guide them where she couldn’t
- Night Elves allowed to return to Azeroth as wisps where they help re-grow the forests
- Profession overhaul
- Cross-faction guilds
- Can choose a dragonflight and empower some of your abilities. Can switch as much as you like but need a new farmable currency

lmao i hope this is real because its on the same page as the twitter cringe posts and trolling

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Where are the World Revamp people at?

Here as always

[Syegfryed]

lmao i hope this is real because its on the same page as the twitter cringe posts and trolling
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I can't wrap my head around they doing time travel again, even if tis like that, there is also too many bs in one thread alone.

[therumblings]

I can't wrap my head around they doing time travel again, even if tis like that, there is also too many bs in one thread alone.

I don't think it's time travel though, my interpretation of that post is that it's just a piece of Azeroth that survived the sundering and is frozen in time, rather than places we've been to before in Azeroth but in a different time period.

Though I still think the leak itself is fake, I don't expect anything before mid April.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

so few players

Admittedly, the question is if this will last. IIRC, and I may be wrong here, Microsoft made it a very explicit part of the plan to try to increase player population, which I figure they may have the expertise to do. Keep in mind Microsoft has always been, for all its faults, a very effective and competent company.

[therumblings]

we are slowly progression to one faction with so few players, they can't rly do a rd faction unless is pure flavour-wise., and this they kinda already did with covenants and class halls.

Personally, i wished they did class halls system again, but focusing on races instead, some class halls campaigns/artifacts were lackluster but the idea was great. This would great improve wow worldbuilding.

They don't even need race halls, just more race-based quests instead of faction based. More capitals for races that dont have them and such.

[Hitei]

lmao i hope this is real because its on the same page as the twitter cringe posts and trolling

The Dragon Isles aren't Isles in time, they are Islands made out of Dragons.

Five zone-sized progenitor proto-drakes whose corpses/skeletons are the terrain.

[Syegfryed]

They don't even need race halls, just more race-based quests instead of faction based. More capitals for races that dont have them and such.

yeah yeah, i was more talking like in the sense of having proper quests and weapons/armors around your race, it helps you do the worldbuilding and the players will be engaged because is something personal.

they can finally deliver the rest of the heritage armor, make heritage weapons and mounts, everythign while building up new characters and shaping the places the races live and where they act. Like, Orgrimmar is the "class hall of orcs", Guilenas will be the "class hall" of worgens, you can have quests all over durotan and guilenas to shape the place.

its a minefield

[Chickat]

The map has been completely empty since 8.2.

Oh ok. I knew about its updates, but I wasn't sure if this was something new.

[Syegfryed]

Admittedly, the question is if this will last. IIRC, and I may be wrong here, Microsoft made it a very explicit part of the plan to try to increase player population, which I figure they may have the expertise to do. Keep in mind Microsoft has always been, for all its faults, a very effective and competent company.

If wow sub is included in gamepass it will increase population, at least in some places of the world.

Game is almost dead in south america, rly not worthy to pay that much for it.

[therumblings]

The Dragon Isles aren't Isles in time, they are Islands made out of Dragons.

Five zone-sized progenitor proto-drakes whose corpses/skeletons are the terrain.

Or even better, every zone is a live dragon like spine of deathwing

[AOL Instant Messenger]

If wow sub is included in gamepass it will increase population, at least in some places of the world.

Game is almost dead in south america, rly not worthy to pay that much for it.

To be fair, South America already seems like it wouldn't constitute much of the playerbase. Nevertheless, though, I'm certain that any methods they use anywhere will increase the population by a fairly equal margin worldwide.

[FossilFree]

I think the expansion will be set in Elunaria. It has everything, titan stuff, life stuff, Elune stuff, dragon stuff, and cosmic stuff. Seems like a logical next destination based on the story up to now too.

[Dracullus]

I think the expansion will be set in Elunaria. It has everything, titan stuff, life stuff, Elune stuff, dragon stuff, and cosmic stuff. Seems like a logical next destination based on the story up to now too.

One problem, half of playerbase would want to crucify Blizzard if next expansion is not set on Azeroth.

Imo it will be and whole marketing will be similar to WoD's "return to Warcraft roots".

[Fahrad Wagner]

One problem, half of playerbase would want to crucify Blizzard if next expansion is not set on Azeroth.

Imo it will be and whole marketing will be similar to WoD's "return to Warcraft roots".

This is very likely indeed. After Shadowlands... I really doubt they'd double on a cosmic expansion.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

yeah yeah, i was more talking like in the sense of having proper quests and weapons/armors around your race, it helps you do the worldbuilding and the players will be engaged because is something personal.

they can finally deliver the rest of the heritage armor, make heritage weapons and mounts, everythign while building up new characters and shaping the places the races live and where they act. Like, Orgrimmar is the "class hall of orcs", Guilenas will be the "class hall" of worgens, you can have quests all over durotan and guilenas to shape the place.

its a minefield

This does offer up the question of how Allied Races will work, but I suppose it's not difficult to resolve at all. It would be a vastly significant amount of work added on to the fairly manageable workload of the main races to add cities and questlines for them. I could see them sharing questlines and hubs with the main races—Lightforged and normal Draenei, Mag'Har and Orcs etc. would all work and I could see plenty of ways to emphasize the kinship between the base races and their Allied counterparts. The Nightborne and Blood Elves could have interesting quests to explore whatever they're up to with their arcs mostly-resolved and open up new plotlines from the otherwise-resolved races, and the Vulpera could just share with the Zandalari. The only sore thumb I can see is the Void Elves, who I don't think anybody cares about enough lorewise to warrant a new zone and questline, plus it would feel like cheating out other Allied Races in favor of a fairly banal one.

[zeir]

what happened to that huge new tavern with hearthstone tables? Got me hyped for a world revamp 3 years ago, it looked soooo good.