Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Sondrelk]

[IMG]https://i.ibb.co/ZgnsG3X/Screenshot-20220325-165404.jpg[IMG] sorry not sorry.

Replace those chicken nuggets with skulls and similar and that picture would almost perfectly encapsulate how the story has been dealing with BfA Sylvanas and Tyrande.
Mean ol' Tyrande who unjustly bullies Sylvanas for her noble wish to kill thousands for personal gain.

[Ersula]

Looks like the next Hearthstone expansion is based on the unannounced Warcraft expansion.

“second [expansion] one will be heavily influenced by something from World of Warcraft”

Source: https://techpulse.be/nieuws/336578/h...e-card-reveal/

I know you're probably right but that blurb is true about all Hearthstone expansions. All hearthstone expansions are heavily influenced by World of Warcraft. It's a card game based on it.

Honestly the biggest hint about the Expansion announcement will be on April 5th, where they announced there will be a "big announcement" over what the name of the annual season will be. Why announce it at all rather than tell us now? Is it that revealing about the next expansion?

[PhillyCheese]

I know you're probably right but that blurb is true about all Hearthstone expansions. All hearthstone expansions are heavily influenced by World of Warcraft. It's a card game based on it.

Honestly the biggest hint about the Expansion announcement will be on April 5th, where they announced there will be a "big announcement" over what the name of the annual season will be. Why announce it at all rather than tell us now? Is it that revealing about the next expansion?

Where was teh April 5th thing mentioned?

Between the 9.2.5 stuff purposefully being shown to us now and more stuff being added there in the weeks to come, they may be drip feeding up to the announcement.

[Ersula]

Where was teh April 5th thing mentioned?

Between the 9.2.5 stuff purposefully being shown to us now and more stuff being added there in the weeks to come, they may be drip feeding up to the announcement.

Hearthstone. April 5th is when they tell us the name & theme of this year. Which is conspicuous that they didn't just tell us with the Sunken City expansion announcement.

[Teriz]

What people here sadly ignore is that Dragon Isles expansion and Lordaeron expansion can literally be the same thing.

Even in the WotLK pre-release map, the Dragon Isles were located near Lordaeron's northern shoreline:

That isn't the current WoW map, this is;



It should be fairly obvious where the next landmass is likely to be placed.

[PhillyCheese]

Hearthstone. April 5th is when they tell us the name & theme of this year. Which is conspicuous that they didn't just tell us with the Sunken City expansion announcement.

Has there been a Scarlets/Lordaeron themed one yet? I know there was a dragon one.

Scarlets would fit the bill for something introduced in World of Warcraft.

[Ticj]

Pretty much everyone agrees that Tinker as a class is associated to Gnomes and Goblins, not dwarves ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"ever seen a dwarf tinker?" yes, so many times. What do you think all the dwarven engineers are lol

Obviously gnomes and goblins are the primary tinker classes, but it's weird to say that dwarves and other races couldn't do it

[PhillyCheese]

That isn't the current WoW map, this is;



It should be fairly obvious where the next landmass is likely to be placed.

I'm kind of hoping the Dragon Isles are actually separated because Kalimdor is getting more and more distant and lonely.

[Teriz]

I'm kind of hoping the Dragon Isles are actually separated because Kalimdor is getting more and more distant and lonely.

That's what I mean; If we're getting a new landmass, the obvious choice would be to place it on the Kalimdor side of the Malestrom.

[Kiivar86]

Looking at that map, man the sea east of the Maelstrom sure is getting kinda packed.

[PhillyCheese]

That's what I mean; If we're getting a new landmass, the obvious choice would be to place it on the Kalimdor side of the Malestrom.

Maybe I'm biased based on scrapped Dragon Isles but my eyes are drawn first to the big area above EK.

[Ersula]

Has there been a Scarlets/Lordaeron themed one yet? I know there was a dragon one.

Scarlets would fit the bill for something introduced in World of Warcraft.

Well, we already know the first of the three expansions this year is the Sunken City, story wise a horde & alliance ambassador making contact with the Naga, so I'd have to guess theme might be recontextualizing races that were initially hostile to players in WoW. That says "old world revamp" to me, but its hard to tell at this point.

If the theme was "treating the enemy races of wow as friendly" the other 2 expansions of the year could be something like "Lordaeron Reborn" with Scarlet Crusaders & "The Cultures of Stranglethorn" with Orgres & Centaurs.

[PhillyCheese]

Well, we already know the first of the three expansions this year is the Sunken City, story wise a horde & alliance ambassador making contact with the Naga, so I'd have to guess theme might be recontextualizing races that were initially hostile to players in WoW. That says "old world revamp" to me, but its hard to tell at this point.

If the theme was "treating the enemy races of wow as friendly" the other 2 expansions of the year could be something like "Lordaeron Reborn" with Scarlet Crusaders & "The Cultures of Stranglethorn" with Orgres & Centaurs.

I don't think the themes are connected, especially when the article said that the third expansion is "broadly Warcraft" meaning it could be something like Heroes of the Storm in how it deals with random characters.

The second one being explicity World of Warcraft makes me think its either about Shadowlands or WoW Lordaeron (Plaguelands, Scarlets, Forsaken etc)

[Vakir]

Well, we already know the first of the three expansions this year is the Sunken City, story wise a horde & alliance ambassador making contact with the Naga, so I'd have to guess theme might be recontextualizing races that were initially hostile to players in WoW. That says "old world revamp" to me, but its hard to tell at this point.

If the theme was "treating the enemy races of wow as friendly" the other 2 expansions of the year could be something like "Lordaeron Reborn" with Scarlet Crusaders & "The Cultures of Stranglethorn" with Orgres & Centaurs.

This strongly resembles how FF14 is pivoting to "Tribe Quests" rather than "Beast Tribe Quests" whether intentionally similar or not in accordance with the story shifting to sympathetic portrayals of former enemies by way of their manipulation by the then-bigger bad.

And I'd be down with that if it carried into WoW! It would fit with Blizzard's walkback in terms of destigmatizing certain cultural stereotypes or stock tropes but in a way that feels interesting rather than performative. And opens up more dynamics and races rather than ass pulling new ones.

Y'know, if they did it right.

All speculation though obviously

[Varx]

Maybe I'm biased based on scrapped Dragon Isles but my eyes are drawn first to the big area above EK.

That's what I was thinking, while Undermine might go between Kal and the mael. A large subterranean underground city starting at kezan.

[boyzma]

I dont know who started the whole 10.0 = dragon isles rumour, but I think its gonna be a completely different expac then people think.

You and I seem to be the only 2 logical ones that think this way I think it's going to be off from what people are so sure of and they'll be scratching their heads for weeks.

[PhillyCheese]

If the 8.3 propaganda brochures are indicative of anything, the angle they are going for Scarlets is not sympathetic. Looks like Calia may have to fight and maybe kill her own daughter pretending to be the Crown Prince of Lordaeron, or she is being forced into the role by someone.

I think this character may be the main antagonist if there is a Light expansion.

[Yossarian]

You and I seem to be the only 2 logical ones that think this way

"everyone is stupid but me!"

[PhillyCheese]

If the expansion isn't tied close to the Forsaken, I wonder why they even encrypted Tirisfal. Were they still hanging onto the idea that maybe they can pretend Sylvanas had a chance of coming back to Azeroth?

[ercarp]

I dont know who started the whole 10.0 = dragon isles rumour, but I think its gonna be a completely different expac then people think.

Blizzard started it.

Players have been able to narrow down the theme of each expansion to just a small handful for the past who knows how many years. Before SL, it was more or less a toss-up between Dragons, Death, or Old Gods. With each expansion, we're able to cross off one more theme from the ever-shrinking list of possible expansion settings.

Right now the most likely expansions are down to Dragons, Light, Void, Underground, and I guess Old World Revamp. Another cosmic expansion directly after SL is not happening so we can cross out Light and Void for 10.0. Old World Revamp to me seems too early for 10.0, and an Underground expansion might just be a pipe dream. Which leaves us with Dragons as the most likely expansion setting to follow SL.

Of course, there's always the possibility of a total curveball expansion like Mists of Pandaria, and honestly, I unironically wouldn't mind if the next expansion was Secrets of Tel'Abim. Really. I think it could actually be really cool.