Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[PhillyCheese]

Please, just let Tel'abim die already. Let's not waste our time with the meme joke banana isle.

Considering how bloodthirsty ass rage vicious the fans get over any original content added to WoW, I think Tel'abim will be mandated because it is Old Thing We Know. Same as Plunder Isle.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Very well:

Where did that overgrown Crusade banner come from? It looks quite pretty.

[Raetary]

I would personally love a World of Warcraft: Age of Potassium set on Tel'abim

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Well, it is still valid to criticize that horrible story, tho. And Sylvanas getting redeemed after farming a million souls in the maw. I mean, if they really want lore aware players to continue their game, they have to be way more capable to create a well planned storyline rather than coming to a point where they have to retcon parts just to be able to bring up an even bigger fish (Lich King => Jailer, Titans => first ones).. They should make a raw concept at start where the story is going to, and not retcon it based on the current trend in gameplay.

I don't disagree with that at all. I was just making a point about how people will 100% harass the developers in ways which are disproportionate. Of course this story is horrendously-constructed and they certainly have no clue how they're going to map out the expansions from hereon out. They're not doing a good job at all, and that they deserve criticism for—I simply maintain that it is wise to not get involved with the more melodramatic side of that, as Marlamin decided to avoid.

[Raetary]

Afterall, the Bananas do seem to have a perculiar society:
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Dam..._Page_(Day_87)

These months have given me time to ponder, to shuffle loose my old beliefs and bigotries. Alliance? Horde? Good? Evil? The meanings of these words, once so clear, now blur as my eyes gaze across the boundless sea.

I now know what matters. The bananas are after me.

Perched high in their tree, they eye me with cool malevolence. And the last one I tried to eat nearly gagged me! I could almost hear it scream as I smashed it, half bitten, on sea rocks.

It's war, and I will win it.

https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Dam...Page_(Day_512)

Diary - Day 512


The bananas have started talking to me and I have learned a great deal about their culture. I have ceased my senseless destruction of their homes and consumption of the young. How little I knew then of the great civilization that I was destroying.

On another topic I seem to be running low on bottles and paper. When I first looked at those huge stacks of paper that washed ashore I thought they would be inexhaustible. Woe with me, my diary must end soon.

[Khaza-R]

I would personally love a World of Warcraft: Age of Potassium set on Tel'abim

The hype train is distinctly missing some banana action.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Well, not becoming toxic is hard if the developers are toxic themself. If they create a game based on a toxic bias. If the only effort they put in is effort for what they play themself, and not what their players are playing. If all they are up to is self centric about what they like most of the game they design. If their main design goal is to create boosters and boostes to fill their companies pockets.

Beside that, yes, insults and getting personal should be avoided. While it is not always easy.

I disagree. I think it takes fairly minimal effort—it simply requires a good distinction between reality and fiction and an understanding of the priorities that are necessary in this case.

I think people do blow this out of proportion and their responses are more disproportionate than they could be.

[Zankai27]

EoA leak looks legit

God I wish;

It's one of those "has literally everything I'd want" leaks, so I'm just gonna huff hopium until the 19th and then not be surprised when it's not that

[TheFirstOnes]

I honestly hope we do get a Secret Mythic Jailer phase

[Kiria]

As long as the next expansion doesnt contain dwelling in underground cities/caves for midgets and the cursed T class, I will be pretty darned happy with whatever comes next.

[Teriz]

There isn't. It what fits the story they want to tell. Not the space missing on the map. That's why you have such an asymmetry in the first place.

How do you know that the space on the map isn't part of the story that they want to tell? Blizzard are the ones who put that open space on the map. Why couldn't that space have been purposely left open for Undermine and Dragon Isles?

[username993720]

There’s a difference between releasing a new leather class because it fits the lore of the new class despite an over abundance of existing leather classes, and purposely placing new land masses on one side of the maelstrom.

There isn't. It what fits the story they want to tell. Not the space missing on the map. That's why you have such an asymmetry in the first place.

Which is not a continent.

Not? Wasn't it added as the Legion one?

[Fahrad Wagner]

I would personally love a World of Warcraft: Age of Potassium set on Tel'abim

Can't wait for the banana tier sets

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

I'd really like to know what's made people latch onto the EoA (Which let's be real was derived from Empire of Aspects) leak, because it's done a few unique things that no other leak has done lately.

Wondering if it's the fact it includes a race, or the fact it includes a class. Because I feel like it's one of those two points that got people to latch onto it over all else.

[Vakir]

Can't wait for the banana tier sets

Lawbringer HD version inevitable then.

[PhillyCheese]

Is there a reason Calias model is encrypted when the textures show she looks the same? Is it a placeholder or does the change have to do with her <Title> like how Taelia needed a new model for her last name?

Wonder if she and Sylvanas will talk before the trial or it will legit skip to the trial immediately without them ever interacting.

I'd really like to know what's made people latch onto the EoA (Which let's be real was derived from Empire of Aspects) leak, because it's done a few unique things that no other leak has done lately.

Wondering if it's the fact it includes a race, or the fact it includes a class. Because I feel like it's one of those two points that got people to latch onto it over all else.

Because the leak mentions Khadgar, heritage weapons and a christmas mount, and all those appeared in the first build of 9.2.5. It has nothing to do with the leak itself.

If next build has Tyrande grow a mustache, and that was in a Tel’abim leak, that’s going to be the most popular leak.

[Marlamin]

Is there a reason Calias model is encrypted when the textures show she looks the same? Is it a placeholder or does the change have to do with her <Title> like how Taelia needed a new model for her last name?

Not all of her textures are the same, so there's likely something different about it visually. They don't need new models to change NPC names/titles and such.

[Fahrad Wagner]

Not all of her textures are the same, so there's likely something different about it visually. They don't need new models to change NPC names/titles and such.

I wonder what could justify a change to her model ...

[Marlamin]

I wonder what could justify a change to her model ...

Could be anything. Anduin has a few different models that are visually indistinguishable... yet different. There's actually another encrypted Anduin model as well, I think.

[Shadochi]

I wonder what could justify a change to her model ...

Sylvanas is out this patch so they finally have time for other models to get updated?/s

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Could be anything. Anduin has a few different models that are visually indistinguishable... yet different. There's actually another encrypted Anduin model as well, I think.

Feels weird to me that one unique models in 7.2 they did for anduin just for 1 quest. Afaik it was never used again. And then there are some NPCs that are long overdue for new model or unique model in some cases

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I wonder how hard would it be for blizzard to not ship voice lines (specific or all) and cinematics in the PTR. even encrypted, and instead release it in hotfixes on the reset that it becomes available