Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[infinitemeridian]

Interesting that he seems to not be playing this patch, but he's probably fully onboard with 10.0.

He could also just be playing a different character.

[Revamp Man]

Ion notoriously doesn't (or didn't) transmog his (known) character's gear. This could be because he expressly wants others to see the mythic gear on his character, like the raiders during BC who would AFK outside the AH in SW/Org for people to admire them.

ah so its the internet being the internet

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https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/ch...anis/Gurgthock

That would be why.

well since he doesnt raid can we start seeing "ION HATES RAIDERS!!" posts

[Kiria]

Sylvanas will be missed

[manypillars]

Or guy who doesn't show interest in customization is not a first choice guy to develop customization.

Unless I am misremembering (more than likely), he does raid on patch launch but with a guild that doesn't know who he is. He talked about it during a Blizzcon some years ago, and said he enjoyed watching them figure out the encounters, and here and there dropping strategy hints to them. It struck me as kind of psycho/creepy, but dude likes raiding and deserves his privacy so he can enjoy the game in peace. It's almost certainly a completely different battle.net account because he's not dumb. I think he said he was a tank.

[Shadochi]

Or guy who doesn't show interest in customization is not a first choice guy to develop customization.

Unless I am misremembering (more than likely), he does raid on patch launch but with a guild that doesn't know who he is. He talked about it during a Blizzcon some years ago, and said he enjoyed watching them figure out the encounters, and here and there dropping strategy hints to them. It struck me as kind of psycho/creepy, but dude likes raiding and deserves his privacy so he can enjoy the game in peace. It's almost certainly a completely different battle.net account because he's not dumb. I think he said he was a tank.

To me it doesn't sound psycho creepy at all, just a guy trying to keep his anonymity and letting others have fun figuring the encounter.


Also isn't it under him that we got the most customizations?
AR, new options for many races, Tmog update in Legion im not sure if it was him or Chilton. But also a lot of customization specific cross gear type pieces (think thorghast shoulders and backs), racial sets for most races, 3D back items

If he doesn't use a system doesn't mean he doesnt see the relevance of it, proven by the customization options we got

[Cosmic Janitor]

Sylvanas will be missed

sure.. by some. Most people are sick and tired of her though.

[KayRule]

I think the realistic problem with housing is it is a massive strain on the server storing that much data for what really is a cosmetic thing. Add to that how heavily themed wows environment objects are and it would require a massive retooling of assets to work properly.

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[Catastrophy349]

Epilogue is bugged. Don't do it!

[Kiivar86]

Sylvanas will be missed

Yeah by my arcane barrage.

Seriously, good riddance. And I say that as someone who was a fan of hers, once. I am rather happy with this ending though. Its an actual work to redemption and not just a "Draenor is free" moment like I feared.

Epilogue is bugged. Don't do it!

Hah. Also servers are up? I thought it was supposed to be a long maintenance day again.

[Catastrophy349]

Yeah by my arcane barrage.

Seriously, good riddance. And I say that as someone who was a fan of hers, once. I am rather happy with this ending though. Its an actual work to redemption and not just a "Draenor is free" moment like I feared.



Hah. Also servers are up? I thought it was supposed to be a long maintenance day again.

Servers are UP and the cutscene for Epilogue is crashing/bugged

[Wangming]

sure.. by some. Most people are sick and tired of her though.

Hello there. I'm most people.

On a slightly related note Taliesin is sure Dark Rangers will be playable in some form in 10.0

[Raetary]

[Celement]

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Right I just understand that tracking even that a couple million times adds up. It was why the keyring was notice enough to be removed.

[Skytotem]

I do like the idea of applying a glyph to modify EE, but I think that would be more of a fix with the current customization system as is. Ideally for me, a character creation revamp would come with a racial one as well.

I'd prefer a system where you have "Traits* and you could choose your own character loadout. You could choose one of the Subraces/Clans that comes with its own default loadout, or you could customize it.

So a Traits loadout could be 2 Actives and 2 Passives, as well as separated between General, Racial and Unique. So, taking a Draenei for example Gemcutting would be General, Something all characters can pick, Gift of the Naaru would be exclusive to Racial, so exclusive to Draenei, and Light's Reckoning would be Unique to Lightforged Draenei, for example. And that would leave you with 2 Passive slots left.

So this Hypothetical Lightforged Draenei could have:

Light's Reckoning (Active-Unique)
Gift of the Naaru (Active-Racial)
Gemcutting (Passive-General)
Demonbane (Passive-General)
Shadow Resistance (Passive-General)

Of course, you could change Traits in game later on, the whole point being you can customize them to your character depending what you're doing, for example if you want to level Blacksmitting, you could swap Gift of the Naaru for Forge of Light. And if you want to min max your Traits for certain PvE or PvP encounters, you can too.

Definitely agree with this format, it'd do WONDERS for making racials more interesting since they wouldn't have to be as designed around every race having a mix of PVP/PVE and utility/flavor stuff, and less concern about faction balance.

[GR8GODZILLAGOD]

I like how her sisters don’t get a word in at all the entire time.

[KayRule]

Right I just understand that tracking even that a couple million times adds up. It was why the keyring was notice enough to be removed.

The issues with keyring were specific to how often it needed to be called and tracked. With player housing, player zones, etc. and phasing, it's called on draw and that's it. Every minute you spend in your house does not tax the server, it only taxes it once when you load in - the same impact you bring on the server when you hearth into your Garrison or open your bank.

Keyring data was pinged excessively to track. It's actually baffling it was designed at all when using flags (the current system) would have been an immediate no brainer.

[Raetary]

I like how her sisters don’t get a word in at all the entire time.

This was so funny to me.
All they get is a side glance in the last 20 seconds just to remind us that they exist.

[Kiivar86]

Check out that scowl on Alleria though.

Also Genn says nada too. I get that Tyrande's (and the NE's) are more recent victims but I mean he did lose his son after all.

[Arcinatoss]

Ahhhhh, she's finally gone. rip bozo.

[Catastrophy349]

Vereesa-Little Moon
Alleria-Little Sun