Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[AngerFork]

10.0 is going to shake up AND shock the MMORPG world. Just watch. 19 days and we will know. If I’m wrong, I will crawl back into my very small shell until 11.0 HYPE.

Tortollan confirmed.

[draugril]

Tortollan confirmed.

Shellshocked.

[Sharby]

I think the WQ thing is just exaggerated memories. I went back to BfA and Legion, and with the exception of the "Kill X rare", the world quests were pretty similar all things considered. Mostly world quests with one or two steps, with a few outliers that took longer.

Idk the spider good WQ in ZM makes me groan every time its up.

[Revamp Man]

I totally forgot about the stormwind updates
I’m really hoping it’s not for the worgens or it’s dangerously close to being similar to a leak

[Tusks r cool]

Idk the spider good WQ in ZM makes me groan every time its up.

Yep, same. Also, that ZM daily quests that requires you to research 12 geomentals, jeez.

[Sondrelk]

I doubt it'll be anything "shocking." It's going to stick to the formula to a huge degree. The next expansion, though? There's potential there. The shake-ups from the past year will have some degree of effect on subsequent development, but the pipeline needs to be drained of what was already coming before they can start developing anything "shocking."

Theme and story is probably too late to change, but systems could probably be heavily influenced by the latest developments in Blizzard, especially if they are not too tightly integrated into the expansion as a whole like Artifacts or Azerite.
A system like covenants could probably easily be almost completely revamped if we were looking at something similar to 10.0. the abilities don't strictly need to be a part of raiding, and the soulbinds could similarly be scrapped and the abilities added to the abilities baseline, or as part of gear sets.

[NikolaiShade]

I totally forgot about the stormwind updates
I’m really hoping it’s not for the worgens or it’s dangerously close to being similar to a leak

which one?

[Sondrelk]

Idk the spider good WQ in ZM makes me groan every time its up.

Not that there are not annoying ones, but we also have world quests like " click on 8 easily visible vombata", "pick 40 honey", or "click on 6 terminals".

Annoying world quests existed back in Legion and BfA too, just like here, and usually you just end up ignoring them.

[Revamp Man]

which one?

EoA

Said stormwind was getting updated for worgen and VElf

[Wangming]

While this would certainly allow for a bigger expansion overall, I'm not sure I agree about the level of effort. Class Skins feel like they would turn out a lot like what Blizz said about artifact weapon designs in interviews: looks like less work up front, but once you get into the sheer enormity of what all they require it turns out to be more work than they would've had otherwise. It would certainly cut down on the amount of level design to a certain extent, though updating revamped zones & redoing quests to fit will in itself also be a massive undertaking.

It would be a neat expansion, one I'd be very interested in. But I'm not sure that I buy it would be less effort.

Well I'm not a game dev, so I may be talking out of my anus. But Class Skins require all the work a class would need, but don't require ability balancing. It is purely visual. As for a revamp, it definitely is a huge undertaking, but less than a new zone from scratch. Especially if they do something like revamp Duskwood, where there is no need to change the architecture or the geography. Which is why they could revamp all of EK and Kalimdor back in Cataclysm, despite that being a fucking lot of zones. It is still a lot of work, but when they add new stuff, the maximum capacity is pretty much what we got with MoP. If they want to add more, they need to cheat somehow.

10.0 is going to shake up AND shock the MMORPG world. Just watch. 19 days and we will know. If I’m wrong, I will crawl back into my very small shell until 11.0 HYPE.

It would be cool if you were correct, but Blizzard stopped being a trend setter like ten years ago. The only way they would shock the MMO world if the reveal is so lackluster the backlash causes them to go free to play.

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EoA

Said stormwind was getting updated for worgen and VElf

Well they need a place. Either they get Gilneas City back (please oh please oh please) or they need to settle in Stormwind. Or wherever the fuck Night Elves will live.

[KayRule]

Professions Land is indeed a devmap added in Shadowlands (9.1).

Did it have an actual map file? I remember seeing the instance ID and name string, but thought it didn't come with a map.

[Kiivar86]

Reminder that Blizzard had planned originally for the Gilneans to have a district in Stormwind way back when, only to shoot down the idea since they said the aesthetics clashed.

I'm still salty about that.

[Marlamin]

Did it have an actual map file? I remember seeing the instance ID and name string, but thought it didn't come with a map.

Nope, it wasn't actually shipped to the public outside of the entry in the database table.

[Wangming]

Reminder that Blizzard had planned originally for the Gilneans to have a district in Stormwind way back when, only to shoot down the idea since they said the aesthetics clashed.

I'm still salty about that.

To be fair a Gilnean district would look odd in the all white marbles Stormwind city. Maybe if it had more colour.

[Kiivar86]

To be fair a Gilnean district would look odd in the all white marbles Stormwind city. Maybe if it had more colour.

But a smoldering crater for years was A-OK.

And it'd fit in fine honestly, there's enough variation in the city as is anyway.

[draugril]

To be fair a Gilnean district would look odd in the all white marbles Stormwind city. Maybe if it had more colour.

Or go white marble with a Gilnean style.

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

Ear of Alexstrasza

I've been reading it as Empire of Aspects. So just as fake as Empire of Dragons.

[ercarp]

no shame in being amateur, it just means you arent a professional logo artist. the fact that it convinced a few people means you did a good job, though. LOL

???????

It wasn't created with the intention to convince anyone, it's literally something I made for a speculation thread I posted on this forum. (Although I guess technically I didn't even "make" it since the AI did most of the heavy lifting on the logo.) I don't do the whole fake leak thing anymore, but if I did, I would try a bit harder to make it look believable.

Please use your brains, lol.

[Raetary]

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What would the acronym even be short for here anyway? Eye of Alexstrasza? Lol.

Essence of An'she
Embrace of An'she
Essence of the Aspects
Embrace of the Aspects
Era of the Aspects
Eroticism of Anduin
Empire of the Aspects
Empress/Emperor of the Ages

Could be anything really.

[jzhbee]

But a smoldering crater for years was A-OK.

And it'd fit in fine honestly, there's enough variation in the city as is anyway.

Also that Everbloom portal with higher res grass textures in a light green shade that clashed against all of the other SW foliage.