Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Khaza-R]

This would explain why khadgar was talking about feeling the years when he was supposed to be in his fifties

That or they are finally remembering that aging spell that Medivh him with

[Kiivar86]

Incoming time skip

In the book the jailer tells Sylvanas that years could have passed in the time it took her to get revived by the valkyr

This would explain why khadgar was talking about feeling the years when he was supposed to be in his fifties

You'd think Genn and those who weren't in the Shadowlands until Sylvanas' judgment would've said something then.

[Shandalar]

The best part its the confirmation of tinkers will never happen. They even laugh of the tinkerfags lol.

Glorious.

[Foolicious]

That or they are finally remembering that aging spell they Medivh him with

Khadgar has lived like 30 years in an old mans body so i think it makes sense that they mention him feeling like an old man. Even though i like him as a character i never fully agreed with changing him from gandalf to dr. strange so hes more attractive

[Lahis]

Incoming time skip

In the book the jailer tells Sylvanas that years could have passed in the time it took her to get revived by the valkyr

This would explain why khadgar was talking about feeling the years when he was supposed to be in his fifties

Khadgar had his life sucked out from him by Medivh and thus he speedran from 20 to 50. He is like 80+ physically now without any timeskips.

[Sondrelk]

The best part its the confirmation of tinkers will never happen. They even laugh of the tinkerfags lol.

Glorious.

They are having a laugh at leakers, the tinker part is just an extra bit on top.

[Wangming]

Khadgar has lived like 30 years in an old mans body so i think it makes sense that they mention him feeling like an old man. Even though i like him as a character i never fully agreed with changing him from gandalf to dr. strange so hes more attractive

Yeah that was dumb. Especially since there is a plant called Khadgar's whiskers. Like, dafuq do you mean, he is clean shaven.

[Kiivar86]

Khadgar has lived like 30 years in an old mans body so i think it makes sense that they mention him feeling like an old man. Even though i like him as a character i never fully agreed with changing him from gandalf to dr. strange so hes more attractive

Hell, I'm 35 and I feel increasingly like an old man as-is.

Granted, a stroke, a car accident that tore up my left shoulder joint, and generally living like a slob doesn't help matters.

[cocomen2]

Somehow 1 april joke class from blizz sounds like bard description. DAMN BRO

[ercarp]

Even though i like him as a character i never fully agreed with changing him from gandalf to dr. strange so hes more attractive

I hope we get Gandalf Khadgar back someday. I still don't understand the change. Maybe they did it because they felt like having another wizard with a big white beard was too stereotypical as far as old wizards go?

Hell, I'm 35 and I feel increasingly like an old man as-is.

Granted, a stroke, a car accident that tore up my left shoulder joint, and generally living like a slob doesn't help matters.

Pretty much. I'm in my mid-20s and I feel like I'm half-dead most of the time. Not saying that's a good thing, but it is what it is.

[infinitemeridian]

Either every year I get older I become more cynical, or every year these April Fool's Day memes by Blizzard are getting increasingly weaker and less funny.


I think they can do better than the "fake patch notes" template or "upcoming new features" template.

Definitely feels pretty phoned in this year.

[Zankai27]

Late but yeah the difference in the Tinker and Bard jokes is the Tinker one wasn't about Tinkers at all; the only mention it has is in the name, the rest is a joke about leakers.

If they had joked about robots and shit, it would be out of the running.

Feels bad for Bard people though

[Elflover99]

With the Sylvanas book retconning San'layn and Dark Rangers/Sylvanas into being a subrace of elves called Darkfallen, I think it's very likely going to be the preorder bonus for 10.0. Also kind of a funny thing to release after Shadowlands but it makes sense to release them AFTER Sylvanas is gone.

Do we think it's going to be an AR (which would explain why they tied Dark Rangers to San'layn, for extra classes) or just customization? And if the Night Elves from Teldrassil count as Darkfallen, how will they be playable? Two different ARs?

Not to mention Calia rezzing the dead with her naaru friend may make an "opposite" race for the Darkfallen. Lightsomething (not forged) undead using the human rig.

[Raetary]

'Darkfallen' aren't anything new.

And god i hope not.
We have humans, nelves, forsaken and blood elves, just add Darkfallen/Lightrisen customization directly to those races instead of wasting another race slot on a 5th iteration of elves and even more humans.

[Elflover99]

'Darkfallen' aren't anything new.

And god i hope not.
We have humans, nelves, forsaken and blood elves, just add Darkfallen/Lightrisen customization directly to those races instead of wasting another race slot on a 5th iteration of elves and even more humans.

Haven't San'layn been a pretty popular AR candidate though? Remember, it's elves.

[Zankai27]

I feel like the Tinker Leaker write up is actually moreso evidence pointing towards Tinker for 10.0 than against.

I agree; the important point here is it literally mentions nothing about Tinkers at all. Like, aside from the title, there's absolutely zero Tinker content in the section. Nothing about any functional Tinker stuff, even in joke form. They explicitly made it a meta joke about leak culture.

Haven't San'layn been a pretty popular AR candidate though? Remember, it's elves.

Yeah; in the lead-up to BFA a lot of us expected them to be coming for Horde given, y'know, stuff. Shame about how that went, maybe there's another chance.

[Elflover99]

I agree; the important point here is it literally mentions nothing about Tinkers at all. Like, aside from the title, there's absolutely zero Tinker content in the section. Nothing about any functional Tinker stuff, even in joke form. They explicitly made it a meta joke about leak culture.

It feels more like a joke about the name Tinker, which is what actually makes people mad. Its not going to be called Tinker if it makes it ingame.

If it was called Robo Warrior or some shit and had every race nobody would care: it's the Gnome/Goblin exclusivity thing that makes people the angriest. That and the MMOC culture.

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Yeah; in the lead-up to BFA a lot of us expected them to be coming for Horde given, y'know, stuff. Shame about how that went, maybe there's another chance.

An undead belf AR that uses Maw and Revendreth aesthetics for Dark Rangers and San'layn, as well as some cool ghost effects and maybe a banshee racial, would be really cool. The problem is then what to do about the Nelves, unless the idea is that Alliance gets the nelves and Horde gets the belves (which would be a raw deal as Ally hates the concept of the nelves and they don't have the cool culture that Dark Rangers and San'layn have).

[Zulggun]

For me BFA is far worse because it wasted Azshara with Nazjatar and Nzoth with his realm. SL wasted nothing really.

[Elflover99]

For me BFA is far worse because it wasted Azshara with Nazjatar and Nzoth with his realm. SL wasted nothing really.

Getting Azshara away from N'zoth was one of the best things about BFA imo. She is a much more interesting character when she isn't a henchman tied to a cthulu, and now she is free to go attack Kalimdor or whatever she wants.

[Catastrophy349]

Getting Azshara away from N'zoth was one of the best things about BFA imo. She is a much more interesting character when she isn't a henchman tied to a cthulu, and now she is free to go attack Kalimdor or whatever she wants.

I agree! While I wasn’t happy with Azshara being shoved into a single patch, nor N’zoth similarly, I’m glad she was at-least in patch 8.3 (even if only for one raid boss). The fact that she escaped allows for her character to get a true expansion/greater involvement hopefully. Xal’atath, too!