Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Cosmic Janitor]

Anyone else think Morgan Day (Associate Game Director) will inevitably take Ion's job?

Isn't Ion already transitioning from game director to producer? Or was that just speculation when the producer role opened up?

[huth]

Or nothing. That's also an option. Probably a better option imo.

Definitely one that needs to be considered in any case. People seem a little to certain that there definitely will be one.

[Elflover99]

They are playing with fire but not throwing Nelves a bone on the PTR. The refugees haven’t even moved while the Forsaken ones have.

[ercarp]

Isn't Ion already transitioning from game director to producer? Or was that just speculation when the producer role opened up?

I thought Ion and Ybarra were basically co-directing the game now, no? Or did that not happen? No clue about the producer bit, first time I'm hearing about it.

[Elflover99]

Also the belf rewards are very shitty compared to the Dark Iron ones.

Bizarre optics for PTR... especially right before an expansion release.

[Catastrophy349]

I thought Ion and Ybarra were basically co-directing the game now, no? Or did that not happen? No clue about the producer bit, first time I'm hearing about it.

Mike Ybarra is the CEO of Blizzard. Ion is the Game Director of World of Warcraft.

[Khaza-R]

Looks like BEs get the Ranseur they make in the Ghostlands quest as a heritage weapon.

[ercarp]

Mike Ybarra is the CEO of Blizzard. Ion is the Game Director of World of Warcraft.

Huh. I'm pretty sure they were both Game Directors at one point. Or am I thinking of someone other than Ybarra.

[Ferlion]

They are playing with fire but not throwing Nelves a bone on the PTR. The refugees haven’t even moved while the Forsaken ones have.

I think that we are likely to not see any major story beats in the PTR until the expansion is announced.

[Nymrohd]

I think the ranseur is simple but beautiful. The blood knight set . . . meh. Still it was a requested recolor.

[Benedict Donald]

Or nothing. That's also an option. Probably a better option imo.

Yes, that is an option. A sad, sad option. Unless they wow us with something else, like class skins, 4th specs, or all classes on all races.

[Constellation]

https://twitter.com/WarcraftRadio/st...Ju6Q2dhk1KP0pQ Here is the Morgan Day interview from today.

Ey, Mortal Strike was an intentional mechanic on the healing part!

[Elflover99]

I think that we are likely to not see any major story beats in the PTR until the expansion is announced.

That’s true. Still wish there was a little more to chew on. The Dark Iron stuff is cool but not very interesting, the Belf stuff is interesting but the rewards are meh IMO.

The most curious part to me is the still complete lack of kalimdor besides the “stables” that are being built in both capitals. Like is Tirisfal ends up being the Darkfallen quests with Nelves we’re still virtually ignoring an entire continent.

[Dracullus]

Strange that they decided to make heritage weapons before every race got armor. Especially since it's perfect time for Undead/Nelf Heritage from story perspective.

[Nymrohd]

Ey, Mortal Strike was an intentional mechanic on the healing part!

I mean, it always has been. I still don't get the surprise, there have been many raid bosses where a healing reduction debuff was supposed to be used on a healing mechanic in the past.

[Constellation]

I mean, it always has been. I still don't get the surprise, there have been many raid bosses where a healing reduction debuff was supposed to be used on a healing mechanic in the past.

I just read a lot of people saying the MS reduction was a bug itself before the 11% bug.

[Elflover99]

Strange that they decided to make heritage weapons before every race got armor. Especially since it's perfect time for Undead/Nelf Heritage from story perspective.

I’m guessing those quests may end up being tied to a revamp. They may not want to do what the other heritage quests did and have them in terrible looking old zones. The Belf quests in particular look insanely dated.

Hence why they are adding rewards and quests to old heritage instead of making new ones.

[Khaza-R]

Strange that they decided to make heritage weapons before every race got armor. Especially since it's perfect time for Undead/Nelf Heritage from story perspective.

Aren't these all old weapons found back in Legion/BfA?

[Nymrohd]

Strange that they decided to make heritage weapons before every race got armor. Especially since it's perfect time for Undead/Nelf Heritage from story perspective.

I honestly don't get that request tbh. Darkshore Warfront gave four exceptional sets of armor to those races that are probably better than any heritage armor they'll ever get.

[Elflover99]

Aren't these all old weapons found back in Legion/BfA?

That’s also probably why. These are probably easy to implement and don’t take much time from 10.0 development.

But why no Velf weapons?