Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Kiria]

Your fate is clear.

You must join Sylvanas in the Maw.

Oooooh oh oh Can I go too, Sounds like a lot of fun! also I sold the egg :3

[Raetary]

Shit like that takes time.

No longer than Staghalms world trees.

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Teldrassil was planted after the third war, wow starts about 5 years after.
By then the tree was already gigantic, had a city, villages, its own eco-system.

Meaning the tree fully matured in even less time.

[Wangming]

No longer than Staghalms world trees.

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Teldrassil was planted after the third war, wow starts about 5 years after.
By then the tree was already gigantic, had a city, villages, its own eco-system.

Meaning the tree fully matured in even less time.

Good point. But it would in my oppinion indicate a minimal time skip at least.

[Yeah its Dragons]

The Dragon Isles

New Continent: Dragon Isles
New Level Cap: 70
New Class: Dragon Knight
7 New Zones: Hanariyu Cascades, Mistscape, Solvhonheim, Galak'ar Bay, Uldaz, Lordaeron, Quel'Thalas

The Dragon Isles are the original home of the Vulpera, expect a lot of Vulpera lore with some japanese touches. It's also the birthplace of the protodrakes and the place that houses the machines that were used to create plant and animal life on Azeroth.

The new 5 zones are for leveling up while Lordaeron and Quel'Thalas are merely revamped for endgame with world quests.

Dragon Knight uses polearms and plate armor. Two specs, one tank and one dps spec.

The story involves the Infinite Dragonflight trying to enter the Halls of Creation in Uldaz and using it to reshape Azeroth.

[Raetary]

The Dragon Isles

New Continent: Dragon Isles
New Level Cap: 70
New Class: Dragon Knight
7 New Zones: Hanariyu Cascades, Mistscape, Solvhonheim, Galak'ar Bay, Uldaz, Lordaeron, Quel'Thalas

The Dragon Isles are the original home of the Vulpera, expect a lot of Vulpera lore with some japanese touches. It's also the birthplace of the protodrakes and the place that houses the machines that were used to create plant and animal life on Azeroth.

The new 5 zones are for leveling up while Lordaeron and Quel'Thalas are merely revamped for endgame with world quests.

Dragon Knight uses polearms and plate armor. Two specs, one tank and one dps spec.

The story involves the Infinite Dragonflight trying to enter the Halls of Creation in Uldaz and using it to reshape Azeroth.

You are literally just copying the shittily shopped 'Living World' leak but just changed Tinkers to 'Dragon Knights'.

[ZyntosAran]

The Dragon Isles

New Continent: Dragon Isles
New Level Cap: 70
New Class: Dragon Knight
7 New Zones: Hanariyu Cascades, Mistscape, Solvhonheim, Galak'ar Bay, Uldaz, Lordaeron, Quel'Thalas

The Dragon Isles are the original home of the Vulpera, expect a lot of Vulpera lore with some japanese touches. It's also the birthplace of the protodrakes and the place that houses the machines that were used to create plant and animal life on Azeroth.

The new 5 zones are for leveling up while Lordaeron and Quel'Thalas are merely revamped for endgame with world quests.

Dragon Knight uses polearms and plate armor. Two specs, one tank and one dps spec.

The story involves the Infinite Dragonflight trying to enter the Halls of Creation in Uldaz and using it to reshape Azeroth.

"and using it to reshape Azeroth."

weird. Its like...I have heard that plan somewhere...cant remember where......

Nontheless, nice effort copying the living world leak! awesome job

[shoc]

I hope that instead of a new class, Blizzard removes Warriors.

[GabrielKnight]

I found strange how many were quite pleased with the opening cutscene against the Jailer in which they showed how the Forge of Souls was somehow connected to his "plans", yet now it seems that nobody remembers it. I mean, considering the Frozen Throne is empty and the Scourge is rampant, all this stuff could mean much more. Not every member of that group is a mindless drone.

To me, Northrend is definitely going to play a part in the upcoming expansion.

[Yeah its Dragons]

The Dragon Isles

New Continent: Dragon Isles
New Level Cap: 70
New Class: Dragon Knight
7 New Zones: Hanariyu Cascades, Mistscape, Solvhonheim, Galak'ar Bay, Uldaz, Lordaeron, Quel'Thalas

The Dragon Isles are the original home of the Vulpera, expect a lot of Vulpera lore with some japanese touches. It's also the birthplace of the protodrakes and the place that houses the machines that were used to create plant and animal life on Azeroth.

The new 5 zones are for leveling up while Lordaeron and Quel'Thalas are merely revamped for endgame with world quests.

Dragon Knight uses polearms and plate armor. Two specs, one tank and one dps spec.

The story involves the Infinite Dragonflight trying to enter the Halls of Creation in Uldaz and using it to reshape Azeroth.

[Nightshade711]

Mediocre fan fic

[GabrielKnight]

Why would promotion material would have the "buy now" button? And why it looks like the "official site" area was pasted from a different image?

[TomatoBisque]

I would actually not be surprised if alpha ends up starting shortly after announcement on the same day. There has to be a reason why they are putting the announcement on that day, maybe its because they are sure they are ready with releasing the alpha at that point.


Apart from that, how do you think the Announcement will go? Video or Livestream? Only a trailer / cinematic + gameplay teaser or panels afterwards?

I for one wish for a long livestream (prerecorded I guess is a given), in the form of how they handled it at gamescom: Show a teaser, a cinematic and the feature trailer, and then talk about the key points in a 1 - 1 1/2 h panel. Afterwards, bring up the alpha so people are invested in the datamining etc.

I wouldn't be too surprised either but I'm not quite that optimistic. They'd need to get invites out for people etc.

[Makabreska]

Why would promotion material would have the "buy now" button? And why it looks like the "official site" area was pasted from a different image?

Dunno, because it's fake?

[Khaza-R]

Lets show you key art of a new expansion zone by cropping it so you can only see the sky

Impressive

[Raetary]

Why would promotion material would have the "buy now" button? And why it looks like the "official site" area was pasted from a different image?

Because its just a shopped Shadowlands homepage.
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/shadowlands
https://imgur.com/a/n86L27R

[Nightshade711]

Lets show you key art of a new expansion zone by cropping it so you can only see the sky

Impressive

It’s because it’s attempting to hide the fact that it’s hanamura from Overwatch.
The symbol on the building shown gives it away.

[viwaxe2434]

World of Warcraft: The Flagon Isles

New core mechanic: Sailing - Player housing finally comes to the World of Warcraft in the form of player owned boats. Players will earn their first boat early on in the story, and gain access to bigger and better boats throughout the expansion. Player boats may be decorated with a variety of cosmetic items, including banners, furniture, and trophies from achievements, new and old. Players will also be able to recruit various NPCs throughout the world to join their crew, granting access to features such as transmogrification, banking, and auction house use onboard their personal ship.

New social mechanic: Flagon Fights - Players may choose to align themselves with one of five different groups of Flagon Fighters that are scattered across the different inns, bars, taverns, breweries, and pubs of the Flagon Isles. Players can earn new Flagon Fighting themed transmog sets based around the group that they choose to align themselves with, in addition to gaining access to alcohol themed buffs unique to each Flagon Fight.

New profession: Piracy - Players will be able to learn the new Piracy profession, allowing them to "invade" other player's boats or NPC boats to gain access to new treasures. Piracy PvP is opt-in only, but offers unique rewards unavailable in PvE Piracy.

New Class: Tinker - Players gain access to a new player class upon purchase, or pre-purchase, of The Flagon Isles. This class, the Tinker, has access to three specializations. Tailor (Melee DPS), Soldier (Ranged Tank), Spy (Melee/Ranged DPS). The Tinker class wears mail armor, and is primarily focused on the intellect stat for the Spy specialization, agility for the Tailor specialization, and strength for the Soldier specialization.

The story revolves around The Nailer, an ancient, immortal pirate forged by the Original Creators. The Nailer's original identity is lost to time, but his nickname was earned for his habit of nailing his victims to the sides of the ships under his command. The Nailer leads a faction of fearsome undead pirates known as The Shadowhands, which he was able to raise and control using the secret lost art of Flagon magic. The Nailer, after having been locked away in slumber deep beneath the sea for over 9,000 years, finally awakes as a result of the attack against Azeroth. The Alliance and Horde must put aside their differences to discover the mysteries of the Flagon Isles, and defeat The Nailer once and for all.

[Hitei]

Dragon Knight uses polearms and plate armor. Two specs, one tank and one dps spec.

Classes aren't really designed like that. Demon Hunters use warglaives because their entire identity is built around being warglaive users. But even DKs, who were very firmly of the "runeblade" category, were made "uses any 2H or 1H mace, sword, axe".

Also, 0% chance of them deliberately adding "Dragon Knight" to the game, when there's already a "knight" named class that also uses that exact same shorthand. They couldn't get around it with DH, because that's what they were already called in warcraft before hunters were even a thing, but here they'd just be arbitrarily choosing to call it Dragon Knight for no benefit and a bunch of problems, when they could call it dozens of other iterations of Dragonsworn/blessed/bound/whatever.

[Sondrelk]

i must say, that Wrathion model from 8.3 really does just work it's ass off in these reveals. Cannot remember who actually took the time to clean up the first model to remove the earrings and such, but damn this model really is making the rounds in all these fake leaks.

[GabrielKnight]

Dunno, because it's fake?

Because its just a shopped Shadowlands homepage.
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/shadowlands
https://imgur.com/a/n86L27R

Those were rhetorical questions, come on...

Although if by some crazy coincidence they go with that awful asian stuff again I'll probably burn my computer. Can't even start to imagine facing pandas again.