Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Local Ardenweald Faerie]

We're all so fucking bored.

[Chickat]

It was added in BfA, though.

Oh well it's pretty ugly. It is lower rea than some tbc gear.

[ercarp]

I mean, the name in the URL is completely irrelevant since the .js file is the same regardless of where you go. You can go to https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/corgis-unleashed and it's still there... This has nothing to do with brute-forcing or "guessing" the name.

Whoever discovered it first simply had the sense to Ctrl + F for "dragon" when they were looking at the file.

A part of me does suspect that this could be a Muffinus-flavored late April Fool's prank though.

[Soulwind]

Didn't realize leak-finders were thorough and numerous enough to accomplish that.

It's not that hidden once you know. You don't have to go to https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/dragonflight specifically, any https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/thing also has that same reference.

So it's really opening any random page in that site and opening one of the, like, 20 URLs that are in there (and it's just the third from the top).
And then either Ctrl+F Dragon, or just scroll down until you see non-obfuscated code.

[shoc]

The file loads on the home page too, URL is irrelevant, it loads everywhere, even on 404 pages.

[Sharby]

The only downside to getting a Dragon Class (if we do) is that Demon-Hunters already laid claim to wings and gliding/arial-combat which means it probably wouldn't include those elements.


Because of that reason I think I'd prefer a Dragon race that has gliding/double-jumping as a racial passive.

[Local Ardenweald Faerie]

With the discovery that the file loads pretty much anywhere...

Some programmer really, REALLY messed up or they thought that no one would be thorough enough to find it.

Either way, I pray for their job.

[KainneAbsolute]

I did the same steps and I found the dragonflight stuff. But, I will wait for somebody here who can say if it is meaningful or a placeholder name.

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Didn't we get another leak yesterday talking about a first clue? Saying something about floating islands and going up and down. The Dragonflight leak matches yesterday's "leak" https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...-clue-is-here!

[Hugnomo]

Though I don't particularly believe the leak that was posted on here with that name, I gotta say that I wouldn't mind a lot of it!
Lordaeron revamped. Dark rangers, necromancer, warden class skin, 4 single spec classes like tinker, minstrel(basically bard), dragon knight, chronomancer.
Dragon Isles, Undermine, I'd be alright with that.

[Jmatt110]

Has this been posted already? Given the name leak today

i. imgur. com / 8gDXTep.jpg

[ercarp]

With the discovery that the file loads pretty much anywhere...

I don't know anything about coding but this actually seems kind of suspect to me. Makes me wonder if it was put there deliberately for us to find, you know? Blizzard could just be pranking us.

But also maybe not.

[Marlamin]

That's still brute forcing. It doesnt mean some hackerman nonsense just literally throwing shit at a wall and seeing what sticks.

It's literally embedded on the 10th line of the official WoW site. This is far from bruteforcing.

[Therougetitan]

With the discovery that the file loads pretty much anywhere...

Some programmer really, REALLY messed up or they thought that no one would be thorough enough to find it.

Either way, I pray for their job.

I don't think it is that bad. Like it is bad. But we already kind of knew it would be dragons and it doesn't tell us anything more.

[ercarp]

Has this been posted already? Given the name leak today

First time I'm seeing this, but that logo looks really wonky. Also, why is this guy/girl who took the photo pasting the same poster like three times on their wall? What.

[Calfredd]

Has this been posted already? Given the name leak today

i. imgur. com / 8gDXTep.jpg

No idea what to make of this but I never considered myself a smart man anyway.

[Soulwind]

I did the same steps and I found the dragonflight stuff. But, I will wait somebody here who can say if it is meaningful or a placeholder name.

If I were to put a placeholder name that I know I'll have to replace with the real thing eventually, I wouldn't write it directly in the code, I'd load it from a config file.

That way, if I use that placeholder in ten different files, when it's time to replace it with the real thing, I only have to change it in the single config file.

[Local Ardenweald Faerie]

I don't know anything about coding but this actually seems kind of suspect to me. Makes me wonder if it was put there deliberately for us to find, you know? Blizzard could just be pranking us.

But also maybe not.

I'm thinking it's either a case of them preparing the site for the preorder buttons and just forgetting to hide it well, or they specifically put it there to generate hype. That happens all the time.

[Jmatt110]

First time I'm seeing this, but that logo looks really wonky. Also, why is this guy/girl who took the photo pasting the same poster like three times on their wall? What.

Probably print testing since there's a CMYK test pattern there too

[guro-tchai]

uhm, 17 days before the announcement? a new record, gz. usually it's a couple of days, not more than two weeks.

logo from the previous page looks exactly like i would expect: they continue to experiment with the elements, like the letter colors, to make it fresher. looks nice.

the name is so generic that it's also absolutely expectable.

[ercarp]

I think the logo is actually fake as it breaks the silhouette too much and I don't think Blizzard would do that. Does anyone know where the Alexstrasza art is from, or is it an original?