Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Raetary]

Are you serious right now?

Just don't engage.

[Chickat]

Wrath didn't have a huge amount of color variety but there was a basic level of quality and cohesion to the sets that end up looking cool. Cataclysm is a bonanza of all time worsts, from Dragon Soul paladin to fishbones hunter, each competing with each other to have the most garish and nonsensical look. I do like Firelands paladin and DS priest though.

Tier 11 in general was quite good IMO. tier 12 as well. DS was hit or miss, but some were quite good.

Warlock, priest, warrior, mage, hunter were all good tier 13 sets. I think you are under-rating cata sets, but that's just my opinion. I totally disagree about the wrath sets being good even if they were more colorful.

[Feali]

Im almost caught up guys. Then i can finally sleep

I am so late to the thread but I am so happy nothing ever changes here

[Nymrohd]

I'd be very disappointed if the opening cinematic doesn't have a dragon blow something up and then pan to Odyn in the Halls of Valor, sipping of his mead and surrounded by val'kyr saying "I told you so."

We know they will.

"Five lanterns now darkened. The flames they seek will light the Masters' way."

The aspects will try to regain their power by doing something in Dragon Isles.

[Nymrohd]

poor guy he will never escape the friendzone

Jorad needs a proper model, he was HOT in the comic.

[Chickat]

I am so late to the thread but I am so happy nothing ever changes here

I may be a time traveler, but I'm still me.

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I am so late to the thread but I am so happy nothing ever changes here

Ive missed you btw.

[Varodoc]

Are you serious right now?

With this question alone, you're giving me serious doubts that you even made a Void elf character.

It is stated literally in their intro that the Ren'dorei have resisted the whispers that broke even the wills of Dragons.

Thus, the knowledge the Ren'dorei possess will be pivotal to the survival of the entire Dragon species.

[Super Dickmann]

We know they will.

"Five lanterns now darkened. The flames they seek will light the Masters' way."

The aspects will try to regain their power by doing something in Dragon Isles.

Speaking of which i'm genuinely at a loss as to what the core plot will be. The idea of the Aspects wanting to regain their powers after how fucked the world is and being the main antagonists, possibly culminating with the Infinite Dragonflight and the variety you have access to in terms of gameplay/raid design once they get involved would be a good backdrop to show off how that world is doing after so many cataclysms, shown off by Lordaeron and hopefully a couple other redone zones.

[Chickat]

With this question alone, you're giving me serious doubts that you even made a Void elf character.

It is stated literally in their intro that the Ren'dorei have resisted the whispers that broke even the wills of Dragons.

Thus, the knowledge the Ren'dorei possess will be pivotal to the survival of the entire Dragon species.

IM not denying what you are saying, but obviously you are way over inflating their importance. IM sure they will exist somewhere, but they wont be main characters. Im not going to have a discussion about this with you though. You have proven completely unable to discuss anything that doesn't fit into your small narrative. Have a good day.

[Cosmic Janitor]

Maybe they're trying to appeal to the FFXIV crowd with an expansion title like this. It follows their format of having singular titles like Shadowbringer, Endwalker, etc.

Both of those refer to the player character though - not to mention it's actually Shadowbringers -, while dragonflight is just completely random and nonsensial in WoW's context, unless you mean really just a singular dragon flight. Until it acutally happens, I'm inclined to believe that it's used as a lazy shorthand by the website monkey and the actual title has some more words or at least another form in it and image is just someone blowing up their fan art while coincidentally picking the corresponding engrish word.

[Valysar]

"Dragonflight"?

That name sounds very bland, generic...

[Cosmic Janitor]

I'd love it if Alexstrasza was the new Bolvar/Khadgar/Cho of a Dragonflight expansion. Main character whos guiding us thru the expansion.

I hope she is not the next Bolvar, because his role was utterly botched.

[Nymrohd]

Speaking of which i'm genuinely at a loss as to what the core plot will be. The idea of the Aspects wanting to regain their powers after how fucked the world is and being the main antagonists, possibly culminating with the Infinite Dragonflight and the variety you have access to in terms of gameplay/raid design once they get involved would be a good backdrop to show off how that world is doing after so many cataclysms, shown off by Lordaeron and hopefully a couple other redone zones.

I don't expect them to be antagonists, rather I expect them to fuck everything up by accident. Wrathion finds out that there is a way to reignite their Aspect sparks or something at the Dragon Isles. He convinces the other aspects (maybe Alex is doubtful but ends up agreeing in the end) they travel there, do their thing and everything seems fine. We go there as guests of honor and then help the Dragonflights tidy up the Dragon Isles that have grown wild after millenia of neglect only for odd things popping up. "Light the Masters' way" suggests guiding the Void Lords to Azeroth after all. I just hope they end up the xpac and lead in to a Void one after instead of again wasting two themes in one.

[Feali]

Ive missed you btw.

Aww I've missed you too! Haven't really been keeping up with WoW or WoW news the last few years but it's good to be back!

[Raetary]

"Dragonflight"?

That name sounds very bland, generic...

Legion
Battle for Azeroth
Shadowlands
Dragonflight

As bland as it is, it fits with their naming trend.

[Hyrja]

Wait what, were getting a dragon expac? never ever could i have imagined that..

[Feali]

Life, nature, earth, magic, time.

Long ago the five nations lived together in harmony then everything changed when the chroma nation attacked.

[ercarp]

"Five lanterns now darkened. The flames they seek will light the Masters' way."

The aspects will try to regain their power by doing something in Dragon Isles.

If there's any truth to dragons being related to Life, I wonder if we'll see something related to this Il'gynoth quote in 10.0 as well:

The vassal of life disguises treachery. Beware the eyes of green.

Alexstrasza is the Aspect of Life, so the "vassal of life" could be referring to someone working for her. I don't really know of anyone with green eyes that's associated with Alex though.

[Super Dickmann]

I don't expect them to be antagonists, rather I expect them to fuck everything up by accident. Wrathion finds out that there is a way to reignite their Aspect sparks or something at the Dragon Isles. He convinces the other aspects (maybe Alex is doubtful but ends up agreeing in the end) they travel there, do their thing and everything seems fine. We go there as guests of honor and then help the Dragonflights tidy up the Dragon Isles that have grown wild after millenia of neglect only for odd things popping up. "Light the Masters' way" suggests guiding the Void Lords to Azeroth after all. I just hope they end up the xpac and lead in to a Void one after instead of again wasting two themes in one.

Honestly my expectation is for the main plot to be Dragon-focused and have the sidelot regarding Turalyon and Calia lead into the Light vs. Void expansion. Kind of like a less retarded version of BFA, i.e WoD.

[Sondrelk]

Legion
Battle for Azeroth
Shadowlands
Dragonflight

As bland as it is, it fits with their naming trend.

It's not this bland though.

It would make sense if it was a shorthand for a more elaborate title like "Rise of the Dragonflight" or something, and the code just refers to it as Dragonflight instead.

Or for that matter, it could be that the code calls it Dragonflight because that makes it easy to figure out what it refers to, and the title is actually Explosion of Dragons, to pick a completely random example.

Dragonflight does work fine enough as a proper title, but given we have only seen it in a code string I wouldn't be so quick to assume it shows the whole picture. This isn't exactly like with Shadowlands where we had found the website name.