Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Chickat]

Lunar Dragon Goddess is an instant YES.

What is she is locked away on the moon and we have to go there in a patch zone to save her? She's the only one that can help us and stop chromatus now that the flights are less powered. Expansion ends with her reempowering the aspects but her soul goes back to her dragon horcrux on the moon to regenerate. Yes dragons came from the moon.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Eh, it's a single linear transformation function.

It might work depending on how accurate the skybox map is. I suppose if it were a really good copy of, say, the minimap texture it could be pretty easy to ensure the locations line up perfectly.

[Vakir]

They could always have you poof out at the same spot at worst. Like Nym said, maybe at Lordaeron.

If sufficiently high enough, seeing a very, very distant Dragon Isles from any continent on the ground, similar to Argus/the Sargeras star would also be cool.

...damn, someone is absolutely looking at this saying "all we did was put a landmass west of Quel'thalas, freaking nerds."

[Chickat]

Yo, u a dev tho?

At this point I can't tell if he's an epic genius troll or actually a dev. I love him either way.

[draugril]

What is she is locked away on the moon and we have to go there in a patch zone to save her? She's the only one that can help us and stop chromatus now that the flights are less powered. Expansion ends with her reempowering the aspects but her soul goes back to her dragon horcrux on the moon to regenerate. Yes dragons came from the moon.

To the moon, you say?

[Chickat]

I want playable masculine women ngl so Vrykul is pog, not the obese shit we got with Kul Tirans

Maybe that's why they made them heavier? Because they knew vrykul would come eventually and wanted them to be different.

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THIS! I am lusting (yes- LUSTING) for a red dragonflight zone with a beautiful autumnal colour palette and this seren vibe to it!

Hd red vale of eternal blossoms. Orgasmic.

[Nymrohd]

What is she is locked away on the moon and we have to go there in a patch zone to save her? She's the only one that can help us and stop chromatus now that the flights are less powered. Expansion ends with her reempowering the aspects but her soul goes back to her dragon horcrux on the moon to regenerate. Yes dragons came from the moon.

One idea I had a while ago was what if one of the old gods landed on the moon? I mean they were just flung in space. Some are probably just traveling in the void of space still. Some hit solar bodies and got fried. And some hit things that are not planets.

[Chickat]

I really don’t see how Dragonflight could be the name of an event (or anything else besides, a Dragonflight).

We know what a Dragonflight is. Maybe it also means flight of dragons. Like them becoming important and being re empowered.

They were grounded in cata but it's their time to soar again.

[Revamp Man]

2021: TBC Classic, 9.1
2019: Classic
2018: BfA
2017: Tomb of Sargeras, 7.3
2016: Legion
2015: 6.2

Yep, totally summer is out of picture for releases.

I would have stuck to expansion releases instead of patches and remakes

Also the two expansions were mid and late august which while technically summer is after the dead time of the year

[Raetary]

...damn, someone is absolutely looking at this saying "all we did was put a landmass west of Quel'thalas, freaking nerds."

I hope to every deity known to mankind that's not the case.
'floating, draconic islands' isn't exactly a unique or original idea, and takes just about 2 brain cellls of creative thinking to come up with.
Not to mention that the community has been screeching about it for god knows how long.

Surely Blizzard isn't so creatively bankrupt that they'd just do another set of regular ol' tropical islands.

[Chickat]

Same, I absolutely loved the Howling Fjord's Vrykuls! They'd make such a good new race.

They are hardcore humans so in a way I feel like they would fit the horde more. They are so loved I think they have to be neutral.

[Santandame]

You know as much as it'll re-open yesterday's can of worms, the idea of a third party trying to do some shit like reawaken Chromatus, or revive Galakrond, or just usurp the Dragonflights in general is a really interesting idea to me.

Plus since we don't know of any Cosmic Forces interested in the dragons it means they can make it a more grounded villain/group.

The Wyrmcult who were present in Blades Edge Mountains during TBC would be a good candidate for this.

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

A new Monkey Island game was just announced, omfg!

Anyway back to the topic.

The road going south from Dragonblight is an interesting point. What if Dalaran is mimicking an original arcane city of Dragons/Titans, one which ascended into the sky aeons ago which caused the road leading to it to collapse?

ULDOROUS - City of the Titans, guarded by the Dragons

They love one-upping themselves with new expansions, so it wouldn't surprise me if this is to top Dalaran, Ulduar, and Wyrmrest Temple all in one go.

Then hovering around Uldorous you have floating zones for each flight. These could be their original temples which they might have been thrown out of in a great uprising, causing them to instead set up shop in Vermillion Redoubt, Caverns of Time, and so on.

We help them reclaim their ancient homes (and thereby their powers).

Okay I might have gone on a bit of a tangent here, based on one fragment of a clue.

Honestly I've considered tying Uldorus to the Dragonflights before.

And then tying Uldorus to the World Soul.

Which is dying and/or dead after the Jailer gave it the succ.

[The Stormbringer]

A cinematic without a single action scene would be really lame. Other cinematics have also established the antagonist pretty clearly, whereas this tells us pretty much nothing about who we're going to be dealing with.

Damn... I'll be honest, I got chills imagining all of that. Warcraft has its clutches on my god damn soul...

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Damn... I'll be honest, I got chills imagining all of that. Warcraft has its clutches on my god damn soul...

It has a cheesy appeal to my nostalgia. I like it, even if the "every color of the rainbow" bit is a tad too far for me.

[Vakir]

Damn... I'll be honest, I got chills imagining all of that. Warcraft has its clutches on my god damn soul...

It would imply an inverse rework to the world. A literal reversal of the Cataclysm, the exact moment the game arguably started to slide backwards in quality outside of the world revamp itself. Kinda fascinating, really.

After so much dour cosmic shit, I'd be down for a feel good intro frankly. Endwalker's opening was well received and it was like 75% just doing a giant fist pump for the cast and "you."

[Nymrohd]

Honestly I've considered tying Uldorus to the Dragonflights before.

And then tying Uldorus to the World Soul.

Which is dying and/or dead after the Jailer gave it the succ.

I had this expansion concept before 8.2.5 posted somewhere here.

At end of BfA (which would have ended completely different in my concept) MOTHER opens the Heart Chamber. We find out the Heart Chamber is part of Uldorus, a massive vertical structure at the other side of Azeroth that starts fairly high up and descends all the way to the core of the planet, overseeing the progress of the World Soul. Surrounding Uldorus are five floating islands meant to defend the most critical titan facility in Azeroth. After the creation of the Aspects, Tyr lead them there so they could take up protection of Azeroth. So they became the Dragon Isles.

I also had N'zoth still alive, rounding up the four aqir races (Mantid, Nerubian, Qiraji, K'thir) plus the Twilight Flight and having each of them assault a different Island. From Uldorus he would no longer need to dig deep but could reach the World Soul directly and pull it into Ny'alotha. Also the Halls of Valor would port right next to Uldorus and be our capital, with Odyn vowing to protect the World Soul and do what the dragons failed to.

[SniperCT]

Damn... I'll be honest, I got chills imagining all of that. Warcraft has its clutches on my god damn soul...

I need this like burning, which means we won't get it lmao

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It would imply an inverse rework to the world itself. A literal reversal of the Cataclysm, the exact moment the game arguably started to slide backwards in quality outside of the world revamp itself. Kinda fascinating, really.

I personally still feel like MoP and Legion were both high points, but Cata itself, WoD, BFA and onward...

[Nymrohd]

I need this like burning, which means we won't get it lmao

Yeah, it's the very definition of too good to be true. And I'll be frank. I don't think the team can even pull it off. Now if MS throws a lot of money and enlarges the team dramatically, maybe it can be done for 11.0

[Chickat]

Let's hold down our expectations a bit. If they really go knee-deep into a Dragon expansion, we'll be going through dumb filler expansion loops to satisfy the "grounded story" Andies. That's what happened with the Cata-MoP-WoD saga until we got Legion.

To me, Zovaal saying "a cosmos united cannot withstand what is to come" doesn't connect to a grounded Dragon expansion as the follow-up step. It reeks of filler, just like MoP had that Legion hologram that led to WoD before we could finally get into Legion.

I want to see the story implications of Void lore as much as you do, but I'm afraid they'll shelve all the interesting elements to get back to "basic adventure" mode. All of what I'm saying could end up being wrong, however, I do recommend to everyone interested in cosmic lore to take everything with a grain of salt at this point.

If Dragon Isles are filler everything is. Dragons are incredibly important. Blizzard has never set out to create a filler expansion. Filler expansions just happen due to issues. The only 2 filler expansions are WoD and to a lesser extent SL. I'd argue really only WoD tbh. Even then it had huge ambition and was obviously not meant to be filler.