Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Chickat]

What if they blow it up?

Like, they fly Dalaran there and you think it's gonna be the hub, but it's destroyed by dragon attack.

That'd be something.

And there is a daily wordlquest there to help with the clean up of Dal. In 10 years it will be finished and we can start the rebuilding world quest. So by 2045 we should have dal rebuilt.

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i personally would like chromatus to essentially horcrux himself

hes sooo invulnerable that in order to beat him we have to kill 5 avatars of him and we dont know that these avatars exist until we kill the first one that is the black dragon leading the scarlet crusade.

Galakrond creates a humanoid form for himself thanks to his new power gain from being revived and is like a big hulking vrykrul king and has a few dragon underlings with a focus on spreading his version of the scourge and the ebon blade proves once again to be completely useless

Then we have the situation with the infinite where instead of Nozdormu becoming Moruzond because he is afraid of his death it is instead because he was about to die and it would have killed chromie as well so he stops which causes his transformation. When he first saw his death he didnt really put any kind of feelings towards that random dragon but over the years he now cares for her.

We kill 3 during zone finale questing, 1 in a dungeon, and 1 as the final boss of the first raid. We can now harm him, but what we didn't know is that he split his power into 5 as well to make himself invisible. We have to go to Elune the Motherdragon on the moon in 10.2 to save her and have her help us defeat him. Hes too strong any other way. Its framed as the aspects are weak. The world is tired and weak after years of fighting. We lost most powerful weapons and artifacts during Legion. Azeroth herself is still too weak to help us. We go to Ysera for advice and we get her blessing to contact Elune on the moon. Cool double gravity with lots of underground moon megazone.

We save Elune and she returns to Azeroth to re-empower the Aspects, and uses the last of her strength to help us finish Chromattus. She either dies, or is returned to the moon to rest.

[Zankai27]

The fuck is a halfling? This ain't D&D.

It’s in the concept being referenced; at least come in with that knowledge

[Dragons Are Bad Mkay]

It’s in the concept being referenced; at least come in with that knowledge

Driders?! In MY World of Warcraft?

[DiscipleofCazicThule]

The fuck is a halfling? This ain't D&D.

No, but to be fair, Warcraft sprang from a failed Warhammer game and they have Halflings too. Terrible, hungry Halflings that make worse football players.

[Edlarel]

Driders?! In MY World of Warcraft?

They already exist in Suramar.

[huth]

Driders?! In MY World of Warcraft?

No. In Blizzard's World of Warcraft. Though they already have spider people, so Drider would be a bit boring.

[Bomba the Shaman]

What do people think about this microclasses thing? Sure we have DH with only 2 specs when the norm is 3, but would they go so far to say 'nah, 1 spec-1 class is ok'?

[Izalla]

This has probably already been mentioned but Blizzard has been known to choose at least one other expansion title that is a deliberate reference to more than one thing: Battle for Azeroth. The fact that they picked "Dragonflight" instead of anything more specific than that, pretty much screams "alternate meanings". It's both extremely focused and yet completely unfocused; dragons, but in what context? The dragonflights are taking flight, but is it to flee something? To journey somewhere? It's to the point, but vague enough for multiple interpretations.

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What do people think about this microclasses thing? Sure we have DH with only 2 specs when the norm is 3, but would they go so far to say 'nah, 1 spec-1 class is ok'?

I highly dislike and completely dismiss as a reasonable or realistic thing Blizz would do.

[huth]

What do people think about this microclasses thing? Sure we have DH with only 2 specs when the norm is 3, but would they go so far to say 'nah, 1 spec-1 class is ok'?

Really stupid idea that goes against Blizzard's class design philosophy.

[Zankai27]

Really stupid idea that goes against Blizzard's class design philosophy.

Don’t see how; it offers variety and hype when they need it. What is it lacking? Flexibility? That could be baked into the singular spec design. Design philosophies change over time anyway.

[Zexaniro]

lol the panic over the name. it's far better than any of the names from the 'leaks'

[Izalla]

inb4 we get that Syndragosa style login screen for Dragonflight with Alexstrasza or some other dragons flying randomly every now and then.

Ooooh I want this! Though there wouldn't be the rush to log in before she roars now with the launcher and the big fancy "reconnect" button.

[Chickat]

Imagine if the new expansion was just a direct continuation of Shadowlands with all the disappointing First One stuff. Everything is robots and building blocks. What little original lore remains about the Titans is wiped away. Zereth This, Zereth That. No new race or class.





Oh, I completely misread your original post!

That would be really cool actually!

Every zone is a separated Zerreth zone and Oribos is still our capital. Covenants are expanded to include even more options for other cosmic forces. End boss is the void lords. END WOW.

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Exactly. They will probably present Alex’s backstory in a subtle way, but not graphically or explicitly dive into it, and they shouldn’t. It is a game people use to escape, and with the high number of sexual assaults survivors there is, forcing such a trope back in the game would be really terrible taste. They’ll probably « suggest it » and remain vague, and that’s enough.

Yeah, I could see some dialogue saying her soul was violated in heinous ways. Or something really small like that. No details.

[Zankai27]

Every zone is a separated Zerreth zone and Oribos is still our capital. Covenants are expanded to include even more options for other cosmic forces. End boss is the void lords. END WOW.

Man, include a First Ones-style class with that expansion and I would be all for it. Ultimate cosmic war experience.

[Khaza-R]

What do people think about this microclasses thing? Sure we have DH with only 2 specs when the norm is 3, but would they go so far to say 'nah, 1 spec-1 class is ok'?

Its pretty ridiculous. Not alone as a concept but the thought that Blizzard would add 4 of them at the same time. Why would they ever double down on an idea like that? Not to mention with the return of tier sets it seems more unlikely they're going to give the artist 33% more work.

[Villager720]

Its pretty ridiculous. Not alone as a concept but the thought that Blizzard would add 4 of them at the same time. Why would they ever double down on an idea like that? Not to mention with the return of tier sets it seems more unlikely they're going to give the artist 33% more work.

And their selection for these classes is bizarre. They’ll make a minstrel a class before a dark ranger, a necromancer, or a warden?

[Zankai27]

Its pretty ridiculous. Not alone as a concept but the thought that Blizzard would add 4 of them at the same time. Why would they ever double down on an idea like that? Not to mention with the return of tier sets it seems more unlikely they're going to give the artist 33% more work.

It’s not that far-fetched if it comes at the cost of zone leveling sets. Which you wouldn’t have in an expansion with no leveling.

In fact, hear me out: it’s possible they change their philosophy on tier sets, and we work toward a base starting set as pre-raid gear doing the content. Meaning almost all the sets designed for the expansion would be tier set or tier set adjacent.

The same people would’ve called 36 artifact weapons with 6 unique appearances and 4 colors each too much effort on top of a new class. I did too, until I talked to some of the artists. They love this shit.

[Revamp Man]

so the dal updates are northrend version

lets go intro scenario where dalaran gets draco busted

[Zankai27]

so the dal updates are northrend version

lets go intro scenario where dalaran gets draco busted

Dalaran Mages: “Here we go, moving again”

[Lystic]

Its pretty ridiculous. Not alone as a concept but the thought that Blizzard would add 4 of them at the same time. Why would they ever double down on an idea like that? Not to mention with the return of tier sets it seems more unlikely they're going to give the artist 33% more work.

I could definitely see micro classes going in a similar vein as allied races. We get new options, but with the understanding that they're not going to get the full class treatment. That may mean no new tier set appearances for them, they have to use recycled assets. Perhaps the artists make an iconic set for each of these classes similar to heirloom gear and that gets recyclesld, perhaps they find old gear in the game that's thematic to them and recolor/polish it, or maybe they just get recolors of the generic raid gear for that tier.

Then they could potentially release these micro classes early as an attempt to drive preorders. They've been ramping up their preorder selling game every expansion, and there is precedent with allied races.

I could see this as a huge positive change for WoW if it's included with system overhauls to make the game much more multi-characrer friendly. Not having to relevel to 60 would be a huge boon to making 1-spec classes more appealing, and being able to do your rep grinds/dailies/whatever on a DPS spec alt and have the progress carry over would help too.