Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Graden]

Still, I'm curious about the Dalaran part.

They're taking about this :

https://twitter.com/MrGMYT/status/15...3bCK-RQqQ&s=19

[Revamp Man]

As I said in another thread;

It's impossible it's not real at this point. This predates 9.2 coming out. Since then, 9.2.5 has come onto the PTR. The things it got right so far are;

The name World of Warcraft: Dragonflight
Dalaran update.
Lordaeron focus.
New quests in the Blood Elf lands have the zone in which the quest takes place called Quel'thalas, not Eversong Forest or the Ghostlands but both as one zone merged.
Dark Ranger stuff.

It's pure copium at this point to say it's fake.
Also it's funny how people are torn saying it's either far too much content (even though this is WAY LESS than TBC gave us) or far too little content, too mundane for Blizzard or too out there. No one can decide, they just know they don't like it.

You're being incredibly disingenuous and we all know you're going to pretend to have believed it after it's revealed like every other time (MoP trademark, WoD content leak, etc).

They got the name right and remakes that like 5 leaks overall called

If you change EoA title to Dragonflight you end up with one more on point

Heck back during 9.0 speculation my totally not alt account called multiple things from BfA patches that led to my leak being seen as real lol

Let’s also remember the SL leak
“Art of Bolvar means we are getting ghostbusters”

[Chickat]

Yeah they are messing around with Northrend Dalaran. It also kinda makes sense to use Dalaran in a Lordaeron, Quel-Thalas, Dragon Isles expanions considering its original location. I'm not happy about it, mind you. This is the part I hope is wrong even if the rest turns out to be true.

Id rather have Gilneas and Silvermoon, or even a Neutral Lordaeron city.

I don't think Neutral Lordaeron is out of the cards either. Humans and their undead kin. Lightfallen sharing a common bond with regular undead.

[Local Ardenweald Faerie]

They're taking about this :

https://twitter.com/MrGMYT/status/15...3bCK-RQqQ&s=19

Ah yes! I saw this after looking for any mention of Dalaran after their reply.

Very interesting indeed... A third Dalaran update would be disappointing but not surprising at the least. Hopefully it gets added on to: like adding all of the additional islands orbiting Dalaran we hear about in lore and art but never see in game.

[Three Faced Goddess]

I hated the SL cinematic from the start because it was immediately obvious she was going to steamroll Bolvar and he wasn’t going to do anything to actually set her back. Haven’t watched it again since. Ugh.

Same. I hate that cinematic so fucking much I can't bear to watch it ever again.

[Chickat]

but Dalaran is love =((

I'd be fine with Dal again if they expand upon it as I said. make it twice the size and put it back in the ground. Add some beautiful outdoor shops, a bazaar rather around the whole ring with lots of npc's and quirky dialogue. It could be good fun. If they just plop Legion Dal in the ground with little updates I wouldn't like it. I wouldn't necessarily be mad, but I wouldn't be excited.

[Three Faced Goddess]

Honestly the Lich King / Bolvar was the biggest character assassination in Shadowlands, not Sylvanas.

Yup. This so much. Sylvanas was fucked up over three expansions as opposed to Bolvar having one awesome portrayal as an intimidating badass in Legion before being thoroughly decimated in a single expack.

[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.