Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Mferna]

I don't know... Alexstrasza's definitely looking a little agro in that leaked art.

We’re probably gonna help fight threats to help the aspects regain their true power. It was lost after cata as they fulfilled their purpose in protecting azeroth, but now that Azeroth has been losing her blood, stabbed, and whatever zooval did by draining her in that opening cinematic in sepelchur I can imagine Azeroth needs some help.
Still don’t get why ppl complain about needed a big bad threat, look how the jailer turned out. Let’s revert back to world building and a localized story

[ro9ue]

If you mean the actual dragon, pretty sure it's not Alex.

Hard to tell, but it looks like it has her signature golden horn caps.

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

I don't know... Alexstrasza's definitely looking a little agro in that leaked art.

Listen don't give them cover to do it.

Because then they'll just maker her Sylvanas 2.

[ro9ue]

If we get "player housing", do you think it will be true player housing in that each player can individually buy a house wherever they choose? I worry they might fuck it up and not go all the way with it and instead do a "guild housing". So one person basically gets to design the guild hall and everyone else just contributes. Hate those.

[Local Ardenweald Faerie]

If we get "player housing", do you think it will be true player housing in that each player can individually buy a house wherever they choose? I worry they might fuck it up and not go all the way with it and instead do a "guild housing". So one person basically gets to design the guild hall and everyone else just contributes. Hate those.

Whatever it is, I hope it's instanced housing. As in, there's a house in the game world, anyone can buy it, but there's an infinite supply of them. Have a dozen or so of these littered around popular zones so people have choice.

FFXIV's system would be good... if there were infinite subdivisions. Cause currently, I think FFXIV's stops at 24 subdivisions, and given the massive playerbase of that game, a house is pretty impossible to get.

[Revamp Man]

And?

That's what we guessed, but the Sylvanas novel came out & didn't spoil anything. It was all just her rationalization for her actions. It could have come out months ago, if it had been finished, but it wasn't. WoW development had nothing to do with it.

So she’s not in the maw at the end of the novel?

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Whatever it is, I hope it's instanced housing. As in, there's a house in the game world, anyone can buy it, but there's an infinite supply of them. Have a dozen or so of these littered around popular zones so people have choice.

FFXIV's system would be good... if there were infinite subdivisions. Cause currently, I think FFXIV's stops at 24 subdivisions, and given the massive playerbase of that game, a house is pretty impossible to get.

It will be instanced

At most it will have multiple places in the world that players can choose but one access point for each

[Alexjimithing]

As long as I can set my home point to my house and hearth there at the end of every play session I'm set.

[KayRule]

As long as I can do everything in my house and never have to go to a city and be exposed to the morons in Trade chat, I will be good. Give me my garrison but with actual customization, thank you.

[Zankai27]

I don’t think Alexstrasza is supposed to look evil in that art I think she’s supposed to look badass; we’ve never seen her with a weapon before, I think we’re seeing her step up to the plate as a warrior dragon queen, not an enemy.

Like how Bolvar was used for SL marketing

[KayRule]

I don’t think Alexstrasza is supposed to look evil in that art I think she’s supposed to look badass; we’ve never seen her with a weapon before, I think we’re seeing her step up to the plate as a warrior dragon queen, not an enemy.

Like how Bolvar was used for SL marketing

So she's going to stand in the expansion capitol hub and do nothing for the entire expansion?

[Local Ardenweald Faerie]

So she's going to stand in the expansion capitol hub and do nothing for the entire expansion?

Honestly?

I hope. I hope they keep her there and do nothing to butcher her character. PLEASE.

[Cosmic Janitor]

Only decent way to do housing imho is to instance it, including the exterior if needed. It was one of the few good things that even worked in early EQ2 (I liked how one of the first tasks was to become a citizen and get a roof over your head). Just have different pricing tiers for houses/flats so that people can try it with low tier stuff first and can buy some of the better stuff later if they enjoy it. For all the cool stuff FFXIV does, housing is a mixed bag. An ideal solution imho would be to phase plots and have some central place where you can switch who is displayed next to you, that way you could select guild mates to be displayed nearby and maybe switch off those that start to make penis sculptures in their front yard.

[KayRule]

I honestly don't know why this is a point of discussion. Based on the systems and design of WoW, player housing would 100% be instanced. They would build off the Garrison system. I don't know why people are even fearing a FF14 style situation, when the games engine is built entirely not to work that way. Like, why on earth would Blizzard go out of their way to to do something completely different than what they've already been building off of since your farm in MoP?

[Atriel]

they have been months behind on shadowlands production just based on the fact the patch was always planned to come before the novel and that got pushed back so one would have to figure they were also behind on 10.0 production

The Sylvanas novel was much more likely pushed back due to the paper shortage that occurred earlier this year due to Covid cutting supplies.

[Cosmic Janitor]

I honestly don't know why this is a point of discussion. Based on the systems and design of WoW, player housing would 100% be instanced. They would build off the Garrison system. I don't know why people are even fearing a FF14 style situation, when the games engine is built entirely not to work that way. Like, why on earth would Blizzard go out of their way to to do something completely different than what they've already been building off of since your farm in MoP?

Because you can't trust Blizzard to be smart. Chances are they go with the wrong conclusions again about what people like about it. Maybe they want to emphasize some community bullshit PR mantra and instead of instancing it like garrisons (which was just corner cutting really), think covenants; meaningful choice!

[Varx]

Hey guys miss me??

So I saw that reference Blizz made of me and Teriz in the April fool's post. I got to tell you I'm super honored.

Now I know you devs are actively monitoring this thread.

I got to ask you devs, how does it feel to know that I've figured out the essence of 10.0 and 11.0 before SL even released.

As you can see in https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...sbile-Spoilers

And

https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...s-Dragon-Isles

Looking forward to the reveal and the tinker announcement.


Btw, that Alex art is 100% real.

This is why my avatar is so appropriate.

[Syegfryed]

So she's going to stand in the expansion capitol hub and do nothing for the entire expansion?

Bolvar wasn't a big tiddy milf was he? he got screwed by Danuser once again, cause shadowlands is the love story of sylvanus and anduin

[Holdodlig]

I made this as a rough concept of what I think the Dragon Isles should/could look like. I know it's not super innovative as it basically just combines the obvious ideas all into one, like having one zone for each dragonflight and including a Titan Facility (which is something everyone already expects).

If I had more time, I could have tried to flesh it out with more info about raids, dungeons, quest hubs, etc. but I also don't think I'm very good at coming up with ideas like that. My only wish is that we get more Caverns of Time type stuff if there's a Bronze dragonflight zone.



EDIT: Also, in hindsight, I'd probably swap the locations of some of these zones. Like maybe Blue dragonflight's zone should be in the center so the snow makes more sense (?) and Bronze dragonflight's zone should be where I placed the Green dragonflight's zone.

I actually love the design of the map. The shapes of the blue dragon area are really inspired and match well with the black dragon part. Also, Uldorus has an Elden Ring's sacred tower vibe here..

[FossilFree]

Whatever it is, I hope it's instanced housing. As in, there's a house in the game world, anyone can buy it, but there's an infinite supply of them. Have a dozen or so of these littered around popular zones so people have choice.

FFXIV's system would be good... if there were infinite subdivisions. Cause currently, I think FFXIV's stops at 24 subdivisions, and given the massive playerbase of that game, a house is pretty impossible to get.

Being instanced makes sense. I can't see them letting us plop a house down right in the middle of a "kill 12 boars" quest or whatever and have the house break the quest.

That said, I want it to be instanced neighborhoods. You should have neighbors to associate with, show off to, compete with, etc. and not be stuck in an instance all by your lonesome self. That made WoD feel like it wasn't even a MMO anymore. Plus, it adds a degree of realism to housing if you have other real people there. Nothing would be stopping people from going in their yard and shutting the gate or going in their house and shutting the door if they want some alone time either.

[boyzma]

For the love of god...or whatever you believe in....please, please everyone ignore it....don't feed it.