Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

The leak guessed the name, so for the majority its real.

The name got allready guessed weeks before the „leak“ happened.

I also don’t beleive this. C‘mon

It's also been, funnily enough, the only leak to get the name right even after the name got leaked.

I'd have expected a flood of Dragonflight leaks this week yet we got what, one that wasn't just an attempt to shore up the existing one?

[Hypester]

Also things like Undermine being Wrathion’s zone is very clever for Blizz and is way more in line with how they have developed zones lately.

In most dragon leaks, Black Dragon zone is just Lava Lava Land #55. Not “seedy crime city that happens to be in a Volcano that Deathwing was responsible for blowing up” because they aren’t that creative. It allows for a Black Dragon themed zone that isn’t just “lol dragons” and has more going on.

[Marlamin]

Well, that second part just makes it seem like you're holding onto something that is big enough to post.

Nope, just going to be talking about some datamining methods I utilitize that aren't generally known and allow for finding a bit more information than what is currently out there about these and other encrypted things (but nothing spoilery) in the hopes of Blizzard fixing these as we got into 10.0 (and hopefully making it harder to datamining spoilers in the future).

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

Also things like Undermine being Wrathion’s zone is very clever for Blizz and is way more in line with how they have developed zones lately.

In most dragon leaks, Black Dragon zone is just Lava Lava Land #55. Not “seedy crime city that happens to be in a Volcano that Deatjwing blew up “ because they aren’t that creative.

It's also a pretty blatant retcon, so more points in its favor.

[Vakir]

It's also been, funnily enough, the only leak to get the name right even after the name got leaked.

I'd have expected a flood of Dragonflight leaks this week yet we got what, one that wasn't just an attempt to shore up the existing one?

This is why leak season is bullshit. It's largely wishlists. This leak is so popular that new developments are just going to try supporting it as if to chaos magick it into existence through sheer force of belief.

[Hypester]

It's also a pretty blatant retcon, so more points in its favor.

What, that Undermine survived? I don’t think it was ever canonized what happened to it.

They seem to be writing out the dumbest things of past expansions anyway (always must be a lich king, etc)

[uikolertekopoku]

Expansion announcement February 28th. Announcement for the announcement planned for the 18th

Not only that the dates are wrong, but when you look closer to it they did not only changed the announcement dates

but also


Increased the time between the announcement of the announcement and the reveal from

(18.2-28.2) (10 days)

To 14.3-19.4. (36 days)

Why they they didnt keep the 10 days between those announcements?

From the beginning a only 10 day in-between seemed very suspicious.

[Makabreska]

This is why leak season is bullshit. It's largely wishlists. This leak is so popular that new developments are just going to try supporting it as if to chaos magick it into existence through sheer force of belief.

Wish list AND trolling. Saw so many shit like "removal of x spec" or "Sylvi is the main character".

[Niwes]

Wish list AND trolling. Saw so many shit like "removal of x spec" or "Sylvi is the main character".

- Slyvanas, main protagonist of the last 2,5 xpacs.
- Throw Sylvanas into the maw, for a long long time.
- Half the playerbae hates Sylvanas, after that shit story.
- „We close a chapter now“ (S. Danuser).

„Sylvanas is the main character of new xpac!!!“

doesnt this make sense ?

tbh:
i dont even care, if next xpac sucks or not. i am just happy, when it’s April 19th and all that stupid shit ends.

[Makabreska]

- throw Sylvanas into the maw, for a long long time.
- half the playerbae hates Sylvanas, after that shit story.
- Slyvanas, main protagonist of the last 2,5 xpacs.
- „We close a chapter now“ (Danuser)

Sylvanus is the main character of new xpac !!!!

doesnt this make sense ?

no

/10 Sylvi fanboys

[Hypester]

- Slyvanas, main protagonist of the last 2,5 xpacs.
- Throw Sylvanas into the maw, for a long long time.
- Half the playerbae hates Sylvanas, after that shit story.
- „We close a chapter now“ (S. Danuser).

Sylvanus is the main character of new xpac !!!!

doesnt this make sense ?

It took 4 IRL years for Sylvanas to get punished. People got mindbroken into being slobbering morons by Blizzards dumbass choice to do a four year story arc without satisfying midpoints.

I think they vastly underestimated how sensitive their playerbase is. Nathanos was meant to be the first half antagonist, hence why he bullied the players, but people treated it like they were getting abused by the devs themselves.

[Vakir]

Nope, just going to be talking about some datamining methods I utilitize that aren't generally known and allow for finding a bit more information than what is currently out there about these and other encrypted things (but nothing spoilery) in the hopes of Blizzard fixing these as we got into 10.0 (and hopefully making it harder to datamining spoilers in the future).

You're very white hat about this. I admire and appreciate it. As juicy as datamining is, in an ideal world we won't know fuck all until we experience it in game outside class changes and tuning. It really does fuck with and color experiences before they happen, so things that are authentically well done get to be experienced as intended (like if Sargeras' sword wasn't totally ruined, or Pelagos Arbiter that was at least better with context) while things that are genuinely shit still get criticized as they're seen rather than via knee jerk impressions (like the Anduin and Jailer endings).

[Hypester]

I bet you a couple robux that Marl found something Dark Ranger related.

[Ersula]

Weird hard to guess name (yes, singular Dragonflight is weird), guessed things that 9.2.5 seems to foreshadow a month later, and it’s not something obvious like “lol dragon islands dragon covenants dragon race and dragon class” so it’s interesting.

The third point is why I believe it. MMOC really wants me to believe that we’ll get an expansion that pigeonholed into a single theme? When Shadowlands did literally everything to make “lol death world” varied? Unless they thematically change every dragonflight they are quite literally palette swaps that sometimes hang out in different themed areas.

C'mon you guys have to be smarter than this: You're giving credibility to a leak just because of the name AFTER it was confirmed? Don't you remember the week of fake shadowlands leaks after the name was confirmed? That Xenos map? The fake cgi stormwind docks cinematic? The microclasses leak is the same level as the "Sylvanas bombs stormwind & everyone dies, goes to the shadowlands" week you were all convinced was real because it was titled "Shadowlands leak"

[Niwes]

What else YouTubers are gonna do during these final weeks before release? It's just bread and butter for them. Them YouTubers are sometimes annoying with their clickbaity titles and thumbnails, but some websites still take the cake:

lol, so great.

the „much-anticipated mobile game“

1)
before 2022 noone
- has ever heart of it
- has never asked for it

2)
yeah, ppl love mobile games. especially the Blittard crowd! and Diablo Immortal was super welcome on Blizzcon. lol

[Kiivar86]

Much anticipated can also mean "a lot of people were expecting this thing to happen" too.

Which I think is the more likely definition at play here.

[Hypester]

C'mon you guys have to be smarter than this: You're giving credibility to a leak just because of the name AFTER it was confirmed? Don't you remember the week of fake shadowlands leaks after the name was confirmed? That Xenos map? The fake cgi stormwind docks cinematic? The microclasses leak is the same level as the "Sylvanas bombs stormwind & everyone dies, goes to the shadowlands" week you were all convinced was real because it was titled "Shadowlands leak"

There was only a single leak thread for Dragonflight (singular) and it was two months before the name confirmation.

It really is not a common name for the leak. Lots of people were expecting a large name.

[Vakir]

C'mon you guys have to be smarter than this: You're giving credibility to a leak just because of the name AFTER it was confirmed? Don't you remember the week of fake shadowlands leaks after the name was confirmed? That Xenos map? The fake cgi stormwind docks cinematic? The microclasses leak is the same level as the "Sylvanas bombs stormwind & everyone dies, goes to the shadowlands" week you were all convinced was real because it was titled "Shadowlands leak"

...the one in question is from early February. Well before the name leak. It helps to know what you're talking about.

For the record, though, I don't believe it either, but this is such a (usual) misfire of an argument.

Also the ghost harbor bullshit leak was way before we saw the Shadowlands logo, Bolvar CGI, Kyrian flier, etc. Everyone was already predicting the Shadowlands.

[Hypester]

Also the ghost harbor bullshit leak was way before we saw Shadowlands, Bolvar CGI, Kyrian flier, etc. Everyone was already predicting the Shadowlands.

I remember people shitting on the leaks because Blue Bolvar, Kyrians and Bastion “didn’t make sense” with what we knew about the Shadowlands (namely that it was black and white opposite world)

Hope we know better now!

[micwini]

I bet you a couple robux that Marl found something Dark Ranger related.

No. I think he's being silent because he found something void related...