Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Vakir]

I mean, in regards to reaction to SL reveals...

"Climb the Tower of the Damned, a rogue-like inspired infinite dungeon experience."
"Eh."
"You can also put on blood troll face paint and Wildhammer---"
"HOLY SHIT. MALIBU STACEY HAS A NEW HAT!"

Always best to temper reactions, lol

[DiscipleofCazicThule]

I was in the same boat after Shadowlands. It didn't give that ol' razzle dazzle. Everything was ho-hum to me, especially since it didn't add anything new besides story and covenants. I mean, it's hard to get excited for an expansion with no new professions, classes, races, talents, etc. besides new Death Knight races.

That said, this leak season has showed me that it can be so much worse with lazy fake leaks and even lazier trolls.

[SniperCT]

If 10.0 has strong themes of life and healing (in addition to dragons), then it would make sense to get rid of the giant sword that's been stabbing the planet for at least ~2-3 in-game years.

But do I think they'll do it? Hell no. They're clearly saving it for the Big Cosmic Finale so Redeemed Sargeras can come back and pull it out, immediately purifying it of all corruption as his fingers touch the grip.

Then we all just kind of crawl on his back as he flies to the Void Place with his big golden sword in hand.

...Shit, I probably shouldn't be talking about this. You know, because of the NDA.

NDA for 15.0 huh?

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I mean, in regards to reaction to SL reveals...

"Climb the Tower of the Damned, a rogue-like inspired infinite dungeon experience."
"Eh."
"You can also put on blood troll face paint and Wildhammer---"
"HOLY SHIT. MALIBU STACEY HAS A NEW HAT!"

Always best to temper reactions, lol

I Was like 'cool they're stealing FF14's deep dungeons' lol

[Polybius]

Why would they use the covenant UI as a placeholder?

Slightly unrelated but the choose-your-covenant UI used the Allied Race template from BfA until it was changed. Peeps were speculating on covenant allied races in beta.

[Nightshade711]

I can definitely see this for the males, but if this is the new race then I cannot wait to see how they'll manage to sex-ify female Drakonids and somehow make them less than half the width of the males. Lizards don't have tits, blizz!

I agree. I really hope they don't try to sexualize the drakonid race.

This is what female Drakonid look like, according to Hearthstone.




Vs what the males look like in Hearthstone

[Ferlion]

This might be slightly out of the blue...

But honestly, the thing I'm looking forward to the most is something that I can't even say will happen.

WoW has shifted to a new art style, almost completely with Shadowlands, and the cheetah form tends to indicate that it's one that is going to carry over into the future. While I do not mind the artstyle so much itself (though Shadowlands I think was intentionally made to exaggerate the differences between the old and new), it is very jarring going from Shadowlands to Stormwind, for instance, when it is so vastly different.

They need to even it out, though it may not be so bad if Shadowlands was indeed exaggerated

[Sondrelk]

Slightly unrelated but the choose-your-covenant UI used the Allied Race template from BfA until it was changed. Peeps were speculating on covenant allied races in beta.

I wonder whether we might get more allied races. Probably not for the covenant ones since they would be difficult to implement outside being faction neutral, but generally those races who players wanted from BfA like Ankoan or Rexxar ogre (whatever they were called).
Blizzard seemed adamant they were a BfA only feature, but it was also one of their most beloved features in that expac, and was definitely one of those amazing returns on investment given how much time a givne player would spend simply levelling a new alt.

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This might be slightly out of the blue...

But honestly, the thing I'm looking forward to the most is something that I can't even say will happen.

WoW has shifted to a new art style, almost completely with Shadowlands, and the cheetah form tends to indicate that it's one that is going to carry over into the future. While I do not mind the artstyle so much itself (though Shadowlands I think was intentionally made to exaggerate the differences between the old and new), it is very jarring going from Shadowlands to Stormwind, for instance, when it is so vastly different.

They need to even it out, though it may not be so bad if Shadowlands was indeed exaggerated

Stormwind and Orgrimmar definitely need more visual updates. Really the entire old world needs a fresh coat of paint to hide the older attempts at pseudo-cartoony artstyle in favor of the version that really solidified in the last patch of MoP.

[Yossarian]

30 pages in a few hours? something new came up?

[SniperCT]

I agree. I really hope they don't try to sexualize the drakonid race.

This is what female Drakonid look like, according to Hearthstone.




Vs what the males look like in Hearthstone

I'd prefer they do the Charr routes, honestly.

[Sondrelk]

30 pages in a few hours? something new came up?

Of course not, don't be silly.

[Shadochi]

My take on the Sword thing and it being removed is that it will be the weapon Azeroth purifies and uses once hatched.

Right now the sword doesn't seem to be causing any known issues (could somehow be influencing azeroth if it is sentient tho) and after the initial stab that released Azerite didn't cause any further complications. I know scale ingame isn't accurate but from the ingame side it probably doesn't go that deep into the world.

But removing the sword could cause Well of Eternity level event like when the old god was plucked, making azeroth bleed a new well or bleed out? So at the moment if it isn't causing issues there isn't a reason to remove it

[ATZenith]

In all honesty I’ll probably get really hyped from the x pack announcement. They’re good at hype. Then I’ll most likely play it for two weeks and get bored, realizing it’s the same loop we’ve had for years reskinned lol. I don’t understand how I can be hyped for a game I barely play anymore but here we are. I browse here looking for leaks lmao

[Shadochi]

I wonder whether we might get more allied races. Probably not for the covenant ones since they would be difficult to implement outside being faction neutral, but generally those races who players wanted from BfA like Ankoan or Rexxar ogre (whatever they were called).
Blizzard seemed adamant they were a BfA only feature, but it was also one of their most beloved features in that expac, and was definitely one of those amazing returns on investment given how much time a givne player would spend simply levelling a new alt.

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Stormwind and Orgrimmar definitely need more visual updates. Really the entire old world needs a fresh coat of paint to hide the older attempts at pseudo-cartoony artstyle in favor of the version that really solidified in the last patch of MoP.

True, but I guess if not everything was to get a revamp then it is good enough that often visited zones like capital cities get them.

[Local Ardenweald Faerie]

30 pages in a few hours? something new came up?

*looks to the left*

*looks to the right*

Absolutely nothing.

[SniperCT]

I wonder whether we might get more allied races. Probably not for the covenant ones since they would be difficult to implement outside being faction neutral, but generally those races who players wanted from BfA like Ankoan or Rexxar ogre (whatever they were called).
Blizzard seemed adamant they were a BfA only feature, but it was also one of their most beloved features in that expac, and was definitely one of those amazing returns on investment given how much time a givne player would spend simply levelling a new alt.

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Stormwind and Orgrimmar definitely need more visual updates. Really the entire old world needs a fresh coat of paint to hide the older attempts at pseudo-cartoony artstyle in favor of the version that really solidified in the last patch of MoP.

I feel like there's definitely an upper limit before allied races become ridiculous in number and we're already pretty close to that number.

[Sondrelk]

I feel like there's definitely an upper limit before allied races become ridiculous in number and we're already pretty close to that number.

That's true, but for that matter there is a similar upper limit on regular races, and we should still get more when appropriate.

Really I just want to play a murloc samurai. I absolutely hated having to see my screen filled with trashgnomes instead of the glorious Ankoan.

[Nightshade711]

I'd prefer they do the Charr routes, honestly.

Nah we have enough furry races

[Local Ardenweald Faerie]

Nah we have enough furry races

I-I think you completely missed the point of their post.

[SniperCT]

Nah we have enough furry races

I meant as an example of male and female differences being more than 'titties lol'

Note the female on the right is relatively similar to the male on the left, and they use some size differences and other more subtle things to differentiate the genders.

I'd want that for a dragon race. And we SHOULD have gotten something like this with the Worgen.

[DiscipleofCazicThule]

If we get a dragon adjacent race, I imagine it will depend on their origin to see what they will look like. If they're born or hatched as dragonkin the dimorphism should be like the Sethrak, the Iksar from EQ, or the Dragonborn from DnD. If they're Drakonid, then that means they were originally humanoids and it would make sense that they're more...erm...mammalian in features.