Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Marlamin]

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Or maybe it's just some internal tests for the new raid affix ?

Possibly! WotLK Classic is also still on the table, or some entirely new thing or indeed some internal thing (as they have used builds with these kind of numbers before internally).

[Dioporco]

I don't think we'll have to wait until 2024 for 10.0, I do somewhat hope 10.0 testing will at the very least start this year.

No shoot the expac isnt in the last quarter of 2022 for fiscal/financial and ECalls reasons.

[Therougetitan]

No shoot the expac isnt in the last quarter of 2022 for fiscal/financial and ECalls reasons.

They don't need to rush out Dragonflight for that. For Q2 there will be phase 5 for classic and Diablo Immortal. For Q3 there will likely be season 4 of retail. Then Q4 will probably be Wrath classic which will pull in tons of cash.

[Firefox72]

I'd have way more hope if the expansion release was Q1 or even Q2 of 2023 than Q4 of 2022 to be honest.

Q4 also makes no sense with 9.2.5 and season 4 still without a release date.

[Marlamin]

No shoot the expac isnt in the last quarter of 2022 for fiscal/financial and ECalls reasons.

This does match with the date that has been speculated about a lot, so that would be cool. Does mean we'll see testing go up in the next few months, which scares me a bit.

I'd have way more hope if the expansion release was Q1 or even Q2 of 2023 than Q4 of 2022 to be honest.

Q4 makes no sense with 9.2.5 and season 4 still without a release date.

I think we'll see 9.2.5 on retail pretty fast, outside of those weird stable changes there isn't a lot about it that seems particularly unfinished. The season 4 stuff is something they can keep working on for many months more behind the scenes, outside of art assets, that doesn't need to be ready to ship.

[Dioporco]

They don't need to rush out Dragonflight for that. For Q2 there will be phase 5 for classic and Diablo Immortal. For Q3 there will likely be season 4 of retail. Then Q4 will probably be Wrath classic which will pull in tons of cash.

I'd have way more hope if the expansion release was Q1 or even Q2 of 2023 than Q4 of 2022 to be honest.

Q4 also makes no sense with 9.2.5 and season 4 still without a release date.

1. Is still Activision Blizzard, not Microsoft.

2. They more than ever need to rush the expac release after this disastrous year.

3. Classic P5 will be this summer since Wotlk will be fall/winter 2022 + nobody cares about immortal and classic atm.

4. There is no written rule that Seasons need to last 8 months nor that S4 is a proper seasons.





S3 can easily end in July or August (5/6 months) and S4 since has no HoF nor ladder can be 3/4 months.

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This does match with the date that has been speculated about a lot, so that would be cool. Does mean we'll see testing go up in the next few months, which scares me a bit.



I think we'll see 9.2.5 on retail pretty fast, outside of those weird stable changes there isn't a lot about it that seems particularly unfinished. The season 4 stuff is something they can keep working on for many months more behind the scenes, outside of art assets, that doesn't need to be ready to ship.

9.2.5 S4 is just recycled content so I don't see them having trouble releasing it quickly.


Btw even if 10.0 test starts 2 weeks after 19 aka Pre-Orders it will be still enough time for alpha/beta cycle probably they already done alpha during the 9.0-9.1 draught.

Plus

And this is copium

If there aren't insane new system but just : tier set + cosmetic Covenant , it doesn't require a lot of testing.

Now if they bring back Artifacts or Azerite like system is another thing

[Lady Atia]

Finished my Bingo Card / 10.0 predictions today



Place your bets!

[zeir]

actually a wrath beta would make total sense. Towelliee did say they it is going to be wrath+ with tons of changes unlike classic/tbc classic so they probably want to test it asap for an early fall release.

[Baedril]

4. There is no written rule that Seasons need to last 8 months nor that S4 is a proper seasons.


S3 can easily end in July or August (5/6 months) and S4 since has no HoF nor ladder can be 3/4 months.

For a small comparison to support this, the shortest (pvp) seasons of all time were two 11 week seasons in 7.2 and 7.2.5, 11 weeks is just under 3 months, so there's absolutely precedent for seasons that short.

[Chickat]

Has anyone thought about the possibility of. Northrend revamp with dragon isles instead of the top of eastern kingdom?

[Dracullus]

For a small comparison to support this, the shortest (pvp) seasons of all time were two 11 week seasons in 7.2 and 7.2.5, 11 weeks is just under 3 months, so there's absolutely precedent for seasons that short.

You sure new PVP season came in 7.2, not 7.1.5? Would be strange to reset ladder without any item level bump.

[Ferlion]

Dragonflight is almost certainly further along than any other expansion we've had in recent memory. I really don't think the "they can't rush it so it should be pushed back" stuff is accurate.

[Baedril]

You sure new PVP season came in 7.2, not 7.1.5? Would be strange to reset ladder without any item level bump.

Yep, Legion had 7 PvP seasons - all with a small ilvl bump, but thanks to the stat templates it didn't really matter, as PvP gear was already a bit lower than raiding gear if I remember right. Below a list courtesy of https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/PvP_season, though I played every Legion season myself as well.

S1: A few weeks after expac launch: 12 weeks
S2: A few weeks after 7.1 Launch: 15 weeks
S3: 7.2 Launch: 11 weeks
S4: 7.2.5 Launch: 11 weeks
S5: 7.3 Launch: 13 weeks
S6: When Antorus was unlocked: 16 weeks
S7: ~Just arbitrary point halfway through the patch, ended up with BfA prepatch: 17 weeks

[MrGMYT]

4 days to go!

[ercarp]

Finished my Bingo Card / 10.0 predictions today

-- snip --

Place your bets!

I think I'll wait until the 18th or 19th before I make mine as more stuff might come up between now and then.

[delphiskye]

just thinking on who hasnt been seen since end of legion Velen, any of the wardens Arator, Ebonhorn, leader of the bronze flights been missing since cata, can anyone else think on who else is "missing"?

[SniperCT]

NGL.

My most requested feature isn't housing, a new class, or allied races.

It's a new bloody UI for the character selection (login) screen.

I'm borderline OCD probably and have an army of 50 characters I spend way, way too much time organising in different ways. Only problem is, all we get is a long and boring list. I basically change my preference every other week and have to rearrange it, and I can never decide which my mains and my main alts are.

What I'd like is a new UI based on the character creation UI they updated in Shadowlands.

Preferably a number of clean looking icons/portraits, and not a bunch of text strings for class, location, etc.

Then I'd like a number of filters, both premade and customisable ones. I want to be able to filter my roster based on things like faction, race, class, professions, and so on. But also things that matter to me, like which characters I designate as my "main crafters" of the various professions, "main alts", "main bankers" for different purposes, and so on.'

Then obviously custom character poses so my army can look COOL. Right now every character looks like a dork.

And here I am just wanting pages with 10-12 characters on each lol. Someone else suggested tiles you can arrange and then click on to view the characters.

Either of those combined with filters would be absolutely amazing.

I also second character poses.

Or steal Tera's screen, where all your characters are walking together on the screen until you select one and the camera zooms into them.

[ercarp]

Just got an email about the upcoming announcement:

Drop into the World of Warcraft® Livestream Event on 19 April at 9am PT to sit down with the WoW development team and learn about the upcoming expansion. We’re excited to show you what we’ve been working on and where your adventures in Azeroth will go next!

I think most people were expecting it anyway but this definitely confirms that it will have some panels where they go into the expansion in more depth.

[Lady Atia]

Just got an email about the upcoming announcement:



I think most people were expecting it anyway but this definitely confirms that it will have some panels where they go into the expansion in more depth.

T&E also confirmed that they will follow up the announcement in the coming days with interviews and co, so it seems like we are getting the classic blizzcon treadment indeed =)

[Dioporco]

I would love to sit down with the dev team, so i can insult them, i mean telling them where they did wrong