Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Wangming]

Since we are on the subject of UI tweek requests. I want my UI to be more fantasy. A weird request I know. But for me the UI is more immersive in a fantasy game if it gives up more fantasy vibes. The best one was probably in Dragon Age: Origins. Give me scrolls of parchments and books as windows. Give me the sound of paper when I open a menu. Yes, the layout also needs some work and we need a controller optimized version for an eventual console release.
But I want my fantasy UI theme.

[leothar]

Since we are on the subject of UI tweek requests. I want my UI to be more fantasy. A weird request I know. But for me the UI is more immersive in a fantasy game if it gives up more fantasy vibes. The best one was probably in Dragon Age: Origins. Give me scrolls of parchments and books as windows. Give me the sound of paper when I open a menu. Yes, the layout also needs some work and we need a controller optimized version for an eventual console release.
But I want my fantasy UI theme.

Nothing stops you from having this right now with addons.

[Fahrad Wagner]

You are an absolute legend.

Hype!

Team World Revamp lets F go!

MORE COAL FOR THAT TRAIN BABES! Tchoooo tchooooo!

[TriHard]

I think Bellular, MrGM, T&E, and Preach all deserve interviews and would do a good highlighting different perspectives for different segments of the community. But I'd love to see some smaller content creators as well.

Hard disagree on T&E, the rest of them are solid though

[Soulwind]

Since we are on the subject of UI tweek requests. I want my UI to be more fantasy. A weird request I know. But for me the UI is more immersive in a fantasy game if it gives up more fantasy vibes. The best one was probably in Dragon Age: Origins. Give me scrolls of parchments and books as windows. Give me the sound of paper when I open a menu. Yes, the layout also needs some work and we need a controller optimized version for an eventual console release.
But I want my fantasy UI theme.

Blizzard has been consistently moving away from this, so I wouldn't expect it from them anytime soon.

[Futhark]

A Dragon Race wouldn't be able to be a Dragon Knight because they can't use powers of the other flights, for example a Green Dragon can't breathe fire or a Black Dragon restore life.
Just like it wouldn't make sense for a dragon race to join a covenant of a different color. Same goes for a Dragon Knight double dipping on Dragon powers.

This can be solved by making the new player race chromatic dragons. It's canon, could be a cool story development, and gives players more options instead of less.

[Fahrad Wagner]

This can be solved by making the new player race chromatic dragons. It's canon, could be a cool story development, and gives players more options instead of less.

I'd love that. Give me those sweet iridescend purple scalezzzzzz

[Wangming]

Nothing stops you from having this right now with addons.

See that's the problem. I shouldn't need third party software to solve any of this.

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I'd love that. Give me those sweet iridescend purple scalezzzzzz

Is that you, Mace Windu?

[Fahrad Wagner]

Is that you, Mace Windu?

Keep that name, out of your flaming mouth (I hate that character )

[Lady Atia]

I think Bellular, MrGM, T&E, and Preach all deserve interviews and would do a good highlighting different perspectives for different segments of the community. But I'd love to see some smaller content creators as well.

I would also add Hazel, Dratnos and Tettles to that list. Would give a good mix of casual and elite content players.

[Shadochi]

Oh gosh how did we not remember to add Marla the Miner before to the train

[Cosmic Janitor]

Since we are on the subject of UI tweek requests. I want my UI to be more fantasy. A weird request I know. But for me the UI is more immersive in a fantasy game if it gives up more fantasy vibes. The best one was probably in Dragon Age: Origins. Give me scrolls of parchments and books as windows. Give me the sound of paper when I open a menu. Yes, the layout also needs some work and we need a controller optimized version for an eventual console release.
But I want my fantasy UI theme.

I doubt Blizzard is every going to do that. The general trend is to make the UI more fugly as time goes on. Pretty much half the playerbase and more use fucking sterile space ship UIs with random icons strewn across their screen thanks to WA. Investing in an UI update seems folly to me, given most people seemingly try to get as far away from it as possible (even though I prefer it as well).

[Sondrelk]

Oh gosh how did we not remember to add Marla the Miner before to the train

Everyone knows the birb has always been inside the train all along. It's just now we get to see who is actually driving the train.

[Shinrael]

Nothing stops you from having this right now with addons.

Uuuh, no you can't? Outside of AzeriteUI (which has some severe functionality issues still, after years in development) no other addon gives you a WoW themed UI that fits a fantasy world, much less one that actually looks good. Diablo UI and GW2 don't count here obviously. They are not Warcraft/Fantasy-themed and they are definetely not what the user you're quoting is describing. Please, do enlighten me if I missed some really good new UI addon. I beg you.

Hard disagree on T&E, the rest of them are solid though

Care to elaborate why? T&E are probably the best WoW content creators. Now, Preach does some amazing analysis of WoW, but he does nothing else. He doesn't do story, he doesn't do creative design (not sure how else to categorize coming up with Class Skin ideas, new Classes, new game features, etc). Asmon also has some interesting discussions but he doesn't even dive deep. Bellular is the fastest uploader and has the biggest variety of content (gameplay, balance, story, fantasy, features, models, guides, etc) but doesn't dive as deep as Taliesin and isn't very creative with his suggestions/ideas, whereas Taliesin puts a lot of imagination and effort there. EVEN if you dislike his ideas, the effort he puts in them is objectively amazing. The story analysis he does is amazing. Even if far fetched at times, he makes sure to remind us it's his headcannon. He doesn't enforce anything. Really, you picked the one guy who isn't doing anything wrong?

[ercarp]

Everyone knows the birb has always been inside the train all along. It's just now we get to see who is actually driving the train.

This is true.

[Shadochi]

Everyone knows the birb has always been inside the train all along. It's just now we get to see who is actually driving the train.

Ah, so what the artist meant to represent in that image is Marla stepping out of the community, symbolized by him being no longer in the train itself.

[MrGMYT]

Ah, so what the artist meant to represent in that image is Marla stepping out of the community, symbolized by him being no longer in the train itself.

Marlamin IS the train

[Shadochi]

Probably not a popular take, but I don't like "content crestors" like him. You're not employed by Blizzard, let it go mate. People who come up with all these ridiculous stories and made up classes irritate me, because it seems insulting to the actual employees of Blizzzard. They are running around saying but look how much smarter I am, look what I came up with, why can't we have this in game instead of the stuff that some employee spent their time actually developing. It seems insulting to me to poop all over the actual story and content we do get.

I'm not saying I love all the content and classes and story we get, but it is what we get, and to run around going "see, it should be this instead" is just weird and goofy to me.

To add to this, people often use info they found online about custom servers with a classless approach/new classes, and say how these hobbyist are doing much more than blizzar. But they ever actually tried something like that out they would find the following:
1. The classes are mostly just reusing everything blizzard provided in the game
2. New or reused stuff is buggy in every way
3. Almost no balance went into it, just added it to make cool
4. Almost no polish or such, also often enough doesn't regard the position of that class in the world

So would you like to play a class that is buggy, made of reused assets mostly, unbalanced and didn't have any additional mentions in the world when it got added? (All 3 races so far with their addition had story from there onwards regarding the class and the world)

[Marlamin]

Ah, so what the artist meant to represent in that image is Marla stepping out of the community, symbolized by him being no longer in the train itself.

Marlamin IS the train

pls stop

[Shadochi]

Marlamin IS the train

I had to do it: