Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Harbour]

By all "leaks" microclasses sound like the most confusing and meh feature Blizzard could ever think off.
Its as if they look at the narrow and widely requested path of making 4th specs for existing classes or new class or class skins for every class and decided to go off road, and even there went completely half-assed.

[Hypester]

By all "leaks" microclasses sound like the most confusing and meh feature Blizzard could ever think off.
Its as if they look at the narrow and widely requested path of making 4th specs for existing classes or new class or class skins for every class and decided to go off road, and even there went completely half-assed.

I think more people would like new classes than new specs.

They are just the same as DH, without an extra unnecessary spec slapped on (Vengeance tanks, something never associated with Illidan). And 4 of them to boot as opposed to the usual 4 year wait for a single new class that people may or may not like, with very diverse aesthetics and themes.

[Wangming]

Still thinking about possible races. If we accept the Evoker as the one. What if we get djinn as a race. Already established? Yep. Would make sense as Evokers? Think so. They are elementals themselves. Are they related to Dragons? Well they were first seen allied with Deathwing. Do they have male and female variants? Well, they have in Hearthstone.

[huth]

Currently the only shadowlands race we know of that operates in the living world is necrolords and that’s because of how they as a race function. They are the vanguard of the shadowlands and choose a physical form while the Kyrian are able to interact with spirits

I'm reading this more as a "hey, you've been a really great ally, we want to permanently give you a bit of our power as compensation". I was more referring to this whole transformation thing actually being a real, already touched upon in the story, possibility.

Though imo it would be funny if Necrolords transformation was provided by the House of Constructs...

[Hypester]

Still thinking about possible races. If we accept the Evoker as the one. What if we get djinn as a race. Already established? Yep. Would make sense as Evokers? Think so. They are elementals themselves. Are they related to Dragons? Well they were first seen allied with Deathwing. Do they have male and female variants? Well, they have in Hearthstone.

Interesting that they added women to them on there. How would you deal with the legs though?

Or would it be like Wheelchair Ragnaros and they would get legs out of nowhere?

[Scaleface]

You discovered to being neutral as pandas, You discovered a class that evoke..

I am glad how much the topic has come to life after our tips - great ideas. Today, however, I am giving you perhaps the last tip. You had a clue to your class, today maybe let's think about the race?
I didn't want it to be too easy, and I liked the "theredshirtguy" reaction so we'll pull the topic a little differently. The Warcraft community loves puzzles, hidden mounts, etc.
I'm not very good at puzzles, but I came up with something like this:



PS. code is not everything.

[Hypester]

If you look behind the letters you see a green orc. Green orcs confirmed?

[ercarp]

You discovered to being neutral as pandas, You discovered a class that evoke..

I am glad how much the topic has come to life after our tips - great ideas. Today, however, I am giving you perhaps the last tip. You had a clue to your class, today maybe let's think about the race?
I didn't want it to be too easy, and I liked the "theredshirtguy" reaction so we'll pull the topic a little differently. The Warcraft community loves puzzles, hidden mounts, etc.
I'm not very good at puzzles, but I came up with something like this:



PS. code is not everything.

The new race is Drek'thar?

[Fahrad Wagner]

The new race is Drek'thar?

I believe you mean the new race is The Drek'thar

[huth]

I believe you mean the new race is The Drek'that

Drek'this, Drek'that... it's always Drek'something.


Also, Scaleface is right about being bad at puzzles. My eyes.

[Wangming]

Interesting that they added women to them on there. How would you deal with the legs though?

Or would it be like Wheelchair Ragnaros and they would get legs out of nowhere?

Maybe they wouldn't have legs. Leg and feet items don't get animated. A small sacrifice.

[Fahrad Wagner]

Drek'this, Drek'that... it's always Drek'something.


Also, Scaleface is right about being bad at puzzles. My eyes.

I'm glad you capture that before my edit haha

[Leowyld]

Normal instinct with random letters is anagram, but that's clearly not the case here. Ya Cake or Ace Yak are not good indicators of anything. Either the letters are offset with a cipher or they are used in a different format/context I'm not familiar with (it mentions code at the bottom, so maybe it's some programming thing).

That's, of course, assuming it really is a hint for something valid... still around 50/50 on you, Scaley.

[ercarp]

This Drek'thar Evoker stuff is so out of left field that he's either 100% trolling and laughing at everyone taking his nonsensical puzzles at face value and trying to "crack" them, or he got leaked info about a mobile game or Diablo IV and he thinks it's somehow related to 10.0.

[JDBlou]

Normal instinct with random letters is anagram, but that's clearly not the case here. Ya Cake or Ace Yak are not good indicators of anything. Either the letters are offset with a cipher or they are used in a different format/context I'm not familiar with (it mentions code at the bottom, so maybe it's some programming thing).

That's, of course, assuming it really is a hint for something valid... still around 50/50 on you, Scaley.

The problem is if it doesn't get "solved" quickly, any solution after the expac reveal can be reverse-engineered into a told-you-so.

[Hypester]

It would be nice if the race(s) that are added in DF are a little more wacky than just a Dragon race. Cataclysm races were unexpected fanfavorites being added in that, on paper, didn't seem related to the expansion theme of elementals and dragons and destruction. So hopefully Cata 2 could do something similar.

[therumblings]

This code leak weakens my faith in the leaks a tiny bit, but knowing this community if there is any truth to it it'll be cracked before the day is over.

[Wangming]

You discovered to being neutral as pandas, You discovered a class that evoke..

I am glad how much the topic has come to life after our tips - great ideas. Today, however, I am giving you perhaps the last tip. You had a clue to your class, today maybe let's think about the race?
I didn't want it to be too easy, and I liked the "theredshirtguy" reaction so we'll pull the topic a little differently. The Warcraft community loves puzzles, hidden mounts, etc.
I'm not very good at puzzles, but I came up with something like this:

*same six letters over and over again in different versions to the backdrop of a blind green orc.*

PS. code is not everything.

Interesting. Ace, Cake...

If I didn't fudge the math there are 9 variations in every line and there are 29 lines.

So 261 variations in total, yes? Maybe that is also a clue.

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This code leak weakens my faith in the leaks a tiny bit, but knowing this community if there is any truth to it it'll be cracked before the day is over.

How so? Any particular reason why?

[ercarp]

Another puzzle:

[Wangming]

Normal instinct with random letters is anagram, but that's clearly not the case here. Ya Cake or Ace Yak are not good indicators of anything. Either the letters are offset with a cipher or they are used in a different format/context I'm not familiar with (it mentions code at the bottom, so maybe it's some programming thing).

That's, of course, assuming it really is a hint for something valid... still around 50/50 on you, Scaley.

Yaungol playable race confirmed