Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[JDBlou]

Assuming nothing of this is coincidental and every choice is deliberate.

-Anagram of six letters with 9 variations each row and 29 rows
-Blind orc
-Wolves
-Lightning strike

What if the race is related to Yogg-Saron somehow? This is whole puzzle is like the puzzle box of Yogg-Saron that responds with maddening whispers to your attempts to crack it.

The other possibility is a very nature focused tribal race.

Maybe both.

I really wouldn't put too much thought into, it seems like "the chase of goose" to have everyone here spinning their wheels. You're welcome to keep trying to crack it, but I remain highly skeptical. Turning "leaks" into a game of riddles seems suspect to me, when all other prior leaks are just kinda thrown out into the world.

[chrisfover87]

Dreamcatcher?

[boyzma]

Got it. Btw I absolutely hate puzzles. But we have Ice.....a new zone full of ice duh. Cake...we become master bakers in this new ice land. Finally Yak.....therefore we ride around on our Yaks selling cakes in this new ice land. The new race....I have no idea....did I mention I hate puzzles?

[Hypester]

Speaking of ice land, I'm fairly certain we will get some kind of arctic zone or area in the next expansion based on that nice new polar bear model they made for the anniversary.



Yes, I'm aware that its the Big Blizzard Bear, but they never bothered to make a unique polar bear model before. Maybe related to the Blue flight because they've had an arctic theme in the past?

[Wangming]

I really wouldn't put too much thought into, it seems like "the chase of goose" to have everyone here spinning their wheels. You're welcome to keep trying to crack it, but I remain highly skeptical. Turning "leaks" into a game of riddles seems suspect to me, when all other prior leaks are just kinda thrown out into the world.

Whatever you say, spoilsport. Even if they are dead wrong I would rather solve puzzles than debate future content that people don't want implemented just case "there is an addon for it"

[Fahrad Wagner]

The whole anagram approach is too simple, they wouldn't have bothered repeating/changing the word across, there must be a pattern. Any chance those letters could be indicative of numbers instead and translate to code or binary?

[Wangming]

Dreamcatcher?

As a race? Weird choice

[Yunravel]

Speaking of ice land, I'm fairly certain we will get some kind of arctic zone or area in the next expansion based on that nice new polar bear model they made for the anniversary.



Yes, I'm aware that its the Big Blizzard Bear, but they never bothered to make a unique polar bear model before. Maybe related to the Blue flight because they've had an arctic theme in the past?

the steel plates and accessories looks really elven to me

[Alexjimithing]

Got it. Btw I absolutely hate puzzles. But we have Ice.....a new zone full of ice duh. Cake...we become master bakers in this new ice land. Finally Yak.....therefore we ride around on our Yaks selling cakes in this new ice land. The new race....I have no idea....did I mention I hate puzzles?

New class is ‘Cake Boss’. Only race that can play it is the new Valastro race. Comes from the newly discovered Azeroth continent of ‘New Jersey’.

[JDBlou]

debate future content that people don't want implemented just case "there is an addon for it"

I must have missed this, what are you speaking to, here?

[Wangming]

The whole anagram approach is too simple, they wouldn't have bothered repeating/changing the word across, there must be a pattern. Any chance those letters could be indicative of numbers instead and translate to code or binary?

Yeah I also suspect something like that. Problem is, I'm a philologist, not a mathematician.

[JDBlou]

Speaking of ice land, I'm fairly certain we will get some kind of arctic zone or area in the next expansion based on that nice new polar bear model they made for the anniversary.



Yes, I'm aware that its the Big Blizzard Bear, but they never bothered to make a unique polar bear model before. Maybe related to the Blue flight because they've had an arctic theme in the past?

Well Dragonblight was all frosty and full of blue dragons, maybe it's the same for the hypothetical Dragon Isles zone for the Blue Dragonflight?

[Wangming]

I must have missed this, what are you speaking to, here?

These sort of arguments do come up if you read back.
Basically every truly inventive idea gets dismissed either because

- Too much work
- Wow isn't designed for that
- We have AddOns doing that worse.

[ercarp]

The whole anagram approach is too simple, they wouldn't have bothered repeating/changing the word across, there must be a pattern. Any chance those letters could be indicative of numbers instead and translate to code or binary?

This is what I've been thinking as well. I thought that maybe the letters' numbers in the alphabet could correspond to either a 0 or a 1 based on whether it's an odd or an even number, but... they're all odd numbers.

A = 1 (odd)
C = 3 (odd)
E = 5 (odd)
K = 11 (odd)
Y = 25 (odd)

Maybe vowels could be 0s and consonants 1s, or the other way around.

[hipolnalrt]

The whole anagram approach is too simple, they wouldn't have bothered repeating/changing the word across, there must be a pattern. Any chance those letters could be indicative of numbers instead and translate to code or binary?

He said that code isn't everything.

I'm thinking somehow its an anagram, but include the letters of Drek'thar or some version thereof. Or maybe farseer.

Also, the image is called "flightsrising.jpg".

[Dragoncaller Alanna]

Initially I thought the Evoker would probably be too similar to a Mage, and it probably will be somewhat similar. But looking at concept art like that of Dragoncaller Alanna, I got to say, I can see the class coming together.

When you look at the picture, you can see the dragon she is summoning is actually one made of fire. The idea of summoning dragons was a bit too weird to me, but if they are dragons made of fire or ice, that charge at the enemy as part of an attack, similar to the Phoenix spell from Mages, I can see that as a new class.

Also the lore apparently has now been retconned to dragons being elementals. With that, it makes even more sense, that an Evoker would use elemental magic and call on elemental dragons.

[Fahrad Wagner]

This is what I've been thinking as well. I thought that maybe the letters' numbers in the alphabet could correspond to either a 0 or a 1 based on whether it's an odd or an even number, but... they're all odd numbers.

A = 1 (odd)
C = 3 (odd)
E = 5 (odd)
K = 11 (odd)
Y = 25 (odd)

Maybe vowels could be 0s and consonants 1s, or the other way around.

My thoughts exactly, let's try to compute that!

[hipolnalrt]

The first thing that came to my mind with the letters in the image was Echeyakee - the white lion in the barrens. https://www.wowhead.com/quest=881/echeyakee

Its tauren for white mist.

[Fahrad Wagner]

I tried the binary, based on vowels and consonants, doesn't seem to work. hipo may be unto something, we may need to add drek'thar's letters to the mix.

[Dragoncaller Alanna]

This is what I've been thinking as well. I thought that maybe the letters' numbers in the alphabet could correspond to either a 0 or a 1 based on whether it's an odd or an even number, but... they're all odd numbers.

A = 1 (odd)
C = 3 (odd)
E = 5 (odd)
K = 11 (odd)
Y = 25 (odd)

Maybe vowels could be 0s and consonants 1s, or the other way around.

The first thing that came to my mind with the letters in the image was Echeyakee - the white lion in the barrens. [/url]

Its tauren for white mist.

Was there something new leaked or some riddle posted, in the last days or so?