Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Deventh]

I hated the fact we got a Sylvanas arc. Her story should have been wrapped up in BfA.

I mean her arc is still not wrapped up. She will come back and have a major role like it or not.

[therumblings]

Maybe the problem is we are only looking at the letters. After all it is Drek'Thar and not Drekthar.

I think the letters play a big part, but I'm not sure what part. Drek'thar is definitely important and might be the key to the whole thing.

[Hypester]

Maybe the Dragon Isles are not as big of a part of the expansion as we think, and they are actually just the starting zone for the new race and class like the Wandering Isle?

This would make sense if it’s revamp expansion. The text leak ignores stuff like Turalyon and Night Elves that are now getting set up.

[Alexjimithing]

Preaching to the choir here; I hated everything about the Sylvanas arc.

I like it a lot more after reading the Sylvanas book, but of course that’s a lot of character motivation that should’ve been in game. Especially all the Lirath stuff. Gives a level of pathos to Sylvanas that to me she didn’t have previously, especially in regards to her actions in BFA/Shadowlnds.

But let her languish in WoW hell for awhile outside of small appearances or whatever, I’m ok with a Sylvanas break.

[Syegfryed]

Sorry but they spit in the face of half the playerbase who sided with Sylvanas and then made us raid against her. Just a bunch of clowns making the lore and decisions at Blizzard.

They should have deleted their characters, but sadly they can't do that, cause its just what you do with traitors who follow a cartoon crazy villain

[Hypester]

She should have remained a minor character brooding in the background, providing some texture for the Horde which is otherwise just "graah, me smash". The mistake they did imo was to not let her Legion scheming conclude in something somewhat selfish and sinister but still forgivable. Like, maybe she attempted to save herself from eternal damnation by finding a way out of her condition, but ultimately fails and just decides she'll have to think of another way in the future.

Nah. The idea was to put their foot down and exterminate any psuedo-villainy attached to player characters and leave no room for anyone to “be evil” outside of RP. Hence why Sylvanas got iced and Gallywix got replaced.

If they want all characters to be forced to be good you can’t have those two as racial leaders without lobotomizing them.

[Wangming]

I think the letters play a big part, but I'm not sure what part. Drek'thar is definitely important and might be the key to the whole thing.

Oh yes, the letters are definitely important. And the letters on the text are more important than the letters in Drek'thar. I mean Can you imagine Scale looking at the race name and going "Oh wow if we ignore these six letters this is an anagram of Drek'thar." No fucking way is that true.

Now that I had time to relax and fill my stomach I can think better. (I hope. Or I'm just simply going crazy) It's got to be that ace yak or whatever. Just with aposthrophes and weird capitalization. Like Ace'Yak or Yac'Eak or something.

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

Maybe the Dragon Isles are not as big of a part of the expansion as we think, and they are actually just the starting zone for the new race and class like the Wandering Isle?

This would make sense if it’s revamp expansion. The text leak ignores stuff like Turalyon and Night Elves that are now getting set up.

It is certainly possible.

But I've moved over to the camp convinced there is no revamp coming in spite of the HD Buildings.

If the Dragon Isles is just a smaller part of a bigger expansion, all the areas are going to be Dragon-related.

[Darkarath]

Oh yes, the letters are definitely important. And the letters on the text are more important than the letters in Drek'thar. I mean Can you imagine Scale looking at the race name and going "Oh wow if we ignore these six letters this is an anagram of Drek'thar." No fucking way is that true.

Now that I had time to relax and fill my stomach I can think better. (I hope. Or I'm just simply going crazy) It's got to be that ace yak or whatever. Just with aposthrophes and weird capitalization. Like Ace'Yak or Yac'Eak or something.

Sorry if this have been explained before, but why are we so much into that riddle? I do not understand how we know that the leaker has good information on 10.0.

[Ashapls]

Sorry if this have been explained before, but why are we so much into that riddle? I do not understand how we know that the leaker has good information on 10.0.

3 days until reveal with no new info, so killing the time grasping at whatever straws are available.

[Wangming]

Sorry if this have been explained before, but why are we so much into that riddle? I do not understand how we know that the leaker has good information on 10.0.

3 days until reveal with no new info, so killing the time grasping at whatever straws are available.

Yeah pretty much what Ash says. It is the most fun way to kill time till the reveal. So we do owe thanks to Scale for that. Also if we solve the riddles on time and he confirms the correct guesses before the reveal we can better tell if he is full of shit or not. I made a bet with him that at least his release date is wrong.

[Catastrophy349]

Tuesday is looking to be a much larger event than initially thought (by this, I simply mean when it was first announced back in March, we assumed the worst (10 minute 9.2 YouTube video)).

[Wangming]

It is certainly possible.

But I've moved over to the camp convinced there is no revamp coming in spite of the HD Buildings.

If the Dragon Isles is just a smaller part of a bigger expansion, all the areas are going to be Dragon-related.

Well the OG intention was to make the Dragon Isles (The home of Lexie and not much else) separate from the island of elven dragon riders near Azuremyst. So yeah we may have several hidden dragon places.

[Ersula]

She should have remained a minor character brooding in the background, providing some texture for the Horde which is otherwise just "graah, me smash". The mistake they did imo was to not let her Legion scheming conclude in something somewhat selfish and sinister but still forgivable. Like, maybe she attempted to save herself from eternal damnation by finding a way out of her condition, but ultimately fails and just decides she'll have to think of another way in the future.

Considering Anduin went with her....how long do you honestly expect Anduin to be gone from the story? Especially if Wrathion is a major figure in Dragonflight, I expect them to return from the maw by 10.3

[taishar68]

Considering Anduin went with her....how long do you honestly expect Anduin to be gone from the story? Especially if Wrathion is a major figure in Dragonflight, I expect them to return from the maw by 10.3

Interesting...perhaps the whole "time works differently in the Shadowlands" theme is to give them time to have whatever adventures are needed to set up the next expansion...and, if they are there long enough, you can toss in the "Olduin" stuff that came out a few years back. He goes to SL as Arthas, comes back as Tirion

[Hypester]

Well the OG intention was to make the Dragon Isles (The home of Lexie and not much else) separate from the island of elven dragon riders near Azuremyst. So yeah we may have several hidden dragon places.

I think it’s very possible that the Isles are all over the place like the Cata zones. This would blow open the text leak but would explain why Old World stuff beyond the Lordaeron area is being built up (HD Stormwind stuff and Turalyon, HD Nelf stuff and the seed, Voljin who everyone forgot).

[taishar68]

It would be hilarious if a new load screen tip said "Nobody has seen Sylvanas or Anduin in years" as a reference to the old tooltip for Turalyon and Alleria. They're basically the same people doing the same thing, only a Death realm instead of a Fel realm.

And wouldn't it be oh so cutesy-bootsy if they became lovers. People would go nucking futs.

[Hitei]

It would be hilarious if a new load screen tip said "Nobody has seen Sylvanas or Anduin in years" as a reference to the old tooltip for Turalyon and Alleria. They're basically the same people doing the same thing, only a Death realm instead of a Fel realm.

If by "same people doing the same thing" you mean "people whose only real similarity is their race, doing completely different things and in entirely different circumstances since they aren't lost or trapped at all."

[Hypester]

And wouldn't it be oh so cutesy-bootsy if they became lovers. People would go nucking futs.

I know this is the new fun rage bait but the book makes it very clear hes her little brother insert and she doesn’t shut up about Nathanos both in the book and in SL.

They have been paired as opposing faction leaders since Legion so it makes sense to pair them up as new allies/friends now that they are taking a multi IRL year expansion break. Also gives Anduin something to do besides mope and cry.

The encrypted Anduin model in 9.2.5 is interesting though and I wonder if they just decided late they aren’t going through with the ending in the book, and Sylvanas’s penance makes more sense to be done by herself.

[Santandame]

I'm with the guy who thinks the Draakyk could be Vrykul who settled on the Dragon Isles and have ascended/become empowered.

Would fit with my idea that there is going to be a big Vrykul presence on the Dragon Isles. Both in terms of Vrykul settlers who are now Dragon hunters and tamers(something they have an affinity for as seen on Northrend) and Odyn sending his Valarjar there to wage war on the Dragons.

Either way, I believe Dragon Isles will have a very big Vrykul presence and focus. Definitely a dungeon or two, possibly even a raid.