Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Wangming]

I truly hope we are not getting those ass dumb shadowland races as allied races.

I would play the shit out of playable Venthyr. But don't worry we are getting Dracthyr as a neutral race instead.

[Santandame]

Well, it's not hard to pronounce, but it doesn't feel like it rolls off the tongue either.

Drak-fear rolls off the tongue pretty simply to me.

[Wangming]

Drak-fear rolls off the tongue pretty simply to me.

Well how many languages do you speak? Maybe that's the trick. If they range from Japanese to something like German or Dutch it is hard to find something that doesn't roll.

[Santandame]

Well how many languages do you speak? Maybe that's the trick. If they range from Japanese to something like German or Dutch it is hard to find something that doesn't roll.

Just English.

It's no different to saying Venthyr but replacing the Ven with Drak. It's really a non issue.

[MoanaLisa]

However there IS a reason to not do that. And that's the social health of the game. There are numerous small social guilds and their glue is normal raiding. Make it available on a queue and you may well kill all of them. The relatively skilled players who are the only reason those guilds ever clear a raid will be gone and those guilds will collapse. It will be even worse if you make Heroic available on a queue.

Guilds like this—social raiding guilds if you will—should be given incentives to exist. I tend to agree that making lower levels of difficulty queueable will likely destroy most of them. I think Blizzard has done enough damage to guilds since Cataclysm.

[Raetary]

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doesn't look new to me, might I might be missing something subtle

It is new, 'World' is boldened, you can see it on the L how the lower line is thicker.
And the hook on the R is more straight and thicker.

The 'OF' also has a bigger font size and fills in the O more.

[Wangming]

It is new, 'World' is boldened, you can see it on the L how the lower line is thicker.
And the hook on the R is more straight and thicker.

The 'OF' also has a bigger font size and fills in the O more.

Yeah. If you compare to the SL logo where the R does not curve it is noticably the new font.

[Hitei]

doesn't look new to me, might I might be missing something subtle

As Arafal said, the OF is much larger, the lines are not as thin (most noticable on the bottom bar of the L). Perhaps most distinctly, on previous logos the diagonal leg of the R curves into a sharp point, whereas in the new one it actually does the opposite, thickening as it extends, to a flat edge.




(note that in the Shadowlands logo you have 3D text, it is pointed though)

[Chickat]

Keep in mind that a live audience announcement will always be longer than a pure video reveal since they have to space out sentences for reactions, aswell as add jokes that may or may not be funny but still rely on audience feedback. So getting a 45 minutes long quick video presentation could give us as much content as an 1 hour live audience presentation.

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Well to be fair we got a Troll Dungeon instead.

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Ehm, to be fair I'm not sure about the rules of Bingo? I can still add lines before the announcement, no worries. Also, what would be free spaces for?

Edit: Better?

I just realized that I butchered ecstatic lmao.


Also yes that bingo card is much better.

[Teriz]

Really going to stick with this until the end of time, aren’t you? Only a few days left of this at least

It’s the only scenario that makes sense beyond a massive curveball that brings us a Tinker class instead. Micro classes, 4th specs, and mass class skins don’t make sense.

[Chickat]

inb4 we get trolled and it's actually an Undermine Tinker expansion

That would also be cool.

[Fahrad Wagner]

I'm so hyped for an explosion of DRAGONZZZZZ

[SniperCT]

Keep in mind that a live audience announcement will always be longer than a pure video reveal since they have to space out sentences for reactions, aswell as add jokes that may or may not be funny but still rely on audience feedback. So getting a 45 minutes long quick video presentation could give us as much content as an 1 hour live audience presentation.

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Well to be fair we got a Troll Dungeon instead.

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Ehm, to be fair I'm not sure about the rules of Bingo? I can still add lines before the announcement, no worries. Also, what would be free spaces for?

Edit: Better?

oh I like this one

[Sondrelk]

It’s the only scenario that makes sense beyond a massive curveball that brings us a Tinker class instead. Micro classes, 4th specs, and mass class skins don’t make sense.

I have to disagree on class skins. If we ever had an expansion that focused heavily on race customization, then class skins could be a nice bit of low hanging fruit for developers to go for given how little effort an individual one would take.

It would definitely suffer from some races having loads of unique racial classes and others really having none. But who knows what classes and specs are available by then.

[Teriz]

I think you are being shortsighted but whatever.

It’s all good. We’ll see who was right in a matter of days. Either way, I hope the new addition is beneficial to the health of the game.

Interestingly at the comic convention I’m currently attending, I spoke with an artist who was selling some WoW art. We got to talking about the next expansion, and she mentioned how cool it would be to play an actual dragon like the aspects. She hadn’t even seen the Alexstraza pic, I had simply told her that the next expansion was called Dragonflight. .

I thought that that was interesting, and just shows what a potential gold mine Blizzard has in their midst if they play their cards right.

[ercarp]

I was also working on a bingo card if anyone wants to use it. It's like a shittier version of the one Sage made for BlizzCon 2019.



Here are my predictions so far, although I have a feeling I might change like half of these before April 19th.

[Luck4]

No World Revamp in any Bingo Card makes me sad.

But the World Revamp Dream will NEVER DIE!

[Darkarath]

Keep in mind that a live audience announcement will always be longer than a pure video reveal since they have to space out sentences for reactions, aswell as add jokes that may or may not be funny but still rely on audience feedback. So getting a 45 minutes long quick video presentation could give us as much content as an 1 hour live audience presentation.

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Well to be fair we got a Troll Dungeon instead.

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Ehm, to be fair I'm not sure about the rules of Bingo? I can still add lines before the announcement, no worries. Also, what would be free spaces for?

Edit: Better?

That free space is for WoW in consoles (you cannot kill hope).

[SniperCT]

I was also working on a bingo card if anyone wants to use it. It's like a shittier version of the one Sage made for BlizzCon 2019.



Here are my predictions so far, although I have a feeling I might change like half of these before April 19th.

what, no alex voiceover like that one cinematic description 'leak'? lol

[Teriz]

I have to disagree on class skins. If we ever had an expansion that focused heavily on race customization, then class skins could be a nice bit of low hanging fruit for developers to go for given how little effort an individual one would take.

It would definitely suffer from some races having loads of unique racial classes and others really having none. But who knows what classes and specs are available by then.

Eh, if you REALLY think about class skins, it would be a complete nightmare to pull off. Take Paladin/Sunwalker/Vindicator/Blood Knights for example. Each time Blizzard develops a new ability it’s going to have to skin that ability four times. If there’s a class overhaul, you’ve just quadrupled the workload.

Not to mention people are also going to want their own racial armor sets too.

I don’t really think it’s worth the effort. I could see glyphs changing a couple of abilities here and there, like how they gave Shaman the option to turn spirit wolves into spirit raptors.