Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Darkarath]

In its current form, not really. People use addons for everything to make it palatable. Console players don't have that luxury. I do think they should move towards consoles if they want their crown back, but in its current form it would be a disaster.

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Mine are worgen monks. Seriously, I want worgen monks.

Certainly they will have to change many things to make it work. Main among them, the interface and the need for addons. I wish that they do not were necessary.

For the first time I am playing beyond FFXIV's ARR base storyline and, well, I am having so much fun with the raids, with random people and with a looking for group queue system! And people do not leave the group after the first wipe. Such a different experience that I wish WoW devs encouraged.

[Blayze]

Maybe we'll get vampire dragons.
Drakfallen, if you will.

[huth]

venthyr are fugly as fuck, we could have vampire elves instead of whatever are those "mickey rourke full botox + wrong hormone usage" npc

They are so on purpose. This isn't Twilight sparklepires.

[ercarp]

venthyr are fugly as fuck

Eh, I like them. I would definitely play as one but as I said before I don't want them to bring in any of the afterlife NPCs into the realm of the living as Allied Races. It would make no sense.

[huth]

Eh, I like them. I would definitely play as one but as I said before I don't want them to bring in any of the afterlife NPCs into the realm of the living as Allied Races. It would make no sense.

I'd at least consider it just so i don't have to go through weird hoops to turn up my nose on anything.

[Dioporco]

They are so on purpose. This isn't Twilight sparklepires.

sure buddy

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Kyrian and thicc blue mommy are similar.

NF are just furries so lets refrain from introduce them

Maldraxxi are similar to their own Malgrave

Venthyr wow just wow.

[Marlamin]

Blizz added two new CDN endpoints overnight for future encrypted products. My gut feeling says they might be closer than usual to public testing than they usually are when making announcements.

https://twitter.com/MrGMYT/status/1515234872339611651

Hey Marlamin, make sure you post a list of 10.0 interviews on your twitter, you are a messenger bird after all!

I'm sure MMO-C/Wowhead will do a fine job at that, there's no way I'm going to be able to keep track.

[Dioporco]

Blizz added two new CDN endpoints overnight for future encrypted products. My gut feeling says they might be closer than usual to public testing than they usually are when making announcements.

https://twitter.com/MrGMYT/status/1515234872339611651



I'm sure MMO-C/Wowhead will do a fine job at that, there's no way I'm going to be able to keep track.

I mean didnt Scaleface said that Wrath was 9/22 and 10.0 was 11/22 ? checks out

[Darkarath]

Blizz added two new CDN endpoints overnight for future encrypted products. My gut feeling says they might be closer than usual to public testing than they usually are when making announcements.

https://twitter.com/MrGMYT/status/1515234872339611651



I'm sure MMO-C/Wowhead will do a fine job at that, there's no way I'm going to be able to keep track.

What is a CDN endpoint? Why wow3 and wow4? Is WoW1 PTR and WoW2 Classic PTR?

[SniperCT]

I mean, maybe? I just think it would be visually cool to see Nozdormu transform in the cinematic. There could still be an Alexstrasza voice over, but I'm not expecting a peaceful cinematic like the "leak" you're talking about. I'm also expecting to see all five Dragon Aspects appear since, you know, the expansion is called Dragonflight. It's about the other four as well, not just Alexstrasza.

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I stole that one from @ro9ue! I believe...

I just like the concept of that one, as a sort of return to form. My favorite cinematics are vanilla and wrath. And that concept echoes both. At least subjectively to me.

[ercarp]

Blizz added two new CDN endpoints overnight for future encrypted products. My gut feeling says they might be closer than usual to public testing than they usually are when making announcements.

https://twitter.com/MrGMYT/status/1515234872339611651

I saw some people speculating that there could be a playtest of some kind after the livestream. Could this point towards something like that? Maybe a short trial where we get to try out the new class or explore one of the new zones briefly. BlizzCon had one, but this is completely remote so I don't know what to expect.

[Marlamin]

What is a CDN endpoint? Why wow3 and wow4? Is WoW1 PTR and WoW2 Classic PTR?

The "v" in wowv3/wowv4 stands for vendor. We don't know for sure what these are, but Overwatch's vendor products are used for testing at vendors like AMD/Nvidia/localization partners, so these likely have a similar goal.

For WoWs other vendor products, they usually push things like PTR and Beta builds to these products closely to them being released to the public. For example, vendor 2 is currently a few builds ahead of PTR.

I saw some people speculating that there could be a playtest of some kind after the livestream. Could this point towards something like that? Maybe a short trial where we get to try out the new class or explore one of the new zones briefly. BlizzCon had one, but this is completely remote so I don't know what to expect.

Playtests wouldn't happen on the vendor products as these builds aren't meant for public consumption and releasing one vendor build to the public means all vendor builds ever become public (encryption key becoming available).

However, if they were to update/reuse one of the old demo/event products and push a public build to that, that is definitely an indication of something public being on the way (or well, out). They could hold off until they literally announce something like a public playtest before doing that, though.

[Fahrad Wagner]

Here's mine!

[Luck4]

I think the best way they could do a full world revamp is by making zone revamps into patch content. Imagine if they revamped like 2-3 old zones with every patch and added max-level content in addition to overhauling the leveling quests.

I think it's better than nothing for sure, but I doubt as content patches Blizzard would do more than 10% of all zones of Kalimdor/Eastern Kingdoms, and that's because patches feel so light in content these days. For instance, in BFA we got a full revamp of Arathi on the expansion release but Darkshore was barely touched in a later patch.

[ercarp]

Here's mine!

Ah, a fellow Loreth'Aran believer. It would be so cool if it turned out Ysera had somehow safeguarded their city and teleported it to the Dragon Isles before it was fully destroyed.

Duck mount!? Yes please.

[Dioporco]

No rendorei? They are literally in game.

[Darkarath]

The "v" in wowv3/wowv4 stands for vendor. We don't know for sure what these are, but Overwatch's vendor products are used for testing at vendors like AMD/Nvidia/localization partners, so these likely have a similar goal.

For WoWs other vendor products, they usually push things like PTR and Beta builds to these products closely to them being released to the public. For example, vendor 2 is currently a few builds ahead of PTR.



Playtests wouldn't happen on the vendor products as these builds aren't meant for public consumption and releasing one vendor build to the public means all vendor builds ever become public (encryption key becoming available).

However, if they were to update/reuse one of the old demo/event products and push a public build to that, that is definitely an indication of something public being on the way (or well, out). They could hold off until they literally announce something like a public playtest before doing that, though.

I see, thank you. Guess then that they are something for 10.0 and WotLK Classic. Makes sense.

If they were to make something for consoles, we would not get a wowv5? It will have to be something that appeared only in consoles, right?

[Fahrad Wagner]

Ah, a fellow Loreth'Aran believer. It would be so cool if it turned out Ysera had somehow safeguarded their city and teleported it to the Dragon Isles before it was fully destroyed.

Duck mount!? Yes please.

To be fair, those talks of Loreth'aran, NE dragon riders and dragon elves is the thing that got me the MOST hyped! I'm here for it! Maybe the Dragon isles were part of the ancient pan-continent and were risen to the skies during the Sundering!

And the Duck Mount is... inevitable

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No rendorei? They are literally in game.

As in no ren'dorei lore/involvement.

[Lady Atia]

No rendorei? They are literally in game.

Oh no, you are opening the box of pandora with this.

[Fahrad Wagner]

Oh no, you are opening the box of pandora with this.

I might have been teasing the beast a little with my bingo card hehehe