Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Nymrohd]

A very accurate leak from 2019 said Blizz had plans for a time travel expansion after Shadowlands and Dragonflight so might happen, you never know.

Honestly I'd love it. Make Cavern of Times a city, make Timewalking a constant and complete feature and have a story about Murozond that involves us traveling to different points in time and stopping him from messing the timelines. So many points in time I'd love to visit; Troll vs Aqir war? War of Three Hammers?

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The ship subplot is probably one of the worst aspects of BfA to me. We spend all that time hammering in how important ships are for the coming fight against the other faction. And then when we actually have them they are used for a grand total of 1.5 important encounters in Dazar'alor, and at the beginning of the very next patch they disappear.

I am also surprised they did not do a "dungeon" that involved boarding an enemy fleet.

[huth]

I'd say that since Legion the exact opposite is true; you HAVE an incentive to rush to endgame. Every world quest cycle lost is progression you cannot recover. God forbid you take more than three days, then you are even losing an emissary.
Endgame is so packed with FOMO daily content that it's really no surprise people rush. Doesn't help that the rewards for doing the story are miniscule; loremaster is not even needed for flight anymore and story rep rewards are pitiful so as to lengthen the rep grind (when they used to be substantial)

None of which is actually a particularly noteworthy loss. You're rushing yourself for nothing.

[ercarp]

If the Bronze dragonflight is involved in any capacity at all, it's almost a guarantee that there will be some time travel shenanigans in 10.0.

What I really want is a Caverns of Time style raid that takes us through several important points in Azeroth's history, fighting alongside familiar faces and duking it out with some big names from Azeroth's past. I imagine it would function similarly to the Emerald Nightmare raid that had portals going to all the different zones, except in this case these portals would also lead to different point in time.

[Nymrohd]

None of which is actually a particularly noteworthy loss. You're rushing yourself for nothing.

FOMO though. Don't underestimate it.

[Raetary]

I hope they actually update the CoT for once.

It's hideous
Which is a shame as its one of the places with a more interesting design on Azeroth.

[Nymrohd]

I hope they actually update the CoT for once.

It's hideous
Which is a shame as its one of the places with a more interesting design on Azeroth.

Yeah that area is another example of them trying for a more fantasy concept and not being able to pull it off. They did manage so much better by TBC.

[Syegfryed]

Well, there's always this:

" Garrosh cannot handle being dead any longer"

Yep, thats Garrosh, then this must be the true leak.

[Wangming]

Well, there's always this:

I was sold at Garrosh returning. He was the best part of Shadowlands.

[Blayze]

I was sold at Garrosh returning. He was the best part of Shadowlands.

"Fuck this shit, I'm out."

*disenchants self*

[KayRule]

A very accurate leak from 2019 said Blizz had plans for a time travel expansion with Queen Azshara, after Shadowlands and Dragonflight. So might happen, you never know. (Yes, they predicted the expansion name Dragonflight way back in 2019)

I would love that. Azshara is hands down my absolute favorite character in all of Warcraft, and is objectively the most consistently written character across the franchise.

[Izalla]

Should've put "No Evoker" in my bingo card, that's like a free hit right there.

There were a lot of things in that vein I left off mine because I didn't want to call anyone out and be Iike "you're full of it".

>.>
<.<

[Wangming]

If the Bronze dragonflight is involved in any capacity at all, it's almost a guarantee that there will be some time travel shenanigans in 10.0.

What I really want is a Caverns of Time style raid that takes us through several important points in Azeroth's history, fighting alongside familiar faces and duking it out with some big names from Azeroth's past. I imagine it would function similarly to the Emerald Nightmare raid that had portals going to all the different zones, except in this case these portals would also lead to different point in time.

We always go into the past. Let's go into the future! Give marksmanship hunters machine guns, and let's get to know children of current characters. Did Tyrande and Malfurion ever fuck?

[Das Thora]

A very accurate leak from 2019 said Blizz had plans for a time travel expansion with Queen Azshara, after Shadowlands and Dragonflight. So might happen, you never know. (Yes, they predicted the expansion name Dragonflight way back in 2019)

Do you still have the leak?

[Wangming]

"Fuck this shit, I'm out."

*disenchants self*

He had the right of it. Meanwhile Sylvanas will do Maw dailies for years.

[Izalla]

Also, if we have a fleet to transport siege engines and a significant army to Tirisfal, why do we need Kul Tiras?

I think that was the whole point. We busted each other up so badly during the battle in Darkshore and then at Undercity that we desperately needed new allies and the ships and weapons that came with them. Whether this was shown properly or not, this is the way I remember them explaining it

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Would need a juicy new leak to discuss if we plan to go through 278 pages in 2 days.

This is a terrifying notion. I would still be catching up well after the announcement

[ercarp]

We always go into the past. Let's go into the future! Give marksmanship hunters machine guns, and let's get to know children of current characters. Did Tyrande and Malfurion ever fuck?

Hmm... I'm kinda worried about going into the future because it writes Blizzard into a corner with things that "have to happen in the future". We saw this with Son of the Wolf; everyone's now speculating about Old Anduin and it's making things confusing.

I would only be okay with time-traveling into the future if they clarify that it's only one possible timeline and not what's definitely going to happen. A bit like Visions of N'Zoth I guess.

[huth]

FOMO though. Don't underestimate it.

You're not actually missing anything, though, and the game makes no attempt to hide that. So it's more PhOMO, as the fear isn't rational.

[Marlamin]

Lets see if we can do without ~10-30 pages of "i told you so", "i knew it", "haha you look stupid now" during/after the announcement this year.

Who am I kidding, this year is probably going to be worse than others.

[Izalla]

FOMO though. Don't underestimate it.

Perhaps I am braindead but I actually have no idea what "FOMO" stands for. Anyone willing to explain?

[Marlamin]

Perhaps I am braindead but I actually have no idea what "FOMO" stands for. Anyone willing to explain?

Fear of missing out, one of the standard incentives for getting people to do stuff these days.