Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Doronjo]

So I checked my sources :

New dragonflight :
- White
- Black revamped with wrathion
- Morally gray
- Dragonriders (dragons on dragons)

[Alanar]

I know you don’t like lizard or non-elven races but Sethrak had good reception in BfA.

Don’t worry, I have a really good feeling you and other barbie enthusiasts will have your hands on Dark-Ranger customizations soon.

Thats funny, you know more then me lol. Truth is idgaf about either of them. Never said anything or have an opinion about lizard races or sethrak.

But dragon shape shifting or as a race is just flatout cringe to me.

[cone of cold]

Ranged class? That wears Mail? Have you tried Bard?

Bards would wear leather.

[Wangming]

If our Legion Leaker is not full of bs we get a drakonid-similiar race with wings and a time-based arcane similiar spec/class.

If you are talking about @Scaleface, he said the class is Evoker. Not Chronomancer.

[ercarp]

I wonder what the discussion here would be like if the Dragonflight title and art had never leaked. The original Dragonflight leak from February would have probably faded into obscurity and everyone would still be talking about Ashes of Galakaros or the "GoR" riddle.

[Sondrelk]

I think first off, the crafting system is far more grindy and acquiring most of the materials is not nearly as interesting. Second, the Mechagon crafting system could make a lot of things, not just pets and mounts.
Second, I think it doesn't tell a story as well as Mechagon does. The campaign is not that bad but timegating breaks the pace far too much. A lot of the stories are poorly integrated. The zone also doesn't have much of a point outside the campaign; we really have no reason to be there, indeed SHOULD NOT be there outside of using it a base to invade the Sepulcher.

Not that the ZM crafting system is good. Indeed I would very much agree that the grind for them is tuned far too high, but they are generally similar. Both are dependent on generally playing the zone to make everything you might want.

ZM does have Pocopoc, which is an idea that I think really works.

[Izalla]

I'm not using it as a confirmation of anything, just throwing it out there. Personally I think it's slightly more interesting than extrapolating the meaning of slight font changes in the logo.

[Wangming]

Bards would wear leather.

They would wear whatever they want. They would seduce a plate wearer, fuck them senseless and leave with their clothes.

[Gigantique]

Enhancement shaman has never played like that.

Enhancement pre-Legion played like that, then they added Maelstrom Power and it became another builder/spender.

Sure you had Maelstrom Weapon, but what separated a good shaman from a mediocre one was weaving abilities to have them finish CDs in time for them to be next in the rotation.

God I miss Dragon Soul enhancement.

[Sondrelk]

Bards would wear leather.

Let's be honest. No class should wear mail. Shamans should wear leather or cloth, and hunters should wear leather.
The insistence on 4 armor types doesnt actually do much for the game beyond ensure Hunters and Shamans have less variety in appearances.

[Ersula]

Dragonriders (dragons on dragons)

I just took 20 points of mental damage.

[Wangming]

I wonder what the discussion here would be like if the Dragonflight title and art had never leaked. The original Dragonflight leak from February would have probably faded into obscurity and everyone would still be talking about Ashes of Galakaros or the "GoR" riddle.

Just go back a few pages before the leak. If I remember well we just accepted our vampire overlords. It was San'layn, Darkfallen, Dark Ranger, all that jazz. Good times.

[Sondrelk]

Not really, or they would've brought them as an Allied Race. Vulpera had a good reception, and they did just that with them.

Or they had decided ahead of time what races would get the AR treatment. Otherwise Trashgnomes would have stayed in the junkyard where they belong, and Alliance would have gotten Ankoan instead.

[Ersula]

Bards would wear leather.

Don't be silly: That would annihilate the loot table balance.

[Alanar]

Ye, so? Does it mean that many other are not? Btw how many exactly are skeptical, because all you have to do is check this thread traffic. You do not get 15-20 pages of speculation overnight if people do not care (not counting trolls ofc).

Ye so what? People were skeptical after bfa and especially after sl for obvious reasons. Why are you so shocked about that? Should be common sense that some are more reserved.

[Wangming]

God I miss Dragon Soul enhancement.

I miss the infinite windfury damage bug. I mean I why it can't stay in a multiplayer game that also includes PvP but I love when broken shit is possible if the stars align. For me that is the true essence of an RPG.

[Venasea]

Let's be honest. No class should wear mail. Shamans should wear leather or cloth, and hunters should wear leather.
The insistence on 4 armor types doesnt actually do much for the game beyond ensure Hunters and Shamans have less variety in appearances.

Wonder how difficult it would be for them to just absorb all mail gear into leather since a lot of it looks like leather anyway (at least from what I remember transmogging my Shaman/Hunter alts years ago). Maybe we‘d end up with too much leather wearers though. Or, alternatively, make the transmog system less restrictive when it comes to armor class.

[ercarp]

Also, I'm a bit late to this but I tried to give my (pessimistic) predictions on 10.0.

Theme
What I Want: An expansion that takes place on Azeroth.
What I'll Get: Dragon Isles expansion that starts out great but inevitably leads into more cosmic lore. I imagine we'll probably be visiting Zereth Vitae in 10.3.

New Races
What I Want: No new races. It doesn't work as a big expansion feature anymore, not ever since they introduced Allied Races.
What I'll Get: Some kind of dragon race to please the scalies. I imagine it would be similar to Au Ra from FFXIV.

New Class
What I Want: Dragonsworn: Available to every race. Has class-specific draconic customization like scaly skin, horns, cracked skin, and flaming eyes. Wears Mail and uses Polearms.
What I'll Get: Some kind of shitty Ranged DPS/Healer class that's as boring to play as it sounds.

Main Characters
What I Want: Murozond/Nozdormu, Alexstrasza, Wrathion
What I'll Get: Tyrande, Kalecgos, Jaina

New Features
What I Want: Something innovative and fun that doesn't feel like a job.
What I'll Get: Another terrible time-waste system designed to keep players logged in and subscribed for as long as possible.

[Buliwyf the Omen]

If you are talking about @Scaleface, he said the class is Evoker. Not Chronomancer.

I quote one of his posts

"Someone wroted before about dragonsworn etc - no, class name is totally out of my mind. In first moment when I read that i thought "hello? we have mages already!". It's similiar to one spell name of arcane mage :P "

[Wangming]

Or they had decided ahead of time what races would get the AR treatment. Otherwise Trashgnomes would have stayed in the junkyard where they belong, and Alliance would have gotten Ankoan instead.

Don't even remind me. I'm still waiting for Broken and Jinyu on the Alliance side.