Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[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.

[ercarp]

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 "

Yeah, but @Scaleface already confirmed multiple times that Evoker is the one he was alluding to.

[Wangming]

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 "

Yes, that was Scaleface. And he did say that Evoker is the class. Evocation is the arcane mage spell in question. He said so multiple times.

[Buliwyf the Omen]

Yeah, but @Scaleface already confirmed multiple times that Evoker is the one he was alluding to.

I understood that differently then.

[Deadmines]

So I checked my sources :

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

Long live the morally gray dragonflight.

[Alanar]

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

Sadly it was put on hold cus of REN'DOREI.

[Ersula]

"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 "

Welcome to Warcraft in 2023: Everyone can time travel & also go back & forth to the realm of death. On Mondays we kill boar.

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 Races
What I Want: Darkfallen Allied Race
What I'll Get: Darkfallen Allied Race

[ercarp]

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.

Oh yeah, I remember now. The extremely short-lived Dark Ranger renaissance where we all dared to hope before Dragonflight came in and steamrolled everything in its wake.

For the record, I still want Darkfallen to be realized in-game in some shape or form, be it a customization option at the barber, a class skin, or an Allied Race. They look visually really cool so I don't see why they shouldn't add them in.

[Nightshade711]

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

Me still waiting for Naga.
Maybe in 11.0

[ercarp]

Me still waiting for Naga.
Maybe in 11.0

I guarantee you the next time we see Azshara, she will join us as an ally (this is Warcraft after all; bad guys turn into good guys and vice versa) and that's how they'll lead us into getting Naga as an Allied Race.

[cone of cold]

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.

Mechagnomes had to be thrown in there to balance it out for the Alliance and Ankoan were probably less popular than Mechagnomes.

Enhancement pre-Legion played like that

No.

[Nymrohd]

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

How about removing armor mog restrictions then removing mail, turning existing mail to leather and changing monks and demon hunters to cloth. Make cloth gear be Agi/Int

[Wangming]

New Races
What I Want: Darkfallen Allied Race
What I'll Get: Darkfallen Allied Race

I like your optimism. Darkfallen would be cool.

Oh yeah, I remember now. The extremely short-lived Dark Ranger renaissance where we all dared to hope before Dragonflight came in and steamrolled everything in its wake.

For the record, I still want Darkfallen to be realized in-game in some shape or form, be it a customization option at the barber, a class skin, or an Allied Race. They look visually really cool so I don't see why they shouldn't add them in.

Hell, let's make them a Darkfallen faction for all the red eyed undead from the two elves to humans and maybe trolls. Or Vrykul since there is precedent for that. Gimme an evil vampire faction and leave the Horde alone. They always end up being the bad guys in faction war.

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Me still waiting for Naga.
Maybe in 11.0

Don't get me wrong Naga is my number one choice, but Tyrande would destroy Stormwind in a Tidal Wave if they joined the Alliance. My guess is Jinyu/Ankoan for Alliance, Naga for the Horde.

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I guarantee you the next time we see Azshara, she will join us as an ally (this is Warcraft after all; bad guys turn into good guys and vice versa) and that's how they'll lead us into getting Naga as an Allied Race.

Don't you dare tempt me with false hope.

[Nightshade711]

I have an idea for a new dragon class
It’s a agility leather wearing melee class with a big focus on mobility that can dual wield.
Melee DPS and a tank spec at a minimum. Maybe a healer spec in there.

[Buliwyf the Omen]

I have an idea for a new dragon class
It’s a agility leather wearing melee class with a big focus on mobility that can dual wield.
Melee DPS and a tank spec at a minimum. Maybe a healer spec in there.

It should also be able to wield a polearm and have cool tier sets but you can never see them in their 4th spec because they are in one form all the time.

[Rtrain]

I have an idea for a new dragon class
It’s a agility leather wearing melee class with a big focus on mobility that can dual wield.
Melee DPS and a tank spec at a minimum. Maybe a healer spec in there.

Wings and breaths green fire out of its eyes too!

[Nymrohd]

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.

I still want Snake Bois dammit!

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Don't get me wrong Naga is my number one choice, but Tyrande would destroy Stormwind in a Tidal Wave if they joined the Alliance. My guess is Jinyu/Ankoan for Alliance, Naga for the Horde.

I always wondered, how could Naga join one of the factions? I guess it would have to be the faction among them that opposes Azshara and has allied with Neptulon against the Old Gods? In my dream version of WoW, Illidari would have been a faction and I always wondered how the Naga lore could develop to make them turn on Azshara (especially Vashj)

[Gigantique]

No.

Yes. /10char

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I've always been a mail main and would welcome leather armor for mog purposes. Would be annoying to have what, 6 classes fight for the same bracer drop though.