Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Izalla]

Same thing as the Hearthstone Tavern. Seemingly abandoned.

You clearly missed my not at all made up and totally reliable leak earlier today!

[Greyfang]

Missed the last couple of days, anything interesting? New clues or something?

[Izalla]

Missed the last couple of days, anything interesting? New clues or something?

Only if you feel scaleface is reliable or trustworthy

[Marlamin]

You clearly missed my not at all made up and totally reliable leak earlier today!

I didn't, that one was definitely real, true and not fake and also real. Just commenting on the Dreamgrove buddy cop murder mystery as that had a direct relation to the Hearthstone Tavern.

[Greyfang]

Only if you feel scaleface is reliable or trustworthy

I'm still torn on that, last thing I saw from them is the whole Dracthyr puzzle which, real or not, was super cool. I was just hoping they would give a hint of what the Evoker feels like, the mechanics or some lore hints. Next 38 hours are going to pass sooo sloww

[Hitei]

Bard is coming. I can sense it.

[Bsirk]

LOL You can still like someone, but think they're full of shit. Glad to have made you laugh though~

True. It just caught me off guard honestly. lol

[Marlamin]

Bard is coming. I can sense it.

The Dreamgrove buddy cop scenario is actually the class unlock questline for bard as our journey takes us through the Hearthstone Tavern where our characters can learn the secrets of the bard.

[Eurothemist]

Bard is coming. I can sense it.

It will be great

[Vakir]

To this day, the Hearthstone Tavern being abandoned feels so weird. They have built-in characters from the previous cinematics/shorts to populate it. It's a good looking area in terms of assets. From a cynical corporate POV, it would be an easy pipeline to try to integrate Hearthstone into the game to entice people to cross-microtransaction into it and funnel players from either side to the other. It would give a physical lobby space in which to play the game that people would probably be willing to sub just to have. I know it'd probably be a huge amount of back-end work to do it, especially considering HS is done through Unity, but I remain shocked.

[Izalla]

Yeah Im in EST. I was hoping theyd do a like 6pm PST stream cause that would have been perfect but oh well at least its finally here

I'm still baffled they picked a weekday in the middle of the afternoon for the east coast and morning for the west coast

[KyleEverett]

I'm still baffled they picked a weekday in the middle of the afternoon for the east coast and morning for the west coast

It is evening in Europe, and pre-dawn in Oceania.

[Northelim]

Today was a pretty crazy day for me - got a chance to play with Blizzard CEO Mike Ybarra in a dungeon via his Discord (yes he runs a Mythic+ Community discord and also very rarely but streams on Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/qwik

If you want his Community Discord just DM me privately and I'll send you link.

He was asking in Discord if anyone had a Vault of the Wardens key, I had a 16 and asked him if he wanted to run and he agreed. He asked me to dump it into a 15 because he just prefers running the easier ones for quick runs, we did 3 runs back to back because we ended up getting another 16 key and a 21 key from another individual in Discord who dumped them down into 15s. He invited me and his friend (He plays fury warrior and had 4 tier pieces)

He is completely cracked out, DPS was bonkers. I also believe his in a Mythic Raid guild as well, most of his Keys are over 20 - Here is his armory profile - https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/ch...us/onyxia/qwik

and no, I did not bug him about anything cause 1st of all it would be rude and 2nd he wouldn't talk about it anyways. Just a really cool day, fun fact - he pulled Cordana on accident while we were killing the Legion Beacons and wiped lol. We were so far ahead on time though that it didn't matter. Mobs were dropping so fast that it was like running a +2. I am also quite overgeared, 265 ilevel with 2 278 tier pieces, was a fun time. Hoping to run with him again soon.

I told him thanks for invite and that I am looking forward Tuesday for the announcement and for it to impress me (in a joking manner) he said "NP and thank you for joining and yeah we will do our best for Tuesday!) What a crazy moment lol.

Can't wait for the speculation to be finally over in less than 30 hours - super stoked!

[GabrielKnight]

I know it's kinda offtopic, but I just realized that by 11.0, Warcraft is going to be 30 years old. I can't believe it's been three decades since I picked up this damn game, still remember going ape shit after looking a Warcraft II poster in a store, and particularly recall a situation when I read about Lord of the Clans and had to call a friend to tell him.

I think that, if they're going to do a huge revamp for WoW, as in, fully changed, that's the perfect opportunity. It's also the tenth expansion, a significant number.

Can't wait for leak season 2024. (?)

[Nightshade711]

I hope that there are at least more glyphs in 10.0.

I would like to have an option to get the old shadowform/levitate back for my priest.

[SniperCT]

Always nice to see devs/ceos/etc actually playing their games. Like we know Yoshi-P in FF14 plays black mage (and they apparently run all the new dungeons before release with him and some others to see how they should be tuned. A mix of casual and hard core players to try to find a good balance. Apparently they had to get a new healer for that group because they got too good)

[Archmage Xaxxas]

Figured I'd work up my hopes/fears into a BINGO game. Categorized for extra difficulty.

[AngerFork]

I'm still baffled they picked a weekday in the middle of the afternoon for the east coast and morning for the west coast

Same, though I feel like this is kind of how they've done things in the past. I can't find it in google, but I feel like 9.2's YouTube videos came out around 10 AM PST and many of their non-Blizzcon announcements have gone along the same time frame.

[Northelim]

Always nice to see devs/ceos/etc actually playing their games. Like we know Yoshi-P in FF14 plays black mage (and they apparently run all the new dungeons before release with him and some others to see how they should be tuned. A mix of casual and hard core players to try to find a good balance. Apparently they had to get a new healer for that group because they got too good)

Yeah it is great when higher ups join up with communities and just have fun with everyone and just simply show how gaming is just fun when everyone plays together.

[Revamp Man]

It would reinforce unhealthy body images.

If people are being influenced by WoW they aren’t healthy in many aspects already

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Always nice to see devs/ceos/etc actually playing their games. Like we know Yoshi-P in FF14 plays black mage (and they apparently run all the new dungeons before release with him and some others to see how they should be tuned. A mix of casual and hard core players to try to find a good balance. Apparently they had to get a new healer for that group because they got too good)

For a bit they did do the whole “Ion and Lore are high end players” and then SL happened and I am now higher rated than Ion after skipping months.

Love the new guy