Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Chickat]

I'd be super disappointed if Evoker turned out to just be a 2 spec class that's thematically similar to an Arcane Mage.

I would be disappointed but not mad. I'll still be happy to get a class at all.

[Teriz]

The Bolvar image before SL was needlessly blurry as well, so there is that.

Eh....

[Fahrad Wagner]

The Bolvar image before SL was needlessly blurry as well, so there is that.

From what I recall it wasn’t? It was from the website?

[Marlamin]

From what I recall it wasn’t? It was from the website?

I believe the initial leak was from a page that showed various BlizzCon merch products, the higher quality leak came shortly afterwards.

[Buliwyf the Omen]

From what I recall it wasn’t? It was from the website?

Yeah I am a bit questioning this myself too. I remember the Bastion picture aswell as Bolvar being crystal clear?

[m4Zzo928]

Eh....

Looks pretty clear to me. With no Ai generations and a happy Vaseline smear.

[Khaza-R]

The Bolvar image before SL was needlessly blurry as well, so there is that.

It was not.

[ercarp]

But it's not the same model?
Garrosh wears a hood and has both of his arms bare.

The guy in the image wears a toga tunic thing, covering one shoulder.

I'm not claiming that it is Garrosh, just pointing out that there's a slight resemblance. And the quality is so low that you could interpret these blurry shapes in about 50 different ways. I can see the toga, but I also see several other possibilities. Impossible to tell.

[Nightshade711]

Or you exclude them completely since;

1. The HotS dragons are only Black, Bronze, and Red
2. Mages and Druids cover the Blue and Green dragonflights just fine
3. (Lorewise) You're a Chromatic drake who can only mimic a limited number of flights

Classes don’t need to 1:1 copy hots.
Veng DHs had no basis in hots and they’re in-game.

If mages and druids cover blue and green then shamans could cover black and fire mages could cover red.

We’re not going to be actual dragons. At most we’re gonna be dragonsworn or a class that uses dragon magic

[Cheezits]

People forget the first time we got the Bolvar image was attached to a corner of a Blizzcon merch flyer.

[Wangming]

Different PoV. Garrosh is definitively out there. He already had a fitting end in WoD, a cinematic for him dying by his former Warchief. A satisfying ending.

Why the hell will they bring him back in Shadowlands? Why they will bother to put him in one of the pre-expansion cinematics of each Covenant? Just to kill him in another cinematic? Doubt so.

The Dragonmaw are still out there, and still loyal to Garrosh, as they have not had any major development since WoD. The plot thickens.

BTW, did Garrosh got Zaela pregnant at some point? Could there be a mini-Garrosh? Could that mini-Garrosh be old enough to want to avenge his father if a timeskip happens?

There will be a whole Garrosh council with mini-Garrosh, Ghost Garrosh, Dragon who looks like Garrosh, and AU Lightforged Garrosh. And who knows what else?

[Engal]

I'm not claiming that it is Garrosh, just pointing out that there's a slight resemblance. And the quality is so low that you could interpret these blurry shapes in about 50 different ways. I can see the toga, but I also see several other possibilities. Impossible to tell.

Dragonsworn new race. Can shapeshift into any race, like all dragons do. Might be a dragonsworn shapeshifted as an orc.

[ricardimundo]

The head being so small still points to moknathal or ogre to me, unless its some really weirdly oversized human.

I was thinking Rexxar from first look.

[Teriz]

Classes don’t need to 1:1 copy hots.
Veng DHs had no basis in hots and they’re in-game.

If mages and druids cover blue and green then shamans could cover black and fire mages could cover red.

Shaman don't tank, and Mages don't heal.

Neither can turn into dragons.

[Cheezits]

Bodywise it looks closest to a Mok'nathal IMO. So we may be getting AU Moks or a reveal that they have always been around, just hidden.

Or it's a Vrykul with a weird perspective to make him look wider than he is.

[Nightshade711]

There will be a whole Garrosh council with mini-Garrosh, Ghost Garrosh, Dragon who looks like Garrosh, and AU Lightforged Garrosh. And who knows what else?

The new main hub will be called the Citadel of Garrosh.
It’s going to be an orbiting space station like Netherlight temple & The Vindicaar.

There we find the Infinite Garroshes who could travel to alternate realities and they’re trying to build the Central Finite Garrosh Curve.

[Teriz]

People forget the first time we got the Bolvar image was attached to a corner of a Blizzcon merch flyer.

No, that image I posted was the actual leak;

https://www.polygon.com/2019/10/28/2...on-bolvar-leak

It was pretty clear.

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

But it's not the same model?
Garrosh wears a hood and has both of his arms bare.

The guy in the image wears a toga tunic thing, covering one shoulder.
https://i.imgur.com/famsFVK.png[/IMG]

What you call a tunic I call his waist-belt. Heck I see his little dangly bit got stretched out by the AI there between his legs.

[Sondrelk]

People forget the first time we got the Bolvar image was attached to a corner of a Blizzcon merch flyer.

Wasnt it linked to a "order t-shirt with attached image" form as well?

The picture was pretty damning once wwe got the good version, but I do distinctly remember a poor quality version of it that everyone was on teh fence about.

Or maybe I am conflating it with the similarly blurry Bastion concept art image.

[Nibelheimy]

Following on from what Teriz said a few pages back about how blizz would want to present Alexstraza..

If this image is to be believed, the moment of Alex's emancipation from N. Skullcrusher outside of Grim Batol would be a pretty cool image to show, would likely work well as a flashback during a cinematic if she's to be doing the voice-over narration.