Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Cheezits]

They can just be like, ‘Enslaved by orcs, she broke free.’ and skip the whole forced breeding thing. They don’t need to go too in-depth and as long as they don’t I personally don’t think it’s in bad taste. Just me though.

That's what they will do. If the pic is correct and it actually is a flashback, then it will just be the moment Alex broke free or a snippet of her fighting for the orcs.

However the strange location they are standing on makes me think it isn't a flashback, and something is "off" about her imprisonment. That or it simply isn't Alex after all and another red dragon being enslaved by mystery man.

How would Alex go from BFA to being enslaved and then being on the box again as a good guy, so quickly?

[Lorca]

Hey, if I'm wrong, I'll freely admit it. I never claim that I'm some Blizzard insider or dev. I simply don't buy the idea that Blizzard is going to make Mage 2.0 when they have a literal Alexstraza class with abilities, concepts, and an established fanbase ready to go.

I agree with you on that, but if I am not mistaken @Scaleface didn’t say that the “evoker” class will be like a mage if I’m not mistaken, he/she just pointed out that the name of the class reminded him/her off the mage… nothing about how it works, so it could still be something like the HoTS.

[Buliwyf the Omen]

See Chromie from HotS. She uses Sand blasts that leaves echos which will copy her attacks, and she can port to her echo. She can also set and detonate time traps. Mages can't do that.



TBF, Fire Mages don't heal others. I could see the Red spec be the "damage targets/heal allies" type of healer, remotely similar to Disc Priests, but leaning more on fire-based qualities like DoT/HoT, AoE effects, Cone spells, and ground effects. In addition, her dragon form enhances her abilities.



I definitely agree that Deathwing is very unique, and would make an awesome basis for a tanking spec.



I agree. The question is how will Blizzard implement? I simply don't see them bringing in a 5-spec class.

Ysera will be left out because shes dead.

Wrathion, Alexstrasza, Nozdormu will be the 3 specs I think will be 100% in.

Maybe the other two make up the basis of the class. Giving basic across-all-flights damage spells and the green dragonflight provides the healing.

[Hyrja]

Scaleface is actually Blizzard trolling us, Dragonflight is just one big troll.

It's actually gonna be a cosmic expac

Yup, i second this.

[Vakir]

I imagine its because the guy is clearly not a native English speaker.

You don't say.

We have lots of non-native speakers who can still use basic editing, proof reading, or just convey their ideas better with less complex syntax.

Language or not, the ideas conveyed are bizarrely overwrought and are needlessly difficult to present. "These the Dracthyr, they're dragon men with these characteristics. The class is Evoker and all I know regarding it is X and Y."

Not everything needs to be an ARG if it means calling your own legitimacy into question.

[Cheezits]

Ysera will be left out because shes dead.

Wrathion, Alexstrasza, Nozdormu will be the 3 specs I think will be 100% in.

Maybe the other two make up the basis of the class. Giving basic across-all-flights damage spells and the green dragonflight provides the healing.

The healing will be Red Dragon based. Both are about healing but that's literally Red's only power and it would distinguish them from druids.

[cone of cold]

Looks even more like hooded Garrosh at this resolution. Just wider.

Garrosh's Escape confirmed.

[Buliwyf the Omen]

The healing will be Red Dragon based. Both are about healing but that's literally Red's only power and it would distinguish them from druids.

The healing can be red dragon based to go more in-depth, but green dragonflights power will give all the specs additional healing, similiar to Regrowth and Rejuvenation and all the likes from earlier Druids being in all specs.

[Nightshade711]

Scaleface is actually Blizzard trolling us, Dragonflight is just one big troll.

It's actually gonna be a cosmic expac

Could be a cosmic xpac with dragons.

“One of the Prophet Velen's many visions was of the Army of the Light: a grand coalition of humans, dwarves, gnomes, elves, worgen, orcs, tauren, trolls, goblins — and even the undead. The draenei themselves are foretold as the backbone of this mighty army, with many naaru joining the fray against the darkness, along with an innumerable amount of dragons and naaru. The leader of this great coalition, clad in Light-imbued armor with a matching blade, is a human of unclear identity. The vision met its end after a great and terrible shadow cast its darkness over the defenders of the Light, though the army only charged to meet it in battle.”

[Raxacorico]

This is what I was kinda able to make out of it when squinting so hard, my veins almost popped lmao

[ercarp]

Garrosh's Escape confirmed.

Yes... It's all coming together.

[Chickat]

A revamped UI with full customization/movement of ALL UI elements (a la FF14, etc), and baking in some of the popular addon functionality (Bartender, Bagnon, coords, auto-vendor, better transmog/mount/pet/collectible filters, etc.), 4k textures, better font rendering with improved drop shadows would be much welcome. I could dump most of my addons.

Other than the horbars I feel like wows ui is much better and more visually appealing. Like their system UI look really nice. Garrison ui or convenant UI look really nice and ff have grey static boxes.

[Merryck]

It would make no sense for them to set it in the past with all the setup they have been doing in the present.

Also some of ya'll need to get your eyes checked because that is definitely an orc ...

[Cheezits]

Wrath of the Garrosh leak for all that missed it..

Hello there
I got mail which i cannot show you because my aunt who is working in blizzard send it to me yesterday i was in shock...
Im not selfish so i wanna to share it with you guys.
Lets started!
Expansion name:Wrath of the Garrosh
During events in 9.3 Garrosh cannot handle being dead any longer he needs to escape
But where he is?!
Yeah thats right Tel abim is where we gonna start its small but we wont stay there for long because we will go somewhere else to find where garrosh is and what he is doing.
We gonna have new continent named Dracaria its broken isles size and have mayan theme.
DH gonna have reworked started area and they will start with 30 lvl
Every race got DH
There is no covenant anymore we got something better without mindless grinding and its not an item but its in talent tab and its named "masteries" its something like old talents trees and by doing stuffs we gonna get points.
New arena
New pvp gear system No more Rng we will buy stuff again!
New bg Clash its something like ARAM in lol
New skills for every class
Modified talent trees
New profession:Carperter you will be able to craft chairs to make special furniture you will combine wood, nails etc to create a whole carpet which will gave buffs for party depending on what you combined with difrenet timber adds different stats
New Npc who gonna upgrade our gear by ilvls for new currency
Thats all i got but there is something more
Edit:
10.1 Forgotten Dragonblight is the name of 1 update and we will go to northrend for something i dont know what might be that
Varian is back with his Merely a setback! he have more powers than before
there will be new raid and at least 3 fights with him and the last form is in space and there are stars and flying dragons and something more...
P.S NO DARK RANGERS

[ercarp]

Wrath of the Garrosh leak for all that missed it..

I think at this point it's pretty safe to say that all of this is completely correct.

[Chickat]

Yeah but that's different than adding a new class and it not being at least somewhat related to the expansion.

Tbh I think they made the choice to have a dragon class over a necromancer or dark ranger. They didn't want to add 2 classes in a row and knew dragons would be more appealing. Just my head cannon.

[Teriz]

There's a few things you could have. Arcane based weapon charging, an Arcane-based healing pet, a healing spec where wounds are cauterized, something like Spellblade Aluriel...you could really do about anything from a class design perspective. It's not that it couldn't potentially be shoehorned into the Mage or Druid setup, but it's similar to how Tinker isn't Engineering...it's about how it's implemented rather than what specific source they are using for their abilities.

Arcane Mages have Acrane Familiars, which act as pets for their duration. Arcane Mages also have an ability similar to Reverse Wounds in the Temporal Shield ability.

What do you mean weapon charging?

[Houle]

Wrath of the Garrosh leak for all that missed it..

this is the one bois
might as well cancel the announcement tomorrow blizz, we got all the info we need

[masilya111]

I bet on Wrath of the Wrathion

[FelPlague]

WoW doesn't need housing, it needs more character customization.



With the introduction of Adventure Plates in XIV (think business cards but for your character), I'm reminded of how lifeless characters are in WoW. My character is the vessel I use to do everything in the game, but it doesn't really feel like mine, the only distinguishing trait I can have is transmog.


WoW is a combat-centered game, I get that, but if we're pushing for them to spend time dedicating resources to non-combat content, especially vanity content, I'd rather them flesh out character customization a lot more. Blizzard has done a lot of great work on that front recently, but they are still below par. Every race needs 4x the amount of options and then other features too such as body-type options and different voices to choose from. A big undertaking no doubt, but I personally want them to take this route if they choose to make a big investment in non-combat content again like they did with Garrisons or Pet Battles.

which i find funny as playin ff14 recently i found wow has almost more customization, glamour is far more annoying and limited then transmog, there is NO class customization, if you are X class you play Y way and that is it. there is no trinkets or proc gear so you cant even customioze that way

for example my ff14 charecter had 3 face options, and that chose both the face structure and the HORNS.
wow meanwhile has WAAAY more then that, and seperates face from horns as an option.