Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[ercarp]

An account? You'll end up deleting your Facebook account and call upon this loophole. Unacceptable!

Damn, you saw through my ruse!

[Raetary]

I feel like I'm the only person that likes these dragons.

Nope, i love them too.

[Niwes]

It's not real.

If it's real I will delete an account.

if THIS cheap shit is real, you can call my account as deleted as well.
instant login -> delete account.

[Archmage Xaxxas]

My hype went from a ripe 95% HYPED down to a good 15% just from seeing those dragon-race pics. Genuinely offended by Blizz if they think that's good

11.0, please save us.

[Mightytasty]

The dragons are way below blizzard standard.
Would kill for the talent tree tho

Early development image. Has no customizations, clothes, or unique selection screen background.

[Fahrad Wagner]

hey, I'll come clean too
I did pretty much all Awakenings leaks plus a couple others
https://imgur.com/a/fSkaQaT

Sadly, I lost the original ones from 2019

lol, mine was the Final Titan, I’m not even sorry hehe

[enak101]

Looks cool overall, would need to see the race model in more detail to make a final judgement on whether I liked it or not.

I REALLY hope the talent system is legit, looks mad. Not sure why some people are saying it looks amateur or something? Not sure what they really expect from a talent tree page. It has the war mode toggle and pvp talents at the bottom. Drop down menu for saved profiles like mog outfits and such that seems to fit in fine. Of course it's hard to make out what some already greyed out icons are on such a low res image.

[Deventh]

hey, I'll come clean too
I did pretty much all Awakenings leaks plus a couple others
https://imgur.com/a/fSkaQaT

Sadly, I lost the original ones from 2019

Those are pretty good.

[Amunrasonther]

This "dragon" race looks like something the vanilla devs with vanilla tech limitations would have created. It absolutely doesn't look like it was made with 2022 WoW tech capabilities. So I hope to God it's fake.

[Local Ardenweald Faerie]

You are not, quite a few people here like them, but also quite few don't. And some are on the fence until they see the HD models and animations.

Nope, i love them too.

There are dozens of us. Dozens!

[Scaleface]

It's transparent and you can see the Stormwind flag through it.

That's what Scaleface meant by "netherwing" wings. Maybe I'm insane but I'm 90% sure those are semi-transparent.

I meant exactly that, for me they are similiar to nether Drake wings, Just that

[Hitei]

And cloth:

[Teriz]

It's hilarious to see people complain about a dragon race. Dragon races always look terrible. I have no idea why people wanted them so badly. Blizzard actually does it the best by simply having the dragons disguise themselves as mortals instead of looking like Lizard-people. Let us hope that the Alexstraza-based class is part of the next expansion. That can actually save the day, and this expansion.

[Teekey]

If the class and race leaks are real...I'm actually losing all hype.

[Kohtra]

There are dozens of us. Dozens!

Ya I think they look fine too. I wasn't going to play a dragon race no matter what they looked like but these look fine to me. I think some people wish they had more testosterone.

[SniperCT]

I'm not looking forward to the male dragon race being epic and bamf looking and the female looking like an afterthought. The dragon version of the femworgen's deranged chihuahua

[Eunomii]

My hype went from a ripe 95% HYPED down to a good 15% just from seeing those dragon-race pics. Genuinely offended by Blizz if they think that's good

11.0, please save us.

Not to be rude but if the other features are good, why would that kill your hype? You dont need to play a new race if it isnt your taste. I mean probably 90% of all FFXIV players think Hrothgars look like trash.

[Doronjo]

There are dozens of us. Dozens!

I knew i saw you at the never-nude convention of last year

[ercarp]

hey, I'll come clean too
I did pretty much all Awakenings leaks plus a couple others
https://imgur.com/a/fSkaQaT

Sadly, I lost the original ones from 2019

My god, this is incredible. You were behind all of these?!

But you should have used the earlier Awakenings logo for the map fake imo. Although I do love the custom border you made for the newer one.

Also, that's probably more or less exactly what the Wrath Classic logo will look like.

Bravo.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

This seems very interesting—if they really are reworking talents, this would definitely be a great sign of things to come. Looking at it, it seems like they're separating between class and specialization-specific talents, which is an odd way of going about it. I suppose this is a very good way of both increasing the viability of mainline class abilities and maintaining their specialization-centric class design whilst returning to the old talent system. It also does connect with the suggested development of a critical UI-related project, but I am also not sure if it lines up with something that would take several months for a professional UI developer, so I'm still maintaining that's probably something else.

I really don't know how to feel about this thing. Save for the obvious, it seems like it's not wearing armor whilst armor is rendered on its counterpart. Perhaps it simply hasn't been rigged and made for armor yet, but that seems pretty implausible this late into development. Plus, certain elements like the scales on the shoulders don't look very compatible with armor. I also notice a few things that look very odd and seem like modeling errors—for one, notice the weird splay around where its legs go digitrade. It looks like a default armor mesh activated. Similarly, there seems to be something on the left breast that I think is some kind of modeling error because it shares a texture with the scales on the rest of the body.

There are a few elements that do look very characteristically Blizzard, though—namely, I do think the splayed scales on the shoulders are a very convincing impression of Blizzard's artstyle and modeling, and with so many legitimate leaks happening simultaneously it is kind of hard not to buy into this.

I am also a bit offput by the extraordinarily awkward horn models—they look crystalline in texture and material, which would normally be very cool if not for the fact that there are no other crystalline growths on the model at all. It looks more like a fancy crown. The Human model also seems strange—I think I recognize the texture on her arms as being from the generic yellow shirt item. She also seems to be wearing horns, or even a headband with fake horns on them. If the latter, it looks very awkwardly anachronistic, as does the hair style, which I also think is new.

I also generally dislike the design of the Drakthyr in general, if this really is what they're supposed to look like. Their faces are too soft—they look too much like something out of the Scalie Fandom. They also look far too dimorphic with what appear to be feminine eyelashes and sharper eyes to give the appearance of femininity. What's odd is the bodies look perfectly fine save for the apparent modeling errors I think I see (now, I'm not a modeler and have no experience 3d modeling, so this may be totally normal for this stage of development), so it makes the overly-soft features on the face far too incongruous with the model's overall body and suitably monstrous frame. All-in-all, I feel a tad offput by this and I'm not sure how to feel about it. The way the digitrade legs are done also looks a tad too similar to Worgen, sharing the lifted big toe with them.

I could theoretically buy this if this were a class transformation instead of a racial one, which would also explain why there's yet another shapeshifting race where it doesn't really look like it should need to shapeshift. It does remind me of how the Dragonmaw were trying to ascend into Drakonids during Burning Crusade, which could be similar to what these are supposed to be. However, I don't think that there would ever be a class with a transformation in the character creation screen unless there were a lot of customization for that transformation and you were often in that form. Generally, I feel underwhelmed and confused.