Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Izalla]

Guys staaahp I'm consistently 30 pages behind no matter how much I merely skim!

[Polybius]

IF you look closely, it looks like two middle fingers.

Topkek, needed that laugh

[Archmage Xaxxas]

Seek help friend.

Not saying much with that, except outing your dishonest behavior. You probably don't really view me as a friend, but you're saying it? How honorable. Wonder what your 'friends' think of that.

[ercarp]

lol I'm actually laughing at how some hate this race so much. It looks totally fine to me. Are some people just upset it doesn't have enough bulging muscles for them or something?

It looks cheap. This is a far cry from the quality of any other race Blizzard has ever made and it's also pretty obvious that it's using the Female DH Metamorphosis skeleton.

It's a good model edit for sure, props to whoever made it, but it's not real. I refuse to believe it.

[Teriz]

I don't know what he thinks he's leaked but those Saurok Argonian toy dragon looking lizard abominations are not real.

Jokes aside, I think they're real. That looks exactly like a dragon race that Blizzard would create.

[Doronjo]

Guys staaahp I'm consistently 30 pages behind no matter how much I merely skim!

F5 faster !!!!

[Local Ardenweald Faerie]

Guys staaahp I'm consistently 30 pages behind no matter how much I merely skim!

All you need to know:

race might have leaked

[Villager720]

It's pre-alpha footage...

...froooom?
Do they have the alpha? Allegedly this stuff was from like a text document with primer stuff. And that's what Blizz sent?
When we saw Demon Hunters/pandaren/monks/goblins/worgen/death knights/allied races for the first time, it wasn't in Stormwind.
Just seems super weird to me.

[Deventh]

For people saying this might be Zuluhed as he subjugated Alexstrasza, I just read up on things and according to the info at least, Zuluhed was not actually the one to enslave Alexstrasza. He gave the Demon Soul to Nekros, who used it to subjugate Alexstrasza. And Nekros only had one leg. Which he lost to a human knight before he enslaved Alexstrasza.



https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/w...ed_the_Whacked


https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/w...s_Skullcrusher

Looks like we will be saving Alex.

[Polybius]

Guys staaahp I'm consistently 30 pages behind no matter how much I merely skim!

There’s no stopping this train, choo-choo!

[Nightshade711]

I personally love it.

Exactly the concept i wanted (mortal+dragon form, can be any core race) and i really like the design.

Doesn't sound very revenue producing.
How else will blizzard sell race changes if people can just look like whatever race they want

[bryroo]

It's pre-alpha footage...

It begins.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

What methods did you use to upscale this, curious?

Looking at it now, I think that architecture is also familiar. It almost looks like a mix of Bastion and Legion's Broken Isles architecture. The orange-and-ivory look is familiar, but I can't put my finger on it. I am absolutely certain I ahve seen something like that before, down to the orange highlights and even the spines.

[ClassicPeon]

B-but, it was so roleplaying Game-ish and you also had all these different options and build paths, and there werent any cookie cutter specs at all. They also played so vastly different with the overall 10% different stats gained there in the Frost tree and there in the Fire Tree.

To be fair hybrid specs where sort of an interesting thing. Frostfire spec for mages in early wrath for instance

[Kohtra]

It looks cheap. This is a far cry from the quality of any other race Blizzard has ever made and it's also pretty obvious that it's using the Female DH Metamorphosis skeleton.

It's a good model edit for sure, props to whoever made it, but it's not real. I refuse to believe it.

Doesn't look any cheaper than any other WoW race to me.

[Local Ardenweald Faerie]

Doesn't sound very revenue producing.
How else will blizzard sell race changes if people can just look like whatever race they want

Racials. Mandatory transformation in combat a la Worgen.

[Deventh]

Jokes aside, I think they're real. That looks exactly like a dragon race that Blizzard would create.

But why does it use existing skeleton/animation? I thought all new races (not allied races) use unique and new skeleton.

[Hitei]

I'd figure that to be likely, since classes always very explicitly tie into the main expansion theme (and usually the box character, too), but I am confused by the use of the name to begin with. I'm sure they could've just wanted something more general than Dragonsworn, but I do wonder where evocation of any kind connects to this.

They are evoking the power of the dragons/dragonflights. I think people read way too hard into the fact that "evocation" is a magey-arcane sort of thing in wow and D&D and forget that "evoke" is just its own word. Most of the Evoker NPCs in the game are evoking strange magic (many of the drust caster NPCs are Evokers). I think they wanted something short and punchy, that was clearly a caster. So they opted not to go the dragon<thing> route and instead establish a new class identity in the vein of mage or warlock.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

I'm assuming it has something to do with the class fantasy. Maybe it's because they don't want your character feeling like they have to beholden to dragons just because you use their power?

That's wholly feasible. I was talking about that as a potential problem with a Drakonid race, so it could be their solution to that.

[Raetary]

lol I'm actually laughing at how some hate this race so much. It looks totally fine to me. Are some people just upset it doesn't have enough bulging muscles for them or something?

It's typical mmo-c circlejerk where no possible middle ground can exist.

No simple "i don't like it" or "this just isn't my thing" but a whole lot of "this it the worst thing to have ever been created by mankind, it's blasphemy against the gods and i will take it personally"