Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[ercarp]

What I'm saying is that's exactly what they did. They developed a new race for this expansion including the skeleton and animations, and then released those early with the incubus.

That seems super unlikely though. I don't think the community would like that... It feels cheap to add a new race as a main attraction and give it animations from a warlock's pet...

[Beefhammer]

Reminds me of the snek race that we never got in BfA:

The second pic actually looked liked it could have been. The new leak stuff doesn't.

[Cheezits]

What I'm saying is that's exactly what they did. They developed a new race for this expansion including the skeleton and animations, and then released those early with the incubus.

This. The Incubus was not important enough to get a new rig on its own, so they just borrowed the FemDrac rig for it.

[bitterwinter]

Even as someone that genuinely loved Shadowlands (No I will not explain Ive done it enough already) yeah this expansion is make or break all the way. They just need a solid expansion to build off of and make sure people don't skip another one. This already looks like it's gonna be an L for them though so who knows where itll go.

Yeah, definitely. I do (respectfully) disagree about SL, but this really is it. I hope they pull their socks up.

[dope_danny]

I'm not sold that a new race would use an existing rig, those screenshots are very clearly either the female meta skeleton or female draenei one. But we won't have to wait long to find out.

I really hope its not legit but if its a redo of the sethrakk rigging with wings and a dragon head i wouldn't be surprised.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

I dont know whether i love or hate this.

Actually, looking at it now, I think that the hairstyle on the Human may not be available to us in-game. Can somebody check for me? I also can't tell what's going on with the horns—they really do almost look like an anachronistic headband to me.

[Local Ardenweald Faerie]

I always like how every image leak is a grainy ass picture and not once has said grainy ass picture been a real thing yet people always eat them up.

TBC and WoTLK were leaked with grainy pictures.

There is precedent... somewhat. ;-;

[Catastrophy349]

Well, it's that time again. When the thread evolves from speculation, to hype, to leak, to denial, to frustration, to hurling names at one another, to disbelief, to waiting for the next thing to complain about. Less than 17 hours to go.

[leviathonlx]

TBC and WoTLK were leaked with grainy pictures.

There is precedent... somewhat. ;-;

Wasn't TBC's from a magazine? I don't recall anything about WotLK.

[Kohtra]

That seems super unlikely though. I don't think the community would like that... It feels cheap to add a new race as a main attraction and give it animations from a warlock's pet...

I don't think anyone except us hyper nerd forum posters will ever even notice.

[Cheezits]

That seems super unlikely though. I don't think the community would like that... It feels cheap to add a new race as a main attraction and give it animations from a warlock's pet...

That's being disingenuous. A lot of pets reuse real-race rigs, a warlock pet is no different.

If anything it makes the warlock pet weaker for reusing a player rig instead of being truly unique. But the Incubus was an afterthought.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

@Hipnos14 hey everyone knows you're secretly a freak when it comes to editing your models.

please tell us you're pranking us with this dragon? is it you? I need to see the light again but this whole thing just became so dark.

I wouldn't be too overdramatic. It really looks like Scalie stuff to me and I am doubting its reality for a huge number of reasons—the clipping, awkwardly-meshed model, the weird horns, the incongruity between the human model and the dragon model in terms of clothing, the soft face, the weird chest shape, the familiar, Worgen-like feet etc.

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

I always like how every image leak is a grainy ass picture and not once has said grainy ass picture been a real thing yet people always eat them up.

One time we got a real image leak it was crystal clear.

[Biruteka]

That’s just the race friend. If the class comes out looking like shit, then I will join you in your rage.

Just looks your profile picture and see what we get, its so bad bro

[AOL Instant Messenger]

The second pic actually looked liked it could have been. The new leak stuff doesn't.

I think this also compounds my issue with the Worgen-derived feet. The Sethrak, another reptilian race, don't have the lifted big toe like the Dragon race does, whereas Worgen do.

[Local Ardenweald Faerie]

Wasn't TBC's from a magazine? I don't recall anything about WotLK.

I remember wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy back when, there was a screenshot of the Stair of Destiny framed exactly like a modern day fake leak. Picture of a monitor, dark background, grainy quality.

Same thing with WoTLK but with that burning forest in Howling Fjord. You could see the really ugly alpha Vrykul models in it.

[Teekey]

Do y'all think this this red mist is a racial, or do you think this dragon thing is going to be its own class?

Yeah, it's their racial ability that burns all our hopes and desires of this being good expansion.

[therumblings]

So many pages have gone by I wonder wha- Oh...

[Archmage Xaxxas]

I wouldn't be too overdramatic. It really looks like Scalie stuff to me and I am doubting its reality for a huge number of reasons—the clipping, awkwardly-meshed model, the weird horns, the incongruity between the human model and the dragon model in terms of clothing, the soft face, the weird chest shape, the familiar, Worgen-like feet etc.

lol I appreciate you just being cool with your advice.
admittedly I'm getting out the fury now as to rather not let it sit inside until 9am tomorrow.

Again, just praying this isn't real. Like you said earlier to someone quoting me, not mad about the leak as much as I am the leak being very second-hand embarassing.

WoW finally got normalized enough to be okay to admit casually playing, but not when they add shit like this. No fun being a Closeted-WoW-Fan.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Do y'all think this this red mist is a racial, or do you think this dragon thing is going to be its own class?

Not sure. It's very awkward-looking, though, and has no real origin in the Red Dragonflight, which further compounds my suspicions.