Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Vakir]

They do look kinda translucent to me.

Waaay back in the pages there. Yeah, the webbing is somewhat transparent. Hard to tell with the artifacting.

On the fence with this one.

[Cheezits]

He had the right idea lol.. Love that Cata model, even if it's just a Worgen-reskin for the most part.

It's a cool design, but can you see why it may not appeal to a lot of people in a "we need to save the game" expansion?

People are drawn to humanoids.

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Nope, see: dragonborn

Like skyrim or what?

[Teriz]

Again, the posters that leaked this all stated Evoker is the next class. If this is real Evoker is real.

There’s a difference between saying something is real and providing evidence.

[SniperCT]

Well lizard races in WoW do have a precedent of crazy levels of dimorphism. Look at how different the naga males and females are. If the male dracthyr or w/e is comparable to the male naga, I think we may be in for a treat!

At least female naga look good lol

[Vakir]

Dont talk to me or my son ever again.

Really when you frame it like that, it looks like a Naga head.

[Syegfryed]

It's a "Dragonman but Improved" which was theorized in this thread several times. It may be a Wrathion experiment that improves on Nefarian's research.

"improved" is a strong word to be used here...

ITs definitely changed...

Nefarian couldn't nail down the wings or them being able to use magic. If Wrathion completed his research he could make a dragon/human hybrid that can actually use magic and is a lot more attractive.

Possible

[Chickat]

Out of curiosity is the armor to the right new or recycled?

I looked at all of the races level 1 armor and its none of them. Doesnt rule it out as a fake though.

[flan1337]

I'm dying inside imagining that dragon doing the "succubus entice" animation for the Incubus males...

Blizzard -what the everloving fuck-....?

Whoa that dragon and the male incubus are almost identical in frame...

[ercarp]

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

The point here is that in those instances the race came first and they didn't start reusing their rigs in the same expansion for random mobs.

Also, I'm curious, which pets use rigs of playable races? And also how many of them were added to the pet first and then to the playable race as an afterthought?

[Archmage Xaxxas]

but can you see why it may not appeal to a lot of people in a "we need to save the game" expansion?
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Lol okay but by that logic, WHY THESE?

Why not Vrykul, Taunka, Ogres/Moknathal, or any of the races that have been asked for repeatedly by THOUSANDS of people yearly? How does this off-the-wall race that looks like it's meant for a VERY NICHE crowd get the "we need to save the game" badge and not the Ol' Reliables?

[AngerFork]

These screenshots are fake. The dragon race is an obvious reskin of the Metamorphosis form used by Female DHs as @Nightshade711 pointed out.

This part is pure conjecture but I think Scaleface and Axaron (and possibly Deventh) are all working together to push this whole Drac'thyr thing as being real. Maybe they're the masterminds behind this whole operation...

It's a good fake and I commend you for making it! But it's not perfect as there are some details that give it away as being fake if you look carefully.

Absolutely. That's a Worgen Female screenshot with a Metamorphosis reskin as the model shown. The ability screenshot has the shadows going the entire wrong way on the dragon with the ability not even in the same zip code as where the dragon would attack with it. The talent screen looks cool, but there isn't a real rhyme or reason to the layout displayed, so it's hard to know what talents you are actually getting if any.

I'd like to believe, but this just ain't it from what I can tell. Which means tomorrow will be much more of an exciting surprise.

[Cheezits]

"improved" is a strong word to be used here...

ITs definitely changed...



Possible

Improved is subjective, I just mean from a lore standpoint.

These dragonmen have wings and look right between draconic and human, even lacking the wacky crocodile noses that the Dragonmen had. It stands to reason it may actually be Dragonmen 2.0 in the lore.

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

They don't have wings. The head is better but still: a dragon race without a wings is pretty shitty.

Give Blizz as much shit as you want for the FemDragon having a lame face and body... but the wings and tail are pretty fucking cool.

Eh Dragons without Wings is pretty much the standard these days. Even D&D pretty much stripped wings off their Dragon race.

[ro9ue]

The male one better look like this or I'm uninstalling.

[Cheezits]

Lol okay but by that logic, WHY THESE?

Why not Vrykul, Taunka, Ogres/Moknathal, or any of the races that have been asked for repeatedly by THOUSANDS of people yearly? How does this off-the-wall race that looks like it's meant for a VERY NICHE crowd get the "we need to save the game" badge and not the Ol' Reliables?

WoW lore races like Vrykul/Taunka are not "save the game races" because they require knowing the game, as opposed to a race that brings in new players. I am not even sleighting those races: the idea behind a "save the game race" is that it has appeal for both new fans and old fans, which I assume is the idea behind this race if it is real.

A normal who doesn't know the game isn't going to sub over ogres, taunka or vrykul because they don't look that visually interesting or novel. This thing? Absolutely does.

[Malorne the White Stag]

The male one better look like this or I'm uninstalling.

Yes, make them like this

[KurtMash]

Just give him the longboi neck

Be careful what you wish for

[Amunrasonther]

Uh, that’s not better.

When you factor in how OLD that Everquest model is, I feel like it slightly pulls ahead - however that's obviously still not saying much.

[Cheezits]

Eh Dragons without Wings is pretty much the standard these days. Even D&D pretty much stripped wings off their Dragon race.

Which is why Blizz would pressure the genre with an actual playable race with wings, even if it means discarding armor.

This smells very similar to what they did with Belves in TBC: a big fantasy shakeup.

[Syegfryed]

Like skyrim or what?

Dungeons and dragons