Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Das Thora]

Really hoping the Dragon Isles either aren't what they sound like (just a continent full of dragony stuff) or are just one location being added (like if it's just a zone, or if Lordaeron/Quel'thalas really are getting updates too), because the Dragon Isles overall don't sound like anything we haven't seen before a million times.

[ercarp]

Excellent analysis. I don't agree with everything you said, but for the most part I think you're right. Anyone who still thinks this is real should give this a read.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Bro.. that is not how they looked in the gameplay preview. In fact, the females weren't shown at all (if I recall correctly...) they were shown a bit later and looked much better than this atrocity.

My bad, that's the wrong model. But doesn't that just add credibility to my statement that Blizzard wouldn't show something as unfinished, janky and error-ridden as the Drakthyr if this model wasn't even good enough by then, whilst also being fully prerigged with no serious, crippling model errors?

[Buliwyf the Omen]

And people really believed Dracthyr would be the races name.

[rainhard]

Anyone knows if she was always a Bnet avatar you can choose from?

[Das Thora]

I literally pointed out nine exhibits of proof.

9 exhibits of proof it's from a private server? Weird, I don't see proof of that. I see 'this looks weird and ugly so false.'

[plz delete account]

OH WAIT, aren't new races also synonymous with unique background locations, like shouldn't we be seeing dragon Isle in the background on the character select screen?

It's pre-alpha. That's one of the last things you would even think about in pre-alpha.

[Deventh]

Excellent analysis. I don't agree with everything you said, but for the most part I think you're right. Anyone who still thinks this is real should give this a read.

They also cut a lot of the UI on the right for some reason? Can't bother to fake the sliders and icons there?

[Shadochi]

I had an idea a few hundred pages back of a fire dragon healing spec that worked similar to a reverse disc priest. Instead of shields it would be healing debt as your flames keep them alive but burn at the same time so you get into a gameplay style of cauterize heal for spikes and then focusing on turning that flame into them for the heal.

That probably sounds weird but it works in my head.

yes, what im wondering now is how they will pull it off

[Chickat]

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

Its taken me 6.5 hours to go from 30 pages behind to 9 behind.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Excellent analysis. I don't agree with everything you said, but for the most part I think you're right. Anyone who still thinks this is real should give this a read.

If there were any mistakes I made, do please point them out. I want to debunk this to the best of my ability and ensure that I've only made the best arguments I can from my analysis, so please voice your disagreements if you think they might reflect a serious mistake on my part! This model is a verifiable hype-killer and I want to keep the train rolling to prevent people from going in drained.

[Deventh]

In lore orcs once controlled the red dragons. Could this be a flashback?

Most likely yes.

[Das Thora]

They also cut a lot of the UI on the right for some reason? Can't bother to fake the sliders and icons there?

This. It's a photoshop job if it's fake. The claim that it's from a private server that no one can find for some reason but also a private server that doesn't have UI finished for the drakonids is ridiculous.

[m4Zzo928]

I literally pointed out nine exhibits of proof.

I'm thinking a few things because I agree with your observations. Obviously alpha like mentioned, but that pose just looks so stupid for a dragon. Being all upright like something was just jammed up his rear. The pose when he's in combat looked much more natural, and his neck didn't look grotesque. It looked like the Worgen pose, which would be fitting for a dragon, but I lean towards it being fake anyway.

[FossilFree]

I had an idea a few hundred pages back of a fire dragon healing spec that worked similar to a reverse disc priest. Instead of shields it would be healing debt as your flames keep them alive but burn at the same time so you get into a gameplay style of cauterize heal for spikes and then focusing on turning that flame into them for the heal.

That probably sounds weird but it works in my head.

I could see it working a bit like discipline priests. You use red dragonfire to burn your enemies, but it leaves behind a blooming flower field that heals your allies. Something like that. I guess it could just be fire as healing though too.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Me an intelectual:





This is what i wanted

The bottom two look kind of generic, but the top one looks very cool. I'd really love that to be a race.

[Beefhammer]

Excellent analysis. I don't agree with everything you said, but for the most part I think you're right. Anyone who still thinks this is real should give this a read.

Right. I mean, this could be the real race, but this is not the real image.

[Das Thora]

I'm thinking a few things because I agree with your observations. Obviously alpha like mentioned, but that pose just looks so stupid for a dragon. Being all upright like something was just jammed up his rear. The pose when he's in combat looked much more natural, and his neck didn't look grotesque. It looked like the Worgen pose, which would be fitting for a dragon, but I lean towards it being fake anyway.

Devil's advocate, we just got that incubus model that no one would have believed was real if you showed it to anyone between 2004-2020.

[Archmage Xaxxas]

Anyone knows if she was always a Bnet avatar you can choose from?

I'm like 75% sure NO.

I was looking for Dragons specifically yesterday, didn't recall seeing her, AND I just looked BEFORE restarting B.Net minutes ago, my eyes did not see it.

However, when I restarted and checked again, BAM my eyes picked it up. Was it JUST added? huh..
Happy to be proven wrong though. Someone else check without restarting asap!

[Xilurm]

In lore orcs once controlled the red dragons. Could this be a flashback?

Inb4 the story is about them dragons suddenly deciding to annihilate the horde so we gotta team up and exterminate them.