Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Shadochi]

Lol since Wrath at least? probably TBC.

Since wrath you say? Wrath classic confirmed!

[plz delete account]

After diaper gnomes I can absolutely believe the dragon race is legit, just in pre-alpha state where it's Functional but not Done.

Agreed. To me it screams pre-alpha.

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

WoW: Dragonflight

- Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor revamped along with the Dragon Isles as a max level zone (huge and with different subzones and themes. Not really a max level zone as there are no new levels but think of it as the new Suramar). Many zones fused together into new, bigger zones. Old Azeroth access through CoT. Revamped world only shows Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor (the revamped map only shows these continents, all the rest are shown in a new icon called Legacy Maps).

- Yrel represents the Light and makes an alliance with Turalyon, lightbounding any race that she can. Xal'athat represents the Void and makes an alliance with Azshara, turning to the void any race that she can. Horde and Alliance joins forces with the Dragons to try to resist these invading forces. Infinite Dragonflight comeback in greater numbers and new allies too. Basically every cosmic force wants a foothold on Azeroth.

- New Dragon race: no genre. Looks more masculine or femenine with customization. Could shapeshift into any other race (you choose the sex of the humanoide form). Interchangeable blessing of each Dragonflight similar to Zandalari racial. Can glide like DH and turns into a Dragon mount (think about worgen, but with an actual dragon form).

- PvP overhaul with totally separated toolkits from PvE (think of FFXIV).

- NO new levels but a kind of Parangon system linked to talents. You earn points by doing content that you can use to improve your basic class toolkit or to specialise in your selected spec. There are skills and talents as we know today, and other focused on solo and world content in which you can spend more points, but eventually everyone will get the "important" talents and just focused on how they want to customize their solo content (more haste, more crit, increased movement speed...).

- NO player housing but more customization and mount system overhauled. Mounts organised by race (horses, dragons...), you unlock colours, armors and different elements that you can change in a given race. For example if you got Invincible from Arthas, you can use the wings and armor of Invincible in any horse. If you got lets say a black horse, you can use that colour for your horses.

- Covenants system applied to the Dragonflights but just cosmetic. The name of the expansion obviously comes from that (the player selects a Dragonflight of which he is now a part of).

- Sands of time system: mini dungeons for 1-5 players with changing elements (of course, another try of the Torghast-Islands system). Rewards cosmetics and two currencies (valor and a new one just for cosmetic elements). They do not want it to be a challenge but more of a fun side activity which they could always expand as the Warcraft universe is huge and they can always add new stuff there from any moment of time.

- Revamped zones have events that reward the cosmetic currency and experience for the Parangon system. Builded as an evergreen experience, as a way of presenting new characters and the 6 cosmic forces which are Warcraft's future.

- You can get max level gear through valor points. They think that if we get good gear we might do more raid content, and exclusive Mythic gear will still only be obtainable in Mythic raids. Plus with PvP being its own thing, they think that It could work well.

- Interface revamp, paving the way for a console release. Still discussing if there will be cross-play.

- Many QoL improvements and alt-friendliness.

Enjoy what is coming!

And so we circle back around again to Light, Dragons, and a World Revamp.

[Calfredd]

Uhmmm is this on live in the undercity ruins? I found it on the PTR[IMG]https://i.imgur.com/A7Fmsxi.jpg[MG]

Pretty sure that's just the teleporter between Undercity and Silvermoon.

[Kohtra]

It's in TBC.

Da fuq was it used for?

[ercarp]

WoW: Dragonflight

- Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor revamped along with the Dragon Isles as a max level zone (huge and with different subzones and themes. Not really a max level zone as there are no new levels but think of it as the new Suramar). Many zones fused together into new, bigger zones. Old Azeroth access through CoT. Revamped world only shows Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor (the revamped map only shows these continents, all the rest are shown in a new icon called Legacy Maps).

- Yrel represents the Light and makes an alliance with Turalyon, lightbounding any race that she can. Xal'athat represents the Void and makes an alliance with Azshara, turning to the void any race that she can. Horde and Alliance joins forces with the Dragons to try to resist these invading forces. Infinite Dragonflight comeback in greater numbers and new allies too. Basically every cosmic force wants a foothold on Azeroth.

- New Dragon race: no genre. Looks more masculine or femenine with customization. Could shapeshift into any other race (you choose the sex of the humanoide form). Interchangeable blessing of each Dragonflight similar to Zandalari racial. Can glide like DH and turns into a Dragon mount (think about worgen, but with an actual dragon form).

- PvP overhaul with totally separated toolkits from PvE (think of FFXIV).

- NO new levels but a kind of Parangon system linked to talents. You earn points by doing content that you can use to improve your basic class toolkit or to specialise in your selected spec. There are skills and talents as we know today, and other focused on solo and world content in which you can spend more points, but eventually everyone will get the "important" talents and just focused on how they want to customize their solo content (more haste, more crit, increased movement speed...).

- NO player housing but more customization and mount system overhauled. Mounts organised by race (horses, dragons...), you unlock colours, armors and different elements that you can change in a given race. For example if you got Invincible from Arthas, you can use the wings and armor of Invincible in any horse. If you got lets say a black horse, you can use that colour for your horses.

- Covenants system applied to the Dragonflights but just cosmetic. The name of the expansion obviously comes from that (the player selects a Dragonflight of which he is now a part of).

- Sands of time system: mini dungeons for 1-5 players with changing elements (of course, another try of the Torghast-Islands system). Rewards cosmetics and two currencies (valor and a new one just for cosmetic elements). They do not want it to be a challenge but more of a fun side activity which they could always expand as the Warcraft universe is huge and they can always add new stuff there from any moment of time.

- Revamped zones have events that reward the cosmetic currency and experience for the Parangon system. Builded as an evergreen experience, as a way of presenting new characters and the 6 cosmic forces which are Warcraft's future.

- You can get max level gear through valor points. They think that if we get good gear we might do more raid content, and exclusive Mythic gear will still only be obtainable in Mythic raids. Plus with PvP being its own thing, they think that It could work well.

- Interface revamp, paving the way for a console release. Still discussing if there will be cross-play.

- Many QoL improvements and alt-friendliness.

Enjoy what is coming!

Holy shit.

Every word of this is fake.

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

The talent trees I can buy. I am still kind of interested in how they seem to have both baseline and specialization-centric talents, which would help to emphasize Blizzard's new emphasis on specialization over class.

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Hasn't that been there forever?

Been there since the day BC dropped. It's how BElves used to get to the rest of the Horde without deathflopping through the Plaguelands.

[Archmage Xaxxas]

Da fuq was it used for?

For Belves to escape the instanced version of Quel'thalas from Silvermoon, instead of running through Plaguelands.

[plz delete account]

Uhmmm is this on live in the undercity ruins? I found it on the PTR

That's been there for a good decade and a half

[Chickat]

Sources seem to be confirming the race O.o

Tho not sure if just a bunch of trolls so take it with a grain of salt

What sources?

[Shadochi]

Yeah ive been flying around Azsuna for 15 mins and I cant find that spot. Could be Any zone bordering Azsuna looking into it, or it could be Stormsong Valley. I suppose it MAYBE could be WoD Nagrand too?

To be honest based on the stone textures I dont think it looks like azsuna, the stone texture style reminds me more of BfA or later era

[AwkwardSquirtle]

Lol since Wrath at least? probably TBC.

Yeah, TBC. It was the only realistic way to get out of the Belf starter area. Otherwise you'd end in in Eastern Plaguelands which was a 60 zone.

[huth]

After diaper gnomes I can absolutely believe the dragon race is legit, just in pre-alpha state where it's Functional but not Done.

Well, they're ugly in concept. The execution is good. Unlike the dragonthings, which are poorly executed.

[Chickat]

It'll be really sad if an ancient game like Everquest can come up with a better concept for a dragon-esq race.

That is not better IMO.

[Shadochi]

What sources?

A friend connected to ABK, but im unsure if a troll since I know they sometimes lurk around fansites

[Emet-Selch]

How and why would Scaleface get access to a presumably-ancient proof of concept days before a reveal of something that would have to be adequate to show to the public? Why would his co-conspirator wait 'til now to reveal this if it did exist for so long?

Uhhh, for clout?

People would also be far less likely to believe this is legit if it was posted say, mid 9.1 or something. But again, we have no idea when this was from - 10.0 could be a year+ away and the screenshots could be from a week ago.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Well, they're ugly in concept. The execution is good. Unlike the dragonthings, which are poorly executed.

It's a matter of consistency and technical errors for me, not aesthetic. I could believe Blizzard would make an ugly race—I don't believe they'd make a race that looks this suspicious, then reveal it with so many mind-numbing errors. Would they seriously not get the mesh that looks like nipples before they reveal it, at least?

[Beefhammer]

Real or not, Blizzard has made worse models in recent years.

While some may think those look worse aesthetically, they are all polished and look good technically compared to that dragon model, which looks amateurish in comparison.

[ercarp]

Oops, it's 4 AM all of a sudden and I need to wake up in 5 hours.

That means I'm gonna retire for the night. Knowing my luck, the One True Leak will probably drop as I'm sleeping.

[Biruteka]

I didn't think he was being serious with that post, but I would be interested if he is willing to confirm. My take is he is getting frustrated due to posts like the one below the post I'm quoting.

Its really funny how american people cant understand sarcasm