Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Super Dickmann]

Admittedly, I still think it looks almost too good and consistent—it almost looks more like the Arakkoa or the Mantid in that it seems like models made to be attached to this model, as opposed to independently-designed armor. If it's not Heritage Armor, I think that may be a boss model or it's like Vulpera and Nightborne and they have both NPC and playable models, the former of which have attachables for armor and the latter of which have actual armor.

Arakkoa was my first thought as well. I'm unconvinced that this is a new animation rig, mind and the way it's attached is very similar to how it was to them. I'm thinking that we're in for a Nightborne situation where there's NPC and PC versions, with the latter being cursed.

[thilicen]

Honestly, the general atmposphere of those cinematic shots reminds me a lot more of WC3 and the vanilla WoW shots than anything we've had recently. Really hope that is something they are actively working towards.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Ahh okay, thanks. This one looks a bit more ahead in development.
Honestly Scaleface's story doesn't add up. I think part of it is story to season his second hand info. Like the trio of photos his friend leaked are like pre-alpha footage yet he still says the release will be november. Also he is supposedly with the press, but what he has are random pics that don't look press ready. Ughh.

Anyroad we have pictures of the race, the talent tree and perhaps two shots of the cinematic (the Garrosh and Lexie one, and the other blurry shit that is likely from Elden Ring). Oh and the Lexie poster with the logo. So either this is a very ellaborate fake, or everything gets leaked a few hours in advance again.

If I were to guess, going off the trees in the background, there are two possibilities.

1. There are Orcs on the Dragon Isles, and Lexie brought them there back in the Second War. There is going to be a whole bunch of Dragonmaw who have possibly conquered at least one zone and may even be major or main antagonists. Feels unlikely to think the latter, but it could be interesting to imagine that they were brought there. This would make sense with architecture I don't think we've seen much of before (though it still feels very familiar to me—it almost looks like Legion leveling armor, actually, which suggests this could be some kind of Elven territory?).

2. It's just a flashback to Lexie being brought to Quel'Thalas for some reason. The leaves line up, and the timeline makes sense, but I don't think she was ever brought there in canon and the architecture doesn't look Blood Elven.

Consequently, I'm thinking we may see Dragonmaw villains on the Dragon Isles.

I'm kind of disappointed with the race, but buy it a bit more with the armor. As for the talents, I'm very excited to see if that's any good or just some generic upgrade on borrowed power. It seems like it's all about leveling and adventuring, though, so it'll be an improvement either way to the endless world quests and dailies.

[Daniie]

I want a Black Dragonflight tank, a Blue Dragonflight spellblade melee/caster hybrid DPS & a Bronze Dragonflight healer.

No idea if we'll get dragonflight themed specs though. Thematically would that even work for one character to fall under multiple dragonflights? Seems a little wrong.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Arakkoa was my first thought as well. I'm unconvinced that this is a new animation rig, mind and the way it's attached is very similar to how it was to them. I'm thinking that we're in for a Nightborne situation where there's NPC and PC versions, with the latter being cursed.

Precisely my idea. It would also explain why the wings clipped through the chest. For a normal player race, that would be pretty inexcusable, but I do think that maybe the NPC model had the wings as composite meshes and the player race has them as part of the overall model. Perhaps the NPC model was being temporarily used in place of the player model? That would also explain why it is naked in the character creation screen.

[Nymrohd]

The logo, real or fake, looks pretty good.

If Evoker is real, I'll need to know what spices are best when serving crow, since I'll be eating plenty while I prepare to shill for Tinkers as promised.

It's dark meat poultry, treat it like a chicken thigh or duck.

[Das Thora]

a Blue Dragonflight spellblade melee/caster hybrid DPS

So long as it doesn't play like a Red Mage.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Thx for the info, guys, much appreciated.
Those dragon things look fake to me and I cannot imagine something like this as a race, which doesn't mean it's impossible. I wouldn't mind something like this, the evidence is just not strong enough in my eyes.
Also, I'm german and Dracthyr just doesn't roll well of the tongue...same with Venthyr for us. Most people call them "Ventir" and Dracthyr would be "Draktir". Don't know, sounds weird to me, but that's another problem and definitely no point against a dragon race.

I suppose that's just the issues of English language companies naming things for people in Central Europe. Certain phonetics just don't carry over. What do the voice actors call them in the German version, by-the-bye? Do they just break a phonetic rule, or do they adapt it to the usual German phonetics and say "Ventir"?

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If Evoker is real, I'll need to know what spices are best when serving crow, since I'll be eating plenty while I prepare to shill for Tinkers as promised.

Agreed. I was a skeptic of the race, as well. This whole thing smelled of fish, but I suppose the evidence is starting to mount. I probably should've seen it as soon as the talent stuff started to multiply, since it seems inseparable from the race and class from the same leak.

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It's dark meat poultry, treat it like a chicken thigh or duck.

I was just going to eat mine whole, feathers and all.

[Daniie]

So long as it doesn't play like a Red Mage.

Never played FF so no idea how this plays like. I'm just thinking more from a D&D point of view of the spec.

[therumblings]

Do you guys think Dracthyr will get their own starting zone like every other core race or just start in Exile's Reach?

[ahgsfds]

Hello there, who wants the bomb?

[Daniie]

Do you guys think Dracthyr will get their own starting zone like every other core race or just start in Exile's Reach?

Nah, surely they'd have to. Wouldn't make any sense not to have one on the Dragon Isles. They need an origin.

[Lady Atia]

The legs look ridiculous. If these abominations are actually in the game I will 100% not be playing one.

The legs look awesome. If these cute dragonpeople are actually in the game I will 100% be playing not only one, but five.

[SniperCT]

Still not too into the heads on that thing, but I'm liking the feel now that we see it in armor.

[micwini]

Hello there, who wants the bomb?

Me. Hopefully its a festive bomb.

[Sondrelk]

Well now, this is aiming to be an interesting day. Woken by a fire alarm, and now 100+ more pages.

Anything new besides an HD version of the Dragonflight logo and an armored variant of the humanoid dragon?

[Raetary]

Well now, this is aiming to be an interesting day. Woken by a fire alarm, and now 100+ more pages.

Anything new besides an HD version of the Dragonflight logo and an armored variant of the humanoid dragon?

Apparently there were 2 more images of the resto tree.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Do you guys think Dracthyr will get their own starting zone like every other core race or just start in Exile's Reach?

That's a good question. The philosophy seems to be to make every race start in the new starting zone, already members of their factions, yet the Drakthyr would have to join during the plot of this expansion, or at least the beginning. Unless they're unlockable – a bad idea for a non-Allied Race, given that's what defines an Allied Race and was also generally poorly-received – it would be awkward for them to just appear out of nowhere when they start with no idea how they came to be or joined their faction.

[Das Thora]

Do you guys think Dracthyr will get their own starting zone like every other core race or just start in Exile's Reach?

I bet they'll start in a part of the Dragon Isles that ends up becoming a max level place, think Broken Shore but for a starting zone. I also doubt dragons of all things start at level 1. Probably a hero class-race that starts higher than allied races.

[Dioporco]

They specifically removed talent trees because they're pointlessly complicated. "Good news: It's exactly as unbalanced, but now choosing your talents is really time-consuming again" is really the idea behind this change?

You clirly haven't played SL because anybody that did

PvP
M+
And Mythic Raiding

Can literally see that the new talents tree are like conduits, you choose depending on the fight or playstyle.


Also talking about balance when I am NF as hunter since CN is clownesque