Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[ImTheMizAwesome]

Since they will be making gear so limited to drakthyr, why they couldn't add the bulkier version that is using the same default outfit aswell.

Female and male demon hunters look different.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

ITs a fucking shame this will be the 10.0 milestone, instead of something great we got something "ok" with a lame demon hunter 2.0

What are your thoughts on talents and the dragonriding thing?

[m4Zzo928]

I’m beginning to wonder if something is going on at Blizz. Obv the buyout is coming but between the unionization, walkouts, protests, and press this looks far less finished and polished than I would expect for an expac they put their current one on the back burner for. The more I look at it the less impressed I am.

100% you can tell.

[Buliwyf the Omen]

Most of it seems to be intended to emulate the older levelling experience. Shouldnt actually impact you much at all at endgame.

WHY is this exactly in then? No one cares about the leveling.

You're essentially getting abilities pruned, I am calling it now.

You went from how many talent rows we have right now, 8? 7? To the illusion of choice.

Look at the Druid points. On the left side, you have to make choices to either pick up Starsurge or Maim. Uh, WHAT? Why isnt the latter baseline for all druids again?

"Freedom" of Choice is fake as hell.

[rhorle]

https://twitter.com/Gaiazelle/status...63661597925376

In case others missed it. The Evoker will have a toggle for charging spells for accessibility reason. Though it might just be the better method to play the class given the type of game WoW is.

[Revamp Man]

No. For the dragons they pick their own humanoid form. There was a whole short story about it to explain the Chromie name fuckup.

these arent dragons

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

Honestly the more I look at the talent system, the more I am baffled.

You have to invest talent points to get basic things like Rake or Rejuvenation back. LOL.

That seems to be their intention is that if you want to hybrid you're going to be able to, but at the cost of some of your "core kit."

Interesting in theory, but you'll likely rarely see it in practice.

[Teriz]

Lol yes, Alexstaza of the Emerald Dream. You go on and keep your silly rules and they will continue to fail just like your firm belief that the Tinker was the next class.

I’m pretty sure I said multiple times over the last few weeks that the most likely next class would be a dragon class based on HotS. We pretty much got that.

[DiscipleofCazicThule]

I'm hoping this means Nerubians or Naga could be a thing. All the conventions have gone out the window. I'm far more excited about the potential of the new barrier-breaking than this race in particular.

You and I are in the same boat. I'm not sold on the dragonkin, but what they could mean is a lot more. Hell, let us play Nerubians with Crypt Lord wings and their version of "Running Wild" and I would preorder the next Northrend expansion.

[Syegfryed]

What are your thoughts on talents and the dragonriding thing?

Good, but overall ok, simple is not an annoucement i expected for a 10.0 and my expectatives were way to low

The "class/race" is the epitome of lazyness from blizzard.

[Revamp Man]

https://twitter.com/Gaiazelle/status...63661597925376

In case others missed it. The Evoker will have a toggle for charging spells for accessibility reason. Though it might just be the better method to play the class given the type of game WoW is.

it will depend on the fight
lots of movement? turn it off

[Rathwell]

I quite like the medieval looking helmets in these previews at least.

[Sondrelk]

I agree, I'm super hyped for the class, but it feels like that art design is stagnating a bit to me. The new capital just feels strongly suramarish to me, and each zone shown was an instant "This feels like X place!". It's not a deal breaker, and I'm happy these zones are not kul tiras gray, but I wasn't wowed from what we saw.

I don't really get how you could make something that feels entirely fresh and new, and also doesnt look like an alien landscape.

Desert enviroment? We got several of those.
Volcanic ridges? Got several of those zones as well.
Forests? Got tons of those.

For my money I thought the area with all the pillars were nice and unique. Not exactly groundbreaking, but I am content with getting something that just looks good instead of needing it to also look like a place dissimilar from anything I have ever seen.

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

ITs a fucking shame this will be the 10.0 milestone, instead of something great we got something "ok" with a lame demon hunter 2.0

I was thinking on this honestly. It feels like Blizz kinda shrugged at the 10.0 milestone, if anything Dragonflight feels like a transition, a prelude to their "new arc" what with the world healing and the land waking and all that.

I wonder if they're looking at 11.0 probably being slotted in for the 20th anniversary and saying "that's when we go big."

Or maybe this is just WoW now, borderline-maintenance with minimalist expansions that fix one feature every 2 years.

[Malorne the White Stag]

I quite like the medieval looking helmets in these previews at least.

yeah that does look nice

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Now that I'm looking at it, it seems like the baseline half of the talent tree is just somewhat of an overhaul to how we learn abilities. There's an added element of choice, but this seems familiar to me.

[Khaza-R]

I quite like the medieval looking helmets in these previews at least.

Agreed. Fits very well with a dragon expansion.

[[Apok]]

I’m pretty sure I said multiple times over the last few weeks that the most likely next class would be a dragon class.

i think the poster is more leaning towards your dismissive attitude and double standards regarding youe want for tinkers and insistence that things like them being a unit in wc3 meant that they would be a class, and that a new class basically had to have a unit in wc3.

Kinda shits on half your reasoning behind tinker being a class

[DiscipleofCazicThule]

I’m pretty sure I said multiple times over the last few weeks that the most likely next class would be a dragon class.

Yes, but before that it was that Tinkers were the next class and there was no chance we could have a dragon based class because there wasn't one in WC3. It's cool. Keep moving the goal posts and pretending your theories and rules are always set. It beats the guy that keeps pretending to be other posters and being racist.

[m4Zzo928]

yeah that does look nice

Disney esque.