Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Merryck]

Still no preorders ? So weird. It usually happens at the same time of an announcement right ?

It would be weird if they didn't capitalise on the initial announcement hype soon ...

[Buliwyf the Omen]

Scalies are going to love this shit.

I dislike that you're instantly a furry or in this case a scalie, just because you enjoy how a race looks.

I cant count how many times I've been called a furry just because I like to play a Worgen or Werewolf in WoW or Skyrim.

But yeah, man I am so hyped for that Black Dragon form!

Why cant the Expac be out right now when theres still so much free time for me.

[Teriz]

Answer on why Dracthyr is only evoker:

Hazzikostas said. "Having a breath weapon, having wings, those are unique gifts that would inevitably influence the way you fight. Then we also started thinking about representations of the power of our dragonflights we've seen in Warcraft but also in other games like Heroes of the Storm's take on Alexstrasza or Chromie, for example. That started to feel like, 'No, this is a different class.'

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/wo.../1100-6502576/

Yep, I called it.

[Eurhetemec]

And then we have Dragonflight... A Golem goes to sleep then wakes up 10,000 years later.... spins a wheel and climbs up a tower because it malfunctions and then gets blasted from the top and gets saved by Alexstrasza with few other dragons flying around. I am sorry, but that wasn't hyped or interesting to me. It still looked visually cool, but nothing like their previous works. So I hope I explained myself enough.

I get it, but I'm pretty sure it's intentional. I know you're a big fan of Sylvanas and the associates massive character-drama that goes with her, but most people aren't, and I don't think it was remotely an accident that this trailer didn't feature:

A) Any faction characters.

B) Any combat, particularly between the two factions.

C) Any ridiculous speeches.

D) Any portents of doom.

Your preferred cinematics are basically chock full of this stuff.

[wowrefugee]

man the dracthyr only being in Dracthyr form in combat is a real shame, and a big dealbreaker for me, I hope they reconsider.

It's frustrating because they've had feedback for years about this - people who want regular form for Moonkin, or human in combat for Worgen. And yet they make the same mistake again, and many more, with this new race/class.

[Zyrinx]

Good night folks, what a disappointing day / night this was. I still feel like every Dragonflight fake leak was better than what we’ve got, which is a shame.

I wish at least the Quel‘thanas issue would have been solved, but they seem to not care about open threads at all. Such a wasted opportunity.

Yeah this coalesced badly in the last 24 hours. I truly hope the profession revamp is an A+, but it won't be, because they seemingly won't steal Ff14s idea of high quality materials and actual craft action bar skills.

[Lorca]

Would make the expac better if we got some allied races for non-evokers to play

There are those new giants, the new Gnolls and the new Tuskarr, so... if they were smart they'd know what to do!

[Lahis]

I think MoP may also have had new race/class combos? I don't recall

Cata had the new combos. Legion added Hunters to Gnomes.

Naturally MoP did add Monk to most races.

[Teriz]

Yeah I’d love to play those draconic humans, but that ugly dragon form? No thank you. It’s just awful.

Honestly, when it's doing abilities, the form looks pretty cool.

[Eurhetemec]

man the dracthyr only being in Dracthyr form in combat is a real shame, and a big dealbreaker for me, I hope they reconsider.

It's the other way around. They're always in Dracthyr form in combat. They can choose out of combat. They can also do the dragon-flying in Dracthyr form with their own wings, it's been confirmed in other interviews.

[Buliwyf the Omen]

It's frustrating because they've had feedback for years about this - people who want regular form for Moonkin, or human in combat for Worgen. And yet they make the same mistake again, and many more, with this new race/class.

Its a Dragon Class. The Humanoid form is just an extra for out of combat.

The Dragon Form being humanoid is just the easy way out to not fill the raids with 10 feet tall proper Dragons.

[Zharikov]

Uuuu we have a gambler here Let's say that if 10.x will be announced 19th of April for 11.2022 - I win, and You will do.. nothing - If NOT - You win and I can delete my 13 yrs account

So.... they didn't do that, as a note.

[Zyrinx]

It's the other way around. They're always in Dracthyr form in combat. They can choose out of combat. They can also do the dragon-flying in Dracthyr form with their own wings, it's been confirmed in other interviews.

They wanted to combat as the human / elf form, which they cannot.

[Deventh]

I get it, but I'm pretty sure it's intentional. I know you're a big fan of Sylvanas and the associates massive character-drama that goes with her, but most people aren't, and I don't think it was remotely an accident that this trailer didn't feature:

A) Any faction characters.

B) Any combat, particularly between the two factions.

C) Any ridiculous speeches.

D) Any portents of doom.

Your preferred cinematics are basically stock full of this stuff.

My least favorite cinematic after Dragonflight was MoP which had the faction war as well. Also my second favorite cinematic (the WOTLK) doesn't have any fighting and it's all narration and building up hype from Arthas' father speech (no doom or ridiculous speeches or fighting). So you giving me a "big fan of Sylvanas" label is really out uncalled for when I made a rating for each expansion clearly not showing any bias. Shadowlands is not even my top 3 cinematic and Legion is one of my least liked ones (where Sylvanas is present btw). So try again.

[draugril]

It's the other way around. They're always in Dracthyr form in combat. They can choose out of combat. They can also do the dragon-flying in Dracthyr form with their own wings, it's been confirmed in other interviews.

Demon Hunters and Druids should be able to as well.

[Bladesyphon]

Yeah this coalesced badly in the last 24 hours. I truly hope the profession revamp is an A+, but it won't be, because they seemingly won't steal Ff14s idea of high quality materials and actual craft action bar skills.

They aren't adapting XIV's crafting actions, likely because anyone on the team that plays XIV realizes that anyone who seriously crafts in XIV just uses copy-pasted macros from third party websites, completely circumventing the entire need to even have crafting actions in the first place.

XIV's crafting skills are neat in concept, but terrible in execution, especially given that every HQ recipe in XIV requires a very specific rotation of abilities to properly craft, which again just boils down to copy-pasting the macro from a website, pushing a button, and then going to make a sandwhich or something while you wait for the craft to finish.

[Teriz]

Furries and scalies are the target demographic of this game now.

Well, think about how many people are going to roll the dragon class when they see one fly past them doing barrel rolls and nosedives without a mount.....

Its a Dragon Class. The Humanoid form is just an extra for out of combat.

The Dragon Form being humanoid is just the easy way out to not fill the raids with 10 feet tall proper Dragons.

Yep, exactly. People quickly forget all of those arguments between me and @Nightshade711 dealing with draconic size. Making them humanoid looking dragons sidesteps that problem.

[m4Zzo928]

Honestly, when it's doing abilities, the form looks pretty cool.

I'm never going to get used to it. Dragons just look weird to my eye as humanoids. That said everything else dragon looked awesome.

[Lorca]

Yeah I’d love to play those draconic humans, but that ugly dragon form? No thank you. It’s just awful.

In my case, I liked the dragon form quite a lot after seeing the different options for it. And it is different to all the other races he already have. Instead, I can't get what do some of you see as interesting in another Blood Elf model, which is just horned as the DH one, but with different hair colors (even the scales aren't original, as the DH's had some too).

[draugril]

Well, think about how many people are going to roll the dragon class when they see one fly past them doing barrel rolls and nosedives without a mount.....

And let’s be honest here, among friends. If given the opportunity to !?%# a dragon, who among you would pass? I surely would not.