Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Zyrinx]

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.

Fair enough I guess, when I did it (admittedly only to 50), I crafted a complete HQ set of every gather and craft jobs armor and never touched a macro. Because it was interesting to me.

[Lorca]

Do we know if the Dracthy can fly? Or they use their wings only for some combat abilities?

[Eurhetemec]

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.

I don't need to try again. You clearly love drama and doom-and-gloom. All the cinematics you love are that except the original WoW one, which is probably running on 100% purified nostalgia at this point.

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Do we know if the Dracthy can fly? Or they use their wings only for some combat abilities?

We know they can fly in the Dragon Isles, and do all the dragon-flying stuff with their own wings.

[Zharikov]

Do we know if the Dracthy can fly? Or they use their wings only for some combat abilities?

Flying in old zones I'm not sure of, but there's an interview that says the following.

"The Dracthyr are going to be able to participate in the dragonriding system and mechanics too,” Graham confirms. “Dracthyr have wings so they get to fly and they use the same style of momentum and gravity that dragonriding drakes do. During their starter experience, you get introduced to the new mechanics with tutorials and all that stuff. Heading into building the expansion, knowing that we wanted to create this feature, we had to set up the environment to match. I've only gotten to see it myself recently and it shocked me how much it brought me into the world. Being engaged in the act of moving around while flying is very different for WoW, and made me see the environment in a new way.”

[Deventh]

I don't need to try again. You clearly love drama and doom-and-gloom. All the cinematics you love are that except the original WoW one, which is probably running on 100% purified nostalgia at this point.

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We know they can fly in the Dragon Isles, and do all the dragon-flying stuff with their own wings.

I clearly love drama. You can't even put 2 coherent arguments together. Why do I even bother responding to your troll posts I wonder.

[Raetary]

They really should add the other race models to the class as customization.
I get that it might be a bit much for them to implement the scales and horns properly on everyone else at once, but then why not just keep updating it slowly over time?

Pair of extra races here, pair of extra races there, until all/most models are covered.

[Buliwyf the Omen]

Do we know if the Dracthy can fly? Or they use their wings only for some combat abilities?

They use it for both. You can use the wings for dragonriding according to interviews and you also use it (presumably as a CD) to fly around and cast while doing it.

The latter is more hovering though. Think Void Form but a lot more mobile.

Edit: Also they seem to be able to glide like DHs.

[Teriz]

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

Uh.....

I'm not sure I'm equipped to handle scaley private parts my man. LoL!

[Eurhetemec]

I clearly love drama. You can't even put 2 coherent arguments together. Why do I even bother responding to your troll posts I wonder.

Because everyone else is even meaner to you? I dunno lol.

[Khaza-R]

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

I mean, Jaina certainly didn't. Does that make her a scalie?

[Teriz]

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.

I'd wait until you see all the customizations and animations to pass final judgment. The facial expressions and the details look incredible.

[Raetary]

Dragonspawn maybe.

To add to this:


They are in.

[Zyrinx]

To add to this:


They are in.

Now those bros look cool.

[Teriz]

They use it for both. You can use the wings for dragonriding according to interviews and you also use it (presumably as a CD) to fly around and cast while doing it.

The latter is more hovering though. Think Void Form but a lot more mobile.

Edit: Also they seem to be able to glide like DHs.

I could see them adding some of the flying HotS abilities like Deathwing's Dragonflight and Alexstraza's Cleansing Flames.

[Punks]

what does?

That you were wrong 3 years ago, and still are now.

[Marlamin]

Already some movement on the CDN side of things! Both the wowdev product (was on 9.2.0) and wowdev2 product (was on 2.5.1) got their assigned builds removed. Smells like cleanup before entering new testing phases.

[Cheezits]

I guess the main 4 reputations are:

Alliance/Horde Expedition
Centaurs
Tuskarr
Dragon City

[Zankai27]

Evoker sub-forum when? Gotta get that speculation rolling with my dragon homies.

I guess the main 4 reputations are:

Alliance/Horde Expedition
Centaurs
Tuskarr
Dragon City

Tuskarr maybe?

[Eurhetemec]

Demon Hunters and Druids should be able to as well.

The dragon-flying? It's a lot higher-speed than the current flying according to the Ausgamers interview, so the current Druid forms wouldn't be equipped for it. If there was a semi-dragon Druid form for it that might make sense/be cool though. Demon Hunters can't even fly under their own power right now can they? Or did a miss a change?

[Cheezits]

Already some movement on the CDN side of things! Both the wowdev product (was on 9.2.0) and wowdev2 product (was on 2.5.1) got their assigned builds removed. Smells like cleanup before entering new testing phases.

PTR build tonight?

Did anything change with the preorder encryptions?