Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Three Faced Goddess]

trust me, he knows a lot

Do you know anything about patch 9.2.5 and whether or not we'll be getting Dark Ranger customizations? That's basically the one thing I want the most in WoW.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

I personally prefer the Dragonsworn class that was on here, believe it was made in 2019.

That's Teriz who made that, I think.

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Snore.....

More Elves, you say? Why of course more Elves!

[Teriz]

I personally prefer the Dragonsworn class that was on here, believe it was made in 2019.

Honestly, what we're getting is VERY close to that concept.

[Nightshade711]

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.....



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.

I do think that the Dracthyr were a decent compromise between playing a dragon and a humanoid drakonid…

If they fixed the race up a bit and/or added more body types I’d like them a lot more.

[ercarp]

yep, feeling darkfallen with a very small chance of out of the blue tuskarr

Nixxiom would lose his mind if they added Tuskarr as an AR. I'm pretty sure he's been asking for them to be added as a race since 2008.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Thats pretty exciting.

That's odd. Wasn't Galakrond a non-sapient, non-speaking Proto-Dragon? I know that we're fighting against ancient elemental Proto-Dragons, but why is Galakrond suddenly capable of having "followers"? Or is it more of a cult around him?

[Malorne the White Stag]

Nixxiom would lose his mind if they added Tuskarr as an AR. I'm pretty sure he's been asking for them to be added as a race since 2008.

It would give me a new race to play this expac

[huth]

That's odd. Wasn't Galakrond a non-sapient, non-speaking Proto-Dragon? I know that we're fighting against ancient elemental Proto-Dragons, but why is Galakrond suddenly capable of having "followers"? Or is it more of a cult around him?

Well, he certainly has a cult. Not ingame, though, as far as i know.

[Chickat]

“We wanted to try to spread back out again, get some of that classic Stranglethorn Vale feel,” Jeremy Feasal continues. “Huge expanses of trees in between spaces where we can have wildlife and really cool POIs. Characters that might be lost out there, little vignettes to discover.” With the desire to create huge expansive zones, this sat alongside the desire to create a new type of mount, as Dragonflight puts you in direct control of a dragon. Arcade-style controls, “do a barrel roll”, that sort of thing. With four distinct dragons, each with over 50 different customisations, it’s the most customisable and tactile mount in World of Warcraft history.

[Nachtigal]

Anyway, from my understanding, it works like this: 2 fixed abilities for all members of a class (i.e. the 2 diamonds on the left), same for all members of a spec.

2 free class talents depending on your spec (which will always end up being spec fundamentals, like Starfire or Rejuvenation). Rest is open choice as long as you have a link or its a top row talent.

What strikes me as a bit silly is that you could then proceed to build something totally dysfunctional, like a Balance Druid that has no Moonkin, Starsurge but nearly the full Feral kit...

I think those two abilities on the left come in after allocating a certain amount of points. There is a screen of that first icon with an 8 over it. I assume at 8 points allocated you unlock it for free? There's not a photo of the second one locked with the first one learned to verify it though. Yeah, it is a bit silly to someone who looks at it from a raider's perspective... But to the millions of people who left who only played to level characters and do stuff in the world/dungeons, it was a nice thing for them to do.

[ChronoSul]

That's odd. Wasn't Galakrond a non-sapient, non-speaking Proto-Dragon? I know that we're fighting against ancient elemental Proto-Dragons, but why is Galakrond suddenly capable of having "followers"? Or is it more of a cult around him?

I'm assuming this is something they will borrow from hearthstone where he had a cult and was capable of speaking

[huth]

I think those two abilities on the left come in after allocating a certain amount of points. There is a screen of that first icon with an 8 over it. I assume at 8 points allocated you unlock it for free? There's not a photo of the second one locked with the first one learned to verify it though. Yeah, it is a bit silly to someone who looks at it from a raider's perspective... But to the millions of people who left who only played to level characters and do stuff in the world/dungeons, it was a nice thing for them to do.

Probably, yes. Or you just get them at a certain level. I doubt you can avoid them either way.

Though i don't think spending all your class points on the toolkit for another spec is terribly sensible even for non-endgame builds. Your spec tree is all about your chosen spec, after all, so you'd have a completely mismatch between the two.

[Khaza-R]

That's odd. Wasn't Galakrond a non-sapient, non-speaking Proto-Dragon? I know that we're fighting against ancient elemental Proto-Dragons, but why is Galakrond suddenly capable of having "followers"? Or is it more of a cult around him?

In Hearthstone he's definitely capable of speaking and has more lines than any non-hero card.

He's also voiced by the same guy who does Denathrius so guaranteed to be better than Deathwing's cartoon dialogue.

[SunspotAnims]

I'm hoping the continent is actually as large as it it's been described. Zoomin' through a bunch of Storm Peaks-sized zones with physics-based flight mechanics is a legitimately good baseline to add fun world content on top of.

[Chickat]

Meh a return to daily quests, one of the single most boring aspects of wow quests.

I imagine there will be both generic world quests, and daily quests for the main 4 reps. They said MAIN 4 REPS. Meaning maybe there's a few other traditional less important reps that will utilize world quests.

[The King in Yellow]

Let's go evokers!!! I knew we'd get a dragon class.

I got to apologize for my little bro who stole my mmo champ PW. Guy has a very unhealthy obsession with techy fantasy.

Well convinced my folks to send his ass to boot camp and found my pw. Sorry for all his nonsense these past few months.

So stoked though!

This.. is the funniest post ever.

[Chickat]

Also, i saw someone mention needing to spend talent points into rejuvenation.

Some early talents will be automatically locked in when you pick your spec.
Resto has rejuv already unlocked with no point spent, just like Balance has starfire and sunfire unlocked with no point spent.

Yeah I like it. I imagine every druid will have Healing touch or Regrowth as they do now, but if you have say a healing boss fight a balance druid could have a loadout just for that fight. Maybe a talent gives them 50% reduced healing spell mana cost, and they talent into a few healins spells as well. Suddenly they can contribute noticeably to healing bosses etc. The next fight is a dragon with an air phase 25% of the time. A feral druid could talent into balance spells to help out etc. It is actually a really cool idea and will potentially lead to WAY more ways to play the game.

[Keyalios]

Honestly, what we're getting is VERY close to that concept.

Agreed I just wish, as I said, that we had a tank spec. And using Red for DPS instead of healing is insane. As is Bronze for healing IMO. Three or Four specs would do the class far more justice. As would temporarily turning into a drake not into this ugly Zandalari Moonkin wannabe form.

[Destinas]

That's odd. Wasn't Galakrond a non-sapient, non-speaking Proto-Dragon? I know that we're fighting against ancient elemental Proto-Dragons, but why is Galakrond suddenly capable of having "followers"? Or is it more of a cult around him?

Galakrond was sapient and he could speak, and he had proto-dragon followers in the ancient past.

https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Galakrond#Quotes

"Where will they gather?"
"Great I am. You would be great too."
"There can be only one me...."

His whole thing was that the dragons that would become the aspects opposed him in prehistory. It would make sense that there are dragons in a prehistoric place that still worship him.

[Chickat]

Oh I must've missed that.

But yeah seems to me more like its gonna be supplementary to reputations and similar cosmetic rewards like Covenants, and perhaps even quests.

Tbh I would like it if they added reputation questlines to progress all stories more after initial leveling (in SL you could do it but only for your covenant until the made swaping easier)

MoP had new story quests unlocked at honored, revered, and exalted. No rep since then has had this, and its confirmed for DF. Its going to be awesome having additional rep stories told after max level.