Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Varx]

Idk if anyone is buying this and if they are, they're pretty naïve. It would have been better to just not say anything at all or make a new profile. Never seen/heard of you and I've already seen several people with quotes from you as their signature along with this very post in a completely different topic with others piling on. Sometimes we're just super wrong about something and we need to accept it.

Or maybe my little brother is a demon spawn with a fetish for tinkers.

Didn't you grow up with siblings?

[shoc]

Drag'thyr ba dum tish

[cocomen2]

literally anything involving dragons ever has had a scene like that lol

Skyrim? Lord of the Rings? Harry Potter? Game of Thrones? Ring of the Nibelungs? Dragon Age?
(maybe my memory bad, but i don't remember how Dragons saved someone from falling there)

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

Probably not EK/Kalimdor, but if it comes close to Northrend in scale then it's a win in my books.

At this point if it comes close to Pandaria in scale it's a win to me. My bar may as well be in the floor. I just don't want another BFA/Shadowlands.

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'Dragons as our current classes dont make sense'

except green dragon as ya know, druids, or red and blue dragons as mages

or red dragons as shamans, or bronze arcane mages



and why cant they be gnome or nightborne based but mixed with dragons





its just a poor idea

Why do I feel like their conversation went the other way around? It wasn't "Dragons don't fit our other Classes" it was "Our other races don't fit Dragons" thus they invented Dracthyr and didn't think them through because it was just a vehicle to deliver Dragon Class.

[maplesyrupgl]

But those dragons have been stuck on that island for 10 000 years. How would they have learned our current classes abilities?
Lorewise it doesn't make sense for them to be other classes than Evoker. Not in 10.0 at least.

But those pandaren have been stuck on that island for 10 000 years. How would they have learned our current classes abilities? Lorewise it doesn't make sense for them to be other classes than Monk. Not in 6.0 at least.

[Teriz]

At this point if it comes close to Pandaria in scale it's a win to me. My bar may as well be in the floor. I just don't want another BFA/Shadowlands.

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Why do I feel like their conversation went the other way around? It wasn't "Dragons don't fit our other Classes" it was "Our other races don't fit Dragons" thus they invented Dracthyr and didn't think them through because it was just a vehicle to deliver Dragon Class.

I honstly think Dracthyr has been floating around Blizzard for awhile.

This is a picture of Wrathion from Hearthstone. He resembles a Drachtyr;

[Zanes]

Skyrim? Lord of the Rings? Harry Potter? Game of Thrones? Ring of the Nibelungs? Dragon Age?
(maybe my memory is bad, but i don't remember how Dragons saved someone from falling there)

tbh I think you can find something in like How To Train Your Dragon (whatever the number is)
but yeah, lots of wow devs do play FFXIV and I wouldn't be surprised if it was inspired by it, but the context is something else entirely
and that's it, people are claiming that there are a lot of things like Dragonflight is a copy of Heavensward, the use of "sundering" and "watchers" but those ones we know are bull****

[boyzma]

Drag'thyr ba dum tish

Made me spit my drink...thanks! omg that's hilarious!

[Teriz]

But those pandaren have been stuck on that island for 10 000 years. How would they have learned our current classes abilities? Lorewise it doesn't make sense for them to be other classes than Monk. Not in 6.0 at least.

Playable Pandaren are from the Wandering Isle, not Pandaria.

[Khaza-R]

At this point if it comes close to Pandaria in scale it's a win to me. My bar may as well be in the floor. I just don't want another BFA/Shadowlands.

Kul Tiras + Zandalar was actually one of the biggest continents added to date.

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

So weird thing. Apparently that Watcher from the trailer is important because in, of all things, the alt code of the gif of him they posted on Twitter he's named.

[Zanes]

I honstly think Dracthyr has been floating around Blizzard for awhile.

This is a picture of Wrathion from Hearthstone. He resembles a Drachtyr;

Ariel even said she's been working on the concept for years twitter.com/PushinVerts/status/1516509346087112705

[Polyxo]

So weird thing. Apparently that Watcher from the trailer is important because in, of all things, the alt code of the gif of him they posted on Twitter he's named.

He will always be Stoneyboi to me.

[Kagdar]

It's yet another example of them letting lore that they write dictate gameplay in a very limiting way.

Lore is the same excuse we got for no easy covenant switching, no expanded race/class combos, no new class or race in Shadowlands, etc etc.

They should learn by now not to create limiting lore like that. I dunno.

They write the story they want, i can't blame them for that. Personnally i would like for the Drachtyr to be gnomes as alternate form. But i can totally understand their decision of restriction class+race combo. Sometimes when you write/create something the initial "cool" factor is the only thing you think of and you create lore/gampleay to reflect that cool factor.

[Kellorion]

it neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeds to be an entirely new skeletal/muscular/animation rig
from the fucking ground up
all of it, everything, all the scales, hookups, tattoos, wings, patterns, hair, eye, all of it

they, so far, dont look like badass dragons, they look like drag queen cosplayers

[Revamp Man]

Honestly in terms of the entire reveal the only downside to me is the race and class but it’s not saying that it’s still not bad. The trailer threw me at first because stone boi but I’m so hyped because of the Greek style. The zones look good, the armor is awesome, dragon riding is the best iteration of flight, profession revamp is aces, talent trees look interesting, it just seems like conceptually it’s a great upgrade (we will get maybe half of what we saw)

[Kagdar]

But those pandaren have been stuck on that island for 10 000 years. How would they have learned our current classes abilities? Lorewise it doesn't make sense for them to be other classes than Monk. Not in 6.0 at least.

Monks started at lvl 1. Alliance/Horde discover the Wandering Isle* and they started to train new Pandarens.

*fixed my mistake.

[Vakir]

Doesn't surprise me that the Watcher is important and named at all. They put a lot of energy into rendering him and giving him a 5 minute arc.

A very brief adaptation of WALL-E was not on anyone's bingo card.

[Syegfryed]

Monks started at lvl 1. Alliance/Horde discover Pandaria and they started to train new Pandarens.

Pretty sure it was the pandarens form the wandering isle that joined the factions and trained new monks, they could already be tons of classes without ally/horde

[Kagdar]

Pretty sure it was the pandarens form the wandering isle that joined the factions and trained new monks, they could already be tons of classes without ally/horde

Oh right from Wandering Isle. Horde/Alliance trainer trained new Pandaren in old classes, Pandarens were in other races' starting zones to train them to be monks.
Ex. you start in Elwynn Forest as a human monk. but you start in the Wandering Isle as a Pandaren Warrior.

But the fact you start at lvl 1 in both cases means it's new recruits. So it can happen at the same time as the expac taking place.
But take DK for example, only the races that were present during the DK starting zone made sence to be DKs. They added new races to the DK later no problem.