Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[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.

[Syegfryed]

Oh right from Wandering Isle. Horde/Alliance trainer trained new Pandaren in old classes

What? no, the first quests from the pandarens is you training in various classes even before the alliance/horde came to the wandering isle.

[Kellorion]

What? no, the first quests from the pandarens is you training in various classes even before the alliance/horde came to the wandering isle.

QFT
/10chars

[Keyalios]

Interesting this gives us yet another "PC Generation". First generation being the first 8 races, plus Belf and Draenei happening roughly concurrently, with them joining their respective side just a bit later. Generation 2 would be Goblins and Worgen. Worgen PC started before the others but didn't join the Alliance until the same time as the Goblins. Gen 3 are of course the Pandaren coming just a year later. Gen 4 is the new isle starting zone. This includes the Allied Races I believe. Gen 5 will be these Dracthyr.

Not included are the DH's and DK's. There are obviously two generations of DK's but both of these have clearly been fighting for a long long time, whereas all the PCs generally start as recruits, except Goblin which starts as a head honcho and near leader of the cartel.

[Kagdar]

What? no, the first quests from the pandarens is you training in various classes even before the alliance/horde came to the wandering isle.

Oh my bad, i stand corrected.

[plz delete account]

Scaleface also said we were getting Microclasses

No, he said evoker lmao

[Polybius]

NGL something like this mockup from reddit would fix a TON of my complaints.

Too bad they look more like the freaking Jersey Devil.

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

Too bad they look more like the freaking Jersey Devil.

I'm gonna have to see if Jerseydevil is reserved anywhere.

[plz delete account]

wow this thread has quieted down

[boyzma]

wow this thread has quieted down

Indeed, This morning after it was revealed it was full of haters, then mellowed to accepters and now is dead. Guess they tuckered themselves out.

[Keyalios]

Too bad they look more like the freaking Jersey Devil.

I reserved the names Nidhogg and Tiamat but I may just have to reserve a name like this now. Skinnychicken, JerseyDevil, etc.