Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[therumblings]

Yeah, this is another very concerning thing. I mean, how difficult can it be to have pre-orders ready? It's such a weird thing to announce this expansion so late and then not have the pre-orders ready - hello? What's going on, I'm confused.

I guess they're waiting for 9.2.5. But it's still strange that all of the supposed pre-order stuff was hotfixed into live.

[Chickat]

Oh I checked and you are probably right. I thought darkfallen is just another name for Sanlayn. But I guess darkfallen is broader term that also includes undead elves like dark rangers? I dunno really.

Thats what I thought, but I'm not 100% sure.

[maxje98]

Okey so I might have missed it, but did they announce what to do at max level? Like I know we have M+ and raid, but is there something else? Like the Maw was or Suramar. Just something else to do

[Chickat]

They were all available at launch, at least the ones in TBC, WotLK and Cataclysm. I'm not 100% sure about MoP.

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That's still 10 years ago. I'm not against it, I just have my concerns after BfA (no endgame zone) and Shadowlands (terrible endgame zone). I just don't understand why they scrapped the idea behind Suramar for later expansions.

It was a lot of work for players to only do once. A lot of players disliked it too. My dad calls it Sewermar.

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Okey so I might have missed it, but did they announce what to do at max level? Like I know we have M+ and raid, but is there something else? Like the Maw was or Suramar. Just something else to do

No end game only zone, but they don't usually announce endgame stuff outside of raids etc in expansion reveals. That happens much closer to Alpha and beta, and in followup interviews.

[therumblings]

Okey so I might have missed it, but did they announce what to do at max level? Like I know we have M+ and raid, but is there something else? Like the Maw was or Suramar. Just something else to do

Max levels zones being a thing at launch is extremely rare and only happened in MoP and Legion (I don't really count the Maw since it's 9.0 state was very barebones) so I'd expect some sort of Dragonflight campaign at 9.0 with a new zone in 9.1.

[Teriz]

Btw it felt like they actually had a lot of abilities similar to what your class concept proposed. Like the Wing Buffet thing for example. Kudos to you for that.

Thanks! I was very pleased with what I saw yesterday (which is probably why I’ve been a bit defensive over this new class). Also I support your drive for more appearance options for the Dracthyr. I’m definitely down for a Blue or Black swole Dracthyr.

[therumblings]

Have any fan sites compiled a list of Evoker spells and abilities yet? I've seen a few gifs but I may have missed an interview or two going into more details.

[Chickat]

Few notable quotes from the front page.

Flying in the Dragon Isles will not require a Pathfinder achievement.

A Threads of Fate leveling system for alts will be utilized in Dragonflight and Blizzard is looking into making more systems account-wide.

Blizzard also plans to provide a more in-depth open world experience going forward.

Wtf does the third point mean?

[LalaGamer]

I have few questions, what will happen to the Night elf's and Undead ?? Will they get a new place to live or they are still be stuck on other cities?
Any idea how will this story progress in the future.

[Shadochi]

Few notable quotes from the front page.

Flying in the Dragon Isles will not require a Pathfinder achievement.

A Threads of Fate leveling system for alts will be utilized in Dragonflight and Blizzard is looking into making more systems account-wide.

Blizzard also plans to provide a more in-depth open world experience going forward.

Wtf does the third point mean?

Not sure about #3, but in general based on the announcement it seemed like they showed just stuff relating directly to dragons + talents and UI.

Like a lot of info was shared later in interviews. Mostly regarding systems that would carry over in some for.

As my guess for #3, I would say perhaps the way we interact with the world? Dragonriding seems to be about that.

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I have few questions, what will happen to the Night elf's and Undead ?? Will they get a new place to live or they are still be stuck on other cities?
Any idea how will this story progress in the future.

Tyrande is said to play a role in 10.0. And also we will have to wait for SL to finish to get more info on this

[maxje98]

I have few questions, what will happen to the Night elf's and Undead ?? Will they get a new place to live or they are still be stuck on other cities?
Any idea how will this story progress in the future.

As for the Night Elves, there is datamined seed that the Winter Queen gives, so it might be possible she provides them with a seed for a new world tree (speculation).
As for the Forsaken, I don't know what is planned for them. Thought I saw on Twitter that there were some changes to Brill, but don't know for sure.

[Nyel]

A Threads of Fate leveling system for alts will be utilized in Dragonflight and Blizzard is looking into making more systems account-wide.

So this means we're forced to go a linear path through the DI like it was in Shadowlands?

[Valysar]

Sargeras' sword will be transformed into a tree with the seed in 9.2.5

So this means we're forced to go a linear path through the DI like it was in Shadowlands?

Yes

[Teriz]

Have any fan sites compiled a list of Evoker spells and abilities yet? I've seen a few gifs but I may have missed an interview or two going into more details.

Not yet. So far I’ve seen the following in a few videos;

Cataclysm: Flying in a straight path breathing down a steam of fire (Deathwing HotS)

Abundance: Creates a large circle of healing that culminates into a flower of energy (Alexstraza HotS)

Wing Buffet: Flaps wings, pushing back target (Alexstraza HotS)

Flame Breath: Typical dragon breath fire ability

Arcane Breath: A stream of arcane energy coming out of the dragons mouth. Actually looks sort of like a laser.

Twin Arcane Bolts: Launches twin bolts of Arcane energy towards targets

Prismatic fireball: Launches fireball in a parabola that starts out as five colors, then rapidly coalesces into a fireball (very cool looking btw).

Green mist: Summons a wall of green mist. Seemingly a healing ability.

HoT enhancer: uses Bronze time power to speed up HoT effects.

Flight: Dracthyr can fly and perform abilities while in combat!

That’s what I’ve seen so far.

[Shadochi]

Sargeras' sword will be transformed into a tree with the seed in 9.2.5

While I'm not against it, I doubt that a world tree would be put over an old god prison again

[Hitei]

Few notable quotes from the front page.

Flying in the Dragon Isles will not require a Pathfinder achievement.

A Threads of Fate leveling system for alts will be utilized in Dragonflight and Blizzard is looking into making more systems account-wide.

Blizzard also plans to provide a more in-depth open world experience going forward.

Wtf does the third point mean?

I'd expect more Zereth Mortis-y approaches. Instead of just going through a zone and finding a rare, or a chest to loot, it'll be like finding a sealed door in a cliff wall that has hidden switches to open it that have to be looked for, or a cave with jump puzzles, or an NPC having a problem who asks you to go get something from nearby, nost as a quest but just as a dialogue.

[therumblings]

That’s what I’ve seen so far.

Very cool, glad they took some stuff from HotS.

[Nyel]

Sargeras' sword will be transformed into a tree with the seed in 9.2.5

Yes

I really don't like this forced concept of a storyline while questing. They deliberately opened this up in Legion just to go back to it in SL and DF? Lame.

[Wangming]

Few notable quotes from the front page.

Flying in the Dragon Isles will not require a Pathfinder achievement.

A Threads of Fate leveling system for alts will be utilized in Dragonflight and Blizzard is looking into making more systems account-wide.

Blizzard also plans to provide a more in-depth open world experience going forward.

Wtf does the third point mean?

No clue. Hopefully adding Genshin Impact to the list of ripped off games. But the cynic in me says that it is just a buzzword like savage was for WoD.

[Santandame]

To be honest I think it would be better than Tanaan or BS to give it to us in 10.1 (patch that might or might not have a zone).

Since every player experienced Tanaan and BS, but the starting zone will be limited to Dracthyr, so less people would've experienced it, and furthermore players would see it less since they wouldn't do it on x number of alts. I assume we might also get some evil black dragon lair there where we fight to reclaim black dragon eggs for Wrathion.

But why?

You can bet the majority of players will experience it at least once just to try the new class and race out. Some just to see the new zone and story there.

Just give us something new instead. Reusing that zone is just cheap.