Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Syegfryed]

You change armor pieces when you go to the barber based on the last interview.

They didn't said it was your armor, they said you can trade pieces, its prob like another pair of panties you can pick and all, not your real armor.

The video show they used something totally different from any mail armor i ever saw, close to a demon hunter cloth piece

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They said there are armour choices to be made at the barber. Then they said they also use shoulder, chest, and belt armour.

And yet, they never said it was your armor.

If it was yours, i don't see why you need to swap on a barber shop and not on a transmogrifier

If its a barber shop option, is a set piece like hair/skin color, from the options they gave.

[Nyel]

Okay, I haven’t seen this video before, I found it on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comment...tm_name=iossmf

Man does Dracthyr and Evoker look rough. They look like they came straight out of a cheap Asian F2P MMORPG. The art style and direction is outright terrible.

I know they are working on it and both the visuals and animations need a ton of work. I‘m just surprised in what an early state the supposed main feature of the expansion is.

[Raetary]

Okay, I haven’t seen this video before, I found it on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comment...tm_name=iossmf

Man does Dracthyr and Evoker look rough. They look like they came straight out of a cheap Asian F2P MMORPG.

I know they are working on it and both the visuals and animations need a ton of work. I‘m just surprised in what an early state the supposed main feature of the expansion is.

???

It looks like very standard quality wow animations to me.

[Nyel]

???

It looks like very standard quality wow animations to me.

Yeah if you play on the lowest settings maybe.

[DevilDare]

For someone who supposedly hates everything about the damn things, Syegfryed sure does spend a lot of time correcting everyone in here.

[draugril]

You can even slightly change your torso to be like slightly more slender or slightly bulkier; and the armor that you wear is a type of armor that you will be able to customize at the Barbershop, too. So Dracthyr, I think they’ll also be able to wear shoulders, tabards, belts across their visage and Dracthyr form. While the visage form is able to wear all-armor.

They’re talking about two separate things here. You can choose barbershop armour, like you would Blood Elf jewelry. And also, they display armour slots like anything else would - that isn’t connected to the barber.

[Bindanda]

So according to Ion in the hazle interview, he hopes to get some of the talent calculators out before Alpha even stats so that they can start getting feedback really early on them. I think that's a great idea. More of this blizzard. Bring back Dev Watercoolers and Artcraft posts.

What I'd like to see is maybe a weekly or biweekly blog post, in the style of the Diablo one plus maybe also H.S. where they show off the new mechanic. Theres so many they could do. They could alternate, maybe week 1 it's a zone then week 2 a class, then a dungeon. For me they wouldnt have to line up all the zones in a row or the classes, spread it out for a variety

1 for each zone
1 for each dungeon
The raid
Each class, tell us what their thoughts are for the class this exp
The talent system overhaul
Professions
The xpac itself/dragonriding/"how to train your dragon"
Pvp
U.I.
Pet battles

Let's get these community managers to work!

[Veluren]

They’re talking about two separate things here. You can choose barbershop armour, like you would Blood Elf jewelry. And also, they display armour slots like anything else would - that isn’t connected to the barber.

If that's the case they need to status update with some wording very soon, because everyone I've talked to and myself is under the impression that's how it works - Dracthyr show little if no armor, but have a lot of cosmetic armor baked into the character to make up for it

[boyzma]

I, personally don't like or play either humans or any kind of elves....can't stand them. I also only have played female characters since Vanilla, never a male. However, I think these guys don't look bad at all. Yes, they are human/elves...a mutt if you will. BUT I will gladly play a male one of these. Yes, they need tweeked but Blizzard has the ball in their court...they have time.

[Futhark]

Great, let me mimicry other races as well, everyone wins

I want this to! Hopefully we get more visages in the future, like this photoshop I whipped together:

[infinitemeridian]

What I'd like to see is maybe a weekly or biweekly blog post, in the style of the Diablo one plus maybe also H.S. where they show off the new mechanic. Theres so many they could do. They could alternate, maybe week 1 it's a zone then week 2 a class, then a dungeon. For me they wouldnt have to line up all the zones in a row or the classes, spread it out for a variety

1 for each zone
1 for each dungeon
The raid
Each class, tell us what their thoughts are for the class this exp
The talent system overhaul
Professions
The xpac itself/dragonriding/"how to train your dragon"
Pvp
U.I.
Pet battles

Let's get these community managers to work!

They did the weekly blog posts with Legion and the specs, they should definitely do that again.

[boyzma]

I want this to! Hopefully we get more visages in the future, like this photoshop I whipped together:

Those honestly look really good

[huth]

Personaly, I've come to terms that it's a big expenditure to create other humanoid forms. Blizzard is within their right to prioritze other things. But fans are allowed to ask for it too.

I'm mostly annoyed by the people calling Blizzard names for doing prioritisation because they have different priorities from them. It'd be fine if they said "i'd like this", but they keep adding "and blizz lazy because they don't".

Please, show us, how adding other races as option for visage, on top of the ones they already had, will take something away from those people

It costs dev resources, mostly time. And it is literally a matter of who gets what first. That's the entire question you pose.

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And maces. Every healer can wear 1h maces, it's the quintessential healer weapon.

Is the dragon form in combat always active or do I switch? I don't get it. I'd rather play as a scaly human than as an ugly malformed dragon.

I'd say fist weapons are more likely than wands. Wands don't really fit their style (their draconic form doesn't appear to use weapons), fists very much do. There's literally images of them slashing their claws.

Would give them a similar loadout to Druids, Monks and Shamans.

[AngerFork]

I want this to! Hopefully we get more visages in the future, like this photoshop I whipped together:

Well done! That looks really cool, especially the Troll! I suspect the time to add these features to other races will be what prevents us from getting them which is a bummer, because I really like the way some of those look (and because I still want my Vulpera Dracthyr).

[Makorus]

I would be very suprised if Dracthyr dont get more classes as the expansion goes on.

Same with different Visages.

[Nymrohd]

Lol that orc looks hilarious

[AngerFork]

I would be very suprised if Dracthyr dont get more classes as the expansion goes on.

Same with different Visages.

Visages, I could see it. But classes I think are going to at least take until after the expansion. I feel they are really trying to push this same race/class thing & this feels like one of those lessons that they'll wind up learning once they do a retrospective.

[Lorca]

I want this to! Hopefully we get more visages in the future, like this photoshop I whipped together:

This would be great and not hard to make!

[Alanar]

For someone who supposedly hates everything about the damn things, Syegfryed sure does spend a lot of time correcting everyone in here.

He says he hates it, but he actually loves elves with a passion.

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Okay, I haven’t seen this video before, I found it on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comment...tm_name=iossmf

Man does Dracthyr and Evoker look rough. They look like they came straight out of a cheap Asian F2P MMORPG. The art style and direction is outright terrible.

I know they are working on it and both the visuals and animations need a ton of work. I‘m just surprised in what an early state the supposed main feature of the expansion is.

Ye it really doesnt look cool imo...

[huth]

Ye it really doesnt look cool imo...

Why is that version sped up and missing frames compared to the original presentation?