Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[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?

[Nymrohd]

This would be great and not hard to make!

How would it not be hard to make? You want them to create the Dracthyr customizations on every single model and yet it is not a lot of work?

[Makabreska]

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

That would be the biggest 5head plot twist of the century.

[Lorca]

How would it not be hard to make? You want them to create the Dracthyr customizations on every single model and yet it is not a lot of work?

Please, don’t try to defend the lazyness of choosing again the blood elf model… how hard is it to put those already created textures on the other races?

[Makabreska]

Please, don’t try to defend the lazyness of choosing again the blood elf model… how hard it is to put those already created textures on the other races?

Dunno, you tell us. Seems that you know well how designing and implementing said designs for WoW characters works.

[boyzma]

Please, don’t try to defend the lazyness of choosing again the blood elf model… how hard is it to put those already created textures on the other races?

Sadly this is the attitude of many people who don't have a clue what they're talking about. "All they have to do is push a button" or some such bs. I'm not a designer and have no clue about the mechanics of it, but I'm pretty sure it's not as easy as you think.

[Lorca]

Dunno, you tell us. Seems that you know well how designing and implementing said designs for WoW characters works.

Or you yourself could tell me, as you and the other guy completely fall into the need of quoting me, because you probably know a lot of designing 8).

The same way they put those assets in two different models, they can do it for the other races, or just avoid it and invest time working on the actual new race and not “so much” -according to you- into, again, Blood Elves. Why should all the people who don’t play Elves get a new class, for the second time, with Elves? Oh, yes, and the most boring human option… not even the Kul’tiran model.

[boyzma]

Or you yourself could tell me, as you and the other guy completely fall into the need of quoting me, because you probably know a lot of designing 8).

The same way they put those assets in two different models, they can do it for the other races, or just avoid it and invest time working on the actual new race and not “so much” -according to you- into, again, Blood Elves. Why should all the people who don’t play Elves get a new class, for the second time, with Elves? Oh, yes, and the most boring human option… not even the Kul’tiran model.

Nice side stepping /s

[Nymrohd]

Or you yourself could tell me, as you and the other guy completely fall into the need of quoting me, because you probably know a lot of designing 8).

The same way they put those assets in two different models, they can do it for the other races, or just avoid it and invest time working on the actual new race and not “so much” -according to you- into, again, Blood Elves. Why should all the people who don’t play Elves get a new class, for the second time, with Elves? Oh, yes, and the most boring human option… not even the Kul’tiran model.

I know enough to tell you that each race has its own texture map so it's not copy pasting. The most you get is that you can sample the textures but they still have to be refitted on the each map.

[Lorca]

Sadly this is the attitude of many people who don't have a clue what they're talking about. "All they have to do is push a button" or some such bs. I'm not a designer and have no clue about the mechanics of it, but I'm pretty sure it's not as easy as you think.

You say you don’t know about it, but then you say you are “pretty sure” about how it works. Talk about contradictions here. If they did it with two models, and they got the experience for doing that twice, why can’t they do it for different models so more people could enjoy it?

Honestly, it’s pretty upsetting how egoistic so many of you are. You get your favorite models, and when other people ask for their favorite races to be able to get the chance to play as a Dracthyr too, then you do not only not support fellow players, but you also criticize them… so annoying.

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I know enough to tell you that each race has its own texture map so it's not copy pasting. The most you get is that you can sample the textures but they still have to be refitted on the each map.

Did I say it was copy pasting?

[Makabreska]

Or you yourself could tell me, as you and the other guy completely fall into the need of quoting me, because you probably know a lot of designing 8).

The same way they put those assets in two different models, they can do it for the other races, or just avoid it and invest time working on the actual new race and not “so much” -according to you- into, again, Blood Elves. Why should all the people who don’t play Elves get a new class, for the second time, with Elves? Oh, yes, and the most boring human option… not even the Kul’tiran model.

Oh, so you yourself don't know how much work it is. But hey, let's accuse Blizz of being lazy, because we all know that these companies have infinite time and resources and if they do not implement something then it means they are lazy bastards.