Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Hugnomo]

The moment pre-orders are available because for sure they won't be a free content update.

Right. But do you have any educated guesses as to when that would be?

[Nyel]

Right. But do you have any educated guesses as to when that would be?

Right now nobody can make an educated guess, even wowhead ran an article about that topic: https://www.wowhead.com/news/world-o...ble-yet-326765

Usually pre-orders always went live during or after the announcements. This time it's different and we don't know why, that's why we really can't predict when it's going to be available. Could be tomorrow, could be in one month, could be in 2-3 months.

[ImTheMizAwesome]

I feel like mounts and transmog set/backpack they would have be done by now to start preorders.

That's what makes me think we might get something bigger or AR like in last patch of Legion.

[Nyel]

I feel like mounts and transmog set/backpack they would have be done by now to start preorders.

That's what makes me think we might get something bigger or AR like in last patch of Legion.

Legion / 7.3.5 allied races were announced during the BfA reveal and were then available (how much?) later. Why would they don't do the same this time if they really had allied races in store?

[micwini]

Interesting. 2022 release after all, like Scaleface predicted?

[ImTheMizAwesome]

Legion / 7.3.5 allied races were announced during the BfA reveal and were then available (how much?) later. Why would they don't do the same this time if they really had allied races in store?

They might still be working on heritage sets for these races or something, maybe they didnt want to spoil some things from 9.2.5, this reveal and no preorders was weird, because thats usually when the most of editions sell i think.

It's either that or they work on 5 different dragon mounts, different from each other for preorder, but still feels weird because pre order stuff is probably done as soon as possible.

[Veluren]

Why are there so many people talking about possible allied races coming with the pre-order? Is there any indication of that or is it just a wish?

A bit of telephone game from Redshirt Guy, following up on the 4Chan leak that accurately called the expansion details 2 days in advance saying outright we were getting on as a pre-order bonus next patch.

[Makabreska]

Interesting. 2022 release after all, like Scaleface predicted?

There is really no indication of that here.

[Nyel]

Interesting. 2022 release after all, like Scaleface predicted?

Don't know where you read 2022 release from that statement. He basically prepares us for a long wait by saying that "this expansion is quite far long" (I guess the "away" was kept out) or am I misunderstanding something? Or "quite far long in development"? Weird wording.

And wasn't the 9.1 "soon" basically two months? Plus WotLK Classic will launch in Q4/22 (and Sunwell has yet to be released), so I really don't get 2022 release at all.

[Makabreska]

Don't know where you read 2022 release from that statement. He basically prepares us for a long wait by saying that "this expansion is quite far long" (I guess the "away" was kept out) or am I misunderstanding something? Or "quite far long in development"? Weird wording.

And wasn't the 9.1 "soon" basically two months? Plus WotLK Classic will launch in Q4/22 (and Sunwell has yet to be released), so I really don't get 2022 release at all.

It's the latter, given the next sentence.

[Hyrja]

He probably meant to say "along" and yes, we might see it sooner rather than later.

[micwini]

There is really no indication of that here.

Don't know where you read 2022 release from that statement. He basically prepares us for a long wait by saying that "this expansion is quite far long" (I guess the "away" was kept out) or am I misunderstanding something? Or "quite far long in development"? Weird wording.

And wasn't the 9.1 "soon" basically two months? Plus WotLK Classic will launch in Q4/22 (and Sunwell has yet to be released), so I really don't get 2022 release at all.

This interview has a lot of typo's / weird grammar. "Azur off" for example :P. Some weird phonetic writing is in this interview.
I read this as "But this expansion is quite far along", which makes sense with the following sentence where he says they've been putting a lot of work into it the last couple of years.

[Raetary]

He says the expansion is quite far along in development, they just mistyped 'along'.

- - - Updated - - -

https://www.wowhead.com/news/gray-an...nflight-326804

It's happening!
Now we can proudly wear our trash items.

[Valysar]

Interesting. 2022 release after all, like Scaleface predicted?

I'm so tired of his "Soon"

[Dracullus]

Purely wishful thinking. There is something happening in Tirisfal during 9.2.5, but no indication of a Darkfallen AR. Why indeed Darkfallen should be an AR to begin with and no just customization options locked behind a questline like the Night Warrior customization in BfA is beyond me though.

Wishful thinking, but races now are relatively low cost for big profit from race changes, since no starter zone is needed. Also pre-order need some kick, I doubt some backpieces will be enough. Of course there will be also dragon race+class, but that's 2 weeks before launch.

[Teriz]

What does that have to do with the in-lore explanation of this new race?

It’s just lore to justify their existence since we’ve never heard of them or encountered them before. Again, Blizzard gave us a new type of dragon (Dracthyr) because technical limitations couldn’t give us standard dragons. They said this during the deep dive.

You don't think that they're half-dragon-half-human is why they can only turn into humans with dragon features??

No. Blizzard explained that as well. They said that due to dragon animations and the amount of new customization, they limited the visages to an elf/human visage form.

[Sondrelk]

Wishful thinking, but races now are relatively low cost for big profit from race changes, since no starter zone is needed. Also pre-order need some kick, I doubt some backpieces will be enough. Of course there will be also dragon race+class, but that's 2 weeks before launch.

SL preorder had the mount that gave a quest, and that was basically the extent of it.
DF could have a similar quest, or even proper questline attached to the Dragon backs.

[Teriz]

Interesting. 2022 release after all, like Scaleface predicted?

Scaleface is like a WoW Nostradamus. Crazy how much stuff he got right.

That said, where tf is my preorder Blizz?

[Luck4]

I don't think they'll release WOTLK Classic and Dragonflight in the same quarter. Still on Q1 2023 boat.

[Eurhetemec]

Legion / 7.3.5 allied races were announced during the BfA reveal and were then available (how much?) later. Why would they don't do the same this time if they really had allied races in store?

They weren't intended to be delayed as much as they were, that's why they wouldn't do that again. I imagine if there is an AR associated with this, they may be trying to solidify the timeline on availability rather than promising something which might not be available on time.

The fact that there's no pre-order definitely means something is up, because there will be a pre-order and a pre-order bonus eventually.