Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Lady Atia]

In thinking about it, you know what is absolutely criminal Blizzard hasn't brought back?
Quivers.

The game already supported them, had several appearances available, and they were tied to items.

Just add a vendor back on a hunter trainer somewhere and we are golden.

They just should release some HD basic quivers and also give us a new quiver with each tier set. Also maybe make capes and back transmog (like quivers or the covenant pieces) similiar to shoulder transmog - you can choose to have both, or only one if you like that better.

[Nyel]

The more I look at the higher res videos and images the more I like it. It don't think it looks that rough. Sure the proportions on the body could be a bit better, but it doesn't look bad. Just not as good as it could.

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Oh the animations look sick to me. And the spell effects are gorgeous.

I was just surprised how bad those spells and particle effects look like. I completely disagree that they look gorgeous or sick, they're generic and nothing new. That blue ray, the breath and the AoE heal in particular look like recycled animations from Mage, DK / Monk and Druid. Especially that breath looks like Eye Beam meets Breath of Sindragosa (aka not good).

As I said before, it could be a very early state in development, but that even raises more concerns. But that might be one of the reasons why they look quite rough at the moment and why pre-orders aren't up yet: Dragonflight's launch is almost a year away.

[Lorca]

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?

[Sondrelk]

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?

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.

[Nyel]

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?

It just makes not much sense to keep such a big feature hidden from the quite light expansion reveal.

Having one or two allied races in store would have been a massive argument for Dragonflight and they definitely would have put that into the presentation. Something like... "Dragonflight might be some time away, but soon you'll be able to play XXX and XXX when we launch them in 9.2.5 for players that pre-order the upcoming expansion!"

[Dioporco]

Which is completely irrelevant to this situation.

Absolutely not? Mechagnome are a doshit race, with a dogshit appearance which is nowhere near the mechagnome we knew (mimiron) and still we got 0 fix for that race and no wonder is one of the least played

[Jshadowhunter]

Plus there is no gear grind.

If you want legendaries you have to work for them... HARD.

[Dioporco]

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?

9.2.5 datamine + calia + tirisfal + darkfallen etc etc

[Hugnomo]

Personaly, I like that Drakthyr can only be evokers and evokers can only be drakthyr. It's bold and different. It turns them into a very unique race. And the class does encompass all the powers associated with dragons. Don't think we've ever seen dragons be shaman or paladins or something.

i do hope the pre order AR thing is true. When do you think we'll know about that for real?

[Nyel]

i do hope the pre order AR thing is true. When do you think we'll know about that for real?

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

[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.