Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[ChairmanKaga]

I agree. I think we are just in for a really long alpha beta cycle. I could even see potentially the prepatch coming December with the expansion in February. That way people have plenty of time for evoker play.

Wasn't there a blurb that stated the prepatch was going to be two weeks long this time?

Edit: found here https://www.wowhead.com/news/dragonf...-mythic-326780

The Pre-Patch event is planned to last for 2 weeks, and will introduce players to Dragonflight. A level 60 revamp of the classic dungeon Uldaman is planned for the event.
Dracthyr Evokers will be available to players during the pre-patch event.

[Nymrohd]

Wasn't there a blurb that stated the prepatch was going to be two weeks long this time?

Well that would be weird given we usually only know about prepatch length at the time the prepatch launch gets announced.

[Chickat]

We are like the aspects. We can do everything they can do (and perhaps more since the specs merge the powers of multiple dragonflights), we just don't look like four legged dragons.

Once the final models are released and we get all of our customizations, things will be fine.

I see evokers as little mini chromatus. We can do anything an aspect can do, just at like a tenth the power. They had lots of failures making a chromatus because they wanted 100% power of every aspect. Deathwing had some of the power of all the aspects and it almost tore his body apart.


So I see us kinda like death knights are to the lich king. Same stuff just less powerful.

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I find it quite funny that people call the Dracthyr form an overglorified druid form, but then ask for the regular drake model.
As if that wouldn't be an overglorified druid form.

I see evokers and drakthyr as a demon hunter and not as a new race. If you think about them just being elves that turn into dragons and not a unique race it makes sense.

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Speaking of options, looks like they are thinking of making it so you can fight in visage form if you want.

There great. They are listening to feedback quickly this time. They are probably gonna settle on a glyph or something that lets you stay in visage form unless you have to do an inately dragon ability.


So your standard fireball spells will allow you to be in visage but when you click a dragon form spell it will automatically shift you in to use it and back out once it's done.

[Nymrohd]

So apparently the sword in Silithus is just a glorified splinter as per the buffed.de interview

[Chickat]

If they make it so you can fight in visage form 99% of players will just be blood elves. If they are going to do this, then they have to expand customization for visage form to more races at the very least. This feels like Demon Hunters 2 instead of a new race.

That's literally what it is though lol. They shouldn't have marketed it as a new race tbh.

[huth]

Well that would be weird given we usually only know about prepatch length at the time the prepatch launch gets announced.

It says the event will last two weeks. The prepatch could potentially be longer.

[Chickat]

I am more concerned they will use the ability to play entirely in visage form to skimp out on Dragon form customizations.
What is the point afterall of ensuring that the dragon forms are more than a glorified druid form if it's only the tiniest of steps above the DH metamorphosis forms?

The visage form honestly feels like it should have been a "fun" racial ability to turn into any race out of combat, not in any way a base form. You play a Dracthyr to be a dragon, not a belf with horns.

I doubt it as this seems like a rather new development and thought process. They probably have most of the race done anyways.

[huth]

So apparently the sword in Silithus is just a glorified splinter as per the buffed.de interview

At this point, that's what it should be. We can't remove it, but by itself, it ain't gonna do much.

[Chickat]

Wasn't there a blurb that stated the prepatch was going to be two weeks long this time?

Edit: found here https://www.wowhead.com/news/dragonf...-mythic-326780

I don't really agree with this approach but blizz gonna blizz.

[Nymrohd]

Oh so Uldaman IS getting a proper revamp? I thought it was just getting a new wing. Wonder if they will change anything about Ironaya and Archaedas. I had missed that interview Thanks for linking

[Jodmos]

Oh so Uldaman IS getting a proper revamp? I thought it was just getting a new wing. Wonder if they will change anything about Ironaya and Archaedas. I had missed that interview Thanks for linking

The quote is 'explore previously unknown chambers of Uldaman' so may be something like UBRS/LBRS and just another version. I hope so as I don't like them removing old dungeons.

[Vakir]

Dude, what are you fucking talking about. They have said multiple times you can, even comparing it to the Worgen form directly. Why is literally every other post you make on these subjects just blatant lies and misinformation?

It's sort of their identity at this point.

[Nymrohd]

Hmm checking on WoWHead Archaedas was retconned to be disabled instead of dead in the EK book. SO I guess we are meeting Archaedas.

[Izalla]

Oh yes, defo Jaina and Uther for mage and pala! Rogues could get Valeera inspired set, Druids Malfurion, Bolvar for DK's. Maybe switch Doomhammer to Shamans and give Warriors a Saurfang / HD Tier 1 set. Warlocks could get Kil Jaedens armour, Priests a Velen inspired set and monks a set inspired by Chen Stormstout. Only DH's I'm not sure what to give since Illidan has ... well ... not really that much armour lol.

As a shaman main, hell no. That is a very much plate set belonging to a warrior who gave it to another warrior who turned around and learned to be a shaman on top of it. Absolutely nothing about the Doomhammer set says "shaman" and I just want a damn set that actually looks like a shaman would wear it. If you're gonna pick an iconic orc shaman to take the gear off of, just take Drek'thar. Or maybe even pick a Tauren for once.

Edit: scratch that, Drek'thar's set is entirely from in game assets you can already get and it looks like ass these days. Give him a new unique set first and then you can give it to shamans.

[KainneAbsolute]

10,000 years ago, the Dragon Isles were not part of the main continent? I say this because the trailer shows how they observe the Legion invasion on the horizon.

It also caught my attention that their immediate action was to hide the dragon isles, so I guess there is something essential to hide it immediately from the Legion...

[Hugnomo]

I just realized that we're probably going to have the "warbringers, harbingers, burdens of shaohao, lords of war" types of cinematics featuring the aspects (or aspects to be). Alexstraza, Merithra. Wrathion, Kalecgos, Nozdormu. Pretty hyped about that.

[Raetary]

Hmm checking on WoWHead Archaedas was retconned to be disabled instead of dead in the EK book. SO I guess we are meeting Archaedas.

Good.
Poor guy got trashed for nothing.

[rainhard]

I just realized that we're probably going to have the "warbringers, harbingers, burdens of shaohao, lords of war" types of cinematics featuring the aspects (or aspects to be). Alexstraza, Merithra. Wrathion, Kalecgos, Nozdormu. Pretty hyped about that.

Same, can't wait to see the potential stories of Meritha, Kalecgos and Nozdormu, i also wonder if they will choose wrathion over ebonhorn which they probably will considering his bigger fanbase and importance.

[Khaza-R]

Oh so Uldaman IS getting a proper revamp? I thought it was just getting a new wing. Wonder if they will change anything about Ironaya and Archaedas. I had missed that interview Thanks for linking

Did they specify? It just said something about unearthed few faults so I was unsure it was going to be something like Blackrock Caverns

[Three Faced Goddess]

Dead elves for both factions for launch.

Tuskarr for the alliance. Vrykul for the horde. (also with the vrykul being stuck on the island for 10k years they should be shorter now for some reason, thus allowing them to more easily be playable char models.
Neutral Drakenoid race near the end of the expansion.

Thats what I would want.

Sounds like a deal to me.