Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[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.

[huth]

From the Fanbyte interview:

As you level up, there is a schedule that we have laid out on our end of which type of point you are going to get at which level. I'm going to make up numbers here but at level 37, you might get a Druid points, at level 38, get a Resto point, at 39 and 40 Druid points and 41 and 42 Resto points.

So, apparently, we're not necessarily going to get them alternating every level. Given the setup, i'd expect Class to be more frontloaded while spec is more backloaded (since class tree mostly covers your toolkit that you kinda need)

[Ersula]

Sounds like a deal to me.

If we do get Nightfallen, I hope we get an unexpected class choice: Perhaps some of the Blood Knights were raised to undeath (paladins) or we borrow some of the stoneborne magic to give the venthyr's brothers-in-vampirsm Druid abilities: Gorgon bear forms, Tombstone ancients, Bat flight forms; The environment of Revendreth seemed ripe to give us a new form of Druidism.

[Chickat]

I wouldn't be so certain. If Ion is saying that something will probably happen on WEEK ONE, and we're talking about the lawyer here, it probably will.

They will take their time to add classes for Dracthyr because they can use lore as an excuse, but it will 99% happen.

Ion also said they might add other races to demon hunter.

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From the Fanbyte interview:


So, apparently, we're not necessarily going to get them alternating every level. Given the setup, i'd expect Class to be more frontloaded while spec is more backloaded (since class tree mostly covers your toolkit that you kinda need)

Does make sense.

[huth]

On an somewhat unrelated note, i'm getting the feeling whoever transcripted the Buffed.de interview was drunk.

Welcome to the magical planet of Azur Off!

[Ersula]

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?

They said it's like Worgen form in that you're forced into it while in combat.

They didn't say its like Worgen from so you can toggle in & out of it at will because that would be pure chaos for how big they are, and have photographic proof of.

[Revamp Man]

I think I’m very jaded because fuck me is all the Information coming out sounding more and more awesome

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They said it's like Worgen form in that you're forced into it while in combat.

They didn't say its like Worgen from so you can toggle in & out of it at will because that would be pure chaos for how big they are, and have photographic proof of.

What about when they were describing being able to use it for dragon riding

[elderu]

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...

A friend of mine had the same conclusion but we quickly realized there the key context is probably when Alexstrasza says

"The World has been sundered..." past tense.

So seemingly the Dragon Isles have endured the events of The Sundering at this time and the Cinematic is showing the more immediate response to these events.

But I do find it odd how this might not line up with the Dragon Soul/Well of Eternity events.

The cinematic shows the shadows of Dragons flying over head to "go to it's aid."(the world), and if I'm not mistaken, didn't we already see ingame the Dragon Soul events during Hour of Twilight 4.3?

Maybe The Sundering is happening in stages and the actual area of Zin'Azshari is still intact at the time of the cinematic, just engulfed in a felstorm?

Not like the ingame representation was all that grand compared to the revisions in Chronicles.

[huth]

A friend of mine had the same conclusion but we quickly realized there the key context is probably when Alexstrasza says


So seemingly the Dragon Isles have endured the events of the Well of Eternity and the Cinematic is showing the more immediate response to these events.


But I do find it odd how this might not line up with the Dragon Soul/Well of Eternity events.

The cinematic shows the shadows of Dragons flying over head to "go to it's aid."(the world), and if I'm not mistaken, didn't we already see ingame the Dragon Soul events during Hour of Twilight 4.3?

Maybe The Sundering is happening in stages and the actual area of Zin'Azshari is still intact at the time of the cinematic, just engulfed in a felstorm?

Not like the ingame representation was all that grand compared to the revisions in Chronicles.

There's also the possibility that the narration happened a bit after the events shown, or even that Alexstrasza speaking is the present day one.

That aside, even if it was after the Sundering, that doesn't mean they were part of it before that. It's the Dragon Isles, not the Dragon Mountains, after all.

[elderu]

There's also the possibility that the narration happened a bit after the events shown, or even that Alexstrasza speaking is the present day one.
That aside, even if it was after the Sundering, that doesn't mean they were part of it before that. It's the Dragon Isles, not the Dragon Mountains, after all.

Probably fair to say that the quote:

"The world has been sundered. It cries out in pain. We must go to it's aid. We entrust our ancestral home to you, The Watchers. Let the land slumber. Hidden even from our own eyes.
You will feel our return in the waking of the land. Then, you must light the Beacon of Tyrhold, lest the path home be lost to us."

Seems to be straightforwardly a command to The Watchers from Alexstrasza during the time of her departure though, no?
and that's why the end is awkward because I think, who is she talking to?

But I definitely don't rule it out that the Isles could be Isles to begin with though. Could be a neat idea for sure.

[sambubu]

So why did the guy that leaked the photos of Dracthyr say that they would have 2 dps spec and that the healer would heal with fire?

[Varx]

How would you guys feel if dracthyr form remained armorless and without a male / female form, but we had more than one visage option that could freely be swapped somehow.

So like humans, tauren, nelves, gnomes, belves, trolls, etc. All with crazy draconic features.

Would that even it out? I think it's be a good compromise for this lack of armor issue.