Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Shadochi]

Don't quote me on this but I've heard that Blizzard didn't even have a resident phycologist on staff in any consulting capacity during the production of the cinematic. Amateurish, honestly.

Omg how dare they be such amateur, small indie company, couldn't even get pros to make this fantasy world realistic!!1!!11 /s

But yeah OT I believe it is just algae that looks cool and developed during the 10k years, and looks cool to have it appear in the cinematic as time went by

[Rathwell]

"Patch 9.2.5 will start to show some changes that have been going on on Azeroth while we were away. Some of it has been available on the PTR, but some hasn't happened yet."

What secrets are you hiding from us Blizz?!?!

I don't keep up with Retail. What changes have we seen on PTR so far?

[Nymrohd]

I'm glad Khadgar is back for Dragonflight btw. He'll probably die this xpac cause the flags are all over the place but I want more dad puns.

[Rathwell]

Omg how dare they be such amateur, small indie company, couldn't even get pros to make this fantasy world realistic!!1!!11 /s

But yeah OT I believe it is just algae that looks cool and developed during the 10k years, and looks cool to have it appear in the cinematic as time went by

Honestly, if I know Blizzard to the level that I think I do over the past 20 years, I'd wager the real answer is "It looked cool."

Blizzard is seldom playing 4D chess. They see something IRL that gives a cool visual, they throw it in the game. If the players like it, they leave it open to player interpretation to fill in the lore about it, and if they like the lore they may make it canon eventually.

[Makabreska]

DF zones much bigger than in SL. Nice, pairs well with new flying. But no duck mount is a huge slap in the face of this community...

Overall interviews give overwhelmingly good news.

[Varx]

I have a feeling that “visage options” is going to be the new “DH restricted to elves” issue.

God I hope not. I mained a belf since TBC and finally decided to change to tauren at the end of bfa. Never. Going. Back.

Can't stand their silly idle stance.

At least give them male human visage if nothing else.

[Valysar]

DF zones much bigger than in SL. Nice, pairs well with new flying. But no duck mount is a huge slap in the face of this community...

We'll have a rabbit mount for the Chinese New Year tho

Can't stand their silly idle stance.

They should give "visage" form the night elf skeleton.

[ImTheMizAwesome]

absolute gigachad, if AR leak truly happens i vote for either tuskarr or crunched to zandalari size vrykuls.

[Shadochi]

Honestly, if I know Blizzard to the level that I think I do over the past 20 years, I'd wager the real answer is "It looked cool."

Blizzard is seldom playing 4D chess. They see something IRL that gives a cool visual, they throw it in the game. If the players like it, they leave it open to player interpretation to fill in the lore about it, and if they like the lore they may make it canon eventually.

IMO this is 100% as it should be in fantasy games. Overexplanation leads to less creativity and coolness. I'd rather have a a cool jungle with fantasy twists that don't make sense in the real world than a recreation of an earth rainforest in any fantasy game

[Aeluron Lightsong]

"Patch 9.2.5 will start to show some changes that have been going on on Azeroth while we were away. Some of it has been available on the PTR, but some hasn't happened yet."

What secrets are you hiding from us Blizz?!?!

Not a fan of the Anduin news but I'm dealing. Not even remotely saying DF is bad. No, it looks pretty good.

[Shadochi]

DF zones much bigger than in SL. Nice, pairs well with new flying. But no duck mount is a huge slap in the face of this community...

Overall interviews give overwhelmingly food news.

Also on the zone scale what is interesting is that they said the DF zones individually are bigger than the ones in SL, but also that its one of the largest continents in general that they did. It's a 4-5 zone continent (depending if they count the starting zone) and most of the other large ones have at least 6-7 zones

[Makabreska]

Also on the zone scale what is interesting is that they said the DF zones individually are bigger than the ones in SL, but also that its one of the largest continents in general that they did. It's a 4-5 zone continent (depending if they count the starting zone) and most of the other large ones have at least 6-7 zones

Plus they will have big verticality.

[Valysar]

As big as Northrend apparentely

[Nymrohd]

Also on the zone scale what is interesting is that they said the DF zones individually are bigger than the ones in SL, but also that its one of the largest continents in general that they did. It's a 4-5 zone continent (depending if they count the starting zone) and most of the other large ones have at least 6-7 zones

Probably each zone is effectively two zones; the leveling part and the endgame part. If each rep is getting its own campaign at max level, they need the space.

[Teriz]

New batch of interviews on the front page. Lots of lore explanation.

The new dragon lore, and Kalecgos, Wrathion, and Mithras’ story arcs already sound a thousand times better than the Shadowlands BS.

[George Lucas]

The additional infos trickling down through the interviews sound promising so far. Except for the disgusting dragon mongrel race class I'm looking forward to what this addon shapes up to be. Maybe Blizzard has finally overcome the marvel retard addon style that is going on since Legion.

[Makabreska]

Dracthyr fixed!

[Aeluron Lightsong]

That at first looked like a gryphon allied race >.>

[Raetary]

Duckthyr fixed!

FTFY

/10chars

[Khaza-R]

Also on the zone scale what is interesting is that they said the DF zones individually are bigger than the ones in SL, but also that its one of the largest continents in general that they did. It's a 4-5 zone continent (depending if they count the starting zone) and most of the other large ones have at least 6-7 zones

I don't think the number of zones really matters. Remember that Pandaria was originally only very large 4 zones + Vale of Eternal Blossoms to thematically correspond with the Celestials. But they later split Valley of the Four Winds and Townlong Steppes into 2 zones each without changing the overall size of Pandaria.

Zones like Jade Forest and Kunlai felt very massive to me in MoP and supposedly the Dragon Isles zones will be even larger.