Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Raetary]

I assumed the blue water was Azerite in some form.
Given what happened at the end of Shadowlands.

Considering Azerite is mostly golden, its far more likely this is just a bioluminescent beach ala Maldives.

[Greyfang]

Considering Azerite is mostly golden, its far more likely this is just a bioluminescent beach ala Maldives.

It's worth noting the glow isn't there when the watchers go to sleep. Either the algae grew in the 10,000 years since (which would be a bit of a nice but useless detail), or something else is going on.

[Izalla]

They didn't. The dragons are nowhere to be seen when Stoneboy wakes up. They only show up after he reactivated the beacon and was falling to his death.

"You will feel our return in the waking of the land."

They were already there, that's why the land and stone guy woke up in the first place. They just couldn't get in until the beacon was lit and "opened the path".

[Makabreska]

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

[Sondrelk]

It's worth noting the glow isn't there when the watchers go to sleep. Either the algae grew in the 10,000 years since (which would be a bit of a nice but useless detail), or something else is going on.

The writers made a big deal of an elemental awakening, and we see the volcano especially close to erupting.
Couldn't it be as simple as the water being blue because of water elementals?

[Shadochi]

It's worth noting the glow isn't there when the watchers go to sleep. Either the algae grew in the 10,000 years since (which would be a bit of a nice but useless detail), or something else is going on.

Would the lack of sun proliferate the development of the algae in any way?

[Raetary]

Since the guardians were waiting for some sort of activation signal, my guess is we are going to Uldaman either for some random reason or Alex sends us specifically for this and we activate the signal to reactivate the watchers.
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There will be new sections of Uldaman to explore as Alexstraza sends us to find discs that contain the knowledge of Keeper Tyr.

I guess this confirms it.

[Rathwell]

Would the lack of sun proliferate the development of the algae in any way?

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.

[Izalla]

"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?!?!

[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