Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Sondrelk]

I can do a +15 well enough. But all of them? I just don't have the willpower to see it through this expansion.

Do one or two every week, maybe a third or even fourth if it's an easy week or you have a good group to help you.

Never bothered with M+, much less Keystone Master, but then someone in my guild offered to help boost me and it became easy. Got both the season 2 and season 3 mounts.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

I can do a +15 well enough. But all of them? I just don't have the willpower to see it through this expansion.

Spiteful at 15...


*Face goes blue*


I dunno either.

[Nyel]

If any of those were happening, they would have been big enough to announce when the patch hit PTR.

Or at least big enough to announce with Dragonflight.

[Berkilak]

I'm rather out of the loop: how legitimate is this whole "pre-order Allied Race" rumour?

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

I'm rather out of the loop: how legitimate is this whole "pre-order Allied Race" rumour?

It isn't. It's connected to one 4chan poster who matched the MMO-Champion leaker which mentioned an allied race for preorder. People then realized that the whole Dark Ranger customization thing is a likelihood and then extrapolated that to mean Darkfallen is going to be an allied race.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Its unlikely, I dunno where people are getting this stuff.


Edit: The people perpetuating the allied race thing.

[Khaza-R]

I'm rather out of the loop: how legitimate is this whole "pre-order Allied Race" rumour?

Pre-order as in it being a AR for 10.0 with early access? Zero. We already had a French interview where they confirmed there's no ARs planned for Dragonflight

There is a tiny chance that it could be a 9.2.5 feature to bring people back. But still nothing really confirming that at all.

[Cheezits]

Its unlikely, I dunno where people are getting this stuff.

An AR was likely the second Tirisfala encrypted around the same time they started retooling the dead elves in the Sylvanas book, the new combat noises and AR-intro length Silvermoon music is just adding onto that.

People were talking about an AR before the 4chan post and they just stole that. Danusers comments on DR is also very suspicious as this is the last time they will be relevant so they are likely to be "unlockable" in some form in 9.2.5 (and the added things in the data point to an AR more than a barber shop skin)

[Berkilak]

Pre-order as in it being a AR for 10.0 with early access? Zero. We already had a French interview where they confirmed there's no ARs planned for Dragonflight

There is a tiny chance that it could be a 9.2.5 feature to bring people back. But still nothing really confirming that at all.

Was that the JudgeHype interview?

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

Was that the JudgeHype interview?

Breakflip FR had a question about playable Sethrak. (That is the only source of my Archived Interviews about Allied Races beyond the Taliesin & Evitel Twitter Space)

Will we be able to play as Sethrak?

Google Translate:

Patrick Dawson: “Allied races are a very important subject, many people come to see us even colleagues who ask us “can I play as a sethrak?” or murloc, or centaur etc. There are always ideas however when we add a race in WoW we want to be careful that there is a clear intention behind the decision. We will discuss this with the team, you never know what we will add, there is no clear plan for 10.0 we are really focusing on the Dracthyrs.

Original French:

Patrick Dawson : « Les races alliées sont un sujet très important, beaucoup de gens viennent nous voir même des collègues qui nous demande “est-ce que je peux jouer en tant que sethrak ?” ou murloc, ou centaure etc. Il y a toujours des idées cependant quand nous ajoutons une race dans WoW nous voulons faire attention à ce qu’il y est une intention claire derrière la décision. On discutera de ça avec l’équipe, on sait jamais ce que l’on va ajouter, il n’y a pas de plan clair pour la 10.0 on se concentre vraiment sur les Dracthyrs.»

So basically, no.

[Berkilak]

Breakflip FR had a question about playable Sethrak. (That is the only source of my Archived Interviews about Allied Races beyond the Taliesin & Evitel Twitter Space)

Will we be able to play as Sethrak?

Google Translate:

Patrick Dawson: “Allied races are a very important subject, many people come to see us even colleagues who ask us “can I play as a sethrak?” or murloc, or centaur etc. There are always ideas however when we add a race in WoW we want to be careful that there is a clear intention behind the decision. We will discuss this with the team, you never know what we will add, there is no clear plan for 10.0 we are really focusing on the Dracthyrs.

Original French:

Patrick Dawson : « Les races alliées sont un sujet très important, beaucoup de gens viennent nous voir même des collègues qui nous demande “est-ce que je peux jouer en tant que sethrak ?” ou murloc, ou centaure etc. Il y a toujours des idées cependant quand nous ajoutons une race dans WoW nous voulons faire attention à ce qu’il y est une intention claire derrière la décision. On discutera de ça avec l’équipe, on sait jamais ce que l’on va ajouter, il n’y a pas de plan clair pour la 10.0 on se concentre vraiment sur les Dracthyrs.»

So basically, no.

A "No" for release, to be sure, but not for the duration of the expansion.

Personally, I suspect they're being stubborn about certain choices they made with Drac'thyr because we'll unlocked Drakonids at some point in the expansion's life, giving us those bulky, draconic tanks people are clamouring for.

[Veluren]

A "No" for release, to be sure, but not for the duration of the expansion.

Personally, I suspect they're being stubborn about certain choices they made with Drac'thyr because we'll unlocked Drakonids at some point in the expansion's life, giving us those bulky, draconic tanks people are clamouring for.

Easiest way to know would probably be to see if the models for them when the Alpha launches has a full suite of animations, I recall the fact Vulpera had SO MANY customization options and player-ready animations as early as BFA's Alpha was a huge hint for them that people initially dismissed for one reason or another.

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

Again, the topic of customizations and allied races have been kept tight to the chest.

The unencrypted build will tell us a lot we just don't know yet.

[AngerFork]

I suspect part of the Allied Race thing also comes from the unusual nature of Dragonflight pre-orders not being available yet, despite seeing what would appear to be many pre-order/epic edition items in datamining (a mount, a couple pets, etc) as well as pre-order code pieces on the website. Not knowing why it was held back has understandably led to a lot of speculation.

[Berkilak]

Easiest way to know would probably be to see if the models for them when the Alpha launches has a full suite of animations, I recall the fact Vulpera had SO MANY customization options and player-ready animations as early as BFA's Alpha was a huge hint for them that people initially dismissed for one reason or another.

During one of the zone previous, it looked like they got a complete overhaul, complete with with looks to be armour compatibility. Dragonspawn got an overhaul, too, but their armour looks "baked on" as it was previously. We shall see when we have actual access, though.

[Veluren]

I suspect part of the Allied Race thing also comes from the unusual nature of Dragonflight pre-orders not being available yet, despite seeing what would appear to be many pre-order/epic edition items in datamining (a mount, a couple pets, etc) as well as pre-order code pieces on the website. Not knowing why it was held back has understandably led to a lot of speculation.

Yeah, the holding off, combined with the RSG "leak" implying an allied race is why it's got so much momentum, because I think this is the first time we've had a pre-order not go up within hours of the expansion's announcement, much less going on three weeks.

It seems to imply that -whatever- is going to be a pre-order bonus is taking a while to get finished up.

[Ersula]

Again, the topic of customizations and allied races have been kept tight to the chest.

The unencrypted build will tell us a lot we just don't know yet.

My Pesimism: No allied race. Blizzard always disappoints me.

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[Nymrohd]

There was one interview that would be released in six parts, is the entire thing out yet?

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

There was one interview that would be released in six parts, is the entire thing out yet?

Its' out, it seemed interesting but again it just rehashed other stuff from other interviews. There's no new info in it. They just baited us hard with the first part assuming it would have other parts of importance as well.

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[Berkilak]

Yeah, the holding off, combined with the RSG "leak" implying an allied race is why it's got so much momentum, because I think this is the first time we've had a pre-order not go up within hours of the expansion's announcement, much less going on three weeks.

It seems to imply that -whatever- is going to be a pre-order bonus is taking a while to get finished up.

I assume they think it's Dark Ranger just because everything somehow ties into Dark Ranger?