Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Lady Atia]

IMO if a DK wants a ghoul or not really should be non forced on them. If someone wants a perma ghoul thats fine(OR a talent to fix that).

If you don't want a ghoul just play frost?

[bruxx]

I hope we don't and it's because they heard the outcry and are redesigning their customizations.

Fair, I can get behind that version with wider shoulders and a more pronounced jaw.
I just hope they don't do some extreme 180 turn and we end up with an unfinished mess for 10 years like with female worgen.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

If you don't want a ghoul just play frost?

And if people like the general idea of Unholy without the ghoul, IMO they should be able to. Thats my point.

[Khaza-R]

Looks like Druids are getting Mark of the Wild back.

Nice catch. I was wondering when it would find its way back

Mark of the Wild: Increases the target's Speed and critical strike chance by 3% and reduces their magic damage taken by 3% for 60 minutes. If the target is in your party or raid, all party and raid members will be affected.

I wonder if locks will be getting demon skin / demon armor back as well as baseline.

[Chickat]

That really remains to be seen. For the hardcore min/maxers? Sure. But for the community at large? How many will really change just for the few extra dps/hps or tank survival. Sure having loadouts for easy change will make that easier but higher skill cap really just means more balance issues. They've talked about this in the past and how perception and community pressure really makes skill gaps are net negative for the game. It again is hard to balance such gaps with out alienating the skilled or un-skilled in the process. There shouldn't be a "hard mode" specialization for any class so any skill to playing a class is hard to balance.

Nah I'm not hardcore and I plan on having at least 4 or 5 builds per spec.

Raiding single target build.
Raiding aoe build.
Mythic plus build.
Battleground build.
Arena build.
World questing build.

Times 3 specs and thats pretty awesome.

Also unpopular opinion. It's great that the admit that players can make bad builds. If a build can be bad they means there's lots of choices to make. That bad build might be good in a certain situation anyways.

On the interupt situation. There might be a raid fight where you don't need an interupt, but maybe some more healing is needed so you pick a healing spell instead. Tons of examples could be made.

[Makabreska]

And if people like the general idea of Unholy without the ghoul, IMO they should be able to. Thats my point.

Ye, no. That is not the case when said ability is crucial for a spec to work. It may not be THE main mechanic of a spec (wounds), but it is important enough to have lots of synergies down the road (plus class fantasy of a summoner). It works for Frost Mages with water ele, but not here. Some abilities are just too core to a spec.

[rhorle]

Nah I'm not hardcore and I plan on having at least 4 or 5 builds per spec.

I think it is clear you are likely hardcore but have moved the line for what constitutes hardcore for whatever reason. That isn't a casual mindset in the slightest. It isn't great that a build can be bad. It doesn't mean there is any more choice then if all builds are good. It just means that players can punish themselves through ignorance or choice by picking a bad option. That is far from great. Great would be that there are no bad choices.

[Ersula]

illusion of choice with cookie cutter builds > cookie cutter builds without illusion of choice

This is pretty much it. Although, I know the goal was that the Cata Talents would create multiple viable playstyles within a spec while being newbie-firendly: The problem being that was very rarely the case. Notably the builds we saw during BFA with Mistweavers & holy paladins.

All-in-all there were overall more viable builds during the Talent Tree era so we might as well go back to that.

RIP Cataclysm Era Talents - You were an exciting new system that never paid off that somehow lasted 10 years

And if people like the general idea of Unholy without the ghoul, IMO they should be able to. Thats my point.

It looks like that exact playstyle will exist in Frost: A dps build revolving around Rime & Chill Streak, spreading dots while managing resources.

[bruxx]

I think it is clear you are likely hardcore but have moved the line for what constitutes hardcore for whatever reason. That isn't a casual mindset in the slightest. It isn't great that a build can be bad. It doesn't mean there is any more choice then if all builds are good. It just means that players can punish themselves through ignorance or choice by picking a bad option. That is far from great. Great would be that there are no bad choices.

Personally I'm not casual, but certainly not someone that enjoys min/maxing the hell out of my game, I'm way too lazy for that crap.
However, with the presets being a thing, I'm thinking of at least using separate talents for raiding and mythics now, since I only need to set them up once and then I never have to bother switching them around.

[Merryck]

Monk is probably the last they will showcase

[Sondrelk]

Monk is probably the last they will showcase

I imagine that whatever classes they are changing in drastic ways will likely be the last ones to be shown. Personally my money is on Hunters being last in line, with the exception of BM they never seem to get SV and MM right, and I imagine this will be extremely apparant with MM and it's awful talents being problematic when they try to squeeze it into a talent tree.

[Makorus]

I wish they got rid of needing a Tome to respec, especially with having a talent tree.

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Didn't Scaleface say Arcane would get a rework? If so, Mage might be close to the end-ish (then again, Survival was in the first batch for Legion so who knows if it means something)

[Kiivar86]

Didn't Scaleface say Arcane would get a rework? If so, Mage might be close to the end-ish (then again, Survival was in the first batch for Legion so who knows if it means something)

From what I recall he said that the Evoker would take a number of things from Arcane mages but from what we've seen it doesn't really seem to be the case.

edit: I just went through his posts and didn't actually find anything along those lines, just him hinting how the name of the class is the same as an ability of mages (evocation). Unless a post of his was deleted, I'm not sure. May have just been a detail that got warped due to essentially a game of telephone.

[Sondrelk]

From what I recall he said that the Evoker would take a number of things from Arcane mages but from what we've seen it doesn't really seem to be the case.

edit: I just went through his posts and didn't actually find anything along those lines, just him hinting how the name of the class is the same as an ability of mages (evocation). Unless a post of his was deleted, I'm not sure. May have just been a detail that got warped due to essentially a game of telephone.

Could mean a lot of things when it's just something vague like that. Could be they take specific abilities like Evocation, or could mean they just have a similar burn/conserve gameplay.

[Kiivar86]

Could mean a lot of things when it's just something vague like that. Could be they take specific abilities like Evocation, or could mean they just have a similar burn/conserve gameplay.

Could be but looking at the posts where he mentions mages, it seems more to me it was just about his initial reaction due to the name sharing:

That was my idea when i read a name of spec "Evoker" and thought wtf because as I playe mage sometimes first reaction was like I said And hints about mage spell was exactly evocation.

Dunno man, there is no any info about shadowlands - s4 looks like canceled (or was bait to check players reaction) if they really want to push it to november.
Also, it's true that wotlk classic will be just 2 months before - if nothing will change (for now its scheduled for 09.22) - and it's weird af.

So yeah from these I really more take it as "the name reminded me of mages" and people just twisted it from there.
Another thing is that there is no name of "iconic villain" of 10.x but only one who (for me) fit the theme and place of expansion is Galakrond.
Someone wroted before about dragonsworn etc - no, class name is totally out of my mind. In first moment when I read that i thought "hello? we have mages already!". It's similiar to one spell name of arcane mage :P

So yeah from that it feels more like "it made me think of mages due to the arcane mage ability" and less "they're stealing from arcane mages."

Unless posts of his were deleted.

[Blayze]

Not much of an issue, if you have to spent literally single point to get it in DK case. They did say that things like interrupts will be very easy to get.

Thing is, it's something you're never NOT going to take, so why even give you the option not to?

[Makorus]

Thing is, it's something you're never NOT going to take, so why even give you the option not to?

Is it though? There are a lot of raid fights where you certainly dont need interrupts on everyone.

[Dracullus]

Finally we are getting something!

https://www.bluetracker.gg/wow/topic...alent-preview/

Told you many times, we didn't have radio silence, all news were simply focused on 9.2.5. Now they can start preparing for Alpha.

Pre-order probably will happen soon as well, but I don't think it will have something important for current game anymore. Tirisfal stuff was for everyone, Evoker won't happen until ~2 weeks before expac, we probably get stuff like mount or cosmetics cloaks already discovered as encrypted rewards.

One thing still unknown is 'living world'. Was that decoy? Or maybe it's connected to new reputation system.

EDIT: 2 classes this week. Alpha on 11. July?

[Makabreska]

Thing is, it's something you're never NOT going to take, so why even give you the option not to?

Interrupts are not necessarily needed in raids.

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Is it though? There are a lot of raid fights where you certainly dont need interrupts on everyone.

Unfortunately in this case, you are kinda forced to take interrupt to proceed down the frost section.

[Arafal]

Sure gonna be fun to run a keystone with people who didn't pick their interrupt.