Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Lady Atia]

I'd guess class trees at most today. I doubt we'll see alpha before those are mostly done, plus I do wonder how much they are taking all the Dracthyr feedback into account after the announcement.

My current guess is alpha somewhere in mid-to-late July with pre-orders out around the same time. Also perhaps a surprise or two when we see alpha...maybe more Dracthyr forms or a new feature unmentioned in the presentation.

I could see them adding green and red dk eyes as a surprise to the alpha, based on the art of their new talent trees.

[jeezusisacasual]

I still expect as much content as Legion despite them revamping all of the systems, they scrapped this expansion so more is to be expected with coming on 18 years of experience.

[Nyel]

I still expect as much content as Legion despite them revamping all of the systems, they scrapped this expansion so more is to be expected with coming on 18 years of experience.

What are they revamping though? New talent trees is for the biggest part a simple visual change. There's barely anything new. There is no borrowed power they have to work on. There is no max level content system akin to Torghast or Expeditions. The profession changes are all on a very shallow level, too (like Legion's changes which got abandoned quickly). So the only thing that really needs work is Dracthyr Evoker. So yes, this expansion better should have tons of content.

[infinitemeridian]

So I guess nothing today?

[micwini]

So I guess nothing today?

in 45 mins.

[Raetary]

Inb4 we get a blog post, but its about the random screenshots they asked for on twitter yesterday.

[tumbleweed010]

So I guess nothing today?

Blizzard is a west coast company and always publishes their articles on PST time, and it's not even 11 AM there yet. Relax.

[infinitemeridian]

99% of the blog posts we get are at 10PM PST though, wasn't the talent tree original post at that time?

[Chickat]

Well its 11am there. If we dont see a blog post by 3pm id say we probably arent getting one, although I guess later is still possible. I was expecting it 3 mins ago if it was coming though.

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I checked and last week they posted it Friday at 5pm. Im not sure if that's est or pst though.

[Nymrohd]

What are they revamping though? New talent trees is for the biggest part a simple visual change. There's barely anything new. There is no borrowed power they have to work on. There is no max level content system akin to Torghast or Expeditions. The profession changes are all on a very shallow level, too (like Legion's changes which got abandoned quickly). So the only thing that really needs work is Dracthyr Evoker. So yes, this expansion better should have tons of content.

There is a lot of tuning to be done to be fair. And there may well be crazy synergies that did not exist before and bugged interactions as well. We will be getting access to things that used to be mutually exclusive.

[Valysar]

Inb4 we get a blog post, but its about the random screenshots they asked for on twitter yesterday.

Or 2 blogs ... per months

[Kiivar86]

So I guess nothing today?

As I recall the talent posts last week were posted at like 5 pm eastern, so...some time still.

[Dracullus]

As I recall the talent posts last week were posted at like 5 pm eastern, so...some time still.

Probably it's scheduled post, so I would check it exactly 5 pm.

[Inxotep]

So nothing this week? I need more talent blogs

[jeezusisacasual]

What are they revamping though? New talent trees is for the biggest part a simple visual change. There's barely anything new. There is no borrowed power they have to work on. There is no max level content system akin to Torghast or Expeditions. The profession changes are all on a very shallow level, too (like Legion's changes which got abandoned quickly). So the only thing that really needs work is Dracthyr Evoker. So yes, this expansion better should have tons of content.

Speaking of the professions alone is that they have to be able to make Mythic raiding level item for people to not do Engineering / Alch for battle rez and 2 hour flasks. I expect them to provide a ton of content with a decent release cadence.

[Hellspawn]

Dunno about years, months probably, a year maybe.

If I remember it correctly, the deal will be closed a year from now... and they already said that they make a lot of progress.

[Lahis]

So nothing this week? I need more talent blogs

Turns out the blogs will come very first Friday of the month instead of every Friday.

[rhorle]

If I remember it correctly, the deal will be closed a year from now... and they already said that they make a lot of progress.

Correct. Microsoft intends to close the deal in fiscal year 2023 which ends in June 2023. We could get WoW news on Sunday at the Microsoft game even as they did say their partners would also be sharing info. So pretty much anyone who has ever released something on xbox can make an announcement.

[Kiivar86]

Man and I was feeling like I was being overly skeptical with the whole "breadcrumb things with one to two talent trees a week" thing.

[Merryck]

How little communication we have had since they announced Dragonflight is very frustrating. I wish they would provide us with some idea when we can expect pre-order, blogs, alpha to begin.