Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Ersula]

If you're at such wit's end that you're just disingenuously shitposting instead of even bothering to come up with an actual argument, I'm not going to seriously respond.

You're the one who took a look at "Advanced falling" & basically giving us everything we already had during WotLK as a set of expansion feature & said "BIGGEST EXPANSION EVER"

Each of these things are either giving us something we already had or has no direct RPG application at all.

Which one of us is the shitposter here?

[Chickat]

Looking back at a interview/quote they did say that the four main factions will have renown instead of reputation. So they can constantly reward us with cosmetics, new quests, etc. So it does sound like there may be some extra stuff but it doesn't feel like they mean on the same level as covenants or order halls. It feels more like Renown would be the time gate for unlocking more areas rather then being as robust as order halls or covenants. Though maybe they didn't talk about them because they just want to keep details hidden until later in development.

https://www.wowhead.com/news/renown-...neously-326768

IM not sure if it was stated, but I was under the impression that 3 or 4 reps are mega reps with reknown, and there are at least 2 regular traditional reps too. Im hoping the 2 or 3 traditional reps are like the tillers, anglers, and cloud serpents. Fun optional reps with no player power attached in any way. No BiS recipes. No epic gear. Just cosmetics and minor side stories. Maybe with unique gameplay. Like cooler old-school daily quests. Think jousting or the flying jousting from Firelands patch. Fishing minigames etc.

[Hitei]

Hurr durr "Advanced falling"

Which one of us is the shitposter here?

Very painfully you.

[Dracullus]

At this rate DF will release in November 2023

Yes, everything point out April 2023 Alpha start.

[klaps_05]

With the Overwatch 2/Diablo 4 announcements, its very unlikely for DF to be early 2023. They have 3 massive releases until Q3 2023, especially the D4 in Q2. Doubt they want to muddy the water during it with another release and they are short on projects for the rest of 2023. Summer Q3 2023 for DF is a perfect pre-holidays timeslot.

[Lady Atia]

With the Overwatch 2/Diablo 4 announcements, its very unlikely for DF to be early 2023. They have 3 massive releases until Q3 2023, especially the D4 in Q2. Doubt they want to muddy the water during it with another release and they are short on projects for the rest of 2023. Summer Q3 2023 for DF is a perfect pre-holidays timeslot.

Nope? Releasing the game in summer when people are all on holidays would be an horrible idea. They will release it in Q1 just fine.

[Nyel]

Nope? Releasing the game in summer when people are all on holidays would be an horrible idea. They will release it in Q1 just fine.

I think Legion and BfA already proved that they really don't care about it being Summer or not when it fits their schedule. For Dragonflight a Q3 release just makes no sense though.

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With the Overwatch 2/Diablo 4 announcements, its very unlikely for DF to be early 2023. They have 3 massive releases until Q3 2023, especially the D4 in Q2. Doubt they want to muddy the water during it with another release and they are short on projects for the rest of 2023. Summer Q3 2023 for DF is a perfect pre-holidays timeslot.

Diablo IV will not launch in Q2, let's be realistic here. That's their optimistic and naive take to appease the fanbase, but for sure they'll delay it until at least Q3, rather Q4 though to "give players the best experience" or [insert bs PR talk]. Dragonflight can easily fit into Q1 and if not there it will be early Q2. No issues whatsoever.

[Hyrja]

If we dont get any DF news next week, ill start worrying a bit.

[infinitemeridian]

I hope we get some more interesting transmogs this expac. The back attachments were a step in the right direction, but most of them were too small and they just doubled down on spikes and shit. I want the game to move beyond that and more into "realistic" armors with 3d pieces. Like the Kul'tiran heritage - look at FF14. The armor sets there completely mog the shit out of what WoW has.

Also, more m+ rewards. Seriously, for a mode that is pushed so hard by blizz, it has zero cool things to get. The mounts are fine until they just release it 5x over and over again. No new armor sets, no interesting pets / mounts / spell effects, etc. And please don't take them away every season, just put them on a vendor like the war mounts they add for pvp. I'm ok with fomo shit as long as most of the stuff is new and obtainable after the season ends.

[8bithamster]

Yes, everything point out April 2023 Alpha start.

Jep. Especially your source "I pulled this from my ass"

[ExiHext]

Jep. Especially your source "I pulled this from my ass"

Immune to sarcasm?

[Dracullus]

Jep. Especially your source "I pulled this from my ass"

Common logic. This month we had DK/Druid, then 2 classes in July, August, September, October, November, December is for holidays, in January Evoker blog, in February new scandal, in March employees walkout to celebrate new scandal and we land with April Alpha.

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

As a reminder July is still out of normal scheduling for the First Unencrypted Build.

As always I do think the fact they communicated so confidently that this expansion was further along than usual it is pretty hilarious to see the actual timeframes completely differ.

Obviously, mayhaps the first Unencrypted Build is feature complete and it all makes sense. But, hey we'll see.

There's still a shot this goes live in the end of June to avoid that circumstance too.

(Also depends if the Alpha / Beta testing has completely changed format to be about specialized testing to avoid spoilers too. We still have no idea if they will change the Testing formats to avoid spoilers and also if they intend to lock down more of the Alpha/Beta cycle due to the recent pushback about clarity on content of expansions/patches before launch)

[Xilurm]

I personally want the alpha to come out soon so we get new "no alpha club" signatures.

[rhorle]

Nope? Releasing the game in summer when people are all on holidays would be an horrible idea. They will release it in Q1 just fine.

This is a stereotype that just needs to die. Games release just fine during the summer and people that want to play them still find ways to play them. Blizzard also releases games in the summer. Starcraft 2 was released July 27. Heroes of the Storm was released June 2nd. While not summer, since that starts June 21st for the northern hemisphere, it is still close enough to count.

[8bithamster]

Common logic. This month we had DK/Druid, then 2 classes in July, August, September, October, November, December is for holidays, in January Evoker blog, in February new scandal, in March employees walkout to celebrate new scandal and we land with April Alpha.

And the pope joins the blizzard dev team. Sure.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Common logic. This month we had DK/Druid, then 2 classes in July, August, September, October, November, December is for holidays, in January Evoker blog, in February new scandal, in March employees walkout to celebrate new scandal and we land with April Alpha.

Wat there's no way the wait is going on that long.

[Makabreska]

Wat there's no way the wait is going on that long.

Did you really just fall for that? I thought that "in February new scandal" was a dead giveaway.

[Khaza-R]

I hope we get some more interesting transmogs this expac. The back attachments were a step in the right direction, but most of them were too small and they just doubled down on spikes and shit. I want the game to move beyond that and more into "realistic" armors with 3d pieces. Like the Kul'tiran heritage - look at FF14. The armor sets there completely mog the shit out of what WoW has.

Also, more m+ rewards. Seriously, for a mode that is pushed so hard by blizz, it has zero cool things to get. The mounts are fine until they just release it 5x over and over again. No new armor sets, no interesting pets / mounts / spell effects, etc. And please don't take them away every season, just put them on a vendor like the war mounts they add for pvp. I'm ok with fomo shit as long as most of the stuff is new and obtainable after the season ends.

This is why its so lame they pretty much abandoned the heritage armors in SLs. Custom fitting armor is one of the only ways we can get really unique armor without extensive clipping and other weirdness.

If anything I hope we move beyond just having 1 set per race. Their should be multiple with heritage sets.

[tumbleweed010]

As always I do think the fact they communicated so confidently that this expansion was further along than usual it is pretty hilarious to see the actual timeframes completely differ.

And they probably aren't lying when they said that. Which means how far they're normally along when they announce an expansion is quite telling about internal standards for the product and why the last few expansions have turned out how they did.

Also, more m+ rewards. Seriously, for a mode that is pushed so hard by blizz, it has zero cool things to get. The mounts are fine until they just release it 5x over and over again.

Easiest win is aligning M+ rewards similar to PvP, where Valor can buy you gear with higher ratings allowing you to buy/receive recolored tier with specific stats.