Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[micwini]

Lol. Beta should be starting tomorrow if they want to put out somewhat of a quality product.
This will be WoD 2.0 with 0 content.

[rhorle]

Does that 2022 release make scale guy more right if i remember correctly?

Their leak said a November 2022 release so it lines up.

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Guess the last two expac draining subs is forcing their hand. Could also explain why dracthyr feel so limited (no armor, one class of animations, limited visage forms and no armor rigging work save a butt load of time).

Or you know don't spin everything as a negative?

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Well, fuck. They don't have enough time.

Time for what? Most Alpha/beta cycles last way to long. Also if it is three for three and another train wreck why are you still here?

[Cheezits]

It's a raidlog expansion with old talents juggled around. Why does this need a 2023 release?

Shadowlands was delayed for polish and still people hated it due to story, inherent nature of covenants, setting, etc. Nothing matters but the content of the expansion, and in the case of SL no amount of time would ever make people like it, except for a complete scrapping of the concept.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Oh right, MMO-champion being cynical what else is new. Stay classy

[McNeil]

Bad idea to release both WotLK Classic and Dragonflight that close to each other. They could have done WotLK in October-November and save Dragonflight for Q1 2023. This is going to be rushed and I really hope they will delay it even more than they did Shadowlands.

[Cheezits]

Bad idea to release both WotLK Classic and Dragonflight that close to each other. They could have done WotLK in October-November and save Dragonflight for Q1 2023. This is going to be rushed and I really hope they will delay it even more than they did Shadowlands.

Is there an overlap between the audiences?

[Khaza-R]

Bit concerning the talent system is in a proto-type stage with the expansion launching is 6 months or less.

[Dioporco]

Glad that in the end i was right about Dragonflight release before 2023

[Teriz]

Good to finally see the pre-order up and a possible release date. I'll be pre-ordering on payday!

I'm willing to bet we're going to be seeing new talent trees real soon.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Given how we saw no raids or dungeons in the preview makes me really doubt this. Not to mention it'll overlap with Wrath release date.

Wrath wouldn’t reasonably take any dev time away it’s got to have a skeleton crew as all of wraths content is still in game and just needs some number changes.

Dungeons and raids could be more problematic but they delay the raids post launch and retest them before they go live so even if it isn’t ready for launch they got extra time, though dungeons don’t.

[Chickat]

This just killed any hype I have for the expansion tbh..

[Xilurm]

Do they not do Physical Collector Editions any more?

[Alexjimithing]

https://t.co/KCpKII90Fn

Physical collector's up.

[elderu]

First look at some cool Tuskarr themed/Azure Span questing mog? Presumably? I dig it

https://bnetproduct-a.akamaihd.net//...uest-to-70.png

[Malorne the White Stag]

First look at some cool Tuskarr themed/Azure Span questing mog? Presumably? I dig it

https://bnetproduct-a.akamaihd.net//...uest-to-70.png

If only we had a tuskarr to put that gear on

[Khaza-R]

Do they not do Physical Collector Editions any more?

They do but its revealed significantly after the pre-orders usually. But also this is the first time the reveal and release have been this close, so who knows.

[Alexjimithing]

First look at some cool Tuskarr themed/Azure Span questing mog? Presumably? I dig it

https://bnetproduct-a.akamaihd.net//...uest-to-70.png

man look at that just some normal ass looking land and clothing. gettin me hyped.

e: not sarcasm

[Super Dickmann]

Wrath wouldn’t reasonably take any dev time away it’s got to have a skeleton crew as all of wraths content is still in game and just needs some number changes.

Dungeons and raids could be more problematic but they delay the raids post launch and retest them before they go live so even if it isn’t ready for launch they got extra time, though dungeons don’t.

They and the talents are the meat and potatoes of the game. If we're less than six months from release and there's no idea of what they'll even be and the talents themselves are in a prototype state then they'll have few chances to iterate on it. Delaying the release of the main bits of content would be more disastrous than just penning a release date.

The Wrath release is less about the dev work required and more that it's a big enough deal to make money and tide them over for more time to polish the product that needs the work.

[Arafal]

I don't dig the base price increase, certainly not worth that ugly pet.

And why are those wing cosmetics so tiny?

[wowrefugee]

A release this early probably explains why every reward in 9.2.5 was using assets from 8.1 and had less art investment than 9.1.5.

It's kinda funny most of the pre-order items are going to be pointless if you plan to play a Dracthyr. The mount too will be obsolete in DF.

Weird stuff. Ah well.