Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Nymrohd]

https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/ne...nter-and-rogue

Talents!

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Shame, Blizzard appears to be doubling down on spears/polearms for Survival. I want them to go dual wield, dang it. At least an optional talent branch?

One of the defining moments of my early WoW gameplay was getting dual Dawn's Edges for my hunter. It is just so weird to have a melee spec and not be able to DW.

[Kiivar86]

Argh, swear its gonna be mage and monk that's last just to spite me somehow.

Anyway I always liked Chakram (the original) so happy to see that return.

[Cheezits]

One of the defining moments of my early WoW gameplay was getting dual Dawn's Edges for my hunter. It is just so weird to have a melee spec and not be able to DW.

I think they just want Fury and Frost to be the only one dualwielding melees. I don't see why not for Survival but that's probably the big issue... that, or also dual wielding animations requiring work to match the Survival ones (work they can't/won't spare).

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MM Hunter getting kill command is very interesting. Dark Arrow being built in is nice.

[Wonderment2]

let's look at the mechanics in the new expansion, the lore is not interested because the agenda will not let you write a normal story. Shadowlands gave me a taste of gonorrhea, pain and ruined characters that took 10 years to develop.

What agenda?

[Aeluron Lightsong]

What agenda?

The "SJW" agenda or something like that.

[Wonderment2]

The "SJW" agenda or something like that.

The most benile of the agendas :/

[klaps_05]

Hunter and Rogue marked as WIP mockup, lmao. And people expected all talents in a few weeks.

[tumbleweed010]

I think they just want Fury and Frost to be the only one dualwielding melees.

All Rogues and Enhancement dual wield. While it'd be nice for Survival to, there's a severe lack of pure 2h based DPS compared to DW.

[Eldryth]

After WoD took place on Draenor (aka Outlands) and Legion was a sequel to TBC, it became very apparent that WoW expansions would start to repeat themes. So a Wrath 2 following up on Bolvar was apparent, and any South Seas expansion would likely involve Nzoth through Azshara. I don't think these guesses are insane.

Also, 10.0 being Dragons makes sense as Cataclysm, despite being ABOUT a big dragon and his dragon siblings killing him, was mostly elemental in theme (lol Thrall) and what is shown throughout EK and Kalimdor. So if you consider Cataclysm to be an Elemental theme, then Cata 2 would be flipped and be more about Dragons (with the elements still appearing: see Raid 1 of Dragonflight).

I also expect the following patches:
10.0- Elemental raid deals with Wrathion due to Neltharion and element connections
10.1 - Dracthyr Zone reuse - Blue dragon patch?
10.2 - Emerald Dream/Lifelands patch, dealing with the two life themed flights, Tyrande's seed and Elune's connection to Dragons
10.3- Time Travel patch due to Murozond. Where it takes place is up in the air, could be Zin'azshari, could be a couple disconnected time zones like Argus. This could also be the Blue patch.

Lifelands/Time Travel could be swapped.

If there's a time travel zone, ancient Dragonblight would be a perfect fit- we could fight Galakrond, see the original rise of the Aspects firsthand, and explore that area in its prime (before the Path of the Titans and whatever else was in the south sunk in the Sundering).

Hard to see it as the final patch though. Galakrond is big enough that he should be at least the final boss of a tier, if not the entire expansion- and he would only really fit as the expansion final boss if he's returning in the present, rather than a time travel boss.

[Khaza-R]

https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/ne...nter-and-rogue

Talents!

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Shame, Blizzard appears to be doubling down on spears/polearms for Survival. I want them to go dual wield, dang it. At least an optional talent branch?

Oh my. That AoE garrote + rupture for Sin.

I was half expecting them to just add flage and call it day. Very impressed.

[Xofoo]

Hunter and Rogue marked as WIP mockup, lmao. And people expected all talents in a few weeks.

All talent tress revealed thus far has been labeled as WIP mockups. What's the significance of the hunter and rogue trees being labeled as such?

[Speedblast]

I wonder if they're going to post all the talent previews before the alpha comes out.

[Gurahk]

Shaman's going to be the last class to get a preview aren't they.

[Catastrophy349]

Now that we are getting super close, seriously, to Alpha, what are you most excited to see first (I’m asking for specifics and why)? What do you want to see/know?

[Teriz]

Nice to see Wailing Arrow in the MM talent tree.

[Marlamin]

Now that we are getting super close, seriously, to Alpha, what are you most excited to see first? I’m asking for specifics and why? What do you want to see/know?

Compiled image of Dragon Isles minimap. Probably won't have time for that at the start, but I'll be damned if I don't have that up within a day after client hits.

[Grimmy17]

Now that we are getting super close, seriously, to Alpha, what are you most excited to see first (I’m asking for specifics and why)? What do you want to see/know?

Evoker spells/talents/customisation + Transmog :P

[Catastrophy349]

I just want to see the Dragon Isles so bad. I’m so intrigued by the concept of their verticality, climbing upwards from zone to zone, and the use of Dragonriding.

[therumblings]

Evoker spells/talents/customisation + Transmog :P

Same here. It's been so long since a new class was added and unlike the Demon Hunter we barely know anything about the Evoker gameplay before Alpha.

[Grimmy17]

Same here. It's been so long since a new class was added and unlike the Demon Hunter we barely know anything about the Evoker gameplay before Alpha.

I am a hardcore caster/healer player too so this is beyond exciting considering I've been playing this game for 17+ years now