Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Cheezits]

If they introduce a couple more race options for the visage form along with some bulkier customisations, I think everyone will get a BIG hit of excitment for them as a race/class and for the expansion overall.

To put into motion such a strong area of feedback in the time they had since the announcement would make a lot of people happy imo.

I don't expect more visage forms except MAYBE male human and female elf.

The amount of work it would take to port those options to each race is insane, other races would feel left out if they didn't get chosen (they aren't doing every race) and the amount of loreheads who want to play a gnome visage form "cus Chromie"/tauren visage "cus Ebonhorn" are small compared to the general audience. Also APPARENTLY it doesn't fit their lore of being based off ancient human/elf DNA.

More options for dragon form/more use for visage form (combat) is what I expect.

[MrGMYT]

some would say it's karma for how he acted a few years back but that's none of my business

that's not very nice

[Catastrophy349]

We are in for a HUGE week! Summit, blogs, Alpha, datamining.

[Wonderment2]

I think it really would be sick if they will give us different Dracthyr models instead of just one. With almost three months of no news about them this would be a very cool "cat's out of the bag" moment.

I hope they have, at the very least, more "rough" facial features options. Like those in that "Dracthyr fixed" custom edit.

If people wanna make their dragonfolk scaley bait more power to them but I really don't

[Grimmy17]

I don't expect more visage forms except MAYBE male human and female elf.

The amount of work it would take to port those options to each race is insane, other races would feel left out if they didn't get chosen (they aren't doing every race) and the amount of loreheads who want to play a gnome visage form "cus Chromie"/tauren visage "cus Ebonhorn" are small compared to the general audience. Also APPARENTLY it doesn't fit their lore of being based off ancient human/elf DNA.

More options for dragon form/more use for visage form (combat) is what I expect.

I don't think that audience is small in the slightest, also we don't really have any established lore so that argument is flimsey at best. Human male and BE female would be great though!

[Marlamin]

We are in for a HUGE week! Summit, blogs, Alpha, datamining.

I like how the summit turned into hard fact only from Towelliee taking 2 days off and T&E mentioning he's under NDA. There is so much fuel in the hype train right now.

[Kiria]

that's not very nice

Feel better soon, hopefully when you're feeling better you can attend the next one.

[Revamp Man]

DF is looking to be that as there are no conduits to grind for alts.

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I feel really fucking bad for MrGM. He's getting very popular, not as corporate as T&E and a little more communicative/dataminer than Towellie, and he's rewarded by getting sick and missing his first big streamer event.

I really do hope he gets better
Might not like him but still

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HIIII DAN!!!!!

[Arcinatoss]

that's not very nice

just a social experiment

[Revamp Man]

some would say it's karma for how he acted a few years back but that's none of my business

Come on now...
Also what did he do years ago?? I thought he was quiet until he had that drama with Pyro where he laughed about him having a mental breakdown before whining about a reddit thread

[Marlamin]

Come on now...
Also what did he do years ago?? I thought he was quiet until he had that drama with Pyro where he laughed about him having a mental breakdown before whining about a reddit thread

Let's not shit up the thread with unrelated streamer stuff, again.

[Revamp Man]

I don't expect more visage forms except MAYBE male human and female elf.

The amount of work it would take to port those options to each race is insane, other races would feel left out if they didn't get chosen (they aren't doing every race) and the amount of loreheads who want to play a gnome visage form "cus Chromie"/tauren visage "cus Ebonhorn" are small compared to the general audience. Also APPARENTLY it doesn't fit their lore of being based off ancient human/elf DNA.

More options for dragon form/more use for visage form (combat) is what I expect.

Glyph to allow combat in Visage form

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Let's not shit up the thread with unrelated streamer stuff, again.

That's how we got like 1k pages but I agree

Wondering if we will get first datamined build today

[snagprophet]

So are we getting Dragon invasions for the pre-patch?

[Wonderment2]

I honestly think that Baine's story is "locked" to him eventually fighting Magatha and avenging Cairne. However, they don't know how to include her in these expansions, or they are waiting for a Kalimdor expansion/revamp, which takes forever to get to.

Very likely Baine does not appear for this reason unless they want him to meet Ebonhorn again.

You could pretty easily fit her In dragon isles, here's a quick idea:

She gets back the Doom Stone, which can absorb a bunch on energy, so she travels to the Dragon Isles which is in the process of waking up with elemental energy. Her plan is to leech all that waking energy to fuel her next conquest of Thuderbluff.

Hell have it so the Horde have a Tauren quest giver for Primal raid who asks for the primals hearts. Turns out their a gimtotem spy who hands those to Magatha. Then 10.2 has a quest chain where elemental empowered gimtotem attack thunderbluff and Baine gets to killed the elder crone. This can be a horde questline to parallel whatever The night Elves do with the seed thingy.

[Revamp Man]

So are we getting Dragon invasions for the pre-patch?

I miss zone assaults so much
Might be something we actually see in DF if the st[y is the primal dragons and allies

[Raetary]

So are we getting Dragon invasions for the pre-patch?

Pre-patch is quests and Uldaman revamp.

[Sondrelk]

There's concept art for each class set

My bad, meant tier set bonuses.
Now that talents have become more freeform it will be interesting to see what tier bonuses will look like. Specifically whether they will be built around specific talent builds or not.

[Lady Atia]

That is not what their big change was, it was just be nice to alts not fuck over main character players.

True. I was just responding the same way the dude was. That said - the foundation of the game should be what makes people stick a whole patch, not some weird borrowed power grind. Which it actually does right now if you raid mythic and push keys higher than +15. And removing the "borrowed power grinds" is not fucking over main character players at all.

[Nyel]

Pre-patch is quests and Uldaman revamp.

Uldaman revamp is such a cool idea, it really had the potential to be another Ulduar-like raid. At least they use it for a dungeon that's hopefully not too short.

[snagprophet]

Pre-patch is quests and Uldaman revamp.

Would be nice if they fixed the crevice between Loch Modan and Badlands so it feels more connected.