Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Nagawithlegs]

So.... historically six month promotion mounts released this late (at least time wise, if not patch wise) have a good chance of being pulled from 10.0 content as a mount/flightpath/regular mob. Thoughts?

Guessing it’s a big bird species from the Dragon Isles.

The armor may not mean anything: see the Sylverian Dreamer dragon not having armor in Ardenweald. Same with the foxes.

Also a blue bird vs red bird later to symbolize Light vs Void?

[Hitei]

Guessing it’s a big bird species from the Dragon Isles.

The armor may not mean anything: see the Sylverian Dreamer dragon not having armor in Ardenweald. Same with the foxes.

Also a blue bird vs red bird later to symbolize Light vs Void?

Looks a bit bright to be void and both are Skyblazers. I'd double down on Dragon Isles. The Sapphire leans towards color being important (native to a blue dragonflight region?) and they are firebirds, with goes hand-in-hand with dragons.

[Dracullus]

At least Blizzard is pretty consistent with updates this week. Yesterday was classic, today Hearthstone, maybe next days will have Overwatch/Diablo/retail news.

Guessing it’s a big bird species from the Dragon Isles.

The armor may not mean anything: see the Sylverian Dreamer dragon not having armor in Ardenweald. Same with the foxes.

Also a blue bird vs red bird later to symbolize Light vs Void?

Yep I think the same, but of course it's only because Light vs Void + Dragon Isles were my predictions before mount released. Let's face it, store mounts are pretty useless for speculation, unless some name would lead somewhere, like Suramar cloak from 6.2.

[Nyel]

What makes the bird special is that its armor looks almost very much like Tyrandes armor

It does. And somehow it gives me Wrathion vibes, I don’t know why.

The first I thought when I saw it was that it’s very reminiscent of Night Elf styles and designs.

Maybe after all the pain Night Elves suffered in BfA and Shadowlands they’re getting their own expansion?

[Nagawithlegs]

Maybe after all the pain Night Elves suffered in BfA and Shadowlands they’re getting their own expansion?

The Nelf expansion was Legion.

But Azshara being saved points to a Tyrande vs Azshara storyline for sure.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Blizz doesn't really view expansions in "Its NElf expansion." Or "Its a Alliance expansion."

[huth]

It could be argued that the the Dreamer gave us subtle hints at Ardenweald though, and if nothing else "Familiar" evoked the Arcane/Mage aspect.

From Blizzard's view, maybe. From our view, we had absolutely no way of knowing what that feathered dragon was about until we learned about Ardenweald. Certainly not that it was connected to Death of all things.

Same issue here, while it may well be connected to the next expansion, actually understanding that connection may well require knowledge we don't have yet and could be completely different from what we think.

[Luck4]

From Blizzard's view, maybe. From our view, we had absolutely no way of knowing what that feathered dragon was about until we learned about Ardenweald. Certainly not that it was connected to Death of all things.

Same issue here, while it may well be connected to the next expansion, actually understanding that connection may well require knowledge we don't have yet and could be completely different from what we think.

There's also the fact that it's a bird, one of the most generic creatures. I mean, which expansion didn't have birds?

People also connected the feathered drake with the dragon isles before, and look how that turned out.

I think the best hint we have is the lower-level gear remaster. I mean, even if it's not a world revamp, I'm sure something will happen with some of the old zones.

[Kohtra]

I think the best hint we have is the lower-level gear remaster. I mean, even if it's not a world revamp, I'm sure something will happen with some of the old zones.

I'm really curious if we start to find more low level gear remasters datamined in 9.1.5

[Atriel]

Looks a bit bright to be void and both are Skyblazers. I'd double down on Dragon Isles. The Sapphire leans towards color being important (native to a blue dragonflight region?) and they are firebirds, with goes hand-in-hand with dragons.

My guess is the Jailer/Sylvanas/Infinite Dragons open a rift to old-Azeroth at the height of the Blood Elf empire. We get revamped Eastern Kingdom/Kalimdor (including fully realized Silvermoon city) much like WoD.

These are arguably new Phoenix models, and the armor is very Elven.

[Luck4]

I'm really curious if we start to find more low level gear remasters datamined in 9.1.5

Yeah, if more stuff appears on 9.1.5, it's going to be interesting.

Btw, aren't all these sets from the Humans zones? Such as Elwynn, Redridge, Westfall, and Duskwood?

[Aeluron Lightsong]

My guess is the Jailer/Sylvanas/Infinite Dragons open a rift to old-Azeroth at the height of the Blood Elf empire. We get revamped Eastern Kingdom/Kalimdor (including fully realized Silvermoon city) much like WoD.

These are arguably new Phoenix models, and the armor is very Elven.

That really doens't make sense in Zovaal's plan. Zovaal has already shown he has no interest in Sylvanas's vision for the Shadowlands. Now infinite dragons MIGHT try to take advantage of Zovaal's well situation.

Btw, aren't all these sets from the Humans zones? Such as Elwynn, Redridge, Westfall, and Duskwood?

Yes some of the starter robes are in the files but basically revamped.

[Edoll]

My guess is the Jailer/Sylvanas/Infinite Dragons open a rift to old-Azeroth at the height of the Blood Elf empire. We get revamped Eastern Kingdom/Kalimdor (including fully realized Silvermoon city) much like WoD.

These are arguably new Phoenix models, and the armor is very Elven.

There never was a blood elf empire. They’ve only been around for what, 10 years of game time anyway? There wasn’t even a high elf empire before them.

We’ve done a lot of time travel to the past. We even had a full expansion of it. We need time travel to the future! Travel to future Lordaeron and have a full blood elf empire!

[Nyel]

The Nelf expansion was Legion.

But Azshara being saved points to a Tyrande vs Azshara storyline for sure.

The Azshara storyline seems to be interesting.

A time traveling expansion to Azeroth before the Sundering would be very interesting.

[Dracullus]

We will be able to farm souls endlessly, so that's another thing we don't have to do weekly. So what next guys, grateful offerings buff? Looks like Blizzard agree to everything since last week.

I agree with this, but I think the Dragon Isles won't be a continent but will be multiple islands off the coasts of both zones. Similar to the Cata zones (and I think 10.0 will have a Cataclysm theme.

Oh God I hope not. Enough of disjointed continents. In BfA it was already bad and in SL they doubled down.

[Sondrelk]

We will be able to farm souls endlessly, so that's another thing we don't have to do weekly. So what next guys, grateful offerings buff? Looks like Blizzard agree to everything since last week.



Oh God I hope not. Enough of disjointed continents. In BfA it was already bad and in SL they doubled down.

Grateful offerings are in a sense getting a buff just from more souls. Depending on what cosmetics you want it only takes maybe a week or two to get everything, especially if yo ujust want the cosmetics that is useable by your character, and not all the cosmetics available to buy.

[micwini]

Armor on the blue bird mount gives me wind elemental / Al'akir vibes. Adorned white armor with a blue oval shaped gem.

[Makorus]

Grateful offerings are in a sense getting a buff just from more souls. Depending on what cosmetics you want it only takes maybe a week or two to get everything, especially if yo ujust want the cosmetics that is useable by your character, and not all the cosmetics available to buy.

How are Grateful Offerings getting a buff from more souls? Because you can upgrade your Conductor? You can still only send out one beam at a time for 10 days.

[Sondrelk]

How are Grateful Offerings getting a buff from more souls? Because you can upgrade your Conductor? You can still only send out one beam at a time for 10 days.

Rank 2 conducotrs give you dailies, which are 6 offerings each day, as well as teh WQ which is another 3. If you also know how the conductor works then you can get the effects of 2 beams each day by activating the beam later in the day and then opening the chest or whatever earlier the next day.

[Dracullus]

Grateful offerings are in a sense getting a buff just from more souls. Depending on what cosmetics you want it only takes maybe a week or two to get everything, especially if yo ujust want the cosmetics that is useable by your character, and not all the cosmetics available to buy.

My venthyr warrior needed around 1000, haven't farmed after that. Renown weapons are most expensive.