Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Raetary]

Not been following the DF news, did they change it so you can use Visage form in battle now and stay in it? Or are you still forced into dragon form?

No, but they did add a Spell that makes it so you immediately turn into your visage form upon leaving combat.

[Khaza-R]

No, but they did add a Spell that makes it so you immediately turn into your visage form upon leaving combat.

I wonder if they will be adding this for Worgen as well. I can't even remember the last time I used two-forms.

[Feali]

In the build tonight, a few classes are being given a few new animations

Warrior, Warlock, Demon Hunter

If any class needs new animations it's Monk. And please let me hit things with my weapon again.

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"Blizzard Responds to Initial Release Date Feedback"

Blizzard: "We'll announce something at some point"

Ah yes the classic "Soon(TM)"

[Cheezits]

Hm, I dunno. They've done it before - see some of the artifact abilities that became baseline/talents.

And some people seem unhappy at the idea of the covenant aesthetic coming with us. Hell, there's at least one person on this forum, for example.

People seriously need to deal with it instead of thinking they can bully Blizzard into deleting an expansion.

[Luck4]

Oh shit! The Ring of Blood is back!

https://www.wowhead.com/news/gurgtho...nflight-328325

So many fond memories of grouping up and defeating these elites back in the days.

Hopefully, it's max-level, and the quest chain rewards a weapon. #fingercrossed

[Kiivar86]

the artifact abilities mostly kept their names and visuals afaik

Can only speak for WW Monk and Arcane Mage here but while WW Monk does still have the punch it lacks the, heh, "punch" it had with the extra visuals (sorry, had to), though that could be chalked up to it losing pretty much everything that made Strike of the Windlord what it was.

...actually now that I'm typing this, I wonder if we'll get it back in the talent tree? Fury Warriors got that Odyn's Fury ability back. Ok now I'm hopeful.

Anyway, nothing much replaced visually Mark of Aluneth, either.

So yeah, they can change things up. We'll see.

People seriously need to deal with it instead of thinking they can bully Blizzard into deleting an expansion.

No argument from me. I think its a dumb idea to remove it anyway. Like I said, there are some real sweet animations in those things.

edit: we've got a build~

[Revamp Man]

Monk baby
LETS GOOOOO!!!!!!

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Can only speak for WW Monk and Arcane Mage here but while WW Monk does still have the punch it lacks the, heh, "punch" it had with the extra visuals (sorry, had to), though that could be chalked up to it losing pretty much everything that made Strike of the Windlord what it was.

...actually now that I'm typing this, I wonder if we'll get it back in the talent tree? Fury Warriors got that Odyn's Fury ability back. Ok now I'm hopeful.

Anyway, nothing much replaced visually Mark of Aluneth, either.

So yeah, they can change things up. We'll see.



No argument from me. I think its a dumb idea to remove it anyway. Like I said, there are some real sweet animations in those things.

edit: we've got a build~

"WW will have playstyles to choose between bringing back old friends or a new playstyle"
Old friends are
Tiger eye brew
Old Clones
Disarm
Fire blossom
Chi explosion
Strike of the windlord

[Makabreska]

Logging screen:

[Raetary]

Logging screen:

Aaaaand i have a new desktop background.

[Kiivar86]

Ok now that is lovely.

[Xilurm]

Pretty nice, reminds me of the MoP one. New place to explore and all.

Of course if they add a dragon flying down it will suddenly become way more like the Wrath one.

[Valysar]

Login Screen "concept", so soon ?

Btw, there is no new animations for Dh right now on the alpha.

[SunspotAnims]

Very pretty vista, can wait to see it in motion.

On another note, it was said that the Unholy DK tree was going to be reworked to some degree waaay back in the first week or so of alpha and I haven't seen anything about that since. I'm starting to wonder if the rework has become more substantial than originally pitched or it's just been on the backburner until the other classes have been rolled out. Personally, I'd get a kick out of seeing the abomination make a return.

[Sondrelk]

Logging screen:

[IMG]

Weird that they seem to have done away with the whole portal theme for that one. Not even trying to emulate that basic feel that the other login screens do.

[Feali]

How far have we fallen that there has not been a single login screen rickroll in this thread for the last like 400 pages?

Also, yay Monk talents! Can't wait to play around with the claculator <3

[Makabreska]

Very pretty vista, can wait to see it in motion.

On another note, it was said that the Unholy DK tree was going to be reworked to some degree waaay back in the first week or so of alpha and I haven't seen anything about that since. I'm starting to wonder if the rework has become more substantial than originally pitched or it's just been on the backburner until the other classes have been rolled out.

They said same for priests. I guess unreleased classes have prio so they can gather first feedback.

[Dracullus]

Interesting, login screen was usully added in late Beta if I remember correctly.

[Feali]

Weird that they seem to have done away with the whole portal theme for that one. Not even trying to emulate that basic feel that the other login screens do.

Well neither did Cata or MoP or BfA.

[Makabreska]

Weird that they seem to have done away with the whole portal theme for that one. Not even trying to emulate that basic feel that the other login screens do.

WotLK, Cata, MoP, BfA and Shadowlands also didn't have them. They put portals when it makes sense. What sense would it make to put a Dark Portal variation in Dragon Isles?

[Luck4]

Feels like it's been so many expansions released terribly close to christmass, and every single time people worry about what that means for raiding, like it's not how it usually goes lol

I mean, it's not how it usually goes...



Back in the day, the closest expansion/raid releases we had for Christmas were:

* Barely near the holidays. - Wrath of the Lich King: November 14, 2008 - Raids opened the same day.

Warlords of Draenor: November 13, 2014 - Highmaul opened on December 2, 2014.

Cataclysm: December 7, 2010 - Raids opened the same day.

Shadowlands: November 23, 2020 - Castle Nathria opened on December 8, 2020.

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If Blizzard releases Dragonflight on November 28, 2022, and gives us the usual 14-days off-season, the Raid will be opened on December 13, 2022, and Mythic on December 20, 2022, these dates are insane and never before we had a raid release so close to the holiday season. Would be a lot better if the expansion could be released on December 7/8, or 12/13, and the first Season on January 3, 2023.