Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Nymrohd]

demon hunters and monks come this tuesday....idk how to feel about it
on one hand it seems the longer we wait the more they can put overall feedback to work
on the other hand the monk designer hasnt changed anything in like 4 years and every time we get something back it is in a gimped version of the past and WW clones have been bugged for 6 years

I expect Monks this week and then next week DH and beta.

[Arafal]

I wonder how long until we get the priest changes.

[Makabreska]

I wonder how long until we get the priest changes.

Same here.

[Fahrad Wagner]

I always thought they were just the spawn of Yu'lon.

Though its always a chicken or egg situation with wild gods.

This pretty much. So unrelated to protodragons I'd assume, although that new model might serve as a missing link in the evolution chain.

[Nymrohd]

I always thought they were just the spawn of Yu'lon.

Though its always a chicken or egg situation with wild gods.

They are referenced as dragons in multiple occasions. Nalak is specifically called a storm dragon, they are called dragons in the Koak short story, Yu'lon's temple has an area called "Terrace of the Twin Dragons", the mount journal notes "Heavenly Crimson Cloud Serpents are considered to be among the noblest of dragons."

Cloud serpents are intelligent and many of them speak with us. Perhaps they are the Life-based evolution of proto dragons where Aspects are the arcane version.

[Revamp Man]

I expect Monks this week and then next week DH and beta.

Chi explosion and a talent to make Clones behave like WoD

Guard or old ISB

Full fistweaving

This is my only wishlist

[Foolicious]

They are referenced as dragons in multiple occasions. Nalak is specifically called a storm dragon, they are called dragons in the Koak short story, Yu'lon's temple has an area called "Terrace of the Twin Dragons", the mount journal notes "Heavenly Crimson Cloud Serpents are considered to be among the noblest of dragons."

Cloud serpents are intelligent and many of them speak with us. Perhaps they are the Life-based evolution of proto dragons where Aspects are the arcane version.

Makes sense that they are still connected somehow to the proto drakes. They even mainly consist of green, red, blue, bronze and red breeds with a small population of thundering and heavenly serpents.

Chi explosion and a talent to make Clones behave like WoD

Guard or old ISB

Full fistweaving

This is my only wishlist

They should revert monk to the state of wod and start working from there. I wasn't the biggest fan of guard back then, but my god was monk fun to play in all specs back then.

[Sondrelk]

I wonder how long until we get the priest changes.

Rumour has it the developer in charge of Druid and Priest left the company, which would explain the absence of anything substantial.

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They could give us Monks this week (due to datamining) and Demon Hunter next week. I might have missed that, has there been any extensive datamining of DHs yet?

What frustrates me is that several classes have SO MUCH dev feedback already (Hunter, Shaman) and other classes have gotten not one or more than just one pretty meaningless blue post since their talent trees went live. Why so? I find this really concerning.

Different developers are essentially given free reign to develop the classes. The hunter and shaman one does that by being active in the forum's, answering questions. The rogue one I hear is fairly active on the discord, just not in making blueposts, and the druid and priest one is supposedly no longer with the company.

It's extremely annoying to anyone not playing one of the lucky classes like hunter, but at least it makes it blatantly obvious which developers get praise and which ones don't, and how to fix it.

[Feali]

They should revert monk to the state of wod and start working from there. I wasn't the biggest fan of guard back then, but my god was monk fun to play in all specs back then.

And by WoD you obviously mean MoP.

[Lahis]

Rumour has it the developer in charge of Druid and Priest left the company, which would explain the absence of anything substantial.

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Different developers are essentially given free reign to develop the classes. The hunter and shaman one does that by being active in the forum's, answering questions. The rogue one I hear is fairly active on the discord, just not in making blueposts, and the druid and priest one is supposedly no longer with the company.

It's extremely annoying to anyone not playing one of the lucky classes like hunter, but at least it makes it blatantly obvious which developers get praise and which ones don't, and how to fix it.

So the classes will be completely fucked over for Dragonflight then?

Well, time to really consider rerolling Evoker. I just hope I can get into beta to test it out before release.

[Nyel]

And by WoD you obviously mean MoP.

I think Monk was great in both expansions, especially WW and MW (never played BM). Since Legion the class feels hollow and boring.

[tristannarutofan]

Rumour has it the developer in charge of Druid and Priest left the company, which would explain the absence of anything substantial.

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Different developers are essentially given free reign to develop the classes. The hunter and shaman one does that by being active in the forum's, answering questions. The rogue one I hear is fairly active on the discord, just not in making blueposts, and the druid and priest one is supposedly no longer with the company.

It's extremely annoying to anyone not playing one of the lucky classes like hunter, but at least it makes it blatantly obvious which developers get praise and which ones don't, and how to fix it.

What is your source on this?

[Sondrelk]

What is your source on this?

Forgotten where exactly, but on the official forums at least, most likely the Community Council. It's easy to tell for the class designers as they are very clearly different people operating completely differently in how they approach class design in DF.

The druid/priest developer thing is just a rumour though. Some streamer has been talking to some developers who supposedly claimed it to be the case.

[Sweetdeal]

Do we know, if Beta starts soon? Since I missed the Alpha deadline for F&F =(

[Sondrelk]

Do we know, if Beta starts soon? Since I missed the Alpha deadline for F&F =(

Likely when the Alpha cycles are finished. Think there were 6, of which we are currently at 3 or 4.

[Nymrohd]

Likely when the Alpha cycles are finished. Think there were 6, of which we are currently at 3 or 4.

Pretty sure we are at 5 and going on 6 tomorrow actually.

[Fentawow]

Some bigger streamers hinted start of September for beta.

Regarding what sondrelk was saying on priest Druid dev I heard the same thing on multiple streams but those are more RWF people like Max, Naowh, etc. it sounded like it did happen but was not fully confirmed and the person took a leave of absence.

But yeah rogue and dh dev has been pretty active in those discord as soliciting feedback on design etc. which has been met very well.

Sounds like monk this week and DH was pushed back to the week after.

Edit: it is worth noting that there is a lead dev on each tree and a few others that help support. So kinda weird that no priest or Druid changes have been pushed through.

[Nyel]

Pretty sure we are at 5 and going on 6 tomorrow actually.

Yep, we're at stage 5 now. Their initial plan was to unlock a new stage every week, so stage 6 tomorrow seems likely, it musn't be the case though when development goals have changed during the course of testing (as said in their blue post).

[Berkilak]

They are referenced as dragons in multiple occasions. Nalak is specifically called a storm dragon, they are called dragons in the Koak short story, Yu'lon's temple has an area called "Terrace of the Twin Dragons", the mount journal notes "Heavenly Crimson Cloud Serpents are considered to be among the noblest of dragons."

Cloud serpents are intelligent and many of them speak with us. Perhaps they are the Life-based evolution of proto dragons where Aspects are the arcane version.

They don't even have wings.

They are referenced as dragons, yes, but that's more of a point of comparison than an actual connection. Illidan also faced off against Nether Dragons in Outland that weren't actual dragons but creatures from the Twisting Nether (likely demonic in origin). They were only called dragons as a point of comparison.

And let's be completely real: the only reason the Pandaren named anything after dragons is not because of their awareness of the dragons of Azeroth or connections between cloud serpents and dragons, but because they look like real-world Asian dragons. It's a crack in the fourth wall.

[huth]

They don't even have wings.

They are referenced as dragons, yes, but that's more of a point of comparison than an actual connection. Illidan also faced off against Nether Dragons in Outland that weren't actual dragons but creatures from the Twisting Nether (likely demonic in origin). They were only called dragons as a point of comparison.

And let's be completely real: the only reason the Pandaren named anything after dragons is not because of their awareness of the dragons of Azeroth or connections between cloud serpents and dragons, but because they look like real-world Asian dragons. It's a crack in the fourth wall.

Nether Dragons are an offshoot of Black Dragons.