Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Padwarle]

https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/ne...t-begins-today

So there's an invite wave going out, and the Beta will contain all the things from the Alphas.

No mention of VDHs.

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wo...rs/1315896/100

[Makabreska]

Well shit, they bring back WoD mechanins

[Vasoka]

https://gyazo.com/280803fd1b988baa956bbb506c8f38c2

Check your accounts

[enigma77]

Ha got into beta without an active sub despite the blue post saying you gotta have an active sub

[Marlamin]

Achievements:

Against the Elements (New) Defeat each of the elemental lords during the Dragonflight pre-launch events.

[AngerFork]

https://gyazo.com/280803fd1b988baa956bbb506c8f38c2

Check your accounts

Grats!

Nothing here just yet, but still checking & hoping for an invite.

[Nymrohd]

HIGH END CRAFTING UPDATE

In this week’s build, we have changed how limits on high end crafted gear works. Instead of limiting you to equipping 5 pieces of high item level crafted gear, you can now equip an unlimited amount of basic high end gear. Some of the more special crafted gear which includes special effects, or has a special effect added through an optional reagent will have a equip limit of 2 though to help limit overall gear complexity.

Ok now we have a progression system for crafting.

[Makabreska]

Void Eruption – Cooldown increased to 2 minutes (was 90 seconds).

Actually not mad, 90 sec CD didn't line up with shit.

[Raetary]

Ha got into beta without an active sub despite the blue post saying you gotta have an active sub

Makes sense to extend it to the entire player pool for beta.

[Lazarel]

I guess no music this week

[Collected]

Ha got into beta without an active sub despite the blue post saying you gotta have an active sub

Some of the text on the beta stuff seems like a copy/paste from alpha. Like the bit about content creators and friends.

[Kiria]

https://gyazo.com/280803fd1b988baa956bbb506c8f38c2

Check your accounts

Are you EU or NA?

Ha got into beta without an active sub despite the blue post saying you gotta have an active sub

EU or NA? Just trying to Gaige if only NA has gone out first.

[Marlamin]

It's about time we had an in-game hint of where the isles are

[Makabreska]

It's about time we had an in-game hint of where the isles are

But that is like, cold environment.

[Foolicious]

Well shit, they bring back WoD mechanins

I wonder how this will play with insanity instead of orbs. If they manage to make this as smooth as it was in wod im hyped!

Void Eruption – Cooldown increased to 2 minutes (was 90 seconds).

Actually not mad, 90 sec CD didn't line up with shit.

Voidbolt also got buffed so it may feel like a cooldown now and not part of the normal rotation.

[Rathwell]

It's about time we had an in-game hint of where the isles are

I'm getting worried they're putting so many landmasses on the right part of Azeroth. There's not enough on the left to balance it out and I fear the whole thing might tip over

[Nyel]

Well shit, they bring back WoD mechanins

Thank god, WoD shadow was the best Shadow (okay, MoP with Shadow Word: Insanity was a little bit better). Shadow Orbs making a return is even better.

The new talents are a bit confusing though, either increase the duration of your DoTs with Mind Flay or use Mind Spike and remove them? From the changes it looks a bit weird as of now regarding the Mind Spike gameplay.

[Raetary]

Pretty sure the DoT removal on Mind Spike was an early legion thing.

And pretty much everyone despised it so much that it got removed a patch in.

Nvm, DoT removal was a cata thing, then Legion had it reworked than removed.

Thanks to the random wowhead commentator for this information.

[Nyel]

Pretty sure the DoT removal on Mind Spike was an early legion thing.

And pretty much everyone despised it so much that it got removed a patch in.

WoD had pretty much a DoTless Shadow playstyle, which was a very cool and unique, but it got removed in Legion and instead we got the terrible, horrible, awful Voidform insanity mechanic. (Clarity of Power or what was it called, I don't remember correctly - yep: Clarity of Power: Your Mind Spike, Mind Sear, and Shadow Word: Death deal 40% additional damage to targets not affected by your Shadow Word: Pain or Vampiric Touch. Also reduces the cooldown on Mind Blast by 3 sec and makes it instant cast. - basically it was Devouring Plague and burst damage).

[Makabreska]

Pretty sure the DoT removal on Mind Spike was an early legion thing.

And pretty much everyone despised it so much that it got removed a patch in.

There was no Spike in Legion. Spike DoT weaving playstyle with Clarity of Power was a WoD thing. It was only for single target, though. It was an experiment that quickly became oversDPSed by traditional builds later in WoD.