Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[8bithamster]

Sure, let me know if you wanna see any other class too ^.^

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The mythic tint has an additional lightning effect which you can't really show with the screenshots haha, but it's there. Really cool, as it looks like the "lesser" difficulties will still have their normal glow effect just without the additional lightning bolts *fingers crossed*.

Why fingers crossed? That has been the norm for the past few tiers.. Mythic gets another colour + some added effects. See Antorus, see Nighthold, BFA etc etc. This is nothing new.

[Lady Atia]

Why fingers crossed? That has been the norm for the past few tiers.. Mythic gets another colour + some added effects. See Antorus, see Nighthold, BFA etc etc. This is nothing new.

Have you played BfA and Shadowlands? They gimped all the lower difficulty sets even when they had some glow effects going on in earlier ptr /beta iterations. Only with Sepulcher did we get lfr/nh/hc sets that actually looked decent compared to Mythic.

Honestly, last two expansions non-mythic tints looked like leveling gear from legion, quality wise ...

[Sondrelk]

I wonder why they chose the green variant instead of the red one. Kinda breakup the elemental theme by not really having the red fire themed one.
Not even sure what element the LFR variant is even supposed to be.

Vault of the Incarnates off-set pieces also heavily lean towards the Shaman set, which hopefully get changed a tad. Would at least hope for the Evoker shoulders to be available to everyone.

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Have you played BfA and Shadowlands? They gimped all the lower difficulty sets even when they had some glow effects going on in earlier ptr /beta iterations. Only with Sepulcher did we get lfr/nh/hc sets that actually looked decent compared to Mythic.

Honestly, last two expansions non-mythic tints looked like leveling gear from legion, quality wise ...

Does kinda make sense for this set though. With the exception of LFR all the sets are based on an element, and the effects are only Wind themed. Would probably look a bit weird to have yellow lightning stream from what is supposed to be a storm themed set.

[Lady Atia]

I wonder why they chose the green variant instead of the red one. Kinda breakup the elemental theme by not really having the red fire themed one.
Not even sure what element the LFR variant is even supposed to be.

Vault of the Incarnates off-set pieces also heavily lean towards the Shaman set, which hopefully get changed a tad. Would at least hope for the Evoker shoulders to be available to everyone.

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Does kinda make sense for this set though. With the exception of LFR all the sets are based on an element, and the effects are only Wind themed. Would probably look a bit weird to have yellow lightning stream from what is supposed to be a storm themed set.

Well to be fair, the green one can easily represent earth (or spirit?) while the orange one is fire already. My guess is that the darker red will be the tint for the pvp elite set.

And yeah, while it kinda makes sense I'm just hoping it's the way to go for future sets - lfr/nh/hc often have quite awesome colour schemes and it's just sad to see them getting nerfed just for the mythic one to pop more. The way the newer ones are handled is far better - give every set a glow with additional stuff for the mythic one and everyone is happy.

[Sondrelk]

Well to be fair, the green one can easily represent earth (or spirit?) while the orange one is fire already. My guess is that the darker red will be the tint for the pvp elite set.

And yeah, while it kinda makes sense I'm just hoping it's the way to go for future sets - lfr/nh/hc often have quite awesome colour schemes and it's just sad to see them getting nerfed just for the mythic one to pop more. The way the newer ones are handled is far better - give every set a glow with additional stuff for the mythic one and everyone is happy.

PvP has its own set, so it likely won't be recolours of the raid set. I guess it could be an extra reward for Elite, but still.

[Lady Atia]

PvP has its own set, so it likely won't be recolours of the raid set. I guess it could be an extra reward for Elite, but still.

So far, the earlier datamined "pvp" tints are used for crafting and open world stuff though. Red for crafting, blue for open world pve and yellow for open world pvp iirc.

[Sondrelk]

So far, the earlier datamined "pvp" tints are used for crafting and open world stuff though. Red for crafting, blue for open world pve and yellow for open world pvp iirc.

Ohh yeah, good point.

Feels like Alliance kinda gets ahfted on recolours in that case. Not sure how the blue variant will really stick out compared to the HC set, at least compared to the likely vibrant red given to Horde compared to the yellow.

[Lady Atia]

Ohh yeah, good point.

Feels like Alliance kinda gets ahfted on recolours in that case. Not sure how the blue variant will really stick out compared to the HC set, at least compared to the likely vibrant red given to Horde compared to the yellow.

I somewhat doubt we will get different faction recolours for pvp, we didn't get them with Shadowlands either. My guess would be that they will just use the purple "pvp" set for conquest stuff and the dark red tier one for the elite set? Maybe the green "pvp" one for honour? Keep in mind that we will prolly keep the tier forge so honour and conquest level gear could just take on the appearance of lfr/normal tier if you change it (no clue how it works in Shadowlands currently tbh).

[Sondrelk]

I somewhat doubt we will get different faction recolours for pvp, we didn't get them with Shadowlands either. My guess would be that they will just use the purple "pvp" set for conquest stuff and the dark red tier one for the elite set? Maybe the green "pvp" one for honour? Keep in mind that we will prolly keep the tier forge so honour and conquest level gear could just take on the appearance of lfr/normal tier if you change it (no clue how it works in Shadowlands currently tbh).

Certainly possible. Would definitely hope for red being the regular set and purple being the elite. Would be a crying shane if I was unable to make a Deathwing themed set only if I farm rated PvP.

[Lady Atia]

Certainly possible. Would definitely hope for red being the regular set and purple being the elite. Would be a crying shane if I was unable to make a Deathwing themed set only if I farm rated PvP.

You can get this one via crafting:

[infinitemeridian]

The primalist sets are great. I hope they add m+ sets at some point, which get rotated onto a vendor at the end of every season so you can buy them from previous seasons.

[Lady Atia]

The primalist sets are great. I hope they add m+ sets at some point, which get rotated onto a vendor at the end of every season so you can buy them from previous seasons.

Or you know, maybe they should tread m+ sets like the elite ones and make them a reward for actually playing a season? Otherwise please add pvp elite sets also to a vendor.

[Sondrelk]

Or you know, maybe they should tread m+ sets like the elite ones and make them a reward for actually playing a season? Otherwise please add pvp elite sets also to a vendor.

M+ really needs cosmetic armor rewards. Doesn't really make sense that you cannot get a unique tint for completing Keystone Hero or whatever when there are almost always extra tints available.

[Shadderk]

Sure, let me know if you wanna see any other class too ^.^

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The mythic tint has an additional lightning effect which you can't really show with the screenshots haha, but it's there. Really cool, as it looks like the "lesser" difficulties will still have their normal glow effect just without the additional lightning bolts *fingers crossed*.

Can you show rogue please?

[Lady Atia]

M+ really needs cosmetic armor rewards. Doesn't really make sense that you cannot get a unique tint for completing Keystone Hero or whatever when there are almost always extra tints available.

Yeah, it's about time pve players get as much seasonal rewards as pvp fans.

[Teriz]

You can get this one via crafting:

I'm really liking these sets. I hopefully the new class gives Mail gets some nice sets. They've been in the armor doghouse for years.

[Rageonit]

Don't 100% recall, but I don't believe they were. I think Gnome Hunters were opened for that PTR however. I did find this link with people talking about how they weren't available at that point on the PTR, so I suspect they weren't.

According to this article, they were released with the pre-patch. I couldn't remember it myself.

[Lady Atia]

Can you show rogue please?

Here you go ^.^

[Teriz]

Of course there is more. I could run a 30 Minute rant about how lame they turned out to be, and how this is evidently just corner cutting if you put them next to how Worgen handle their transformation...

And don't even let me start of the 1995-Raver Look the Dracthyr get in their Humanoid form, which is not for 1 second able to hide they are just rehashed human and bloodelf models again.

I get more of an elf/human hybrid vibe from the visage form. Which makes sense, because that's typically how Alexstraza and co. (sans Chromie) make themselves look.

[infinitemeridian]

Or you know, maybe they should tread m+ sets like the elite ones and make them a reward for actually playing a season? Otherwise please add pvp elite sets also to a vendor.

M+ already has a mount / title / portals as fomo, it doesn't need any more. Sets will add to the longevity of it, especially if they are available from previous seasons.

Have we had any info on what the prepatch event entails for DF? Will there be some sort of gear catch-up mechanism?