Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Arai]

My personal headcanon is that we have to timewalk back there because the infinite flight messed up the timeways and made it so that our original dungeon group didn't arrive. Basically Caverns of Time: TotJS/CoS/HoV/SMBG. Similiar to season 4 and the Dreadlords trying to manipulate stuff (although the WoD dungeons were kinda weird haha).

The fated raid quests also imply that someone tries to mess with the timelines already, although it's weird with Shadowlands as time should work differently there anyways.

Also imo 8 Dungeons is the golden number. Season 3 felt far too overwhelming for new players.

Well there has to be a real reason not something I make up in my head. Not that hard for blizzard to implement a proper way.

I definitely hard disagree with the number of Dungeons. 8 get old real fast even if it is just for 1 season but maybe experiencing it first hand will change my mind as in 8 new dungeons every 6-9 months. Legion was the best model for me as the new dungeons also made sense for patch reasons.

[huth]

I think they absolutely will need to change the loot tables for the old dungeons. I get not doing it fully for the Fated season because it was entirely an experiment but it should be done for this.

I hope they do a Season tab in the Journal as well. Having to individually search for the dungeons is annoying.

[Lady Atia]

I hope they do a Season tab in the Journal as well. Having to individually search for the dungeons is annoying.

You can get an addon for that =)

[Holdodlig]

You can get an addon for that =)

You can get addons for everything. It doesn't mean that it shouldn't be introduced in the base game. I agree with him, you should have a dungeon journal window with everything season exclusive, dungeon, affixes and rewards included.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Does anybody else feel like this new season design takes away even more from the world building aspect? We are on the Dragonflight isles and suddenly go back to Halls of Valor to retrieve the Aegis. Jade Serpent ... ?? Feels more and more like Diablo 3 Season 27. On top of that we only get 8 Dungeons AGAIN which, quite frankly, is just not enough. 10 is the minimum imo to get a good rotation going.

......Omg not every little % of this game has to be immersive friendly. Suspension of disbelief exists for a reason. I mean do you actually think champions of Azeroth go in a raid every week to kill Denathrius and so on and so forth? There's a point where you just accept the fact this is a game, a very big and popular video game but still a game.

[Nymrohd]

......Omg not every little % of this game has to be immersive friendly. Suspension of disbelief exists for a reason. I mean do you actually think champions of Azeroth go in a raid every week to kill Denathrius and so on and so forth? There's a point where you just accept the fact this is a game, a very big and popular video game but still a game.

I mean every single time in a raid or dungeon after the first is not really immersive. You already did it. I am all for a focus on immersion but some elements of an MMO just don't allow for it.

[Melorandor]

When is the soundtrack gonna drop?

[Dracullus]

I mean every single time in a raid or dungeon after the first is not really immersive. You already did it. I am all for a focus on immersion but some elements of an MMO just don't allow for it.

Exactly. We won't have 4 new dungeons in Season 1, we will have 0. Hell, other 4 may feel more fresh after 2 weeks of Heroic/M0 farming for XP/gear/quests.

[Soikona]

When is the soundtrack gonna drop?

You mean OST? I have not heard any music, but I don’t think the music has been great for SL and BFA. Legion was amazing, specially the login music

[Nymrohd]

https://www.wowhead.com/news/updated...nflight-328812
So Merithra got an updated elf model. And it does NOT look like the loading screen model; different hair, different tattoos, eye color, horns.

[Makorus]

https://www.wowhead.com/news/updated...nflight-328812
So Merithra got an updated elf model. And it does NOT look like the loading screen model; different hair, different tattoos, eye color, horns.

Yeah because the person on the Loading Screen is Ysera.

Always has been. There's no doubt about it and never was. It's literally a 1:1 copy of Yseras current model with slightly different hair.

People who thought it was the "new model" for Merithra were being delusional.

[Lahis]

When is the soundtrack gonna drop?

In late October/early November depending on 10.0 live date.

[Alanar]

Yeah because the person on the Loading Screen is Ysera.

Always has been. There's no doubt about it and never was. It's literally a 1:1 copy of Yseras current model with slightly different hair.

People who thought it was the "new model" for Merithra were being delusional.

I thought it was quite obvious that it was Ysera, the broadcast text. The whole seed and malfurion thing on top of that. But ofc there will be some smartpants whos gonna quote me and say its not. But ye I had the same though as you.

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

I mean it was clearly defined by people in here that it was Merithra before the lore leak. No one really were going "It's Ysera" back when the Loading Screen first appeared until the Globe of Rebirth leak changed the trajectory of the conversation and then finalized with the broadcast text leak.

Hell people still clinged to the thought it was Merithra post-Rebirth leak until they finally relented with the broadcast text leak.

[Lady Atia]

I mean it was clearly defined by people in here that it was Merithra before the lore leak. No one really were going "It's Ysera" back when the Loading Screen first appeared until the Globe of Rebirth leak changed the trajectory of the conversation and then finalized with the broadcast text leak.

Hell people still clinged to the thought it was Merithra post-Rebirth leak until they finally relented with the broadcast text leak.

I said it was Ysera from day one of the loading screen datamine and people were all "haha no it's obviously Merithra because that no name char deserves a spotlight".

[Makorus]

I mean it was clearly defined by people in here that it was Merithra before the lore leak. No one really were going "It's Ysera" back when the Loading Screen first appeared until the Globe of Rebirth leak changed the trajectory of the conversation and then finalized with the broadcast text leak.

Hell people still clinged to the thought it was Merithra post-Rebirth leak until they finally relented with the broadcast text leak.

Even before the Rebirth-leak it was obvious that it was Ysera.

Merithra had completely different eye-marking, she doesn't have the blue eyes Ysera got in Shadowlands, she has curved horns, while Ysera has ones that bend outward at end, and Merithra doesn't have the floating disc thing at her forehead.

Apart from the hair being slightly different, the Green Dragon in the loading screen is identical to Ysera, compared to having nothing in common with Merithra (unless she randomly decides to get laser operation to change her tattoos).

Even then, it makes sense it's Ysera because Ysera is still the Green Aspect at the start of Dragonflight, so she is there with all the other Aspects.

[Raetary]

I mean it was clearly defined by people in here that it was Merithra before the lore leak.

It absolutely wasn't.

No one really were going "It's Ysera" back when the Loading Screen first appeared until the Globe of Rebirth leak changed the trajectory of the conversation and then finalized with the broadcast text leak.

Heya!

I was practically yelling at people in this very thread that it is Ysera, throughout the whole discussion.

[Makabreska]

Blizz addresses state of PTR priests:

https://www.wowhead.com/news/blizzar...cess-to-328843

[Nymrohd]

Look I know it is Ysera. But if it is Ysera, that means the moronic plot that puts Malfurion in the freezer is also right and that means Dragonflight will likely have similar stupid story beats that are soap drama. And I am not excited about that so I will willfully choose to ignore it until it is true.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

"Soap drama" Guys come up with all sorts of way slap the game. I mean I don't like Malfurion being sacrificed but it being slightly emotional....


dear god(That was snark)

I'll go out and say it here that everybody and their mother following the art and beta progress was speculating who the elf was. Most people, from what I could tell at the time, was saying that the elf was Marithra. It was strengthened by the idea that, if Ysera were to come back, it would be through leapfrogging deus ex machina means, which people felt that Blizzard wouldn't be stupid enough to use. So, natural conclusion, it would be Marithra.

The art doesn't look like Merithra, its completely different.