Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Gigantique]

Is it that bad? I mean I've played Preserver with my Dracthyr but my main issue with Dracthyr was that it sucked in the world as solo, not that it was bad. Also, that it's a bit boring.

Can only speak for myself but I specced blue side with some middle talents and I'll kill any single target before it's taken more than two steps towards me, cleave to two targets and kill those equally easy and shred groups of up to five without taking damage by using a cd like instacharge flame breath/eternity surge. Level 68 with all quest gear by this point.

[Sondrelk]

The M+ mount is also the easiest to get by far. Only top 0.1% get the Gladiator mount and farming Mythic endboss for the mount isn't trivial task (not even by the end of the expansion because those who already have it don't bother to come to the farm runs anymore, so you are always rolling against fresh batch of 20 players).

But anyone with half of a functional braincell can get KSM. That is basically the bare minimum requorement for M+ content since the Valor upgrades require that rating too.

So yeah, least impressive mount is the easiest to get. No surprises there.

It could still be a unique drake customization option. You don't strictly need to have the most unique appearances only from the most exclusive sources.

[Arkura]

Oh surprise, Blizzard brings back exp and renown gain to expac start level. I mean, anyone who witnessed a typical expac development knows that Blizzard nerfs needed time effort over time and starts with a way too low rate for any kind of bar filler steps.

Tip: If you really want to play any of the modern expacs, play it in the last month it exists. You will literally breeze through everything.

Relax.. Its reputation. You have alot of time to build it up

[huth]

Oh surprise, Blizzard brings back exp and renown gain to expac start level. I mean, anyone who witnessed a typical expac development knows that Blizzard nerfs needed time effort over time and starts with a way too low rate for any kind of bar filler steps.

Tip: If you really want to play any of the modern expacs, play it in the last month it exists. You will literally breeze through everything.

That rather goes against why i would play it, so it is quite bad advice.

[Revamp Man]

Oh surprise, Blizzard brings back exp and renown gain to expac start level. I mean, anyone who witnessed a typical expac development knows that Blizzard nerfs needed time effort over time and starts with a way too low rate for any kind of bar filler steps.

Tip: If you really want to play any of the modern expacs, play it in the last month it exists. You will literally breeze through everything.

They cut 69-70 exp by 40% I'm not complaining

The renown change is offset by the increase in rep from certain quests

If you want to put the hate boner away for a couple weeks we have a ptr build coming today and some raid testing for you to complain about it giving people an unfair advantage

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...ew why wtf

The renown change is because early level rewards were meaningless
Think of them like the 3 point talents that gave X% of a stat
Now everything comes faster so instead of it being renown 7 before you get the extra quest line you'll have renown 3 which is 7500 rep

As for leveling experience it's because 68-70 was around 1.4m exp required while 61-68 was about 2m exp

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It could still be a unique drake customization option. You don't strictly need to have the most unique appearances only from the most exclusive sources.

It's a mount
If it was a customization we'd be able to see that
As long as people give feedback we might see changes because we only have 2 dragons with full body transformation out of 4

[Zulggun]

Oh no, I wont be able to get everything in my first week of playing. That's just terrible, Ion Hazzikostas screwed me over again.

[Sondrelk]

Oh no, I wont be able to get everything in my first week of playing. That's just terrible, Ion Hazzikostas screwed me over again.

If only Blizz would go back to the MoP days of grinding dailies for bonus rolls and pre-raid gear. Would really spicen up the two weeks you get to game it before the raid opens.

[Makabreska]

If only Blizz would go back to the MoP days of grinding dailies for bonus rolls and pre-raid gear. Would really spicen up the two weeks you get to game it before the raid opens.

You mean the dailies that everyone complained were too damn many? I REALLY doubt that bringing back this old and tired system in force would spice up anything.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

You mean the dailies that everyone complained were too damn many? I REALLY doubt that bringing back this old and tired system in force would spice up anything.

I mean yeah but the excuse of "I'm forced to do x" is just exhausting, like some people need to learn self control.(Not pointing at you)

[Sondrelk]

You mean the dailies that everyone complained were too damn many? I REALLY doubt that bringing back this old and tired system in force would spice up anything.

I know. But the playerbase seems confident MoP had no flaws and was perfect, so clearly the daily system that literally required you to grind dailies until you unlocked ANOTHER set of dailies could only be a good thing, clearly.

[Nymrohd]

I know. But the playerbase seems confident MoP had no flaws and was perfect, so clearly the daily system that literally required you to grind dailies until you unlocked ANOTHER set of dailies could only be a good thing, clearly.

I mean if it is not tied to power but it's just a world progression system, why not. The more content the better. You have about two years to do it.

[Xilurm]

Idm as long as FOMO isn't a thing. No one likes FOMO.

[Nymrohd]

Idm as long as FOMO isn't a thing. No one likes FOMO.

Sure but reputation factions very rarely are removed (only ones I can remember are the vanilla ones for ZG and Wrathion from MoP).

[Revamp Man]

I know. But the playerbase seems confident MoP had no flaws and was perfect, so clearly the daily system that literally required you to grind dailies until you unlocked ANOTHER set of dailies could only be a good thing, clearly.

Oh the grind was awful but the story unlocks were great

Take MoP but with things like emissaries and m+ and you get a very very good expansion

[Aeluron Lightsong]

I don't think FOMO applies here unless those specific dailies are removed later on/ rewards the dailies offer are removed later. Then I can understand.

[Dracullus]

We still have more than 2 months before S1 start for M+ testing (and I think they could gather more people to test M+ between pre-patch and expac launch than now), but I hope we start pre-patch event soon. I'm starting to think it will be barebones like Shadowlands one sadly.

Relax.. Its reputation. You have alot of time to build it up

He's not sharpest tool in the shed, most people here learned that there is no point arguing with that guy xD.

I know. But the playerbase seems confident MoP had no flaws and was perfect, so clearly the daily system that literally required you to grind dailies until you unlocked ANOTHER set of dailies could only be a good thing, clearly.

They weren't so confident when it was current content.

[Revamp Man]

prepatch build was supposed to hit a couple hours ago but i guess they are a tad behind

[huth]

The most effective way to play

Is meaningless. It's inherently wasting time, and efficiency isn't particularly useful to that.

[huth]

Well, to play from start actually is about wasting time and money. Why would you pay for 16 months if you just need to pay one month at the end and still see everything?

Because you actually can't. Doing the content at the start of the expansion is a qualitatively different experience.

And no, rushing through everything at the end is not how WoW should be at the start. It's a markedly worse experience. Your demands are completely absurd, no matter the size of the studio. Maybe you should stop treating games as a chore to finish as quickly as possible.

[Arkura]

Sooo.. PTR is down? Hopefully a build that resembles a pre patch rdy event