Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Revamp Man]

Beta servers are offline atm (for me at least) but nothing has been pushed yet. Probably gonna be same build. Hope they fix the annoying WQ bug

And then gear gives the ui bug

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Tbh I think the prepatch event will just be a copy paste of the elemental invasions on beta right now except using a different currency on different zones.
Maybe a world boss elemental lord dude in each zone too.

From what I’m seeing of the elemental invasions it’s doable. Just atmospheric effects and buffs placed on NPCs.

They still have things to test because as has always been the case...blizz qa is not as useful as ptr

[TheramoreIsTheBomb]

Hope not, Evoker needs to be release at the same time as prepatch

nope.. has to happen about 2 weeks before launch which would be the 15th

[Polybius]

Well, If its not a placeholder, I'm very dissapointed with the music, they went really lazy this time.
It sound very fake to me and, like it was made... just to be there.

The Dragonflight parts sound much better and more orchestrated in the cinematic

It's a current trend with film/tv and games, more computer editing and less orchestra. Doesn't help that their music department got budget cuts.

[Catastrophy349]

So you want it to launch in an extremely broken state then

If ppl want to avoid spoilers for a patch two weeks away I think it is pretty easy

I actually have no response because this about sums up this forum.

[Civciv]

I actually have no response because this about sums up this forum.

he is right tho

[Raetary]

Guys.... wheres the pre patch event? Is there none this time around?

There's always a pre-patch, why would you assume otherwise?

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Wrath Classic prepatch had Death Knights from day one.

Ye, i don't think a brand new race/class is comparable to a re-release of a class from 14 years ago.

[Nymrohd]

Well I'll still want my evoker up for a week or two if only to gear them up!

[Revamp Man]

Well I'll still want my evoker up for a week or two if only to gear them up!

yeah im actually preparing all of my toons for this
i want all of them around 270 so the leveling experience isnt terrible

[Sondrelk]

So now that we have some music, what are peoples opinion on the intro theme?
Personally a bit underwhelming to my tastes, but curious what others have to say about it.

[Xilurm]

So now that we have some music, what are peoples opinion on the intro theme?
Personally a bit underwhelming to my tastes, but curious what others have to say about it.

I really like it. I wish it was longer though.

It's also annoying seeing people say "ya never listen to the song for more than 10s anyway". Like, dude... that never actually happened, even before the instant login. No one actually listened to it unless they really wanted to or if they listened to it on youtube. The login themes are usually for those people.

[Sondrelk]

I really like it. I wish it was longer though.

It's also annoying seeing people say "ya never listen to the song for more than 10s anyway". Like, dude... that never actually happened, even before the instant login. No one actually listened to it unless they really wanted to or if they listened to it on youtube. The login themes are usually for those people.

I would say the first 10 seconds are important to give a good feel for the expansion. SL starting with the same theme for when you are dead was a brilliant touch for instance.
Maybe I'm just not into this particular brand of intro. I prefer a more bombastic one like The Shattering, or Before the Storm.

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I get why it feels short though. Usually we would have gotten some snippets of other themes used in the expansion. BfA having the themes of Zuldazar for instance. I didnt really get the impression that this one did the same, unless we can expect to hear it in Valdrakken or something.

[Nymrohd]

I really like it. I wish it was longer though.

It's also annoying seeing people say "ya never listen to the song for more than 10s anyway". Like, dude... that never actually happened, even before the instant login. No one actually listened to it unless they really wanted to or if they listened to it on youtube. The login themes are usually for those people.

Plus they are the main promotional audio of the expansion.
People who enjoy the art of the game, especially the music, often enjoyed it outside the game. I often listen to gaming music to relax because there is so much amazing music written for games. Plus it's great for my D&D sessions.

[Makorus]

nope.. has to happen about 2 weeks before launch which would be the 15th

Based on what? The Legion prepatch that was 6 (7?) weeks long?

In other news:

I wonder if Grant Kirkhope is still involved in Dragonflight. His pieces in Shadowlands were some of the best in the expansions (Torghast, Maw Track, Revendreth Track, helped with Nathria) and while I initially expected them to suffer from the One-Trick Pony syndrome that all his other tracks suffer from, they are actually quite diverse and distinctive (even though the Torghast songs are dreading dangerously close to Gruntildas Lair).

He might've been busy with Mario + Rabbids, but it would be a shame.

[Nymrohd]

I get why it feels short though. Usually we would have gotten some snippets of other themes used in the expansion. BfA having the themes of Zuldazar for instance. I didnt really get the impression that this one did the same, unless we can expect to hear it in Valdrakken or something.

I think they usually sample most if not all of the expansion zones during the intro.

[Sondrelk]

I think they usually sample most if not all of the expansion zones during the intro.

Maybe it's more apparent once we actually have the other themes to compare it to. Should probably not be hasty on declaring it boring in that aspect.

[Xilurm]

I would say the first 10 seconds are important to give a good feel for the expansion. SL starting with the same theme for when you are dead was a brilliant touch for instance.
Maybe I'm just not into this particular brand of intro. I prefer a more bombastic one like The Shattering, or Before the Storm.

The Shattering one is amazing. It's my favourite one along with the Wrath one.

Plus they are the main promotional audio of the expansion.
People who enjoy the art of the game, especially the music, often enjoyed it outside the game. I often listen to gaming music to relax because there is so much amazing music written for games. Plus it's great for my D&D sessions.

I agree, I rarely ever sat down to listen to the music at the login screen, I always do it outside of the game.

[Rageonit]

Plus they are the main promotional audio of the expansion.
People who enjoy the art of the game, especially the music, often enjoyed it outside the game. I often listen to gaming music to relax because there is so much amazing music written for games. Plus it's great for my D&D sessions.

I often listen to WoW soundtracks during work, and to be honest, the long intro tunes with zone music baked in are my least favourite ones - simply because you get to listen to full zone music on those soundtracks anyway. Not sure if it will stay like this (may still be a placeholder until they have all the music to do a proper one), but if it does, I won't shed a tear. A short, 3 minutes intro is enough for me, the zone snippets feel redundant when you listen to the full soundtrack.

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I wonder if Grant Kirkhope is still involved in Dragonflight.

Nowhere to be seen on the credits list.

Music Director
Derek Duke

Audio, Music
Adam Burgess
Jon Everist
Leo Kaliski
Jake Lefkowitz
Catherine Nguyen
Ted Reedy
Glenn Stafford

Additional Composers
Neal Acree David Arkenstone

Orchestration
M.W. Alexander, Penka Kouneva, and the Composers

[Avikur]

Bit of a random question but I assume the gold missions from the mission table stop with the pre patch?

[THEORACLE64]

nope.. has to happen about 2 weeks before launch which would be the 15th

It doesn’t “has to happen about 2 weeks before launch” at all. All that’s been said is that they’ll be available during the pre-patch, and seeing as that’s a month before the launch, it really wouldn’t make a difference if they were available straight away. Nothing “has to happen” at all.

[Sondrelk]

Bit of a random question but I assume the gold missions from the mission table stop with the pre patch?

Always done so before, so I don't see why this one would be any different.
Though then again, we don't get a new variant of the mission table, so maybe they won't bother.

I would assume they will be removed though, so get your easy gold now.