Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Nymrohd]

That's a shame. But I guess it makes some sense what with the elemental stuff being tied to them waking up.

Well Uldaman should happen AFTER the Dracthyr are out though

[Sondrelk]

Well Uldaman should happen AFTER the Dracthyr are out though

Maybe that's phase 3 of the pre-patch?

Phase 1, just the 10.0 patch.
Phase 2, Dracthyr
Phase 3, Events?

Who knows.

[Nightshade711]

Dracthyr and the prepatch events aren’t coming with the launch of prepatch.

They’re both coming in ‘stage 2’.
Which is probably the 8th of November

(SLs prepatch launched Oct 13ish with the prepatch event not starting until Nov 10th for reference… but we know prepatch is obviously gonna be shorter than SLs was.)

The datamined “what’s new” text I was talking about.
Looks like they’re gonna launch DE, Events, and Uldaman at the same time.

I do hope the delay between Phase 1 and 2 isn’t that long though. I’d prefer at most a week but I’m expecting two.

[Sondrelk]

The datamined “what’s new” text I was talking about.
Looks like they’re gonna launch DE, Events, and Uldaman at the same time.

I do hope the delay between Phase 1 and 2 isn’t that long though. I’d prefer at most a week but I’m expecting two.

Assuming they didnt change their mind about the event lasting two weeks I think we will have to just accept waiting those two weeks.

[Dracullus]

Assuming they didnt change their mind about the event lasting two weeks I think we will have to just accept waiting those two weeks.

In SL they switched both pre-expansion event and pre-season from 3 to 2 weeks, probably because all feels pretty dragged by week 3. But would be nice to start Evoker sooner (so week 1 - sorting out initial bugs, week 2 - evoker, week 4 - event).

Even without event pre-patch will be pretty good trade - we lose KSM/PVP mounts, but gain talents on top of borrowed power (cause it works inside Shadowlands) + every content become fated for 5 weeks. I hope they change few minor stuff too to help people with meta achiev (for example reducing Venthyr party cooldown from weekly to daily).

[ZyntosAran]

just got my beta invite 5 min ago, check your launchers.

[therumblings]

My cousins works for Blizzard, not a joke, he has done for the past six months in California. There are only 3 WoW expansions left in the pipeline depending on how well Dragonflight does. He couldn't say much but they're winding down on the amount of new features per expansion due to budget cuts, there are also no plans for a world revamp in the forseeable future. (there are plans to remaster old zones however). Patch content featuring the pre-sundering may be a thing. Also TCG items will be coming to the store in 2023. No Cataclysm classic.

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[Nightshade711]

My cousins works for Blizzard, not a joke, he has done for the past six months in California. There are only 3 WoW expansions left in the pipeline depending on how well Dragonflight does. He couldn't say much but they're winding down on the amount of new features per expansion due to budget cuts, there are also no plans for a world revamp in the forseeable future. (there are plans to remaster old zones however). Patch content featuring the pre-sundering may be a thing. Also TCG items will be coming to the store in 2023. No Cataclysm classic.

Source: Dude trust me

[huth]

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Oh come on. That was at most a -3/10.

Though i'm confused it didn't occur to Mighty that saying "They have plans for the next 8 years" might not be quite the doom and gloom message he is imagining

[Zulggun]

Do we know anything about prepatc-only rewards?.

[Sondrelk]

Do we know anything about prepatc-only rewards?.

I believe someone said the green variant of the open world sets would be the unique rewards.

[Catastrophy349]

HUGE SPOILERS AHEAD!

https://youtu.be/DYoSVfIY7RY

[Cheezits]

HUGE SPOILERS AHEAD!

https://youtu.be/DYoSVfIY7RY

If this is true, this is a pretty clever way of explaining Galakrond's corruption. After all, Yogg said he was a god of death... and yet had no mention in the Shadowlands. God of Decay is close enough

This also ties Galakrond directly to the Emerald Dream, which Yogg corrupted which may explain why we need Ysera: Galakrond or his followers might try to kill the Dream with Decay

Here is the lore book in question:

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wo...ldorus/1361061

This also confirms that Uldorus sounding like Antorus was not a coincidence. Pretty cool stuff.

[Nymrohd]

Yogg remains the MVP. Sad N'zoth can go cry in a corner

[Makabreska]

Yogg remains the MVP. Sad N'zoth can go cry in a corner

Ye, the most hype OG, and the only one showing any personality got simply laz0rd.

[Nymrohd]

I honestly don't see how the Titans' being primarily interested with order is in any way new.

[Xilurm]

Ah damnit, I wanna click but I also don't wanna click. We're so close!

[Nymrohd]

Ah damnit, I wanna click but I also don't wanna click. We're so close!

I mean it's just confirming things we largely knew, just giving them a harsher tone. Well except for one part that was mostly a theory (but the more prominent theory).

[Xilurm]

I mean it's just confirming things we largely knew, just giving them a harsher tone. Well except for one part that was mostly a theory (but the more prominent theory).

I mean more as in wanting to experience that stuff in-game anyway. The pre-patch stuff is not going away after the game launches, right?

[Nymrohd]

I mean more as in wanting to experience that stuff in-game anyway. The pre-patch stuff is not going away after the game launches, right?

Eh it almost always is. But I assume this is from some book we find in the Uldaman dungeon?