Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Aeluron Lightsong]

3. Give us an Underground expac with more Nerubian stuff, Void implications, Titanic structures underground, Azeroth soul stuff, etc.

Much preferable then civil war nonsense,(on playable factions, NO TY). And I said underground expansion for years >.> <.<

[Cheezits]

I'm glad I wasn't crazy.



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[Nightshade711]

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It's a shame... with just a little more work they could have pulled off wearable armor/transmog.

[Cheezits]

It's a shame... with just a little more work they could have pulled off wearable armor/transmog.

I think this is a sign they are working on it? AFAIK this has never shown up before. They've never had hats and gloves/legs/boots showing up.

[Makabreska]

Also, Odyn was vehemently against made Dragons as Aspect because, to him, only titan-forged could be trusted to defend Azeroth. De facto, we are the real defender of Azeroth and now we are working to give back the Dragons theyr power.

Ye, and time and time again Titan creations kept failing, while we prevailed and won. If he still holds to that opinion, then he is dumb and blind to reality.

[Eldryth]

I think this is a sign they are working on it? AFAIK this has never shown up before. They've never had hats and gloves/legs/boots showing up.

I hope so, but it takes a (easily reproducible) bug to actually see it like this.

It still just shows shoulders and belts when you check that page in Dracthyr form, but when you swap into Visage form after looking at those previews, it'll start showing that instead of your Visage on that page until you log out. (You can only properly preview sets on your Visage if you haven't changed forms).

Hopefully it's still a sign that they're working on something there though, even if just the Evoker sets end up showing.

[Nyel]

We didn't really find the Broken Isles, did we? We just didn't have much reason to go there.

Sure? I always thought they were hidden (by the Nightborne?) as well, that's why we didn't go there. Why would we not interact with e.g. Highmountain Tauren?

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They don't need to be expansion plots in themselves, I'm just saying you got 3 plots that COULD bring the islands there:

1. Backside of Azeroth could be an expac in itself. Maybe it can be floating islands? Idk

2. Give us a Civil War expac, with Undermine as a megadungeon or something like that. Have Tel'abim and Plunder Isles be their own thing for the expac.

3. Give us an Underground expac with more Nerubian stuff, Void implications, Titanic structures underground, Azeroth soul stuff, etc.

Backside of Azeroth is maybe even sillier than the mysteriously hidden islands. Like honestly, how could we just miss the entire other side of the planet? Come on. Underground expansion is always a possibility and maybe the coolest setting for an expansion overall. It just might be too ambitious. I just think Undermine and Tel'Abim etc. are just too meaningless overall. They would have perfectly fit into BfA, instead of Mechagon for example, the entire Azerite stuff was just so Gnome and Goblin centric. Yet they did nothing in that regard. I just have a very hard time imagining something revolving around Goblins (or Gnomes) in general. Mechagon only came into the game as a companion to Nazjatar, alone it wouldn't have made it imho.

[Gorsameth]

Sure? I always thought they were hidden (by the Nightborne?) as well, that's why we didn't go there. Why would we not interact with e.g. Highmountain Tauren?

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Backside of Azeroth is maybe even sillier than the mysteriously hidden islands. Like honestly, how could we just miss the entire other side of the planet? Come on. Underground expansion is always a possibility and maybe the coolest setting for an expansion overall. It just might be too ambitious. I just think Undermine and Tel'Abim etc. are just too meaningless overall. They would have perfectly fit into BfA, instead of Mechagon for example, the entire Azerite stuff was just so Gnome and Goblin centric. Yet they did nothing in that regard. I just have a very hard time imagining something revolving around Goblins (or Gnomes) in general. Mechagon only came into the game as a companion to Nazjatar, alone it wouldn't have made it imho.

No, nothing of the Broken Isles was hidden. Its just a giant mess of retcons since none of it existed during WC 2 or 3 when Guldan raised, and Illidan explored the Tomb of Sargeras.

[Raetary]

Backside of Azeroth is maybe even sillier than the mysteriously hidden islands. Like honestly, how could we just miss the entire other side of the planet?

The Backside consists of a giant unexplored ocean.

We didn't "miss" it, we just didn't have any reason to explore it.
Just like half the world didn't know that the other half of the world existed until America got colonized in the late 1400s.

[Gorsameth]

The Backside consists of a giant unexplored ocean.

We didn't "miss" it, we just didn't have any reason to explore it.
Just like half the world didn't know that the other half of the world existed until America got colonized in the late 1400s.

Yeah but we didn't have magical farsight, holograms of the full globe from hyper advanced aliens and literal space ships.

In the context of WoW lore having any lost continents left on Azeroth that we don't know about doesn't make sense.

[Sondrelk]

Yeah but we didn't have magical farsight, holograms of the full globe from hyper advanced aliens and literal space ships.

In the context of WoW lore having any lost continents left on Azeroth that we don't know about doesn't make sense.

There isn't any reason to assume we don't know about it, but why would be bother to go there currently? We have had back to back world ending crises, or otherwise been to preoccupied with our current continents to really bother searching for other continents.
Given ships don't return from there the spaceship option is really the only valid way to check, and we don't know whether the Vindicaar can actually move or not given we never see it in action.
So barring the Vindicaar what we really need is a foolproof means of going to the other side of Azeroth, as well as a reason to go there. For all we know it's somewhere like Iceland with few if any natural resources.

[Valysar]

Wish we could have separate xmogs for Dragon form and Visage.

[Nymrohd]

And wouldn't it be neat to look at, say, the outlands, or rather what remains of them nowadays?

I think Outland could be reused for a Light vs Void expac. Have Yrel/X'era shift AU Draenor on top of Outland, create a new version that is a patchwork of both. Void already had a strong presence in Outland with Dimensius and the Ethereum. It would let them "revamp" Outland while making it an expansion.

[Jaggler]

Sure? I always thought they were hidden (by the Nightborne?) as well, that's why we didn't go there. Why would we not interact with e.g. Highmountain Tauren?

Suramar (the city, not the zone) was stashed away under a bubble like Dalaran pre-WotLK.

The Highmountain are one tribe, hidden away among the cliffsand mesas of the highest mountain on the broken isles. Also their spiritual leader Ebyssian/Ebonhorn also wasn't able to leave the place until late BfA, so it stand to reason, that the highmountain themselves probably didn't wander too far off the place.

[Makorus]

Blizzard limiting future content because a random asset of a globe from 10+ years showing nothing but ocean for the other side of the world is so idiotic that I can't believe that people actually want that to happen.

[thilicen]

Blizzard limiting future content because a random asset of a globe from 10+ years showing nothing but ocean for the other side of the world is so idiotic that I can't believe that people actually want that to happen.

Would have no problem with a "known world" thing where there is a ton of unexplored space in the world, even if they had to retcon some stuff to make it happen. Would take that over another trip to a different planet / world any day.

[huth]

Would have no problem with a "known world" thing where there is a ton of unexplored space in the world, even if they had to retcon some stuff to make it happen. Would take that over another trip to a different planet / world any day.

There is a ton of unexplored space in the world when you actually pay attention to how big various places are in lore. Nobody has any clue what's west of Kalimdor and east of EK, the central ocean also still has a lot of empty spaces etc.

That the map looks full doesn't mean anything since that map isn't even remotely accurate to actual scale.

[Nymrohd]

Blizzard limiting future content because a random asset of a globe from 10+ years showing nothing but ocean for the other side of the world is so idiotic that I can't believe that people actually want that to happen.

It's also stupid in that when they created an opportunity for us to see the world from above, they added extensive cloud cover over the entire other side of Azeroth. There could be a Kalimdor-sized continent under those clouds.

[Gigantique]

That wouldn't make much sense. Odyn wants us to prove ourselves (over and over) during Legion. That's when we show him the strength of mortals.

Gameplay wise it would also be the third time we fight him in an instance without killing him. Pretty stale if you ask me.

Personally I would much rather we not fight him but have a plotline where he refuses the aid of the inferior dragon Aspects and puny mortals, goes to war against some antagonistic force with his Valarjar and gets curbstomped. Raidfight where we come to his rescue and fend off enemy forces, maybe have the dragon Aspects personally save his life etc and he finally has to admit we aren't worthy of his scorn.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

It's also stupid in that when they created an opportunity for us to see the world from above, they added extensive cloud cover over the entire other side of Azeroth. There could be a Kalimdor-sized continent under those clouds.

To be fair, with Danuser's usual standard of quality, it would presumably be his Ohsee Kalidamar, which is absolutely not Kalimdor but is older than it and is the reaaal homeland of the Night Elves and Kalimdor was actually the inferior knockoff of the real one.