Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[FlubberPuddy]

I’m all for more mounts and collectibles in general. With Dragonflight I feel like the game is going back towards “simpler times” like in Wrath where it was just reps, quests, collectibles, raids, and dungeons. And I enjoyed it very much not trying to min-max my parses , not trying to keep up with CE raiders.

I am ready to go back to that more relaxed style of play with Dragonflight. I feel like the dragon riding system is more akin to when we had Artifact Weapon and being able to customize them. I know we mount and fly with them but they appear more like “transmog” in that we can only showcase one set of tmog all the time despite having a large collection (kinda the same with mounts).

I do hope those recolors of other mounts get added but I’m not sure if dragon riding customization is supposed to replace the mount numbers given per expansion. But I don’t think we always need to have the same amount of mounts given per expansion either.

[Delever]

Horrible takes here, sorry. The Dragonriding mounts are still just four "mounts", I don't care about the options or better said the illusion of choice as you have to choose between colours and also the "elite" mounts aren't even seperate mounts but skins who also take away from your other dragonriding mounts as you can't have f.e the storm proto and a normal proto at the same time, besides the fact that the amount of options is actually quite low and a far cry from the promised "millions of combinations" they had on the pre-order website.

Shadowlands had a shit ton of mounts from rares and events, aswell as the whole protoform synthesis system in Zereth Mortis.

And no, mounts and their recolours will always feel important anyways, there is literally no "diluting the pool" unless they choose to make colour tints that are barely different from each other, which is a design problem. There is for example no reason to not give us a blue, white and green thunderlizard alongside the (quite boring) brown one we get via a quest. Or a storm eagle that isn't red or white lol ...

What does it matter to have them at the same time? Its not like you can ride them both at the same time. Have 5 recolors on one mount instead of it being 5 separate mounts is better in my opinion as it forces them to kinda think of new mount concepts instead of just throwing in 6 recolors of a single new mount per patch and calling it a day.

[micwini]

https://twitter.com/mrgmyt/status/15...7y1Pgoec1UZISA Eyeballs?!?!

Saw a few more from other content creators, too!

Eyeballs indeed. That font in the letter hurts to read.

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

It's probably a hard sell to work for the devs to work on creating new ground mounts when the only mounts that matter are four this patch. Maybe five in the future with the noodle.

Devs should work on making old mounts work with dragonriding more than they should create new mounts.

Gee, I wonder if there's maybe an incentive to create this narrative.

[Catastrophy349]

More hints on Preach stuff AND castle stuff. https://twitter.com/yogscast/status/...E_ykw6Zxyfj7Ng

[FlubberPuddy]

No wonder they called it a dungeon duel, they’ll probably end up doing something similar to MDI, in an actual castle, sounds like an amazing experience.

I hope they let them be cross-faction teams, that would be awesome

[Zelk]

He cut ties originally when the lawsuit came to light because of how blizzard was handling it and how he didn’t want to do press for them while treating there employees so poorly. Walk outs are still happening, they are still trying to get the case dismissed, they are still union busting. Blizzard is still doing every thing in its power to avoid accountability and not treat there employees right.

But now that there’s a bunch of hype those issues are on the back burner and he’s not only doing press for them again he’s doing it out of pocket to get juicier tid bits.

The reasoning is rather easy to judge.

Why are you lying? Preach quit because of the game being a mess for multiple expansions and he's been playing dragonflight beta and is pleased that the design has moved away from the things he disliked. He never quit over the lawsuit, he specifically said in that video he wasn't covering the game because it was miserable.

[Auxis]

More hints on Preach stuff AND castle stuff. https://twitter.com/yogscast/status/...E_ykw6Zxyfj7Ng

Wow, Lewis has certainly changed a bit since I last visited their channel.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Why are you lying? Preach quit because of the game being a mess for multiple expansions and he's been playing dragonflight beta and is pleased that the design has moved away from the things he disliked. He never quit over the lawsuit, he specifically said in that video he wasn't covering the game because it was miserable.

Within the first minute of his video he says that he no longer feels comfortable giving them press due to the abhorrent and representable response to the allegations towards harassment to woman with him saying “it’s hard to get past that to me, to hard it’s to big of a hill to cilmb”.

Turns out all he needed to get up the hill was the view boost of covering a new expan because blizzard response of trying to down play and avoid responsibility as well as opposing treating there employees better hasn’t changed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=eZ6w--GhpaM

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Within the first minute of his video he says that he no longer feels comfortable giving them press due to the abhorrent and representable response to the allegations towards harassment to woman with him saying “it’s hard to get past that to me, to hard it’s to big of a hill to cilmb”.

Turns out all he needed to get up the hill was the view boost of covering a new expan because blizzard response of trying to down play and avoid responsibility as well as opposing treating there employees better hasn’t changed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=eZ6w--GhpaM

The corporate side of Blizzard. The company isn't a hivemind.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

The corporate side of Blizzard. The company isn't a hivemind.

What do you think he was taking about the general employees having a abhorrent response in his video?

It was always the corporate side that was the problem that’s why they were (and still are) having walk outs which he pointed towards and the corporate sides tune hasn’t changed they are still trying to get the case dismissed and treating there employees poorly.

[Zelk]

Within the first minute of his video he says that he no longer feels comfortable giving them press due to the abhorrent and representable response to the allegations towards harassment to woman with him saying “it’s hard to get past that to me, to hard it’s to big of a hill to cilmb”.

Turns out all he needed to get up the hill was the view boost of covering a new expan because blizzard response of trying to down play and avoid responsibility as well as opposing treating there employees better hasn’t changed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=eZ6w--GhpaM

Do you not know what "the straw that breaks the camel's back" means? The idea that he stopped covering wow out of some moral stance is a straight up lie. You took 10 seconds out of a 22 minute video and ignored the other 21 minutes about how bad the game is.

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

We genuinely don't even know whether the visits will come with interview content. It is highly likely based on how prolific this has become with the Castle Marketing and Preach and Yogscast playing next week.

I think the whole villification of Content Creators has always been pretty weird because it showcases a critical lack of understanding that they are kind of a necessity since Blizzard plays an inactive role in communication with the community.

Don't get me wrong I'm in the same camp who believe the idea that Preach is going to return every 2 years when there's a new WoW Expansion is just starting to look like a comedic gag.

At the end of the day, I take any opportunity from these Content Creators to fill in the extreme blanks about Dragonflight as a product that is currently visible. If we get any hints towards the future design of the game or its content that is a positive.

We're not getting the Q&A back and we're not getting anything out of their mouths through published interviews. Content Creator interviews is the best way for them to slip info. Always will be.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Do you not know what "the straw that breaks the camel's back" means? The idea that he stopped covering wow out of some moral stance is a straight up lie. You took 10 seconds out of a 22 minute video and ignored the other 21 minutes about how bad the game is.

If you want to pretend saying “I don’t feel confirmable doing press after there response” or “that’s to big of a hill for me to climb” in direct response to the lawsuit isn’t the reason I can’t stop you.

He has/had other issues with the game but to pretend the lawsuit wasn’t what made him actually stop and he just so happened to step away when it came to light and pointed directly to it is silly.

[Nymrohd]

My only issue is with the name. When WoW started, the content creators created actual content. Fun videos, great machinimas, small stories set in WoW. Now they are commentators. I just don't consider that content.

[Auxis]

So, I'm looking at the Balance talent tree on wowhead, and I'm confused how Syzygy (https://www.wowhead.com/spell=390378/syzygy) works. Celestial Alignment, as itself, is a buff like the old Arcane Power, Icy Veins, or Incarnation etc.; it doesn't have a targeting effect. Does taking Syzygy turn it into a targetable spell that then buffs you with Celestial Alignment once you select the area?

[Valysar]

There is a son of Hodir at the bottom of Sennarth' room in the Vault of the Incarnates, strange

[Omians]

Do any of the named Elemental Lords get referenced at all during the questing in dragonflight? Neptulon, Therazane, Thunderaan, and i guess Smolderon is missing in BFA.


Would think with such heavy elemental stuff going on, they would be involved in some shape or form

[Valysar]

Do any of the named Elemental Lords get referenced at all during the questing in dragonflight? Neptulon, Therazane, Thunderaan, and i guess Smolderon is missing in BFA.


Would think with such heavy elemental stuff going on, they would be involved in some shape or form

Not that I remember. But you can see Therazane and Ragnaros during a quest; that's all

[Marcellus1986]

So, I'm looking at the Balance talent tree on wowhead, and I'm confused how Syzygy (https://www.wowhead.com/spell=390378/syzygy) works. Celestial Alignment, as itself, is a buff like the old Arcane Power, Icy Veins, or Incarnation etc.; it doesn't have a targeting effect. Does taking Syzygy turn it into a targetable spell that then buffs you with Celestial Alignment once you select the area?

It currently requires an @cursor macro