Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Night Elves don't need to regress, stop it. I'm still a bit confused at the Malfurion decision but ok.....

[Cheezits]

So Danuser confirmed that Ysera is coming back in return for Malfurion going to Ardenweald but that they can trade back when needed. So Malf is joining Sylvanas in the fridge because when you go with the D&D revolving doors of the afterlife, the only use left for it in the story is to serve as a narrative waiting room for characters you want to temporarily remove from the story. Heck technically Vol'jin is in there as well and no character is dead anymore unless they have been disenchanted.

I forgot that Vol'jin is still in the pod. Considering that he's turning into a Wild God, maybe there's something going to happen between him and Malfurion in the near future? They ARE sending two racial leaders with heavy wild god ties to Ardenweald now.

[Adoxe]

So Dracthyr already have all the animations they need for normal flight, yet Blizz doesn’t just give us this as a mount.

But then again blizzard doesn’t seem to care about Dracthyr/Evoker cosmetic stuff since they haven’t even given them any glyphs.

Demon Hunters have had normal flight animations since Legion too and nothing has been done with it to this day, so don't hold out hope. Blizzard hates fun, it is known.

[Cheezits]

Demon Hunters have had normal flight animations since Legion too and nothing has been done with it to this day, so don't hold out hope. Blizzard hates fun, it is known.

I think it has more to do with the fact that A) Running Wild Flying couldn't even be used at launch DF/would confuse people with Hober, and B) it's also hard to make an argument at the dev office on why they should make a locked 300 speed flying mount for them when they have a 910% at max glyphs.

[loras]

Ye it would suck if they choose to use sabellian for a villain role. He is one of the last named black dragons, hopefully hes character changes during the expansion to be in a supportive role atleast and not push him over the edge. Right now he seems to proud to be in the second place, so hes attitude needs to change.

Honestly i'd side with Sabelian over Wrathion any day (i mean the arrogant dipshit caused two interdimensional invasions!?).
Kinda hope they could either co-opt the position,
thus allaying Wrathion's fears of being corrupted in a way similar to a council being used instead of a warchief for the Horde.

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I wouldn't be a fan of the First Ones being the "real" pantheon of Order simply on account of the fact that such a change would effectively confirm many people's suspicions that the First Ones are just supposed to be a "one-up" on the Titans.

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I did consider that. There seems to be a trend of "two heads are better than one" lately, what with the revocation of the Warchief title in the Horde, so I figure that lends credence to this concept. It feels like they're probably going to do some kind of compromise since those are such a big deal lately, so it's possible. That, or they both decide to give the title to Ebyssian, but that seems highly unlikely given how arrogant both Wrathion and Sabellian are (then again, these writers aren't the sort to keep characters consistent).

Fair point on Ebyssian, i mean technically he has had the longest run goibg on Azeroth.

[Revamp Man]

Anybody have any early tips??

Personally I'm making my toon an herbalist/tailor at the beginning to get the extra cloth drops and I'm making sure to do the expedition side quests because of the adventure packs that give insane knowledge.

Last thing is capping before the chromie quests because the heart of azmerloth is extremely strong and getting it at lvl 70 is the best option. I'd also not do the dungeon quests until then as well

[Nymrohd]

It's probably a bad idea but my plan on launch night is to power through to dragonriding, do the glyphs and go to bed. Then I'll just follow the story, I have the week off so no pressure

[Lady Atia]

Anybody have any early tips??

Personally I'm making my toon an herbalist/tailor at the beginning to get the extra cloth drops and I'm making sure to do the expedition side quests because of the adventure packs that give insane knowledge.

Last thing is capping before the chromie quests because the heart of azmerloth is extremely strong and getting it at lvl 70 is the best option. I'd also not do the dungeon quests until then as well

Why do I get the feeling they will nerf the heart of azmerloth on launch just to prevent people from getting FOMO if they did the quest earlier?^^

[Baraden]

So Dracthyr already have all the animations they need for normal flight, yet Blizz doesn’t just give us this as a mount.

But then again blizzard doesn’t seem to care about Dracthyr/Evoker cosmetic stuff since they haven’t even given them any glyphs.

Ask yourself why doesn't Blizzard simply use these animations to make this a standard mount for Evokers? Literally no one would be hurt and seeing a dragon riding a dragon is OBJECTIVELY awful looking

They talk about how they really do care and listen but little shit like this makes it evident they really don't

[Dracullus]

Considering how much community likes to complain about everything, I'm surprised people are rather silent about pre-patch event. It's definitely laziest since MoP - literally no story, dungeon & class are DF content released earlier, which leave us with invasions that are simple mob grinding. But gearing here is extremely fast, so I guess people care most about that.

[Sondrelk]

Considering how much community likes to complain about everything, I'm surprised people are rather silent about pre-patch event. It's definitely laziest since MoP - literally no story, dungeon & class are DF content released earlier, which leave us with invasions that are simple mob grinding. But gearing here is extremely fast, so I guess people care most about that.

Its hardly a bad one. It's middling at worst. It could do with more actual stuff in Stormwind and Orgrimmar, but it has a suite of unique rewards and PvE content. Not to mention the dungeon, as well as the Dracthyr opening questline.

SL was an elite spawning in Icecrown at set intervals, most without any good loot. And the zombie event was just the same as in WotLK, except without any good rewards.
BfA were a smattering of world quests in Darkshore and some quests. Gave a mount, but nothing else to really farm outside the unintended Honor farm.

[Xilurm]

Night Elves don't need to regress, stop it. I'm still a bit confused at the Malfurion decision but ok.....

Regress? It's not regressing to remember what the race actually was in the first place. I don't get it, do you want Night Elves to be purple humans or what?

[Catastrophy349]

Ask yourself why doesn't Blizzard simply use these animations to make this a standard mount for Evokers? Literally no one would be hurt and seeing a dragon riding a dragon is OBJECTIVELY awful looking

They talk about how they really do care and listen but little shit like this makes it evident they really don't

Imagine having a million people, with a million different takes (feedback) on various systems, ALL "offering feedback" to do X, Y, and/or Z. So, when Blizzard listens to X and Y, but ignores Z, they are suddenly "not listening" when actually they are, just not to Z. In this scenario, you are Z.

[Nymrohd]

Considering how much community likes to complain about everything, I'm surprised people are rather silent about pre-patch event. It's definitely laziest since MoP - literally no story, dungeon & class are DF content released earlier, which leave us with invasions that are simple mob grinding. But gearing here is extremely fast, so I guess people care most about that.

yes it's lazy but it is easy gear for alts and a very solid xp grind. Sure people loved the Legion invasions because of all the effort but you know what they loved the most? The easy xp.

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Imagine having a million people, with a million different takes (feedback) on various systems, ALL "offering feedback" to do X, Y, and/or Z. So, when Blizzard listens to X and Y, but ignores Z, they are suddenly "not listening" when actually they are, just not to Z. In this scenario, you are Z.

I mean, welcome to any product in the planet.

[loras]

On an entirely different note: Did everyone notice they updated pretty much every skybox on Azeroth with the growing red shining star?

Considering how much community likes to complain about everything, I'm surprised people are rather silent about pre-patch event. It's definitely laziest since MoP - literally no story, dungeon & class are DF content released earlier, which leave us with invasions that are simple mob grinding. But gearing here is extremely fast, so I guess people care most about that.

Agreed, had hoped for something akin tl BfA.
Still salty they removed those questlines, the fucking morons.
(don't care about the mount)

[Raetary]

On an entirely different note: Did everyone notice they updated pretty much every skybox on Azeroth with the growing red shining star?

I don't see it.

It's the same size it's always been.

[Jaggler]

I don't see it.

It's the same size it's always been.

I couldn't really tell a drifference with it tbh.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Ask yourself why doesn't Blizzard simply use these animations to make this a standard mount for Evokers? Literally no one would be hurt and seeing a dragon riding a dragon is OBJECTIVELY awful looking

They talk about how they really do care and listen but little shit like this makes it evident they really don't

Or there's another reason why, not that they don't care like people like you love to scream about.

On an entirely different note: Did everyone notice they updated pretty much every skybox on Azeroth with the growing red shining star?

It looked normal to me, the red star.

[Makorus]

Ask yourself why doesn't Blizzard simply use these animations to make this a standard mount for Evokers? Literally no one would be hurt and seeing a dragon riding a dragon is OBJECTIVELY awful looking

They talk about how they really do care and listen but little shit like this makes it evident they really don't

I don't think it should have been a normal mount, but Blizzard really fucked up big time by not making Soar work EXACTLY like a Dragonflying mount.

Sure, some (not a lot) skills apply to Soar now, and the CD is what, 1 min now after getting all the Upgrades, but there is still no actual reason why Soar couldn't work just like a Dragonflying mount.

It baffles me. You have a new system and a new race and you can easily connect them, and you... just don't? It's not like it would make Dracthyr overpowered or anything. It would essentially be another mount skin.

[Nyel]

Pretty sure you have never been restricted from actually mining or gathering for years now, only requiring the actual base profession. Might not be fully efficient if there are Dragonflight gathering upgrades, but nothing to make it impossible.

Yeah I haven't properly used professions because they were so useless in the last years, that's why I need to ask something like this, lol. I just don't want to miss out from DF crafting because I didn't pre-level my professions until Tuesday.