Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[s_bushido]

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That's...not a desert. It's pretty much your stereotypical "golden fields." Which is exactly what the zone looks like.

[TheFirstOnes]

[Sondrelk]

That's...not a desert. It's pretty much your stereotypical "golden fields." Which is exactly what the zone looks like.

It looks Arabic inspired, and the fields do look very much like dunes of sand. Anyone that looked at that and immediately jumped to yellow grass would sound insane.

[Makabreska]

Shadowlands didn't "leak".

There were bullshit fanmade concepts long before the announcement (hence my forum name) such as that ghostly Stormwind harbour image, and then there were two images released right before the announcement - one of Bolvar and one of Bastion.

Until we have a clip and direct quote from Towellie, this new claim is nonsense. But I do want it to be true. Northrend for 9.2 and Azeroth revamp for 10.0 not only makes sense, it would be hype af.

Yeee, nothing screams more hype like using old zones for daily activities like we had in 8.3

[s_bushido]

It looks Arabic inspired, and the fields do look very much like dunes of sand. Anyone that looked at that and immediately jumped to yellow grass would sound insane.

Insane, indeed. Those are some awfully fuzzy sand dunes. Or is the assumption that Blizzard's artists are just so incompetent that they accidentally drew grass when they meant to draw dirt.

[Makabreska]

In my opinion and in the opinion of millions of players who quit because they felt WoW was turning into something unrecognizable.

Another guy who knows EXACTLY why all these people left.

[Sondrelk]

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Insane, indeed.

Golden fields and grass obviously exists, but why would anyone immediately jump to that when dunes of sand seemed so much more likely is my point.

You look at that version of Elysian hold that seems straight from 1001 nights, the lack of trees or general vegetation on the actual plains, and your thought doesn't immediately spring to golden fields of grass. It jumps to Arabic nights inspired desert.

[Fahrad Wagner]

Sooo, that new Murloc pet...



Flavor text for it is:


Clearly it ate the Jailer to become that color. /speculate

I really wonder why they didn't use the new baby murloc model. I hate it when they do that...

[Makabreska]

This murloc seems like a thin lead. Old model with simple recolour? Wait, old model? World revamp confirmed!

[Nyel]

Have y’all every asked why a Green Dragon was captured in Icecrown? Why Dragonblight has so many Green Dragons around?

Sholazar still exists. And who knows what’s deep under Icecrown Citadel? There you have plenty of lore and stuff for a 9.2 taking place in Northrend.

[Marlamin]

Oh, where was the promised announcement for 9.2 that I must have missed?

The murloc is the announcement. You missed it.

[Makabreska]

Have y’all every asked why a Green Dragon was captured in Icecrown? Why Dragonblight has so many Green Dragons around?

Sholazar still exists. And who knows what’s deep under Icecrown Citadel? There you have plenty of lore and stuff for a 9.2 taking place in Northrend.

Dragonblight has each dragon flight shrine there. Greens weren't overrepresented more than others. And every zone exists, nothing stops Blizz from adding to any zone lore right now.

[Nyel]

Dragonblight has each dragon flight shrine there. Greens weren't overrepresented more than others. And every zone exists, nothing stops Blizz from adding to any zone lore right now.

Exactly. That’s why we don’t need 9.2 to be another cosmic plane or whatever. There are plenty of reasons why wrapping up Shadowlands in Northrend (aka Azeroth) makes sense. Plus it ties neatly in a supposed Dragon Isle expansion.

I tried to look up lore for Valithria, but there’s not much, so do we know why she was captured in Icecrown?

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The murloc is the announcement. You missed it.

And it’s so cute! They always get me with Murloc stuff. Really the secret mascot of WoW.

By the way, it looks a bit like a crossbreed between Zovaal and Murozond.

[Hardwing]

Exactly. That’s why we don’t need 9.2 to be another cosmic plane or whatever. There are plenty of reasons why wrapping up Shadowlands in Northrend (aka Azeroth) makes sense. Plus it ties neatly in a supposed Dragon Isle expansion.

I tried to look up lore for Valithria, but there’s not much, so do we know why she was captured in Icecrown?

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Well, this might have simply been the wish to provide a different raid mechanic ...

Lore-wise it is connected to the Shadowlands, in that the Scourge tried to harness/copy its mirror images of this realm.

Foot Soldiers/Casters => Necrolords
Venthyr => San'layn
Kyrian => Val'kyr
Nightfae => ?

[Sondrelk]

The murloc is the announcement. You missed it.

World of Warcraft: Waves of Murlocopolis

[Nyel]

World of Warcraft: Waves of Murlocopolis

Hey if that’s another Mists of Pandaria esque expansion I‘d totally celebrate this.

[Dracullus]

Ok, let's start irrational hype Day 2.

It's today 7 PM. 100%.

[micwini]

Exactly. That’s why we don’t need 9.2 to be another cosmic plane or whatever. There are plenty of reasons why wrapping up Shadowlands in Northrend (aka Azeroth) makes sense. Plus it ties neatly in a supposed Dragon Isle expansion.

I tried to look up lore for Valithria, but there’s not much, so do we know why she was captured in Icecrown?

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And it’s so cute! They always get me with Murloc stuff. Really the secret mascot of WoW.

By the way, it looks a bit like a crossbreed between Zovaal and Murozond.

I can see a tie in: Jailer is at Northrend. End of the raid is fighting Zovaal and preventing him from raising Galakrond (lich king tried in wotlk and failed). We stop the jailer, but he succeeds in ressing galakrond. Galakrond is not at full power and to regain it, he needs to look for MOAR POWA on the dragon isles and flies away.

[Pum]

I can see a tie in: Jailer is at Northrend. End of the raid is fighting Zovaal and preventing him from raising Galakrond (lich king tried in wotlk and failed). We stop the jailer, but he succeeds in ressing galakrond. Galakrond is not at full power and to regain it, he needs to look for MOAR POWA on the dragon isles and flies away.

Putting Galakrond on the power level of the Jailer is a bit of a joke. The 5 Aspects defeated him with a pebble when they were only proto-drakes, even without the Titan blessings the 5 current Aspects are most definitely stronger than the original Aspects were as proto-drakes.

Khadgar could just teleport another rock into Galakrond's throat and it would be dead again.

Not sure why Galakrond is even seen as a valid plot line, the LK tried to raise him during WotLK by a rag-tag group of followers which we thwarted in a random and optional quest, Galakrond can't be all that if seemingly nobody even put any real effort into raising him/defending the efforts.

[Dracullus]

I'm pretty sure SL will end with Jailer fight in Icerown under shattered sky. But if SL end with 9.2, it will be just last phase of raid. I can see Northend as outdoor zone only for 9.3.