Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Valysar]

The train is ready to start, everyone has their ticket and is properly seated?

[Cherry123]

The train is ready to start, everyone has their ticket and is properly seated?

train to nowhere?

[Sondrelk]

The train is ready to start, everyone has their ticket and is properly seated?

Obviously, I live for the hypetrain. Bring me that hype fresh off the presses.

[crusadernero]

Obviously, I live for the hypetrain. Bring me that hype fresh off the presses.

was hoping for a huge 9.2 info dump today.. Is there still hope?

[Aeluron Lightsong]

There is still time but its not definite.

[Cosmic Janitor]

That's why it's not a complete existence. A "pure" deathworld would be inconceivable.

I think a pure death world would have been easily possible. They could have just played up the vampiric/parasitic angle of the flora and fauna and just scrapped the cute baby animals that clearly are part of families. The local flora and fauna comes into being when anima converges and soul fragments or something like that are present, from there it's just a fight to get anima from others to sustain oneself.

I personally would have also gone way further with the idea of a machine of death and would have inserted a place where the arbiter sorts souls and takes a first amount of the anima and afterwards each covenant has it's own way to strip the rest of the anima off the soul, before they get the chance to earn an anima formed body over the eons. Kyrians would be more soul sheperds/collectors while stupid machines (like the arbiter) would do the actual ferrying (to circumvent the kyrians being absolute morons), etc. Ardenweald should have been an actual autum/winter kingdom where life is not abundant, but rests in preparation for it's rebirth.

The shadowlands lore, if you want to, is actually fixable without handwaiving and flimsy excuses.

[Sondrelk]

If the players are going to ignore quality, by all means tell Blizzard to just have 40 boss raids with no mechanics. Just a long list of loot piniatas. Apparently thats what people want.

Could you imagine if Blizzard released a raid or dungeon that worked kinda like the old megadungeon like BlackRock depths, or Maraudon?
Just a giant labyrinth of bosses with the most simple if mechanics, rarely more than one, and generally just a giant loot avalanche?
M+ having to be split up into 3 or 4 parts just to prevent dungeons that take 1-2 hours?

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was hoping for a huge 9.2 info dump today.. Is there still hope?

Obviously. The hype never dies.

Could be we only get an announcement for the actual 9.2 announcement stream though.
That being said it's almost definitely going to be something happening this week.

[Valysar]

We'll obviously have a video before, it's the last patch of SL. Maybe today who knows, they usually love Tuesday

[crusadernero]

Could you imagine if Blizzard released a raid or dungeon that worked kinda like the old megadungeon like BlackRock depths, or Maraudon?
Just a giant labyrinth of bosses with the most simple if mechanics, rarely more than one, and generally just a giant loot avalanche?
M+ having to be split up into 3 or 4 parts just to prevent dungeons that take 1-2 hours?

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Obviously. The hype never dies.

Could be we only get an announcement for the actual 9.2 announcement stream though.
That being said it's almost definitely going to be something happening this week.

Yeah, im having hopes for this week!

[Makabreska]

Both are still from same plane of reality. Shadowlands is literally different dimension.

People keep bringing lore as this huge obstacle for Cov AR's, but how many times do we have to tell them that this lore is new and developing and Blizz can easily and logically explain them joining us? It all just seems like a huge bias against entirety of SL.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

People keep bringing lore as this huge obstacle for Cov AR's, but how many times do we have to tell them that this lore is new and developing and Blizz can easily and logically explain them joining us? It all just seems like a huge bias against entirety of SL.

I think it makes sense that they belong in the Shadowlands only but there is a very big bias against Shadowlands. Like somehow the idea of an alternate realm disconnects you(like really....Outland the Twisting Nether didn't bother you).

[Makabreska]

I think it makes sense that they belong in the Shadowlands only but there is a very big bias against Shadowlands. Like somehow the idea of an alternate realm disconnects you(like really....Outland the Twisting Nether didn't bother you).

It's rather about SL being perceived as worst xpac ever, it's entire package. We had same thing with WoD. People were throwing fits when they heard about evil Yrel in Maghar quest line, cuz "LOL WOD".

[Cosmic Janitor]

People keep bringing lore as this huge obstacle for Cov AR's, but how many times do we have to tell them that this lore is new and developing and Blizz can easily and logically explain them joining us? It all just seems like a huge bias against entirety of SL.

There are just different degrees of adjustments required.
"Oh look, a few blood elves deserted after juicing on void magic, guess we could take them in"

vs.

"Oh look, the dead decided to come back from the afterlife and decided to help us fight our battles, sift through our shit and sweep our streets"

[Makabreska]

Death of the author is a thing.

Let's be real, a lot of artists, authors, etc. through history were probably pieces of shit by today's standards. Whether someone continues to enjoy or support their work is up to them. I'm personally not supporting Blizzard in part due to the lawsuit.

Ye, do people know Lovecraft was an actual racist?

[Makorus]

People be saying that Shadowlands writing sucks but then mention that it would be epic if 9.2 was in Northrend, in the same sentence

[Hyrja]

Todays bluepost: Season of Mastery: Name Reservation Starts This Week

Cya tomorrow guys

[TheFirstOnes]

"Season of Mastery"

Bro can they fucking quit with classic? lmao

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

If the players are going to ignore quality, by all means tell Blizzard to just have 40 boss raids with no mechanics. Just a long list of loot piniatas. Apparently thats what people want.

As if this expansion exudes "quality". Let's go to the next expansion that also exudes "quality" with a rush job and a workforce that is burnt to crisps in Q4 2022.

But by all means, it is cute.

[Vasoka]

Todays bluepost: Season of Mastery: Name Reservation Starts This Week

Cya tomorrow guys

That's for Classic.

[Makabreska]

There are just different degrees of adjustments required.
"Oh look, a few blood elves deserted after juicing on void magic, guess we could take them in"

vs.

"Oh look, the dead decided to come back from the afterlife and decided to help us fight our battles, sift through our shit and sweep our streets"

With how Covs and their zones have been presented I don't think anyone thinks about them as "dead". Remove afterlife thingy and each zone and its inhabitants could easily fit on Azeroth or different planet.