Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Alanar]

Sci-fi in warcraft is fine, when it makes sense and align with the races/factions

shadowlands is a clown fest, mixing scifi with something that was supposed to be "spooky" or in a spiritual level, was a fucking miss. Shadowlands definetly do not feel like warcraft, at all, it just borrow the name and the characters.



what are you talking about, people liked mechagon

Not everyone, I didnt like it for example. Multiple reasons tho.. gnomes suck.. small area and boring lore.
Nazjatar was more exciting for me at the time.

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Other than the fact they picked Wrathion, Hearthstone has always had known characters in various shapes or forms, so not sure it's a direct sign of anything.

Also, I couldn't bare to look at that low-res pic so here's the full art for his 4 variants (differing sizes because Hearthstone).

Doesnt strike me as drakonoid form... more likes hes transforming into a drake and they tried to show that.

[Raetary]

So pretty much just mid transformation.

[Rootsbum]

In 9.2, is there any hint of Elune being created? If shes the sister of the Winter queen, she should have a prototype as well?

[Revamp Man]

Not really any better reason. And besides that, people already treated is as such when she got triggered by Delaryn in the cinematic and her order seemed to by made on a whim. Any other explanation flew under the radar.

The other explanation was in the book because they couldn’t have her shown as an angry child triggered by the word Hope.

Then we couldn’t have her doing all these evil things on her own so she worked for the jailer until he said all shall serve and she decided she will never serve…even though she did that constantly

But then we couldn’t have her being Arthas 2.0 so it’s now “her soul was touched and manipulated by the jailer”

Then it was “She has always been manipulated by the jailer”

[Sondrelk]

With out any portals sure but with them it can become pretty damn fast.

Portals in the world of Azeroth are not trivial to make. And they were already busy trying to evacuate everyone by having a rotation of a couple of mages constantly keeping a portal open.

[Varx]

Been thinking more and more about a possible dragon race like last week's leak.

If it happens, wouldn't it be better, customization wise, to have them be chromatic dragons instead. This way players can customize their dragon form to fit which ever dragonflight they like best.

Lore wise it'd be simple

Back in dragon soul we got an idea of what a pure and perfect chromatic dragon would look like in the form of the heat of the aspects. Not the purple imperfect versions that nefarion created.

I can see wrathion recruiting willing dragon volunteers from all flights to become vessels of the power that hold the essence of all the dragonflights by using the draconic essences gathered during 8.3 to upgrade the heart of azeroth.

These new chromatic dragons would then take up the teachings of mortals and become one of the playable classes.

Now we'd be able to have all sorts of draconic customization options instead of just the black dragonflights.

[Hugnomo]

Blizzard just posted a statement from Ybarra that talked about changes to the company culture/policies to achieve it. Also talking about more news next week.

[Shadochi]

Blizzard just posted a statement from Ybarra that talked about changes to the company culture/policies to achieve it. Also talking about more news next week.

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/bliz...erything-we-do
For people interested

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Tbh if anything for WoW is to come next week then it's the 9.2 release date. With 9.2 being close by I don't see them spilling the beans intentionally about 10.0. Better to wait a couple weeks and not have to maneuver around talking about the conclusion of SL, if it is in any way connected

[Syegfryed]

Not everyone, I didnt like it for example. Multiple reasons tho.. gnomes suck.. small area and boring lore.
Nazjatar was more exciting for me at the time. .

yeah, you didn't like gnomes, thats fine, just like people don't like elf areas.

mechagon was a fun sandbox place, it got old quickly, but so dnd nazjatar. both places became much better with flying.

[Alanar]

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/bliz...erything-we-do
For people interested

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Tbh if anything for WoW is to come next week then it's the 9.2 release date. With 9.2 being close by I don't see them spilling the beans intentionally about 10.0. Better to wait a couple weeks and not have to maneuver around talking about the conclusion of SL, if it is in any way connected

what possible cool new could it be?

We have exciting new we lowered all the prices of our microtransactions to match more to our microsoft standards.

how exciting if it ends up being something stupid like this.

[Arcinatoss]

9.2 release date, date for the 10.0 reveal stream/youtube video. I could not care less if its anything else.

[therumblings]

Depending on how long it's gonna take for 10.0 to be ready for release I could see them waiting quite a while, first for 9.2 to release, then the WF race and cinematics shown, then a few weeks after for the 10.0 announcement. Really depends on when 9.2 is coming and the status of 10.0.

[Alanar]

yeah, you didn't like gnomes, thats fine, just like people don't like elf areas.

mechagon was a fun sandbox place, it got old quickly, but so dnd nazjatar. both places became much better with flying.

Ofc, everyone their taste, but I could look past the vibe if the gameplay was fun, sadly it wasn't for me. For me the diper gnomes.. the boring story, annoying daily quests and I really didnt like the area at all. We couldnt even enter mechagnome city without the instance. Nazjatar had other problems that were just as annoying, navigating was one and again.. the area was to small for what it was suppose to be.. both areas got old real fast for some reason. Nazjatar just had more to it, cus of lore, characters and it felt like a rushed experience for me. Mechagnomes had one big disaster and that was that they were not the mechagnomes people wanted.. so ye.

I can't look back and say wow that was a fun time in 8.2, remember this was mids bfa, the backlash and dissappointment over Rastakahn and Sylvanas being vage as shit only just started, nothing to do with 8.2, but something I remember well. This was early on when people already started to hate the story.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

I don't expect any 10.0 info until after 9.2 is live.

[Vasoka]

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/bliz...erything-we-do

"I'll be sharing more next week" -> in regards to more frequent content. 10.0 announcement next week prolly.

Like a particular Dwarf would probably say, the rumblings are here.

It is time.

[therumblings]

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/bliz...erything-we-do

"I'll be sharing more next week" -> in regards to more frequent content. 10.0 announcement next week prolly.

Like a particular Dwarf would probably say, the rumblings are here.

It is time.

That quote indeed does generate some rumblings. I wonder if it's just an announcement of an announcement or something of actual substance.

[Varodoc]

They should reveal the next expansion already, it's not the Second Coming of Christ or anything like that. Reveal the name and the theme and show a trailer already so that we can move on.

[Vasoka]

That quote indeed does generate some rumblings. I wonder if it's just an announcement of an announcement or something of actual substance.

At this point even an announcement of an announcement is something I'd eagerly gobble up rather than the pitiful silence and lack of any hype or relevance.

[Khaza-R]

That quote indeed does generate some rumblings. I wonder if it's just an announcement of an announcement or something of actual substance.

My guess is it will just be an announcement talking about when they're going to give updates about the status of their different titles. Maybe some more shake ups and moving people around within Blizzard.

I don't see why he would specifically be releasing the dates on anything with WoW.

[Sondrelk]

I am still going to say that Blizzard will only reveal 10.0 properly once Zovaal is available to be defeated, or better yet once the world first race has ended.
This is Blizzards only real chance to really tie the end of an expansion directly to the announcement of a new one, and I think it would be really neat if we actually got something cool from it.

There isnt really a good reason that I can think of why Blizzard should reveal 10.0 before 9.2 is "done" other than the general sense that we need more info. If Blizzard made an announcement that the world first race will mark the beginning of the 10.0 reveals then I think they could really bring some hype into the game overall.