Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Shadochi]

If I were Blizzard I would make Eye of Azshara a legit expansion. Nobody would believe the leaks.

They should honestly start naming their projects internally based on various leaks from previous seasons xD

[micwini]

If I were Blizzard I would make Eye of Azshara a legit expansion. Nobody would believe the leaks.

When it was first used (pre-legion); I'm 100% sure the dev team used that as inspiration for the name of the Legion dungeon.

[KayRule]

I dunno why people are so obsessed with the skeleton. Pretty sure most of the races are operating on a modified iterations of the same one to facilitate shared class animations anyway.

It's also much more efficient and smart way to develop. Like, upstanding Orcs are 1:1 Male Draenei animations, but it's very clear that's where they started with and worked on from there. Considering the entire creation of the .skele system in end of Legion/BfA was to help with this kind of stuff, I am not surprised to see it actually being used in future expansions.

[Teriz]

Imo a new class is most likely to have one of the following: Cloth Melee/Tank, Plate Ranged, or Mail Tank.

My money is on mail armor. Either an Alexstraza-based Dragonsworn class with Tank/RDPS/Heal, or Tinker class with the same spec configuration.

[FlemmMinis]

Maybe we shouldn't. Let's rename them.

I'm a Poison Sneakstabber.

[Shadochi]

They are probably like: "We are never making Dreadlords playable, so why not make use of that skeleton for the new dragon race?"

But IMO it is okay even if it is a rig of an already playable race. And dont dreadlords in 9.1 and onwards now use the meta DH rig?

[micwini]

we are in the final 30 pages

Before the announcement? Bro, right before and during, this thread moves at lightning speed.

[ercarp]

I dunno why people are so obsessed with the skeleton. Pretty sure most of the races are operating on a modified iterations of the same one to facilitate shared class animations anyway.

Every playable race we've received as a baseline expansion feature (i.e. Blood Elves, Draenei, Goblins, Worgen, and Pandaren) have had completely unique skeletons that weren't used by anything else in the game when they were added.

If this was an Allied Race, sure, go ahead. But since this is supposedly being marketed as a big expansion feature, the least they could do is give them a completely unique skeleton and set of animations.

[Hitei]

Imagine seeing dozens of skinny, humanoid dragons walking around in Stormwind. What a freaking immersion breaker.

I'm glad those fake screenshots show only fan-made models, not Blizzard's work.

Better than a single gnome.

[JDBlou]

Imagine seeing dozens of skinny, humanoid dragons walking around in Stormwind. What a freaking immersion breaker.

I'm glad those fake screenshots show only fan-made models, not Blizzard's work.

Huffing that copium like there's no tomorrow.

[Teriz]

Looks legit to me

Legitimately fake.

Better than a single gnome.

Blasphemy! Chromie is a treasure.

[Revamp Man]

If I were Blizzard I would make Eye of Azshara a legit expansion. Nobody would believe the leaks.

well lets look here
shes free
she no longer has a master
shes the strongest mage on the planet
it took a group of heroes empowered by a titan to beat her
she managed to steal the tidestone from the tomb of sargeras so she could have stolen more
she has friends on the surface

[therumblings]

Imagine seeing dozens of skinny, humanoid dragons walking around in Stormwind. What a freaking immersion breaker.

I'm glad those fake screenshots show only fan-made models, not Blizzard's work.

What will you say if they are proven to be real in 4 hours?

[Yunravel]

100% it's a modded model with the dreadlord / demon form skeleton on a private server where you can build your own background. Still pretty impressive tho

My dude you are going to fall from so high tonight

[Deventh]

But IMO it is okay even if it is a rig of an already playable race. And dont dreadlords in 9.1 and onwards now use the meta DH rig?

Yeah, I think they do. But it will look pretty weird for races to have the same stance and animations that is why they more than likely made completely new skeletons for races before until we got the allied races which were just flavored Night Elves, Draenei, Orcs, Goblins etc.

[FlemmMinis]

What will you say if they are proven to be real in 4 hours?

Nothing, probably.

[Sondrelk]

well lets look here
shes free
she no longer has a master
shes the strongest mage on the planet
it took a group of heroes empowered by a titan to beat her
she managed to steal the tidestone from the tomb of sargeras so she could have stolen more
she has friends on the surface

There is already a dungeon with that name, don't forget.

[Revamp Man]

Before the announcement? Bro, right before and during, this thread moves at lightning speed.

i just wanna see this hit 2500 before the announcement

[bagina]

And people were saying Dark Ranger is just a Hunter when we get mage 2.0 as a new class when there's already a bunch of spellcasters and only 1 archer archetype.

Yeah exactly. Anyone arguing otherwise is just full of shit.

[Emet-Selch]

Every playable race we've received as a baseline expansion feature (i.e. Blood Elves, Draenei, Goblins, Worgen, and Pandaren) have had completely unique skeletons that weren't used by anything else in the game when they were added.

If this was an Allied Race, sure, go ahead. But since this is supposedly being marketed as a big expansion feature, the least they could do is give them a completely unique skeleton and set of animations.

As if allied races weren't pitched as a big expansion feature? That point is just moot.