It’s lacks so many characters, I don’t like.
I am a little disappointed by how few movesets there seem to be, but core gameplay is still fun enough so far.
Looks nice and so on.
But the drop in roster size is a disappointment to me.
they should have added in Joan of Arc again
It is definitely a pared down list vs. SW4 though. If I’d paid for it I’d probably be madder.
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Official world of Warcraft account posting ‘choose your favourite dragon’!’ and not including three of the new Aspects in their list of 12 big dragons
The two women and the Tauren
Oofa doofa
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Doing my killer challenges without Nowhere To Hide because its been killswitched for going on two weeks.
I cannot even begin to tell you how much pain I am in.
EDIT: Why do I have to suffer for an exploit that only affects Sadako?! Huh?! Just killswitch Sadako then!
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Which ones -can- we pick?
and they misspelled sapphiron as sapphirion.
It’s fine, the best dragon in that list is Deathwing anyway followed by Sindragosa (ICC/Undead).
I am still not a fan of the new dragon models, they lost so much… personality and texture in their redesigns.
They included Galakrond of all things - does he even have a line of dialogue?
He does not, just a disembodied head and some wing talons in the DF mega dungeon.
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Had to let this poor Dwight go. They first 3 hooks happened because they didn’t allow me to leave before they unhooked each other, but then the other 3 left Dwight to go to second.
I had run up the other end of the map, I was nowhere near this hook. Came back as he went to second and “face camped” him so he could unhook himself and then went and murdered the other three for leaving him to die.
Then gave him the hatch.
Once i got human priest to 60 i should probs level the jester.
Huh, finally completed BG3 on my Tav bard
Oh, that’s the time? This is becoming a common theme
Up next, Durge sorc maximum evil
Only in the Dawn of the Aspects novel he does. Where Kalecgos ended up reliving Malygos’ memories as a protodragon. He’s speaking to protodragons who thought that emulating Galakrond ( meaning cannibalizing on other dragons) and following him would mean their survival. Unfortunately for them, Galakrond ate them all too.
As Malygos paused again, his hearing slowly returned. Both he and Kalec heard what sounded like either thunder or another tremor beginning, only to realize that, instead, they were hearing the wary rumble of a very large creature. It was then that Kalec and his host understood that what they had both taken for the shifting of the ground had been the simple landing of Galakrond.
With the utmost caution, Malygos wended his way up. He could hear another voice then, the voiceof Coros.
“Many will be there! All waiting like grazers to be eaten!”
“So very many . . .” Each word Galakrond spoke reverberated in Malygos’s still-tender ears. It was doubtful to both him and Kalec that Galakrond could speak at anything less than a roar.
“We will feast well!” Coros assured him. “We will grow strong!”
Malygos carefully poked his head over the edge. Coros obviously assumed that he was buried beneath tons of rubble, but the icy-blue proto-dragon remained wary of sentinels arranged just in case some other foolish creature dared spy on Galakrond. Indeed, through his host, Kalec observed at least one of Coros’s band clearly acting as a lookout, although, fortunately, not glancing Malygos’s way at that moment.
Coros and the female hovered before Galakrond, who appeared larger than ever to Malygos and Kalec. Even more disturbing was that the various protuberances pockmarking the behemoth’s skin were more distinct than before. Full limbs dangled everywhere. There were even wings that
fruitlessly flapped, as if seeking to lift Galakrond in the air.
But most disturbing were the eyes. Scattered about, the singular orbs stared with the same malevolent intent as the two original ones now fixed upon Coros and the female. The scores of extra eyes blinked randomly, as if each was from an individual and not part of the same beast.
One of the nearest turned its baleful gaze toward Malygos.
He ducked immediately. The icy-blue male held his breath and waited. There was no outcry from Galakrond, though. The only sounds were the voices of Coros and the female.
Still full of trepidation, Malygos raised his head again. The eye now looked past him to the small band facing the gargantuan fiend.
“Great Galakrond will lead us!” Coros continued almost gleefully. “Great Galakrond will rule all!”
This Coros is mad! Kalec thought, well aware that Malygos thought the same of his rival. Still, they both saw that Galakrond listened with interest to the words.
“Where will they gather?” Galakrond finally asked Coros.
“The jagged valley! Soon!”
Although Kalec did not recognize the description, Malygos evidently did. His low hiss marked the truth of Coros’s words and the depths of the other proto-dragon’s betrayal.
“I know this place,” Galakrond remarked, his gaze looking inward. “Hunted there when I was small . . . when I was nothing. . . .”
“But you are great now!” said the female, the others adding their agreement with a chorus of hisses.
Some of the vestigial limbs twitched, paws snatching as if seeking prey. Several more of the eyes followed Galakrond’s gaze.
“Great I am,” the gigantic fiend rumbled. He studied Coros in particular. “You would be great, too.”
“Not so great as Galakrond!” Malygos’s rival immediately replied, as the female swiftly nodded her agreement. “Not so great as Galakrond!”
“No . . . never so great as me. . . .” Galakrond stretched his wings, which quickly shadowed the land for some distance. One forepaw—small in comparison with the rest of him but far larger than the
full form of any normal proto-dragon—scraped at the hard ground, ripping through stone as if it were sand. “There can be only one me. . . .”
I’ve said it a bunch of times, but it’s obvious that the WoW marketing team just does not give a damn about any of the “new dragons” that were introduced after Cataclysm and only cares about the super-marketable super-popular dragons, which they practically list according to their popularity in that image.
I have no doubt that whenever the dragons are next relevant, the black dragons will be forced to revolve around Deathwing again, and the green dragons will be forced to bring back Ysera again, and the blue dragons will be forced to reactivate the Sindragosa simulacrum again, because god forbid that the new cast of dragons will ever be allowed to shine on their own without injecting old names into the story for the sake of nostalgia bait.
… Which clashes a lot with the fact that some of the writers seem borderline eager to wrap up old storylines and abandon the legacy of beloved darlings in favour of the weird new stuff that they want to write, as we saw in Shadowlands. This was reined in during Dragonflight, but there’s still hints of it here and there.
As much as I personally like it, 10.1 wraps up Deathwing’s story so conclusively that you can almost hear the writers screaming “please for the love of god never make us write about bloody Deathwing ever again, we are so done with him” but you can bet that the marketing team will force them to jam Deathwing into the plot again whenever the Black Dragonflight is next relevant.
Also, as a tertiary point about the lessons that Dragonflight learned from Shadowlands, I would argue that this expansion actually beats Shadowlands at its own game.
Dragonflight is full of references to dragons from previous content, living and dead alike, and serves a celebration and an exploration of the stories of all of these old dragons.
This is exactly what Shadowlands should have been for loads of dead characters, but it wasn’t. Only a handful of departed characters get explored in any detail and in some cases, they were basically rewritten in order to serve the goals of the writers at that point, which can be boiled down to “rewrite the Warcraft setting into something new of our own design, free from the shackles of the old narrative.”
I’m just thankful that the writers were brought to heel in Dragonflight, which usually finds a balance between writing a new story with new characters and new elements and honouring characters and stories from previous expansions, though there are still points where there’s too much nostalgia-baiting, or too much Danuser-style reinventing the wheel.
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He does! …in Hearthstone.
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However, the most recent retcon — that their ancestors were led to the Well of Eternity by a faerie dragon instead of discovering it for themselves — makes them look like mommy’s spoiled favorite kids instead of daring trailblazers.
(Sure, it’s supposed to be a legend, but Blizzard has no subtlety when writing legends and usually means them to be objectively correct.)
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Used my level boost on this character who was only 3 bars away from max level.
I am winning at the game.
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I think we can safely decanonise most of the new book until someone slaps the hands of the narrative team and takes the words ‘Dark Trolls’ out of their vocabulary because they clearly cannot be trusted with them
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