PTR Spoiler/Discussion Thread (Part 1)

He could grate me like shredded cheese on those

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Like, or into?

Why does the one on the left look like a Soundcloud Rapper’s album art.

This is Lil Yung Draco with his new track of His New EP Called Dag0n Flight, Tracks Called Invoker.

EDIT: Wait, they all Kind of look like Lil Nas X back up Dancers

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Either.

This is what happens when you allow boomers to own a social media account… Their attempts to be relatable are… Something.

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It’s totally not intentional. It’s just…coincidence that these happen to be very furry-esque and that the dragon form is the first race in WoW that can be fully undressed.

New pic of the Dracthyr just dropped

https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/images/Dragonkin_%28Dragon_Slayer_II%29.png?a690e

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That’s a cursed arakkoa.

Is this a good thing for PvPers? I’m not well versed in their needs.

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Will Dracthyr be able to fly without a flying mount? Or am I forced (like DHs) to ignore my wings and use a dragonmount outside of the Dragon Isles?

One of the interview posts on Wowhead said they can do the Dragonriding physics based flight on their own and it’ll be a tutorial part of their starting zone.

Hey now be fair, DH wings just magically disappear into nothingness for no reason :DDD

Man, it’s a weird day where gameplay and mechanics are what threaten to pull me back into WoW, instead of lore and setting.

A caster that can choose when to instacast and when to charge, the renown system but without power increases and mutual lockout.

Good stuff, let’s see how they execute it

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Steve, no…

Is this yet another instance of Danny writing one of his niche fetishes into the lore?

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Danuser, can you not be cringe for two minutes? Take a cold shower or something before working on WoW. :weary:

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This is my main issue with them too. They do not fit the wow aesthetic at all. And i’m not even talking abt the androgynous or however the hell u spell that look.

If you take one of those humanoid models and you put it in the same race roster as ANY of the current wow races, they just stand out so massively from them. Even from Blood elves and void elves which they are probably the closest to.

Honestly if I didn’t play the game and someone put that thing in a line with a random assortment of wow races I could not tell they are from the same game. It gives me Kingdom Hearts kind of feeling where u can have Donald Duck in pirates of the caribbean universe- Which works in that game because thats the whole point of it.

But it does not fit WoW at all.

They should have made them more bulkier/lizard looking or indeed just completely skipped the humanoid form all together.

Also @Telaryn re: The way how evokers cast spells? Terrible idea, and i will tell you why.

If you have cast with 3 stages of power, then you make interrupts far more disruptive than on regular spells.

If you have 1 spell that does 3 slightly different things, you now tunnel potentially 3 different abilities into 1 ability. I do not need to even talk about demin hunter to tell you how degenerate game design it is in the first place to design abilities that do multiple things at the same time, but I digress.

Third, as others have pointed out, it will funnel people into picking stats like haste because obviously if you want the best results you want to be able to cast those windows as fast as possible, which defeats the whole point of itemization choice.

That is not even mentioning how problematic is it that the company is designing yet another hypermobile class when the past 2 classes have been just like that. It will lead to the same phenomenon as in MOBA’s like LoL where every single champion (read:class) will be homogenized to have same (read: not similar) abilities because as hyper mobility is made prevalent in the game, that is how encounters and the actual gameplay is tailored around too.

I’m not even a game designer but even I can see these obvious problems with a naked eye. The developers continue down the path of degenerate class + ability design.

I hope microsoft fires every single last one of them.

Re this: Aye, its is massively good for pvpers, but it has a caveat which I would leave out. Not for my, but PVE players sake.

If the gear can be upgraded through pvp to have also a higher pve item level, then the said Pve players will feel enticed/coerced toward doing pvp to gear up quicker.

I think PVP gesr shouldnt be upgradable. Not for my sake, but for the good of the whole game.

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Among the rich histories and legacies to explore, even the once destructive black dragonflight has made its way to the Dragon Isles. Wrathion, who had long sought the location of the Dragon Isles, will need to help his fellow black dragons come to terms with their volatile past in the wake of his father Deathwing’s cataclysmic actions, which will be no easy task.

What fellow black dragons? Wrathion had them all killed. There are a grand total of two known black dragons on all of Azeroth, and one in Outland I guess.

Also

The snow-covered Azure Span follows, a massive zone with lots of verticality where the fan favorite Tuskar are fighting alongside Kalecgos and the blue dragonflight.

Neltharion, later known as Deathwing, created the ideal solider in the Dracthyr

Does Blizzard even proofread anymore?

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Probably the ones hiding on the island.

Of course not. Some of it is unaddressed typos, other stuff is outsourcing and to some extent I suspect the current WoW team are unfamiliar with the setting itself.

I will never forgive draenei having red blood in WoD. It’s such a blatant display of not knowing what you’re doing anymore.

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On the contrary, consider the following: we can’t kill him yet. His fate is decided already sometime in the past future whatever, and killing him now would screw up the truest timeline. All those Caverns of Time dungeons? Never happened, but we already did them - a paradox.

We have to let him live, to let him mess everything up, so we can fix it again later/earlier.

The perfect crime: die in the future so you can’t die in the past, by which I mean the present, which is of course also the future.