Basically this. I enjoy dragonriding for gameplay, but it’s clunky to use in RP (where you might be emoting for minutes hovering in midair for what takes seconds in in-universe time), and of course it only works with dragonriding mounts. It’s a welcome gift for our campaign, half of which will happen after the patch comes out.
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When can we use dragon riding mounts for standard flying old world?!
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So wowhead released some notes on the new book.
According to the book, Dracthyr are not your battle harden veterans of an ancient war against dragons, but instead they are untested recruits who’s first battle was against Raz which is supposedly the battle we saw in the cinematics, which means the dracthyr who were made to slay dragons, had one real battle in which they were streamrolled and died like cannon fodder before Daddy Deathwing saved the day.
Lmao rip bozos
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Sort of. They did indeed only see that one battle.
What the cinematic didn’t show was that Raszageth did not attack the Forbidden Reach alone, but brought along a small army of Primalists. At the time those were mainly proto-dragons and tarasek, battling the dracthyr and black dragonflight.
And they were winning. Raz was badly injured after underestimating the dracthyr, having been cratered from the skies after being speared in her back and neck several times. Only the confusion that set in once Neltharion’s titan-gauntlet was then broken by lightning changed the scales.
The rest you know: He had himself a little freakout, conjured a void portal despite his better judgment, which imprisoned Raz inside a titan vault.
It also reveals that the dracthyr being uncontrollable + dangerous was only part of the reason he had them locked away. He trusted the few surviving black dragons to keep silent about what they had witnessed, but did not his creations. He didn’t want anyone else to know, lying to Malygos about the fight as well.
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Thanks for the added context.
I was a little disappointed with the reveal the Dracthyr were all just untested science experiments with less real battle experience than your everday horde grunt.
This helps ease it.
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Saberon from WoD were such a hilarious downgrade from the Saurok, who held a thematic and historical purpose in the worldbuilding of Pandaria.
Saberon have no culture or story, they only existed to be a #SAVAGE bandit mob race and that’s it.
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I can sympathise with that. I won’t deny that normal flying in the Dragon Isles has its purpose, I think that it should be enabled without any barriers. I just disagree with Blizzard’s decision of locking it behind achievements, which does nothing for the people who have had difficulties playing Dragonflight due to motion sickness, disabilities and other reasons.
While that sucks, I find that a little easier to tolerate than the races that were designed with intentionally abrasive attitudes.
Good change. Rep/renown grinding for pathfinder has always been dumb.
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Wouldn’t it be more dumb to also have Saurok in WoD
I suppose they could have replaced the Saberon with some proto flayers instead, but we may never know for they cut that content from the expansion.
We have tarasek in DF. Just like saurok, but with no lore attatched.
They have lore, it’s just hidden in the official art book because what sort of moron would put lore for their game inside of that game?
It boils down to “they’re scaly bipedal sapients native to the Dragon Isles who were uplifted by the Dragonflights into the first Drakonids and Dragonspawn. The ones that are left behind either refused to be uplifted or were jilted by the Dragonflights and have either sided with the Primalists or are self-serving opportunists.”
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Now mogu creating saurok makes a bit more sense. This pattern of strong, obedient servant race worked with the dragons so they wanted the same… which didn’t go well.
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Also, the latest “leak” is literally just four letters:
ocho
This is getting esoteric.
We’re already past 8 expansions, so clearly this is Shadowlands 2: Mexican edition.
It’s exactly the same as shadowlands except everyone is wearing oversized sombreros and ponchos, like Raiden in MGR.
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Sadly the ‘ocho’ and assets that are part of it seem to just be part of BfA.
it worries me that we are a day away from opening ceremony and the only leak that is remotely convincing is the most boring one
i hope it’s just that blizzard have managed to be a lot tighter on information this time around but idk.
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Ngl the World revamp and the Underdark under EK got my interest the most 
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We are told those guys aren’t just a bunch of primitives, that they are sentient complex beings… But when they aren’t even mentioned in Chronicles Volume 2, this opinion of yours certainly gains credibility.
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Let’s be fair, Draenor wasn’t the most civilized place aside from the draenei and sometimes arakkoa. Half of the orc clans never got out of the stone age, ogron and such were just big pieces of labour and food resources, ogres were still ogres. It was a norm to live with the wilds, and the only exceptions were those who happened to live on the hoards of ancient technologies. And yet even they managed to arrange themselves civil wars because of fel and void corruption (yes, I remember the rumours that Draenor was supposed to have an Old God of its own and the exiled arakkoa were initially designed as his followers).