drack’fear
lol. the idea of a RP plot like that could be cool.
mhhh, immagine if he is allied with a bronze dragon…
everyone looks behind they’r selves
Everyday we draw closer to dragon shuffling
True, and to Dracthy Drama in SW RP
That a release before 2023 is likely going to result in World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor (Extreme).
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fair, but i respectfully disagree with your opinion.
Imo even December is too early for this after the S-show of SL since they -need- a win to earn back some good will. On a brighter hope though is now they have a load of new people on the WoW team 10.1 could well be much better.
I don’t buy the argument that they had been working on this in the background for years. The signs and even the logic doesn’t line up. How have you managed to secretly make this during lockdown without the quality being compromised is my question to them?
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Only true if they outsourced dragonflight to a company that didn’t latch onto the corporate bandwagon of blaming the pandemic for not getting anything done.
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Call me cynical but I have the distinct feeling that corners were cut so they could put manpower into Dragonflight.
The leveling dungeons for the expansion, for example, are just short outdoor zones with boss NPCs. Oribos is essentially one sparsely populated column with side rooms. Korthia was fairly bland in layout. Even Zereth Mortis was small compared to some previous end-of-expansion zones we’ve seen (though its art direction suggests it had more work put into it than other areas in SHL).
I admit I only have a cursory understanding of the design to implementation pipeline for new content, but I still feel like Shadowlands was pushed out in a way that would let them work on a another project behind closed doors.
I’m open, however, to the possibility that I’m completely wrong and Dragonflight will be even less well-constructed; then Blizzard will cite the pandemic & ‘internal chaos’ as reasons for not delivering their best.
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Sounds like a repeat of what happened with WoD going into Legion, although Legion’s release was a little under a year from it’s announcement so they actually took time to get the expansion to a point where it worked for release.
Obviously, the PvP system was awful and the legendary RNG system was something I hated.
Maybe they put less effort in SL while making the new DF systems, even thought SL was a big no no expac from alot of points: lore, Content etc.
only thing i give to them is thorgast who entertained me for a while 
Same here.
for me this is the same exact thing, thought i would be open to the xpac being released in jan-Feb
Plus alpha have the servers but ain’t still accesible, maybe blizzard did tests themselves about lesser things and this time are gonna test the things that require a bit more of work?
we saw that in 9.2 feedback from players was more accepted, if they do the same thing here we might have a, kind of, win?
i just hope the xpac dosen’t rot like SL and WoD.
Likewise - I have real concerns about the future of retail if Classic WoW becomes (and possibly remains) as the more popular version that people are playing.
I want to play retail but Blizzard needs to do a lot more than ZM to make me want to play.
Will never become more popular then Retail, if not only due to the QoL-additions it lacks compared to retail.
Also the rose-tinted goggles will stop eventually, you think people will play Classic Cataclysm? Because its hardly as fondly remebered as Classic up until WoTLK
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If Dragonflight is bad, Classic WotLK stands a good chance to surpass the current version (assuming it hasn’t yet, which might already be the case).
Dragonblight > Dragonflight 
had a little typo there bud
Having messed around with the talent calculator mock up on wowhead. I really don’t like the new talent trees. They’ve filled it out by taking away abilities and passives from the spellbook. And there isn’t enough points to get it all back. Trying to recreate my unholy spec DK, no matter how I build I’m ending up with less than I currently have. I’m losing on average 4-5 abilities and 5-7 passives.