World of Warcraft: Current Year

xmod2 said:

There was some mention about how people who could 'best use their momentum' would be rewarded by accessing higher areas. I'm guessing it'll be a time gated glorified glider until you sit on the egg for 3 weeks and then mouth feed the dragon 300 isle worms (gated at 50 a week).

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Ya, Ion said something like "flying in a sense", so it will definitely be some manner of incremental grind to fully unlock normal flight. If I had to guess, they'll probably do something where as you progress through each of the 4 zones, you unlock some dragon training thingy that lets you eventually get full dragonflight. Or that is what they should do. If they add some "lol do 2 months of dailies" shit, then they are idiots.

Cybsled said:

Ya, Ion said something like "flying in a sense", so it will definitely be some manner of incremental grind to fully unlock normal flight. If I had to guess, they'll probably do something where as you progress through each of the 4 zones, you unlock some dragon training thingy that lets you eventually get full dragonflight. Or that is what they should do. If they add some "lol do 2 months of dailies" shit, then they are idiots.

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Maybe they'll do this thing where you have to grab a certain number of collectibles in a zone to unlock flying, but the last one isn't made available until the main storyline of the zone is done so you don't disrupt the flow of the story.

Hamlet used to be in Juggernaut with me. I just got off the phone with xer. According to xer, flying will only be unlocked if you put pronouns in your Blizzard forum signature.

BoozeCube said:

Come on guys they said "lessons learned" so pre-order today.

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They learned their lessons so much they promoted Ion to VP.

sadris said:

Dragonkin or whatever races need way way more polygons. I might try this out.

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It's Dracthyr, why would they use the existing and normal sounding names like Dragonkin and Draconid?

So you can have your dragon character either look like a bipedal dragon or a human with draconic features?

Cybsled said:

Ya, Ion said something like "flying in a sense", so it will definitely be some manner of incremental grind to fully unlock normal flight. If I had to guess, they'll probably do something where as you progress through each of the 4 zones, you unlock some dragon training thingy that lets you eventually get full dragonflight. Or that is what they should do. If they add some "lol do 2 months of dailies" shit, then they are idiots.

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It'll be a glider of some sort that you can only unlock after you no longer have a need for it. For sure, they'll nerf all the existing gliders and make them not work in the new zones.

Then at some point a year after the xpac was released, you'll be able to get your pathfinder type flying.

Blizz never gives new things. They only take away things we had before and make us earn them again and call it a feature...like they did with flight paths in SL.

You can tell they’ve ran out of ideas from the OG Warcraft people (yes who aped Warhammer hard), but this Dragonkin thing fits about as well as vulpera and other shit races lately.

Caeden said:

vulpera

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krismunich said:

Well, I have been promoted in the past, too because everyone good above me left the company

jokes aside I really want to know how much influence certain people and movements have over the game development at this point.

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You mean like changing old pictures of women in game to fruit and breast reductions for every major female, oh and making Chromy Trans? Pretty sure we all know how much influence they have, when you have a trans on your first major announcement in a long time.

/fart

"We've added an entirely new and unique chore experience yet again"

That's all I hear whenever WoW devs speak

The whole 'mortal form' bit makes no bloody sense given that their excuse for why evokers are Dracthyr only us because they use their wings etc to jump up into the air and do strafing runs etc.

Apparently no one told Ion that Demonhunters have wings as part of their class schtick or that magic exists in the World of Warcraft.

Then again the Evoker abilities seem to align completely with D&D definitions of chromatic dragon colors despite Warcraft having gone out of their way to distance themselves from the Red = Fire, Blue = Lightning, etc. business.