For those who created Dracthyr with huge expectations to then have it all crash to pieces upon playing them.
Post your findings here.
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Oh an echo chamber. This will go well /grabs popcorn
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Can we even play yet? Im at work at the moment and cant check
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I am disappointed I can’t play a Dracthyr yet
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For those who didn’t preorder Dragonflight and won’t be able to make an evoker.
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Been able to play for weeks now, but that was beta
I disappointed that you are forced to be disappointed for having to wait.
Also disappointed that the op couldn’t even wait for the maintenence to end before trolling.
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I had fun with them on the beta, so I’ll probably have fun with them on Live.
I suppose this still counts since I’m disappointing OP by going against the narrative they want.
I wish Dracthyr had a slightly bigger head and a more powerful looking bone structure. They’re literally a race of super soldier dragons designed by king jawline daddy Neltharion, yet they look frail which is just not typically how dragons appear.
If you look at the original female worgen head, their snouts were too thin and the community complained until they were adjusted to be a little more wide and strong looking. Imo, dracthyr need this treatment too.
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Here’s the DPS I experienced in the Beta to help you temper your Devastation Evoker expectations:
Leveling through the Forbidden Reach to 60:
- 2k - 2.5k average DPS - Evoker damage at the start is quite low.
As a fresh level 60 Devastation Evoker my dps was around
- 3k to 3.5k - might be a tiny bit higher now that I have a better idea of the rotation.
As an ilevel 368 Evoker with fairly decent epic and blue solo casual gear (7100 int) my dps was:
- 23k - standing still against the single-target dummy is 23k.
- 16k - in most actual fights. Evokers are a stationary gun-turret class, who lose a susbstantial portion of their dps when having to move. Due to their short range they have to move often to stay in range or step out of bad. Moving usually means aborting Disintegrate costing valuable essence.
- 9k - on very high movement fights. Evoker instant cast spells are very weak and they have no effective procs to do dps while moving. Hover is completely useless when you need to take a small step to get out of bad.
- 50-70k - AOE on the 5-target dummy
- 25k-30k - average dps on a heroic dungeon. Includes bosses and AOE. For comparison, a similarly geared hunter in a group I was in did closer to 50k.
Using a premade level 70 test server character in full mythic tier set and high level dungeon trinkets (approx ilevel 420) Against the single-target dummy in SW:
- 35k - note this was against the dummy so I stood perfectly still. Expect dps to drop substantially in any real fight.
Other notes:
- Due to a combination of low dps, short range and insufficient snares, expect to end up tanking EVERYTHING you try to solo. As a 368 Evoker, I was able to solo up to intermediate elites (ones with around 2 mil health). The fights took a long time and dps dropped well below 10k since I spent half the fight healing myself instead of dps’ing.
- Kiting is not effective due to the lack of roots, short range, insufficient snares, and lack of quick casting attacks that hit hard. Yes, you could kite something, but fight will take forever and you’ll still probably get hit.
- Don’t expect to group up 10 mobs and AOE them all down while leveling like a mage. As an Evoker you’re best off only taking 1 mob at a time then healing up before moving to the next mob.
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I already know I like them. I have been playing them. My only sadness is that they can’t fly.
Heh, the Evoker trailer shows them Soaring constantly, but in truth Soar is on a cooldown, and you can only use the abilities a limited time before you have to land. To further rub salt in the wound, at the end it shows the Dracthyr using the Soar animation to launch into a normal flying mount hover (which we can’t do). It was prolly meant to look like Hover, but they shoot up too high and Hover doesn’t have as much of a casting animation.
In the end playing a mostly flightless dragon person is still better than a flightless anything else, but still. 
Edit: Third MMO I will have played that had a dragon race with wings, but WoW is the only one that capped their flight. Admittedly you had to pay extra for the wing flight appearance in EQ2, but once you had it you could use it like any normal mount.
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How’s everyone finding their Dracthyrs ?
I’m enjoying them
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Blizzard rep1: Hits the b**g Dude…dude…lets make them…dragon people"
Blizzard rep dev2: “Woaahh…dude yeah dragon people…that’s so cool…”
Blizzard rep dev1: “right dude…right and lets make all there ability’s SUPER short ranged”
Blizzard Dev2: “Dudddeeeeee like thats awesome, they are dragons, and awesome so they are short ranged tanks??”
Blizzard Dev1: Takes a mean rip of that b**g “nah dude, nah…thats the best part: they can’t be tanks at all”
Blizzard dev2: Reaction “DUDEEEEEEE”
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I’ve just been leveling alts since prepatch, my biggest observation is that evoker get some pretty good gear starting out. Everything they have is higher than looms, and they roll at 58 with higher ilvl than my alts get by the time they’re 60.
They seem too janky for my liking. Haven’t gotten too into it yet though.
Spending more time trying to get my addons to work than anything else at the moment. I hate that this game makes us dependent on third party addons.
Fun so far!
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Don’t be disappointed because you can’t fly like like how worgen has self mount ability to run on all four.
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Booooo Hooooo!
Welcome to DH!