It has been observed that there is a gnome wandering around in druid Wildheart Raiment: Annywn Dynaspark. I am not sure where she is located or if she has any dialog or interaction, but I am very curious if this is leading anywhere…
We know that Blizzard is open to the idea of making all classes to every race, so this is most likely Blizzard creating a lore starting point for gnome to be druids.
Thalyssra will be receiving new on-click voice lines in Dragonflight!
My favorite new line is: “Moonlight watch over you.”
I love that they gave her a line that mentioned they had been trying to beauty up Orgrimmar. Hehe, if they ever succeed I might have to switch back to Horde. I do miss my Nightborne.
The Worldbreakers faction of black dragonkin still loyal to Deathwing are secretly being led by a Twilight’s Hammer ogre disguising himself as a dragonspawn with magic. You kill him and the Worldbreakers realize they’ve been duped so give up and disband.
I really thought theyd be a thing Wrathion would have to reconcile with as part of his development to leader but nope, single questline minor badguys with single questline resolution.
There’s a Tuskarr from WotLK (so, a Northrend one) in the Azure Span talking about their “long-lost brethren” who settled on the Dragon Isles.
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Aumanil
Neat little detail
Also, there seem to be many Elementals in the Azure Archives and they occupy pretty mundane roles such as inn keeper, flight master… It’s cool to see their more grounded, less cosmic side
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Vel_Tal_IX
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Arc_Tel_XVII
The Worldbreakers dont know that Neltharion became Deathwing and was killed. The one we talked to and quested with even refuses to believe it.
Meanwhile another group of Wolrdbreakers are tied in a ritual that brings back a boss from the Dragon Soul raid, that we then kill for reputation with both Sabellian and Wrathion.
The Malfurion dialogue can’t be found in the files anymore. It’s impossible to know whether this means it was removed or simply encrypted. We can’t know until DF is live and the quest either becomes available or doesn’t.
My bet is it was encrypted instead of removed, though.
Nefarian’s class callout to Evokers in BWL:
Evokers, nothing more than pitiful whelps. No wonder my father abandoned your experiment.
He turns you into a whelp and decreases the damage you do by 99%.
His dismissal of the Dracthyr is probably the reason the Chromatic Dragons had short Lifespan.
He was deliberately trying to recreate the Dracthyr while deliberately avoiding any and all methods involved in their creation.
Benedictus continued Nefarian’s methods when altering the Dragons themselves into Chromatic Dragons! That was his mistake.
Nefarian never understood why his Father was forced to abandon the Evokers: it was because of Malygos who wanted them sealed away. Nefarian simply thought they were a failed experiment that his father discarded not a successful Experiment that Malygos feared and had sealed away.
The general theme so far is that the Dracthyr are choosing to remember Neltharion as he was and move forward.
vibrates with the fury of a thousand cogs
I WANT STEWARDS TO BE MY MOONKIN FORM
The Dragon Isles aren’t on the world map yet but the loading screen when you take the boat there marks their location. It’s the same as the pre-1.0 alpha isles location, east of Northrend.
Also Nozdormu was recast and I hate it. His old voice was iconic, this one just sounds generic.
I’ll agree with preferring Martin Sheen, though since the guy is in his earlier 80s… I can’t help but wonder if Blizzard had to make the change because Martin wasn’t able to continue the role for whatever reason or choose to recast on their own.
Unique mounting animation for dragonriding mounts.
Really hoping for Gnoll allied race for Alliance.
I am very curious as to why people want gnolls for the alliance. Aren’t the only interactions between the two mostly hostile, similarly to the horde and quillboar?
I also find it strange that if you got gnolls that your second animal race would be based off another horde race’s mount.
Also included are two vulpera mages, who start the quest chain. I found them amusing.
You got sent to kill targets in the outside workd and at least one dungeon. Said dungeon cant be tested yet, so its unknown where the exact end point is for this quest chain.
Is the alliance dead yet?
It’s neat that the Vulpera are getting good representation, although I can’t help but think that it would be good to start having the NPCs roughly reflect the racial composition of the factions… Like, the Horde Vulpera are but the members of Kiro’s caravan. Their numbers can’t be super large.