The way he said it was very exhibitive of misdirection. He speaks about how dataminers find artifacts of discarded ideas (paraphrasing) and such, but never once said this is what was found.
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race is dead. we complained too much again and now they stopped developing it.
I just want to be able to mog my helm so I can wear a hat
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i wanna use my preorder item 
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Just put a checkbox in the transmog section⌠Hide weapon⌠boom⌠fixed⌠everyone has the best of both worlds⌠I WANT to show my staff my weapon⌠i hate its invisible⌠i hate visage form⌠i want to walk around with a giant pole on my back⌠i want to look intimidatingâŚ
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Let Dracthyr soar work like dragonriding.
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Specifically 10.1
Nobody thought it was coming on patch day. If itâs coming and i had to pick a time to drop it iâd do it at 10.1.7
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Vs
One leaves a sliver of hope, the other backhands the idea into the void.
If evokers donât have a 3rd spec by the end of the âunlock black dragon flight essence for dracthyrâ storyline Iâd say they wonât be getting one for a while. Lol
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Here ya go OP
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Who actually thought they were? I knew it was RP story related talk. People literally hyped something up that was never happening.
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I feel like adding a third spec for Evoker would be a little too close to admitting fault on Blizzardâs part. Say theyâve changed if you like, but this company has a history of digging their heels in and dying on the strangest of hills.
They assumed the evoker would have a similar appeal as the Demon Hunter and they could get away with another two spec, race-locked hero class. They were wrong. Itll take a lot more than one patch to admit to that if history is any guide but theyâll get there eventually.
I also think they overestimated how many people âWant to play a dragonâ (if we can really call Dracthyr dragons). Iâm sure thereâs an audience for it, RPing as a secret dragon has been a Role Play sin in this game for years for a reason. I just donât think itâs as big of a group as theyâd have liked.
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The theories Iâve seen thrown about were not suggesting it would necessarily be added in 10.1, but that 10.1 would play out some storyline that would eventually lead to it in a later patch. I still wouldnât rule it out. I mean we all saw that screenshot of a quest for evokers only that said the words ânew specialization rememberedâ. It could still happen in 10.1.x or 10.x and Ion would still have been telling the truth.
Might be worth a read for you:
https://writingexplained.org/canon-vs-cannon-difference
Save me a spot!
EVERYONE needs a fourth spec IMO (and a third for DH)
All those years ago when druids got a fourth spec, I figured it was a sign that other classes would get expanded with additional specs as well.
Iâm still very disappointed that this hasnât happened.
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I think the problem is they completely missed the mark on what the âplay as a dragonâ audience even wanted in the first place. Actual dragons with fully functional visage forms or at least Drakonid. Dracthyr are this half-baked in-between that made basically every wrong choice on visual design for a draconic Warcraft race. That audience isnât satisfied with what we got.
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Yeah, youâre trying to explain that to people that should most likely be accompanied by this as their theme music:
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Iâll join you on that hill, if that day comes, I would go back to tanking and make my shammy would be my main.
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Itâs hard to say. Iâm on Moon Guard, and say what you will about the server but itâs the one good place to get a visual on whoâs playing what purely for the aesthetic or lore appeal.
I see a lot of Dracthyr in Stormwind. Theyâre honestly at plague proportions at times. What I donât see is this horde of dracthyr really manifesting anywhere else in the game. Out in the wild, I feel like I seldom see an evoker.
People like what they like, I suppose. I get that. I play a male draenei when thereâs âperfectly goodâ female draenei right there. Seeing so many in game, but so few in the field tells me thereâs something wrong with the class rather than with the race itself. The Dracthyr definitely have their fans.
That is another part of it for sure. The class is clearly missing the third spec to round out the powers of all 5 dragonflights. I know a couple people who arenât touching the class until it gets either a tank or melee dps based on black dragonflight magic. I would be too but it makes a good gathering alt with the perception bonus and soar for the rare times I run out of vigor. Iâd probably maining one if it had the tank spec it deserves.
Duh, itâll likely be 10.1.7.
Theyâre not going to release a new spec right before a new raid. Itâll be when itâs on the downside. Plus theyâll either test it on the PTR or theyâll test it on live during that last few weeks before 10.2 and fix it with hotfixes.
The idea of any class getting a new spec post-release (Feral/Guardian split doesnât count) was always wishful thinking. A class that was added as part of an expansion getting another spec half a year later even moreso, let alone a tank or melee DPS spec on a class that was designed to be fully ranged.
Yeah, at this point, I have a hard time defending dracthyr because I have to concede that theyâre a mess both mechanically and conceptually. A race that can only be one class with two specs, ranged DPS and healer, both with reduced range that forces them into an awkward mobile playstyle that other classes do better. I guess the caster aspect is because dragon bosses generally prefer to use magic and leave the physical attacks to drakonids, but the reception to both dracthyr as a race and evokers as a class indicates that people wouldâve preferred a melee fighter.
They also have a visage form like normal dragons, but you automatically shift back to dracthyr form when using certain spells and your only options are a human- or blood elf-like form with draconic elements instead of just being able to look like one of the other playable races with dragon eyes and horns. People wouldâve preferred that as well, but itâs safe to assume itâs not coming any time soon. And then you have Soar, which couldâve been cool but was turned into a neutered version of a system that everyone else has access to.
Dracthyr are just kind of the opposite of what I expected when the talk about a Dragon Isles expansion picked up steam. My theories as to what we would get were:
- A borrowed power system where the expansion begins with your character caught in a freak black dragon science accident that infuses them with the power of the dragonflights, giving you new abilities depending on your role (blue and bronze for DPS, red and green for healers, black and twilight for tanks) and letting you later grow wings to use as a mount after you unlock flying
- They just add a dragon class akin to evokers but available to every race, where your choice of race is actually your visage and your true form is a whelpling thatâs functionally the same as Flight Form, but your character later matures into a drake and can fly in that form as well
At least one of these wouldâve been better received than what we got, and it just sucks how hard Blizzard dropped the ball on this race when so many other aspects of DF turned out better than expected.
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