IMO dragonflying is going to be something like an endurance bar that gets a little bit longer every timegated week, with occasional perks like increasing max speed, increasing the height gained with your leap, increasing glide range, etc.
GW2 mounts are really fun, so I remain hopeful.
If thereâs that much major playable stuff that might still be cut, I think it was too early for the announcement.
Reveals are not showing everything that will be in the expansionâŚ
Reveals are just out there to bring a limited understanding on what is to come.
Watch the Legion Reveal from Gamescom 2015
There is barely anything mentionedâŚ
Maybe. I think the thought process behind announcing it early had to do with them wanting to generate some excitement for the game and getting ahead of the inevitable narrative that people were going to force on the expansion. Narratives like borrowed power, power-gated grinds, etc. Announcing it enables them to confirm that things like borrowed power wonât be in the expansion.
Could be. I personally hoped for more info on stuff you can actually do with your character. Not flight simulator or tradesperson RP.
Right now this just seems like a great prep for 11.0
To be honest, Shadowlands was a really small game. It just felt large because it had so many systems to keep players distracted from that fact.
I would be okay if they dialed back those systems in favor of letting the content speak for itself a little more, even if that content is a bit lacking in quantity.
Less systems yes, but replace them with epic questline, more dungeons, a few small raids, new BGs etc. Less systems and low content are just gonna lead to people being done in 5 weeks and unsubbing till the next patch.
I would go as far as saying the literal exact OPPOSITE of what you said. Shadowlands was a large game that felt small because of artificial barriers to playing content. There are a ton of daily activities to engage with, 9.0 having probably the largest amount of daily content weâve ever seen EVER, but a lot of people didnât engage with it because it was gated by Anima Conductor and Covenant choice. Similarly, there are a ton of cosmetics to pursue but many could only be pursued when a given Covenant so many people just didnât go after them. There were also four different Covenant mini-games but anyone who played only one character probably missed out on a lot of them, not to mention they were gated by Anima which was very scarce.
You can search my post history and see me talking about 9.0âs seeming lack of content and how I thought they should end the Anima drought so people could engage with the content that literally existed in the game that people were not able to play. In 9.1 people could finally play that content but a lot of it people simply overlooked as they moved onto grinding for Korthia mounts instead.
Honestly, Shadowlands is proof that they can pump out a ton of content. So why are people accepting what Dragonflight is offering, what Ion has said DF delivers, which is just Zereth Mortis currency grinding, dailies, and world quests? That sounds so lame, but people are letting Blizzard get away with it apparently because nobody else is speaking up about it.
I like the pitch of going back old school like where the expansion has no massive bbeg theme and no âor Azeroth is lost for everâ overtone.
But Iâm not a raider. I think if you deal with wow is one of those âI only play to raidâ you be like âmehâ.
That said I agree info was light
I want to get details and maybe a trailer on new raids and dungeons
Iâd like to learn about class specs, as blizzard generally changes SOMETHING about one or more classes each expansion.
Game wonât be beta until the fall Iâm guessing so plenty of time for them to slowly toss out info over the next several months.
So far I havenât seen us getting anything âin exchangeâ for not getting a new game mode. Weâre just getting less dungeons, the same number of raids, no new BGs, and no in-game activities, while Blizzard slowly discontinues other activities that were expected to come back, like Brawlerâs Guild. Weâre essentially getting ânegative contentâ in dragonflight since weâre not getting Brawlerâs Guild back and that was assumed to be a feature Blizzard would keep bringing back.
Youâre not getting less dungeons. Weâll still have 8 at release. Same weâve had past 2 expansions. I also would love a return of brawlerâs.
We donât really know the full extent of the content weâre getting until the alpha/beta launches, but you shouldnât expect anything short of the standard ânew continent, new raid, and 8 new dungeonsâ we get every expansion.
When a ton of that was Asia paying $2 for a few hours of play but still counts as a âsubâ on their quarterly report who knows.
It was always shady how OG Blizzard did that to pump their numbers to investors.
Is this something theyâve committed to or just your assumption because thatâs how it works in vanilla?
They tend to hide the power progression grind somewhere, Azerite, renown, conduit leveling. Something thatâs going to take around two months of subs. Maybe it will just be gear acquisition, but I would be very very very surprised if thatâs the case.
All specs are unlocked at lvl 10.
that is when you get your first Talent point.
This is not a grind.
This is simply a revamp of the entire Talent system.
Also if you read any Interviews you would know, Blizzard wants to walk away from Borrowed power systemsâŚ
It feels like thatâs all theyâve done for the past 10 years, regardless of team size or budget: the minimum.
I mean⌠sometimes doing nothing is preferable to the âsomethingsâ they do wrong.
What they say, and what they do⌠not always the same.
Torghast wasnât a grind in early beta, was fun, people liked it. And they said they wanted all the systems for Shadowlands in at launch.
Well in the last minute Torghast was turned into a grind and⌠All the systems werenât in at launch.
Their M.O. seems to be excessive grinds at launch, and then a X.X.1 âWe hear youâ˘â patch which tones it down.
Itâs understandable because probably no one knows better than Blizzard that people will start to cancel subs once they feel theyâve completed their character, however that gets defined. So there needs to be something keeping people from that for at least a couple months. If nothing else it seems the bean counters always come in at the last minute and group think all these things in.
pulls out a pair of binoculars It looks like the MacarenaâŚ
WoW became a bad game because of all the changes. So now they are reverting some of those changes and not adding anymore new features.
Why fix what isnt broken.