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I assume the valdrakken -> stormwind and back one
Which did work at one point in the past, at least
It worked for me
My dad was a programmer yeah
There's 6 "holidays" most companies observe. Easter(Good Friday), Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. After that the next most common are New Year's Day and Veteran's Day
Federal holidays like MLK Day, President's Day, and Indigenous People's days are days only the government and banks close traditionally
Hell it's a joke in the USA that a bank will close for anything if it means a day off for them
there was a few times he worked from home on days me and my brother were off but rarely was he fully off work
Valdrakken being unstable
Dracthyr getting a Dragon form as a Mount would be fuckin' cool lol
missed opportunity tbh. Would be like the druids getting their giant owl form from the legion class mount
i thought they fixed this
Evidently not 
apparently beta servers are freaking out
lots of people DCing or ending up in a queue
wonder if theyll hotfix or patch it
I got a ton of lag in the azure span. I think there are too many mobs/animated things in that area.
blizzard wide issue apparently
@dense plover did you get the beetles
yes
was able to test some of the recipes
\o/
really seems like cooking requires a functional AH
Any vendor builds out yet?
no
Only one post today
^
aww, I was hoping they'd just delete the keystones but let us test academy and nokhud m0
THEY FIXED WORLD QUESTS
oh wait
nvm
it worked for a split second
now the errors are back
tooltip bug with world quests is sometimes hilarious
Mmm looks like the Ring of Blood quests are broken currently
Idk if its been mentioned anywhere but some of the caves in the Waking Shore have some paintings
Idk what Kalec is doing but hes doing something
Alex looks like she's doing the "me angy, no talk" to Nozdormu
anyone else feeling underwhelmed by Dragonflight Beta? I've been doing the lv70 content and leveling experience. It just isn't landing for me. Was chatting with a friend in beta also and they admitted to feeling similarly
I really like the story
It’s a lot more low key
It’s missing an absolute shit ton of cutscenes
And the endgame story behind the renown is missing/unknown currently
Questing experience seems like the best wows ever been at
My main critique so far is mostly that the main story feels super short
It feels like it’s half there
They’ve probably fixed the XP issue by now but azure span and thaldraszus in particular just zoom through things
And I think it’s intentional
They have
Azure span feels like one of the most well paced zones
The fast zone for me was ohnaran plains
Specifically because the ending is lame and fast
You just fight the lightning lady and she dies
And it’s a boring ass fight
It was easily the worst for me in terms of pace lol, but that’s probably because I think it treats the gnolls very weird
Plains definitely has the worst ending (at least, discounting thaldraszus missing it’s cutscenes)
Yeah, side quests in general are mostly a bunch of relatively short, but decent stories
Span to me just felt like it didn’t quite know what it was trying to focus on, the blue dragon story feels very shafted so far by the main focus being tuskarr, and from what datamining and renown implies they will continue to be the main focus in max level story
At the very least I hope that allows them to treat the gnolls with more nuance than the leveling story did
I'm kinda confused by it
cobalt thingy seems to lack.. almost any story
I dunno if that's just also held back
there is a short questline at the top of one of the towers there, but it's definitely a side thing
I hope there’s some actual plot for the assembly because the intro it has right now is both very lame and very not explanatory
And it’s supposed to be a mini rep
There's been a bunch of named NPCs show up in the area
But there's also a bunch of items that say "give to this NPC" which doesn't exist as an option
Waking Shore definitely was the most cohesive for me, it balanced the main plot between introducing the main story of the primalists with going into the details of the red and black flights really well, and offered very simple and optional hooks to the side quest hubs along the way
It set way too high of a bar for me going into the other three zones because they are just not as good in comparison lol
I'm literally just sitting here not thinking or using my brain beyond anything but "I'm a dragon. I'm also riding a dragon. They put dragons on my dragons because they heard I like dragons. wheee"
dragon frog. dragon rabbit. dragon deer. duck?
I do wish the actual dragonriding mounts had more story tbh
Getting the proto drake especially is super lame
You just walk with a guy, he says two lines about dragons wanting to explore, and then you get a quest item to magically learn how to summon a random dragon
I did the main story before most of the side quests were in/working, so I can't really judge that bit
That dracthyr looks sick wtf
Is that yours
Nah, another player's
I'm not sure I like the change to MM+
Raid were already putting off some of the player base because of the efforts and time constraint, difficulty and the lack of " reward " ( pick your poison ), if you make the (good ) gear from MM+ harder to get, it'll make the raid content harder for some guilds and will increase the issue.
On our side, we were a casual guild with few players doing MM+ , so we could " carry " our mate that didn't have time to play a lot in raid and overcome the content, now it'll mean that we may have to ditch them on heroic because we would never be able to clear the heroic content with them
We'll see how it'll turn out, but I'm not very fond of this
until we see final tuning I struggle to believe Blizzard will make things that much harder
They tune around the gear you get and in the past Blizzard has preferred to tune around end of dungeon chest rewards vs vault for m+
So I wanna say 17 and 18s might be as easy as current 15s IF Blizzard stays consistent with it and let 19s and 20s be harder
If not, then it'll depend on how badly participation craters
Cause no one's gonna do harder +15s to get worse loot
I'd go the other way and make raid vaults one tier above the bosses you do
It's 1 piece of loot a week
It ain't gonna kill the game to let heroic raiders get 1 mythic piece a week
it is a catch-up in a way so y
raiding as a guild is an absolute mess, so have a way to be bis was a good idea
was
Back in WoD you could get a piece of loot one tier over what you raid from a weekly quest in your mission table
In Legion it got nerfed to being the same tier you raid cause mythic raiders got upset
Well we'll see, for the moment they announced they'll increase more than what we got there the % gain of health and damage par key level starting level 11. Which means that it might be harder than now
Honestly I really hope dragon riding will eventually be available in the main world
It’s pretty likely, though I think it will see tweaks regarding vigor and earning glyphs unless DF becomes the new default leveling
The World of Warcraft: The Dragonflight Codex
new book
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After years of enduring incredible hardship, few dragons of Azeroth remain, and now it is more important than ever to learn about their vast history and incredible abilities. After 10,000 years, the Watcher has reawakened, the beacon has been activated, and the dragons have gathered—called to be Azeroth’s protectors once again. The New Age of Dragons has begun in World of Warcraft: Dragonflight. From the untamed northlands of Azeroth, fans of World of Warcraft will be able to follow the history of the dragons from the elemental drakes to the present day dragonflights in this new, all-inclusive dragon codex.
This fully illustrated, comprehensive guide will highlight the creatures’ magical abilities, outline a chronological evolution of the dragons, and map out enchanting new zones. World of Warcraft: The Dragonflight Codex is a must-have companion piece to the latest expansion, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight.
Could end up with them tying vigor and talents to leveling instead of glyphs if it becomes main line
not sure why it mentions khadgar as a bronze dragon tho
Yeah that’s not right
Maybe it was Khadgar and someone from the bronze flight
Chromie?
Or just chromie
Unrelated - I’m curious how they’ll develop dragon riding with each patch other than more mounts
I don’t think giving more talents is necessarily a good idea but I would love to see patch specific glyph systems because collecting glyphs is fun
I’d like to see them add more abilities and specialization in what your drake does
Like, for example, a brake button, or a loop-around to help you change direction at a whim
Khadgar of the bronze dragonflight
Whaaa
Also
Where is a book that must be about what happened in timeskip?
there's that untitled book, but it's been changed to release on november 24, 2026
er
2026
which could just be hiding things
the comments are already so mad 💀
that would've felt like a bit of a butt pull if it was true
I figured Khadgar thing was a typo
it is, he has a dialogue in the end of SL that he is going to die soon and checking ori
dragons dont go to sl
Uh - I don’t think he said he was dying soon
he did ;)
uh...didn't ysera go to SLs?
Elune sent her there
nops
oh, new CM manager
Wow players suck
Lmao
As in. Attitude wise.
Acting as if the new M+ changes as a good thing because they wanna stroke their own sticks about raiding being harder than M+
The constant elitism is fucking annoying now.
And it will only get worse with the change
Another season, another KSM not achieved
WoW Devs are former Top 10 Mythic Raiders. It's a top-down mentality
PREPATCH!
what
i think they mean this:
https://www.wowhead.com/news/jaina-and-redacted-dialogue-in-patch-9-2-5-spoilers-326470
yup :)
he's super old i guess 🤔
eh not really
wow aging is a mess
I believe he is still like in his 30s-40s but Gul'dan cursed him when he was an apprentice of Medivh
Unless they changed that
Is there a confirmed way to get crafting knowledge in dragonflight? All I've seen is just the vendor items for testing
Medivh did cursed him, not Gul'dan, by taking its youth, but yeah, he got it back in most part, except for the hairs.
Aah ok
they will probably have to use it as excuse
but ye everyone dies when blizzard decides
As skinning/Lwker in the beta i've found mine from skinning, treasures, some mobs. The skinning one was time gated. 10 per week, i think? Maybe 7
Lots of ways. Mobs, treasures, you can trade mettle for it (at a mediocre exchange rate), and you can also get it from rare harvested dragon shard things, and from weekly quests and crafting new items
inscription can also craft knowledge items for every profession
anyone else always gets kicked out of beta? world server are down message
Tomorrow's build better be massive and nearly release candidate worthy


He is
In body way
up, there goes beta too
they are gone gone, are they done testing DF zones and leveling? 😮
aah ok im always out so i dont see the other servers going down haha
yay build
The exchange between him and Jaina is: Khadgar: I suppose I wanted to gaze upon the realms of Death with mine own eyes before...
Jaina: Is everything alright, Khadgar?
Khadgar: I feel the weight of years upon me, Jaina. The burdens carried. The choices made.
Khadgar: Hmph! Forgive the musings of an old man. I think I'll look around and see these Shadowlands a bit. See what wonders I can find.
It implies that he thinks he will die soon(TM), but there is certainly room for it to be something else.
amm like? :p
nope he is talking exactly for death.. in your terms, in a way accepting it maybe
i mean technically it can mean "before giving up my powers as guardian to someone else and being stuck with you earthlings"
but eh it's quite far tbf
There won’t be another guardian
Khadgar is supposed to be the last unless something happens
his choice
Peach is the next guardian
MAYBE he gives it to Kalec - that would be cool
i prefer to have a guardian
Guardian of beta
not a council full of .s
The last council was before Medivh
Technically Khadgar is much weaker than guardian medivh
aegwynn not medivh
I thought aegwynn gave it to medivh instead of returning it
Eh
and we see how this works irl xd
Guardian specifically has a bunch of power from other mages
Medivh was the last one to have that level of power
Khadgar was just very strong
Med’an
ye but he can pass it


Yeah Medan doesn’t exist as archmage or guardian in canon
I hope so - that and a fix for the WQ bug
Well login music needs to be in this or next week
Assuming pre patch the week after that
Khadgar is the Guardian as of Legion, Medivh basically declared it as a title for the person fulfilling the role, not the person with the power of the council of tirisfal
even if, yknow, Khadgar doesnt really want to call himself it lol
ye more of a political power and op enough to keep them reigned
but i really prefer to have a respected guardian, rather than let councils rule... much like was in avatar
its funny how aang was nice and all until republic city
all nice intentions with horrifying future...
ptr build out
it's here3
login music
@dense plover
omg
wow that was short tho so not the finished version hm
maybe
Can’t wait to get home in an hour
46047?
Yeah it’s just under 3 min
So probably trailer music
Login music is around 10-14 min
But it’s something
Next beta will likely have more
If they’ve got a piece, there’s more to come
New action bars might be in this build
Strings for the buttons were added
ptr blue post out
3 extra bars are added, enable them by going to Options > Gameplay > Action bars.
nah it's not trailer music
They’re adding a sound effect for when you interact with an npc - probably an accessibility option
it's something new, but an "eariler" version maybe
Looks like they might be adding salvage as a profession thing maybe
And also looks like they removed the quack emote
Pretty sure the class tuning stuff is just matching the stuff they said was coming
Yeah 3 more so people can replicate their 14 UIs
IE an emote bar or a toy bar or a bar for mounts
Or a bar for menu shortcuts
did you look at ret's changes? xd
Which one is Sendrax?
red drakonid from waking shores intro
its extremely different now is the thing
Did they change it again on ptr? Or are you just replaying again
I mean - they did it with the jailer
Go listen to the first version of the jailer and the final - that’s all filter work
You can do a lot
I can’t listen on the train
Yeah its a totally different voice
some of the lines are just entirely different pronunciations and intonations
Maybe they re-recorded it
Or it could’ve been placeholder for the actual voice actor
IE they recorded it using a blizz employee as a demo
It didn’t sound SUPER professional tbf
But it did sound like someone trying
New one sounds a lot more traditionally feminine, which kinda sucks
I liked that she was a big beefy lady with a deeper voice
It sounded kinda cartoony before
But you can always give feedback
It can clearly still change
I like the music
Very survivor sounding
it is not as "obviously" warcraft as some previous themes though
has to be
whensd beta back up?
my guess is since they just pushed a classic build - as soon as the beta version of what just went on PTR gets pushed
its getting late though'
might be tomorrow
we just got a classic build so its still possible ¯_(ツ)_/¯
maybe early tomorrow
at this point, probably
latest build weve had is 8 PST i think but since it isnt an emergency, probably not
besides, 10.1 needs to be ready now while 10.2 has a few more weeks
beta wont end until 10.0 expac launches
10.1 ptr will start right after expac launch
or right after raid
correct
THAR SHE BLOWS
curious what the difference is
Probably just Evoker changes
trying to see build size to compare
?
1.45GB
yay update
180 pages of added files on wow.tools
maybe music files?
adding tooltip bugs to more things than just world quests
hold on
checking vs previous beta
some of the "new" stuff is just stuff they removed from ptr
still 68 pgs
so - not nothing
looks like work orders may finally be in? At least there's a bunch of new lua for it
how lonmg is it going to initialize for?
i hope so
People complain it's too short
because it is
it hasnt been mixed
it doesnt have any of the zone themes
its JUST the main theme
It only has 40s of WoW so in some ways it feels disconnected. I said earlier it sounds very much like survivor music, so very tribal
ENABLE_INTERACT_SOUND_OPTION_TOOLTIP Plays a sound cue when you become able or unable to interact with a target. neat new option
No, I mean after that ends, a different tribal sound
wow theme is about 2 min long or so
the 2nd half is strings
and the way it fades out, im fairly certain its supposed to be part of a fuller theme
Hmm, to me or sounded like the WoW theme only went for like 40 seconds
nah
its just that the OG wow theme usually gets mixed out before that point
this one focuses on it longer - makes sense
its trying to bring us BACK to azeroth
I'm used to going horde to alliance and I didn't hear any alliance
thats not what it usually does
theres the drums and the back and forth strings
and then it goes into the other bit - heavy horns
the alliance theme is sorta mixed with the tribal stuff
Maybe I'll have to listen to another theme cause I generally only associate like the first 40 seconds of it as "wow theme"
listen to the classic wow theme
im still surprised the login screen has no dragons flying around
feels a bit tame
i do think the ending theme with the strings is going to be the main dragonflight theme
i have my fingers crossed that dragon riding will have its own music
so that rapidly crossing areas doesnt ruin it
What, you think this is ff14 haha
not mount music
specifically dragon riding because otherwise anytime you go over a new area the music will change
it would be a mess
give it 20-30 min
mkay
@uncut vault how did you know this is inarius
is it obvious and I just didn't realize it lmao
it sounds like its the same voice actress btw - they just removed a lot of the added bass
49934 CONFIRM_SABELLIAN_CHOICE Sabellian's forces will provide you with opportunities to gain reputation. Are you sure you wish to choose Sabellian? 0
49935 CONFIRM_WRATHION_CHOICE Wrathion's forces will provide you with opportunities to gain reputation. Are you sure you wish to choose Wrathion?
Taunting is with etc and hots is dead
looks like theyre still expanding on the wrathion sabellian stuff
last week i saw a ton of people complaining about key farming, so thats good
"49945 PROFESSIONS_REAGENT_SLOT_LOCKED_SPECIALIZATION_ONE_SOURCE Unlock through learning the specialization: 1
49946 PROFESSIONS_REAGENT_SLOT_LOCKED_SPECIALIZATION_MULTI_SOURCE Unlock through learning one of the following specializations:"
hmm
reagent slots now tell you exactly how to unlock them
ive seen a lot of handwringing on twitter from high end raiders about how unready the xpac is
"49947 CRAFTING_ORDERS_CLAIMS_REMAINING_TOOLTIP You can currently fill %d more Public Orders. 1
49948 CRAFTING_ORDERS_CLAIMS_REMAINING_REFRESH_TOOLTIP You can currently fill %d more Public Orders. %dh remaining until more orders are available."
It really feels like they have a stake in the game to overhype how unfinished/doom and gloom everything is.
still 6 weeks of testing before launch and a bit more than that before raid
But that's just part of being a wow content creator in 2022
"42253 CHROMIE_TIME_PREVIEW_CARD_DEFAULT_DESCRIPTION Journey back to your favorite story and tackle challenges from the past that scale for characters level 10 - 60!|n|nPick a campaign and get to adventuring!"
I don't think it's that unfinished
chromie time now says 60 not 50
looks like crafting orders are not daily but hourly now
so faster regen which is probably good
my guess is demand will far outweigh supply
its 100% rerecorded either way
for sure
definitely the same actress though
much better performance
MUCH better
crafting confuses me on the beta
i dont understand how it works, i get the talents and stuff for crafting and picked specialization for leatherworking, but i can only go up to level 35 and the leatherworking trainer doesn't have anything to offer me, even things i wouldn't be able to learn aren't even there
its confusing
how can i level it if theres nothing new to learn
more just inference lol, he's the last of the major angels we haven't seen, and he's got a lot of hellish-looking stuff on the body, which fits him and lilith being the middle-ground between the conflict creating the nephalem
its backwards af
looks like the crafting order thing will be on the valdrakken map
my friends a giga-diablo nerd and hes like "yeah I suppose thats inarius" and he wasn't sure if he missed something, but it's a good inference
elemental storms might be enabled in this build
whats that?
and isolated to parts of the zone instead of the whole thing
Legion had the best stuff
IE the cobalt assembly or the obsidian keep (or whatever its called)
two new achievements
"Unlock cataloging World Quests with the Dragonscale Expedition. Ready, Aim, Catalog! "
"Reach the maximum friendship with Sabellian at the Obsidian Throne. The Obsidian Bloodline Title Reward: Paragon of the Obsidian Brood"
Wrathion equivalent is called Loyalty to the Prince
"Title Reward: Agent of the Black Prince"
used to be one achieve with no title
now its two
Okay, so relistening. I'd personally only say from :15 to 1:10 is something I'd say is 100 % warcraft theme. Everything else sounds new to me. Starting around 1:40 sounds very brand new to me. In general the mix of drums and instruments just sounds like Survivor to me.
Maybe I'm too used to going from that classic leitmotif to some variation of Stormwind
I'm guessing 1:10-1:40 is just a heavily reinstrumentation to make it near unrecognizable
looks like they may have heavily modified the climbing and cataloging gear items
Cause I can't place it
and they may be in game now?
im fairly certain its a reinstrumented alliance theme
Climbing was changed to unlock earlier
Man, if it's Alliance they made it sound totally different
Lacks anything that screams Stormwind
essence of tyr has been renamed
its now Illustrious Insight and Lesser Illustrious Insight
Lustrous Scales -> Lustrous Scaled Hide
Tyrivite Ore -> Serevite Ore
Polished Stone -> Glossy Stone
All the blood stuff was changed too
Bloodsoaked -> Infurious
Bloody -> Infurious
Finely Ground Gemstones -> Silken Gemdust
"14 The Realm of Death NYI NYI NYI"
chromie time leveling stuff WIP ^
this is in ChrCustomizationChoice.db2
so we may be getting those eyes as customization options
lots of renown rewards are now account wide unlocks
i will list them
anything about balance changes??>
i cant find that
but probably the same as PTR
any music added besides login?
dang
Ancient Waygates, Call of the Plains, Expedition Scout Packs, Expedition Climbers, Community Feasts, Magic Bound Chests, Siege on Dragonbane Keep, Aerial Challenges (there are dragonriding world quests?), Cataloging the Expedition, Buried Treasures, Call of the Hunt, Fishing Holes, Expedition Supply Kit
keeps disconnecting me from the server
so it seems like all of the stuff that was either world content or treasures is now account wide
weird
pretty sure servers arent up
i was just in
played for 2 minutes
then got DC'd
bah none of my characters seem to be working
rip
bah
I was in long enough to save my layout again!
listen
but yeah - looks like work order UI should be in
I need to get out of the crapstain that is Shadowlands
it is by far the worst expansion
EVER.
yay im in
wooo
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Take a look a this week’s Dragonflight Beta update: CLASSES NEW TALENT SYSTEM DEATH KNIGHT Blood Shattering Bone – Damage reduced by 40%. Now properly deals increased damage when Tombstone consumes multiple Bone Shield charges. Frost Everfrost – Damage per stack increased to 6% (was 4%). Biting Cold – Increases Remorseless Winter da...
its the same as PTR
not more
i certainly cant get in though
new tutorial
this is new
looks like the UI is getting some changes - its broken
cool
bug report UI is broken
“Hello I’d like to bug report the bug report.”
weekly quest was changed
the number changes arent
the talent row changes might be
quests show on this map for dailies and others now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6omAVPa3fTk Stuff like this is why I say the DF theme sounds survivor-like.
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oh fuck
well oops
crafting orders have a minimap icon
they moved a TON of recipes to the profession trainers
seems to be true for other profs like cooking
they simplified a bunch of cooking recipes too
the bug submit thing is broken
"It's fine if you can't tell us anything is wrong
WQ tooltip is fixed'
vigor is broken though
it says if its an account unlock
@uncut vault nozdormu has a new quest
oh wait wut
its sending me back to azmerloth? seems like a quest flag maybe broke
that was weird
rofl
blizz said they're shutting down the servers
in a server message
lots of game breaking stuff
dunno what bounty quests are
bug report is bugged and doesn't work
yeah theres a shit ton wrong
i think the build worked internally
but it doesnt work published
so theyre gonna fix it tomorrow
yo
i think all the scout pack spots are also active
SUPER BROKEN build XD
beta going down soon
Looks like I spoke too soon, we’ve discovered some late-breaking stability issues with the realms and will need to take them offline to diagnose and fix them. Sorry for jumping the gun! We’ll aim to have them up and playable tomorrow. Have a great night everybody, thanks for being patient with us during this Beta process.
I lied, Beta realms are going back down, we've got a few more things to fix. Sorry friends =(
We'll try to get things patched up tomorrow morning and back up for you.
again - i think it worked internally
exploded on the server
happens every build
its why i stopped changing anything that wasnt overlapping due to my changed UI scale
no, not every build
So broke
how many range dot specs are there in the game?
define what you're looking for
have a dot they maintain AT ALL or primarily dot related
There are just weekly quests there to go kill a couple rares. They start with "BOUNTY:" in the name, similar to many other quests in the past
oh ok
Those bugs are so bad that it makes them amazing 
i'm searching infos about https://www.wowhead.com/beta/npc=192012/icy-lock i know how it's locked but idk if there is a way to unlock them at this moment
I saw a Fire version of that and couldn't really find a way to open it
I presume it's from the expedition renown
at some level you get magical lockpicks
as well as an ability with a 2h cooldown to open magical locks
Actually that seems like it might be a specific treasure puzzle?
as i writed on comment, the npc summon the gameobject and the spell casted have two different summon, one ice and one fire version https://www.wowhead.com/beta/spell=376923/elemental-lock summon https://www.wowhead.com/beta/object=377587/molten-chest or https://www.wowhead.com/beta/object=377540/ice-bound-chest
found it: https://www.wowhead.com/beta/item=191421/rudimentary-magical-lockpick thanks for the renown info, it's indeed unlocked at renown 16
The beta realms are still down?
They came up for a time but were disabled as they were crashing constantly. Probably up later today after they push a new build with a fix
man
that probably means not until later tonight
this sucks
(eastern time zone usa)
DEAD 😂
Yeah I tried logging in when they went up and was instantly crashed when I did one step
It’s only 6:15am PST
Beta probably won’t be up until 10am at the earliest but they need to fix some of the really terrible issues (probably including some of the broken UI stuff, especially the bug report not working) - my guess is they’re going to push a newer internal build than they planned and so that’s how they’ll get it out early
So we may end up getting more music if it’s in the internal build
ugh i just want beta up
Wait a few hours - blizz isn’t even at work yet
I wonder if they updated any other profession equipment
Though the alchemy staff being flipped finally is fantastic
hopefully it stops the client crashing to desktop issues flying into valdraken .... also how do you report a broken bug reporter
LOL
It’s why beta got taken offline
At least partly
it was happening for days
hey guyes is beta servers offline?
I meant the beta reporter bug
Yea
oooh
lol how do you break the bug reporter
ech here goes my shaman ways 😄
It has to do with UI changes they made
Probably the same reason the profession journals are glitchy and vigor was broken too
They broke some UI stuff
They said they should come up sometime in the morning
So my guess is in the next 3-4 hours we should get a newer build, which I’m hoping has music since this build is so broken they probably have to push a newer internal build
double push 😄
Could also just be a fix build but I don’t see them coding enough fixes in the morning to get this working
The other option is backdating to last build but I don’t see them doing that since they need to test the class changes
deletet he thundering 😄
I don't understand why m+ players need the gear if they're not going to mythic raid?
If m+ is your endgame content surely the ilvl doesn't matter past a certain point, and it becomes more about the challenge of getting 21, 22 etc.. with the same gear

It's not bait I'm being honest here
I guess its a problem if pugs are demanding you have raid gear to do the m+ but that's more a problem with people
And whichever gives better gear (raiding or m+) those kind of people will demand you go do the other content you dont want to get gear for the content you do
So one piece of content will always have to suffer
Unless they make different types of gear like for pvp, which isn't a terrible idea tbh
people in my guild guilt trip anyone not doing m+ to gear up for raiding. it's really annoying
Exactly, I only raid (for PvE, my real endgame is rbgs) and I don't want to do m+ to do my raids
like i'm sorry i don't have time for m+ on top of 6 hours of raiding per week lol
It's always going to be one way or the other unless they create seperate gear progression (raid gear is stronger in raids, m+ gear is stronger in m+)
at a certain point gear matters more for m+ than for raid
Then raiders have to do m+ which isn't good
you dont
Honestly the only solution is to seperate gear
Well I was pressured to do it by my guild
well that's a bit different than pvp vs pve
I know but it would stop people complaining
Just make them entirely seperate progression systems
at one point you could even argue world content only players should also have their own gear progression
now youre complicating gearing and separating everything pve
well if it only worked for world content then it wouldnt matter if they had 500 ilvl gear
3 sets is fine as world content is easy enough any gear is fine
idk man, i would rather not
Unless you're doing warmode in which case pvp set is what you want anyway
i already hate having to have different sets for raid vs m+
add in potential off specs
and now you want me to have another whole set on top of that
It would give more weight to each progression, while stopping people complaining they have to do content they don't want to
No need for world content set
As any gear is good enough and no one checks your gear for world content
So pvp set, raid set, m+ set
people will always complain no matter what
Well they'd have less reason to complain
Right now I'm happy with DF gearing
But that's because I don't do m+
I'm just trying to think of a solution that satisfies everyone
you werent pressured into m+ by your guild?
wdym
it's gonna be higher
like, if youre in any competitive environment, youre gonna have to do things you dont like
and unless youre wf or hall of fame guild, requiring x seems overblown to me
getting ce for my guild was never about forcing people to do x dungeons every week
many people didnt bother
because you're in a guild that is good enough to tackle mythic raid, so you don't see the point.
When you're in a casual guild ( like mine ) who is just a kind of huge family with people not having time to invest into mythic raiding, you have also some player that are interested in " harder " content, and thus, turns to mythic +.
Why do we need gear from mythic + to do raid? Because the other player that does not have nearly as time as the other stuffing themselves for mythic + will slow the raid and would not allow the guild to progress further. At this point you have the player that enjoy the competition that push the other forward in heroic raid to finish those. That's why the mythic + gear is needed. To still have fun for everyone without forcing the other to do content they don't want to ( or who do not have time to do it ) , and to progress as a whole friendly community
You can see that as "unfun" on your side, but I'm only doing the raids for the lore ( which is lol as expansions are going by ) and the friendly gathering that it represent
I'm not counting anymore on the raid to get stuff, I'm searching it in Mythic + dungeon. I'm having fun, and the feeling of progression for my character I can't have in a raid environment. Raid are for friendly content as a whole.
Raid are a side content for me ( and after having progressed into competitive environment in vanilla, in HCG gaming guild, I'm not willing to commit to this again in any shape or form, so Mythic raid requires too much investment, and not only from me but a whole guild to have a stable roster, to be even considered at this point )
So, to answer your question : some players do mythic + content to still have a feeling of progression for their own character, and to help their guildmate progress in raid content. Mythic dungeon gear is not " only for mythic raider " stuff. It's a really binary vision of things
if they do this, they will kill a lot of smaller guilds, because raid content till heroic wont be tackled as it actually is, and will be made indirectly harder. Since a part of the wow community find that raid lacks incentive and are becoming boring, not sure this is the right direction to take.
On the contrary, in my opinion, they should make loot in raid being easier to get. Bring back the seals, introduce Emblem of Heroism that you can farm like Emblem of Valor, that allows you to improve your stuff or upgrade your current stuff. It will soften each and everyones feeling of " yeah, I did a raid for nothing, no drop for me " ( and will also give you a sort of progression toward a set goal each time you go into a raid, you know that at the end, your investment will pay because you'll be able to buy something )
every content should have a vendor
idc if they limit it to weapons, and trinkets, and some giga rare items like the current season
With the catalyst I do 8, 15s weekly to collect the mythic raid transmogs
Without that theres no reason for me to do them past getting keystone. Kinda blows ngl. I dont care about gear power I just want to collect armor sets, dont really have the time to mythic raid. :/
Agree
beta still down?
yap
Dragonflight beta
Wont launch at all
on my mac now
i hit play it goes into launching... and nothing shows up not even error messages
beta off
they said they were fixing the mac client today, but you know how things go
new ui broke beta
ooh
there had been serious issues
with it
on both intel and apple silicon
but it was a mostly playable experiance
sooo then beta is broken for the day
i feel a weird itch to play as healer this xpac... which healer does boinkers dps in the beta?
I quit playing as a healer when they expected healers to have addons and shit and started yelling at me
I get the play button too but I also get stuck at launching and nothing happens
There is a blue post on wowhead saying they won’t be back up until tomorrow
eh?
update
my client updated

i don't see this?
that was last night was it not?
15 hrs ago
Have we had a Beta update this week?
Sorry my fault didn’t check time stamps
Yes, yesterday!
Strange, new update again..
Done, really short.
And realms offline.. again.
Pain
:(
is PTR getting a new patch? O.o or did my dumbass never finished updating it?
You didn’t finish
Beta got a minor patch though
Aah okk ty
Don’t see any different tables or anything so it’s all code changes
Hm.. Looks like servers are, for now, up and working.
Looks like partial UI rollbacks happened though
Vigor UI is also still broken
Probably not a rollback but a fix
Vigor and profession stuff is probably due to a change in the icon sheet
And likely that needs lua changes
And Bug Report is still broken. Can't click Submit
Might get another build this week to fix it
Seriously?
Yep
poor Turnip
I dunno how they missed that
By rollback I meant the things I changed about the UI the day before the last patch hit were undone lol
it happens to some on every build apparently
Actually.. Never mind. It looks like the UI was just completely reset back to the original Modern layout lol
And preset was deleted
Presets are currently saved to the version with a string, and it’s supposed to auto disable but it’s sorta wiped right now - shouldn’t happen on live but you can’t report it currently anyway
Ahh
I’ve already tweeted the turnip, but others should too
It’s early in the day so they can fix it
I would if I wasn't perma-banned from Twitter lol
uh oh
I became a duck
Get ducked
Oh duck! That's pretty cool.
i can equip a fishing rod 😮
At the risk of jinxing myself a 2nd time, Beta is back online and the Mac client should be updating properly now. We're still working on some fixes as noted on the forum thread.
Big thanks to all our Beta testers for rolling with the punches!
This is no Music in-game whatsoever from what I can tell
Not sure if that's always been a thing or I just wasn't paying attention to it lol
Nooooo! they removed mount equipment from Dragonriding mounts 😦
“Lastly, we’re aware that Bug/Feedback reporter is broken right now, we’re working on a fix for that and hopefully will have it deployed sometime later today or early tomorrow. We’re additionally working on some fixes to a few Profession UI elements and will try to hotfix those in but I don’t have an ETA for that just quite yet.”
Nope no music not new
Only music is the login screen and that was just added
Ahhh mmk
Music is literally one of the last things added
We might see a few tracks on ptr/beta for the primalist invasions and the dracthyr intro
there are invisible walls in broken isles in odd locations
But the rest might not come until during prepatch
Well they wouldn’t have changed anything so those must be old
no like i know it is not there it shouldnt be there as there is also render issues
in this location plus mini map
¯_(ツ)_/¯
I wonder how many minimap icons have been made default.
I'd like to be able to see everything, like I can right now.
A bunch
Can someone check if relic of the past ilvl is still same
Oh - it’s allegiance for the week and has a menu now
I hope you can earn it outside of the keys and very difficult world quest
I honestly just don’t know enough about sabellian because he was just… not there for the longest time.
Wrathion is egotistical but he means well
AFAICT, the WQ area mobs can’t be solo’d due to their health
I prefer Wrathion because Sabellian is in it for his flight and dragons when the charge of the dragons is to protect the world and the mortals
He doesn’t care about Azeroth or the mortals
Yeah fair
Wrathion has gone about it the wrong way but he means well
I mean part of the role is also to lead that dragonflights dragons
He legit wants to help mortals and such
Who wouldn't exist without sabellian
That and at least Wrathion, in his own misguided way, has been trying to help Azeroth. Sabellion was just off in Outlands for like 15 years
Sabellian did what he thought was right but his mindset now that he’s back needs to change
He is scornful and distrustful of mortals
And he has no cares for Azeroth if it doesn’t affect the dragon flights
Also the fact that he almost immediately starts lying to us and Wrathion the moment after we meet him isn’t great
How can I trust someone who acts untrustworthy?
Wrathion means well but just causes multiple invasions of Azeroth
Sucker is gonna be what leads the void in too
Just watch
i mean - he did but also we got new allies, we beat the legion didnt we?
like - his plan was crazy
but it DID work
Got a point for Sabellian.
He lied to us despite the fact that he still used mortals during BC.
He could have changed a little.
Lying to pretend for the throne to Alex, who soon discover this and don't want to be a part of (smart of her)
Yeah Alexstrasza wasn't having any of their shit
Yup, that give her much credit.
I think it worked in spite of Wrathion. And we certainly never did it by "unifying" like he wanted
Turns out all he needed was Draenei, Illidan, and a rag tag bunch of adventurers
uh
we definitely unified in legion
horde and alliance ignored boundaries to work with class halls
No, certain people did, not the factions themselves
Half the plot of legion is the Horde and Alliance armies were fighting too much to deal with the problem
So it was a mix of heroes and champions.
Which, in the end, are the true backbone of the Alliance and Horde.
huh.. they seems happy
Mrglmrgll😃
we don't see the massive armies that are supposed to be there canonically
so beside that i had to redo my ui, any major things added to game?
it does
huh
cool
does it scale properly?
also do you happen to know how to check for beta hotfixes?
no, sorry
damn
i'm testing it right now
waiting for the bug report button to work
the submit button
work orders arent in - just a map icon
the npcs are gone actually
pvp world quests are back
oh thats cobalt assembly
that makes sense
seems like it's working
huh
so - problem im noticing
theres like 9 WQs on the entire map
thats - not great
they made some dragonriding changes
"Hello Dragonriders,
With today’s update, we’d like to share a couple notes:
When Dragonriding Racing, the next ring now emanates a sound to help players triangulate its position
We’ve fixed a bug wherein the forward boost of the double jump launch would occur earlier in the launch
New tour side quests have been added, inviting players to complete all of a zone’s time trials for additional experience
Once a player completes all tours, they unlock advanced races and a new set of tour sidequests to complete those
New Known Issue:
While recharging, the Vigor UI shows a repeating texture. Apologies for the inconvenience here.
"
ah
huh - iskaara has 30 ranks
and this might be related to the white banner?
oh so thats not quite scaled right is it
nope
valdrakken questline has multiple parts with DIFFERENT names
valdrakken rep is also 30
ohnaran and dragonscale are 25
I suppose at this point they're not going to be opening the bfa raids for old world testing
Which is super annoying b/c they -never- have old world scaling active
and its -always- a post-launch issue
people have to make forum posts after launch and go "theres no scaling for bfa raids yet" like it's something that doesn't happen every xpac
yeah theres no old world scaling in bfa dungeons yet
and ive reported it at least twice
guys. where is the mission table. how will I get my augment runes this time
no mission table this time around
also that thundering rework
it'll depend on if 5 marks go out or just 4
im assuming it's either 2/4 and never the tank. which sucks for the tank but makes sense

UI is probably broken for the same reason the others are
are you doing threads or normal leveling?
Hm.. Still no Evoker defensive buffs. Gonna be interesting to see if they decide to go forward with them as squishy as they are
yeah threads needs some work, can't get the "fill up bar" quests
haha they even applied it to torghast powers (not my image)
Still no questline for the centaur?
just the hunts I think
Weird, since last build datamining said the main story of DF is tied to progressing all four reps
and Plains clearly has a storyline given the Malfurion datamine lol
might be tied to the hunt
ill double check
maybe tied to this?
another 10.0.2 build on vendor
i bet we get that build this week to fix bug reporting and the UI stuff
well it's crunch time
considering the amount of bugs? yeah
i can't turn this quest in
rather I cant get credit for this quest to complete it
and I cant report the bug
Which quest?
Blows my mind PTR is a release candidate
I feel like there's gonna need to be some extreme crunching going on if they plan on an October 25th release date
then it was a few days ago
some UIs are
everything else is about the same
i found a random puzzle
doesnt work though
cant report it because the button doesnt work still
uh - i never got story leading up to the vault
is there supposed to be?
that didnt happen for me
Are you around levels 68-70?
weird
i think they mightve encrypted it and so it just ends early
maybe
It always seemed to have a weird cutoff, so possibly
I do hope thats the case tbh
like it just went "hey lets go to the vault" and that was about it
soo no date for pre-patch yet? 😄
Assume 10/25 unless delayed a week
We did get the season end warning
yeah a ton of UI stuff is very broken
but given it's like.. everything
it's probably a relatively simple bug to fix
looks gallifreyan
Most of it was working previously, but just seems like things are all misplaced now
ok!
good point ^^
I may have missed a post somewhere (there have been so many DF ones!), but has the WoW Team discussed their philosophy for raid difficulties in DF? My guild found that Shadowlands raid bosses were tuned so much higher than in previous expansions to the point where we missed out on two AotCs this time around. We're not a hardcore team, and we allow anyone who wants to raid come with us, but we still used to be able to achieve the feat of strength. It was really rough his expac, and I was wondering if there was any indication if it would go back to the way it was.
https://www.wowhead.com/news/lessons-learned-sepulcher-was-an-arms-race-that-wont-be-repeated-in-dragonflight-327732 Ion has mentioned a few things in interviews, mostly a little while back
Thanks!
bodyless
Anyone think their rescaling is finished, cause shit seems bit weird
That’s a new bug
It’s not
they JUST implemented SLs into chromie time - it’s gonna see changes in every build even after prepatch releases
I presume there's some new skin texture or something that isn't working properly
I'd report it, but y'know
I bet it’s a code issue like profession UIs
I hope ur right, i been reporting shit but nafing
They’re probably referencing their texture sheets incorrectly
We might see a new build this week
They put out a higher vendor build yesterday and with the report button still broken, they need to get another build out
Maybe? Not sure why it would just be some djaradin if it's a bigger reference issue
Do you also have the problem of not being able of creating dracthyrs for now?
Could just be one sheet
On beta?
Huh
I haven’t tried in the newest build. Could be a bug due to them rushing a new build out to fix the severe instabilities
anyone else having trouble staying connected to the beta servers atm?
had client crashes, but not DCs
Good morning wowhead community, are there any beta versions of the class guides yet?? I'd love to try out some Evoker and Shadowpriest on the beta, but my old brain gets easily distracted when actually looking at talents and abilities
Think class guides will release during prepatch
Balance tuning isn’t final so making a guide now could be a waste of time
Possible... thanks you!
Thank you!!
If Blizzard is consistent they'll announce the prepatch date today, 10 am pacific
The date for every major patch since 9.0 was announced exactly 12 days before release
i just want the new Afterlives/Warbringer, it creates so much hype plus its fun to watch
yeah the bastion afterlives sold me for SL 😔
It’ll happen
Probably this week or next will be the first, probably related to Dracthyr backstory
wanna some beautiful screenshots from Beta?
I REALLY hope Empowered spells being interrupted by poke damage/DoT damage is just a bug because holy shit it sucks while trying to Heal.
Does the Human racial that increases reputation gains interact with Dragonflight faction renown at all?
It should.
Woo, prepatch event testing. About time
It only happens if you move or if they actually interrupt you
So either you are moving or they are using an ability that would interrupt any cast bar



