Official WoW website leak reveals name of new WoW expansion: Dragonflight
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Wait. The dragons kind of went super weak after cataclysm.
But it is gonna be reaaaaasly dumb because it will be a story about Elune and the Void in the end. Cosmic adventures begin again!
But it is gonna be reaaaaasly dumb because it will be a story about Elune and the Void in the end. Cosmic adventures begin again!
There were about 20 "leaks" with the name Shadowlands attached before it was officially announced that had nothing else correct, so I wouldn't be taking that MMO-Champ post as anything accurate. "Dragonflight" isn't exactly a hard name to come up when everyone is talking about the dragons and dragonflights being what the next expansion is about.
60 levels, got a fun 1-10 adventure that teaches you how to play the game, you only have to play through a single expansion for 10-50 before you get to the new content, and when you start an alt you get to pick what expansion to play through. It's pretty quick to get to the current expansion and it's got a lot of catch-up stuff to get you current.
They created a new player experience in Shadowlands and it's quite nice.
Shadowlands: Adventure Awaits in the New Starting Experience - WoW
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands introduces players to Azeroth with a starting experience fit for a hero.
worldofwarcraft.com
Which I always hated from a story perspective.
The dragons were empowered to protect Azeroth because the Titan Keepers were self-absorbed jerks who couldn't be bothered. So they prevent the Hour of Twilight and for that are rewarded with...losing their powers and being made infertile.
I want my god-like dragons back, please.
What? Pandaria being a relaxing expansion is a very common take, especially with the first couple patches. The initial trailer was literally designed around that take.
It also had a lot of comedic parts, like the brewery themed dungeon.
The initial experience with Pandaria wasn't serious at all, although it definitely hinted towards something "more". Being dropped into this new continent without a named big bad was vastly different than the expansions that followed (or preceded) it.
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Sylvanas' Judgment Cinematics - Shadowlands Campaign Epilogue
The epilogue of the Shadowlands campaign is now live, and two cinematics have been released showing Sylvanas' Judgment.
www.wowhead.com
She's doing the same dailies we've had to do for a couple years now.
What is the purpose of character levels in MMOs at this point that can't be done with quest progression, ilvl etc? just another kind of content gating?
Honestly you could play through the leveling zones of each expansion as a single player game and have a great time, Blizz always knocks that stuff out of the park imo. It's still an MMO though, they're not changing the core fundamentals just the style and presentation so to speak.
They have redesigned and simplified the entire leveling system so it all scales and you get automatic access to your new stuff; no more having to 'go back to town' every other level. They much more evenly introduce new class mechanics, abilities/spells, and rotations, so a new player will get more time to play and learn each element before you get the next layer of complexity.
I still do the tourist thing every expansion and have a great time.
I would agree that it's largely superfluous design at this point in the life-cycle but it does serve a purpose for onboarding new players or players wanting to learn a new class. It would be overwhelming to get immediate and full access to the entire end-game toolkit of a class without any ramp-up period. Obviously it's an MMO so the ramp up period is gonna be longer than a normal game (although I'm finding even single player games these days sometimes take way too long to get going).
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You are gonna get what you want. Something tells me the breadcrumbs of Elune and her pet are gonna make their way here.
We're both on an IV drip of Copium by the sounds of it. I want the next expansion to be good so badly, but I know it won't be. I started playing WoW on day one and was absolutely glued to it for the first 7 years or so, playing at the highest level but since then I've taken massive breaks and generally only come back at the end of an expansion to try and relight that spark. I've decided to give it one more go at the launch of Dragonflight and see if it holds me, I won't go back to hardcore raiding but I could definitely see myself doing joining a chill guild and doing Heroic once or twice a week just to see the content.
For a "lucky guess" it got some things rights. Both Quel`thalas and Lordaeron are getting updates in 9.2.5 plus there is also the Dark Ranger and new blood elf stuff that was also datamined recently. A few too many coincidences in my opinion.
No level cap increase would be a step in the right direction...
It's a shame its unlikely to happen in Dragonflight though, because they just changed the Character Level boost from 50 to 60 last November.
Lol, that's my least favorite thing on that list. I would hate to not have a level cap increase.
It's the one thing that makes me think it's fake/misinformation.
WoW loves selling boosts/bundling new ones in higher tier versions and honestly it's part of the fun of new expansions. It would be a huge driving factor in me not buying it which would be the first expansion i haven't bought. Though to this day i still regret buying Shadowlands.
I expect no level cap increase, but I also expect everyone to be moved back down to 50. It feels like they set that structure in place for Shadowlands with the intent of using it moving forward. De-level to 50, old expansions become leveling content, new expansion brings you from 50-60. I know people would be pissed about the de-leveling, but its really the best way to keep the game from becoming too unwieldy for new players, and it sets a permanent leveling structure going forward as more expansions release.
I'd be fine with that. I just like leveling. I agree that that's probably the best solution.
I'd also be cool with seeing something like Diablo 3's Paragon system ported over the WoW, even if that only works when you're out in the world and not in dungeons or raids.
Same.
I'll probably stick with it for a while, but I know that if nothing else the leveling experience will be fun. Blizzard has been pretty consistently improving on leveling content since even WoD, in my opinion. It's just end game where they pretty consistently drop the ball.
Even Shadowlands was fun to level through.
(Although, what's the opinion on SL's dungeons? I actually found most of them boring.)
The music and art for this is about to be a 10/10. I'll probably re-up and play for a bit just to experience the beautiful environments. I love leveling through new expansions.
I want my old school daily hubs back, though. I'm trying to knock out like 15-20 daily quests and raise my rep at a decent pace to unlock some mounts like nether drakes and whatnot. World quests were alright in Legion, but I been over them. Speaking of which, is that new 9.2 zone any good?
I want my old school daily hubs back, though. I'm trying to knock out like 15-20 daily quests and raise my rep at a decent pace to unlock some mounts like nether drakes and whatnot. World quests were alright in Legion, but I been over them. Speaking of which, is that new 9.2 zone any good?
So what is everyone excited about with the leaks and the announcement of this expansion? I didn't finish Shadowlands but the story since Cataclysm has been lame.
Other than the title, there haven't been any leaks; no credible ones anyway.
I mean WoW was doing exactly that as well for the first xpacks but at some point there needs to be something else so they came up with more and more new systems and then they went completely overboard with them for some reason.
WoW used to do this too, if I'm remembering correctly.
The problem is WoW is a much older game. And doing this every expansion eventually led to bloat.
It's why I don't really vibe with a lot of the player criticisms about expansion specific abilities. While agreeing that Blizz doesn't always nail it with them, I think players forget the very real problem temporary abilities were meant to address.
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It's fine, you typically level to 50 through a single expansion of your choosing and then go 50-60 in the latest one. This makes the story and everyone worshipping the ground you walk on not make a lot of sense so another option is to play everything in mostly chronological order so that it's all ~90% understandable.
Once you get to 60 and finish all available orange(story) quests in the newest expac, you get access to some catch-up mechanics for your character(s) and can get into endgame content pretty quickly assuming you dedicate a few days to farming out whatever the current grind-sink resource is or have a guild to catch you up
Exactly and the FFXIV team already to prune and completely rework a lot of Jobs for a while now to make place for new abilities i don't really think they can do this endlessly either.
WoW did fine increasing levels and keeping it extremely easy for beginners and casuals for over 15 years.
De-leveling once doesn't tell me that's their future it just tells me they want to reboot the levels and work their way back up.
