ManaByte
Gold Member
I'm one of those people who checked out of WoW with Shadowlands. I played it in short spurts over the last two years, but couldn't get into the expansion. The theme was boring, the art-style was way too out there for WoW, the story was honestly dumb, and yet again they have a stupid "borrowed power" system in the game.
But Dragonflight looks really good, and it sounds like they're seriously trying to fix things.
NO BORROWED POWER!!!
They're talking about bringing in old dungeons like from MOP into Mythic+.
Yup, I'll be playing again.
But Dragonflight looks really good, and it sounds like they're seriously trying to fix things.
Dragonflight Developer Roundtable with Ion Hazzikostas and Steve Danuser Liveblog
Blizzard is hosting a Dragonflight Developer Roundtable with Ion Hazzikostas and Steve Danuser, with Taliesin and Evitel hosting the event on Twitter Spaces. We'll be liveblogging the event!
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Lessons Learned
Some of the biggest things that they've learned is "no borrowed power". Players were looking at all the toys they were going to get and were looking at those abilities as things that they would have to give back at the end of an expansion.
At the end of Shadowlands, the changes that they've made is not just a bandaid, it's a philosophical shift.
In Dragonflight, nearly everything will be account-wide -- linear narrative will be optional on a second character. Dragon Riding will be account-wide as well, while things aren't fully fleshed out yet, if your Dragon has learned extra talents or traits, we don't want to force you to re-earn those on your alts. We know that many people are going to have 70 alts the first week of the expansion, and the system should be the alt-friendly one right from the beginning.
NO BORROWED POWER!!!
Mission Table
No current plans for a Mission Table.
Dragonflight Mythic+ Rotation
Shadowlands and BFA dungeons are too recent. They're looking at MoP dungeons which had some fun dungeons and only challenge modes.
The goal they're looking for is variety. They can't make 8 dungeons every season -- they don't want people to refarm the same trinket from the same dungeon every five or six month so that players have a fresh experience every season. Every season shouldn't be just some slight tweak to routing based on the seasonal affix of a dungeon that you've already run 100 times but rather a whole new puzzle to solve.
They're also not opposed to making some tweaks to the dungeons to make them current.
They're talking about bringing in old dungeons like from MOP into Mythic+.
Yup, I'll be playing again.