WoW: Dragonflight

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World of Warcraft: Dragonflight will add playable and rideable dragons (PC Gamer)

World of Warcraft: Dragonflight returns the MMO to its origins, welcoming back dragons (in playable and rideable forms) and Classic-style talent trees, ...

Most of the game's world now scales to whatever level you are and you can choose to do the older expansion content in any order you want. Early in the expansion, you'll have the ability to train a dragon as a mount to fly through the leveling process and beyond. Whether or not what you make or gather is high quality will be determined by a new set of stats, and gear to wear for those stats, tied to professions. Blizzard said it has put a lot of effort into refining the game's oldest systems, the first of which is a return to a talent system that resembles the ways of the past. The new max level in WoW: Dragonflight is level 70. The mini map and health bar will be larger and have a slightly more minimal look. You'll be able to customize your dragon with different colors of scales, horns, and armor as you progress through the story. Evokers will be the first class in the game with spells that you charge up to change their power level. They can cast magical ranged spells to heal allies and damage foes, and are the only race that can be created as the new Evoker class. Evokers, which are classified as one of the game's 'hero classes', will begin with a choice between Horde and Alliance and then start at level 58 in a unique starting zone. Dragonflight is set on the Dragon Isles, a location that's been essentially a myth for most of WoW's history, hidden away in game files and occasionally mentioned in dialogue as the game aged. Story-wise, the Horde and Alliance have sent an expedition of scientists and settlers to explore the land, which doesn't sound particularly optimistic for whoever has been living there for thousands of years.

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World of Warcraft: Dragonflight announced during Blizzard livestream (Polygon)

Blizzard has announced World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, a new expansion with the new Dracthyr race and Evoker class, as well as several zones in the Dragon ...

Professions are getting a massive upgrade in the form of work orders, which will allow players to recruit each other more easily to create items, as well as new profession equipment, and a new specialization system. To do this, players will journey to the Dragon Isles, which will be split up into five different zones. Players can also navigate the Dragon Isles through the air using Dragonriding, which seems to be somewhere between gliding and flying.

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When does World of Warcraft: Dragonflight release? (Dot Esports)

Along with these, there are plenty of new additions to WoW movement when it comes to flying. Now with a ton of new dragons, you'll be able to fly through the ...

Along with these changes, a new system called Dragonriding will come to the game. But with all these new additions fans may be wondering, when will Dragonflight launch? This magic-wielding class will be available to play as the game’s new dragon-inspired race, the Dracthyr.

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WoW Dragonflight release date rumours: When will the expansion ... (Radio Times)

World of Warcraft's Dragonflight expansion is coming, but when? Here's everything you need to know about the dragon-riding update.

When is the WoW Dragonflight release date? As well as giving fans a live-stream to enjoy, Blizzard also shared a massive Dragonflight deep dive blog on the official World of Warcraft website. Basically, this is the biggest update we've seen in a while!

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WoW Dragonflight's profession system changes might result in a ... (Laptop Mag)

To cap off the Dragonflight reveal, UI Designer Joanna Gianulis and Principal Game Designer Eric Holmberg-Weidler sat down for a brief period to discuss the ...

Finding a way to make this system more engaging is welcome, but I have a feeling this could lead to even more of a grind. Items a crafter can make and reagents gatherers can acquire will have a quality level attached to it. And when 9.1 launched, they had to grind Research to do the same in Korthia. These were clear ways to push the player into an elongated grind for better armor, especially since the required cost would increase exponentially. You can even input reagents only you can get your hands on to help contribute to the crafting process. To cap off the Dragonflight reveal, UI Designer Joanna Gianulis and Principal Game Designer Eric Holmberg-Weidler sat down for a brief period to discuss the changes coming to professions. Whether it be the revival of talent points, a cinematic trailer full of good vibes, or an absolutely adorable new dragon race, Dragonflight has been channeling elements of the golden age of WoW. Especially after Shadowlands raised the bar for ridiculousness in this series, it's really exciting to come back to high fantasy.

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WoW: Dragonflight story won't be “high concept” like Shadowlands (PCGamesN)

The WoW Dragonflight story is going back to basics, dropping the "cosmic forces" that have tended to define the MMO's recent plotlines.

Hazzikostas notes that all this is “not to say that there won’t be cosmic adventures in the future and that we don’t still live in a world and a universe full of these great threats. We think it will be a great time for new and returning players alike to check out World of Warcraft.” “Cosmic forces have always been part of the Warcraft universe – there have always been titans in a pantheon, cosmological forces at play, and light versus void.

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WoW dev reveals approach to Dragonflight's cross-faction content ... (Dexerto)

Ahead of the new World of Warcraft expansion, WoW Dragonflight, Blizzard's Pat Dawson, explains how cross-faction play will work.

“I don’t think we’re necessarily planning any cross-faction specific mechanics or anything like that – I think it’s more of an accessibility feature,” he elaborates. “We’re committed to continuing the cross-faction feature throughout our raid and dungeon experience in Dragonflight,” Dawson states. With a slew of dungeons available on release and raids pegged for the not-so-distant future, cross-faction play will also be one of the main features of Dragonflight. Arriving alongside Patch 9.2.5, players will finally be able to team up with their historical enemies and tear the terrors of Azeroth asunder.

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World of Warcraft: Dragonflight Faces the Impossible Task of "Saving ... (Den of Geek)

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I don’t know if Dragonflight will be a good expansion, but I know that the idea that there’s nothing else out there quite like WoW isn’t what it used to be. It’s torn between the past and present and is largely populated by a community that has too often been forced to deal with the uphill battle of starting over while carrying the burden of their nostalgia. That’s not to say that it and other recent expansions haven’t introduced new ideas but rather that large parts of them were designed to lure people in with the promise that you can go home again. What a lot of people want is a new version of WoW that offers something a little different but still feels special in that classic way. So much of the game that used to feel like an adventure now feels like an obligation or chore. Now, though, Dragonflight feels burdened with the impossible task of saving a game that it was only ever meant to expand.

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