As an MMORPG lover, I both expected and did not expect this expansion for World of Warcraft to come out. Because no matter how actively I jump from one MMORPG to another, it is a classic that World of Warcraft has another place for me. But just like the other players of WoW, I didn’t get exactly what I wanted in the last expansion packs. I lied for 1-2 months, tried to enjoy it, then I went out and started browsing other MMORPGs.When Dragonflight’s videos first started to spread, I thought of Guild Wars 2 directly. Because this (Dragonriding) dragon riding was like a mechanic directly in Guild Wars 2. I can say that I approached it in a biased way. However, I was involuntarily thinking: “I wonder if they just bring this and will they impose it on us as an expansion pack?”
In fact, with the release of Classic, I fell in love with the game again. As you know, Blizzard has released the game’s “most loved” expansion packs to the public, respectively. Of course, there were very minor adjustments, but the game was the game we knew. Recently, we were running from right to left in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion pack, cutting things with a few of my friends and leveling up. While I was thinking, let’s get to the end of the game, let’s raid, put this in order and so on, Dragonflight came. In fact, this time I tried to avoid spoilers as much as I could. I did not look at the player comments made on the game during the testing phase of the game, nor the relevant tweets. I wanted to try this expansion pack as unbiased as I could.
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight
With the game reaching my hand, I quickly entered the game and was faced with an incredible cinematic. I can say I was enchanted. Blizzard has done an amazing job as always. The game opens with an incredible cinematic. The stone men appear, while I’m in shock of what’s going on, the surroundings go dark, they fall into a long sleep, I don’t want to give too many spoilers, but then a stone man in the cinematic wakes up, realizes that he is alone, everything is dark… He climbs a hill alone by force, It tries to restart a power supply, and it does, but it falls down the hill. Just when it’s gone, Alexstrasza appears, saves this friend with his dragon and enters the character screen.
New Playable Race: Dracthyr
Let’s come to the game. I created my character “Dracthyr”, a new race. He is a dragon. You can open Horde or Alliance if you wish. You can play this character as a Ranged DPS or as a Healer. After creating your character, you start the game as 58 levels. As you can understand from the features that I will talk about shortly, the game actually gives you a 2-level tutorial. You start inside a destroyed temple in the underground, you do the tasks in order. The game makes you jump from somewhere by using gliding, which is your race feature. You can use your gliding feature directly with the jump button. In this way, you can jump from the height you want with your character. You glide down slowly and continue without taking damage. Anyway, I’ve completed the area, followed the story so I can say, I’m not going to give any spoilers but the story is immensely interesting, I somehow got to Orgrimmar, the capital of the Horde. NPC interactions made me laugh a lot when you entered. When the Guardian Orcs ask you, “What are you?” “Dragons aren’t from us, are they?” “Go back home, Dracthyr!” You are faced with surprised and sweet reactions such as He’s out of work, and the whole city is surprised that you’re stepping there. Younger characters, on the other hand, approach you with more interest, because you are a sweet pet for them. Seeing such reactions the moment you enter the world, the moment you step out in public, was a wonderful feeling for someone who loves details like me.
New Skill Tree
Another detail that attracts my attention in the game is of course, no matter how much of an MMORPG it is, and eventually every character, every class, every race will have a version of what we call “BiS” (Best in Slot), thanks to the details in this new skill tree. It’s obvious that they’ve gotten it out of the way now. It looks like we can definitely create more original characters now. Inevitably, this will turn out to be the “best”, but from what I’ve studied, what I see is that it will take some time. In addition, the sides in the skill tree of each class are also detailed. It has been reworked and new things have been added, removed, changed. In short, a new excitement awaits you on this side.
New Job Screen & Mentality
Blizzard’s aim is to bring absolutely every type of player back to the game with this expansion. They brought the following regulation to the professions:
For example, you are dealing with Herbalism. But you know it’s available in many, many expansions. Now you do your jobs according to your expansion pack. Of course, what you need most is to do the jobs of the last expansion, Dragonflight, but you can also do the previous expansions to win some rewards. In addition, this has been a super feature for those who want to experience nostalgia. Each expansion pack has a different job level. Also, the new window is gorgeous. I would say completely user friendly.
Interface Update
Finally. Fantastic. The game now has a new interface. As far as I can see, Blizzard followed and closely observed its players while working on this interface update. Because I am someone who uses hundreds of addons for interface. I use these addons to get a better experience from the game. When I wanted to move this window here, let these appear here, look like this, it was taking 1 week just to prepare the interface and add-ons to start the game again.
Now we get rid of them with the system created by Blizzard in its own game. A new menu view, more innovative and up-to-date designs were extremely pleasing to my eye. I started playing the game with almost no editing.
World Activities
Also, what I noticed in this expansion pack is that Blizzard has definitely and definitely brought the game to the forefront for casual players. What is this?
- Imagine that every 6 hours a place is cracked in certain places on the map and creatures and huge bosses come out of it. You can get very powerful items by defeating the players around them. The world feels so alive.
- Photography.
- Climbing the mountain.
- Missions that you can perform in the world specific to your profession.
All really fun. Especially for photography, after I closed the whole interface and took pictures of the places I liked, I was very happy to be tasked with these. Maybe you are one such player.
New Map: Dragon Isles
It wouldn’t have happened if the new map didn’t come. With the latest update, we’re passing levels 60 and 70 in Dragon Isles in this expansion. The maximum is level 70 and our goal is to actually witness the story of the latest expansion, Dragonflight, here. Also nothing to say about the map. Although Dalaran has a different place in my heart, you can fall in love with a game again by traveling a little on this map. When you are at the bottom of a volcano with lava on every side, you can have different feelings when you see the lush nature when you climb this mountain.
New Flying Mechanic: Dragonriding
Dragon riding. The legendary and most prominent feature of the expansion pack. It makes the flying experience completely different. It feels very fun and special to glide left and right with your Dracthyr character on the maps you can fly. Also, getting acceleration, gliding left and right, accelerating from top to bottom and determining a route accordingly, etc., these are very fun. In addition, you can develop this new flying mechanic with the missions you perform in Dragon Isles, and you can unlock more different features, this is related to flying. So we can say that there are no mornings.
And more…
There are many other big and small features that caught my attention. They put a progression like the Battle Pass you know. While you are playing your normal game, you can unlock new features during your progress with the Reputation system (fame system) that you earn and again renewed.
Also, one of the features that made me happy the most was that as an addicted player to Wrath of the Lich King, I could play the game wherever I wanted. I can say that, consider 60 and 70 as the final episode, you can play between 10 and 60 levels in any expansion pack you want. You can reach level 60 on the Pandas’ map, on Illidian’s fel-filled map, or by defeating the Lich King once again. They’re well balanced. When you get bored, you can go to another expansion pack.
Indeed, “Play more! Spend more time with your character and kill more same monsters!” They have moved away from the mentality of “Explore & Enjoy”. In addition, since there are suitable systems for players who want to push their limits, it is an expansion pack that will attract the attention of everyone. I’m in favor of exploring for now, but I’ll probably push my limits the moment I hit the final level.
Game servers are also overflowing. I can say that it was very difficult to enter on the first day. I also chose a fresh server, but the world is so lively that you enjoy seeing people running around.
New sounds, new spells, new abilities and new stories… Dragonflight is an expansion pack that I can sit back and play and enjoy after a long time.
New quests, new dungeons and more. Indeed, Blizzard has offered us many features to experience this time. Who knows how soon we will be able to consume them all.
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