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What's New in the Dragonflight Pre-Patch Event?

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Blizzard released a new PTR update and made some changes to the Dragonflight pre-patch event that we cover in our latest post.

Introductory quests have been added for the pre-patch event.

The first quest requires you to complete the Level 60 version of Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr and rewards Item Level 278 weapons.

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A 20-slot Crafting Bag has been added to Storm Vendors. It's called Storm-Battered Reagent Bag Storm-Battered Reagent Bag and costs 5Primeval Essence Primeval Essences.

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A new quest called "Primal Thread" was added. You must collect 10 Mote of Primal Energy Mote of Primal Energy from enemies in active primal storm locations. Upon completion, you will receive Primal Stormling Primal Stormling and 30 Primeval Essence Primeval Essences.

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This reminds me of Cataclysm, aren't these Primalists too similar to Twilight's Hammer? Summoning wild elementals, infusing themselves with elements, sounds familiar.

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4 hours ago, Arcling said:

This reminds me of Cataclysm, aren't these Primalists too similar to Twilight's Hammer? Summoning wild elementals, infusing themselves with elements, sounds familiar.

Pretty much. I'm willing to see where they try to take it but so far the Primalists just seem like a knock off Twilight's Hammer but I've been avoiding everything story related so maybe we're wrong.

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2 hours ago, Q said:

Pretty much. I'm willing to see where they try to take it but so far the Primalists just seem like a knock off Twilight's Hammer but I've been avoiding everything story related so maybe we're wrong.

Based on the description of the final boss from first tier their goals seem pretty similar. I wonder though if they are going to be present throughout entirety of this expansion or is there going to be some other enemy, sort of like in MoP.

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12 hours ago, Arcling said:

Based on the description of the final boss from first tier their goals seem pretty similar. I wonder though if they are going to be present throughout entirety of this expansion or is there going to be some other enemy, sort of like in MoP.

That'd be a nice change of pace, single story arc per patch rather than trying to stretch one across a 2 year period like the past few expansions have been.

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37 minutes ago, Q said:

That'd be a nice change of pace, single story arc per patch rather than trying to stretch one across a 2 year period like the past few expansions have been.

Yeah, killing some proto-dragons and their crazy followers for the entirety of this expansion would get boring pretty quickly. Some variety is required, perhaps they are just an introduction to some bigger enemy in the next patch. Seems unlikely that it would be the Void Lords, these are likely being kept for the next expansion.

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16 minutes ago, Arcling said:

Yeah, killing some proto-dragons and their crazy followers for the entirety of this expansion would get boring pretty quickly. Some variety is required, perhaps they are just an introduction to some bigger enemy in the next patch. Seems unlikely that it would be the Void Lords, these are likely being kept for the next expansion.

Maybe, I'd like to at least see Galakrond but given his massive size I imagine fighting him would be akin to the spine of deathwing and we all know how that turned out.

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3 hours ago, Q said:

Maybe, I'd like to at least see Galakrond but given his massive size I imagine fighting him would be akin to the spine of deathwing and we all know how that turned out.

He would have been a giant skeleton now, not sure how they would handle a fight against him. With Deathwing there was at least more room for creativity, he wasn't just bones so they used his mutated form for second fight. I didn't like any of those fights either.

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48 minutes ago, Arcling said:

He would have been a giant skeleton now, not sure how they would handle a fight against him. With Deathwing there was at least more room for creativity, he wasn't just bones so they used his mutated form for second fight. I didn't like any of those fights either.

His bones are located in Dragonblight, you can actually see them in game. I imagine a fight with him would probably be like the first phase of the Carapace of N'zoth fight, lots of tentacles and adds to kill to prevent him from eating them and healing/buffing himself or something to that effect.

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2 hours ago, Q said:

His bones are located in Dragonblight, you can actually see them in game. I imagine a fight with him would probably be like the first phase of the Carapace of N'zoth fight, lots of tentacles and adds to kill to prevent him from eating them and healing/buffing himself or something to that effect.

I know about his skeleton. He doesn't have any flesh left, so if he had some tentacles they would have to be... somewhat ghostly? Anyway not sure if Primalists have anyone with such necromantic powers required to resurrect him. They are all about elements.

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