Just over a month ago, Activision Blizzard pushed the button that launched a new big update to the servers of World of Warcrafta called expansion Flight of dragons that aims not just give players new content of the veteran MMORPG of the American firm but also offer a good facelift to the game to adapt to modern times, by changing the interface or its skill tree.
In Vandal we will talk about what we have thought about this expansion so far with impressions that are valid for this moment but that may change in the future since, as you know, these expansions have great updates and patches adding even more content and making changes so that Dragonflight between a month may be a very different title.
Summoners Drachthyr is a playable race and class it encounters
Let’s start talking about Trachyr summoners which is, for the first time in World of Warcraft history, a combination of race and class as only Drachtyr can be summoners and this race cannot access any other class. Right off the bat, the most spectacular visual aspect of this particular fusion is that this character It has two forms, one humanoid and the other draconic. that comes to light in times of crisis or to use our most powerful abilities.
When we created a Drachthyr (by the way, the character creation system has been greatly improved to customize it much more) we started to level 58 and we have an introductory experience that allows us to discover its historytheir skills and how to play this particular combination quite fun as we play and being able to choose between two different specializations, a call Devastation focused on dealing damage at medium range and another call Conservation that allows us to exercise the role of healer. Here we are surprised that for the first time Blizzard hasn’t gone overboard with a new class, and in neither role are the Drachthyr dominantThough at the moment we like them more as healers than damage dealers and we actually think they’re quite fun to use with that function.
A short trip through the Dragon Islands
In Flight of dragons we will leave at dragon islands experience a new adventure that reveals ancient secrets of the history of Azeroth, embarking on a journey in which we will visit different areas such as the Blue Lands or the Forgotten Border, Beautiful areas to see and full of details but which, in turn, they don’t have much personality and we could very well be on this island or anywhere else in the Warcraft universe.
While we will travel in these lands we will count the story that accompanies Dragonflight is simply fulfilling yes we will go from level 60 to 70 pretty fastbeing a real walk for those with experience in the MMO and in fact this time completing all the main missions of the campaign, making the bonus objectives and doing some dungeons will get us to the maximum level in a short time (between an hour and a hour and a half per level approximately) in an experience of “leveo” what It doesn’t innovate at all and it seems to us one of the simplest and least attractive of the latest expansions in terms of execution and variety of missions.
This speed when it comes to leveling up has a lot to do with it. the new mechanics of Dragon Rider, a special mount that we can only use on these islands and that allows us to glide and move very quickly throughout the map. It’s a hilarious mechanics which has a good handful of collectibles and also some progression touches which are very effective although on the other hand it offers this mechanic shortly after entering the new area almost eliminates the PVP world entirely and increases the feeling of running from here to there level up as fast as possible while losing some “magic” in the process.
New interface and skill tree and a drastic change in professions
The best of Flight of dragons we think it comes with the face lift World of Warcraft both in terms of some graphic tweaks with the consequent increase in requirements and, above all, in two fundamental pillars such as a drastic change in interface and dual skill tree to customize our character.
The the new interface fits like a glove to World of Warcraft and gives us a lot of freedom to configure everything as we want, giving us that versatility that until now we hadn’t had to bet on since the first version of the game. Regard comfortable shifting for the player and attractive to the eye which modernizes the MMORPG and brings it closer to a 2023 title.
Another thing that drastically changes are the talent trees that now come twice as many. One of them allows us to customize the general aspects of the class while with the other we can adapt the specialty to our style of play, offering us many options and with small and quite interesting options, at least with the classes we usually play with , the Knight of Death and the Magician. Certainly in the long run many players end up betting choose fairly standard or effective tree configurations but this time we believe that, except for the basic skills or talents that need to be chosen, we have more room for maneuver when creating our character.
Finally, within this revolution of World of Warcraft which is in our eyes the most important part of the expansion we have a new profession and crafting system to make them more attractive to players. These are interesting changes that seem to appeal to those players interested in this aspect of the game, something they will appreciate while those of us who are a little more “lazy” in this sense will continue to bet on having less gold but spending our time on other facets. .
New content to spice things up
Of course, come the new zones, missions and all the changes in the gameplay new content in the form of dungeons or raids to challenge our players. Here we believe it the dungeons are well designedsome of which are quite visually spectacular, although they won’t blow our mind, while something that we find objectionable is setting the minimum equipment level for heroism that seems too high to us, which made many players go straight from the normal dungeon to the mythicthat difficulty arrived a few years ago and which has become one of the main attractions of the MMO.
an incomplete revolution
World of Warcraft: Dragon Flight it’s a good expansionthis is undeniable, especially since it offers us a small revolution for Blizzard MMORPG thanks to an interface that finally modernizes the game according to the canons of 2023 or a new skill tree that we believe is very well designed and that will allow us to give a little more color to our characters.
However, the rest of the content like the new area, dungeons or leveling experience, despite being good lsomething is missing, probably a touch of personalitythat secret ingredient that makes something good extraordinary or exceptional and we believe it is an expansion that, if Blizzard makes the mistakes of the last few years taking too long to add new content will quickly be forgotten by players.
We wrote these impressions using code provided by Activision Blizzard.
