From dragonriding to the Dracthyr, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight’s headlining features feel distinctly modern.
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“You see the dragon breathing in and you know something dangerous is coming.
So we asked ourselves, ‘How do we get that across in World of Warcraft?’
Because a regular spellcast doesn’t quite do it justice.
We can make it a really long cast bar but that’s not the same feeling.
The Dracthyr themselves aren’t quite like anything seen before in WoW, either.
That was by design.
“They are spellcasters,” Berger said.
Much like the Dracthyr, Dragonflight’s other core feature, dragonriding, required new technology.
For years, flight in WoW has been a fairly boring affair.
Dragonriding changes that, making traversing the new location of the Dragon Isles fun in and of itself.
WoW: Dragonflight is currently inbeta.
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