World of Warcraft: Dragonflight's Alpha Shows How Dragon Isles Zones Stand Out
After a month in closed alpha testing, World of Warcraft has each of Dragonflight’s new zones available for players, all located on the Dragon Isles — the storied homeland of the dragonflights. As players journey across them, they discover ancient secrets, plots of sedition, and breathtaking scenery from atop their customizable dragon mounts. Most importantly, players will find five areas that truly feel like they belong in World of Warcraft.
Like many World of Warcraft stories, the main goal of Dragonflight is to find, secure, and empower a number of artifacts, this time called Oathstones: five pillars which represent the power and charge of the major dragonflights by the Titans in ancient history. By activating all five, the Aspects can regain powers they surrendered to defeat Deathwing during Cataclysm. Of course, the Titan-hating Primalists seek to prevent this at all costs. All across the Dragon Isles, these elemental proto-dragons and their followers seek to stop the Aspects and their allies.
What We Know About the World of Warcraft Dragonflight Zones So Far
The Forbidden Reach, located north of the Dragon Isles proper, is where the new dracthyr race in Dragonflight has its starting experience. Overgrown and lush, the Forbidden Reach is dotted with the ruins of Neltharion’s facilities. The walrus-like Tuskarr have a village tucked away on the shores, relatively safe from the wild scythids and tarasek who prowl the jungle.
During the starting experience, dracthyr Evoker characters emerge from their slumber after 20,000 years to find Neltharion gone and the world changed. Shortly after they awaken, the dracthyr must contend with their draconic jailers who wish to see them sleep forever, and Primalists who seek to unleash
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