World of Warcraft Dragonflight’s alpha test has launched
Blizzard has launched the World of Warcraft: Dragonflight alpha test.
Phase one of the alpha focuses on several features of the upcoming expansion including one of its four new zones, the frosty peaks of Azure Span.
It also introduces dragon riding, an all-new skill-based method of aerial travel in which players can fly around on a customisable drake.
And it includes World of Warcraft’s first ever combination race and class, Dracthyr Evokers. Players can create both humanoid and draconic forms, pick between the Alliance and Horde, and choose to be a healer or ranged damage-dealer.
Several players with early access to the alpha have already published their impressions, and we’ve embedded some YouTube videos around this page showing off the new features.
Players who want to participate in the alpha can opt-in for a chance to become a tester. Blizzard has said it will be sending out invitations regularly throughout the test.
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In an interview with IGN, Blizzard production director Patrick Dawson said Dragonflight’s alpha test would be relatively short for several reasons.
“In prior alphas…we’d have a two, two-and-a-half-month-long process where different things came online in a haphazard and less structured way,” he said.
“Maybe you’d get one zone, then have to wait two to three weeks, maybe even longer for the next zone. Systems wouldn’t come on at a consistent rate, that kind of stuff.
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“But…one of the models we liked was how we do things like raid testing. What we do is we open up a boss for people to focus on, everybody plays that boss, we get
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