WoW Dragonflight alpha preview – The new life World of Warcraft needs

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As the curtains fall on the highly divisive World of Warcraft Shadowlands expansion, WoW Dragonflight looks to be the saving grace the franchise sorely needs. Here are our thoughts from our alpha preview of the game.

I haven’t exactly been given many reasons to dive into World of Warcraft of late. Burned by the chaos of Shadowlands and still reeling over the fact my all-time favorite antagonist, Sylvanas Windrunner, has been sent packing to The Maw for narrative decisions she had no control over, diving back into Azeroth hasn’t been too high on my to-do list.

WoW Dragonflight, though, certainly piqued my interest. With another longtime favorite of mine, Alexstrasza, making a dramatic return and the all-new Dracthyr class letting me live out my dragon fantasy, there’s a lot to be excited about.

While many have treated the Dragonflight announcement with some scepticism (after all, WoW has a longstanding history of gameplay that doesn’t quite match the grandeur of their cinematic trailers) our adventures in the alpha (our build is slightly different from the one that is now live) have left me with a renewed sense of vigour; contrasting entirely with the hangover of hopelessness that ensued in the wake of Shadowlands.

Once upon a time when I was young, I wanted to be a dragon. Dentistry? Nah. Law? Boring. A dragon was what I was going to be when I grew up.

While, unfortunately, that’s not exactly possible in real life, in WoW Dragonflight it is. The all-new Dracthyr are a gorgeous-looking race, with a whole slew of customisation options to truly let you show off your personality.

You have free rein over both your dragon form and human form’s appearances, and can tailor every little detail to suit you. From the tips of your