"When we got to the question of 'What are these racials that we're discussing do you consider yourself an Dracthyr warrior, a Dracthyr roguewho's got some really cool racials that require flight?' the more we began to understand that this goes beyond just two racial capabilities," Hazzikostas said. "Having breath weapons, having wings, those are special gifts that will surely affect how you fight with WoTLK Classic Gold. We also began to think about the representations of our dragonflights as we've seen within World of Warcraft but also in other games, like Heroes of the Storm's take on Alexstrasza or Chromie for instance. That started to feel like"No it's a totally different class.' There is the bronze, magical sand we've only seen a mortal wielding it. The power of the black and red dragonflights differs from the fire that the magic casters summon. It all came together to form the idea of a course that combined the draconic power with physical powers like breath magic, wings and so on. and then we went off to the races."

Many of the same philosophies which were first revealed in later patches of WoW's Shadowlands expansion will carry forward in this patch. A new version of the Threads of Fate system that allowed players to level new characters in a nonlinear manner after they had completed the main storyline on one of their characters is returned, and Blizzard intends to create more accounts-wide unlocks for the systems going forward. When it comes to endinggame, World Quests, Mythic+, a brand new raid, as well as rated PvP, will all be returning, but Hazzikostas promises more comprehensive open world ending game systems that are in line with what players saw recently as part of patch 9.2's Zereth Mortis zone as well.

Customizable dragons, improved flying, and a brand-new region of Azeroth to explore as well as the first race and class combination is thrilling but what's going to prick the ears of many who have played for a long time are the modifications to what Hazzikostas declared as"the "evergreen structures" in WoW. Different from the previous WOW WoTLK Classic Gold expansions that introduced a myriad of "one expansion and done" players-powered systems, Dragonflight will instead be focused on systems that can be used for a long time, even after Dragonflight has gone.