Can someone that prefers old flying explain it to me?
Why do you prefer taking longer to get anywhere you want to go?
Canāt speak for everyone butā¦some people have physical disabilities which make dragonriding difficult to manage, they made some improvements but it has also reportedly causes motion sickness for some players (as someone who gets this with any first person game, I sympathize), landing on a very small target can be difficult, regular flying does also have the ability to hover in the air without landing, not sure about all the uses for this butā¦thatās just a few off the top of my head.
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Rocket mounts require engineering accessories.
More control on flight.
Hovering AKA pause.
Passivity.
Stop restricting things to a mosty useless profession.
Why are these things more valuable to you than getting to where youāre going faster?
Hovering = I donāt want to move.
Passivity = I want to alt tab and check something, answer someone.
Control = I donāt want to circle around or go max speed past stuff, but 10.0.7 is already fixing that with that stop ability.
I like DR, excel at it even, but I also like the āpauseā button Iāve been missing.
Soā¦ land lol. Super passive. Stay in one spot. Problem solved.
āI want to be able to alt tabā means you want to not play the game for a bit. Thatās totally fine.
Then you can alt tab back into the game and shoot over to where you want to be instantly.
More like swimming. Traditional flying and swimming are identical.
You actually expect us to believe that you donāt do these things? That you never, ever have taken a break in the entire time you have played the game, because your mommy waits on you hand and foot in her basement, eh? Better than those morally inferior people who have jobs and family responsibilities.
This is what I call āinvidious comparison videogamingā, a player who plays a game that has many options, but thinks everyone else is doing life wrong if they do not play with his highly idiosyncratic and personal choice of restrictions. And they should be forced to play exactly like he does.
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Itās pretty simple to me. Dragon riding is fun but can be a pain when mining and herbing. Iām not sure the increased speed makes up for the time zigzagging around to land on that peak or waiting for a little more vigor after you land. Thatās all there is to it.
I would have loved to have regular flying. Then I wouldnāt be running into stuff when I try to go places. : /
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Well dragonflight isnt even flying itās just falling with style
Thatās not how it works. There are pats on land. And players if on War Mode.
Not all places are suitable to AFKing, in fact, most arenāt.
Also, movement as gameplay eventually gets boring and repetitive, and Iām sick of DR already. I just want to set a heading and let my char go without āhead up, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, adjust angle, 3. Keep looking if youāre not too low on your glide.ā
Standing still also gives a sense of lost progress, while passive movement does not.
Finally, DRing from the ground to higher places requires at least 3 orbs not to be a total chore in lower altitudes.
My druid like to tame hunter for dungeons and raids that would help cat dps 
To be fair though fast or not dragon riding is dragon gliding
I just want my dragon to hover, then Iād take it everywhere if I could lol
I mean I agree, but it sounds like you just need to drop 3k gold on faster flying.
Sometimes I like to enjoy the scenery. The slower speed and ability to hover are an important part of that.
Speed doesnāt help much when Iām doing short hops from pet battle to pet battle or gathering ore/herbs. The finer controls of regular flight help a lot, and speed is less important.
I was looking for an entrance to an area under a castle doing questing. I used dragonriding and kept flying past it when trying to search for it because I was going too fast. Ground mounts would mean dealing with respawning mobs and those were a hassle with my lvl 62 evoker. The ability to hover and slower speeds wouldāve helped me find that entrance. With only dragonriding and ground mounts, I had to find a place to afk so that I could check Wowhead. If I had regular flight with the finer controls, slower speed, and ability to hover, then I wouldāve been able to search for the entrance at my own pace instead of alt tabbing to check Wowhead. That took me out of the game, which I wouldnāt have needed to do with regular flight.
Those are just a few situations where I prefer regular flight.
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Ah well, we needed someone to make another one of these posts.
At this point itās hard not to see these as spam.