Traditional Flying Coming to the Dragon Isles in Guardians of the Dream

[Kaivax]

We’ve just updated our Guardians of the Dream update notes with an expanded explanation of the requirements for the forthcoming achievement Dragon Isles Pathfinder, which grants traditional flying in many Dragon Isles zones. It requires:

• Waking Hope – Complete the Waking Shores storyline.
• Ohn’a’roll – Complete the Ohn’ahran Plains storyline.
• Azure Spanner – Complete the Azure Span storyline.
• Just Don’t Ask Me to Spell It – Complete the Thaldraszus storyline.
• Embers of Neltharion – Complete the Forbidden Reach and Zaralek Cavern storylines.
• Freshscales Fifteen – Achieve renown fifteen with all major factions on the Dragon Isles: Dragonscale Expedition, Maruuk Centaur, Iskaara Tuskarr, Valdrakken Accord, Loamm Niffen, and Dream Wardens.
• Explore Zaralek Cavern – Explore Zaralek Cavern, revealing the covered areas of the world map.
• Explore the Emerald Dream – Explore the Emerald Dream, revealing the covered areas of the world map.

The Guardians of the Dream content update is coming one week from today, on November 7.

[Simplyred-hydraxis]

Thanks for the update but it’s glaringly obvious that the entire thing is designed to keep people busy doing old content over and over again.

It’s not fun.

Games should be fun.

Whoever makes these plans should know that.

*Update… they listened!

[Kennie-malganis]

raises paw

Why make old flying something that has to be unlocked at all instead of just enabling it?

I can understand wanting people to experience dragonriding, it’s great, and most of us have utilized it by this point, so why not just flick optional old riding on?

[Sabbia-moonrunner (Sabbia)]

@Kaivax

Freshscales Fifteen – Achieve renown fifteen with all major factions on the Dragon Isles: Dragonscale Expedition, Maruuk Centaur, Iskaara Tuskarr, Valdrakken Accord, Loamm Niffen, and Dream Wardens.

[Thundraxx-stormrage]

Well nothing changed. Though you do get it if you just played the content. It’s just time metrics at this point. Should just unlock it to begin with.

Dragon riding is the main mode of transportation. what harm is it unlocking old school flight for those who have problems with it

[Backtaxes-moon-guard]

I see nothing really changed here.

[Phaeliea-nathrezim]

It looks like they removed the requirement for the Emerald Dream storyline, unless that was never there. REGARDLESS this should not be a thing.

Pathfinder should be retired permanently

[Audreeana-hydraxis]

[Dremin-stormrage]

That’s a lot of stuff to do for traditional flying while dragonriding was just handed out. Weird.

[Näamah-ragnaros]

Players providing feedback since Sept 18th :

Pathfinder? Again? Lession not learned

I love both types of flying but ANYTHING locked behind a pathfinder is for their new “retention metrics”. Pathfinder needs to go and i thought it was a lession they learned already when they gave us our mounts so fast in dragonflight. Guess not. I have an older thread that moved some people but it was that some people (old and young) couldnt do dragon riding and quit wow. now you blizzard will let them fly the old mounts but punishes them into a pathfinder… What are your thought with a dying …

Devs and CMs ignoring this kind of post and then proceeding with the same path, instead of addressing at least those concerns.

Pathfinder could be a good reward for a new mount instead of extra steps in order to unlock traditional flying.

Players with blind accessability waiting for this:

Blind accessability, regular flying in the isles

Hi all So I woke today to the news that regular flying is coming to the isles in 10.2. This is brilliant due to the fact that dragon riding is inaccessible to a portion of the community for a variety of reasons. What I didn’t like was the requirements for accessing regular flying, they are excessive and in my opinion were added with the assumption that everyone will and can use dragon riding to obtain them. It also seems excessive compared to how easily you gain access to dragon riding. I do…

then Blizzard ask for a lot of extra steps, I know most of regular players will have this requirements but returning / new players…

[Feedback] [accessibility] 10.2 flying

Continuing the discussion from Flying should never require rep/renown: I like to put this discussion here as well, as I do agree that it feels weird that we get advanced flying (dragon-riding) basically for free, but now we have to jump through hoops to get static flying when it doesn’t really give benefits at all, as you can keep airborne while dragon flying if done properly and it goes way faster. It also feels very wrong that we keep having to earn what we already had? Additionally, I’d lik…

Thanks Cyrios for your post. Feedback has been provided for months…

[Gianavel-feathermoon (Gianavel)]

Cool beans. I’d much rather just play the game and earn flying than pay what would be an exorbitant amount of gold (thanks inflation!) for it.

[Backtaxes-moon-guard]

Popcorn anyone?

[Tovi-moon-guard (Tovi)]

So we’ve been skipping content, skipping mobs with dragon riding this entire xpac plus we’ve explored almost every inch of the zones collecting glyphs but to fly slower we have to do this laundry list of chores for “reasons?”

Good job, Blizz. This definitely isn’t one of the derpier things you have done

@Kaivax

Upon further review, we’ve decided to remove the Freshscales Fifteen requirement from Dragon Isles Pathfinder. There will be no Renown level requirements.

I’ve updated the OP here, and we’re updating the Guardians of the Dream patch notes to reflect this.

Thank you for your feedback!

Nm you guys are cool and totally not derpy.

[Thundraxx-stormrage]

Me watching this thread:

[Emberpaws-emerald-dream (Emberpaws)]

yea how dare they make you work for the inferior mode of flying

[Warzug-mankrik]

hello mr. Blue, this other poster pretty much summed up my thoughts on the whole “Pathfinder” thing in a different thread. See the attached quote:

@Sabbia-moonrunner

I have an extreme case of Renownitis. Causes my hands to totally lock up and experience high levels of pain when I attempt to do boring content.

Regards…

[Dremin-stormrage]

Inflation for buying flying is a completely made up thing by defenders of Pathfinder. The price of flying went down from BC to Wotlk, then again Wotlk to Cata. MoP cost was the same as BC. It can be anything Blizz wants it to be, and was never that expensive.

[Cowvenent-area-52]

[Everybody Hated That]

[Bravik-argent-dawn]

Traditional flying, some assembly required.

[Clasm-stormrage]

@Kennie-malganis

raises paw

slaps your paw out of the air

You put that thing down while you’re at the table.