You’re sitting in a town somewhere and you want to do some questing on the other side of a large zone or maybe in the old areas, you’re just needing to fly to the neighboring zone.
You’re in Stable Flight, and you think “I can get there faster if I switch to Skyriding!”
Except… no.
Skyriding speed is nerfed outside of DF areas, and since the TWW Prepatch, Stable Flight speed has been buffed by a decent margin.
So you spend the 5 seconds to switch to Skyriding, fly to your destination, and spend another 5 seconds to switch back to Stable, in that 10 seconds you probably could have broke even or even in some cases, gotten there sooner if you hadn’t spent 10 seconds standing there casting.
It should be 1, maybe 2 seconds tops. 5 seconds is way too slow. I don’t think I foresee myself ever using Skyriding because of it.
It’s 10 seconds every single time you choose to change.
The whole draw of Skyriding is that it’s faster but less agile, so it was obviously intended you use Stable when you’re doing questing or gathering, and then switch to Skyriding for longer trips because it’s faster and more fun.
… except the 10 seconds you spend defeats the purpose of flying faster. And it’s annoying to stand there waiting before you can even call your mount.
There’s no reason why it needs to be 5 seconds, it’s not like you can mount in combat.
I guess I get the toggle to swap all mounts from DR to steady. What I don’t get is why those 20+ mounts that can’t DR aren’t set to steady. That was my plan bwcause I do switch between DR and steady often. I dragged a ardenweald mount to my bar thinking I could bypass this 5s nonsense but it’s ground bound. Kinda wish there was a way to default all those to steady.
Heck, before this update, that’s how mounts worked. I spent the entirety of Remix having a DF mount bound to the Y key (via LiteMount) and a Steady Mount bound to Shift+= so I could choose between one or the other.
So you’re saying that if you’re in Skyriding, a Steady-Only can’t fly AT ALL? Who the frick thought that was a good idea? They had this crap working before TWW.
Are you doing keys every 5-10 minutes?
Are you doing keys for the express purpose of getting to your destination faster?
With all this complaining about 5 Seconds, I hope Blizzard finally goes through with just removing Flying next expac permanently and never goes back. That should fix all complaints about a timer.
All they had to do to fix the problem, is make it so that if you have Skyriding on, summoning a mount that does not have Skyriding gives you Stable Flight.
This was how it worked before TWW.
If you REALLY wanna Stable with your Dragonflight mounts, then use the toggle. If you don’t wanna wait on the toggle, summon an old mount. Easy Peasy. Everybody’s happy.
The problem then is that only a specific number of mounts are then useful in leveling content where Skyriding is available - which would get a lot of people upset because it invalidates their collections.
No, we weren’t happy that we were limited to less than 10 mounts out of our whole collection. Everyone in my guild last night was hyped to be able to use our old mounts again
