80% Dragonriding in old world

[Amarian-trollbane]

Probably easier than building a whole new system from the ground up. Likely a few lines of coding if anything.

[Ratjay-bloodhoof]

But can we DF around Azuremyst, and Silvermoon?

pleeeeeese?

[Slogosh-duskwood]

I would love for my Obsidian Worldbreaker (and of course my Azure Worldchiller) to Dragonride. Hope it’s something just not present in the current build, and not something I have to wait for 11.0 for.

[Carhagen-moon-guard (Carhagen)]

Yeah this is a foolish decision by the developers.

It’s going to feel sluggish and slow by comparison.

[Amarian-trollbane]

There is no such thing as Silvermoon. Inset Avatar Ba Sing Se reference here.

[Surreally-moon-guard]

I mean, I get it. I get why they do a lot of what they do when it comes to server stability and such. Just gets lame sometimes.

But what I’m truly mad at is sharding.

I also meant bad as in lame for playability, not bad as in like… it’s a dumb reason.

[Boredumb-alexstrasza]

[Congelatore-shadowsong (Congelatore)]

Please explain how 80% of 830% is 166%, and then how 166% is somehow 16% faster than 310%.

[Mythosaur-frostwolf]

i dont think so while we can not mine while mounted in the old zones
but the tbc players will be nerfed a bit on the node farming

[Mustachio-eredar]

@Moobins-nagrand

Actually in fairness, the only reasoning I do see for this is possibly disconnections? Is that still a valid reasoning for anything?

As much as I regret saying it, Yoshi P would be forward about that kind of decision. Blizzard is still on their horse of hiding the why’s from us regardless of promising to do different.

[Boredumb-alexstrasza]

You reduced by 80%, not to 80%.

[Amarian-trollbane]

I mean the zones in the old world are horrendously small compared to the Dragon Isle zones. This much isn’t false. You could get across 1/4 - 1/2 of the zone with a single whirling surge so you don’t really need the full 830% move speed to make the dopamine go brrt

[Ratjay-bloodhoof]

But do you know the way…?

[Shadybolt-thrall]

@Xyxi-wyrmrest-accord

Why Blizzard.

Developers’ note: We are restricting the speed of dragonriding outside of the Dragon Isles in order to not make travel times on old world contents trivially short. We believe 80% dragonriding speed will strike a balance between giving players exciting and engaging traversal, while still preserving a sense of immersion. The Dragon Isles continent is pretty massive compared to some of our older continents, so we need to adjust speed accordingly.

If one takes these two images into account and consider how quickly we traverse on the Dragon Isles … I can see why they are limiting it. Doesn’t mean I agree with it, but… safe to say that there’s a very, VERY reasonable explanation they are providing regardless of whether one agree with the decision or not.

@Dreadtendies-sargeras

If they’re nerfing this I’m legitimately convinced that it’s a technical issue (i.e. going too fast and flying into a surface from a Cata zone causes a perpetual DC loop), because this was an issue on the DF Beta with Evokers’ Soar ability as well.

Make no mistake; it’s a dumb change. But I feel like there’s a technical issue forcing it to happen.

Edit: I had forgotten this but yah’, it would be a way to get around having to say it as well. Doesn’t mean one disagrees with it any less with it though.

[Dreadtendies-sargeras]

If they’re nerfing this I’m legitimately convinced that it’s a technical issue (i.e. going too fast and flying into a surface from a Cata zone causes a perpetual DC loop), because this was an issue on the DF Beta with Evokers’ Soar ability as well.

Make no mistake; it’s a dumb change. But I feel like there’s a technical issue forcing it to happen.

[Slogosh-duskwood]

It’s 80% OF maximum speed, not reduced by 80%.

Lets say that max speed of Dynamicflight was 100, 80% is, well 80.

[Draeven-wyrmrest-accord]

I’m pretty well convinced that the old zones can’t handle dragon riding without a massive overhaul that the current crop of WoW developers lacks the ability to do. I’ll be surprised if they do it at all except for the race courses, which is the core reason you have this mini-game in the first place. It boggles my mind that some people can have so much confidence in Blizzard anymore. Enjoy.

[Sytharion-wyrmrest-accord]

The issue isn’t that there will be no dopamine or that it won’t still be fast. Their reasoning is that the full speed trivializes travel. But it’s already trivialized and will be even more so when dragonriding comes whether it’s 80% or 100%.

[Argorwal-ysera (Argorwal)]

/sigh, guess we have to be content with ONLY 774% flight instead of 930%.

As an aside maybe it could be a technical issue with loading/rendering terrain in old content.

I know I have loading issues if I’m dragon riding into Zaralak Caverns too fast, it freezes up and isn’t rendering fast enough. I blame my computer though.

[Amarian-trollbane]

Yeah they were optimized for normal flying, anything faster than that causes crazy lag for not just the player but others in the immediate area. It’s not the first game that’s done something with faster options added and the areas couldn’t handle it. Nothing saying they won’t optimize, but it’s a future Blizz problem. They’d rather have ‘help me’ tickets than prevent the problem.