What makes you think that you’re in the minority? A large number of people will dislike something and never take the time to come to the forums to express their displeasure. They’ll just stop playing and find something more accommodating to do.
I don’t believe for a moment that the (very) vocal people who troll the forums calling for BC flying to be removed are anywhere near any kind of majority. Some of us just want to play without being chained to an ADD-pacifying mini-game.
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I highly disagree. There should be a penalty for UFO flying and druid farm bots.
I agree with this fully, for my own health reasons (Sorry trolls, not disclosing my medical record). I’d even settle for only slow flight being the only alternative option if it meant not having to use ONLY Dragonriding. 
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There must be some believability. There is always a balance between realism and fantasy. That’s why we have things like humans, gravity, and economy. There are bannable offenses for violating some of these laws put in place such as duping, speed hacking, auto-kicking, and botting. The UFO-style air swim is anything but realism and pulls the player away from the immersion by being ridiculously unrealistic.
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You forget one thing: these expansion zones were created expressly for FLYING so ground mounts won’t get you everywhere you need to go. They intended this to force players into their racing mini-game.
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Regular flying is incredibly slow compared to dragonriding. I cringe a bit when I have to fly to Temple of the Jade Serpent.
They could add a “spell” that toggled between regular flying and dragonriding, with a long-ish cast time. Enough to make it a hassle for people that would try to take advantage of both types of mount for farming etc, but that would have no bearing on someone that’s choosing normal flying and staying on it for accessibility reasons.
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I do like how Dragon Riding is fast for getting across a zone. However, it is terrible for mining ore or picking herbs.
They could fix Dragon Riding for me by:
- not requiring a whole vigor to launch from the ground
- allow the regen of vigor while flying low and slow (but at a lower rate)
- award a whole vigor for mining/herbing a node
- stop putting ore nodes on sloped surfaces!!!
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Better yet. Give us a whole vigor for gathering a node.
that would be great, cast one spell and Dragon riding would be gone
forever.
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Hovering is an entirely normal function for several of the mounts we have available. Gyrocopters, the multiple magical mounts, the multiple legendary mounts…
It is not, at all, immersion-breaking to be able to hover-in-place.
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can I see this video of the bot you saw? I want proof. how pray tell do you get in all the nuanced mechanism into a program. If someone can post to me how they would do it and then show it in action, then I will gladly apologize. I just can’t see any software smart enough to properly move about to gathering nodes.
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It’s not immersive for an animal. Very few avians can hover, let alone hover indefinitely. Even insects must land before consuming too much energy. I wouldn’t mind hovering for techno-fanstasy entities or magicals for the UFO air-swim flying like we’ve been exposed to in previous expansions. I would prefer if they were relegated to the 310% flying that we still experience in DF when a ghost.
I think both systems can coexist, as we will have in the future according to the developer input. However, DR would be useless if UFO air-swim could travel as fast as DR. That I would not like.
I agree that there should be a penalty of being nerfed to 10% of running on foot speed (basically even slower than running on foot) for UFO flying and druid farm bots, while at the same time, buff dragon riding up to 830% up from 810%.
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Disappointed they didn’t say releasing regular next patch or wasn’t in the patch notes I want my regular flying back now. They can keep it the same speed I’ll be happy I got what I want.
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If I got TBC Flight at 310, then all’s well. It doesn’t need speed parity with dragonriding, its functions are already perfect.
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I enjoy dragonriding but if regular flying was out right now I’d use it more. I prefer a more slower pace. The game moves so fast while dragonriding it’s really hard to enjoy whatever I’m doing.
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That’s right. Just convert the dragon riding to regular flying and life would be great
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I happen to agree, 100%. One of my favorite things to do is just turn my brain off and herb/mine farm for an hour or two. I can’t do that. I have to constantly manage my vigor and often have to stop and let it recharge…farming isn’t fun at all anymore.
I get that it has helped w/ the farming bots, but I can’t enjoy one of my favorite things to do in the game anymore, something I’ve been doing since the BC days.
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Haven’t gone back to dragon isles since hitting 70. Lack of flying is a big reason why. Might just level low level characters until its introduced in Dragonflight.
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