Are we getting flying on March 12?

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Quit whining new gen

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“Don’t you guys have flight whistles” - Blizzard

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And preposterous.

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Why do the blues never participate in these threads?

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Flying is overrated and I don’t miss it. Only reason anyone would really want it is for farming, TBH.

If I were the project manager, I wouldn’t add it back in until the pre-patch for the next xpac.

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My phone keeps deleting the whistles as a security risk
/cries.

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Good thing you aren’t the project manager then. because nobody would be playing lmao

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have they? i recall flying in Tannan i recall flying on broken shore when pathfinder 2 came out. only place you couldn’t fly was Argus and that was few monthes after

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The same time that World Quest content in Zuldazar and Kul’Tiras becomes outdated, and we get to use our ground mounts in the new Azshara zone.

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BlizzCon 2017: WoW Q&A Live Blog By Alex Ziebart
Editor-in-Chief, Emeritus 11/04/2017 19:35
Q: Once the expansion’s out, how soon will we be flying?

A: “About the same as Legion.” They’re happy with how Legion played out. They want players to explore the world and get to know it before earning the convenience of flying. Once you’ve seen all of the nooks and crannies, being able to skip over them in the air is a good reward.

https://www.24live.co/live/UhLiC

So you both are right because he didn’t say “exactly the same,” and he did use the words, “the same.”

Edited because the way the page was written, it looked like the remainder of the information was still for patch 8.1.5, but it was actually for 8.2. So Ion Hazzikostas did say that flying would be in patch 8.2 in that interview. It still isn’t the same timing as Legion, even though it’s the same patch number, and flying should be added to the game in patch 8.1.5. There is no true reason to delay it, imo.

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Explain this then, please:

BlizzCon 2017: WoW Q&A Live Blog By Alex Ziebart
Editor-in-Chief, Emeritus 11/04/2017 19:35
Q: Once the expansion’s out, how soon will we be flying?

A: “About the same as Legion.” They’re happy with how Legion played out. They want players to explore the world and get to know it before earning the convenience of flying. Once you’ve seen all of the nooks and crannies, being able to skip over them in the air is a good reward.

From https://www.24live.co/live/UhLiC

(Pathfinder II was put into the game 7 months into Legion. Patch 8.1.5 will be 7 months into BfA, so “about the same.”)

Edited because the way the page was written, it looked like the remainder of the information was still for patch 8.1.5, but it was actually for 8.2. So Ion Hazzikostas did say that flying would be in patch 8.2 in that interview. It still isn’t the same timing as Legion, even though it’s the same patch number, and flying should be added to the game in patch 8.1.5. There is no true reason to delay it, imo.

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It would be nice to have those pvp talents back as baseline abilities that don’t require PVP flagging. Also I agree if it wasn’t for all the bonus stuff they are giving to encourage Warmode I would guess at least 75% of people using it would drop it (if not more). I have been running with Warmode on to level from 110 to 120 and I hardly ever see anyone. The few times I do its usually near an invasion area.

Also per some other topics Warmode isn’t enough reason to leave flying disabled. IF Blizzard really thinks flight will ruin world PVP then yea disable flight in zones WOD+ with Warmode enabled.

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“about the same”

Patch 8.2 sounds like “about the same”, even if we want it in patch 8.1.5.

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Near enough
Close enough
Good enough
Close to good
This will have to do for now.

All seems about right, right?

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Patch toolate.2 will fix everything apparently


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Ion and team are slowly trying to wait out the pro flyers and wear them down. They will then try another flying coup for it to be removed.

The standard is set for how they treat flying. Only way it will change is for us, the player base for next expansion to not buy/sub till it is in that 9.1.5 patch or just stop playing.

To those that are fine with how it is that’s fine, keep playing and enjoying. Ion and team will soon come for what you enjoy.

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Because it’s not a big deal, bfa is tiny, takes 2 minutes to run from one side of a zone to the other on a ground mount, and you have 5min cd flight whistles, they just throw flying in later to keep the gd noobs happy

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One lonely player may eventually be able to fly


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With timing, though, 8.1.5 would be “about the same” because it’s 7 months into the expansion. Patch 8.2 will be at least 10 months into the expansion, most likely.

Flying was put into Legion at 7 months.

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When Ion said that he “learned a lesson” from how long flight was delayed in Legion, was the lesson that he should repeat it?

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