Better animations on the scale of GW2 are never going to happen and is an unreasonable expectation. Blizzard’s engine is well over 18 years old now. You’re comparing physics of a near two decade-old engine to one half its age. The only way it would ever be improved is if Blizzard made a new MMO, which is unlikely.
I would settle for better controls and turning radius for a start. I can ignore the bad animations (like I ignore the Worgen run and the BE jump although the DI skating run is more than i can take), I was just using that as an example.
I would argue one small quibble though. They must have someone on their art team that has experience in kinesiology and anatomy because the bird mounts from ZM behave very much like a real bird in motion, at least on the ground. So they can probably improve the DR animations if they tried.
@alarannei, you can progress…but there are like 3-4 quests you will want/need to do to continue…
get the glyphs for dragonriding, it finally made it possible for me not to stall out.
And I can agree with that.
I think there’s a lot of knee-jerk reaction from players who were dead-set against dragonriding even before DF launched.
If Blizzard wants to see whether dragonriding is a success, we should see what people think about it a year from now.
There is probably room for improvement. I can find common ground on this. They’ve incrementally improved the animations for everything over the years so it’s possible. But even so, it’ll never be at the level of Guild Wars 2 on the precedent alone that it’s an older system.
So, here it is.
I am 70 years old. I have been a computer programmer for 45 years. I have been playing games for 50 years.
My hands are shot. My knuckles are shot. I have bad knees, a horrible back, and need glasses to see the monitor.
When I finish playing for the day my knuckles in my left hand are swollen, and my index and middle finger of my right hand are so locked from using the mouse I have to use my left hand to work out the stiffness.
And you know what…
I love Dragon Riding. I embrace every aspect of it. I love Dragon Flight and every aspect of that.
This is not a matter of mechanics, or health, or design, or any thing else.
This is a matter of attitude, and my attitude is this:
I don’t have much longer on this earth, but while I am still here, I am going to have fun, and darn it… Dragon Riding and Dragon Flight is freakin’ fun.
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I think the problem for you is that you might have really slow reaction time. Nothing to do with your physical ability, but its how fast you can perceive something and react to it. I’m assuming your guild mates are the same way. You can not react fast enough to dodge trees and sheer cliff walls. You can check your reaction time on Human Benchmark Reaction time test and see if you actually have slower than normal reaction time. Get back to us and let us know. I consistently hit around 150.
In my opinion, Dragonriding is the best, I MEAN THE BEST, feature blizzard added to WoW.
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simple fix is that if you fly near any of those glyphs on a reg mount your teleported to the ground. problem solved now let me have my reg flying. i HATE puzzles and minigames so i refuse to learn dragon riding ever. NOT INTERESTED AT ALL
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Some of you still don’t get it. I don’t use key-binding.
I have essential tremor, carpal tunnel syndrome and arthritis. My mouse hand jerks uncontrollably. It’s subtle and not enough to cause problems with gathering resources, killing mobs, and doing all the things from BC up to WoD.
I can’t LEARN to control my mouse better. Even a tiny movement in this xpac has sent my toons plowing into a mountainside and falling and poof…dead. I did fine in the opening quest lines in the Isles before I got to the dragon-riding trainer, and then it went down the toilet.
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WRONG. It’s not slow reaction time. For me, it’s incontrollable movements caused by tremors. It’s not something that can be gotten rid of by learning. Others have arthritis that makes extensive mouse use painful.
I barely ever raid or run dungeons, I barely ever have. A bit during MoP with a friendly guild, that was almost 10 years ago. Lots of players do solo questing and other world content and are pretty happy with that.
So now that a very major component of solo questing and world content requires an extra degree of fine motor coordination, it’s causing some distress.
I’m not mobility impaired, I’m just not very good. I mean just literally I’m not very good at video games. I am getting the hang of dragonriding but if I had a mobility impairment I’d be very discouraged with this expansion right about now.
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Can’t screenshot my realm, but after Day 1 (Monday), my server just went ghost town. The elemental battles pre-patch were huge, but now people ARE leaving in droves. My main is at 62, and I only rarely see another player in my questing zone or in the main cities in the Dragon Isles.
So what’s the issue? You can still ground mount to quest and pick herbs. You just have to treat this like every other new expansion in WoW, where you can’t fly till you get pathfinder. What’s the problem? I feel the same people who don’t like dragonriding are the same people who don’t like doing high mythic +'s and raids (not talking about lfr). If dragonriding is not your thing, then treat it like every single expansion that came before it.
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This. Getting a little hard to believe so many people are having an issue with this system. If you have an issue zooming at 800% and controlling it, then just use the basic gliding at the slower rate…its probably at the same speed as your precious flying mounts.
If you’re going to argue that you only casually play and don’t do anything that’s chaotic (Mythic dungeons, pvp, raids, etc.) then you definitely can’t just casually glide around the map at the slower speeds.
That’s just phasing. I played at launch, took the first zeppelin over - it was packed on the orgrimmar side and mostly empty on the dragon isles side.
They very aggressively phased everyone, I guess to prevent server crashing.
Most of the population doesn’t have that, or any other disability
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It’s definitely possible to do without using the mouse, I just tested it out. You can bind pitch up/down under movement and then use that for basic flight. Honestly, it’s kind of nice since it doesn’t monkey around with the camera.
i could care less about dragonriding keep it idc but i was nice enough to buy the expansion and actually give it a try and i have issues so it’s time for them to be nice and open regular flying or when my sub is done i’m out til they do pretty simple they either release regular flying cause they already know people have problems or not release it and say we don’t care about you pretty simple solution.
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