Confirmed by Devs: No flying until late in the expansion

[Frara-blood-furnace]

The questions came from a Twitter post by Taliesin and Evitel a few days(/weeks) prior.

@Murdercarpet-zuljin

which they already had answers prepared for.

That is the normal practice for Blizz anyway.
The questions are always selected and answered beforehand.

[Kiwì-dentarg (Kiwì)]

@Murdercarpet-zuljin

They probably gave him a list of questions to ask, which they already had answers prepared for.

I’m sure they did. It’s a shame though because the actual WoW community has a lot of questions they’d like answers to. Interviewers like this don’t help get improvements made to the game.

I am amused though by the PR tour the developers are on.

[Annastasi-proudmoore]

@Trikzi-dentarg

Dragon Riding will be account-wide as well

Thank you! I was at work and couldn’t look it up, just got home and saw this update.

you just made my day <3

[Kneeshooter-amanthul (Kneeshooter)]

I listened in to the part about flying and Ion didnt say it wouldnt be available until the end, he just said it would not be available at the start. Which we knew anyhow. What he did NOT say is that it would not be available at all. Sure, he can change his mind, he has in the past. But based on what he said in that interview, it will probably be unavailable at least for the first full patch until people have time to play around with dragon riding.

We dont know if its something they plan to do going forward and if so how they would, or even really much about the system at all. The interview at least gave me some hope its not a complete wipe of normal flight for the expansion.

[Murdercarpet-zuljin]

From my reading of what they said, each character will have to unlock their dragon, and further abilities will be account-wide.

[Cruelmoon-nemesis]

Still very, very wrong.

[Solarion-wyrmrest-accord]

Why does Dragonriding increasing feel like their latest attempt to get rid of actual flying?

One step forward, two steps back.

[Alejandros-moknathal]

@Simplyred-hydraxis

Once again, GD chooses to believe the worst based on their own imagination.

Because GD has seen how Blizzard handles things like this. People want to just be free to fly. Sounds like players will be juggling arcade style controls, a stamina bar, dodging threats in the air, etc. We are not going to be able to just travel from point a to point b without playing a mini-game from the sounds of things.

Still don’t hate it yet as there isn’t enough info. The more I hear the more concerned I become though.

[Alejandros-moknathal]

@Frara-blood-furnace

Be happy you can move through the air from the start…

We were from BC through MOP.

[Frara-blood-furnace]

Would you rather spend an ever increasing amount of gold to buy the ability to fly or engage with the provided content that allows for free flying as soon as you finish some tasks?

[Dordendron-black-dragonflight]

@Sinelius-proudmoore

Wrong, because it would take away all need to buy the WW equipment. You could then just use anti-dismount equipment and then use the bug to WW freely anytime, making equipment useless. In this way now I can WW with any mount in tank spec and have fun using whatever I want.

This was before mount equipment was a thing. They first floated taking away waterstriding during Legion’s alpha.

[Annastasi-proudmoore]

@Murdercarpet-zuljin

each character will have to unlock their dragon, and further abilities will be account-wide.

I think I’m ok with that. hopefully unlocking the dragon isn’t too long of a quest chain

[Fryingpans-dalaran]

@Shadowhawks-proudmoore

we have to play by there rules

We really don’t.

[Ronalio-stormreaver]

Tha twas the only time it came in final patch and out side of that and 9.1 in SL both Legion and BfA flying came in the .2 patches and they were not the last ones

[Ronalio-stormreaver]

@Caelin-boulderfist

I will wait for more information on dragon riding before I get “worked up” over it.

[Silvite-wyrmrest-accord (Silvite)]

You get flying with dragonflight… So you get flying. Just NOT your flying.
Do you want this system or Leggos 3.0 or Azrite again?

[Thrymyrden-stormrage]

God forbid the game’s core traversal mechanic is more interesting than “press numlock and go put on the kettel”. Sheesh.

[Demshala-myzrael]

i don’t want travel to be a mini game. it’s fine as an option, as forced, i’ll do exactly what i did when he had no flight - do the bare minimum in the new areas and hurry back to where i can fly my way, instead of the devs’ never ending war on flight way.

[Rainfall-bleeding-hollow]

Dude at least we can glide around to some extent. It’s better than be grounded for months. I know it’s not what I wanted personally, but I’ll take it as a compromise.

[Walkerbo-saurfang (Walkerbo)]

@Ritahayworth-daggerspine

@Allolria-khazgoroth

In the twitter interview, Danuser has confirmed Dragonriding will be the only way to fly - barring access to your own flying mounts - most likely IMO until the end of the expansion, probably last patch.

Also a whole bunch of stuff that sounds terrible regarding dragonriding - stamina bar, likely grindy system similar to cypher research.

Not happy.

We are decided. the wife and I arent buying this expansion unless and until flying is activated for our flying mount collection.
IF its at the end of the expansion as youre saying, there literally isnt any reason for us to buy at all. We’ll just wait till DF is free with the subscription.

This is what I have done since WoD, I don’t buy until flight is fully achievable and available in game.