Confirmed by Devs: No flying until late in the expansion

[Soulebreaker-hyjal]

Exactly. It’s very likely that is the gate this time.

[Dieliania-dentarg]

Nobody cares about your wpvp…

[Thallia-sentinels (Thallia)]

Sure, because that makes sense to delete an entire collection people have worked on for over a decade and all of the ones they bought.

[Sqúish-zuljin]

@Jackofdemons-thrall

war on flying

War on flying? Holy cow these devs live rent free in some of your heads. It is not a malicious war on your feely-feels, it is a design decision so that people actually see the content for a while and not just zip over it.

[Normercy-aggramar (Normercy)]

@Murdercarpet-zuljin

The original announcement that had people quitting was going to limit the usability of waterwalking mounts to the content they were earned in. So the wod mount would only work in Draenor and the mop mount would only work in Pandaria.

The reason they gave was they wanted to use water currents as a mechanic. But come Legion, the only thing that used water currents was one treasure chest floating in a stream. They removed the ability to use the utility of waterwalking mounts over one chest in Highmountain.

We still had waterwalking waterwalkers at that point though.

[Murdercarpet-zuljin]

I see you’re a vindictive and spiteful person who can only be happy if you’re playing wow as a single player game.

@Normercy-aggramar

We still had waterwalking waterwalkers at that point though.

Which is because they had to roll back the original plan, to restrict waterwalking mounts to the content they were earned in, after so many players were quitting over such a massive nerf.

It took many months for them to come up with the concept of “mount equipment”, so if people wanted to use a mount as a waterwalker all their mounts would be locked into the same mount equipment and they could use no other option. They needed to come up with a pointless restriction to get back at players who made them rescind the original plan.

[Soulebreaker-hyjal]

He’s just trying to get reactions. He’s a bored Dwarf.

[Trikzi-dentarg]

@Soulebreaker-hyjal

Yeah they didn’t say end of expansion at all. I was listening. They said not at the beginning and it’ll be earned like recent expacs and then mentioned how much people liked Zereth Mortis. They didn’t give any strict timetables.

I missed where to see this interview, do you have a link please?

[Ritahayworth-daggerspine]

@Trikzi-dentarg

That was so weird. I never noticed anyone complain about the water strider, except they didn’t want to do the rep grind to get it. It was like out of the blue Ion says something like, ‘Players are only using striders and no other mounts’. I’m like, ‘what??’.

I will give Ion benefit of doubt on this one TO A DEGREE.
I did actually see in game and in here SOME complaints, but I think they were terribly exaggerated.
The flight and Pvp screaming have been FAR worse in here than the strider complaints ever were.

[Hewer-kelthuzad]

It’s true though, before mount equipment was added to BFA I would see so many people on waterstriders before flying was added back. They were ubiquitous. The only people not riding them were people who didn’t have them yet.

[Ritahayworth-daggerspine]

@Murdercarpet-zuljin

I see you’re a vindictive and spiteful person who can only be happy if you’re playing wow as a single player game.

lol…Id like to be able to figure out how to play it offline solo just so I dont have to deal with his sort anymore, to be quite frank.

[Jackofdemons-thrall (Jackofdemons)]

Elaborate plz

[Hewer-kelthuzad]

Says the guy who wants to zip zop boobity bop all over the map ignoring everything in it and every one getting his chores done. WoW barely even resembles an MMO anymore.

[Trikzi-dentarg]

@Hewer-kelthuzad

It’s true though, before mount equipment was added to BFA I would see so many people on waterstriders before flying was added back. They were ubiquitous. The only people not riding them were people who didn’t have them yet.

Not true. Hardly anyone was using them on my servers. I only used them when I needed them, then I switched to other mounts.

[Soulebreaker-hyjal]

Transcript here https://www.wowhead.com/news/dragonflight-developer-roundtable-with-ion-hazzikostas-and-steve-danuser-326869. You can also replay the recording https://twitter.com/Warcraft/status/1519345863398772740

[Hewer-kelthuzad]

I ignore all vulpera on sight.

[Thallia-sentinels (Thallia)]

Most people I know didn’t use it when they had it or only used it to cross the water and swapped mounts at the other side. It just depends on the people.

The whole thing was just silly, imo.

[Trikzi-dentarg]

@Soulebreaker-hyjal

Transcript here https://www.wowhead.com/news/dragonflight-developer-roundtable-with-ion-hazzikostas-and-steve-danuser-326869. You can also replay the recording https://twitter.com/Warcraft/status/1519345863398772740

ty!

[Ritahayworth-daggerspine]

@Jackofdemons-thrall

Stop acting like a victim and a defeatist, this expac should be exactly what you want but with a creative spin on it.

You are so hellbent on trying to twist ppls perceptions

whatever you say, Ion. To the list.

[Bojanglz-whisperwind (Bojanglz)]

@Kalaen-black-dragonflight

bad xpac will be bad

Yet here you are still actively playing and will be playing next expansion too. Kinda sad if “bad xpac will be bad” you still stay and play. Move on already.