I tried to use one recently and it was more like slow fall with the ability to turn.
It sure gets frustrating when everywhere you turn something you spent time on is just removed or made useless.
What a lazy way to make a game. Imagine if every other tuesday chess players got to move pawns like knights?
At this point, someone should do a list of all the things that were earned and then just made useless like the gravity well. Then add up the approximate time spent on gaining those lost items as an example of how little blizz respects the time of subscribers.
In my case, it would have to be at least 6 months of played time. Can we get some free subscription time ? /hahaha
4 Likes
i dont think so
seems still the same speed
3 Likes
They seem to be the same to me. Same behavior since Warlords.
What were you expecting?
3 Likes
Gliders work exactly the same for me.
1 Like
Take up engineering and get the cloak enchant version of the glider, very quick n easy to level engy up to get it even, level 25 MoP engineering iirc.
2 Likes
I don’t have hard data but I don’t think anything has changed. I’ll test that tonight with my usual benchmark: jumping off Blackrock Mountain, and gliding to Stormwind Harbor.
Works the same for me. Both the glider and the racial.
Perhaps drognriding has skewed my memories od using them.
You would have fit right in when Classic was launching and everyone was misremembering everything lol… The gliders are the same and haven’t changed, as far as I know.
1 Like
Wait, what? Really?
Gimme a sec, I need to go make Muffin here fall off of a tower or sumpin and pop a glider.
I’m sure nothing change but your perception of its speed compared in dragon riding zones.
No for me it was the rate of descent. I even mounted first and was running off the edge and immediately popping the glider.
Where did you try an use it?
I think they’ve been excluded in some areas where they would be too useful. Doubt they would go to the trouble to code in a different behavior but who knows
Yeah this seems slow as molasses. 
1 Like
I used to mount up and run off edges and pop it but you noticed the speed too.
Maybe they nerfed the popping it at mounted speed. Folks were using them in early SL to go from orbios to the other zones.
Seems exactly the same to me.
If they changed it on purpose that’s going to be interesting. There’s a bunch of achievements that use them.
It’s been so long since I bothered with them that it really could just be a perception issue on my end.
Wait a minute I just remembered I can check changelogs on wowhead.
EDIT: Many things use the slow fall spell id: 917504. I couldn’t find a version that had any changelogs.
I just used one and it feels the same for me as it always has.