I was wondering why people like the awkward mechanics involved in dragon flight and soar so much? I would like a regular flight form like druids have so much better. It just seems ridiculous to have to point down to accelerate and up to slow down etc. I can hardly ever reach what I am aiming for. I haven’t been doing it long but I can’t imagine this is going to grow on me.
I’m personally a huge fan because it’s infinitely more efficient. I realize some people have more particular struggles with it, though.
You get an ability that instantly stops you. You don’t have to point yourself up to slow down.
It’s been confirmed that this will be available as a toggle on TWW.
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I just want to point the direction I am going and fly, that’s what seems reasonable to me. I have noticed that others just love this system though. Having the speed be variable or controllable is fun but I would rather do it with a key or the mouse wheel instead of the direction I point.
A regular flight form would make me happy, hope that’s true :).
It is true, you’ll definitely have the functionality you want in TWW.
People like it because it’s 3 times faster, and also more engaging.
I’ve noticed a lot of these threads tend to pop up from folks who only have base dragonriding unlocked. So i’m assuming this may be the case for you.
I highly recommend going out of your way to get all of the dragonriding glyphs around the dragon isles and getting it fully leveled up first. There are guides and maps with their locations. Best to start in order of zone progression. Takes like an hour or two tops.
Once it’s maxxed out, maintaining and gaining altitude is pretty easy. You flick the angle upward and hit your space bar, then level back out. And you get a button for stopping that refunds a vigor if you do it from high speed.
Next expansion, it will have static flight for those who prefer it, but i genuinely recommend figuring out dragonriding because it’s just the fastest way to get around.
The difference between base dragonriding and full dragonriding is night and day. You can basically never run out of vigor and never have to land.
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When dragonflight first released, everyone was saying to get the glyphs. What almost everyone failed to mention is to use those glyphs on the dragonriding talent tree. It may seem obvious, especially since a quest literally tells you to do so, but people love rushing through content and they eventually dismiss that it exists.
Secondly, the user could have disability or running on something other than a mouse/keyboard (such as a laptop trackpad or controller). Either of those could complicate dragonriding pretty significantly.
Other than that, I don’t see a reason why dragonriding wouldn’t be miles better compared to traditional flying. The only benefit I would find to traditional flying is if you’re constantly moving very short distances for profession items and such.
I love Soar and dragonriding.
That said, I do sometimes use my old-style flying mount. Being able to go slow and hover is helpful when I’m looking for hard-to see quest items or NPCs.
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I figured out that, for one thing, I am having trouble with the interface not changing my action bar when I fly so that surge forward and flap upward are not visible when I fly. I am having an impossible time finishing that fly to the observatory quest. Now I know what it is I’ll find an answer in the UI forum (hopefully).
…Yes, I do have cancer and going through chemo so it’s probably extra difficult for me.
I thought this thread was going to be about how sometimes with Soar, the animation for leaping into the air goes off but my character doesn’t leave the ground. I have this happen every so often but I can’t reproduce the issue consistently. 
I don’t use soar because it doesn’t work on Tindral, and I don’t want to have multiple keybinds.
Yes, awkward indeed.
I have had that too with soar, I figured I must’ve done/not done something. It’s less annoying with the cd at ten seconds than it was earlier in leveling.
Yeah no idea, I thought it maybe has something to do with having the camera pointed downwards when cast but it’s not consistent enough and also happens when my camera is definitely neutral/up to seem to be that.
I use a macro for it, try this.
#showtooltip
/dismount [mounted]
/cast [advflyable] Soar
/cast [advflyable] Cliffside Wylderdrake
/cast [noflyable] Jade, Bright Foreseer
Just add your preferrred mounts. You could also change the [advflyable] to just [flyable] since dragonriding is now world-wide. I just haven’t bothered updating the macro that much
When you can soar, you’ll soar. When you can’t soar, it’ll use your dragonriding mount instead. When you can do neither, it’ll do your ground mount.
The dismount has a minor issue of simply trying to cast whatever other mount is first in priority unless you’re moving. Doesn’t really cause much of a problem
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If you want more variation, I use the addon ‘LiteMount’ for this. I set Soar to the highest priority mount, otherwise it will give me a random other mount that I have set (with some mounts being a higher priority than others). Then I have some alternate hot key versions which will only do regular flying mounts in the event I don’t want to dragonride. Since I like to collect mounts it’s nice to have a randomised list.