Are they going to continue the lazy and spiteful “anti-flying” stuff in the new expansion? Or will the follow what the devs did in BC and Wrath, and incorporate it into game play and leveling?
Honestly, I’ve played less and less over the years since they started the anti-flying stuff, having started in BC where flying was the cherry when you hit 70, and much of the end-game non-raiding stuff was centered around flying. The game just isn’t very fun without it.
The thought of another expansion being an unfun slog with flying introduced months later where I can finally use the scores of flying mounts I have just isn’t appealing.
From what I’m seeing, no. Dragonriding appears to be the next evolution of flying. Hopefully it’ll be backported to our old flying mounts and dragonriding will be considered the new standard for how flying works in WoW.
Aside from maybe WoD, the game was never anti-flying. Unless you consider anti-AFK worms in BfA and dangerous flying mobs in ZM to be “anti-flying.”
Pathfinder is preferable to paying gold on a single character. Farming gold is more unfun than even the most grueling Pathfinder.
Did not know that (obviously). Good. I just logged in again after several months of not playing after hitting 60 on a couple of my toons. The months long wait to fly with unknown requirements has pretty much made me rather not like the last few expansions all that much.
It’s already been said regular flying will be released later on in the expansion in the first major patch i believe it was, until then its dragonriding
I also despise dragonriding, i view it as nothing but another garbage system that most will hate after they experience how tedious it can be, and thinks its a waste of resources and development.
And even then… it hardly seems necessary, aside from using existing mounts. But from a functional standpoint? Dragonriding has the traditional flying beat.
It completely feels like Ion’s backhanded attempt again to try and sneak a flying ban into the game. It failed miserably with WoD, and will cost them if they try it again.
Yeah I agree, i hate the whole concept of it, it’s a waste of resources and developement. And most of the populous will hate it when they actually see how tedious it is.
Flying does not need to be fun, not letting folks use their hard earned beloved mounts is also the most stupid thing.
Its not flying, its 15 minutes of looking for a high point to jump off of and then falling with style. A goblin glider is exactly the same but we don’t call that “flying”
Also if they were so confident the dragonriding is better, they’d release it at the same time as regular flight and see which the players choose… but this is about forcing the playerbase to make their metrics good “Oh look 100% of players used dragonriding, obviously our new system is a huge success! Now we’ll be removing regular flight from the rest of the game since you all love it so much!”
Gee, I remember spending hours and hours getting a netherdrake in BC. That required flying. Required epic flying actually. I was the first in my guild to save up the 5000 gold needed for it. Took two months worth of farming mats and selling them on the AH. So your “play as little as possible” thing is rather idiotic, don’t you think?
That’s if you like the look of the dragons, which I currently do not, and don’t mind parking every other mount in your stable because Dragon riding will be much faster.
But somehow being stuck on the ground, trying to figure out how to get to where you want to go on the other side of some hills while agroing every bears is fun and engaging?
