I will agree on this, but I won’t sell people just on the mounts: I would prefer to sell it on the gameplay, the story, community etc.
Please. I’m honestly surprised they’re considering raising the level cap again after doing the initial level squish.
Hopefully the dragonflying progress tracks will be a step in the right direction towards something similar as that; I can’t bear leveling to 120 again for it to feel like it was for nothing again, man.
I won’t speak for others, but I do not want to ride my phoenix mount on the ground. It is a bird and it is supposed to fly.
Ngl this was my thought process as well.
Sure, you can still use them on the ground…
… Buuuuuuut, they can fly.
well, it has no legs so technically… it is flying, just very low. 
Honestly increase the level cap to say… 100? And then implement a mastery system for every future expansion. No more ilvl increases, no more level cap increases. Once you’ve hit max level and gotten your awesome end-game gear, you’re focused on masteries for evergreen content. And for people that want to solo old raids and dungeons for transmog, Blizzard can just use buffs/debuffs to increase damage dealt to enemies and reduce damage taken so that they become soloable.
I mean, I’ll settle for 80 if we really have to take a leaflet out of GW2’s books here.
And make it so you can at least upgrade the same gear you can keep, rather than replacing it every few months with a new raid tier; I’d settle for that too.
I’ll be honest: I miss soloing the old raids. I remember when Naxx 25 was still hard back in MoP and bosses actually hurt quite significantly.
it would be nice to have flying again
Yeah, the interactive form of flight which can go up to 2x as fast as regular flight is definitely Blizzard trying to sneak a flying ban in.
And since Ion is the only person I know who works at Blizzard, it must be his doing!
It has both legs and feet… but you are right, it doesn’t walk, which makes it even more silly to not allow it to fly like it was designed to do.
in shadowlands, leveling felt like something they put in just for the sake of putting it in. the progression was on-rails storydriven regardless so levels served no purpose.
story-based progression is fine, we don’t need levels if they’re not meaningful. we can stay level 60 and just pick up ilvls.
don’t do levels just because you think you must.
That’s the point we’re trying to make here: there’s no sense doing a squish to have to do it again.
Ilvl I can understand because gear progress but I also don’t care if it continues over 1k.
what if it has no feet and all wings
Once again, they said that repeatedly in WoD but eventually deciding they weren’t going to do it which got them such strong backlash that they changed course with Pathfinder.
It’s not out of the realm of possibility that they will claim Dragonflight is better so we aren’t going to put regular flying in this expansion after all.
Because they did just that in WoD.
I do not understand this take… I guess the rest of the game has capped you out on fun?
Not really, they said they were removing flying period, not replacing it with another method of flying that many consider better or at least more enjoyable. And then after saying it was just being removed, backtracked from the stance after criticism backlash.
This they are adding the before mentioned bit from the get go, and have said straight from the beginning they are adding regular flying later.
So to use the old term, comparing to warlords is comparing apples to oranges.
Again
In Warlords they said “We will add flying later”. Heck they were selling flying mounts on the cash shop right until the no flying announcement. I know because I bought it.
It’s not really all that different to me. I’ll believe they will add regularly flying to Dragonflight only when it happens. It would be naive to do otherwise.
are they going to have dragon mounts for the dragon races?