I was giving my friend a ride because he isn’t a huge fan of the dragonriding experience but can’t deny that it is tremendously faster than flight paths for where we were headed. My friend mines and herbs having plenty of knowledge/specced the herbing/mining while mounted because his little kid likes to pick herbs and mine to help daddy. Why is it not possible to herb or mine while riding along? I got requested to touch down for a few rare elemental nodes here and there along the way and he got really frustrated with not only inconveniencing me that way but also the fact that he lost two nodes due to mobs aggroing on him/we simply couldn’t kill them fast enough to get the node [hyper spawn gnolls are just great]. Seems weird that this perk is of gathering while dragonriding doesn’t extend to the dragonriding ride along feature. And before people go but bots, why should bots ruin the actual player experience and determine something that has never been restricted before [I am a druid and my friend could always herb while riding] because they aren’t being properly banned.
Question, do you have the ability to gather while mounted? Just wondering if it is actually tied to your ability and not that of your passenger.
Yes, we both had the ability to mine and herb while dragonriding
I agree, OP. Druid mount form has always allowed the passenger to pick herbs (but not mining, unless I’m mistaken) without dismounting, so I think dragonriding passengers should be able to pick herbs without being “removed from vehicle” as well.
I’d like to +1 for this as well.
My main is a Druid and I cant stress enough how much I am a supremely sucky dragonrider. My best friend and I both mine and herb and I used to do the “driving” but now he does. And now I have to hop off and catch all kinds of aggro to pick my flowers.
No mining was never included but dragonriding allows for this now, which is great because miners have wanted this mounted ability ever since the Sky Golem was created for non-druids to herb. Although perhaps it was never intended a druid class mount rider could mine nodes while the druid themself hovered above a node in reach, this works with passenger mounts as well though thus not being specific to druids.
I didn’t know you could stay mounted while herbing for dragonriding, it always dismounts me >_> I have all the flying skills, how does one obtain this?
40 in botany spec
Its a specialization unlock within mining and herbing.
well bust my buttons, time to put points into botany! thank you