Dragonriding should not have been enabled from day 1

[Magefroom-stormrage]

@Brewa-hyjal

Are you talking to yourself, here? Because we all get the point.

No, Brewa. You’re missing the point. The point is they have no self control and need Blizzard to impose their values on the rest of us because of it.

[Antiman-bloodhoof]

Ah, the kind that needs to cry rivers, build bridges and get over them before someone gives them a foot powered lift via a boot to the hind quarters.

[Cdog-stormrage]

@Bajer-bloodsail-buccaneers

Done and won’t be back to buy any of the newly announced mini-expansions if this decision is not reservsed.

I dont think anyone asked though? - anyway i hear cookie clicker is a fun easy game give that a try

[Nairdowel-dawnbringer]

@Magefroom-stormrage

The point is they have no self control and need Blizzard to impose their values on the rest of us because of it.

Thankfully, Ion has learned at least one lesson. The base at large wants flight.
A handful of complainers who cant just used ground mounts if they love them so much arent likely to have any impact on the direction of the game whatsoever.

[Nairdowel-dawnbringer]

@Krinar-kelthuzad

Then. Use. A. Ground. Mount.

I dont know what he’s rambling on about, lol.
I explored the crap out of the entire landmass this time.
When Im ground mounting it all, its point A to point B because of the narrow landscape passages and the time investment.
Flight lets me go faster and get places I cant on the ground so I DO explore far more.

Its almost like the OP is…telling big fibs or something, lol

[Khronys-aerie-peak]

Feels like this topic is ramping up again for whatever reason

[Mathalt-area-52]

I wish I could cast you back into Shadowlands and straight into the Maw where you’re forced to run around without a mount.

[Soared-stormrage]

Do you really need to be forced to explore in order to explore?

The problem is, those who didn’t want to spend endless hours walking didn’t have a choice before…

Now, they get to skip the suffering, and hear me out, you get the choice of not using your flying mount.

So just embrace the availability of options and stop forcing your preferred play style on others.

[Sarama-firetree]

@Khronys-aerie-peak

for whatever reason

It’s the kind of bait GD can’t lay off.

[Simplyred-hydraxis]

@Bajer-bloodsail-buccaneers

Dragonriders get flying on day one, static flight must be earned by completing main quest chain(s).

It is the reason I and my husband have unsubscribed.

You unsubbed now over how things might happen in a year or two? I think it’s either not true, or you were going to unsub anyway.

[Trode-magtheridon (Trode)]

might? they already said this.

DR is day 1… while reg flying is unlocked after the campaign/explore zones.

[Simplyred-hydraxis]

A lot of things are said a year out from an expansion. Still makes no sense to quit now over it, unless you weren’t having fun anyway.

[Rainsóng-area-52]

We really need a dislike button again. jfc

[Trode-magtheridon (Trode)]

can’t hurt the feelings now. it’s a shame

[Bulakzebgor-faerlina]

@Icanteven-aegwynn

Instead of exploring a new and unfamiliar land, we are just skipping over everything,

yeah ok sure… put dragon riding behind a 12 month pathfinder achieve, im cool with that.

no reason to put normal flying behind pathfinder, though.

[Nairdowel-dawnbringer]

@Soared-stormrage

Do you really need to be forced to explore in order to explore?

Clearly the case.

@Trode-magtheridon

DR is day 1… while reg flying is unlocked after the campaign/explore zones.

Starting to think its more about keeping it ‘hard’ to get those little bags of goodies out in tree branches, lol. Its a little challenge with DRing to nail the limb and get them. Not so much with old flight.
ive swapped over to Cindermane charger a few times today to get something thats harder to land and grab with a DRing mount.
Betting thats one of the reasons theyre gating old flight. Not that Im good with it. They COULD just come up with other things to do that are ‘hard’ in some other way…rock climbing for example. Flight doesnt really do squat to make that easier.

[Lucaria-lightbringer]

@Soared-stormrage

The problem is, those who didn’t want to spend endless hours walking didn’t have a choice before…

Now, they get to skip the suffering, and hear me out, you get the choice of not using your flying mount.

So just embrace the availability of options and stop forcing your preferred play style on others.

The problem is, people like that don’t want to use the tools available to them. They literally want everyone else to play their way. They cannot be happy unless everybody is forced to play their way. Like a child.

[Lucaria-lightbringer]

@Trode-magtheridon

while reg flying is unlocked after the campaign/explore zones.

And a hefty time gate, don’t forget that part.

[Norezfou-moonrunner (Norezfou)]

I see you’re still posting on the forums. That requires a subscription.

[Gorgenfraul-proudmoore]

@Icanteven-aegwynn

Instead of exploring a new and unfamiliar land, we are just skipping over everything, basically teleporting from one objective to the next.

So because YOU play a certain way, it means the whole game is bad and evil.

This is LITERALLY the exact same argument that people made to validate taking away flight and hiding it behind things like the old Pathfinder cheevos.
WAAAGHGHGH I missed one ore out of a hundred in northrend because I don’t have flight yet, waaagghghgh blizzard is ruining my immersion because other people are having fun waaghghghg

@Icanteven-aegwynn

We just take off, most likely flying above the trees, so we’re not even seeing the zone, and rush to the next quest marker.

I mean you literally have a dragonriding talent to let you be able to fly on the ground at the same speeed as up above.
YOU CHOOSE TO NOT DO IT.
That’s not blizzard, that’s you big dawg! Nobody told you to fly like that.
Me? I get on my slitherdrake and fly low to the ground having a blast.

JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE SOUR AND CAN’T HAVE FUN IN A DIFFERENT WAY, DOESN’T MEAN THE REST OF US HAVE TO HAVE BAD THINGS.

@Icanteven-aegwynn

Some of you will probably tell me that I could explore them on my ground mounts if I wanted to.

I agree with you here, that is dumb and fully misses the point lol.

@Icanteven-aegwynn

But you’re missing the actual point. These zones are designed with verticality and flying in mind.

yeah. and as I just said you even have a special ability to get extra energy while flying low to the ground. You have choices, and keep making the wrong one. Again, that’s on you bro.

@Icanteven-aegwynn

There are large distances between most quests

@Icanteven-aegwynn

After finishing the new zone in a few hours, I started to wonder why everything felt so small and insignificant.

which is it? is the game big or small?
And if you mean specifically the new Emerald Dream area…of course it’s small, its just one zone! JUST ONE ZONE! Zaralek Cavern was just one place too, but you don’t mention that one…

@Icanteven-aegwynn

Nothing on the ground matters anymore. We just take off, most likely flying above the trees, so we’re not even seeing the zone, and rush to the next quest marker.

your choice. Fly differently. You don’t HAVE to fly all the way in the clouds. You aren’t Toothless the Nightstalker…you don’t attack at the speed of sound and take out your prey with a single swoop, never even seen!..you are some chud playing a character in a video game, and guess what? YOU HAVE CONTROL OVER YOUR MOUSE AND KEYBOARD. Blizzard didnt reach through your monitor and aim you at the sky every time you take off. YOU DID!

As far as dungeons are concerned, I agree. The weird new RUSH RUSH RUSH meta is just bad for the game.