Blizzard, add a toy to the game. Sold for a low price by an accessible NPC.
The toy shall give you a buff that lasts 12 hours and can be dismissed any time.
This buff shall slow dragonriding speed by 50%. Edit: And as suggested by Codey, also remove wind visuals.
Eureka. Most motion sickness is now solved without sacrificing anything.
You’re welcome. You can pay me in bacon.
Or just let us use our normal flying mounts.
Is it the visible air currents that make ppl sick, or is it the high velocity? I don’t get motion sickness, but I get a tiny bit dizzy watching the terrain fly by after using whirling surge.
For many it’s the high velocity.
Then you can wait for pathfinder. I’m suggesting a compromise.
You already can fly slow. Im not sure why that’s overlooked.
Flying slow normally brings momentum issues.
I thought electrotherapy helped this?
It isn’t the speed of the mount so much as the visual cues, motion is relative to height so when you are high up it doesn’t move too fast. However, having wind visuals wiz past you that close to your center sight makes it impactful. The toy thing is a great idea, but honestly, the easier solution would be to have a setting that removes the wind effects while in flight. Giving us the ability to fly old school is NOT an acceptable solution, you people just want to be able to hover afk in the air, get over it already
As am I, but with something already in the game from 2007.
Good point. Make the toy remove those visuals as well!
That’s an odd hoop when you can just allow regular flying.
These were Ion’s old arguments that are now pointless.
What is the appeal for reg flying anyway, is it because it takes less effort? Honestly, I hope they fully replace old-school flying permanently. You are describing maps that were designed for the ground first play, the dragon isles have vertical challenges and were designed for flying…much like Azeroth was redesigned for flying in mind and cata zones when they opened flying up in that xpac. Your arguments are moot
have you tried just throwing up
Which they’re obviously not going to do. They’ll add it at a much later date with a pathfinder system, if at all. That doesn’t help people now.
Ion already said in an interview they are going to allow regular flying later in the xpac, they just haven’t said when.
My point is if people are getting motion sickness or whatever, then just do it now. DR is still better.
And my point is they almost certainly will not do it now, nor soon. In that case, my idea will help many people. Not all, but many.
… well if they want to help people in this situation, instead of creating a toy that sounds like a logistical nightmare, why don’t they just do the thing they said they were going to do anyways?
Part of the problem is probably that the FoV temporarily changes whenever you accelerate or climb. I am susceptible to motion sickness in games with low FoV or rapid FoV changes and am basically lucky that I don’t have this problem with dragonriding. I totally empathize with the people who feel they basically can’t play, especially if they’ve been playing WoW up to this point without concern and now basically have to sit out of a game they love.
For the same reason they don’t have flying already enabled in zones explicitly designed for flight. It would partially invalidate one of the expansion’s flagship features. If they enable it then fine, but if they don’t…
The toy should be fairly relatively easy to make, not a logistical nightmare.
I was close to.