Not going to linger on this, but for the love of all that’s decent please make the flight style swap instant cast. Ideally it would be off the global cooldown for macro usage, but failing that… the apparently 4-5 second cast on the alpha right now is just ungodly when you consider that both styles of flight have their uses and there’s no reason not to have both styles relatively readily available at all times like they are now.
Dynamic flight/Sky Riding is a full on replacement for the flight whistle and is usually better than going out of one’s way to a flight path if you’re remaining engaged with the game. It’s a godsend for long distance travel and I adore it, full stop. Static flight absolutely has its place for hopping around in a tighter quest zone with a precision that dynamic flight kinda sucks for.
Switching between these modes should not be a 4-5 second casting time, IMNERHO. This isn’t a “war mode” degree of commitment, it’s a choice between two tools. Please don’t put an annoying song and dance attached to reaching into the toolbox. A quick switch would be far better.
IMCLGO, They should just combine the modes to give everyone the best of both worlds. If you’d be going slower than 310%, it’s static flying, but you get to press the speedups if you want which take you into dynamic flying.
A cooldown i kind of understand but a cast time is crazy. I am basically praying that some mounts never get dragonriding so i can ignore this nonsense.
What could possibly go wrong with dynamic flying without cast-time for druids so they can fly at mach 10, and those turkeys and their soar? Dew it, dew it Blizzard. Remove cast time, pvp is dead anyways.
Is it? Is it really? Or is it more likely that telling the server to change the flight code of hundreds of mounts all at once while arguably hundreds of people are all doing it throughout the day might actually take a couple seconds to do?
idk but you dont either and its not like blizzard is giving us that as a justification. it also makes no sense considering all of the other game actions which have 0 cast time
Yeah good point. After all, how long does it take an airforce pilot to switch between an F-22 and a Blackhawk Helicopter? Why I bet they can do it in far less than 4 seconds and by only pushing one button.
Well you wouldn’t know that the way people cry endlessly about the story not being the Great American Novel but switching aircraft mid flight just seems silly even in a video game.
I go back and forth all the time and it hardly takes any time at all. Land, click, click and off you go.