Today I received a quest item from Island Expeditions. It was a Venture Co. Business Plan that required me to go to Ratchet and turn it in. No problem.
I take the convenient portal to Orgrimmar, and I fly south towards Razor Hill as flying backwards to the Flight Path to Orgrimmar didn’t make sense to me.
I take the flight path from Razor Hill to Ratchet, and lo and behold, the flight path takes me back to Orgimmar and then to Ratchet.
This is ridiculous.
Razor Hill FP was added in Cata.
Before then it did not exist.
And since Razor Hill was a low level (5-10) zone prior to scaling, they only connected it to Org.
It has not changed since.
When Blizz would send me to Ratchet as Alliance, I used to take the Shrine portal and then the gnomish teleporter.
Note the key words there are “used to.”
Almost every flight path near hellfire citadel takes me through the mountain and walls of hellfire citadel.
Yeah, that’s been freaking me out. It’s like that from my Garrison to anywhere I fly.
I can’t solo clear the first level of that raid and now I can’t even fly near it in peace. Screw that place.
I take the portal to Tanaan and then fly myself. But I have flying out there. I’m not sure if you do.
From orgammar I take portal to Ashran, then portal to volmar. All in all, 35 seconds from zuldazar.
i’m super amazed this still hasn’t been fixed yet… it’s a pretty horrific bug.
WoD flightpaths are very direct lmao
The garrison flight paths are mind boggling bad. Upfront, obvious, in your face known issues that have been left in game for years.
Reminds me of SOE and SWG. One of the best and worst games IMHO, because half the battle was working around how buggy the game was. Played on the test servers and we’d report big glaring bugs, dev’s would acknowledge them and the bugs would still get pushed to live. At that point they’re not bugs, they’re a conscious decision to make an inferior game.
It my not affect game play, but it’s kinda of like zero tolerance, you let the little things go unresolved like broken windows, tall grass, and graffiti and pretty soon the whole neighborhood goes to hell.
Even if it takes banging your head repeatedly on a mountain to fly thru it the path will not be altered!
It is not just that one FP, it is the entire old world FP’s that are just bad and take you on a magical mystery tour.
It reminds me a lot of how the flight paths were in early BfA beta - you’d fly in a direct line regardless of the terrain ; so through water, hills, mountains, buildings, etc. Thats exactly how it is leaving the Alliance garrison. I’m guessing its a flight point bug that they just haven’t bothered to fix for whatever reason.
So few staff, so little time…
yes it doesnt make much sense that the flight paths from razor hill go to orgrimmar first, i have hearthstone to razor hill/goldshire instead of the capitals because they lag too much in there, although recently discovered that the button “num lock” can make you autofly on your own mount (or autowalk) which makes flight paths kinda obsolete in the areas that allow flying since your own mount is faster and goes one direction and not limited to specific locations