For the love of all that is holy, change the time from 5 seconds, maybe 2 or 3 - no need for it to take that long
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Agree. And when I enter a LFG Timewalking dungeon using “steadyflight”, I come out of it in “skyriding” mode. That really sucks if you were hovering over bad sh** when you got teleported to the dungeon.
They really want to shove skyriding down my throat.
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Yeah, and they “think” people like skyriding more. No data cited, just a hunch. I’d much rather use normal flying whenever possible.
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Normal flying is slow. May as well be ground mounts.
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Slow and steady, as the name implies. It’s useful when you need to stop and hover. It’s useful when you’re questing and need to stop and pickup bits of quest junk off the ground. It’s how WoW flying was from the start.
Skyriding has its use, obviously, but it shouldn’t disregard what I’ve selected and automatically switch with every zone-in. Logging off to switch to my banker, log back to the main and almost stumbled trying to fly off. It’s awkward and unnecessary to Force us to use skyriding.
Leave me to pick my own flying style!
And yeah, the switch over time should be instant.
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It’s not instant for a reason.
The impact it has on gathering and world PvP. It shouldn’t be instant,
idk… it’s ok for me. Just switch flying style when you’re in a hub is what I do.
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have you reported that? that sounds like a bug. an annoying one. the game should not be changing your settings like that. 
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Yeah, it just started happening yesterday after maintenance. Probably a bug. Pretty annoying one.
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That’s a ridiculous reason.
Steady flight has been THE flying style since it was implemented. Gathering is done by druids and mech mounts.
World PvP doesn’t exist nowadays. If you grew up on a PvP realm, you would know how all that works.
I would like instant style change plus instant mounting. That would be a QoL improvement.
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More than fast enough for me.
Considering it’s faster than ground mounts, this makes no sense.
Ten second to love.
that same issue happened to me several times. yeah, it’s not fun leaving a dungeon group and immediately falling 1022309423225397235 miles and dying.
it had that impact for a whole six months…the world continued on.
Five seconds is a long time, but on the up side, last time I switched flying modes I was able to go cook supper during during that 5 seconds. And feed the cats and clean the kitchen.
Of course if I didn’t have all that work to do I would have had to endure the agonizing five second wait with … with … ** gasp ** … Nothing to do !!!
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world pvp should stay in its own lane. We shouldnt be annoyed because it exists.
And another thing. If you click on a skyriding race quest giver and start a race, it instantly changes you to skyridiing if you were steadyflight. So the “technology” is there to instantly change a player’s flying mode.
If instant mode change is good enough for the racing guys, it is good enough for the players.
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Dear Tiff… maybe one 5 second change doesnt have a huge impact to you. But multiply that by the number of times you may switch modes and it adds up. But thank you for the most helpful and thought provoking reply.
Keep some peanut butter crackers near by to much on during the long 5 second wait. It works for me.
Roll a monk. You can instantly switch to steady flight whenever you want