I have to start out saying I was pretty excited for shadowlands, but being 60 for a bit now, I think I literally can’t stand to play it anymore. And by play it, I mean sit on flight points doing the quest lines after cap. The worst part about being horde in BFA was taking a flight point to the docks in the main city, and now that’s 100x worse. Flying between each zone takes upwards of 3 minuets or more. it DOES NOT feel good to have to sit afk for more than 6 minuets to turn in a quest in another zone, then head back to your Covenant.
In total I’ve been 60 for 14 hours. I’ve probably spent close to three hours of that just on the flight points. At least on my druid here, I’ve been able to use travel form in the Maw, but others aren’t that lucky. The entire expansion feels like it’s trying to waste time, and nothing more than that. I’m actually pretty surprised no one is talking about this. Thoughts?
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Actually, we’ve been talking about it in other threads here and there. Just posted about it this morning, matter of fact.
ESO’s portal system wastes FAR less of my GAME time even without flight.
I kinda wish WoW had beenmore like ESO from the start. No flight but multiple portals (wayshrines) per zone.
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Oh, good to know. I skim here every now and then, must have missed them lol. That would have been a MUCH better system for sure.
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Current WoW doesn’t work without flight.
News at 11.
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It could have easily been a portal system and saved everyone hours. Just saying.
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Agreed.
The expansion has potential - but flight locked, far away flight paths, overly large buildings and areas, large no-mount area, and no flight whistle all scream ‘Make sure to pad in as much wasted travel time as possible’.
I won’t be sticking around for it - make flight obtainable, add the flight whistle, put in some more flight paths, portals between the zones, mounts in Maw and I’d probably stick around.
But I’m not spending a large percentage of my game time just watching a flight path or toggling auto run and looking up here and there to keep from running off a cliff.
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This 100%. Tons of content creators seemed to not even notice this -_-
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Is this real? People are complaining about flight times?
Maybe we should just get an item that allows us to instantly teleport wherever we need to be.
Seriously if you can’t handle flying for a few minutes at most then you have serious issues.
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believe it or not TRAVEL time ISNT content, lol.
its busy work cereal filler nothing burger
and let me add that…again…ESO doesnt need to use this time wasting tactic. lol
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Lets just make every quest a scenario that you can Q for and teleport to while sitting in oribos
So we should just cut out the middle man and teleport everywhere instantly? It’s literally 1-3 minutes of travel.
Check your phone, pet your dog, get up and stretch. The fact that you’re complaining about this is unreal
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I expected this type of little brain comment. Let me type it in words you can understand:
At 14 hours my guess is I’m at roughly 3 hours on flight points. Lets be generous and say that at the 24 hour mark I’ll only spent 4 hours on flight points total. For one day.
So at the end of the 30 day sub if you played the entire thing and didn’t log out, you’d be at 120 hours on flight points.
That’s 5 days. FIVE DAYS on flight points. If you think that’s OK, then I’d say you have the issue here bud.
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AGAIN…ESO does exactly that…so my GAME time is spent playing the game.
Just stop guy…we ALL know that travel time in this game is horrid and always has been.
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let me guess : you play on hdd and get long loading times?
If not well, I’m still pretty early but I haven’t had any issues with the flight time, they even seemed pretty fast to me .
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i mean, with the way the flight skill works, they may as well just let us teleport to world quests/dungeons/etc instead of flight. and if they go that way, they might as well just make flight paths portals. the only difference is a bit of time mechanics wise.
i’m not a fan btw, i prefer just ground mounts and the way things are but, if you take a look at the mechanics, they really aren’t different besides the time it takes.
This is my GAME time…not my exercise time.
If I have four hours to PLAY…i want that time spent PLAYING…not 35% of it traveling.
AGAIN…ESO does it and their game world is miniscule by comparison.
Keep trying.
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I have two 1TB SSDs in both of our rigs. Nearly instant loads for the most part.
Ah here we go, instantly starts insulting me because the idea of actually having to get up from your chair and stretch for 60 seconds while you’re on a flight path is too much for you to handle.
You’re right, my brain is too small to comprehend how inept you are. You win
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Stop exaggerating, you’re not spending 35% of your time traveling.
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Well maybe for this expansion but would have worked against WoW at the start. Recall people liking that you would look up and see people flying around or down and see people running around in the world.
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