Flying and Warmode

[Shamrond-lightbringer]

I think the effect will be minimal because in my experience the primary reason that players do warmode is for the XP buffs, the bribe quests, and the extra abilities. Also, many of the players who do warmode don’t even want flight:

@Kibblepaws-nesingwary

I don’t know why people so desperately want to fly over everything. It’ll just speed up the journey so they can spend even more time bored and complaining about lack of content once they reach the destination… Plus utterly destroy WPvP, I hope I don’t have to unsub when they do eventually add it.

@Zérgling-thrall

The wpvp is a blast right now. Flying will destroy that

@Tewa-hyjal

Then they should have made the PvP servers into non-flying servers, as was suggested to them for years.

@Yeyanï-dalaran

I PvP and I hate flying cause people can get away.

@Verethíel-frostmourne

I wish flying would never be implemented. That would kill world pvp and any form of questing difficulty.

@Verethíel-frostmourne

I’ve been wpvping lately and ive had Alliance/Horde push pulling arom stand for hours and that was fun wpvp. That will never happen with flying.

@Khezik-kelthuzad

From a pvp perspective, I love that we dont have flying…reduces immersion and PvP.

@Raiyyn-lothar

I don’t care about PvP, instanced or world. I don’t PvP much and when I do it’s a random BG or the old “PvP WQ” areas in Legion for Honor to get the pet/mount/title rewards. But for a lot of players PvP is their main game-play. For them being grounded can be fairly important.

@Raiyyn-lothar

If you are flying above everything, you can’t engage as “randomly” as they would like. You have to see something and choose to “head down into battle”. Battle can’t just find you; you have to actually seek it out.

That diminishes the “danger” in the world. It takes away from the feeling of always being in danger that a lot of PvP players want in their natural game play experience.

So this idea that flight destroys PvP is not some imaginary non-factor that the OP pulled out of thin air. Whether it’s true or not, some players fanatically believe this, and Blizzard has catered to them for years at our expense.