People seem to still be under the impression that flying is going to take forever to unlock and require similar achievements like Pathfinder. It’s not. Icy Veins article and others are old. This is how it works currently and how it is on PTR:
Flying ruins wpvp and trivializes world content. It should be delayed until the last patch.
Glad they don’t listen to those types of opinions.
How does getting to Oribos work? Do you have to land at a flight master and take a flight path there? That’s kind of awkward if so, but I guess I understand if the Doctor Who tunnels wouldn’t work well with flying mounts.
Yes you do, because “reasons”
To go from zone to zone, zone to Oribos, Oribos to zone, you have to take the flightpath or use the pocket portals or hearthstone.
The zones were set extremely far apart on the map. It takes a half hour to fly yourself from zone to zone without using the Stargate wormholes.
Flying has been here since BC. WPvP didn’t die with vanilla, ya silly moose.
It just eases up travel and exploration, but you still have to land to actually do anything.
Hmm. I don’t love that. It would have been nice if they’d found a way to at least move between zones without taking a flightpath. Just feels like that breaks pacing and immersion quite a bit.
I don’t know why they put the zones so far apart when they made Shadowlands. It was pretty dumb.
Those are the “reasons” but honestly I don’t buy it… watch your movement speed going through, it’s a loading screen.
So we can fly in the old SL zones, and not even between them
Imagine being able to hit level cap and just spending gold to be able to fly. If only we had such a system like that. Oh well, probably wouldn’t be popular, it’s not like they did exactly that during the best expansions of the game . . .
I have seen no indication that this statement is still true.
But the length of time from the start of the expansion until 9.1 is released (which is happening exactly when?) is not trivial.
I guess my question is how does that compare to previous patches?
This is obviously a hard time gate. And while there would be limits on available rep in previous expansions leading to a time gate, are they comparable?
Could you get flying faster grinding pathfinder in the past? Longer?
I still cant fly in BFA since I quit before it became available and I dont remember the others.
But my impression is with the hard time gate that it will still take as long as it was taking before.
4 small zones , I thought BFA was smaller then most expacs with three zones x2 , but this expac took the cake . What’s next ? Next expac 3 zones ? And the Capitol city was just lazy , worst Capitol city ever . Ugly and small . Do better next expac please . I love the wow environment but this expac seemed lacking to me , thanks .
Thank you for the sadist opinion. Most people enjoy flying. And wpvp is so rare that it shouldn’t - and doesn’t - matter when it comes to content, including flying. It should only be delayed by about a month into an expansion.
This depends on how quickly we can get renown. If we only get 2 renown per week like we did through, what, 22 to 40? Yeah, then flying will take 2 1/2 months from patch. Last chapter, which unlocks flying, is at renown 59.
People have posted videos of druid flapping to other zones. It takes that long.
It isn’t.
I’m glad to not have to buy flying every expansion for every alt I have.
Time-wise? About the same, probably.
I’m tired of Tiny Island of Warcraft, too.
It’s unlocked by campaign chapters, not Renown. Which is what I posted.
Chapters are unlocked by renown. The last chapter unlocks flying. The last chapter does not unlock until renown 59, ergo flying does not unlock until renown 59.
could have sworn they put in fatigue between the zones to prevent this?
It is, you can actually see this by just having a character window open while flying between zones. It gets reset and closed last I checked. That’s a hallmark of wow loading transitions. It happens because you’re going across an instance handoff and a different server has to handle things so it doesn’t know the state.