I skipped the BFA and shadowland, only got DF, now I go BFA regions, but can’t fly, is there a way other than have to go through the whole BFA campaign?
thanks
Because of how Blizzard wants BfA to be the “new player experience”, BfA still does not have flying until you get the Pathfinder achievement.
So, good luck with that. Imo, best to just skip the expansion altogether until they decide to change it. The Broken Isles are quite pretty.
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Pretty sure you have to still do the pathfinder, the whole damn thing. The mobs now go to 60 but the gear seems to stop at the old level 50 stuff. So you’ll very likely be several levels past your gear as you try to finish Pathfinder. It’s not logical but there it is.
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I mean seriously, I don’t see the reason that blizzard won’t allow flying in BFA, who cares about the quests anyway, having players way to explore only adds $ to blizzard
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Better get to farming that reputation, the requirement isnt going away anytime soon
I just find this so dumb because new players get a quest to go learn and purchase flying…then they go back to questing and can’t fly. 
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I remember the rationale of not allowing flying in each expansion is not let players zip through all the quests too fast, but that time has long gone, riding doesn’t slow players much and only adds hassle, not to mention after the expansion years later can’t fly? if players can fly they might buy more subs to explore missed world at least for me
I’m about halfway through Pathfinder for BfA. It’s been surprisingly fun.
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Me with Legion expac right now, actually. Currently in Highmountain taking in the sights while I survey for a Ghost Moose, all the while trying to go through the campaign so I can get the Frostmourne’s Legacy appearance to replace my Phantom Blade Tmogs.
Because you don’t let new players fly without restriction just to then remove the ability once they get to max level.
If Blizzard wanted to make sure new players don’t fly through Zandalar and Kul Tiras, they should just restrict flying until you have one character reach Level 60, the recommended level for Dragonflight. As soon as you do, flight is unlocked for all characters as long as you have learned it on that character.
It baffles me that I can take a mid level druid and fly through the Shadowlands but not fly over Kul Tiras.
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If it wasn’t for the dungeon queue problem I’d say this is the best expansion to level in. About the same difficulty in quests with a much better story, particularly if people decide to play it through to the end. Also great transmogs. For RETURNING players I’d just suggest this since the last of the pre WoW Warcraft stories ended here. (Well Mediv is kinda out there sorta maybe.)
BFA starts strong but the conclusion was Rian Johnson levels of terrible, and Shadowlands was so much worse it made us miss BFA, so is probably best skipped entirely.
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You’re not the first unique person in this predicament. It was this way for years with WoD. It wasn’t until BfA they finally opened up flying in WoD without pathfinder.
Give it time it will come. In the mean time, how does the saying go? Don’t hold your breath.
BfA is a controlled airspace and you need to get your instrument and type ratings from various reputation authorities.
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I played all the expansion so i have all the flying for all expacks … BFA flying takes a long time, it was released in 2 stages, so if you where to do it one sitting it would take a long time not worth it
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It’s actually pretty easy:
- Complete the main quest chain for three zones.
- Complete the first leg of the war campaign.
- get revered rep with the core factions.
- Explore all of the zones fully.
Just doing the campaigns will get you to honored at least with the 4 factions and you still benefit from the WQ bonus weeks for faster rep. Also, once you have it unlocked you don’t ever have to worry about doing it again.
For a 70 character it might take a weekend.
going back and doing BFA world quests just cause I like flying around the BFa zones more than SL, and have noticed something weird- blue quest gear is item level 80, epic upgraded quest gear is level 100, but random green drops are 170.