No I’m not asking to remove Dragon Flying. Just listing helpful ideas to reduce nausea while Dragon Flying. What has helped you?
Enable the Dragonriding Ride Along feature my friend ~https://dotesports.com/wow/news/how-to-enable-dragonriding-ride-along-feature
Dramamine
Options > Accessibility > General > Alternate Full Screen Effects
Options > Accessibility > General > Camera Shake
Options > Accessibility > General > Motion Sickness
Scroll out from character as far as possible during dragon riding.
Try to “squint” a little when flying a dragon. It really does lower the effects and impact of the “movement”.
Use ground mounts, goblin gliders and flight points until Bliz releases reg flying
Disable particles in the graphics settings nearly removes that wind trail crap.
If you have a modern monitor try limiting your frame rate, high framerates and refresh rates can be overwhelming with fast movement for some people.
Some people do well with something to focus on like a cross hair in the middle of the screen. Maybe you could try doing something like that with a weak aura that appears when dragonriding?
Set windowed mode (not full screen), shrink the game window size at least while they are dragon riding. Maybe half the window size. Make sure the desktop background is not a solid color. colors similar to what’s in game. and then turn on “night light” mode for the desktop settings.
We found that the monitor has to be set as highest mhz, set at 144hz.
The other option for anyone with Meniere’s Disease or other motion issues is to keep a color dot at the top or sides of your screen. Well known trick for years for motion sickness suffers so they have something to focus on.
As a person who has Meniere’s Disease and been in 8 car accidents, I suffer from extreme motion sickness. The fact that Blizzard STILL puts regular flying behind a must do achievement for the privilege of flying without puking, diarrhea, massive headaches, dizziness, stupidly fast increase in body temperature. I have done all the suggestions here. Still doesn’t help. Normally I have 3-4 toons maxed out and kitted out. I still haven’t finished lvling 1 toon. It isn’t worth my health issues to play the latest expansion.
I get nasty motion sickness. = Nausea, horrid headache, puking… Not fun.
There are only a couple, well maybe 3 areas where you “have” to fly in TWW, and even then for one of them you can go back to ground level and ride, just takes a while. And, then you can pretty much glide down to the ground or glide where you need to be which isn’t so bad. Just glide and crash… lol
Get pathfinder first thing. Then do the rest.
Pathfinder is easy to get, I only play 2, maybe 3 hours a day, took me 4 days (not rushing here,) just doing the Campaign required quests, and riding around (ground mount) all over to get the exploration requirement.
It’s slower, its a bit of a pain, but it’s doable and then one can enjoy the game.
Now I have normal flight. I don’t puke. lol
I went back and started the other quests, I’m taking my time and kind of goofing around.
Much as I want to complete it the quest The Rise of The Reckoning is seriously bugged. To the point that I put in a bug/glitch report. I can get on the ship, but I can’t attack, kill or target any of the mobs. On top of that, the circling, lurching movement triggers my motion sickness. I have dumped the quest, retaken it, tried to do it with a different toon, hard exited the game, rebooted Bnet and still no success in being able to complete the required campaign quest for Hallowfalls. So, until they fix the damn glitch/bug I am stuck with no way to complete the achievement. Sad to say.
I do not get it from dragonriding though oddly enough I get it from the Deathwing encounter when he spins. Really bad. It’s not so much I’m nauseous but I kind of feel it a bit and have my “I’m falling, I will fall” circuit activated.
I blur my eyes out and try not to watch the background turn upside-down.
Full disclosure, video games don’t give me motion sickness and I love dragon riding, but car rides on curvy roads completely ruin my life. Scopolamine patches really do the trick for me, and doesn’t put me to sleep like dramamine does. You can even wear the little patch for up to three days, if it turns out you need to do a longer car trip or be on a boat or something.
This post was from 2022, I made an updated one too.
Now that regular mounts can use Skyriding, I found I can’t use my favorite mount (Grove Warden) without encountering problems. Now the Grove Warden bobs up and down while flying. I have to avoid all bobbing mounts.
