I guess I'm in the minority

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I always remount real quick and ride over on the ground.
Another thing here to do is if there are a few nodes closer, but at different altitudes, hit the highest first, grab it, get on your mount and step off the side of the edge and glide down to the next highest one. Makes sticking the landing easier.

They NEED to give normal flight NOW.
Just make it so they cant AFK anymore. If the mount isnt moving forward, it falls to the ground like DRing mounts do.
A small price to pay for getting normal flight now, Id think

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I had a couple of stressful situations but like others have said once you get the hang of it the system is pretty incredible

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Why don’t you just collect all the dragon glyphs like a normal person & join the fly forever club? Nobody is stopping you but you

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It takes 5 seconds for your vigor to recharge in flight if you’re going fast enough. Do you really spend more than 5 seconds in between nodes?

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Level with me for a sec, I’d like to get your angle on why you dislike dragonriding. So you have the glyphs and assuming your dragon is fully ranked up via its talent system, at what point is the system falling apart that warrents the disdain?

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takes 15 seconds for you to recharge vigors on ground and its hard for it to recharge fast enough between nodes and no one wants to fly circles around so they can land and go to the next node

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Even with that, it’s so easy to maintain full vigor that you’re objectively doing it wrong if you can’t stay in the air once you’re ready to go again. It’s not difficult…

I could take off from the lowest spot in the dragon isles and fly anywhere if I start with 2 vigor, counting the one vigor it takes to initially lift off. You may even be able to do it with just 1 vigor.

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you do kinda need to plan ahead with DRing. Making sure youre recharging in flight WHEN its possible to do so. Sometimes you cant.
But you dont need to let all of them recharge on the ground. If you plan it right you can do with two.
Skyward ascent to get off the ground, nose up, skyward ascent to get up higher, then nose down quickly to keep the trails showing and you’ll recharge 1 per 5 seconds in the air instead of 1 per 15 seconds on the ground

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I dislike DR as much as the next goat, but it’s objectively the most effective way to do this.

Get your glyphs and practice. You can still use it minimally and be ok.

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exactly.
it takes getting used to it and figuring out what you can do, and cant.
which, for me, is half the fun of DRing.

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Please.

“Do flight like you did up to Mists! It’s cheaper than all this extra work you’ve been doing trying to drag out time!” is not a hard request to understand.

Dragon riding was designed for people who didn’t like what came before, not those who did, so Blizzard swinging and missing is not the fault of the audience that doesn’t like the change they never wanted or needed.

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I am going to try this. Blizzard really needs to start back doing blog post like they used to for pet battles. Dragon Riding for Dummies should be one and I would be there. I really like the feature and it would be less frustrating if I could get better at it. I am watching my husband get gold on the first try in the dragon racing but I am having trouble getting a high up mining node :persevere:

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I have no problem flying and maintaining “flight”.I have all the glyphs and Im able to mine while mounted.Some may not be able to mine as fast as myself and i do find all the way possible to maximize my mining efforts.What im pointing out is after several nodes the initial take off consumes a vigor w/o recharging unless im grounded. This is where i find myself waiting for sufficient vigor

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Dragon riding races are different, keep that in mind, Some times baby surge on start is mandatory. All races are different aswell

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Ok, but bear in mind Your view of it isnt the view of everyone else.
I love DRing…and that has no bearing on your view of it.
Bliz is selling to the masses. They try new things, if it works then it should stay, if the masses dont like it, it should go. (Ion has a VERY hard time with this concept…not a business minded person at all).
They didnt miss on this. Your not liking it doesnt speak for the masses who seem to so far.

What NEEDS to be done, since they TOOK normal flight but gave another version of it instead, is normal flight NEEDS to be activated NOW with the changes that;

  • cant get dragon riding glyphs on a normal mount.
  • cant AFK fly anymore…if you hover, you fall to the ground.

I think with that, both can exist at the same time.

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If you think there isn’t a huge number of people that disliked DR before trying it then you’re incredibly naive.

Does that mean it’s objectively better and everybody must like it? No, obviously. It just means a lot of people don’t like change and will fight any change kicking and screaming even if it benefits them.

There’s even a political party in the U.S. that is built around that concept.

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So then you don’t actually care about getting to places quickly then.

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In that case just remember flying recharges are 1/3 the time…use that to your advantage.
get TWO vigor, then Skyward Ascent off the ground, nose straight up, Skyward Ascent, nose down fast and keep the trails going and you recharge at 5 seconds instead of 15.

Its different, for sure, but using the details to your advantage is what we’re all having to do it, right now.

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If there was not a pet locked behind them I would not be looking to try them out. I just don’t do well going that fast unless it is Mario Kart.

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Well good news, Dragonriding is significantly faster than normal flying

If you’re ever at any point having to sit and recharge your dragon then you’re doing it wrong. Go get your glyphs

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