For some reason, after the players revolted in WoD, the dev team has decided to wage a war against flying every expansion. It is arbitrarily timegated and locked away from player’s access and then at a later patch it is released. Except it isn’t. It’s still timegated and locked away until a grind is complete called Pathfinder. Well in BFA we told you enough is enough with pathfinder so for shadowlands you changed your minds. You got rid of pathfinder to timegate it behind the campaign. It wasn’t timegated for very long so it worked out, even though it should’ve still been available day one of the expansion anyways it was fine. Now however, we have reached a new problem. Timegating flying behind individual patches for x amount of time. In 9.2 it isn’t until week 4 we unlock it. Everyone knows why it’s week 4 and that’s not the point of this. The point of this is much simpler than that. Flying needs to be available day 1.
We have paid for flying multiple times over. We bought licenses for it multiple times over. We’ve done rep farms and grinds and achievement farms to get it multiple times. Now having to do it per patch is where it gets ridiculous.
So for 10.0, please listen to community feedback and understand what we are saying. We wanted pathfinder gone because we wanted flying made available, since we already have bought it and earned it, immediately. We didn’t want pathfinder replaced with a campaign grind.
You’re angry because of the WoD revolt and that’s fine, but you’re wrong here. Flying needs to be made available day 1 in 10.0. We have earned it, paid for it, grinded for it, achieved it, and campaigned for it multiple times by that point. The war needs to end. Thank you for visiting my ted talk.
yeah ill never understand the arbitrary timegating of a feature that’s pretty convenient
nobody cares about exploration we’re trying to get sh*t done
they probably wont though
The problem is that they want us to “play the zone it is intended” with ground mounts for a while before hitting us with flying and they don’t seem to be changing from that philosophy
I agree, I much prefer flying on release. If people want to ride ground mounts and enjoy the “zone as intended,” then nothing is stopping them.
There is no war. earn your flying like you had to in every other expansion
Why? It would be much more fun to just fly the entire expansion.
are we talking about the expansions where you could just buy it outright or the expansions where by the time it’d be unlocked you’re more than likely bored of the game
you still had to earn that gold to buy th flying.
its no different here only now you dont need to buy it you just earn it and it applies to your entire account after i honestly prefer this over having to spend thousands of gold per character
I would prefer they just let me fly from the start, as flying is far more fun than using a ground mount or walking.
Why does this game time-gate so much fun out of the experience. Imagine if the game was just fun.
Earn it. youv always had to earn it. flying makes putting effort into zones in general pretty pointless blizzard wants you to experience them first fly through them later
they decided to kill flying and the higher ups made them bring it back because of all the lost accounts. They have been butt hurt ever since and dont care what it sost s the game, they just want to have their own way.
That doesnt mean it still makes sense to do it that way. It’s less of an achievement now and much more an annoyance.
They should bring back attuning. earn your way back into each raid one at a time. you will value them more that way.
oh, and warfinder. earn your way into each new zones pvp.
the achivements for flying are easy to do. just do your dailies im a causal player and i always get them no issue
I feel like people often use the “Just earn it like back in the day.” Back in the day, everything was slower. Vanilla was a slow and relaxing experience. These days, the rotations are high action and parsing is way harder. Movement should match the pace of the gameplay. Slow movement via ground mounts or walking doesn’t work anymore. It feels bad, I go from pulse pounding action to very slowly wandering around.
lets not touch pvp its already a nightmare as it is lol
ffxiv does it way better
do the storyline, some side quests , claim some currents scattered around the map and you get flying for the zone
this isint a “back in the day” arguemnt
you littarly have to earn flying in eveyr single expansion in one way or another
they wont want to go find the currents to do that
they give a compass that is universal that tells you where they are you just follow it