Re-posting in light of news from Blizzcon and willingness from Blizz to take player feedback. Druids have had flight form since level 68 of original TBC (also poly immune + can gather herbs + instant + a ton of customizations) - Zen Flight already exists, it’s speed just needs to be adjusted to mount speeds/restrictions (ground/fly at X character lvl). Not to mention Dracthyr characters with Soar. This wouldn’t be exclusive freedom for monks.
If you control+f Zen flight in the general direction of any monk forum you’d probably see someone asking for it to actually be a good spell worth pressing. Currently serving the only 5 monks who not only even play monk, but also fish, the Zen Flight spell could really use a refresh and bring in more love to the monk fantasy. Not asking to allow it to dragonride (although would be insanely cool animations here and fun) just want it to at least go the speed of a flying mount. Please
Some people have offered ideas such as letting it be used as a slow fall: I think this is bad because you can prepare for these things in advance with dozens of slow fall toys and goblin gliders or pvp gliders. Additionally, because of these same things, you actually never need Zen Flight to save you dying from a fall as it is only usable in areas you can already fly in and you can use most slow fall toys + gliders in every zone while outdoors.
Leaving it as is would be a continuation of years-long disappointment from the monk community as it is fairly obvious the spell could be more and people who love monk want it to be more, but it isn’t on a lot of monks action bars because of this. I don’t speak for all monks as I know some feel indifferent. Easy win for monks and Blizzard imo. It’s a great representation of how far simplicity can go aesthetically speaking and I love using it, but the spell isn’t where it needs to be. Either way I love monk and I am excited to main my WW/BrM moving forward.
TL;DR @Blizz WTB nimbus cloud so I can soar the skies on my monk cloud that already exists but only goes 60% for no real reason qq
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I’d love it if it makes cloud standard flight speeds but they also need to lift the restriction of only being useable where flight is useable. You can’t even sit on your cloud to fish in any new content until flying is enabled.
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Agreed. Limiting Zen Flight to only zones flyable also removes its currently only utility: saving you from an accidental dismount (side note: why does roll or flying serpent kick not nullify fall damage? its literally used in real life to mitigate this)
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Like, imagine as a Monk player you could Zen Flight around, roll off the cloud onto a long tree branch and it launches you further because of how roll works, and you insta cast Zen Flight again to catch you and you take off into the skies! How fun
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Zen Flight is usable now in Dragon land…dunno when it changed but it works
It works now bc static flight was implemented.
Still needs a huge update.
It already is a spell worth pressing. In addition to fishing, it’s also great for getting over small obstacles that I would normally have to take the time to mount up and fly over or to run around. I also use it on a regular basis to complete quests that have a bunch of interactables. Zen cloud in, do the thing, zen cloud out, no mobs aggro’d.
I’m all for adding functionality to Zen cloud, as long as it doesn’t lose its current usefulness. It would suck if it became just another mount.
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The biggest change it needs is be able to use it in areas where flying isn’t available. Beyond that it just needs a speed increase, at least to static flight speeds. With druid getting dynamic flight for their travel form it’s the least blizz could do.
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Exactly my thoughts. If druids are being upgraded to dynamic flying… monks zen flight should at least get mount flight speed. This would obviously retain it’s current features like fishing and interacting with objects as Gianavel mentioned; druids also have this functionality aside from fishing in form.
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I agree. It does need to retain it’s usefulness but it would be so nice for it to go flying speed even if it isn’t dynamic flight. Druids have been shown sooooo much love recently and now dynamic flight - it is the least blizz could do for Zen flight for monks. Hope we see it.
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