Pretty sure this is what feedback means. This thread is full of good feedback from what I’ve read, not full- on, ungratefully “looking the gift horse in the mouth” type of trashing towards Blizz that a lot of feedback threads become. I feel comfortable enough saying that the soar change was good, but it was them meeting halfway, it’s pretty common. Negotiations m8.
Back to the topic, fly fly! Me personally, I could care less what they do with Soar in old zones, its just fun flavor to me in them, but I still think it makes sense to let it be DR in Dragon Isles.
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I still think that Dracthyr should have just gotten two skills
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Soar: Alternative way into the dragonriding system and usable in areas were dragonriding was permitted. When used it would open up the same vigor system that dragonriding uses, and share the same cooldowns and talents as dragoriding. Alternatively, a Soar that was just stuck at the level of even the base dragonriding drake would have been okay, and better than we have now.
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Flying Wild (not attached to name): A mount skill that would use your own wings as a mount appearance with a cast time and drawbacks of a normal mount. None of the perks of Druid flight form. You cast it, it launches you into a hover. From there you could hover along the ground in zones where you could not fly, and fly normally in zones where you could.
The worst part about the second one is that all those animations already exist. Dracthyr NPCs use em all the time to just fly around. Players can get stuck with them via bugs as seen by the thread below. Blizz just seems dead set to die on the hill to not let player Dracthyr fly. 
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/evoker-flying-no-mount-baston-quest-bug/1380527
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This shouldn’t be a dead post. Still annoyed over this. If there’s gonna be a minute or more (in this case 4 minute) cooldown, we should get the speed. If they want to nerf the speed, remove the cooldown. It takes the exact same time to mount the new dragons as it does to launch soar… but there’s no cooldown on the mounts.
The animations are there, the balance is there. While PREPATCH cooldown is understandable to not give them a lead in open world pvp… on launch, that cooldown should not exist. If they want to keep the cooldown (for absolutely zero reason) then give Dracthyr the speed back. Why is it 2-3 people ask for a nerf, and they get it, whereas thousands of people say not to nerf it, or to make a small change to balance, and blizzard completely ignores it? Blizzard is getting really good at taking, and bad at giving.
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Come on people! The expansion is called Dragon Flight, not sure what you were expecting?
Oh wait…
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