While reading another players post about pathfinder I had an idea and wanted to see where everyone else stood on it.
Instead of having pathfinder be achievements that unlock flying ,revert all flying back to a max level gold sink.
Turn “Pathfinder” into a buff that grants between 30%-50% WQ rewards. Have it be a a toggle like Warmode.
While you have Pathfinder turned on you are unable to fly in the most current expansion content.
This way players who dont like to fly dont have to. Also , give them a reward since they would be slower than flying players at completing WQ’s. This would negate any advantage a flying player had over a player who wanted to be grounded and allow everyone to play their way without feeling like they are limiting themselves in progression.
Personally I’m not a fan of Pathfinder but I can see both sides of the argument and think that there could be a solution that a majority of players are happy with.
What I was trying to say is that I believe flying should be how it was in TBC , Wrath , Cata , and Pandaria. Where you spent gold to access flying for yourself and alts.
But I also feel that we should throw the crowd that hates flying a buff to make sure they dont fall behind since flying is faster for completing world content.
I used to dislike the idea of warmode but I’ve come to believe that it’s a little better than PVP realms because it gives individual players more control of how they want to play.
5000 gold per character, that’s at least 100,000 gold for me… or do a chain of quests, achievements and unlock flying for both factions. I rather do the achievement.
You weren’t here when Blizzard decided there would be no flying in WoW at all from WoD on forward? I mean, that’s why we have Pathfinder. Because people really got ticked, and Blizz had to come up with something.
Flying for gold is never coming back. If they had their way, we would not be flying ever. At all.
If you earn Pathfinder in the current expansion, you get flying in all the previous ones, account wide.
Divide PF up into multiple segments, not just two. All can be done in the first of the expansion, no waiting for patches. And, you can buy out segments. 1 million gold for the first one, two for the second, three million for the third. Make it 10 segments. One per rep, and others. Paying character only. Alts don’t benefit.
I understand that , I was just trying to come up with something players may like more. Since it a product it is always in the best interest of the company to sway some things towards what players want rather than what they want.
I’m happy they decided to keep flying in the end regardless.
I’d rather cram the achieve and rep grinds with one toon to unlock it for all of my toons. Rather than pay gold/real money individually per toon.
At least pathfinder feels a bit like character progression.