I don’t think there actually is a coherent argument anyone can present in this case. Some people need regular flying for accessability reasons and short of blatant ableism, there really isn’t anything they can say about that, so the strawmen are popping up like whack-a-moles. 
I also feel this whole debate is another example of the strange phenomenon in the WoW community where some people are fixated on trying to force others to play the way they do, even to the point of advocatong for the removal of entire avenues of content.
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As if AFKing on a stupid, flappy dragons on the ground, usually around a mailbox or quest giver is anything close to an improvement. Gods, you people who are doing Ion’s PR for him are stupid and selfish. Six months from now you will quietly fade away because your little ADD selves are bored and looking for something new to create chaos in.
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Okay,
remove all gathering from mounts/druid forms in return.
You bite your tongue, and then throw yourself down a flight of stairs.
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That would only affect druid botters everywhere but DF content.
I know miners and herbers can spec into skills in DF so they don’t have to dismount while gathering. Not sure about skinners.
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a lot easier to bot with old flying. Druid bots ruin the game.
mounted gathering destroys harvesting for the masses.
Could you expand upon this please?
I have never allowed bots to ruin my good time or get in the way of what I want.
It’s a piece of game code. You should be able to outsmart an automated process doing the exact same thing over and over again.
Well, it’s in DF right now with Blizzard’s blessing, so I guess that particular battle is already lost.
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I can agree with that, the hotkey situation is not great and I am 100% in favor of Blizzard giving other options to people who don’t like dragonriding. I personally enjoy it a lot even with the few issues it has and I would hope they improve and expand on it while also keeping in mind that it just is problematic for some players to use.
I do not need a freaking OwlBear version of an A-10 warthog going BRRRRRRRRTTTTTTT albiet hilarious plz no.
Yeah this is the only issue I have with dragonriding, I love taking screenshots of the scenery. But I’m happy to wait for normal flying for that, dragonriding is fun as hell
Blizzard should make anyone that gets flagged in DF get transferred to WM and teleported to the maw. That would be hilarious.
Pretty much. Dragon riding outclasses original “flying” in every way.
Be greedy want both. Why settle for one? We can have dragonriding to zip across the map and normal flying to afk and make a sandwich. We could honestly have both. Why limit ourselves?
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I really enjoy the dragonriding style of flight. You actually have to pay attention and engage two brain cells. It’s just plain more fun.
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Dragon Riding is NOT flying. It is a stupid mini-game that is really just “falling with style”, and I hate it.
I use it because I have not choice as there are places that can only be accessed with Dragon Riding since we can’t actually fly. Even our old dragon mounts forgot how to fly, AGAIN.
Also, I don’t care about the speed increase it gives. I just want actual control of where, when and how high I can fly, whether from highest or the lowest elevation on the map.
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Remove the energy from Dragon riding and I’m fine with it being the way forward.
Right now I detest having to sit and recharge, it’s fine if you are going somewhere low from somewhere high, but if you are like actively node collecting near the mountains it gets pretty annoying to have to sit and recharge every few nodes.
Holy damn these “Hot takes” everyone has on other peoples opinions is absolutely rediculous, I like normal flying because it’s chill to auto fly from A to B
I like Dragon riding because when I’m in a rush I can yeet from A to B.
I’d like to do both and it’s so weird a lot of you just enjoy crapping on other peoples opinions of what is fun like… if they replaced normal flying with dragonriding like some of you freaks want a lot of people would be pissed off, what’s so hard about having both ??
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This. Regular flight is far superior for exploration and (unless you have the Dragonflight riding tree) it’s also superior for node farming.
Also, as much as I like zoomies, I don’t always want to be going a million miles an hour across the landscape. Sometimes I want to, you know, SEE THINGS. Which you really can’t do with dragonriding.
The part I don’t understand is why everyone is all about: “This is what I, PERSONALLY, like and everyone else should ALWAYS have to do what I want because I like this and all other options should be removed from the game.” How about… now everyone try to wrap your brains around this… BOTH. It’s called “OPTIONS”.
Exactly. Why does everything have to be completely binary?
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