… there are only 4 dragons you can use with dragonflying… did you not know?
Totally besides the point, disabled people deserve to be able to play the game just like you can.
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Just let me dragon-ride on my Wyvrn. Putting a wig and kitty nose on the Cliffside Wylderdrake is getting weird.
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A hit the breaks ability would add something special to DR. Would be great for farming, and make landing an art instead of HULK SMASH every time. The secondary ability on it could be hover for X amount of seconds if you stop all movement and don’t touch the ground.
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I make crashing look sexy
/smiles with missing teeth
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It doesnt matter if people want it to afk, farm with precision, or just enjoy the mounts they’ve been collecting for years. The simple fact is its a reliable system we’ve had for years and they fully intend to add to DF so you anti flying people should just enjoy what you enjoy and for the love of god quit trying to dictate how other people play.
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I absolutely adore dragonriding, but there’s no reason to replace regular flying, we can have them both. Both are good for different things.
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I like the old system because it’s simple and chill. Also you can choose from more than four mounts.
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No, it does matter. Games are designed based on how people play it. There has been several occasions where the devs explained why they kept players on the ground at the start of expansions. Dragonriding fixes most of those problems and it feels and works better than the old flying system in all ways EXCEPT hovering (which is something that should never have existed in the first place).
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I really don’t care what their reason is, EZ flying will come into DF the same way it has since WOD.; LATER and after the current zones are no longer relevant. Not saying it’s right, but since that has been the pattern for the past 8 years I’d say that is a pretty good bet.
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Cool story. Couldn’t make it through the day without another spam topic about flying 
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In my opinion I think, well hope, they make the option using mount equipment or what ever to make almost any mount use the DR type flight. Of course have the option for old school flight as well and the ability to switch between them.
I don’t think that’s what anyone is doing, many are just real excited about DR. Blizzard on the other hand seems to be sticking with pathfinder from what I understand, so that will dictate when you can use old flying. I suppose that makes sense so people try out the new content as intended, but I sure hope this is the last expansion we ever see pathfinder gate flying of any type.
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Some people have motion sickness, and while the accessibility options help for some people, for others it still makes them sick, so there’s that reason for wanting flight.
But I also wouldn’t be surprised if some of these people demanding regular flight back are people who bot, and Dragonriding currently makes it impossible for their botting programs to work. You’ll note that, thus far, there haven’t been many botters in Dragonflight zones, and that’s entirely because Dragonriding cannot be botted effectively to help them mass collect materials. Normal flying would allow them to do that easily however, so expect to see that return when Blizzard eventually does bring back normal flying in a later patch,
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I didn’t even want to mention the effects on botting because it would derail the thread completely, but yeah, that’s another factor.
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Except they do, before DF it was pages about how open world players were just afraid to group with people and didnt deserve content because they didnt want to run dungeons. Now its pages of “you shouldnt have regular flying because DR is so much better.” Its just a never ending thing where people try and dictate what others should be able to do.
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The main reason people want the old flying system back is not everyone can handle dragon riding, there has been reports of people getting motion sick seeing their character moving so fast. It’s not so they can AFK in the air but it’s so people don’t get horribly ill using a system they’re not capable of handling.
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Seems like fairly typical forum chat. Always to one extreme or the other. I just try and filter it a bit and read between the trolls. I don’t think any, or at least many, feel they have any power here. Hard to dictate when you don’t matter.
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I want old flight because the speed of DR makes me sick from motion sickness.
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I say bring it back BUT with a small change:
- Originally Flying in BC when it was introduced, had 2 ranks: Rank 2, at 280% and Rank 1, at 60%… Yes, that’s 60% as in, the same speed flying, as the basic land mount…
How about they bring Flying to Dragon Isles but restrict them to +60% movement?
No complaints? Either way it’s significantly slower than Dragonriding’s 830%…
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Its just a matter of time, its not like they make you solve a captcha to press the flight buttons lol. At the same time, someone on a 310% speed mount will have a very hard time outpacing dragonfliers (I am perfectly ok with this disadvantage if it means I can just play)
A node only lasts 15 seconds after the first player hits it. These supposed armies of druids farming would stand no chance against a dragonflying person in reaching those nodes before they despawn. Especially this early into the expac where people are zip-zooming around everywhere collecting everything like a plague of locusts xD
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Blizzard could implement a toggle where it only goes up to 360% speed for people with motion sickness from high speed. It would also disable the air effects if it only goes that fast. Everyone wins.
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