If I pressed whirling surge in the old world I’d go from Orgrimmar to Silithus in like .5 seconds.
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It’s been advertised since DF launched. Because you don’t unlock it until partway through Waking Shores.
Find a better topic to troll. You’re the one who hates dragonriding and wants it removed from the raid. You caring about it in old world is laughable at best.
It’s been 15% slower since Soar was first introduced in old world. And none of these people knew that. So you’re absolutely correct.
This is the same troll who wanted dragonriding removed from the raid. You won’t get a rational conversation from a troll.
Hilarious if they pull something like that. No dragonriding until Dragon Pathfinder!
its basically paving the path for something like this lol…
“this is a think you do but you don’t scenario… you don’t want to fly so fast through the new content because you will miss vital experiences… so we are going to reduce dragon riding speeds to 415% speed until we implement dragon pathfinder in 18 months… after this time, you would have had a sufficient amount of time to adequately explore the new zones and experience it in the way that the developers wanted you to explore it… ENJOY!”
so then, what would we be left with?
Dragon riding that has all the downsides of dragon riding (lack of control, no hovering, lack of accuracy) without the ONLY positive: fast speeds.
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The old world zones are significantly smaller than DF zones. Reducing dragon riding speed by a small mount is not the end of the world.
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Stop inventing slippery slopes to get angry about.
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there’s absolutely zero reason to make this change, though.
blizzard actually spent time and resources to change the dragon riding feature to go slower in the older zones
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No, you just don’t like the reason that was given. That’s not the same thing.
If that was truly their intent, then they would have never implemented dragon riding into older content at all.
So you’re utterly and completely wrong and have no point at all.
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those are blizzard’s words, not mine… they made the change to waste the time of their players.
The change was already in the game from day one of Dragonflight with Soar in old world.
No one cares that you didn’t get to Ghostlands from Booty Bay in 4 minutes and 30 seconds, as opposed to 5 minutes.
You keep trolling and it’s ridiculous.
For the rest of those in this thread:
This is major bait. The OP doesn’t even like dragonriding and wanted it removed from content.
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The speed limitation feels bad imo. You notice it big time because:
- your FoV doesn’t adjust when you go faster
- there are still big open spaces in older zones where it feels like your gas pedal is not working
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If they were that concerned about “wasting player time” then they would not have implemented dragon riding in older zones in the first place.
So once again, you don’t have an argument. You’re just throwing a tantrum over some imagined slight.
actually this is entirely incorrect.
soar was 930% speed on the PTR, then it was nerfed.
so soar was actually faster than dragon riding ON DAY ONE as you claimed.
I sure don’t notice it at all. Again, I got from Booty Bay to the entrance of the Ghostlands in a little under 5 minutes. I’m okay with not getting there in 4 minutes and 30 seconds.
think about pathfinder… why did blizzard end up giving us pathfinder at the end of WoD? was it because they want to make their players have a more enjoyable experience or was it because WoD was hemorhaging subs and blizzard wanted to increase their sub count?
yeah, so blizzard implemented dragon riding in the old world because that is what everyone wanted but it came with a caveat - slower than dragon isles.
Blizzard: We’re going to increase old world flying from 280% to 705%.
You: ZOMG they are wasting our time!!!
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from 410 to 790.
actually a more accurate statement would be this:
Blizzard: everyone is asking for dragon riding in the old zones but we don’t want to let them travel that fast because it would decrease the amount of time they spent in the game, thereby making our MAU statistic lower…
Blizzard: Ok, let’s give them dragon riding so they don’t cancel their sub, but we will still make it slower so that we can retain our MAU statistics.
Nope. You’re just crying over some imaginary scenario.
actually yes… it’s not a made up scenario… blizzard confirmed this firsthand in a blue post that was linked earlier in the wowhead article.