how could have you possibly inferred this
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No? Traditional/static flying isn’t being changed at all.
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Probably not? 
And that’s fine.
well the blue post stated that the change in speed for dragon riding in the old world as compared to the dragon isles was to make dragon riding feel more authentic to how it felt in the dragon isles.
so if the old world is smaller than dragon isles, shouldnt we speed up traditional flight to make traditional flying in the dragon isles feel authentic to the old experience that we are used to?
No, they stated many many times traditional flight is not changing. I have no idea where you’re getting this from. The subject is dragon riding/dynamic flight ONLY.
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this is all you and it was never suggested that it would
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why is dragon riding the only subject here?
the subject, as a whole, is travelling within the game.
blizzard stated that they reduced the speed of dragon riding in the old world to make dragon riding feel authentic to the experience that we are used to in the dragon isles.
it seems to me that the overall goal of blizzard is to make a form of travel feel equal in new zones as it felt in its original zones.
the original zones of flying was TBC, which was much smaller than Azeroth (Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor)… Blizzard actually did increase flight speed from 280% to 310%.
in TBC, the maximum flight for epic flying mounts was 280% - the only exceptions being Ashes of Alar and Gladiator mounts (which 0.001% of the population in wow had).
If i remember corrrectly, in cataclysm, the default maximum speed for all mounts was changed to 310%.
so i would expect to see further increases in speed for traditional flying in zones that are designed to be larger than Azeroth (Pre-DF zones).
Yeah I’m not sure why this is lost on so many people. But thank you again for pointing it out. Though you shouldn’t have had to. But it’s appreciated.
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I agree with this. It is supposed to trade speed for accuracy and hovering ability.
He’s a known troll who hated dragonriding and wanted it removed from content. Now wants it faster and now is switching to a new piece of bait.
Also, static flying should NEVER be faster. It’s an accessibility thing.
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Your title, tho
And your OP
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This is what he does: loses one troll bait and finds another.
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yeah that would be my understanding.
Yeah, I’d like to keep the dragon riding speed the same. I don’t see why it was slowed down because I look at dragon riding as interzone flying, not intrazone, and thus not subject to attempting to keep the suspension of disbelief of a smaller zones, but I’m also not going to really give a flip about it because the entire mode of travel is really fast compared to what we have. And it’s blizzards game to manage as they see fit. Heh, see-fit. CFIT. Flying.
make normal flying 750% speed too
I tested it out today, timed it and everything.
I flew on my dragon riding mount from Sword in Silithus all the way up to Nighthaven in Moonglade. It was over 15k yards.
With static flying it took about 8 1/2 minutes.
With dragon riding it took right at 3 minutes.
The 15% is NOT noticeable unless you are specifically looking for something to cry about.
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They did it because Ion is an evil whackjob that sits in his volcano base and pets his cat. You know I’m right, you just dont want to admit it. we arent going to know what the behind the scenes staff meetings decided about df speed, arguing isnt helping.
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static flight does not need to be 750% but i think it would be nice if they sped it up a little bit for the new, larger zones, seeing as they slowed down dynamic flight for the smaller, older zones.
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Makes sense, though I guess the technical part will be lost to alot of people 