Flying while leveling felt like it robbed me of my immersion and experience playing the new expansion. After seeing how grand the zones were, I realized that all the challenges in navigating the terrain, RPG exploration, treasure hunts, scaling mountains, running into other players and doing nearby rares and quests or even any type of social interactions were all stripped away because of flying.
Instead, it was fly to point A, do the thing, fly to point B, turn in thing, then Fly to next zone.
I want my experience back!
It would have been a much better playthrough if it was done like MoP, where we get to fly once we cap, but during leveling it focuses on the journey and not skipping content and avoiding other players.
We all know we take the path of less resistance, so that won’t change the experience. If we are all on the same playing field, then it would have been great
It’s so weird to me that you know you would find something available to be more enjoyable and yet you don’t do it because you have an option, then complain about it.
You robbed yourself if you felt that way and continued to do it.
If I feel shame because I am a compulsive nose picker and I choose not to stop, that’s on me and I should learn to love shame or blow my nose and feel like an adult.
Walk when you can, fly when you cant walk.
I’m usually anti-mount and walk everywhere, but these zones are a bit tricky to navigate on foot, but if I wanted I could limit my flying around.
Because believe it or not, a journey with progression makes the experience more rewarding at the end of it. Being handed flying takes away most of the adventure.
That’s like going on a group trip to climb Mt. Everest and thinking about all the challenges that you will encounter and how much fun it’s going to be. Then the day of the trip the group leader says we’re taking a helicopter to the top, take some selfies, then back down to the nearest Starbucks to end the trip.
But the journey is how you make it. This is a subjective personal experience. Flying through the canyons and deep gorges, flying towards the light pillar when it turns to shadow, traversing the canyons…that’s quite the experience while leveling.
But you don’t get to make judgements for everyone else when you prefer a different experience, which you have had access to since day 1 of release. use ground mounts, walk, w/e
This is a really low iq rebuttal because it puts you at a disadvantage to anyone else who decides to fly. He’s not asking for RP advice. He wants to restore the games culture, comminity, and immersion holistically.
EDIT: it’s a game, I want to have FUN… I have a job/career, plenty of challenge there. I don’t need challenge 100% of every minute I am awake. Sometimes sleep is a challenge too.
I got to level 80 in 5 hours on day 1 of the early access launch by sitting in town and queueing dungeons. Removing flying wouldn’t even hinder me. But i don’t want it removed at all. Don’t like flying while leveling? Nothing is stopping you from running around on the ground.
