When DRAGON riding was introduced, we only had the option for DRAGONS to use it. So it makes sense.
In TWW, it’s being given to any number of models, and you’re kidding yourself if you don’t think there is a group of ubernerds somewhere just WAITING for that angry post about “heh hehh Why does my HORSE use DRAGONRIDING??! Why does my TURTLE use Dragon riding??!”
+facepalm+
I would bet that’s 98% of the reason.
Another 1% guess is that if one version of flying is called “DYNAMIC” flight… that implies that the other version of flying would therefore be called “STATIC” flight. So you have the same ubernerd reaction of “how can you be flying if you’re not moving?” You can look right at the animation and just say “uhhh… it’s hovering”, but ubernerds love to argue semantics.
The last 1% is just the poetry of it. “Dynamic flight” sounds like a boring engineering term. Throw a math equation in there, while you’re at it. “Skyriding” has a “y” with that solid “i” sound, that matches that first vowel sound in “riding.” It sounds pleasing.
But mostly I just think it’s to cover a horse that is dragon riding. Now they all SKY ride.
Agreed. I’ll only use standard flying for awkward treasures, but I see no reason it shouldn’t be an option from day 1.
Also, a 5 second cast? That’s a bit unfortunate. I liked the seamless instant transition between dragonflying and standard when I played my druid in the Emerald Dream.
And Dragonflight you could fly right off using draogn flight …so no waiting…it was normal flight aka TBC fight that we had to wait over a year to get in Dragonflight, WoD…Legion…BfA…shadowlands everyone was grounded till a certain time Ion decided too let us fly.
Many of us can understand why the wait for normal flying in DF cause the exp was about Dragons…but really a whole dang year it was a bit over the top for that now…so is TWW about Dragons…Nope…so why punish and restrict disabled or elderly from using normal flying then?
you just have to ignore that one…lol. He knows all the long lists of complaining threads and posts about this issue in here…hes just finding anything at all to be combative about.
We KNOW FACTUALLY that it WAS and IS a big enough deal to MANY players that blizzard made some changes to the game to help with issues like motion sickness, lol…that is proof beyond argument that it wasnt something that could be ignored.
Exactly.
Nothing needed to be changed to compensate for lesser abled players for DRing…just let them use old flight from the start.
Hamstring it if necessary…ie if they arent moving forward, they lose ‘lift’ and land…same as DRing but without all the motor skills and motion sickness issues.
Ion and crew proved yet again that they hate old flight in the ZM zone where there was barely a spot to AFK fly in that something wasnt going to end up flying near enough to you to start attacking.
I get it…so just make a couple changes to old flight, one I mentioned already, so its not AFK’able and can be used from the start of the expansion instead of later without stealing DRings thunder
yeah…a WEEK tops would have been more than enough for us all to have found all the glyphs and be oooh and ahhh’ed enough by DRing that it was ok to just let players having trouble with old flight have it.
Beyond that was just purely sadistic.
I have a mouse with 7 buttons, and the wheel (so 9 for Scroll-up, Scroll-down)
I only need two of those buttons to interface with Dragonriding. (Thrust-up, and Thrust-forward). That’s all you need for optimal flight. I’d consider the one-handed-player argument to be in bad faith.
Because they are allowing flying off the jump this go around? Unlike TBC, WotLK, Cata, Pandaland, WoD, Legion, BfA, and Shadowlands?
They found people loved flying around in Dragonflight, but it’s unspoken that they would prefer not to have druids swimming around everywhere dominating the harvesting economy during the headstart.
BlizZard made accessibility features for those with arachnophobia I am pretty sure those that use TBC normal flying out number those with arachnophobia!
I’m so-so on normal flying. I love the speed of DF. There are, frankly, not that many times I’d use it, especially once they unlock it Skyriding for the vast majority of flying mounts.
But I’m utterly perplexed about why they give us deluxe flying from the get-go and hold back the old model. It doesn’t even make bad sense.
BlizZard already nerfed the speed of DR aka dynamic flying aka skydriding aka whatever the failed marketing team is calling it these days for TWW. Meanwhile boosted the speed of TBC normal flying. The BlizZard rug pull comes next!
The change is purely to stymie the gathering-druids. It’s smart in my opinion, no reason why one class should have such a gross advantage over their peers in the gathering profession space.
I hear ya.
It was such an non issue in here that blizzard made some in game options to NOT help with this NON issue of people having trouble with DRing
It is the same reasoning that has been given since at least Warlords of Draenor: it is bad for the game’s overall health to allow flying in it. Dragonriding (Skyriding now) is a compromise that mechanically functions in such a way where you get access to the utility of flying with fewer of the downsides of absolutely obliterating the world.
Take the current example of the time rifts in retail right now: when people want to get access to an activity in WoW, you have to be in the area of that activity. When people are able to afk inside of the area but outside of harm’s way, people will simply just afk and not actually participate. People tend, even if just a little bit, to participate if the alternative is between not doing anything gamewise but still requires you to be in the area versus playing (participating) the game.
When the time rift was added you could ride up to the centre of the area and sit on the elevated platforms which meant… if you were just there for the final portal, why not afk? TBC-styled flying is referred to that rather than “normal” because it isn’t normal flying, it is TBC-styled afking. Because now you have a platform ANYWHERE in the entire world. And you have had access to this, one way or another, throughout levelling. Usually just for alts but when one of your character hit max level you effectively never did anything to engage with the world anymore.
It became, one way or another, a case of “where can I sit afk whilst I am doing/waiting for X thing” which… no one has ever liked.
The reason I have stated above is well known and have been established ever since folks were surprised that there were two giant statues in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms. You can like or dislike the reason for it but this is the reality of it and has been that for 10+ years as a well established fact.
Heck it was (and still is) a thing that was so common that folks made jokes about it where everyone got the punchline of it. If you want to help folks who have issues with Dragonriding/Skyriding, help make it better rather than go on ridiculous tirades where you exploit people with disabilities as a way to pretend you have a point.
