First to all the negative elitist, skyriding is great at certain times, I use it for the races, some achievements, etc… but for questing, gathering, treasure hunting it sucks. In those instances it is nothing more than a resource monitoring system for those with the attention span of a rock that have to stay fully engaged every 5 seconds or they lose interest and get bored. In my opinion they could fix all the issues by making a hybrid of the 2 keep all the speed and swooping for those that dig that kind of thing, and add the ability to hover, then it would be a more realistic dragon style flying since all the dragons can hover. I scout areas before I fly in willy nilly, with this stupid system there have been times in the ringing deeps that I have landed in a “safe” spot onlt for 10 or 15 mobs suddenly pop up and murder me because the dynamic flying can fly faster than the mobs show up. at least with the steady flight you can hover over an area when trying to locate a certain mob, treasure, item etc.
On a side note though, Blizzard has finally admitted that Skyriding is the inferior flight style since they gave it to us first and free in this expansion, they never give you the good stuff free or first, it had to be earned. So since you have to earn pathfinder to get steady flight it is the superior.
I’ve been posting this a bunch and will continue to do so because frankly, I think it’s a sick idea:
They should make it so aerial halt puts you into static flight mode. And then surge forward, skyward ascent and whirling surge put you back in skyriding mode.
It is a new evergreen feature also for TWW. You should check TWW page for more information.
It is gatekeep because TBC flying trivializes the quests, and Blizzard already have the data they need to support pushing even more towards Skyriding and reprecating TBC flying over time.
Also feels weird when you state that TBC flying is superior when the vast majority of people asking for it are people with disabilities. If it was superior then it would’ve been vastly used by other players.
Unless under very specific (and weird circumstances) no one should ever need the usage of TBC flying.
There is no compromise if TBC flying isn’t time limited (e.g. 1 min until it needs 30s rest).
“please do not attack me with your logic and facts”
They might as well change that boring ridiculous and outdated flying back to 100% for all I care, it would be even more helpful for people that needs acessibility.
After all we don’t want them to have motion sickness with fast mounts don’t we.
Given that all you need to do is (as far as I know) fly around the maps to reveal all the areas (your Achievements will show you what ones you may have missed), I don’t really see a problem.
Skyriding is great. There are several issues with it. Some are cosmetic and some are that it’s clunky in some aspects. As to the functionality with regards to being precise with flying, hovering, or flying long distances while afk(not really necessary anymore since skyriding is a lot faster,) this can be fixed with the following changes:
Aerial halt activates normal flying mode.
Abilities that use vigor reactivate skyriding.
They only naturally descend(can’t fly horizontally or vertically indefinitely) when vigor is on cooldown.
3a. Or, alternatively, when they are completely out of vigor.
I like skyriding, it keeps me engaged in the game instead of auto-run toggle regular flight mode while browsing a web page until i get to my destination.