So HOW fast is steady flight...exactly?

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One time Im using it and it says 420…then the next time it says 530…and right now its showing 550 lol

Have they been changing it?
Is there some variable Im unaware of affecting the speed?
or is my speedometer broken? (SinStats addon)

https://imgur.com/kdl8cqe

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Sounds like an addon error, personally. 420 is what it should be, and that’s what my speed addon shows me when I use it. It’s not entirely out of the question that, when fiddling with the numbers, a bug was introduced allowing mount equipment, class features, etc to work to increase steady flight speed, but that seems unlikely.

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Thanks!
Ill have to find a second addon, I spose, and compare.

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Rather than rely on an add-on, I would measure my time over a known course. Do this on both steady flight and skyriding, and then take the ratio. It should be within shouting distance of 705/420 in the old world.

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well this is odd…I installed another addon…same speed…550 for steady flight
https://imgur.com/qRTal56
https://imgur.com/kdl8cqe

how can two of them be wrong?

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I noticed you posted these pictures while on a death knight. Unless changed in The War Within, paladins and death knights have faster mounted speed than other classes due to passives they have.

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This is the truth. And it’s an increase of 20% of TOTAL speed, not just an additional 20% added to the number, so it’s actually quite massive for flying mounts.

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oh…ok…maybe thats the discrepancy between the 420 and the 500+.
I’ll check a few other classes and see

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Thanks for your post, does this apply to dragon races? Or any other speed boost for them?

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So just checked a warlock…530 speed on both addons

https://imgur.com/txTKrSV
https://imgur.com/0QRumUL

I’ll check some others…I kept getting 420 and then 530 all thru the last few days

EDIT
I think Im seeing what it is.
Druid flight seems to be 420 in flight form…when I swapped to a flying mount, now the same druid is 530 in steady flight

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I would assume so, but I’m honestly not 100% sure.

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420 is the maximum

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Yea, I’ve been seeing 420 and 520. I haven’t bothered to suss out which is where.

Most of my toons have switched to static flying, but not all of them.

Simply, when I feel the need to switch, I switch, and I tend to not bother switching back. C’est le Blizzard.

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yeah…420 seems to be the druid flight form max (in SF) with MOUNTED steady flight being 530 + any bonuses from what Im seeing now that Im paying attention

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Thats sounds about right. I think that’s what I was seeing too.

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I wonder if this is intentional or an oversight?
If intentional, feels like blizzard declaring war against druid flight form for some juvenile reason.
If theyre gonna do that, maybe they should start giving us all mage ports to take mages class advantages away too, lol

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To my knowledge flight form has never benefitted from any modifiers. It’s always been slower than a flying mount.

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It’s 420% speed on top of other buffs and the 100% ground speed.

The addon isn’t wrong. It adds together the buffs.

They aren’t wrong.

If you read through the comments, it’ll show you how everything is added together.

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flight form was always the same base speed as mounted flight…no mods, of course…so around 400ish with max speed.
Now flight form is a full 100 slower than mounted steady flight, which is very noticeable.

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770 knots per quantum millennium.