Based on your broad explanation. Delves are just a wow feature, hero talents are just a wow feature.
After all delves are just scenarios expanded on. Hero talents are just regular talents expanded on.
They want to highlight dynamic without being overly intrusive with pathfinder.
They could have easily moved it to patch .2 and threw a laundry list of rep and metas at it.
But they didn’t.
Its not, but it is to blizzard otherwise pathfinder wouldn’t exist.
Have you even looked at the FAQ about TWW?
World of Warcraft®: The War Within™ (blizzard.com)
It’s listed right along side Delves, Warbands, Hero Talents and Earthen under NEW Evergreen features which just means they aren’t going away like past Borrowed Power concepts.
I’d say that makes Sky Riding an advertised feature for TWW.
As long as they keep Pathfinder a one and done for all toons, they can keep it in.
How nice …anyone with arachnophobia …which is scared of spiders can turn it off and not see them as spiders but anyone that is physically harmed by having to use Dynamic flying aka skyflying…or whatever new name is we have to play pathfinder game instead…we don’t get a switch to turn off skyflying…oh wait there is a button to switch but only if you play the Game of Pathfinder first.
Can just complete the campaign and explore the zones using ground mount, one one character, and have it available for all characters.
You’re not forced to use Skyriding.
Do hero talents and delves become a Wow feature if they persist beyond TWW?
I haven’t seen anyone say anyone will be forced to do skyriding.
Since they’re advertised as Evergreen features which means they aren’t going away then yeah.
That is true as not everyone does full on PVE. Some people PVP or do pet battles or focus on professions.
And this is why PF requirements were always bad and why it really hurts returning players or new players to the game…
I answer your question with questions.
Did non dragon mounts have dynamic flight throughout dragonflight?
Have talents not persisted throughout the history of wow?
Have dungeons not persistented throughout the history of wow?
Unless going out into the world for these, flight is not needed, as PvP is all queueable and pet battles have that find baltle option as well. So, sadly, these 2 thigns fall into the “if what you do does not take flight to experience, why do you need it” logic.
The logic is simple…people wait for queues for PVP and they do go out and into the world. Not everyone afks in cities waiting for queues.
Thus, they are interacting more with the world.
I know that, and you know that, but keep in mind, we are dealing with those that can’t look beyond thigns like “they do PvP, PvP is queued content, so they don’t need flight as to them, the game is more a lobby between queues”.
There is no hope for those people lol.
Truth is that a lot of players dabble in a bit everything. That is why covenant locking was a bad idea. And putting TBC normal flying behind a list of requirements doesn’t make sense either.
Not everyone plays this game 100% PVE questing.
In fact for end game activities I would say most players do not bother with questing as they focus on M+, raiding, rated and unrated PVP. Throw in professions and pet battles.
So Blizzard is really painting themselves in a corner stating that a list of narrow PVE requirements must be met to unlock TBC normal flying.
So that’s a yes.
That problem is gone as you just need to finish the campaign and explore the initial zones…
They could just always return it to hit max level and pay a gold fee (or a quest/quest line) like it was in TBC, Wrath, and MoP. And then those who lvel up via PvP, pet battles or whatever can get flight as they like and then, if they want, do the campaign/s.
That’s the old way and thankfully, they are gone. Paying for every toon was crazy for the price. PF solves that. It’s not even a real PF like previous versions.
Yet they are different than previous, yes?
A person who goes out in the game world though to find new pets doesn’t exist in your logic, but they do.
Same for the people who do world pvp.