I’ve been testing Dragonriding since Alpha on July 14th and given it a very solid go. I like it a lot, it’s a lot of fun … when I’m actually flying.
I spend far too much time not quite getting to where I want to go and twiddling my thumbs waiting for vigor to recharge. Even with everything maxed out to 6 vigor the regen per point is 15 secs per while grounded. Pretty much right out of the box with a few glyphs in your pocket you’re at 25sec/per and about halfway down the tree you get to 20sec per.
That’s 1.5min at max grounded regen (6 vigor @ 15 sec ea)
1.6 min halfway through the tree (5 vigor @ 20 sec ea)
and 1.6 min after a moderate amount of effort (4 vigor @ 25 sec ea)
It took me forever and a day just to run around and collect the flight points. I never saw any updrafts along the way. It was a giant pain in the butt. It would take less time to collect the flight points on a ground mount through trash except you really can’t because the terrain is mostly impassable through large swaths without flying.
It’s a great feature and I really love it … except I’m already about ready to toss my monitor out a window from all the sitting around waiting for vigor to recharge.
The flying recharge is great, no issues there, it’s just when you run out of gas that it’s super annoying and frustrating.
At the very least make the ground recharge time when the tree is maxed out 5-7s/vigor, about 30-45s for a full recharge.
With this small numerical change I think the system will be substantially better and less frustrating.
