Really hoping this is something that can be looked at. The 5 sec cast to swap between dynamic and static flight seems excessive and un-needed.
I’m excited that druid flight form gets sky riding, I’m not excited about what this change means for day to day. And not even just on Druid but on all characters. At least with how I think this is going to work.
Currently if I wanna go far I can dragon ride quickly fly like normal. If I’m questing or in a city or whatever, it’s easy to use instant flight form, no cast time. Other characters can just summon a static mount for normal cast time.
To switch between the two modes of flight is 5secs.
So if I am in an area questing, I’ll dragon ride there. Toggle flight modes to slow with a 5s cast. Do my stuff. Re-toggle dragon riding with 5s cast. Druid would at least get instant flying again at this point but all other characters would then need to summon a mount with another cast. That’s basically a whole other mount cast just to do what we currently do for “free” =/
If there wasn’t a cast time on the toggle I’d love it. But dragon riding is too clunky for doing things like questing and having to revert each time is gonna be a pain, especially if you forget to swap. Summon mount you think is slow flying, take off, realize you didn’t swap. Land, toggle, and remount. That’s now 15s when it used to be 5.
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I have to say, i do currently love having both my dragonriding mount and my instant regular flight form while playing my druid. Honestly if given the choice I’d vote for druids to not get dynamic flight at all in order to preserve this current stae of things. It would also just be sweet if we could assign flight types to mounts individually.
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Okay that is an awesome solution that I hadn’t thought of. That would solve a lot of problems.
At the start of War Within we can kinda get the current set up (minus druid flight rip) by just summoning mounts that can’t dynamic fly. But as more get added to the system that quickly becomes harder, and you lock yourself out of using possibly your favorite mounts.
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A 5 second toggle is pretty ridiculous.
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It should have been just like my MountsJournal does:
I can make mounts favorite, just like in the base UI, except the addon uses macros to figure out the best situation to use those mounts, and all I have to do is click the icon I want.
For example, If I want to have it summon a DR mount in an instance, I click the ground mount icon. If I want the otter mount that increases swimming speed in the water, but only for water and not when I am on land, I click that button.
Seems like it would have been simple to toggle Flight per mount, instead of it being a collection wide buff.
They just need to buff regular flying speed so its more in line with dragonriding and i dont feel forced to dragonride for long distances. I enjoy both types but it would be cool if it was an actual choice and more balanced
First, a quick aside: I love your mog.
It’s five seconds. Five. Seconds.
Cool, I’m not the only that saw that as a huge downgrade to what we currently can do.
I’m just going to bind a non dynamic mount to another key.
Wasn’t that the baseline casting time to mount up back in the good ol’ days?
If you gather/mine and there are multiple nodes near by that hopping with a regular mount is better, or do pick up off ground quests, you’ll know its not just 5 seconds. A cast time to switch flight is inferior to how it is now.
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Struggling to grasp where the issue is.
Its a needless change purely to restrict changing flight modes by adding tedium. Why couldnt we just get a ‘hold shift as you mount and it turns into dynamic instead of normal’?
It’d still be just as dumb right now if you had to cast a 5 second toggle just to switch your mounts.
I get that 5 seconds isnt much of anything, but there really doesnt need to be any cast time for this toggle.
We currently have no toggle to switch between modes. So just to use your other mounts, you accept a cast time to switch between modes? I dont get how you can accept it. It takes away a smidge of freedom with mounts more than it does anything else good.
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Thanks for the mog compliment! I do love it. Even if I don’t see it too often cause in Feral form.
5s is 5 extra seconds that we don’t currently have to wait. It’s not game breaking by any means, but it’s an odd down grade in our QoL in game. Just seems like an arbitrary change that doesn’t need to be there.
There may very well be a systems limitation for it but that hasn’t been stated.
I believe their goal is to make all mounts dynamic flight enabled so as time goes on just having a separate mount that you use for static flying would become harder. Plus that locks you out of using mounts you might want to use without having to toggle between.
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5 seconds to switch flight speeds?
It’d faster just to keep switching mounts.
“Exactly,” says Blizzard with a toothy grin.
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Agreed, the cast time is really stupid when the mounts themselves have a cast time also
That’s 5 seconds longer than dragonflight considering it’s on top of the regular mount cast time, it’s a dumb change so why are you simping
No, even in 2005 it was a 1.5 second cast.
- Cast time to switch
- Cast time to load mount
Please listen to the feedback here and Reddit, this was a big QoL drop.
If you’re concerned about abuse, add a cooldown (not global) instead o a cast time.
That way at least we can macro them into the action bars.
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I agree, remove the 5 sec cast to change flight style please, it’s a pain in the neck switching it all the time while doing my chores in the game, it’s really painful. Prior to the update, we were able to switch instantly.