Why does this have a five second cast time? Am I missing something?
https://x.com/wowhead/status/1781561936846393458?s=46&t=SR7K0blHO6ACmsvNMpU7YQ
I would much rather it being instant cast with a five second cooldown.
The reason is because I want to macro which mounts will work with skyriding (dragonriding) and which others with steady flying. I don’t want to wait 5 seconds every time I want to change my flight style. A 5 second cooldown would be more reasonable.
Please reconsider, Blizz!
There ain’t no free lunch in Blizzworld.
I just want to set it on an individual level.
I really like how it works now where i have my 2 mount set up. My dragonriding mount and my normal flying mount. Both just there to use without any issue.
I imagine it has something to do with PvP - almost every time they do bizarre things that are inconveniencing it is because of PvP.
Not sure how it’s justified when I can at this very moment switch freely between a static and dynamic flying mount with only the time needed to summon the mount.
And yet the world continues unabated.
This. I could have Invincible for quick travel and the Compass Rose for needing to get onto that one little ledge there to mine that ore.
But heck, I was hoping Mount Equipment would be like this when added, so I could use one mount when I never want to get dismounted and another when I want to walk on water. Sigh.
I’m so excited to see my mages zip around in her dynamic flying Warframe that I’m almost willing to let this thing slide. I was pretty confident that those mounts would be left behind.
But I’d really like to see the decision of who’s static and who’s dynamic be made on a mount by mount basis by the player.
IE assign my warframe for dynamic flight and my archmage flying disc as static and those specific mounts will always fill those roles until changed by me.
That’s a good point. I guess blizzard wants you focusing on one and slowly make the old flying unappealing this way. And technically speaking normal flying was a pathfinder achievement, so “after the content” is done, so to speak so not entirely the same, but your point still stands.
I’m surprised they didn’t decide to a talent to dynamic flying that would allow noclip flying instead. Can be like 5-10 seconds of noclipping, which is enough for most dynamic flying needs when you need precision.
I think a lot of people have become so used to the current arguments on flying and pathfinder they can’t see the forest through the trees.
Blizzard let us pick freely because they did not have the time to make all mounts support two flying modes in Dragonflight. They needed accessibility options. Dragonflight was the year they worked on it, but TWW is where the feature will finally be done.
Say what you will, disagree if you must, but they intend for dynamic to be the new norm, but they could not release it with five mounts vs 800 which can’t animate, because they didn’t think people were ready for the biggest problem. It’s not that some people may prefer static flying, it is that people have collected static mounts for twenty years. New flying can be learned by people with accessibility options, including the optional placed dragons.
They may still change how the toggle button still works, but free or instant is unlikely. Now we really have both modes - with a big five second dividing line.
They did the best they could, but the solution necessarily took about two expansions of work.
No idea. I don’t know of any exploits right now that need this fix.
Just make it 1.5 seconds like mount cast time if they’re so concerned about druids and PvP.
Id love to beable to set a specific mount to old flying so i can do a swap when i feel the need.
Basically like I can now.
Seconding this. I really like the current system letting me have both a dragonriding mount for speedy flights and a regular flying mount for when I’m just farming reagents.
So you don’t have the best of both worlds at the same time?
You do have that now in DF… I can bind an old-flying mount to an action bar slot and a dragon-riding mount to the slot right next to it and while not mounted on the ground, choose either one and take off without any delay other than the 1.5 sec cast-time to mount up.
Why not extend that to all zones for TWW? The reasoning seems to have do with World PvP advantage for druids and possibly dracthyr. If that’s the case, the restrictions should only be applied to the classes that have a problem (unfair advantage).
A 5-sec cast seems unnecessary compared to an instant-cast with a 5-sec CD, if a mode-switch is actually necessary due to some technical limitations in the background (again why the design choice that limits players choice when you didn’t have it in DF?).
This please. The way it is now works perfect with being able to have a dynamic flying and normal flying mount and mount up on whichever one suits the moment.
Wouldn’t it work almost that way if your flying choice isn’t dynamic or are you completely locked out of those if you’re not in normal mode?
They should just make all mounts capable of both. All mounts perform regular flight until you activate the dragonriding abilities.
That’s a bummer you can’t set it per mount, I was just kinda assuming that’s what they’d do.