Take to the Skies with Skyriding

[Kiyoko-ravenholdt]

Yeah. This is a really bad change with the long cast time and the steady flying only mounts being turned off. I think either of those would be fine individually, a toggle to change your skyriding mounts between the two options or having your non-skyriding mounts remain capable of steady flight both seem reasonable. This system combines the worst of both worlds and is just an extra annoyance that I really think you Blizzard should reevaluate.

[Cursewords-tichondrius (Cursewords)]

@Sendryn-sentinels

Because according to Blizzard, dynamic flying (I will never call it “skyriding”)

I might call it “sky riding” as it becomes the vernacular. To communicate.

But I loathe the idea of saying it. It just sounds like something a Neanderthal might say.

I was finally getting used to saying “dynamic” instead of “dragon riding”… and they came up with this?

[Latsyrc-turalyon (Latsyrc)]

@Rabititus-shuhalo

The best flight should be the one to wait for,

I’m glad to see we agree that static flying is the best flying.

[Fairlight-emerald-dream]

I can’t stop hearing this…

Skywriting

Riding was going to be added because that’s the naming convention for mounted movement. Artisan riding, master riding, etc.

But sky riding seems meh, but we will be aloft, so I ‘spose that’s true.

[Eshnariil-proudmoore]

I made a post about it a while ago when wow head made an article about it being called sky-riding lol

Skyriding rename

Skyriding is a terribly bland rename for dragonriding that has little to nothing to tie us into the lore of the game. What I propose is that we call it wind riding, like the knighted dwarves who fought with dragons on the backs of gryphons, or the orcs who rode on wyverns during the war with the alliance. One of the characters who is a notable wind rider, was around as recently as dragonflight, and has been with us in game on the alliance side for most of the games history. Falstad Wildhammer T…

[Henceforth-area-52]

@Phaeliea-nathrezim

It’s always the hidden profile people with the wildest takes istg lol

I have it for many reasons, but it is suffice to say that it keeps bad people away.

@Sendryn-sentinels

But on the subject, Hence’s argument doesn’t make sense, because people still multibox with dynamic flying and bots figured out dynamic flying in beta.

That is a bad take, because from playing day 1 in DF I have seen zero, absolutely zero flocks of multiboxing flying around with Dragon riding.

On the other hand, the day 1 TBC flying was released, you can see them everywhere anytime.

So, either it is “very expensive” this multiboxxing software for these people use dragon riding (which if you play the game you would know it is not easy to replicate to many different clients or even coordinate them) or it simply do not exist.

I stand with the 2nd.

The crash of the gathering materials market along with the coincidental release of the TBC flying and the suddenly surge of multiboxxers flocking everywhere, proves my point.

[Onlyham-cenarius]

I’m pretty sure in the initial post about this months ago they proposed it as an option to toggle between dynamic flying and steady flying… so even your cool dragonflight mounts can be toggled to steady flight. You’re chill bro, don’t stress.

[Chillproof-moon-guard]

Why are you guys making it so annoying to swap between dynamic and static flying?

[Eshnariil-proudmoore]

you should read the post above and then come back to re-evaluate this comment.

[Selliane-stormrage]

Ok so at first I thought it was the amazing ‘set each individual mount’ option, so that we could set each mount as we prefer.

But if its all or nothing, then that 5sec cast is abysmally bad

[Rabititus-shuhalo (Rabititus)]

@Latsyrc-turalyon

I’m glad to see we agree that static flying is the best flying.

And we don’t, dragon flight has the ability to fly faster and slower than static flight making it far superior.

But all the old arguments about immersion… this literally flys in the face of those. Wouldn’t you want everyone to be flying slower to be amazed by the art work?

Like I said, logic doesn’t exist at blizzard.

[Primerate-sulfuras]

The 5 second cast time to switch needs to be removed. I should be able to use normal/dynamic flying on a whim, maybe through a macro command.

[Sumnaó-wyrmrest-accord]

Aint no gosh darn reason for a FIVE second CAST to change flights. Lemme hold shift and it will be dynamic.

[Arcra-argent-dawn]

“Steady Flight.”

So much better than that “static flight” oxymoron.

[Slant-drenden (Slant)]

Why is switching a five second cast? Why not instant and off the GCD so I can choose how to fly whenever I want, exactly how it works today in the live game?

If switching remains a 5s cast I’ll only be skyriding when I need to travel a very long distance.

Please reconsider.

[Aliandrin-fizzcrank (Aliandrin)]

@Shartah-zuljin

Here’s my honest take. I genuinely think it’s a skill issue for people who can’t use skyriding.

So what? The overworld was always the one place you didn’t have to worry about skill. Now skill is gating travel time? Because mythic dungeons, raiding, and everything else in the game wasn’t enough. They had to take the last 10% of the game people could actually enjoy without hair-trigger reflexes and 500 addons.

[Sendryn-sentinels]

@Fairlight-emerald-dream

I can’t stop hearing this…

That’s why it sounds so ridiculous to me! LOL thank you! I knew it was reminiscent of something!

[Sarama-firetree]

@Phaeliea-nathrezim

limiting the unlock of regular flight seems spiteful at this point

It’s been spiteful since WoD

[Tahonto-malganis]

If I read the article correctly, does it imply we can assign sky riding to mounts individually?

So like I can make invincible steady flight and GMOD sky riding?

The 5 sec cast time is just for reassigning flight style per INDIVIDUAL mounts?

[Sarama-firetree]

@Henceforth-area-52

The crash of the gathering materials market

Cheap mats? Even more of a win.