If I play on my Druid I am using flightform, but all my other chars are using ground mounts.
Unless I need to get on a higher terrain like at TBC zones or BFA, I stick to ground mounts and walking.
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I think a lot of flying mounts look awkward when they’re grounded. Whether intentional or not, they’re clearly meant to be flying/hovering. Likewise, I think ground mounts look better than grounded flying mounts, so I use them when flying’s not allowed. I’ll especially never pass up an opportunity to use my Voidtalon.
I actually like ground mounts. I enjoy riding them on short trips. I keep 3 mounts on my bar. A dragon flying mount, a regular flying mount and a ground mount.
Some just look ultra cool, like the Alliance chopper and original class and racial mounts. And I love smaller mounts. The giant mounts that people, especially Taurens, love to mount and cover npc mounts are annoying. Great for long flights, but hate for general use.
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They are cool to have favorited so you can pull them in instanced content like dungeons.
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With people wanting flight day 1, no real point.
Untrue.
I prefer ground travel while adventuring and using a ground mount keeps me firmly on the ground. Using any type of flying mount in uneven terrain has me up off the ground and having to land continuously. It’s a huge pita in places like Azsuna.
On top of that, I have close to two hundred mounts and giving each character a ground and a flying mount allows me to double the amount I use, and therefore enjoy, while still ensuring each character’s aesthetic/theme/identity is kept. (Each character also has a dragon mount for zone to zone travel for this reason but I digress.)
Well…not all flying mounts can look as good and/or natural as a ground mount while on the ground. Most (not all, most) flying mounts that are over-sized and/or have obvious wings tend to look silly.
Dragons look especially ridiculous waddling around on the ground. I was on the same questline as someone who was leveling between 10 and 20 in Val’sharah using a dragon mount for travel and cringed the whole time.
Well… I guess that’s a way to look at it 
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For me, mounts are about aesthetics as much as their practical advantage.
For instance, this character only uses a Hearthsteed at present because I haven’t found a strictly ground mount that suits her as well as that does and so suffered thru the above issue recently because of it. But she looked fabulous doing it!
Hey, if Blizzard wants to introduce ‘Dynamic Riding’, I don’t care as long as it is an option, as opposed to mandatory because I enjoy my leisurely strolls thru the World, just like I enjoy my leisurely flights over the World when it is necessary to fly or I am doing dailies.
But they would need to be prepared for the backlash of 'why can’t I use my flying mount since it is a ground mount too ’ and 'you’re making me stay on the ground to do this because you hate flying and like spiting the player base ’ and other absurdities from people who are missing the point.
As long as sprinkling that fairy dust on our ground mounts is not mandatory, I don’t care.
Once upon a time, I wanted the same thing for certain mounts of mine but, after seeing how bizarre the Jeweled Panthers look running thru the air, I got over it.
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Quite frankly, sometimes you are just exhausting for the sake of being exhausting.
Battlegrounds, dungeons and some zones don’t allow flying. I uses ground mounts sometimes when i don’t need to travel far.
Because riding a dragon on the ground feels weird.
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That’s what the flying non-flying animal mounts are for.
Flying horses, flying cats, flying foxes, etc, we have it all 
A flying horse is a perfectly good flying mount for flying areas and looks perfectly normal running around on non-flying areas like a good horse.
id use ground mounts I like if the had old flight.
As it is, once I have flight, they serve little purpose.
It looks very strange when the rider is larger than the mount. I don’t known what went on in 2004 when Blizzard decided that horses were very narrow creatures. They are in reality quiet large.
I like me a good elekk to ride on the ground and a protodrake to fly.
You can 100% use them in bgs
Also if you want run around on the ground 100% of the time go ahead
I enjoy riding on the ground for a few reasons:
- Enjoying the immersion/content
- Working on professions
- Small trips to and from a place, such as a quest npc and the mob I need to loot the head of
- Sometimes I just want to take it slow instead of zooming everywhere
I also pick a flying and ground mount that fits the character’s theme as soon as I log into a new alt, at the same time that I am equipping my heirlooms and setting up their UI.
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Something needs to be done with them. There are some zones where I’d rather use a ground mount because it looks better on the ground, but it takes an extra keybind.
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Well, there’s your answer.
Irrespective of meta explanations, a simple answer would be: “any environment in which flight isn’t feasible and a ground mount would be more suitable”. Of course, game mechanics don’t make mounts with wings slower than mounts without wings on the ground, but from a role-playing perspective, you could treat it this way.
Shush you!
My kodos have ears and feelings.
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If only they had something that flying mounts didn’t have…
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LOL you want strange try a Boomkin Tauren on a Magic Rooster Egg mount…you can barley see Rooster mount …haha
Nice to see I’m not the only one that assigns a character “their” mounts. Including a flying, dynamic flying, ground and swim speed mount.
For this guy it’s the Armored Irontusk, the Infinite Timereaver, the Renewed Proto (brewfest saddle) and Otto.
I think my mage is the only one I use a flying mount instead of any ground mount at all. Lightforged Warframe, no dedicated ground mount, and the…weird wyvern looking dragon. Kitted out to look like it’s also Lightforged. (White scales, white hair, gold and black armor, gold glowing eyes.)