Why are people so vocal about dragon flying?

Not of it’s a true opinion.
Potatoes are Better than tomatoes.
Argue the nutritional value and usage…
But you’re not right.

Now if I say potatoes are healthier… That’s less of an opinion… More of a factual statement that can be Proven or disproven

So? I don’t care about it being more efficient. I don’t care about going fast. As a matter of fact going fast actively detracts from my experience. How is it more worth it for me then?

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All you said was it’s not worth it. I disagree. I gave you reasons why it’s worth it. It doesn’t have the matter to you but it can matter to a heck of a lot of other people.

That’s all

no, he didn’t say that at all.

Ok, I’ll amend all future statements to say “in my opinion.”

Well i’m more or less saying that example in a sense that we know drinking Battery Acid is bad for us. Putting aside the nutritional value or what not. What i’m getting at is, opinions like that, even if it’s vague sometimes, has the power to influence others to some degree. Which is why i’m not fond of people saying “ahh opinions can’t be right or wrong.”. I mean sometimes… calling an opinion wrong or right isn’t a bad thing.

Efficiency covers more then just speed. Infact, it takes in a variety of factors.

Not to go into details but DR has turn limit (meaning you can’t turn instantly like you can with normal flying), Vigor, and gravity. But it’s trade off is the high speed.

If say for example, you just want to get to point A and B as quickly as possible, then Dragonflying is more efficient in that regard.

But if you want to collect something spefic, or require you to land alot, or need to land somewhere precise… You can do it with Dragonriding still, but this is where normal flying becomes more efficient, being easier here.

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The same reason they haven’t introduced flying at the beginning of Any of the expansions. You have always had to unlock flight thanks in part to the developer’s “compromise” with the players versus removing flying all together.

So, just like the expansion before Dragon Flight, and the many expansions before it flying will be introduced at some point later in the expansion’s life cycle. Until then, we have Blizzards (core feature) dragon riding to play around with if you can do so that is.

I have no issues with either version of flying, but I also understand why the developers did not include regular flying at the launch of Dragon Flight. All the work that went into this new feature (New for Blizzard) would have been under minded by being able to just click and lift off/hover around the map.

So, here is to hoping it doesn’t take to long for regular flying to make it’s return for those players who enjoy it over dragon riding.

Disagree. Even landing frequently, gaining vigor, hitting all nodes and moving to new one is STILL more effecient. I have multiple double gatherers whom stop frequently.

It takes 4 secs to gain 2 vigor before landing. You save more than 4 secs going to new nodes.

You can’t just say there are multiple nodes in one area therefore its inefficient… You have travel time to new areas between nodes That must be considered as well

TBC, Wrath, Cata, MoP?

Only if you get enough momentum, again everyone claiming they never run out of vigor farming never show video evidence of even a full zone route.

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Fly up twice. Half a bar. Coast down. 2 more. Half bar each gather while grounded

I don’t need to send a video…most know this

Generally doesn’t activate the thing for fast vigor return, and especially not 4s.

You do, if you want to make the claim if you’re ‘dragonriding correctly you never run out of vigor farming herbs/mining nodes.’ Otherwise you can’t deny other people saying that they run out of vigor.

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I don’t deny you’re running out I deny you’re doing it correctly
There are multiple videos on YouTube educate yourself

You land on one node, you have 6 vigor. Take off with 1 vigor, 5 vigor left, and it keeps going until you’re out of vigor. (even if it’s fast regening while at high momentium, something that you will rarely have on 1 vigor lift off)

With normal flying, there is no such thing.

Tbh, the only way Dragonflying could be more efficient for gathering is if you just scoop up the herbs and ores. Not landing and collecting while on your mount, i mean having your dragon just litteraly scooping it from being near it.

I’m saying with the vigor even if the regen is fast, efficiency is limited in nature, compared to Normal flying where there is no vigor.

You are correct their not all in one area… because some of them are on top of pointy rock formations and such. The ones where you need some precision to get to.

Care to link one to what he’s talking about then?.. i mean going by what he’s talking about, you’re making a claim about how to do dragonflying correctly here… That and i’m curious myself.

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Thanks for naming off the Expansion Long before the Developers decided they did not care for flying and in turn decided for this compromise to limit flying and making it a requirement to be unlocked to use it.

I mean hell, all we needed during those expansions to unlock flying was good ole gold. Which hasn’t been a thing in how many years now?

You have no evidence of either.

Ah yes the old “Google it yourself” instead of spreading out facts, I can see debating with you is pointless in that case and wish you a good day.

Which will never happen again because of WoW tokens. Unless you’re fine with Blizzard charging 1 million gold per character.

Because people hate change. Especially when it’s forced upon them.

While I enjoy Dragonflying and feel like it’s a massive improvement to Regular Flying personally, I can see how some people would be upset about it.

Some very vocal people.

You’re welcome, you said ‘any’ so I just decided to point that out.

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…And why do you think Dragonriding is the only change in Dragonflight?..

And how many years has that been? It has been Years since Flying was purchasable with gold.

You know, the more I read these threads regarding flying the more I am inclined to believe people were somehow misled into thinking regular flying was somehow going to be launched right along side dragon riding.

Which of course is perplexing to me, since the developers who worked on this core feature of Dragon Flight surely wasn’t intending to undermine their challenging work by allowing a feature that hasn’t ever been allowed at the launch of the More recent expansion into the game.