Just why does this thing exist?
To force you to deal with the zone’s mechanics.
If you were able to fly really high all the time, mobs like the Eye wouldn’t be able to reach you and cast Hysteria on you. Pretty much to confine the world and have you feel actual danger when doing the dailies.
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Blizzard hates flying.
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(For example, like be on the ground)
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It’s to troll us over flying.
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So that we don’t grab a coffee while flying because we’re invincible when we fly.
Because they hate fun!
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I actually wish there were more things like the Great Worm from Beyond in the game. Make flying interesting instead of just gating it.
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Holy hell!! You’re onto something!
Quick question: Do you really think blizzard will think this much outside the box and remove pathfinders?
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The worms are largely a non issue in Uldum. But the Vale either has Mind Flay or the aptly named endless swarm of mantid on top of the worms, which you run into trying to escape the others.
So instead of “ImMeRsIoN” or whatever the devs tried to spin it as, I just largely avoid Vale outside of the main assault, and I haven’t even done those lately.
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Flying isn’t supposed to act as AFK autopilot. If you want that, use flight paths.
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You can still fly. You just sorta have to pay a little tiny bit of attention now.
So horrible, I know.
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I found out just the other day that you can aggro them and boy do they chunk you lmao
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To annoy the players, would be my guess. 
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The only place they really bother me is when you have to fight that assault named in Uldum up on that floating platform. There are 2 worms that hang around that thing and constantly get zapped by them on the way up or down seems like.
I still feel the only reason they exist is because they are bitter we want flight in the game. They should just realize most players want to fly and get over themselves and design content with flight in mind. If WPVP is an issue then work out a system to make flight restricted or removed with warmode on. I think a debuff that increases the time to summon your mount or maybe after you summon your mount you can’t fly for say 5 or 10 seconds with warmode on would be a start.
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To piss us off.
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This.
There’s no other reason. Instead of flying at normal height, you fly slightly off the ground and get there at the same speed anyway. I don’t get why it’s here either.
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A non threatening slow? Sounds like just another “slow us down” mechanic and nothing of any real value or consequence.
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Why is daze and dismount in the game? You gotta have some travel consequences even if they annoy us.
Purely a mechanic inserted because some people at blizzard were bitter that a large portion of the community loves flying. So blizzard wants to troll us.