Why Is the Flying Toggle 5 Sec.?

[Snowpine-ghostlands]

@Soulebreaker-hyjal

But for video proof, you’ll have to wait because the PTR is down right now.

Video proof would also suffice, if you get the time.

[Soulebreaker-hyjal]

Have to wait for them to bring it back up. If they do before pre-patch release. If not everyone will know in likely 12 days.

[Doness-kargath (Doness)]

A lot when I do archaeology.

[Soulebreaker-hyjal]

Or any gathering, or treasure hunting. Skyriding is best for long distances.

[Volksworgen-hellscream]

Seriously, I don’t see the problem. 5 seconds is nothing.

[Annastasi-proudmoore]

@Ianthus-farstriders

I am on TWW beta and I switch all the time, especially on my druid, who is also affected by this change. It is incredibly annoying and ruins the druid feel for me.

this is my concern. Druids are getting hard screwed over by this change, losing one of the key perks to being a druid.

[Mafic-emerald-dream (Mafic)]

It works this way on live just fine and nothing is broken or out of balance.

[Sendryn-sentinels]

@Osmortes-cenarius

I have a feeling I already know the answer, since Ion has made his contempt of static flying abundantly clear

Y’all really do have this obsession with blaming one guy.

Drama aside, the toggle time is stupid. But someone pointed out to me that it takes five seconds to swap specs. So the running theory is that swapping all mounts to dynamic flying is a similar process and that’s why it takes that long.

In other words, it’s most likely a technical limitation of the system. Not a “LaWyEr GuY bAd!!!” thing.

Because if you think about it, since we can swap mounts right now, we know it’s not a gameplay cheese they’re concerned with. So it has to be technical in nature.

[Mafic-emerald-dream (Mafic)]

Because the only one left that is anti flying is that one. The other one was sent packing because he couldn’t behave properly around his coworkers professionally.

[Uncleruckus-darkspear]

@Piddy-uther

Its wait and see for me, but I suspect that I will be switch over to static flight 100% and just coping with it.

This is where I’ll be as well. It’s handy now to have either mount on the action bar, if I have an intermediate step, I’m just going to leave it on original flying and ignore flappy flight all together.

[Sendryn-sentinels]

@Annastasi-proudmoore

Druids are getting hard screwed over by this change

Did Druids lose their instant cast flight or something? Because the last video I saw, there was no cast time for dynamic or static for them.

[Abendroth-zuljin (Abendroth)]

It works this way now because there are skyriding mounts and there are TBC flying mounts. This won’t be the case in TWW. A lot of mounts will be able to use either.

@Sendryn-sentinels

Did Druids lose their instant cast flight or something? Because the last video I saw, there was no cast time for dynamic or static for them.

Cause they’ll also be under the rule of 5 second to switch from sky flight form to the other. No more instant flight, so to speak.

[Quivermethis-rexxar]

@Mafic-emerald-dream

Except we can do it on live? No extra steps needed

Once they bump most mounts to dynamic, you won’t be able to.
Right now, they are split. On live most still having bc riding.

[Gib-ragnaros]

This is the greatest in this thread. Having a toggle at all is enough for whatever valid reason one would have to switch. Sounds like OP is bad at dragon riding and just won’t admit it.

[Mystraele-shadowsong (Mystraele)]

So you’ve unlocked Static Flight on the PTR, and this one mount is able to be used for TBC flying even though your “flight mode” is set to Skyriding? Is that really what you’re saying?

Edit: Even in this article from Blizzard, it says:

It’s important to note that any mount that doesn’t support Skyriding will be grounded if Skyriding is active.

[Abendroth-zuljin (Abendroth)]

@Mystraele-shadowsong

So you’ve unlocked Static Flight on the PTR

The unlock is just for the new content. The toggle will likely be available everywhere else at pre-expansion patch or when expansion goes live.

[Sendryn-sentinels]

@Abendroth-zuljin

Cause they’ll also be under the rule of 5 second to switch from sky flight form to the other.

So it doesn’t change anything for their instant casts.

@Abendroth-zuljin

No more instant flight, so to speak.

Well that’s just false.

[Soulebreaker-hyjal]

It worked for me on the ptr. I was in skyriding yes.

[Mystraele-shadowsong (Mystraele)]

Yeah, that makes sense, which makes the question even more pertinent. Why does the article from Blizzard say one thing, and yet, there’s someone saying it doesn’t actually work that way, and that you can use this one mount to get around the 5 second toggle? Due to the phrasing in the article, I didn’t think that would be possible at all, since that one mount would be grounded if Skyriding is active.

[Mafic-emerald-dream (Mafic)]

@Uncleruckus-darkspear

This is where I’ll be as well. It’s handy now to have either mount on the action bar, if I have an intermediate step, I’m just going to leave it on original flying and ignore flappy flight all together.

Agreed.

I was already 100% behind TBC normal flying usage but for me now it will be 110% for sure.