Flying was only added to the Outlands area not the vanilla zones. Vanilla zones didnt get their flying revamp until Cata. Also a lot of Outlands areas needed flying to get to them. Skettis, Netherstorm instances, Elemental Plateau, Netherwing Ledge and so on. They would have to add taxi points or portals to those locations and then change them around so that the quests dont actually need a flying mount to complete (cant remember if any of them do). IMO flying during TBC wasnt as bad as it was in Cata. In TBC you only had to worry about getting divebombed by level 70’s in Outlands where you were going to be level 58-70 yourself anyways. But in Cata you can be anywhere between 1-85 and you’d have level 85 players divebombing gathering nodes you were walking towards or if you were on a pvp server you’d have to worry about them dive bombing you personally for a really quick kill.
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