While Blizzard wanted to introduce the gliding or Dragonflight system. It is restricted to the Dragon Isles.
So could we get regular flying on the Dragon Isles? Like is there a desire for this among the player base.
Could Dragon Flying be expanded to outside the Dragon Isles?
I could understand the annoyance of some players. Blizzard put a lot in the different flying mounts so not being able to use your favorite mount and restricted to Dragons could be an ongoing frustration.
So its just to open up discussions.
A) Regular mounts and flying being used in Dragon Isles.
B) Dragonflight gliding be useable outside of the Dragon Isles.
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Proto drakes have always been my favorite mounts.
I’m all good, no need to use my other mounts.
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Serious question, why would anyone want that even? Flying from point a to point b in Dragon Isles would take forever.
And no, it’s not just drake and proto drake, it’s also a wyvern and a pterox, and in some 20 days a pandaren serpent too. Add the gryphon and you’ll have 70% of all mounts covered.
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Enjoying the landscape. Not being in a hurry. Overcoming motion sickness.
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If you mean functionality like the speed of Dragonflight or Dragon Gliding then this is something that can be looked at.
But for so long at 310% speed. Players could still take in the scenery. More than that spot things that you could miss when doing the Dragon gliding and moving the camera around.
Players get used to things like their mounts just to have it taken away.
How new features are implemented could be revised.
How many people will opt in for Dragonflight / Gliding if it was optional?
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I can’t think of a single scenario where i would prefer using the regular flying mounts in Dragonflight.
Considering how long it takes to fly to Halls of Valor from Dalaran, i’d stick to the Dragonflight option whenever i have to fly to Azure Vault from Valdrakken, even to Ruby Life Pools.
In all fairness and honesty if a video game causes health issues then the player should most certainly stop playing that game. Yes, that’s my opinion and if the devs choose to make a change for that then i most definitly welcome that change but until then stop risking your health for a video game.
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I’m no good at Dragonriding so don’t use it that much. I hate those quests that are on top of a tower as I spent ages trying to navigate my dragon up there. I was doing a quest in Thaldrazsus the other day where I had to click on an orb for a ward (for the Watcher) which was on top of a tower. Took me 20 minutes to get up there.
Probably about the same time for me, maybe less. I spend so much time on the side of a mountain regenning vigour. It does give me time to read the forums I guess…
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I would like to get it soon as my druid is a herbalist and I like to gather like that. Here’s hoping it comes in 10.2.
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I’d prefer to see dragonriding expanded to old mounts, than regular flying in dragonflight.
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Only if done in a way the kept proper flying available.
There are a lot of player for whom Dragonriding is not a good system.
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As I get motion sick from Dragon Riding, I would love regular flying.
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I’m not. I want my gryphon.
Orrrr… Both! Expanded AND regular flying. Where’s the harm in that?
Regular flying should be added, sooner rather than later. There is no logical reason not to.
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I personally don’t mind them adding normal flying to the dragon isles. in the end i would still use Dragonriding, for it is the way i prefer to enjoy the landscape and moove.
I would really love for it to be added to the open world like Kalimdor, Eastern kingdoms, Northrend etc… it would really be cool for who enjoys it!
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I don’t find Dragonriding fun to use and I don’t have a go go go mentality where everything has to be done in 5 minutes or less. Before everyone starts with the omg I enjoy the thing how don’t you??
So yes, I agree with you OP. I would rather have regular flying because that’s what feels natural and I get to appreciate the views more without having to essentially play some minigame and if I’m travelling a long distance I can just hit num lock and tab out. Also I want to use my flying carpet, not be forced to use some ugly drake.
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How would that be implemented to other mounts?
Think of the engineering mounts or the old mounts like mimirons head or even the bee mounts.
The animation alone will look weird. Unless it is limited to the drake only mounts.
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Here is the deal breaker… I’m generally battling pets of all types and arrangements. This involves a lot of moving pets around. I also have my favoured summoned pet with me all the time [ silver tabby ] . Sadly which ever pet you place in the first slot becomes your summoned pet. Unless you hover in front of the target pet or tamer and make the changes while in flight. Then it doesn’t matter which pet I place in the first container cus my summoned pet always stays active. Last time I tried I was unable to hover on that pesky dragon. Sadly it has a mind all of its own. Very annoying at the best of time.
Also the dragon cancels my summoned pet on the ground. So that’s not gonna work.
Fortunately I can battle with my pets in most other areas with my normal more user friendly flying mounts so I really never go to the Dragon Island place thingy anyway.
I also collect a lot of stuff and my normal mount just has no issue landing on a the head of a needle if I so desire. The dragon thingy whatsit [ ugly great brute of a beast ] just slams into rock faces rather than hover, inspect, manouvre and land very slowly. I also have endless energy for flying with my regular mount. This dragon seem to run on the Classic Mage mana system needing to top up all the time when doing delicate work like farming .
To be honest I kinda prefer the control of normal mounts rather than the annoying slingshot system of dragon things. So hoping they don’t ever repeat this nonsense again. I like my normal flying mounts just a shame I can’t use them on the Dragon Island place.
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The animations may not be perfect, but there’s so many other glitches in this game with armour appearances etc, I could forgive this if it meant being able to use all the mounts I’d collected over the years, with the new system.
It would be really fun if using a mount while mounted wouldn’t dismount the player.
Seamless mount switch functionality!
I liked being able to fly upside down or even be able to do little Looping.
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