Simple fix to the annoying switching between dragonriding and normal mounts…
MAKE THEM HOVVER WITHOUT LOSING VIGOR!!!
Thumbs up if you agree 
EDIT : I don’t mean scrap normal flying, just give the dragonriding a hovver
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No thank you. 
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I’d love it to be mount specific, but I’d be happy if Aerial Halt generated a vigor regardless of speed and/or if the initial take-off cost no vigor, like a Dracthyr.
Dragon riding makes me sick, so I am very happy to steady flight instead.
So this solution wouldn’t work for me I’m afraid.
I would prefer to have two summon buttons. One that summoned any mount in skyriding and the other that summoned any mount in steady flight.
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I’d much rather be allowed to have mounts with steady flight and mounts with dragon riding
But I suppose I shall have to be grateful they didn’t decide to make either a “mount equipment”
(still bitter about my Azure Water Strider)
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Rather than checking boxes next to individual mounts, I’d like to see all mounts be in steady flight by default when summoned, and rework Skyriding to be something that can be turned on and off once already in the air. Activating it should give an initial burst of momentum, and deactivating should do the same thing as Aerial Halt does now before changing to steady flight.
On second thoughts, as a Drood scribe, I’d be happy if I could inscribe myself a “steady-flight flightform” glyph. I’d never give the 5 second cast another thought if I could have that glyph.
That would inconvenience basically everybody who actually likes dynamic flight, which by far are no minority. It would make way more sense to combine the switch we have now as a default and then give players the ability to override that default on a per mount basis and for the druid flight form as well.
And Blizzard will for sure never combine both into the frankensteined version you do propose. If they would like that idea, they would’ve started with it.
You just can’t cherry-pick the best of both worlds and combine them, while completely ignoring their downsides.
How would the ability to instantly go in or out of skyriding in the air inconvenience anyone? I’m one of the people who like skyriding and don’t see the downside. Is it just about the takeoff?
How is it not. Currently, with a bit of technique, I can either catapult myself into the air or focus that force forward and I already gain a quite a bit of speed with the initial takeoff, why would I want to give that up?
Yes, you did write the switch could give you some kind of “initial burst” but it’s not the same.
Also the chances of Blizzard giving you the possibility to switch around between the flight modes are exactly at 0%, hell if negative percentages would be a thing, it would be negative. Currently each mode of flight has it’s own downsides and upsides and obviously that is by design and creates a balance between both. To do what you want would effectively combine al strengths and remove all downsides at the same time. That is basically the “anti-version” of what they did design.
Sorry to say it that harsh. No offence meant.
Then the current toggle option could stay and instead affect the initial starting mode of a mount when summoned. That way you could have exactly what you ask for and still have the ability to swap on the go.
We had the ability to pick one or the other simply by summoning a certain mount, which evidently a lot of people made use of. If this was an issue it wouldn’t have been made that way in the first place, and literally nobody complained about it.
I know Blizzard is obsessed with trying to balance everything, but the second you start arguing that freaking mounts need to be balanced, I’m afraid we’ve truly lost the plot.
I would somewhat understand if you used technical challenges of implementing what I’m talking about as an argument, but using the issue of balance instead when talking about mounts is a bit odd.
They should make the Switch individual per mount.
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That was a totally different animal. You could use either the one or the other. Not switch around back and forth mid-flight and basically combine all the strengths and throw away the weaknesses that way.
You forget Blizzards initial idea was to remove static flight altogether when the dynamic flight mode works out. Only the outcry from the playerbase did stop that. But Blizzard clearly still dislikes the idea of keeping static flight. So they only kept it under the premise, that you still have the drawback when it comes to the speed.
So now tell me, how you think they would feel about basically making dynamic flight something on top of static flight which you can turn on and off at will.
I tell you they’d rather remove static flight altogether than do what you did suggest.
I think i missed that 
And i am happily flying normal again since we got it in DF. Dragon riding does not exist anymore to me.
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And that is totally fine. Not everybody likes dynamic flight and some people can’t even use it because of disabilities, etc. I did even read once, but from a third person, that people with disabilities were one of the deciding factors in keeping static flight.
Correct, yet it was still miles more convenient than what we have now. I still don’t see a downside to swapping mid air. And once again, mounts are the last thing that need to be balanced. Nobody will ever complain that mounts are too OP or that they can conveniently swap between two flight modes. This kind of “balancing” benefits absolutely nobody.
Nobody cares how Blizzard thinks things should be. They’re making the game for the customers, not for the handful of people in charge of designing it. That’s why feedback exists, and as you yourself mention, it’s the reason they didn’t remove flying.
If Blizzard’s ideas were the be-all and end-all, we’d still be running weekly Torghast and farming island expeditions, so I’d rather hear relevant arguments against this. Otherwise it’s just a case of “you think you do, but you don’t” all over again.
Blizz also did prove that there are things they don’t budge on and I highly doubt they will on this one.
Anyways, me for my part I’d still prefer the “one default + override for each mount and the flight form” idea. And I know there are a lot more people rooting for that one already.
I wouldn’t want that frankenstein version with both flight modes mushed together. No thank you.
For the first quote you commented on, it clearly belongs into the same context like the second one. I mean what you did quote, not your comment.
//EDIT: Oh and in the end it’s blizzard who does make the decisions, so actually it also does matter, what they envision for the game.
You could still use normal just give the dragonriding a steady hovver for those that use it
Me too!!! I call it my waterlesswalking strider
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That I don’t disagree with ofc.
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