Dragonriding in older maps is AWESOME, but please make flatter maps in new expansions

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Dragonriding in older maps is absolutely awesome, I spent an hour just flying around for no reason except for enjoying it, but I noticed that I enjoy it much more in older maps than in newer maps as the flatter terrain allows you to fly low and enjoy the views. In new maps elevation forces you to fly so high up you see much less of the awesome world you spent time designing, while in old maps I often fly some 5m above the ground weaving between trees and buildings.

Please add dragonriding to classic realms as the old flying feels terrible after this.

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I dislike how terrain design in DF was done to accommadate dragon riding. Large zones with hills and mountains everywhere.
Wasn’t a fan of terrain design in Legion and SL either, small maze like zones with the mob density of a pub on new year’s eve.

MOP had the Goldie-locks zone design. Not too small and mazey nor too big and hilly.

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WoW always has had tons of mountains and hills, in the earlier times of wow they basicly just were walls between zones

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I LOVE the terrain design of DF. The vastness of the zones is awesome, and being able to land high on the side of a mountain and just look at the view.

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i hate that its only 85% speed. its not necessary to reduce it tbh ots notnlike i zoom through zones within seconds.

but overall its a good addition (give me 100% speed)

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I feel the opposite. MoP was too much plains imo.

Having more flat zones is like asking for less dimension (quite literally) of a zone. A flat zone is mainly going across the X and Y axis. But a good zone utilizes the Z axis as well, which ALL of the Dragonflight zones DO.

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Do not do flatter maps! Bring back underwater zones and maybe something completely new/different.

But I imagine & hope we’ll get more content releases in the coming months.

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Like please say were ?

All zones apart from maybe the wilds had mountains

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lYSN4crkmzs/maxresdefault.jpg

even then it had nice caves and other types of land very far from “plains” i just can not face palm enough at you, did you even play the expac or go there ?

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Oh, so they did reduce it. I was flying on my dragon and was telling myself this feels slow asf. I didnt realise they actually nerfed it.

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yeah looks nice, but getting from A to B means flying 10km in the air and ignoring all the map and gathering as descending and later ascending is too much of a pita

im quite sure i havent seen at least half the map cause i have to fly so high to prevent chance of running out of steam while ascending.

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This is a lack of skill problem, tbh. It was certainly the case that reaching high up places could be challenging when we started out with only 3 vigor, but there’s nowhere in the Dragon Isles that can’t easily be reached from sea level with 6 vigor.

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One of my fave things to do when im bored is fly to the top of the highest mountain in the zone/continent. Pet distance to max, see what i can see, chill out abit then see how far i can glide down.

Id like to see more hills, more crevices, more caverns, more underwater areas. DF has been great & the zones have been amazing

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Anyone tried dragon riding in Zuldazar yet?
I always hated that zone with all the mountains and jungles I bet its impossible to fly anywhere expect the tops of the trees!

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