Dragonriding is McDonalds content

[Voidsteel-firemaw]

They should add floating,sometimes i like to just stay in same place looking for some node or other things…

…also its a bit dumb why a dragon cant fly in same place,all flying creatures can do that,even a fly.

Add floating and dragonrising is better than old,this way,idk…

[Heramaar-argent-dawn]

@Zillimiss-silvermoon

The map is tiny, so a normal flying mount is fast enough.

While you are levelling you cannot use your normal mounts. This has been the case since TBC. Dragonriding is cool because it lets you fly when in other expansions you would not be.

But that’s it. Once you hit 70 a standard mount is better because you can just hover, go make a cup of tea, come back. Much more versatile.

That’s the most data-ignoring response I have ever seen. Dragonriding caps at 860% player speed. Regular flying mounts at 310% speed at best.

Also, a developer of any Online Game NEVER wants you to go afk and still progress at the same time actively in the game. No matter if Gear or simply map distance.

[Punyelf-draenor (Punyelf)]

@Ayaweya-argent-dawn

I like dragonriding. It is very fast.
I think Blizzard could add normal flying flying to de zones later for ppl who don’t like dragonridng.
I think they should add dragonriding to whole Azeroth.

They could add it now tbh. There would still be quests you’d specifically need dragon riding for.

Just a toggle on the dragon mount would suffice. Dragon riding will always be the fast interactive version.

They should also add dragon riding to old zones for those that enjoy it

[Canabal-darkspear (Canabal)]

@Olaghai-defias-brotherhood

Its underwhelming, been flying dragons/drakes since the burning crusade. So far there really is not anything “new” its the same things, I guess i expected more

Expecting different results from doing the same thing, there is a word for that.

@Olaghai-defias-brotherhood

produce something a little more, creative?

Don’t just point problems out, offer solutions to them.

So what would you have done to make things more exciting?

[Synergíe-mirage-raceway]

You mean you don’t like the glorified gliding simulator? Then you are a hater and all the other buzz words etc etc

Yep the moment I saw it and bellular was shilling it hard I realised it’s not very impressive for a major feature for an expansion. It’s falling with style as Buzz Wokeyear once said and it gets old real quick

[Cutepandaren-outland]

@Olaghai-defias-brotherhood

Am i missing something big thats coming with it? or is this simply it, its flying with a different colour of paint and more grinds put into it to flesh it out.

You can fly on day 1, you don’t need to complete any achievement to be able to fly, you can fly faster than ever before (with old flying it’d take about 66% more time to fly around), flying is finally not a boring static thing.
Yet you complain…

[Gráinne-earthen-ring]

@Tah-earthen-ring

I have found that because of dragonriding, my ‘bond’ with the zones is much less than in previous expansions where we were forced to stay on the ground. They don’t feel like actual zones, but rather ‘race tracks’ or just ‘stuff in between the quest hubs’.

This is a very good point that I just started to feel today.

Blizzard provided a big, open, flat (except for the heights deliberately inserted for dragonriding) set of zones, and I really liked that. At first. I’m not crazy about the dragonriding - feels to me like a gamer gimmick - but I don’t hate it either. Once I got used to it and unlocked all the glyphs it became very natural.

(BTW, why isn’t there a race course all around the whole continent? I think you could make it without landing. I’m not sure of that, since I haven’t tried it, but they could add some of those speed buffs if necessary.)

But today I realised that the big open zones might as well not be there at all. It’s all flyover country, if not orbit-over country, and instead of taking in the view I’m focusing on my speed and my angle and my map. I’m all focused on myself instead of the surroundings. It’s a loss I hadn’t considered.

[Obesitea-pozzo-delleternità]

I am happy about this, Mc Domald is delicious and good price.

[Obesitea-pozzo-delleternità]

I like your post, I agree with you about this. Your panda is cute!

[Bernfried-silvermoon]

I think dragonriding is fun, and it’s actually refreshing to NOT have some mega carrot like torghast, AP, legendaries etc to chase

I already have full honor gear, took maybe 2-3 hours of doing bgs, now i can just do professions and dungeons at my own pace, maybe level an alt, do duels, whatever. This is what it’s supposed to be like, you’re not supposed to have a shopping list of must do content each day.

The world content and reps are just what they’re supposed to be, fun side activities you do because you want to not because you need. There is a lot of content, just not a lot of forced content.

[Blaksin-twisting-nether]

I see why some people would prefer to turn off their brain for travel but not have to resort to a flightpath since it’s not “efficient”, like they’ve been conditioned to do for all the years they’ve been playing this game.
Every single expansion when some new gimmick comes out, these people will flock to the forums to complain how the mmo which is virtually a new game every two years changes, but not in the very exact specific way they would prefer it to change.
I love seeing their opinions; it brings me the greatest of joys to see some overopinionated, impossible to satisfy and ungrateful individual just lose it on the forums, insist they’re being reasonable, only to ultimately generate new and more entertaining forms of salt.
It brings me such a deep sense of satisfaction that I am able to enjoy this game regardless of expansion for sometimes entirely different reasons while others are just bitter, complain or waste their time regurgitating negative opinions without any basis, arguments or substantial ideas that can be used be a community rep to take back to the devs.
Devs: What did we learn today from the forums?
Unfortunate community rep: Eh, most players seem to like the feature, with the usual outliers, trolls and generally negative people.
Devs: Sounds like it was extremely well received!
UCR: Who knows? We’ll know at the end of the expansion, but by then, the new expansion will be based off of the feedback from maximum the first month of the old one (DF in this case) where people’s opinions and expectations are definitely moderated by a sense of common understanding that a new xpac is a time of discovery, learning and testing the limits of a game that will be with them for the next two years.

P.S. Several points:

1. Dragonflying is megafun. Love it, the races, the content for it, the wq, the peaks, everything. I just hop on my good boy, I am anywhere in less than 5 mins. Buddy needs a hand? Boom, there. Someone found a cool rare, drop, secret. Fwush. Plants? Check. Don’t even have to dismount, fk druids, get extra vigor just from herbing (or mining), uh, yes please! Whatever I want to do and wherever I need to be, I can and don’t have to gramma around on some dusty old flying system that’s been there for over 15 years. I -am- speed.
2. Turn on flying for the peasants in 10.1. There is a lot of content that is specifically harder because you can’t hover or be slow or static. Right now, regular flying would make some outdoor stuff just completely irrelevant (e.g. the highest peaks achievement → landing on some of those points is a genuine challenge). The only time regular flying should be turned on is when most of the dragonflying specific stuff becomes stale.
3. Why is it that being forced on the ground and dealing with mobility challenges at the start of an xpac is somehow acceptable (ofc ppl cry that no flying from start like other xpacs), but flying from start with mobility challenges is not infinitely better? Like, you have flight paths everywhere, there’s also waygates and actual dragonflying for shorter distances if you don’t like the thing that let’s you get anywhere in the xpac in less than 5 mins.
4. Idk why ppl are complaining about afk flying. I just lift off, get a lot of altitude and angle my drake correctly towards the destination, do 1 speed up and get at cruising speed. I can get up, get some water, usually my vigor is full by the time i come back and i either got to where I was going or I’m close. Just makes me think people are bad at it tbh. You get 95% of afk flying, but you have to press a few buttons in the beginning, what a tragedy =)) the cost of being over twice as fast while afk is 6-8 keypresses. Also, for the button challenged, there’s also waygates… just in case you want to cut your 5 mins down to 1 or 2 at most.

[Soltoria-mograine]

Dragon riding is quite possibly the most fun and best thing blizzard have added for a while. I swear the only People complaining really can’t be arsed to max it out. I hope that I can use these mounts in the future to fly past your gmod at double the speed. All this community does is complain and complain cause all u wanna do is set fly and afk. If you can’t dragon ride and watch something at the same time then your multitasking skills are horrible.

[Dylan-argent-dawn]

I agree with most of what you say… But please, don’t go calling others peasants or “button challenged” if you consider some of the points for the Highest Peaks achievement a “genuine challenge”.

[Halicos-terokkar]

Dragonriding sucks we want to use normal mounts again.

[Halicos-terokkar]

@Soltoria-mograine

cause all u wanna do is set fly and afk.

Yes as we been doing for years don’t see the issue.

@Soltoria-mograine

then your multitasking skills are horrible.

Yes they are i suck at it IRL thus i don’t like the feature.

[Aryash-silvermoon]

No, quit the game.

[Honestly-terokkar]

Sounds like you need to get better at dragonriding. That’s a you problem.

[Cutegrips-silvermoon]

Yeah and this feature isn’t new too. There already was Cloud Serpent riding in MoP.

[Ignar-kazzak]

I don’t know man, sounds like a skill issue to me.

[Hydrargiros-tyrande]

@Halicos-terokkar

Yes as we been doing for years don’t see the issue.

We have done lots of inefficient things for years, doesn’t mean you need to keep doing them when they could be better.

@Halicos-terokkar

i suck at it IRL thus i don’t like the feature.

Not liking something and not having skills at it is quite different.

I don’t like PvP, I still do my best not to be handicapped while doing it.

Learning require practice, that is also true for class changes.

You can’t just stay the same forever.