It would be cool if we found a way to make ground mounts more useful in future content. One suggestion could be to make ground mounts have increased movement speed, or a sprint ability, or faster mount up.
Any other cool ideas? 
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You’re right, I think we should remove flying from the game.
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100%, but that wont happen, so we need some way to make ground mounts useful again. Besides vendors and mailboxes ofc.
Give non-flying a buff: If a player has not flown using a flying mount in the last 5 minutes, increase all exp, gold, crafting materials, chance for items to drop, chance for items to proc tertiary stats / gem socket etc. by X%, where X is something huge.
I am not nerfing flying. I am not even touching it. I am buffing non-flying.
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I believe that flying and no flying zones can exists in WoW at the same time, and Blizzard could please both sides of community by improving ground riding, BUT…
No flying in MMO is my dream tbh. WoW would be an MMO once again. Flying is an convenience for lazy species (me too) that I’m even willing to sacrafice for a better good, because flying hurts the game a lot as an MMORPG genre in my opinion. It’s too much to explain me why, and it’s not the topic for that, and I don’t want to repeat myself.
I think also that many people do not love particularly flying it self, but the way they get from the point A to B, so if the ground riding would be improved, people won’t be as mad, and loud that they got no flying zone again.
I WOULD LOVE to see more no flying zones, it would improve interactions between players in long term, the connection to the world, revive open world pvp finally for those who love it. The game would feel alive again, because you would see much more people running around, instead of ppl flying with the speed of light.
It could be done so much to the ground riding.
My suggestion is to add skills similar to like Dragonriding has. For example:
Sprint - chargeable ability like it is in Diablo 4. You have 3 stacks to consume and it gives you stacks of speed running, and if you are operating it well, you can have almost permament sprint at highest speed. I love riding in D4 tbh. Or like it is in the New World - hold a button to consume the stamina for sprinting, but also adding momentum glide so the mount is slowly losing speed not consuming the stamina. First one is much better, and fun to use.
Charge - casting charge from staying still straight to the high speed of sprinting.
Big leap - 20s recharged abillity that makes you jump forward for a huge distance
/mountspecial - currently existing would give us some random buffs (with a 1min cd, and cool particle effects), like HP regen, water walking, increased non riding movement speed, reducing detection by mobs, higher jump, everything for like 7-12s, or even knocking us off our mounts sometimes if “failed” (but it would require to add many, many animations so idk about that).
Brace - your mount is immune to get dazed or slowed for a 12s. 3s in PvP.
Vanish - disappear for 7s.
We could also get a Path Sense, 15% riding speed while on the path, but again, I think it would be too much of developing for that small feature (adding paths to the system for each zone).
I don’t think that drifting from The Undermine would be cool to impletent it also. I really don’t see how the animations of ground mounts would look like for drifting. But drifting on a chicken would be funny 
Make them all fly.
We have flying cats, wolves and horses.
No reason we can’t have them all
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Wait till somebody comes and says it is not decent for a moo mount to fly 
Just give them flying.
I’m gonna be the elephant in the room
I use ground mounts to ride on the ground. It’s a lot more immersive as-is, and riding birds and dragons is really awkward (on the road I mean). There are a couple oversized ones, though, for example this dinosaur that everyone blocks and fills entire city districts with.
Flying ground mounts are too silly for me, even if old (Headless Horseman).
Although I get the pun. Blizzard doesn’t give a Flying Fox. You have to buy it.
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we need a mini game like dynamic flight, undermine’s car is a good example. mount can be slower but with the addition of some fun mini games to the process could do well
Ground mounts are useful. You see them all the time in Dungeons where you can mount up.
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so only useful for those do dungeons, thats not all player base for sure
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Because riding with 400% movements speed is sooooo immersive (because immersion is a argument for no flying)
Srz but it ain’t more immersive then flying through with same speed
Also people woud still rush through the world from pint a to b
I think we shkud remove YOU from the forums.
Anamd so you crate a 2 class stsyem and force the people again for better suff on ground mount.
Sry thats hypocritical, shall i remind you last time was "mimimi i’m disadvantaged because flying because Ressourcen gathering and levelling is faster mimimi.
So but demand the same for grind mount, even better with real value and impact.
Those time are over, even classic showed it its just rushing and min maxing.
Faculty wrog, look at wod.
point to the maw or other no flywing zones
Because mo flywing zine were Soooo well received 
Becaude riding on motorcycle, giant elementals, oversized snails, fixes ect is wasy more immersive for the word
What’s next, Hearthstone on motorcycles??
Dungeons are a major part of the game.
And besides in Midnight, they’ll be adding Delves where you can mount.
And let’s not forget, they have just added a huge add-on for a minor part of the player base. I guess blizzards philosophy is to try and accommodate many different types of players and variety.
Why would they be forced? Noone would force them to stay grounded, just like now noone is forced to fly. Whoever likes flying would be able to fly and whoever does not would be able to stay grounded.
Minmaxers do not have a preference. They always go for the optimal path regardless of what that entails. If it’s dungeons, they do dungeons. If it’s PvP, they do PvP. If it’s through the WoW token, they purchase it. If it’s through Delves, they do Delvevs. If it’s through flying, they fly. If it’s through RP walking, they RP walk.
A minmaxer only follows the optimal. They put their preference second in importance.
That is a glaring problem with the Maw. It didn’t give the option to players. It forced them, just as we are forced to be on foot or at most grounded in most dungeons. If it had flying but it did not give a single benefit over being grounded, Maw would have been received more positively.
Blizzard needs to give the illusion of choice, not eliminate choice entirely.
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ground mount system hasnt been touched in years, it needs a touch.
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They touched it in Undermine, and it was a nice gimmick for a patch.
I think Ground mounts are fine.
What I would like to see is a level experience where flying was disabled.
Give the Azure Water Strider waterwalking again and voila, you have a useful ground mount.
Nah you just fly over the water