Hey everyone, I have spent the last week farming Draenor for the famously hard to pin down Voidtalon.
But the idiot I am I didnt check multiple sources, just wowhead, where the tooltip says that it has text for flying. So I didnt know it wasn’t a flying mount. Which is immensely disappointing, when the Dread Raven, the WoD CE Mount is flying and seems to be the standard of the time.
SO, I don’t know how many discussions about this have been had in the past, but are there any plans to allow some older ground-bound mounts to fly? I just feel like I wasted a lot of time farming a Mount I wont ever use, despite how much I actually love it’s design. Unless of course the next Expansion introduces the Maw 2.0 where you wont be able to fly forever.
we unlock flying at 30 which is usually just the first few hours of a new char. after that we only use flying mounts so yeah i would want more ground mounts to fly
This and all of my favourite mounts aside from one are ground mounts. Before I got the Diablo 4 mount I always ended up feeling forced to use mounts I don’t like very much : /
Although I don’t know which particular mount you’re referring to. I will add that I don’t mind some mounts remaining ground mounts, if it makes sense (i.e a horse).
Ok then, guess it doesnt need any changes.
A mount that requires you to wait 48 hours after every reset, has 2hour logouts on failed spawns, 8 hour logouts on correct spawns, in an area where half the zones are constantly unpopulated, that is part of an expansion with a comparable flying mount as CE Bonus.
Times change, ground mounts are barely useful, unless they actively restrict which mounts you can use. Considering that during DF all mounts that aren’t drakes have lost their significance completely, it just feels bad that you effectively only get a “YOu did it badge” while the mount gathers dust in your collection.
That’s not a designed requirement for obtaining the mount. Usually these sorts of mounts are supposed to be a “I was there, there is was, I got the mount”, rather than a farm like that.
If you feel you need to go through those lengths to collect the mount, that is on you I’m afraid. And I applaud you for your patience.
I love showing off my ground mounts in M+. It’s even quite fun to hang around in Valdrakeen on your latest drop.
I agree with this. I am certainly alot less interested in mounts than I was before DF.
And then they replaced it with this horrible Drake Cosmetic System. I would have rather they just added more mounts to the game to collect.
In any case, there is just no reason to not make them either fly, or create similar versions to the Dread Raven that you get when you collect the ground mount, that can fly.
This game has flying horses, flying cities, flying dogs, but a bird cant fly cause “wings smol”?
The “Dark Star” that is it’s namesake is a flying pile of space crystals, corrupted by void magic.
So by neither lore nor logic is there any reason to not make it a flying mount.
And I actually like the Drakes, and the cosmetic system.
I mean, they could have made some world drops better (14h cooldown elites is kinda bad) and definitely could have reigned in the material costs for armor manuscripts (8 Awakened order topkek)
But overall I like it, but effectively it just put a big “obsolete” sticker on flying mounts for the foreseeable future (aka all of DF)
And sure, it’s a “you must have been there” mount, but this is a live service mmo, so they must’ve been aware, that people would wanna go mount hunting for it later.
And they could’ve just said “no” and stopped spawning portals after WoD, instead they just made the farm harder. Again, all for a non-flying mount during an expansion that granted the Dread Raven as a CE bonus.
This is a funny magic world.
HORSES fly.
Cities Fly.
Carpets fly.
Piles of Crystals fly.
Literally everything flies, but sure.
Short wings = incapable of flight.