SoD has a lot of QoL improvements. Could we also have shorter flightpaths. For example, Ratchet to Desolace for alliance goes down to Theramore, then back up to almost Ratchet before it heads West. Could it go direct?
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I would personally rather the Developers not spend a single second on this idea.
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Sometimes it’s a matter of missing an FP - in Classic, Ratchet is not yet connected to Astranaar directly, but that on the border with Azshara.
Arguably, it’s also up to you to override the optimum path, which is a mix of cash and distance and hop count. (A bad example is SW-IF which at one point becomes a three hop path.)
That all said… I think flying should be free and teleport have the cost.
Short flights are kind of okay, can sort a few things.
In theory they are addiction breakers, you have to stand up.
In reality, they are immersion breakers. Several times I log in, travel for 30 minutes, and log out bored. I knew the duration from buffs.
Being a mage makes classic travel so much more tolerable.
… which is a big mistake IMHO.
Classic is about the journey (literally) - longer flight paths makes the world feel larger and force you to plan your route carefully.
Instead, if you continue with all those QoL improvements you end up with retail - a game without any nerve or atmosphere.
If just Blizzard would concentrate on code quality (which currently is non-existing) and bot extermination I would gladly fly from Ferala to Tanaris via Moonglade and back.
Classic has not been about the “journey” for a very very long time now.
You might look at it as immersive many others will just look at it as an oppurtunity for a toilet brake.
Why do you say that? It still is to me.
People wanting the easy way have Retail and to some extend SoD and WotLK. But for every QoL you implement you will move SoD one step closer to Retail.
SoD already IS retail.
We have retail runes, way better optimized stats on gear, dual specc, exp buffs etc.
I dont need better flypaths personally (already got them on horde side 
) but I think that magical exploration part about wow has long gone by for most of the community, of course theres the nostalgia part but you might as well just play Classic Era at that point.
I agree with this one, it takes a quarter of an hour to fly from Theramore to Darnassus. This can be shortened by picking up the flightpath in Azshara but this aside, taxi flights take far too long in this version. Rather than spending time changing these flightpatch they could simply speed them up, this would help a great deal.
If flightpaths had a speed consistent with max speed dragonriding it would certainly improve things.
but I think that magical exploration part about wow has long gone by for most of the community,
That’s because everyone knows where everything is. New zones would be the way to go in terms of exploration, expend existing zones or create new ones in unused areas of the world.
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