Flights paths have become very obselete after cataclysm in the older world, so is it after the pathfinder in retail. There’s not a single reason why one should take a flight path these days, why not do something with it? Perhaps double or triple the flight speed so its actually benificial to take a flight path over flying yourself. Perhaps link some achievements to it like once you collected all the flight paths in one continent the flight speed doubles and once you collected all the flight paths in wow the flight speed triples.
Would love to see some additional features added to make flight paths the best transportation system in retail once more!
Eh, until level 40, they’re still quite relevant. The first tier of flying is no faster than epic ground speed, so even flying in straight lines isn’t necessarily quicker than the taxi. After that though it probably depends on where you’re going.
The benefit of a flight path is that you don’t need to control it - you can type in chat, look up a guide, do something else. FFXIV has teleports to literally everywhere that are instant and cost next to nothing, and it has flight paths as well.
I actually meant make them valid for max levels again. Do something nice with it, perhaps just make a portal network instead of a flight path network, or the fast travel like between zones in SL.
But you can also just put auto walk / fly on and go straight to your destination. Meanwhile u can browse or w/e, fly path also have a weird pathing which makes it eventually slower
And then find yourself auto-flying/walking into mountain for the past 10 minutes nah the flight paths are fine as they are. Wouldn’t say no to them having a speed increase though.
chances are high if you autofly you will either, miss your destination by miles, die out in the sea because you flew too far and then you have to retrieve your body, walk/fly all the way back or deal with ress sickness, or fly against an obstacle and dont go anywhere for 15minutes.
whereas with flight point i can just click where i want to go and in the worst case of scenario, if i should be away for longer, i ll just dc but i ll be right there when i log in.
so i dont think that auto walking/flying is a time saver most of the time, at least it isnt for me. i just forget that i was even playing and then i have watched a 20min video and afterwards i have to deal with all the bs in game due to auto flying.
i do agree though that some flightpaths could use some better pathing, some are quite nonsensical but it doesnt really matter if you go afk while you re using them anyways.
They are valid, I don’t intend to manually fly half a continent. Heck, sometimes even a taxi to the next closest flight point is worth it if I don’t feel like manually navigating over/between hills and trees.
And in the meantime I can take a toilet break, go refill my water bottle, put some food in the microwave or even just alt tab and look at something else.
flight paths are great if you want to go somewhere while basicly going afk for a bit to get a drink or go to the toilet etc. And like others said at lower levels you will use them more than your own mount and when flying is locked in a new expansion they are your best options
Flight paths are great if you want to go and get a drink, or pop to the loo etc. I still use them if I need to go far. Most stuff in the same zone I will usually just fly to myself ofc.
In SL the flight path always slingshots through Oribos which really adds to the travel time.
nah the flight paths are fine as they are. Wouldn’t say no to them having a speed increase though.