No, that's flight paths, except it's more of a slow travel. Flying lets me get distracted with herbs or rares on my way or anything else that seems cool (pre-flight, I'd say "nah, it's not worth falling into this ravine for 5 Fjarnskaggl". With flight, it's not a big deal!). You should also see my screenshots folder pre-flight and post-flight.
Just because YOU think this doesn't mean it's fact for everyone. The game has been significantly more enjoyable for me since flight has been out, though only because I had already exhausted the game of anything left to do.
TBH, Pathfinder should come out every major content patch. 7.1 should have let Pathfinder "Part 1" let us fly in non-Broken Shore areas. 7.2's pathfinder would be fine for just Broken Shore. Flight in the other zones should not have been this delayed when we'd already done everything anyways.
Enjoying the view, getting distracted for herbs/secrets that are very vertically problematic without flight, exploring even more than you could on land.
Seriously, I don't understand why flight has to "serve a purpose" for some people to enjoy it. It's like you're expecting some kind of reward for literally everything in this game.
Still wondering why I play this game.
I'm a Rogue and I also made a spreadsheet for the Order Hall that is updated for BfA.
If Blizzard would let me fly, I would re sub. The game isn't worth playing without flying.
You obviously do not understand the concept of hypocrisy or refuse to admit that Blizz are being hypocritical when it comes to flying do you? They intentionally made things inconvenient for us by disallowing flying, so that we would consume content much slower for obvious reasons but instead gave the BS excuse that players would suffer from the lack of immersion and danger with flying. Then after we are forced to do without a feature that we've had since from TBC to MoP for more than half a year they suddenly used flying as part of their marketing gimmick to entice returning or new players when their anti-flying stance is for all to see. Don't you see the hypocrisy in all of these? Then again looking at your sig and past posts, you seem to be a typical FB so there is probably no point arguing.
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Those who do not stand with the Forsaken stand against them. And those who stand against the Forsaken will not stand long
Flying is great and all, but...
I miss my grapple hook and Water Strider. Until next time (7.3), old friends.
I'm also having more fun thanks to flying, and i am against the concept of flying mounts, but WoW has always been in a bad spot when it comes to player options to travel around. Even with the few attempts to fix those options (different hearthstones, whistle, faster flight paths, more flight points...), the reality is that a wow without a good fast travel system (aka teleports, more often and to more places) ends up needing flying mounts.
I also think that pathfinder achievement is the best way to handle when players unlock flying, but we shouldn't have to wait until a later patch. Pathfinder part one should unlock flying on the first zones, pathfinder part two should unlock flying on the broken shore. Experience current world content, complete current world content, fly on current world content.
"Mastery Haste will fix it."
Gone are the days noninstanced gameplay and long travel quests used to be considered relevant gameplay for the general community. God i feel old when you see comments like yours :P. Without the open world and the travels it involved i most likely wouldn't even be playing this MMO. I honestly think you would've like the system Guild Wars 1 had going. They only had instanced gameplay with combat .
i often fly to a zone to do WQ after which i travel only by ground mount from quest to skip skipping over the flightpaths unless i have a time isues. i love wondering over the map
Maybe not 10x but still better. I got my flying back 5 days ago and it was truly great. Not a feeling of achievement as Blizzard wanted it to be. Rather relief that this stupid, gated and limiting grind is finally over.
I have all 12 classes and as in Draenor I got them to max level fairly quick, in Legion I leveled just my main to 110 and then focused on gearing. I got also one alt to 110 and thats it. Next character was 103. The day I got flying I started to play alts. 3 days later my 103 turned 110. Flying makes leveling much faster and way more intreresting. I can finally focus on quests, killing mobs and fulfilling goals instead of navigating rough terrain and cursing aloud for being 5 feet away from my target but 40 feet below with no way up (which turns to start on the other side of the zone, well hidden).
Pre flying I had just one character to play.
Post flying I now have 11 other.
Pre flying I logged into WoW just to make Broken Shore dailies for rep.
post flying I feel the urge to log in and play since there are lots of things to do. Level Warlock, Priest or maybe Paladin? Or maybe finish DK and get my 3rd relic slot? Farm mats on my gatherer to boost professions? So many things, so little time. With flying I feel I can play again. Instead of mindlessly grind.
EXACTLY. Vertical locations are fucking moronic. I vastly prefer large flat locations like MoP had. Those fucking WoD and Legion caves... arrgh.
I feel the same. A shame that developers have this moronic attitude towards flying, which was an integral part of a game since forever. Double shame that they have this exact attitude to only steal more players time, wasted on fucking terrain and dealing with absurd mob density.
You play the game by yourself instead of afking on a taxi. What's so hard to grasp here? Yes, steering your fly mount is playing the game as well. No, afking on a taxi is not.
No more time wasted in WoW.. still reading this awesome forum, though
To be totally honest i can understand logic behind limiting flying. Blizzard is right in saying that flying trivializes quests. With flying it's sooooo easy to fly up, skip ALL obstacles (be it terrain maze, height differences or packs of trash mobs), drop on target, kill it/gather and fly back. Getting from 100 to 110 on my main took me like 2 or 3 weeks (granted I read all quests and wasn't in a hurry). With flying I got my alt from ~104 to 110 in 2 days.
With that speed it's easy to blast through entire accessible content within HOURS and then sit and qq about not having anything to do. So, on my personal POV, decision to limit flying was right. I spent more time in the world, actually saw all those stunning visuals, could appreciate graphics and all that work put towards it. But, on the other hand, I had that feeling that this whole terrain was designed as a <F-word> maze from the beginning. From obvious paths starting on the other side of a zone, mountains and large trees and bushes disallowing straight movement to those small obstacles placed EXACTLY where you wanted to skip something. And terrain level JUST BARELY higher that your jump. Tiny bit that feels like AAAAllllmost....nope. Can't go this way.
I have nothing to have flying gated. Unlocking in Draenor was great. Unlocking (in general) in Legion felt ... well, "great" is not a word that I'd use here... fitting. But the other forced ideas were bad. You want to go A-B? great, have half of the alphabet of waypoints in the meantime, in the CORRECT ORDER WE DECIDED, THE EXACTLY WAY WE DECIDED or forget getting there in this expansion. Plus already mentioned SLIGHT tweaks that force you to search another way.
THAT made flying a must. And as I wrote earlier - it didn't felt like a big thing, like "Woop,I have flying. FLYING CORAL!". It felt more like: "<F-word>, I have that <F-word>ing grind finally <F-word>ing over".
lets have a debate
hit & run posting lol