Dragonflying should become evergreen, Legacy flying should be slowly replaced.

[shise]

Old flying > dragon riding.

It is annoying and a lot of us simply don´t need/want it.

I am cool with it existing, I think it is good that they made it. But replacing old flying is a big failure.

[Noctiphobia]

They should remove walking at all. It's immersive but bad for exploration speed and leveling.
C wut I did here?

The fact that you don't like it doesn't mean it should be removed.

And if you don't like it - don't use it. Simple.

The main reason I don't like flying is that it absolutely kills world PvP. In the recent expansions, I've had a lot of fun with the world PvP, but as soon as flying becomes a thing, world PvP stops existing. Me not flying will obviously not fix this.

[saixilein]

They should remove walking at all. It's immersive but bad for exploration speed and leveling.
C wut I did here?

The fact that you don't like it doesn't mean it should be removed.

And if you don't like it - don't use it. Simple.

First i started writing arguments, but then i decided to stop, cause its a waste of time to talk with people like you, who think everything will be fine when you just prune yourself, but its not. But you wont get the point or change your mind/view, so its just a waste of time.

[Kikazz]

No entirely. There is something called animation retargeting they could deploy that could transfer the animation from one skeleton to another.

it would still be man hours,

as yes they can use animation retargeting, but the old style rigs werent designed with this,

they could break models or worse screw them entirely, its not an easy fix as just copying and pasting as you suggest it is.

[Ehrenpanzer]

They said that starting with DF they're focusing more on doing evergreen features and not just expansion one-offs. I don't know how they'd bring it forward but I think they already hinted that it's sticking around.

At this point, If Blizzard said the sun would rise in the East tomorrow, I'd be skeptical.

[rrayy]

https://imgur.com/a/SGi3Y6D

This is how it feels on live now after finally trying the Soar ability, even as just a simplified version it immediately made me hate coming back to normal flying. I can not wait until Dragonflight comes out just so I can spend time flying around, it's so refreshing. I swear, this better become evergreen and the start of 'mount classes' in Warcraft just like how they have a variety of 'mount classes' in Guild Wars 2.

I really hope that by the end of this expansion, all of the Dragon, Pterrordax, Gryphons, Wyrms, and Protos have their animations retargeted so they can be integrated into the new flight system. Then over the next few expansions, they should slowly come up with other 'mount classes' for mounts that don't fit in those previously mentioned classes. I'd love to see all sorts of new methods of traveling.

Dragonflying is probably the single most refreshing updated mechanic WoW has received since launch and I hope it does to travel what Mythic+ did for dungeons.

How about no? How about you just have your dragonmount work in other areas and leave the others be so those that want regular flying can have it? You are not the only one playing the game.

[Sugani]

How about no? How about you just have your dragonmount work in other areas and leave the others be so those that want regular flying can have it? You are not the only one playing the game.

I think I'd consider that if regular flying wasn't just /noclip with no mechanics or anything to make engaging gameplay that contributes nothing but degenerative behavior.

Seriously, explain to me how legacy flying isn't degenerative game design.

[Cosmic Janitor]

It really just doesn't make a lick of sense for any flying creature/apparatus that doesn't use flapping wings. All the magical flying mounts that step through the air, those that have fast beating scaled wings (like insects), those which worm their way through space or all the mechanical mounts with scientific(fictional) propulsions. None of them work sensibly with dragonflying. If anything Blizzard should maybe create some broad mount categories (like GW2) and use them going forward with different feature sets. Bending everything into a pretzel to fit the DF gimmik is just bad design. Not to mention there are indeed accessibility issues for some people.

[Rendark]

Seriously, explain to me how legacy flying isn't degenerative game design.

It gets me to the fun part of the game faster.

[Amnaught]

The main reason I don't like flying is that it absolutely kills world PvP. In the recent expansions, I've had a lot of fun with the world PvP, but as soon as flying becomes a thing, world PvP stops existing. Me not flying will obviously not fix this.

This is why I like Dragonriding personally! It has a cooldown. If normal flying was replaced with dragonriding, youd be able to get to where you need to go at an awesome speed, then leave when youre done with it, but none of the current thing where you jist wait from a safe distance, gank slmebody, then nope out of there as soon as theres an opening.

I fucking love dragonriding, man. Would 100% prefer it and jist delete the old system.

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It gets me to the fun part of the game faster.

Not faster than Dragonriding, lol.

[Biomega]

I don't want my everyday movement to be a minigame.

I want it to be at best a fire-and-forget afk-while-doing-it necessity that happens in between the things I ACTUALLY want to be doing.

Movement isn't and shouldn't be "content". It's what connects actual content.

[FuxieDK]

https://imgur.com/a/SGi3Y6D

This is how it feels on live now after finally trying the Soar ability, even as just a simplified version it immediately made me hate coming back to normal flying. I can not wait until Dragonflight comes out just so I can spend time flying around, it's so refreshing. I swear, this better become evergreen and the start of 'mount classes' in Warcraft just like how they have a variety of 'mount classes' in Guild Wars 2.

I really hope that by the end of this expansion, all of the Dragon, Pterrordax, Gryphons, Wyrms, and Protos have their animations retargeted so they can be integrated into the new flight system. Then over the next few expansions, they should slowly come up with other 'mount classes' for mounts that don't fit in those previously mentioned classes. I'd love to see all sorts of new methods of traveling.

Dragonflying is probably the single most refreshing updated mechanic WoW has received since launch and I hope it does to travel what Mythic+ did for dungeons.

I have only done Dracthyr starting zone once, but I can already say; NO FUCKING WAY!

Dragon flying is horrible, rwstrictive and annoying........And on a freaking 5 minutes CD for a few seconds of flight.

Normal flight remains the single best addition to the game and nothing in the last 15 years have even come close.

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The main reason I don't like flying is that it absolutely kills world PvP. In the recent expansions, I've had a lot of fun with the world PvP, but as soon as flying becomes a thing, world PvP stops existing. Me not flying will obviously not fix this.

Flying doesn't kill world PvP.
PvP is, and always was, a thing for a very very small minority, in a PvE game.

Ganking low-level players near flight masters IS NOT PvP, it's disrupting other people's game time.

[varren]

People are going to get tried of Dragonriding very fast

[Lucetia]

Dragonflying is probably the single most refreshing updated mechanic WoW has received since launch and I hope it does to travel what Mythic+ did for dungeons.

Nope, I'm still good with flying as is. Not really fond of the Dragon Isles one. It's fine for where it is, but no I don't want it replaced everywhere.

Seriously, explain to me how legacy flying isn't degenerative game design.

What exactly makes it bad for the game? The only thing that has anything to stand on is PvP and even then World PvP isn't as popular as everyone thinks it is.

[Nerph-]

Why not just have both for people who like one or the other? Why does one need to be removed?

[Trinora]

Why not just have both for people who like one or the other? Why does one need to be removed?

Exactly, just make it a choice people can make.

[FelPlague]

I have only done Dracthyr starting zone once, but I can already say; NO FUCKING WAY!

Dragon flying is horrible, rwstrictive and annoying........And on a freaking 5 minutes CD for a few seconds of flight.

Normal flight remains the single best addition to the game and nothing in the last 15 years have even come close.

I fucking love how everything in this post is wrong.
1- dragon riding does not work like the Dracthyr soar racial, the soar racial is a super basic version of dragon riding that is just supposed to be a racial
2- dragon riding does not have a cooldown, it has an energy bar that refills as you fly fast. Or stay on the ground, or gather, or kill.
3- even the dracthyr soar racial does not have a 5 minute cooldown.

[Hibiki]

Why not just have both for people who like one or the other? Why does one need to be removed?

In my dream game we got both, also we got instant mount up druid style and interactions not dismounting ( mining, herbalism, quest item pickup )

[A Blue Smurf]

'Legacy flying' should remain exactly as it is, there's no reason to change or remove it. You're going to move slower than dragonriding and that's perfectly fine because there is no required interactions - simply point and go.

Dragonriding should be extended to the entire in-game world and as a 'reward' for it's required interactions you move significantly faster. Simple.

[Twdft]

WoW is played by a wide variety of people, some of whom have disabilities including not being able to optimally use their hands.

Normal flying can be done by using literally one finger. I love dragonflying too, but would never advocate to replace normal flying.