Why is the flying limit so low over Ashenvale?

[Deleted]

I can barely get above the trees over Ashenvale compared to most other zones where you can fly so high. It feels strange flying from Orgrimmar to Hyjal as it's only possible to fly up when very close to the cliff face.

[halmotors]

The flying ceiling isn't any lower in Ashenvale, it's just that the trees are ridiculously tall. Un'goro is the same way.

[ComputerNerd]

The ceiling does vary per zone, and even within a zone so not as simple as the height above the trees.
I have noticed a number of bugged regions too where you get the ceiling effect where a mount will struggle as if being forced downwards but still be able to go higher.
When that happens I actually have to fly lower to achieve the full speed since that process actually slows it down.

[Deleted]

The flying ceiling isn't any lower in Ashenvale, it's just that the trees are ridiculously tall. Un'goro is the same way.

It's possible to fly way higher over Un'Goro - so high in fact that even on maximum view distance you can barely see the tree tops.

That's not possible over Ashenvale - the flying mount doesn't really want to go above the tree tops at all.

[FrozenFlames]

Yea, I've been noticing this aswell, when Surveying Kalimdor for archeaology, always when I flew in the north, my mount began to growl above Ashenvale, which is quite annoying.

[Omanley]

happens in azshara as well. like a contrast between those regions and hyjal. I guess there's that much of a heigh difference between hyjal and un' goro for example that blizz would have to render twice as much for flying mounts to have it the same everyhwere.

they should up it in those regions though, it's really annoying when flying for digsites

[Deleted]

happens in azshara as well. like a contrast between those regions and hyjal. I guess there's that much of a heigh difference between hyjal and un' goro for example that blizz would have to render twice as much for flying mounts to have it the same everyhwere.

they should up it in those regions though, it's really annoying when flying for digsites

I won't mind the height difference between Azshara and Hyjal/Wintesrping. I can just freefall my way down. (Until I get the in-combat bug and die cause of being unable to cast my flight form..)

[ComputerNerd]

I have noticed what I would assume to be the same in-combat bug too, where I will randomly enter combat even when nowhere near anything that would cause it, usually when doing archeology.
It then comes and goes, persisting through zones so is most certainly not as simple as a bugged mob or something when the issue still remains half way across a continent and occuring at regular intervals.

[Caldrumr]

Yes, Ashenvale is very bad. Especially when you are working on archaeology, it is very annoying to fly over Ashenvale from places like Hyjal, since you will invariably get stuck and have to fly much, much lower. They need to make the ceiling for the entire continent the same, based on a specific height over the highest zone. That would make much more sense. Otherwise, I just try to avoid flying over Ashenvale as much as possible. Plus, the trees look so horrible....

[orcshaman24]

I found it first when on the first week of cata the portal to hyjal was broken, and having to fly from org to hyjal over ashenvale wouldn't let me fly vertical until reaching the side of the mountain. Why is it I then can fly unobscured upwards, but not before?

Its like if you messure how high you can fly in all zones, take northrend, or outlands, you can fly in almost all zones high enough for the ground level to disappear. In most zones in azeroth, this applies too, but not in ashenvale.

[Juri]

All Azeroth zones are this way strangely enough.

You can't even go as a high as you can in Outland or Northrend.

just random invisible walls