Originally Posted by
Spraxle
The problem is flying mounts, they trivialize a lot of what you do in the open world. You don't have to fight more then a few mobs here and there because you can fly over them. Same issue with 'world pvp', it's pretty hard to pvp when being half an inch off the ground on a flying mount stops half the abilities in the game.
Flyers are useful, but they really really really hurt a lot of the open world experience. They trivialize questing, exploring, gathering, or anything else you can do since you just fly over anything you don't want to fight or go around.
Just my two cents.