I find mine varies.... Sometimes I only see nodes after I have passed them - and sometimes I see them a long time ahead. Same thing for "dodads" in Shrine etc. Sometimes I zone in and for a few seconds I see no NPCs / Mailboxes etc until they "spawn" there. I think it is connection based - but maybe not your connection to your ISP - it may be your ISPs connection - or some other bottleneck.
True, it could be tailored to be unusable for city raids, but it's impossible to cut the city raid profit, without killing it whole.
If you could summon anywhere, except the cities, orgrimmar back door would be close to the effect of being inside.
Or Grom'Gol base camp, zeppelin goes to the heart of orgrimmar.
Yes, it is.
"Blizzard, I refuse to play your game on principal, you gave me flying and even though you aren't taking it away - you really expect me to NOT want it in this new part over here? You either put it in the new part because I don't wanna use it in the old part anymore or I'm leaving. No flying means no sub from me!"
The player then unsubscribes from WoW.
5 minutes later, the player buys ESO/Wildstar/launch GW2/SWTOR/LotR/Rift/Tera/whatever that does not have nor ever will have flying in it at all.
The player already experienced how flying is in WoW and most of those games are almost direct clones. Claiming to leave WoW over "no flying in new zones" then going to a MMORPG that they already know doesn't have flying is the very definition of hypocritical - especially when making the claim that "there is nothing WoW can do to convince them to stay otherwise."
Well, it isn't exactly fair to the rogue/druid to give their ability to "surprise" to every class high enough level to use a flying mount. At this point (on a PvP server), anyone can swoop and "bearbomb" their "surprise" gank in world PvP. At least on ground mounts, you can see non-rogues/druids coming.its hard to respond when fighting a difficult mob that gets you to 20% hp then a rogue comes and stunlocks you to death. there's no fun or fairness in that.
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Those defenses won't attack you if you just fly up a bit higher. You can hover over top of them all day long.
I have a feeling that just lowering the skybox down to 40 yards would cause the vocal minority of pro-fliers to squeal too.
Yeah. I've always subscribed to the "Work Smart, Not Hard" mentality. If you are smart about things, you can prevent tasks from being more difficult than needed. There are those "competitive" folks out there who think the fun is in the challenge, and that is fine, if that's what works for them. For me, I find there are enough daily challenges, I don't feel the need to pile more on myself, especially in a video game that helps me unwind. I don't ask them to stop being competitive, they should stop asking me to relinquish my convenience.
you can say its hypocritical as much as you want but the fact remains they are two different games. in one you have been flying for 7 years and its suddenly taken away, you don't like this and decide to quit the game and start playing one completely new to you. in this new game you have never experienced flying and therefore have nothing to be disappointed about. nothing wrong with that at all.
I would not want the skybox lowered, but it might be fun to add random danger to the skies the way we add it to the ground. Maybe put the aggro back in the birds, throw in a canon or two. Maybe some random enemy with a rocket launcher parked in a tower. Things we could both experience, or avoid.
someone's convenience is a bad word here.
As someone could say "It is so much more convenient to kill people when they don't fly. Don't take my convenience away with 6.1 flying."
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You haven't experienced flying in Draenor, you have nothing to be disappointed about.
Oh, different game mechanics? Those you can't use while flying?
This was my sentiment. I figure SW:TOR and GW2 both meet my other needs, but I always come back to WoW for my conveniences and creature comforts. Remove those, and I have no reason to return. I don't mind changes or enhancements in the game, but I will not force myself to enjoy something simply because it was always my favorite in the past. If mac and cheese started tasting like quinoa, I would stop eating Mac & cheese.
IMO though, WoW doesn't have the best raids or the best pvp or the best story. What is does have is convenience, by the bucket load and that is why I play it over any of the other, arguably "better" MMOs. But the more they erode the convenience of WoW the more likely I am to go play a "better" MMO. So in that regard it wouldn't be hypocritical of me to say: "I'm leaving WoW because of the inability to fly in new zones and I'm going to TESO because the pvp is better" for example. My reason for leaving one game isn't necessarily my reason for starting a different one.
As a druid, removing flying for a whole expansion means I cannot see my gorgeous self fly high above the world in my favorite form, picking flowers instantly! OMG! Get over it! I will still buy, play and enjoy the crap out of WoD! This world away, is more than about flying, or your imagined slight at it's removal or postponement!
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