MAJOR Riding/Flying Updates Coming in the War Within Pre-Patch 

Did I hear you correctly that we are going to be at 705% in the War within? So the new expansion we'll be flying slower than now? That doesn't seem to make sense, I wonder why?

What about Dracthyr soar ? Can it be made static ? You did not address that .

Yep that was my bad! Sorry about that. Dracthyr will be able to switch flight styles and use static flying with Soar

I think the 5 second cast time to switch between static and "skyriding" is a little long. I find myself switching between a standard flying mount and a dragonriding mount fairly often in Panda Remix already and it's instantaneous to switch now. Maybe a change to 2 or 3 seconds down the road is possible.

Amazing, love all of the changes!

Sinrunner Blanchy finally at her full potential for my blood DK

Its pretty sick, minus the spinning that Looks kinda lame. Makes sense with bird-like mounts, not so much horses.

Seen the Monk Tiger mount pouncing through the sky, it was amazing 👏

Came to say this, love the horses. I thought the ones that leave foot prints in air were already cool, but this new galloping and leaping animation is amazing.

same here except the spin they do that looks dumb. its only fitting for something with wings

Reminds me a lot of the Disney pegasi in Fantasia. Gorgeous and makes me really want a proper pegasus mount in WoW.

They know us too well

the opportunity was not wasted

Yeah easy dislike 🤣🤣

I was going to post just that 🤣🤣

And warlock !

THIS !!???!!!

@@crveni94acdc warlocks dont have wings...

AND PALADINS

​@@Kheuxy They have Felsteed ;D but yeah it doesn't fly either. I don't see a reason the current WLs' and Palas' mounts should fly.

Genuine, can't u understand getting motion sickness from this.

Motion sickness 😂😂😂

Other reasons: I need to hover over a place

@@akpadelmfao

autowalk/fly lmao

I just wish u dont need to cast 5 sec spell to switch it. I like how it is now

I think skyriding will be better for just about everything unless gathering nodes are really close together. Maybe like half afk RU-vid gathering and questing static will be better.

@@kramergadd3672 im just thinking if they do something like tuskar boxes again that have certain areas where they're very tightly clustered together with mining nodes/herb nodes / expedition bags I used to exclusively make gold from my mog farming in old raids but some of these clusters ive managed to do 50+k gold in an hour. the reason i use static is the unreliable launches with dragonriding if the upcoming node is just a small fly away

420

@@rawcoustic1718 Thats the super annoying part. Why does it have to be 5s? Why cant it just be instant? Or at the very least, castable while mounted. But still doesnt need to be 5s. I could summon and dismount twice before that cast goes off. It's not efficient.

Agree

Yes, a 5 second cast every time is a terrible idea. I think being able to pick a few to stay static while the rest are dynamic would be good too.

Yall really dint understand why they do that? Otherwise the fastest way to move will be switching none stop.

Should be per mount

​@@user-re7sm2hr9bThat's the right answer. It will be meta to switch every time and will be making the gameplay utterly boring

Exactly! It was a correct decision

Actually a really smart decision. People try for free, if one of the reasons they like the game is SR, they sub.

ye but also kinda sucks for people who grinded rare ground mounts that will be useful for like 1h of gameplay throught 10-20lvl and i guess instance or two xd

​@mtthw1597 that was already the case

@@billabong5366 I mean previous to dragonflight they allowed flying pretty late into a new expantion and if now every exp after that will unlock flying at the start thats makes ground mounts pretty mutch ussleless like i kinda feel bad for this people who for example spend hours of grinding lets say stratholme for deathcharger just for him to now be just at the best scenario cool mount to afk on

This sounds stupid.

the majority of everyone is just going to pick one style and never touch that button. I don't really see why people are trying to switch between the two every couple of seconds.... You're lucky they didn't make it an npc in capitol cities, which is what I assumed it would be.

@@mrfrupo People who try to min max their movement.

​@@heroicxidiot There are 2 flying systems, both of them have pros and cons. You can choose which one you'll use, and you accept those pros and cons. Having all the pros and none of the cons would be very boring. A 5 second cast is very generous, I also assumed it would be an NPC in a city.

@@DrobusMaximus A 5 second cast is not very generous. Right now it is a 0 second cast. I got two mounts on my bar so I can immidiately switch to the other flying mode. I use that all the time, and now they take that away from me.

@@LittleMissSmallPaw Yes, which is how it should be. There are 2 systems, each of them with pros and cons. Take your pick. There is absolutely no reason why you should be switching constantly.

YES, 5 seconds cast is completely unnecessary. We should be able to toggle the ability while mounted/on the air for purposes like you described.

There are a few flying mounts that aren't getting skyriding so you could use one of those the jellyfish from ZM are one of them

Same

I think it makes sense because you could just fly high and then switch and then get max speed and that does not seem like that's their intention.

@@grimdagoblinmain I don’t know why I expected to be able to open my collections, pick a mount, toggle dynamic flight ON/OFF. Just make it so you’re grounded or unmounted when choosing to keep the gameplay in order. Just my thought!

​@@JayTheCharmerOG Such level of customization would be overkill and a button was expectable, with a minimal cast it would be way less of a burden. But you're right, imagine we just wanna hover a few meter to look at some piece art crafted with love by the devs... This little manoeuver is gonna cost us 10 whole seconds at least, even if we change your mind! Although I'm starting to understand his point, and Blizzard's. It's true, especially with enhanced static flight, that it's very practical to just switch system to easily counterbalance the only drawback of dynamic flight, that is wasting all your stamina and not being able to return to the sky right away. Right now if we're close to some peak, we just have to switch, fly up there, and jump with our dynamic mount to get back on track... that sounds quite counter intuitive as a gameplay mechanic to be so easy to bypass because of the conflict with another. But on another hand, in practice... We still feel quite well the drawback of having to switch mount and slowly fly black up (if only we're not on a plain!), until we're ready to go again (maybe it even takes the time you had to wait to get the two action points needed... I even forgot about the skill to give them back up instantly ! So it's up to the player what they wanna do during that time) So no, I still pretty much find the current system to be the ideal. I guess Blizzard still want us to "try" it... Back to testing time, baby!

I've watch the community in real time go from get rid of dragon riding to getting normal flying again then every second moving the goalposts when they get something, insufferable

...or make it instant toggle and being able to change flying style while on air on the same mount. Its SO unnecessary having to land and cast 5 seconds.

Nah

@@maxpowers4436 It is, if you wanna fly smalls distances when questing, regular flying is more efficient. I hope not ALL flying mounts are defaulted to skyriding.

Honestly, it should be only changeable in cap cities. #NotStrictEnough

@@JuanAlvarez-sf9sn All flying mounts will be either normal or dragon flying, if you change one you change all of them.

@@Deatheragenator Why? Better then just remove dragon flying from all normal mounts and then use the mount that fit for the situation.

I would love to have 1 specific mount that would have tbc flight style, some times I miss the landing spot or looking for stuff like cave entrances etc

they've confirmed there's going to be a few mounts that are static only, like the pandaria discs I think

@@saqhorov that's great news. Thanks for your reply

Yes. They really need to get rid of the 5 second cast. Alternatively let me assign a mode to a specific mount.

@@saqhorov It's true those disks feel fucking old, just look at that fog effect that's just a static animation turning around like it sticks to the mount. It would be so epic to have it turned into an actual fog effect. :/ On the other hand, we have other disks like mage domain mount and from hearthstone event... I still think there's no reason not to have them skyriding like other things. It's would be like the most basic work, adding a few rotating effects, like on a skateboard.

Yeah but they do have flight masters in that dungeon that take you to bosses if you don't want to dragonride.

Not really, because of the reason first comment gives. You don't need it for Nokhud.

And I do hope it become available without having the staff equiped. ... Bonus point if you can have this "mount" on other non-magic character.

⁠​⁠​⁠@@simondemoulin5815 i just came back to wow this year and i havent done it yet, but i watched a video showing a questline in dragonflight that gives you the mount to use without equipping the staff.

​​@@simondemoulin5815I believe in dragonflight they added a quest that gives you an actual mount version of it if you have the staff

@@simondemoulin5815 They added a questline in 10.1.5 where you do a quest and you get the mount as an actual mount in your mount collection - no staff equipment requirement. The only requirement is that you have the staff unlocked on that character.

It already is, you just need to do the DF quest line on the character that unlocked the staff.​@@simondemoulin5815

pvp purposes probably

@@joebirkbeck8763 Yup. PVP players will find anything to use/exploit to get an advantage in pvp

and let people exploit it? how often are you going to change it anyway?

Lmao people like you are insufferable

@@pecoliky8793 exploit what? it is a flying mount?

Flying scorpio lol. But yeah, like horses, why not after all.

Anti-grav horseshoes!

700 is ultra slow. seeing now at remix. takes years to go to hof or tot from vally

Except it doesn't feel good and that allong should be a reason not to have different speed. Make no sense for physic based system. Meanwhile in gw2 they can but momentum as much as they want until it reach thousands if you have the skills. Funny how blizzard always copy but nerf the fun no matter they do.

@@ic3t3ap3ach Slow? OMG! we spent 15y+ flying at 310 and now you''re complaining 700+ is slow? HAHAHAHAHAHA spoiled much?

Need dynamic ground mount

@@user-re7sm2hr9b Exactly, we desperately need for some proper acceleration. (but Aquariding first ;) ) Like, visually, 100% already looks ugly and ridiculous on many mounts. Just look at the poor kodos bois who are barely looking natural at 60%, they look like tiny mices! It would just be hideous at 150%. Ground mount has always been flawed like that... And I don't even have any idea how to really make them worth it. I just want fast speed... because it equals to a gigantic and wonderful world. :D Like, if you hope Quel Thalas in Midnight to simply be the BC version remade like in BfA, sincerly, NO. It's probably because you could never fly over it and experience how tiny it is. Technically, it's finally the perfect time time to start... the world rewamp. (we need a 10-20 years project, for the better!)

@@user-re7sm2hr9b So faster on roads but slower off road and more stamina than flying mounts?