So, this is a complete surprise. A week ago, heelz posted that Blizzard has reversed their no flying thing completely. Two weeks ago (nearly 3 weeks since my post about them removing flying), they announced “No more flying!” .. what made them flip-flop what they had ‘set in stone’, and why did it take two weeks?<\/p>\n
He goes over the lengthy post for all current and ex-WoW players(like myself). Starts off as “Oh yeah.. we’ve been monitoring your all’s discussions on flying! We ARE listening!” So.. I’ll call BS here. They are<\/em> listening, yet not to their players. They’re ‘listening’ to their subscription levels drop and know they have to do something drastic to ease the pain.<\/p>\n The next few paragraphs give somewhat good examples on why they chose to have no flying in Draenor (and even after hitting Level 100). It covers the Timeless Isle, and the Isle of Thunder. Basically the points are, that flying would had actually ruined the content and made it too easy. I like a challenge now and then, as long as its a sensible one.<\/p>\n Now the juicy part. They say in one of the PTR Builds of Patch 6.2, they’ll be testing something called the ‘Draenor Pathfinder’. This will eventually allow you to fly in Draenor in a later patch! Once you do all of this, you’ll get a Rylak mount called the ‘Soaring Skyterror’. Until that later patch kicks in (whenever they release this 6.2.x version), the mount will still be ground-based. But once the patch goes in affect and you have this ‘Draenor Pathfinder’ thing, all players on your account (that are Level 90 or above) will be able to fly.<\/p>\n . I will<\/span> be closely following this, as being very… very<\/em> cautiously optimistic. I’m curious what hell I will have to go through. No doubt, it won’t be done in a day. It’ll take days, weeks.. maybe even a month or two. But it really depends on the level of hell. If it has a ton of raid content? Then no. Even if it’s just ONE raid, fuck it. The ONLY exception… is if LFRs are allowed to do the achievement. Then I might consider.<\/p>\n But does this overall, mean Blizzard has finally woken up? *shakes head* No. As I said, this is a desperate move to win back their lost subscriptions. This is in no shape or form, mean they’ve learned their lesson on how fucking BORING Draenor is (as a non-raider). So, this is a complete surprise. A week ago, heelz posted that Blizzard has reversed their no flying thing completely. Two weeks ago (nearly 3 weeks since my post about them removing flying), they announced “No more flying!” .. what … Continue reading
\nYou’re probably asking yourself “What’s the catch?” Well, hold on to your ass, because there’s a big<\/strong> one. It mentions that you must “master the outdoor environment of Draenor”.
\n1. Explore all of Draenor’s zones. (Done it)
\n2. Collecting 100 Treasures in Draenor. (Done it)
\n3. Getting the ‘Draenor Loremaster’ achievement.
\n4. Getting the ‘Securing Draenor’ achievement. This is up in the air, of what specific things you must do to get this thing. Some say this is doing all the optional quests, while others say it’s doing all the Apexis Crystal quests and Dailies. But if any of them are Raid and\/or PvP-based… fuck that shit.
\n6. Raising the three new Tanaan Jungle reputations to at least Revered. At least now… there’s kind<\/span> of a point to mindlessly grind Apexis Crystals.<\/p>\n
\nSo, that’s it. My thoughts? I actually like this (mainly allowing all my alts to fly). It’s a good balance that the anti-flyers want, and gives pro-flyers what they want.
\nWill this possibly make me come back to WoW? That’s… questionable. As in, I dunno. I don’t really want to do another subscription service, until I know it’s worth it.<\/p>\n
\nThis is still good news, though (for the pro-flyers). Though I feel it’s not set in stone. Seriously, allowing all of your chars to fly in Draenor at Level 90? That’s not really learning from their past ‘mistakes'(in the eyes of anti-flyers). Personally, I think they were smoking weed at the time they were thinking of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"