wow Draenor & Legion Pathfinder No Longer Required for Flying in Shadowlands

[Stan 5,018]

Flying in Draenor and Broken Isles no longer requires Pathfinder achievements in Shadowlands. 

With the new leveling experience, Blizzard wants to make the 10-50 leveling experience equal for all expansions, so they decided to enable flying in Draenor and Broken Isles at level 30 with expert flying, removing Draenor and Legion Pathfinder achievements as requirements in the zones.

Draenor Pathfinder will continue to reward Soaring Skyterror and you will still be able to get increased mount speed from Broken Isles Pathfinder, Part One.

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With the major changes coming to leveling characters from 10-50 in Shadowlands, we want to make sure that there is a navigational parity among all of the different expansions you can choose while questing. In the next version of the Shadowlands Alpha that will appear this week, testers are going to see an intentional change coming to Shadowlands for a couple of older Pathfinder achievements.

Specifically, the flight training rewards from Draenor Pathfinder and Broken Isles Pathfinder, Part Two will no longer be required for flying in Draenor or Broken Isles content. These will now be granted at level 30 with expert flying.

The achievements will remain in place as before, and Draenor Pathfinder will still be the way to earn the Soaring Skyterror mount, while Broken Isles Pathfinder, Part One will continue to reward increased mount speed in the Broken Isles.

Thank you very much!

 

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[Asgrimyr 5]

But BFA Pathfinder will remain, and probably for SL too. Honestly, it's getting really boring having to grind out the rep constantly just to unlock a basic core feature.

I don't think Pathfinder should really be required to be able to fly anyway, or at least completely change how people attain it if it's that important. Look at FFXIV / GW2 for example, you unlock each area by locating vistas and 'attuning to the currents', once you've explored that area then you unlock flying there (FFXIV). They could do the same thing for WoW, gives people a chance to check out the dev's work (seeing as that was one of the main reasons why they added Pathfinder in the first place). And once you've unlocked all areas then you can buy a licence for 2,500g at max level.

The quest completion requirement doesn't really make sense. My ancient drake, who has mastered the art of flying for millenia, doesn't immediately lose all ability and knowledge of how to fly just because I didn't collect 12 raptor eggs for Ha'wana in Zul'Drak. My legs don't seize up when I go into London just because I didn't get a pint of milk for Mabel down the road.

Pathfinder should only be for some extra reward, like obtaining a new mount and or title. Maybe even a transmog set.

Edited September 2, 2020 by Runethas