wow Choose Your Preferrred Flight Style in Patch 10.1.5

[Stan 4,854]

With Dragonriding coming to Azeroth, players can pick their preferred flight style in Patch 10.1.5.

Two flight styles are available in Patch 10.1.5, allowing you to either keep the old flying as it currently works or switch to Dragonriding whenever flying is available.

• Flight Style: Static - This refers to old flying and Blizzard calls it "Static Flight Style".
• Flight Style: Dynamic - "Dynamic Flight Style" is Dragonriding. You gain access to dynamic flight abilities in areas where you can fly.

Blizzard confirmed in an interview that Dragonriding is here to stay even after Dragonflight, but they "would need to overcome some technical hurdles to make it work in the old world". It seems the biggest issues have been resolved and we'll see Dragonriding working in Azeroth relatively soon.

[Cheatcho 36]

Interesting to see if Druids will have the option to dragonfly with their flying form as well.

[TheCake 93]

I wonder if you will be able to switch between the modes as you please? So maybe one week I wanna do oldschool type flying, and another I want to do DF-style?

[ZoomB 0]

50 minutes ago, Cheatcho said:

Interesting to see if Druids will have the option to dragonfly with their flying form as well.

Only dragon mounts will work

[Pandabuffel 134]

Wow, I'm actually surprised it's happening this soon. Definitely expected it to be later in the expansion, though admittingly the discussion about it was getting bigger by the month so they had to adress it soon.

[Lithari 193]

This new flying mechanic is likely going to replace the old one, this is likely a test to see how popular it will be, it will eventually be the flying that the game has, even though the whole dragonriding thing is utterly trash.

[SpilledStars 50]

The number of people I know with some form of arthritis, or some sort of motion sickness for the New Style, who'll basically be able to start playing the Current Xpac if they introduce "static flying" as they put it... is nonzero.

I've got a guildmate on an RP server who basically wept when he realized his hands couldn't DO this. 😕

[Meurik 33]

3 hours ago, ZoomB said:

Only dragon mounts will work

Incorrect. Wowhead has a list of 89 mounts that are currently enabled for Dragonriding. Not all of them are Dragons.

https://www.wowhead.com/news/dragonriding-in-patch-10-1-5-old-world-more-mounts-and-flight-styles-332944

[Trest 61]

I’m a big fan of dragonriding, and am very glad to here it’s coming to old zones so soon. It has dramatically changed traveling in the game from a boring chore to something that is actually engaging (i.e., fun for most of us).

I do agree that accessibility means it’s critical to have a travel mode not reliant on the player’s dexterity. But that should not, in any way, hold them back from also expanding on dragonriding.

[FlamedramonX 33]

I hope this means too that they will update evokers Soar ability to be just Dracthyrs racial version of Soar

[Guz 19]

On 5/14/2023 at 11:14 AM, Lithari said:

This new flying mechanic is likely going to replace the old one, this is likely a test to see how popular it will be, it will eventually be the flying that the game has, even though the whole dragonriding thing is utterly trash.

Every time I say something like this that I didn’t like dragon riding for doing any type of questing or farming i would get sh*t on inevitably git gud but lets be honest it’s annoying af when u wanna just chill an not play a mini game to travel especially with my weak wrists. 

Edited May 18 by Guz

[Brightamethyst 59]

2 hours ago, Meurik said:

Incorrect. Wowhead has a list of 89 mounts that are currently enabled for Dragonriding. Not all of them are Dragons.

True, but most are, and the few that aren't still share models with existing dragonriding mounts. Firehawks are reskinned proto-drakes, etc. They're still limiting dynamic flight to a fairly small selection of mounts.

[ArthasStormrage87 47]

4 hours ago, SpilledStars said:

The number of people I know with some form of arthritis, or some sort of motion sickness for the New Style, who'll basically be able to start playing the Current Xpac if they introduce "static flying" as they put it... is nonzero.

I've got a guildmate on an RP server who basically wept when he realized his hands couldn't DO this. 😕

If you play the game couldn’t you hit a few buttons to fly every 5 to 10 sec? I’am pretty sure you can make macros for the buttons and bind them to a mouse. It does kinda suck that reg flying hasn’t been available though tbh, sometimes I just don’t feel like spamming the speed button, and trying to land on a perch is kinda awful too even with the new talent.

[TheRagingwolf 190]

8 hours ago, Cheatcho said:

Interesting to see if Druids will have the option to dragonfly with their flying form as well.

Can they currently do so in DF? It doesn't make sense that it would be an option at all given that flight form is somewhat different than mounted flight.

[TheRagingwolf 190]

3 hours ago, Trest said:

I’m a big fan of dragonriding, and am very glad to here it’s coming to old zones so soon. It has dramatically changed traveling in the game from a boring chore to something that is actually engaging (i.e., fun for most of us).

I do agree that accessibility means it’s critical to have a travel mode not reliant on the player’s dexterity. But that should not, in any way, hold them back from also expanding on dragonriding.

I hate it. It's regular flying with restrictions and instead of just flying to your destination, you have to deal with resources and abilities. Regular flying accomplishes exactly what it was meant to.

[Q 86]

6 hours ago, Lithari said:

This new flying mechanic is likely going to replace the old one, this is likely a test to see how popular it will be, it will eventually be the flying that the game has, even though the whole dragonriding thing is utterly trash.

You are just a pure ray of sunshine, huh?

[Todd 7]

Fantastic change.

[SpilledStars 50]

2 hours ago, ArthasStormrage87 said:

If you play the game couldn’t you hit a few buttons to fly every 5 to 10 sec? I’am pretty sure you can make macros for the buttons and bind them to a mouse. It does kinda suck that reg flying hasn’t been available though tbh, sometimes I just don’t feel like spamming the speed button, and trying to land on a perch is kinda awful too even with the new talent.

Some people's hands can't.

Some people's mouse is an eyeball-tracker.

Just cuz you're a lucky enough soul to be ordinary doesn't mean it has to be ...as folk say, a minigame...

For another pal of mine, not the arthritic, LANDING is the minigame to hate.

[Arcling 820]

3 hours ago, Brightamethyst said:

True, but most are, and the few that aren't still share models with existing dragonriding mounts. Firehawks are reskinned proto-drakes, etc. They're still limiting dynamic flight to a fairly small selection of mounts.

I wonder what they are going to do about other mounts, if anything. It would be weird for flying machines and various discs to fly like winged creatures, flapping their non-existent wings.

Anyway, it's good that they will allow normal flying as well. I am still not a big fan of dragonriding, especially when I have to often mount and dismount in order to pick up something, then it quickly forces me into waiting for vigor to regenerate.

[Starym 3,719]

13 hours ago, TheCake said:

I wonder if you will be able to switch between the modes as you please? So maybe one week I wanna do oldschool type flying, and another I want to do DF-style?

I have no additional knowledge about this, but... of course you will? It'll be a toggle, possibly like War Mode in capitals and similar, or maybe even anywhere at any time, you just have to re-mount. It would make absolutely no sense any other way.

[Prophet001 476]

There's not really a way to compare the two but I'm assuming that dragonriding is way faster than regular flying?

Edited May 15 by Prophet001

[Cheatcho 36]

18 hours ago, TheRagingwolf said:

Can they currently do so in DF? It doesn't make sense that it would be an option at all given that flight form is somewhat different than mounted flight.

They can't currently fly with their flight form in Dragonflight zones but considering the entire game will be available eventually for both static - old flying and dynamic - dragonflying, it would make sense if Druids could choose dynamic and use their flight form with dragonflying as well.

Edited May 15 by Cheatcho

[Pandabuffel 134]

21 hours ago, Brightamethyst said:

True, but most are, and the few that aren't still share models with existing dragonriding mounts. Firehawks are reskinned proto-drakes, etc. They're still limiting dynamic flight to a fairly small selection of mounts.

Well, let's be honest: a lot of the typical dragonflight abilities simply don't work for a lot of mounts. They are definitely designed having a big winged beast in mind. I think having a mount like the Headless Horseman's mount is going to look really weird if it moved around with dragonflying abilities, it's just not how a hovering horse should move. Those mounts are just made for static flying, and even as a Dragonflyer myself I'm fine with that.

[Arcling 820]

16 hours ago, Starym said:

I have no additional knowledge about this, but... of course you will? It'll be a toggle, possibly like War Mode in capitals and similar, or maybe even anywhere at any time, you just have to re-mount. It would make absolutely no sense any other way.

I hope it's available as a toggle outside of capitals, more convenient when someone wants to switch just for a moment to not wait for vigor to regenerate.

[Starym 3,719]

2 hours ago, Arcling said:

I hope it's available as a toggle outside of capitals, more convenient when someone wants to switch just for a moment to not wait for vigor to regenerate.

That exact reason may be why they're not available outside of capitals 😄