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Blizzard Working on Dragonriding in Old Zones, But It's Not Coming in Patch 10.1.5

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Blizzard confirmed they're working on implementing full Dragonriding in old zones, but it won't go live in Patch 10.1.5.

The latest datamining findings suggest we'll be able to pick our preferred flight style in Patch 10.1.5.

The old flying system as it works now is called "Static Flight Style" while Dragonriding is being referred to as "Dynamic Flight Style".

In Patch 10.1.5, Dragonriding will be enabled in Kalimdor, most likely for testing purposes to sort all bugs out before the feature is fully implemented.

The old zones were never designed for Dragonriding, so they need to raise the ceiling and iron out all the bugs before the feature is fully rolled out on live servers.

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Good day dragonriders,

As data-miners have guessed, we are indeed working on dragonriding outside of the Dragon Isles and broadening the set of mounts that can dragonride. Our initial work on this can be seen in the Fractures in Time game files, but that feature will not be complete or featured in the live game until later in Dragonflight.

As we continue to develop the game in this way, we expect there to be many examples in the future of content that is a work-in-progress becoming visible to data-miners in test environments. We intend to announce the contents of any given patch in our official posts about that patch.

For the latest details on what’s included in Fracture in Time, please check out our official development notes.

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Hope I can switch to static on the fly (no pun intended) - to hover somewhere or fly while I afk.

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8 hours ago, Vince said:

Hope I can switch to static on the fly (no pun intended) - to hover somewhere or fly while I afk.

It might be a toggle available only on capitals.

I wonder how they are going to adjust other mounts, if it all. Dragon animations and abilities don't fit them. What about dragonriding glyphs? They probably need to restrict them to Dragon Isles, because it's going to look rather weird later on to go back to this content in order to be able to fly on other continents.

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3 hours ago, Arcling said:

It might be a toggle available only on capitals.

I wonder how they are going to adjust other mounts, if it all. Dragon animations and abilities don't fit them. What about dragonriding glyphs? They probably need to restrict them to Dragon Isles, because it's going to look rather weird later on to go back to this content in order to be able to fly on other continents.

I imagine they will likely not address this issue until pre patch for next xpac, or even in the next Xpac. As of right now people are going to be playing in the Dragon Isles until the next Xpac, so it isn't necessary to address it, when they do the simplest and most obvious choice is to just give the more common perks and abilities to all minus the flight specific talents like 'Bronze Timelock'.  They could also almost force people into doing it who don't already have the Chromie 'pick your expansion' unlocked (so new players only who have yet to get to current content) they can earn them while they are forced to do Dragonflight anyway and get the perks unlocked for free after reaching level 70 (assuming there is no level squish) ... ... however I think that will be unlikely and the who dragon perks thing will become a legacy system that is no longer used.

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