wow Side-by-Side "Old" World Dragonriding Full Speed and 10.2.5 Slowed Comparison

[Starym 3,726]

 

Some players have been concerned about the announced reduction in Dragonriding speed coming with its addition to everywhere outside the Dragon Isles. Blizzard announced a 20% decrease to Dragonriding speeds when the feature spreads everywhere with patch 10.2.5, explaining that the zones are were just too small compared to the Dragon Isles and travel would have been trivially short.

And it seems this is one of those things that sounds worse than it is, as 664% move speed (compared to the 830% maximum in Dragon Isles) is still pretty solid, as it's more than double than what we have with regular flying mounts now. So now that we know the numbers and reasoning, let's see what it actually looks like with a live side-by-side and make up our own minds, courtesy of Nattax1, who definitely made their mind up. The comparison is between their own run on the PTR now and some footage of the Dragonflight beta from Liquid's Max.

So, what do you think of the change? Too slow or just fine?

[Cheatcho 36]

Just fine. Normal flying could have used +100 % speed as a bonus as well tho.

[Recool 26]

1 hour ago, Cheatcho said:

Just fine. Normal flying could have used +100 % speed as a bonus as well tho.

maybe everyone should walk again and blizz should delete mounts

[Starym 3,726]

35 minutes ago, Recool said:

maybe everyone should walk again and blizz should delete mounts

Plainswalking! Sign me up!

[Swarf 68]

Thanks for the ongoing updates on this.  I'm pretty intrigued with there being improvements to old world flying -- finally.

[Mudwaters 10]

7 hours ago, Swarf said:

Thanks for the ongoing updates on this.  I'm pretty intrigued with there being improvements to old world flying -- finally.

Imo this is a rather simple invention but a system done really well. It was hard to imagine the kind of 3d and life that it brings to the landscape, before I played it.

[Halock 156]

To be honest the thing that strikes me about that video is it looks easier to control. Might just be a difference in mouse sensitivity but even though the beta video is controlling it well he's noticeably twitcher.

If the 10.2 'oops you hit a tree' ability doesn't get carried over I'd probably prefer the slower but steadier speed.

[Prophet001 481]

"Feels bad" ?!? who is this drama queen lol

Looks pretty great to me. Very happy they got the loading tech worked out for the old world. I wonder how they did that.

[Swarf 68]

17 hours ago, Cheatcho said:

Normal flying could have used +100 % speed as a bonus as well tho.

Yes, that would be nice.  Increasing normal flight speed even 50% would be incredibly helpful while still ensuring that their dragonriding baby is still fastest.