Do we really need Flying Mount in this game?

As others have mentioned the flying mounts are supposed to only be for the new areas, and exploring the entirety of the new areas will require flying. It's not being implemented as a feature to allow you to move faster and skip things. It's being implemented to allow for completely different area designs than are currently possible.

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Originally Posted by Nghthawk

What you have just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things anyone has ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent statement were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone is now dumber for reading it.

Why don't you actually play WoW(and not the free version to lv 20 either) before spouting out the wrong information and sticking your foot in mouth.

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As much as I hate to back the OP... the statement in this case is actually true (besides flying mounts not being a good idea for FFXIV). Blizzard themselves have stated the reason they are NOT allowing flight in the Warlords content is because it has allowed people to skip through the content faster than intended. An example they used in their own statement was when a quest asks you to kill a captain at the centre of a fort- the assumption is you fight your way through, to reach that final showdown at the end.
The reality? Mount up, fly in, kill, fly out, done.

What was it you said? "spouting out the wrong information and sticking your foot in your mouth"? Might be time to remove your foot from your mouth- it's ankle deep.
I'm not going to link to the WoW forums here, that would be bad form- but you can find the quote yourself (it's a blue post) by Googling "flying mounts draenor".
If you're going to comment on a thread, maybe add something useful to the conversation.

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Originally Posted by Alexia89

I'm not going to link to the WoW forums here, that would be bad form- but you can find the quote yourself (it's a blue post) by Googling "flying mounts draenor".
If you're going to comment on a thread, maybe add something useful to the conversation.

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I would love to quote myself again for you but, WTF do you get off from talking about WoD (the content isn't even freaking released yet). From all of the prior expansion including BC/WoTLK/CATA/MoP you didn't get flying access until much later after you have been through the main story content or near max level or had to purchase a liscense. At no point did it allow you to actually skip over all the content. Having flying mounts here will be the same, it will not allow you to skip content.

I think the flying mounts are an airship alternative for the sky zones they'll be adding. Not something that every player will idle on in Mor Dhona.

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Originally Posted by Ketsuyame

I've read almost all of your posts and replies to this threat and one thing bothers me.. You constantly mention this "danger" that the world is supposed to have. .

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I'm talking about 1.0 and FFXI, not a Realm Reborn. Also about the Massive Area we are supposedly going to get in Heavenwards expansion.

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Originally Posted by Nghthawk

I would love to quote myself again for you but, WTF do you get off from talking about WoD (the content isn't even freaking released yet). From all of the prior expansion including BC/WoTLK/CATA/MoP you didn't get flying access until much later after you have been through the main story content or near max level or had to purchase a liscense. At no point did it allow you to actually skip over all the content. Having flying mounts here will be the same, it will not allow you to skip content.

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Really, though- you should have read what I told you to first. The content may not be released, but the statements from Blizzard are there for you to read! They have even said there may never be flying in Warlords zones.

As for what you've just said? I was very recently levelling multiple classes in WoW. BC, WotLK and Cata content was breezed through with ease due to flying straight over 95% of mobs. I got bored at about the Pandaland content- admittedly i couldn't fly there yet as you need 90 for that.

"From all of the prior expansion including BC/WoTLK/CATA/MoP you didn't get flying access until much later after you have been through the main story content or near max level or had to purchase a liscense."

....Nope. Was there day one of Cata, picked up my Flight Masters Licence to fly in Azeroth. Skipped mass mobs to breeze to 85.

"At no point did it allow you to actually skip over all the content. Having flying mounts here will be the same, it will not allow you to skip content."

We're not saying it lets you skip content entirely- just skip through it a lot faster than is intended.

"Having flying mounts here will be the same, it will not allow you to skip content."

Gonna say to you what I said to the OP- you don't have all the facts of how this will be implemented- it may damn well let you do exactly what it did in WoW.

We don't need flying mounts in the current state of the game. However, we won't be able to use flying mounts in the current zones either, when they release flying mounts in 3.0.

Yoshida said that the flying mounts would only be usable in the new zones, and that we will actually need to use those flying mounts to play the game. The story quest will require the use of flying mounts and we will need to use them to explore zones too. The new content and zones would integrate the usage of flying mounts instead of just being an add-on of convenience like in WoW.

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Originally Posted by IzumiYuki

We don't need flying mounts in the current state of the game. However, we won't be able to use flying mounts in the current zones either, when they release flying mounts in 3.0.

Yoshida said that the flying mounts would only be usable in the new zones, and that we will actually need to use those flying mounts to play the game. The story quest will require the use of flying mounts and we will need to use them to explore zones too. The new content and zones would integrate the usage of flying mounts instead of just being an add-on of convenience like in WoW.

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^please read her post or any of the other people that are saying the same thing.

The areas Flying Mounts can be used to fly are being specifically designed with flying mounts in mind, I have no worries.

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Originally Posted by Alexia89

Really, though- you should have read what I told you to first. The content may not be released, but the statements from Blizzard are there for you to read! They have even said there may never be flying in Warlords zones.

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You might want to go back and read the post you are mentioning. Quote from Blizzard

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We intend to disallow flying while leveling from 90 to 100, and have flying become available again in the first major patch for Warlords of Draenor.

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