Flying not as useful as I had originally hoped

[ArcanoJones]

The way I remember WOW is you just had to reach a certain level and then get a flying mount and a flying license. Its been a while since I played however. It was very useful. I remember doing entire areas from the very beginning with flying capability.

[TankHunter678]

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Flying was changed back in Warlords of Draenor to require the completion of all open world content, bar world bosses. Legion did the same, only made it even worse by making you have to do it twice and also making some of those reps need raids.

Old zones from mists of pandaria and back were still get to the level cap for their related expansions and buy flying, but newer zones from draenor on are achievement list based. Also, even in the old expansions you still had to get to max level to be able to fly on the character. Warlords of Draenor introduced the account wide flying, locked behind the achievement.

The only expansion that started with flying was cata because the 1-60 leveling zones were revamped.

[ArcanoJones]

oh ok..Have not played WOW since Pandoria..