So ground mounts...

[MrSmiley]

Given that flying mounts are gonna be used in all the new zones (after clearing them the first time), will be twice as fast as ground mount, and we seem unlikely to have much reason to return to the original lands for extended periods of time...

Are we gonna see the wow thing all over again? Ground mounts become unused and useless, hard earned mounts never seen, and everything new flies for some inexplicable reason even if it just treads air somehow.

I like the idea of the floating continent, but I have a lot of misgivings about flying mounts and what they do to an mmo and the expectations them bring. Why farm the cool ponies, soon getting new themes, if we are just gonna fly instead after the first week?

[TetsuyaHikari]

Use my Gryphon to reaching floating platforms, use my Fenrir when I'm running on said platforms. I don't see the issue.

[MrSmiley]

Use my Gryphon to reaching floating platforms, use my Fenrir when I'm running on said platforms. I don't see the issue.

and move half speed compared to just flying

[OMEGA_HACK]

and move half speed compared to just flying

But you can still get aggro when flying low to the ground. And who knows maybe the heavy penalty will slow you even more when flying or maybe it will make it where you cannot fly. We just don't know all the details yet.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Square said flying mounts won't run as fast as ground mounts (I think?) but their flying speed outclasses the speed of ground mounts greatly.

[Tam_Hawkins]

Flying Mounts Speed modificators were set at 0,9 for land and 2,0 for air (they said they might increase air Speed)
if we asume that the speedmodificator for normal Mounts is 1,0 then the old Mounts would be 11,111111111111111111111111...% faster on land

[Zumi]

When you are in 2.0 areas you will still be using your ground mounts because no flying.

[Evergrey]

When you are in 2.0 areas you will still be using your ground mounts because no flying.

It's like Warlords of Draenor, but reversed.

[Noshpan]

It's like Warlords of Draenor, but reversed.

Or Kalimdor & Eastern Kingdoms pre-Cataclysm. You also still can't fly on the Isle of Quel'Danas, and that was introduced in late TBC.

On topic, as others have stated, flying mounts are not going to move so fast while grounded. This is probably an effort to encourage players to continue using their ground mounts. Besides, it's not like we have pvp servers and have to worry about getting ganked by an end-gamed geared mouth-breather who couldn't hack it in arenas and battlegrounds so they gank lowbies.

[myahele]

When you are in 2.0 areas you will still be using your ground mounts because no flying.

With that expansion, there probably won't be much need to be in 2.0 open world areas unless we're forced to for the new Relic Questline

Then there's also the "dual-purpose" mounts we have now that will be converted into flying mounts. Will they be re-classified as flying mounts