Quote Originally Posted by forumaccount View Post
I'll entertain that design philosophy, although it still doesn't remedy the aether current mechanic's redundancies:

- You can simply level high enough to avoid all combat in a zone
- You are already rewarded with flight, to have it disabled in later content
- You have to be at least eleven levels above the red mobs to avoid them in the first place and there's no way you're avoiding them outside of sneak and...actually avoiding them.
- It's disabled because you are not meant to go there in the story yet. Your mount speed also drops to barely a sprint upgrade which makes flying painfully slow and you wouldn't get a speed boost until completing a certain quest on the map anyway.