Cold weather flying at 68Follow

http://www.wow.com/2009/07/08/significant-changes-to-northrend-flying-mounts-discovered-on-the/

http://blue.mmo-champion.com/1/18312416138-just-discovered-cold-weather-flying-at-68.html


Edited, Jul 8th 2009 6:28am by dadanox

It's an heirloom item, so you still have to get to 80 once without it.

No not everyone, players who have already been through the content at least once.


I personally wish it was free for my alt's. But this is at least a step in the right direction.

I'll have 4 characters already flying in Northrend before the patch comes out, but I still have more classes waiting to be leveled. The change will make it more enjoyable to work on them.

Unintentionally you may have stumbled upon a reasonable future option aswell. Why not have your level 80 be allowed to buy a tome that gives a new alt a free x levels with certain limitations. Players have been asking for it or at least pondering about possibilities. Mainly thinking about Deathknight like sollutions, but why would a tome not work (better)?



Edited, Jul 8th 2009 3:10pm by TinyTin

The point is that 1-80 should still be fun and challenging. If they only care about endgame then sure, make every character level 80 when you create it. I thought the point of levelling up though was to a) learn your skills one by one as they are added rather than be faced with them all at once, all new when you create the character b) make more money for blizzard because you're playing the game longer.

I think a lot of people would get bored if the game were just northrend and level 80 only.

Maybe I'm wrong, who knows, who cares. All I know is I wrote the same sort of thing that most people write normally when things get made easier for people, and yet it didn't seem as popular as when other ppl post it.

Whaaaa. I want a lollypopz.

No, sadly it's consumed :(

It makes a lot of sense to me, and I'm looking forward to this. The whole reason Blizzard made it impossible to fly in Northrend until 77 was so that you were forced to immerse yourself in the new areas, the new mobs, etc. You couldn't just fly overhead, zoom in and complete things without really appreciating all of the new scenery and detail. However, once you have (at least) one level 80 character, you've seen it already. With the changes that they've made to increase your ease of leveling, why not make it possible to fly a little sooner?


For those of us with multiple 80s (currently working on #5- and poor Ellieann is halfway to 75, so she'll not benefit from this), it just means we have more incentive to level our others instead of thinking, "Oh crap, I'm not running through Boring Tundra again!"

Edited for clarity.

Edited, Jul 8th 2009 12:30pm by Wondroustremor

Wa-effin-hoo!

This may actually get me going on my two low 70s alts again. Running around on a ground mount after spending over a year flying in Outland (on all three of my then 70s) is just pure hell. I did it on my druid because I had no choice; I had to do it to get to 80. But, a lot of why I've held off on my other two 70s is the lack of flying. Now, I heartily welcome being able to fly on my hunter and paladin again.



In a lot of cases, I'd probably agree with you. But, in this case, I don't. I've always felt that the cold weather flying BS was just a gimmick mechanic to force people to run around in Northrend for the first 7 levels. I understand the reasoning, but I always felt it was hokey. In this case, I don't think it's so much a "make things easier" mechanic (altough of course it will to an extent) as it is a make it the way it should have logically been anyway mechanic.

At one point in the game 1 to 80 was a fun and challengeing process. But with all MMORPG games content becomes obsolete and trivilized with expansions.

Right now I think about 85% of old world content is absurdly boring! I have seen it, seen it some more, and seen it again. I have 2 toons stuck mid 30's because IC an't bring myself to do the boring quests or boring grinds to level.

Now if blizzard would release new leveling zones it would be different but they have made it pretty clear every expansion is going to pretty much be for max, or near max players. I know alot of people who quit playing WOW between about 20 and 40 because they could never do anything in a group because everybody was high lvl and basically would have nothing to do with them. I just about got a guy talked back into playing the game at work. He leveled a toon up to lvl 45 pre WOTLK. He was tired of never being able to get into a group and was sick of running around in green gear and he quit the game.

As the level cap goes up the speed it takes to level should decrease. Far as this particular change goes I see no problem because if its an heirloom it is going to require some sort of time sink from a max lvl toon. This means somebody has to have allready experienced this and do it again. Joe Newb who has never had a lvl 80 toon isn't going to be able to use this.

I think its a great idea although I will prob be too cheap to ever buy it.

With the attendant change of SLOW flyer to 150% flying speed... do you really need the epic flying on all those alts? 280% for epic was nice when the only other option was slower than our epic land but I don't see dropping 5K for epic on any of my alts that don't have gathering professions at least.

This great for me. Have gotten main and one alt to 80 and now my warrior will have a bit of an easier time of it since will be able to fly earlier.