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Love it! I wonder if people will team up and kill those worms or not? Man, I wanna fight one of those things already!
To all those saying "this is fun and danger element that many people were asking in the game". Just plain and simple big fat NO.You know what's fun, danger AND adds to the flavor of the area for flying? It's those flying choppers in Mechagon. They fly high, if you come in their range (happens VERY often) you start getting a stacking debuff of being tracked. If you are STILL in their range at 10 stacks, they start shooting lethal missiles at you.Now THAT is fun, flavor, danger, engaging and most of the players don't actually mind. Compare that to this 100 yard range very low flying worm that will INSTANTLY reduce your speed with stacking debuff AND will ONE-SHOT you if you get too close.I won't comment any further on this "nonsense".
3 minutes seems a little harsh, imo. It'd be better if it was 1.5m or maybe 30s, but keep refreshing as long as you're in range.Other than that, I'm 100% on board for flying hazards. Flying makes the open world pathetically easy, we need more hazards like this or at the very least have flocks/swarms of mobs flying around that will aggro and daze you off your mount if you fly too close.
Definitely the most annoying part of the assaults, esp the Uldum one.
They couldnt disable flying in those zones or create a phased zone with a debuff like on the timeless isle so they created something that makes us not use flying because endgame zones always must be on the ground only... They could at least be honest about it instead of pretending this is a feature. It feels like a punishment unlike the timeless isle and other endgame zones where it made sense to not fly because its supposed to last long without flying.
Reading so many comments that are anti-flight mounts and having played 3 other MMORPGs in the meantime I can tell you this.All MMORPGs have their "flying mount" ESO , for instance , has a much much smaller world and has teleports almost everywhere almost to the point of adding a flying mount would make zero sense and it is much faster.What draws the hate of players (ignoring the bitterness of the players , I am talking only on Blizzard's side) is that they introduced Flight , then endorsed it furthermore in WoTLK , then enabled it to be everywhere , gate it only behind a gold purchase and after 8 years they blocked access from Flight in WoD and force them do content the players dont like only to enable them flight after they exhaust them to the point of not caring anymore......you just become bitter and sick of mechanics that ground you.So , no , it is not the players fault for hating such mechanics.The arguments used so far in almost all comments are so generalized the kind of generalization that makes me think you dont know what you are talking about and you are anti-something just to be anti-something.I dont remember anything from Cataclysm expansion so I dont want to talk about that because I cant but what I can talk about is CRZ.The population is so sparse now because of CRZ that it killed WPvP add that to the constant loss of players and you have your culprit of todays almost inexistant WPvP while leveling.Players that still play WoW play it because its much faster than other MMORPGs when it comes to do daily chores , they are addicted to WoW or/and Warcraft 2&3 nostalgia.Personally , as I grow older (27yo, been playing since I was 15) and the characters I love are getting butchered or die , gameplay matters much more than story telling.They killed Vol'jin , cucked Malfurion (I have not seen such a radical change of personality and power level change in my entire life to this point) , killed Varian(he's the only one that was given a heroic death , I still watch it from time to time and it still gives me the goosebumps) , "sanitized" Maiev (they should have left her in Outland or stay behind with Illidan) , Mary Sue'd Jaina and Batman'ed Sylvanas(they gave her such a thick plot armor that even her butt & breasts combined cant compete with it and after that they realized that they need to find a reason to why she's so much powerful than the Lich King).Now I am waiting to see if we will restore the Lich King but the bitter pesimist in me keep telling me that they pissed on him , too.So , yeah , gameplay wise this is a very unpleasent design decision.As for a simple solution is to create Dailies and World Quests that involve Flight Mount combat and everyone would be happy.Why would someone want to remove someone else's parts of gameplay because they dont like it is .....something I dont care to answer.I just think its pitiful and it is on the same scale of unsuccessful people hating on the rich.
You really haven't been keeping up with the info, have you s0515033?Second last paragraph of the article:
If it's really a 40 yard range, that's much more reasonable. 100 yards really isn't.
it was apparently nerfed to 40y range already... just throwing that in there, in case you wanna cool your heads, fellow nerds :)