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Flying in Azeroth?
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Post by
Jakal
"Why can't we fly in Azeroth?" This has been asked many times, and the answer is usually "there are places on the map that are incomplete."
Simple Solution-Put up invisible walls where the players cant fly to.
It is kinda a drag running everywhere and taking FPs when I have a perfectly good Windrider in my back pocket.
Would this work? Or is there another reason Blizz doesn't want people flying in Azeroth?
(City raids just got more interesting) <------if this became a problem, sky guards could be put up that dismount people)
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Post by
nerkel
I guess it wasn't designed for flying? I wouldn't know Blizzards thoughts on it, so eh.
It would really ruin the whole point of city raids though, since you could just fly down right infront of the bosses rooms and just mageport out, rinse and repeat.
Post by
Kangi
/sigh
There have been many threads like this, and many answers. The simplest way to put it is this: Old World Azeroth was simply not built to associate with flying. There are many unfinished areas, and they would practically have to rebuild most of it from the ground up. It is simply not worth it.
Here is an
article
about the subject on wow.com. It has explanations and a video showing a FRACTION of what would have to be rebuilt. If they just "put invisible walls in places", you would pretty much be going through an invisible maze. And even though there would be invisible walls, they are
invisible
, so you would see much unfinished, ugly terrain while flying.
Post by
Crimor
Just make it so we can only fly a few feet over the ground, then we'd be able to fly at full speed, and we won't be able to go anywhere we shouldn't.
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Post by
Xaemai
if they allowed flying in azeroth i'm sure one of the first things they would add would be flying city guards. i like the invisible wall idea... but this question has been around since the release of burning crusade if they haven't done it yet they probably wont.
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Post by
xcrunr1647
Maybe make it so we can't "fly" but we can move at 280% (or 310% for you lucky people) in Azeroth.
Imagine being a newbie trying to level in Westfall and ZOOM--theres goes a decked out Orc Death Knight on his 310% mount skimming right over the ground...
I dunno, I forsee problems with this...
Three words: Sky. Pirate. Ninjas.
Word. Like I said...I see problems...
Post by
fearbefore
I think another one of the main reasons we can't fly in the old world is simple, (at least for PvP realms). Imagine questing around the 20-30 zone areas and then out of no where, a ? swoops down out of no where at 280%-310 (or even faster if you're a paladin, dk etc) ganks you and is gone in a flash. You res, thinking he's gone, only to have them swoop back down out of the clouds once more to one shot you. This continues until you either log onto your main or you just log off in general.
Sure, if you make a character on a PvP realm, you should expect this, but NO ONE wants to get ganked, (although ganking would be SO awesome if you could do it in the old world on your epic flyer) by someone who can fly around at 280-310+% speed.
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Post by
Velari
Most of the roofs on top of buildings are not complete, and are even invisible. This is because from the ground, you would normally never see them. They designed outlands and northrend with complete building tops in order to fly. It IS possible to fly in azeroth, but blizz would have to redesign most of the cities/mountain ranges so that they look correct from a higher viewpoint.
Post by
blodderz
I would love a revamped Azeroth where we could fly - Blizz get crackin lads!
Post by
Nitsud230
I'm sure there would be a huge amount of code needed to do any flying whatsoever in Azeroth. They patch would be huge and would without a doubt cause crashes and more difficulties.
The masses would be up in arms saaying "wtf, why do we need to fly in Azeroth anyway? It was fine before"
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Nitsud230
... but hey on the plus side we could finally check out the airstrip in Dun Morogh
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