![]() ![]() You can easily see this for yourself if you go to any of the zones in which flying came later in the expansion – or it wasn’t supposed to happen at all, for example Winterspring, which looks rather strange with the water and tree textures from the bird’s eye. Not sure how that really works.Īnyway, I can somewhat understand this from a technical standpoint, as not all the zones are designed to look cool from all the angles, especially if they were done in a rush. (Unless you’re a Boomie and you actually get to flap your tiny, underwhelming wings without ever getting to fly.) So yeah, no flying, even though your riding mounts will want to join you in the Maw once again, as we’ll be setting up a foothold there and they won’t completely feel like the Maw will eat them alive. The fact that you will only be able to fly in your covenant zones implies that there will be no wing flapping in the Maw or in the other, new regions either. Pretty sure this girl wasn’t made for intergalactic, in-between-covenant travels! Sounds exhausting! (Of course, I may have a wildly misleading picture about this, so if you know how this works, let me know in the comments.) In essence, it’s faster this way, and it doesn’t break the lore in a way that your mounts suddenly become intergalactic superdragons, magic carpets, or whatever it may be. I’m not a coder or a game dev or anything of the sort, but I assume that, when we get into the anima swirly thing, our characters flying speed is increased massively, and that’s not something that’s coded into our collection mounts, only the flight master’s mounts can do that. ![]() This makes absolute lore sense, as the covenants aren’t really supposed to be neighbors or anything, but it makes me wonder why it was more convenient to actually build and code Shadowlands in such a way. If we were to hop on our mounts and attempt to fly from one region to another, that could take as long as half an hour, as the regions are actually quite spread apart. According to Ion, there are multiple reasons for that, and the most important one is the distance you’d have to travel. Your flying abilities will be unlocked in all of the four covenant zones regardless of the covenant you belong in, but you’ll still be using the flight master to get to a different zone (or to Oribos, until you earn yourself a teleport from your transport network). When it comes to where you’ll be able to fly, the answer is a bit trickier. Except for your unicorn mounts dragging their feet in the dirt for another half a year or so. You do not need any of the reputations maxed out in order to do so, not even your covenant’s one, but you may have that one already if you’ve been doing some work around the place, so there’s absolutely nothing to worry about…. Additional 40 Renown levels will be unlocked in the 9.1 Patch, and my guess is that somewhere in the midst of unlocking those, there will be a final campaign quest awarding you with enough Renown to get the achievement. To earn flying in Shadowlands, you have to complete the full Covenant campaign on one of your characters, which is quite far from being over. Sounds promising – but also quite far into the future, judging by the introduction of the 9.0.5 Patch!Īlright, so how do we unlock flying? Do we just log in on the 9.1 release day and take off? And I’m fine with that, as that means we’ll be getting the game in a much better, cleaner state than it is now, judging by all the announcements about Torghast, loot, and changes due to the community feedback. Of course, I’m just guessing here, but as there’s that patch-up patch in between and Blizzard actually felt the need to do that instead of waiting for 9.1, I guess it’s still a heavy work in progress. We don’t quite know yet when that’s going to happen, and do keep in mind that there’s a mini-patch 9.0.5 in which we’ll see some changes like Valor points system, so we may be seeing 9.1 as late as May, or June. ![]() The most important thing is that, yes, flying is definitely coming in Patch 9.1. No worries – we’ll be going over all of that, so if you care about spreading your mount’s wings (or your own if you’re a flat-faced, rideable owl in-game like me), you’re in the right place! BlizzConline has ended and we finally have more info on when we can expect flying, how to unlock it, where we can fly, and why this Pathfinder achievement is different than the others before. Flying in Shadowlands has been one of the most anticipated features since the beginning of the expansion. ![]()
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