I see this is an old post but need to comment on one obvious point about flying mounts in the EastK and Kal.

Anyone playing on a pvp server knows the pains of trying to level your low-level toon and having 70's ride up, smack you, camp you.  Of course if you have friends available or a 70 main of your own you can switch over and dish out the appropriate code red.  Now, imagine a fleet of noob kids on flying mounts landing on your ass for the fun of it and smacking you, but traveling the zone at top speed, making a circuit to repeatedly kill everyone in that zone.  Even if you have a level 70+ your not going to get them once mounted and in the air.  More killing lowbees with zero retaliation factor is what you will get...this is why 10 year olds don't write advanced gaming software strategy.

Blizz should allow flyers to be used across kalmidor, eastern kingdoms, and outlands at 70, then at 77 allow them in northrend.

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yh actually yur pretty right

Doomed9 If Blizz would allow flying mounts across Azeorth than they would need to include it into the base game .The fact that flying mounts can be used only in outland is to make the difference between Non-TBC and TBC users. But i like your ideea!

The reason they are NOT doing this is because Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms are both unfinished and use an older technology. If Blizz were to update Azeroth (minus Northrend) and finish every zone (such as Hyjal, Undermine, Gilneas, etc) then flying mounts everywhere could be possible.

i dont think having the use of a flying mount in eastern kingdoms and kalimador bc im guessing blizz doesnt want 70's to be flying around killing low lvl's, at least in outlands u can defend urself just a bit bc ur 60 and have more skills then a lvl 1 or 10

also some quests in eastern kingdoms/kalimdor require u to climb to the top of a mountain whilst fighting many mobs and such. It would really screw up such quests if u could just fly to the top w/o doing anything

there are 2 reasons blizz would never let us use our flying mount in Azeroth...1. its one of the major differences between pre-BC and BC content, they would have to include it into pre-BC content to do that. 2. they would have to fill in all the "filler" land that is only there to fill the continent and not have huge holes in the "world"

If you are lvl 70, then I don't think that you need to do the quests in Kalimdor/EK that require you to climb to the top of mountains, Lucky

Blizz already stated why they don't want to allow flying mounts in Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms. They would have to redesign major part of the game to allow that - territories, quests, etc. There are lots of parts where reaching a specific location requires some actions to be taken while flying would allow skipping these. Also if you have been in the mountains above IF, you would have seen the line where textures go from snow to dirt, cut like by scissors. I still don't know why they don't fix this bug:) Lots of people know how to get there, even if it wasn't expected to be possible. So why don't put that big effort towards designing *new* content, rather than adapting the old to allow flying?

Blade,

While I do see the point of preventing 70's from freely ganking lowbie areas and Blizzard seems to be too lazy to add in the content needed in the old kingdoms to allow flyers, I think that they should put them in anyway.

1 - If you have reached 70, then you have earned the right to fly (if you pay for it). I personally hate taking my 70 through Kalimdor/EK for the simple fact that the 100% Increase in speed from my land mount is just no longer enough. Kalimdor and EK are HUGE, and the freedom of movement allowed by flying, allows us to go where we need, at a much increased rate of speed, therefore less time wasted. We have reached the pinnacle of the game and earned the right to use these mounts and Blizzard should recognize that.

2 - I'm sorry that Blizzard only has 10 million + accounts that are being paid for. That many accounts at 12-16 dollars per month must not generate enough revenue to allow for the programming need to fill in the holes in their original design to allow us to fly in Kalimdor/EK. Wait a sec, oh yeah, IT DOES. This would be a MAJOR step in Blizzard declaring how much they appreciate their long-term players by making this happen. If I hit 70, and I pay for the right to fly, I should be able to take that mount to any part of the game (minus caves, indoor areas, etc)......

I'd prefer if they permitted flying in Northrend to be sooner than 77. I may not like having to pretty much earn that privilege again, but I'll live. I can understand why they don't want to program Azeroth to allow flying mounts. They would then have to program locations such as current-day Hyjal (which I'd love for them to do anyways, rather than going to the Caverns of Time & visiting Hyjal-of-the-past).

But, meh, I'll live. I don't much like flight in Northrend being available at 77 (after some sort of achievement), but I'll live.

I know flying mount would be great in Old-Continents but that part of the world is just not made for it!

- Guys do you realize how it would be to get ganked by the air when your low lvl?

- Did you think about a HUGE RAID of HORDE flying right inside Stormwind?

- Some content are just not developed yet (Current Hyjal, Other closed places).

- Helping low lvl by flying to the next place and summoning him.

- etc.

Yes Blizzard could fix that if they push the idea into developpement stage again but with all the time it takes to Blizzard to develop something, I would like them to push new content then fix flying mount.

If flying mount aren't allowed in Old-Continent, well maybe they plan to give us more portals, a faster ground mount (300% should be just fine). Or maybe 3 hearthstone (one in outland, one in pre-bc and one in northrend).

I don't know but instead of crying about flying mount, give some idea to the devs!!

ephydias.
what blizz would do bout flying mounts is they would set up some sort of invisable wall around Northrend. And the flying mounts would be cool to use in Northrend

Much like crossing from continent to continent over water, Northrend would most likely give you a fatigue bar. This would in effect be the "Invisible wall" you talked about. An since both Kalimdor, and EK are already on separate servers (hence the loading time, its for connecting as well as loading), it is safe to assume that Northrend will also have its own. Making the use of mounts available in Northrend will be a very simple process.

most likely some type of "learn how to fly in the cold" quest

I think a lot of people are assuming when someone says "we should be able to fly in Kalimdor/etc" that they also mean able to fly as a newbie. Or else the skipping content issue would be a non-issue.

I highly doubt they mean fly as a newbie in old lands.

Same level restriction would apply in old lands. 70+ obviously. Since past level 60 you should be done with most the quests there anyway, it isn't even possible to skip content.

The fact is, old lands wasn't made for users to fly in. Which is why it probably never will. I'm OK with that. Getting anywhere in old land is already pretty easy.. flying would be over-kill. Zeppelins.. flight paths.. you can get anywhere in roughly 5 minutes. =P

no more QQ preeze!

I wonder if Druids can learn to use their flight forms two level earlier as we did in outland...

Why are people talking about flying in old-world? Northerend isn't old world... They haven't STATED about old-world, so why all the talk? It's going to be interesting how blizzard shapes the content around the flying mounts, like Skettis, BEM, and Netherstorm in BC.