Continuing on my discussion of mounts and the old world, I have realized that there is something recently experienced that I am missing in the Old World.
While we e could fly about Outlands, but (with a couple of exceptions) you weren’t flying around old world style cities. The were Outland Space-Goat cities.
Now I am flying around Northrend I am loving flying in, out, and around the Alliance castles (especially in & out of the castles).
When I was hoofing it through Iron Forge the other day, it just felt empty. I had to think what was missing. Then I realized the skies were empty.
It was all 2 dimensional.
I just wish that the caverns of Iron Forge were filled with flyers, the skies over Stormwind filled with birds, the Maze of Undercity filled with bats.
I know it probably won’t happen, but I hope one day that the streets AND the skies of the old world cities will be filled with the cries of mounts.
Gnomer and Out!
PS: Guess who rolled a Death Knight on Aman’Thul last night?
I actually got to play with him for the first time… and it wasn’t at opposing ends of the battleground (not that we ever did get to do that!). Mind you, he suffered a similar fate to me when the error prone Lich King raised “him” from the dead.
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Yeah, Gnomer. Will never happen.
Bliz pulled a bunch of graphical tricks with the old cities that would require them to completely rebuild them in order to allow flying.
For example, there are FOUR Cathedral towers in Stormwind. The real one in the center of town, and three fake ones spread throughout the city. This is so the landmark will be visible from anywhere in the city limits.
I think their official line is something about devoting their development resources to new content rather than retro-fitting flying mount compatibility to the old world.
That sounds fair enough I suppose, but I agree, flying around the old world would be cool.
As for the death knight. Super fun! I am now torn between levelling Zupa to 80 and devoting time to Zupette on aman’thul.
I think I will always be a mage first and foremost, but I’m not above running around as a hottie dranei death knight for a while
My first impression of the DK is just awesome.
@Samodean: I know…. well, one is allowed to fantasize about the fantasy world… right… right?
That is interesting about the SW Cathedral towers.
@Zupa: Well, you have a ready made group of friends, you are always welcome to drop by…
Check out the WoWDawgs podcast for some interesting discussions on DeathKnights… apart from all the other great resources out there…