Devs have posted about flight in draenor... http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/4946-Dev-Watercooler-%E2%80%93-Flying-Returns-to-Draenor
TL:DR of previous shout. After 6.2 comes out, a smaller patch will come out & anyone with a certain Achievement will be able to fly with every level 90+ toon
That looks like one heck of an achievement. Good that they're getting the flying issue out of the way though. I didn't agree that taking it away permanently was a good idea.
I'm pretty annoyed by it. That list of achievements reminds me of the attunement quest chains from TBC that you had to get people through in order to be able to raid. I guess they are trying to please both the people demanding a return to attunements and the people wanting flying back.
I can understand why developers put in reputation grinds--it is a lot of player-time-spent for a limited budget. Some games (I'm looking at you LOTRO) put out a patch that just consists of a new reputation grind. (Seriously, Men of Eastern Gondor after I just finished Men of Central Gondor? Next up, Men of Just South of Third and Mission Gondor...) Doesn't mean I have to look forward to them.
I hope that they leave flying disabled in whatever the "current" zone is (e.g., Tanaan Jungle). Otherwise folks that only have time to play the game a little bit are going to fight their way to the rare spawn, only to see flocks descending and plucking it before they can get there.
Ah, well, I'm also irritated by the hoops required to get the new jewelcrafting recipes. Get off my lawn. )
I think they're still holding that Q&A this weekend. Should be interesting to see what they say...
I agree, unfortunately I see this move to bring in flight as a pandering to the self entitlement crowd that decided to very vocally display "Give us flight or I'm unsubbing" followed by "Unsubcribbing here" with max thread counts on both
Now that they've caved to those who demanded flight a different group of people are pulling the same stunt of here is our opinion, follow it or we're unsubscribing. -- mostly people who are P/O'd about Blizzard caving & coming up with a way to bring flight into Draenor.
My opinion on it was
Meh so we can't fly, it's a pain but that's how it was designed.
I offered up an option for bringing up flight which got 2 downvotes & 0 replies lol :)
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/17607392474#1
As you might have seen, there is a wowhead tool for seeing where you are in the achievement process:
http://www.wowhead.com/flying
Inomi might want to copy that over to the resources page )
Done. :)
Thankfully achievements are account-wide now; or I wouldn't have as many treasures collected as I already do. Too bad I can't collect them after I get flying instead of before...oh well. I do have the maps...
:)
My pain point is going to be "Protecting Draenor" I'm just under 17% complete on that :( -- thankfully I have at least 50 treasures found already, so it shouldn't be too horrible to get things going.