Even More Transportation Changes Coming in 3.2!
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Admin on Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 67 Comments Tags: Druid, Hunter, Mount, Paladin, Shaman, Warlock, aspect of the cheetah, dark portal, ghost wolf, level, orgrimmar, outland, thunder bluff, travel form, zepplin
Admin on Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 67 Comments Tags: Druid, Hunter, Mount, Paladin, Shaman, Warlock, aspect of the cheetah, dark portal, ghost wolf, level, orgrimmar, outland, thunder bluff, travel form, zepplin 
A Goblin Zeppelin heading into Undercity.Pixiestixy broke the news last night about the mount changes that will be coming in the next major patch, 3.2. There are some additional news to note as Zarhym posted some more information about transportation changes which are being implemented to improve leveling:
From the World of Warcraft Forums:
In the next major content patch we will be adding a few methods of improved transportation to areas of interest while leveling.
It is time for the denizens of Azeroth to witness the full might of the Horde as they do what they do best: employ goblins to construct zeppelin towers and float players across vast seas using sky boats. That's right, a new zeppelin route is being added in Thunder Bluff and will transport players to Orgrimmar. Isn't technology magnificent?
Also, brought to you by Azeroth's greatest users of magic, are all new portals coming to Stormwind and Orgrimmar. These portals will transport players directly to the Stair of Destiny at the Dark Portal. Travel is just so much more convenient when it's instantaneous! Players will then find that a new connecting flight path exists at the Stair of Destiny allowing players new to Outland easy and direct access to the city of Shattrath.
Keep your seat backs and tray tables in a full upright and locked position, and we hope you continue to enjoy your methods of travel in Azeroth and beyond!
So even more changes are in store! Horde players I'm sure will be loving the new zeppelin between Orgrimmar and Thunder Bluff, while everyone can appreciate the instant transport to the Stair of Destiny to get you to the Outlands faster!
These changes seem to fall in line with the Blizzard philosophy of making leveling more accessible and faster for players. As a player who has only one max level character and a multitude of alts I can really appreciate this!
This is not the end of the changes of course as there are also changes coming to the class specific mounts and movement abilities, also found on the World of WarCraft Forums:
Movement Speed Training By Class
- Druid
- Travel Form: Requires level 16
- Flight Form: Requires level 60 (150% flight speed)
- Swift Flight Form: Requires level 70
- Hunter
- Aspect of the Cheetah: Requires level 16
- Shaman
- Ghost Wolf: Requires level 16
- Paladin
- Warhorse: Requires level 20
- Charger: Requires level 40
- Warlock
- Felsteed: Requires level 20
- Dreadsteed: Requires level 40
No surprises from the class mount changes, but the movement ability changes are nice as getting ghost wolf, aspect of the cheetah and travel form earlier will be a really nice change for leveling!
What do you think of these changes? Good or bad? Is Blizzard making it too easy for newer players?
Reader Comments (67)
Zeppelin between Orgrimmar and Thunder Bluff? Wow, we really are getting lazy.
yey that's perfect when i can go gank som low allys @ Dark portal
I want my gold back!
LOL i dont think people understand the reason for a TB to Org, Zep your right a flight path would be easier but as a noob who has never been their and has no mount its a very long walk... whenever i lvl a alt i hate the Barrens walk, and i think if you can avoid it thats best.
I'm so tired of this progression towards making wow a glorified shooter (and yeah I know that's an excessive statement so cram your flames). Seriously, every time I blink they keep making the game easier and easier, pretty soon it's going to be as casual as Peggle or something. I know they want to hook more people in with less delay and line their pockets with more cash, since ultimately that's what this game is about, but I think it does the players and the old content a disservice when they constantly make it all less and less relevant. It reminds me of the trend in society these days of focusing on "what's cool now" and screw everything else.
another thing that people should kno is tha everyone can get their mount sooner and if you read before u stated shit i wouldnt have to write this.
and personally if your a high lvl this means you as well as noobs can get your alts shit together. no reason to complain so what you had to spend more time getting your mount before "now you don't"
getting your mount quicker means faster leveling personally now im going to lvl my rogue
well u see no wwith an earlier patch those warlock an pally mounts no longer need a quest u just buy it
first of all, those of you complaining about how much money you spent on your mounts, get over it. Think of it this way, if you buy a TV from a store and then a year later it costs less, you don't get a refund. It's the same thing here.
second, with getting mounts at a little lower level, maybe the lvl 80s that kill me when I'm a lvl 20 and THEN camp my body for fun will now hopefully spend more time leveling another character and leave me alone. Or at least make it a fair fight.
third, how come the horde gets all the cool stuff. They have the zeplins that travel between 3 soon to be 4 cities while the alliace only has the tram between IF and SW. We need more quick travel points, maybe another point to Darnassus or maybe Exodar, where the only jewelcrafter below lvl 60 exists.
and if you are really unsatisified with what blizzard is doing, why don't you just find some other game to play and let us have fun in peace.
This will get me to resubscribe my WoW account. :)
not sure if this is posted yet....but having a zepp from Org to TB isnt about money and time. its "Blizzard philosophy of making leveling more accessible and faster for players". so you dont have to walk and get FP. i think.....haha still that 3min and change feels like an hour!!!!!! although i take Dal portal so it doesnt matter
this all way cool. obviously Blizz has great ides for us in the future.
Geez, all the QQ about 'I want a gold refund'.
The change in prices only adds up to like 400g over 80 levels. It's a drop in the bucket. The price to epic flying (where you dropped a huge chunk of your money) isn't going to change much.
A lot of you spent that gold years ago. Get over it. This is a good change.
(Yes I am level capped and spent the same amount of gold as everyone else on mounts.)
All you QQ'ers about old wow... yeah stfu.. i was there... it wasnt that fucking hard..
"Wow dude my deeps is so bettar cuz i haz teh epic mount at 20 and u got it later on haha"
Thats what you guys come across as saying go ahead.,.. make an alt, lets see how much fun you have in Kalimdor/Eastern Kingdoms/Outlands dragging your ass place to place.. while the rest of us lvl up a bit faster.. btw.. in about a month or so and you ppl who "spent so much time on getting my epic flyer" will have that money back..
the change is good but it is missing one thing REFUNDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
boohoo i want my gold back. they didn't give hunter's a refund for the pet talent changes. instead of complaining that you had to go through all the huss and fuss to get your mounts and now things are easier just chalk it up to you having a bigger e-peen. or even better you can roll a new character and take full advantage of the new perks. by the way on the zep issue have any of you downcasters tried to run a level 6 Tauren through the barrens to get to org?
i love it man i DO
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tinker you got the idea no take hat and multiply times a 1000 hese changes should have been implented when they came out not mke us wait 2 years for it
ok people!! everyone that's complaining about druids having flying mounts before every1 else, dont worry, evey1 else will be able to get their mounts at the same level with the same speed :D
BTW love the level changes for all the mounts