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Comment by Ouataiveur

I personally really don't like this.
In DF, I was switch flight style by just using different mount.

Old flight style is useful when the distance you want to move is just enough to mount but not enough to throw a skyward ascent in.
Or eventually if you want to do some stationary flight to get out of ground mobs for a little while.

This is nothing more then just basic quality of life stuff.
Having that walled behind a 5 second cast renders it plain useless.

Let alone having it on top walled behind some long achievement.

Doing such an achievement to get a small QoL.
QoL that is anyway ruined by the cast time.
This doesn't make much sense imho.

Comment by DohlajaSova

On several characters Switch Flight Style button somehow replaced useful binding on action bars. Bad job blizz.

upd: One more notice. Druid travel form is treated as mount and you cannot fly as a bird while using dragonflight style—very strange.

Comment by Wrecker

This new feature is amazing! Flying Golden Discus with Skyriding is really cool for example. I get much more a flying Nimbus vibe from it now then with steady flight.

But: I enjoy it less that I have to switch every time using Switch Flight Style. When we'll be questing in The War Within in a few weeks, this might get annoying. Within a quest area itself steady flight is preferred, but going back to the quest giver for example, Skyriding is preferred.

In my opinion it would have been better to be able to switch flight styles for each mount separate. As in choosing your favourite steady flight mounts and choosing your favourite Skyriding mounts.

Comment by havikryan

As of 11.0 with the new spell "Change Flying Style", you probably want to make a shift modifier to bind it into 1 button.

If so, use this:

#showtooltip
/cast Switch Flight Style
/run if SecureCmdOptionParse""then C_MountJournal.SummonByID(0)end

This will activate the random mount button with no modifier, but will Switch Flight Style if you hold shift and toggle.

Comment by Cuffouis

The current 5 second cast time on "Switch Flight Style" must be an April Fool's joke, and it's not even April.

Comment by Tukiee

I hate this, this should be at least instant cast, not 5 second.. plethora reasons why you would want use both flying styles at the same time. farming, questing etc. Who came up with this?

Comment by Fhuzz

This is not good. I used to be able to just pick the right mount for the job, but now have a very unfun 5 sec pointless cast over and over to give me time to think about whether or not I really should be playing this game at all. If they wanted to extend the dragonriding style and speed to other mounts, perhaps they could add a button on the mount panel that allows me to choose, for a given mount, whether I want it in one style or the other. Ah, but then how does that fit with Pathfinder(s)? Also: it feels weird to see some mounts (like the Hearthstone Disk) go through the "flap" motion without wings to flap.

Comment by Viveen

Am I alone in this spell not being available to them? I created another Remix character AFTER the pre-patch for War Within was released. I cannot click/cast Switch Flight Style. When I do it says "Spell not learned". Do I have to learn it somewhere? I didn't on my other Remix characters prior to the pre-patch... I'm wondering if I should cut my losses and start again in case this toon is bugged or whether (perhaps a greater possibility) this is a teething issue in the pre-patch for newly created Remix characters and its bugged as a whole.

I prefered my dragonridining for my dragons, but now I can't escape it (for the timebeing) for my go to normal mounts =(

Edit: I deleted the Remix character to start again in case of bug. Didn't work.
Extra edit: Doing the Dragonriding quest chain also did not fix this issue.
Last edit: Not sure that its a fix, but I thought I'd try again now that I've leveled a bit and at 25 it worked. Good luck!

Comment by Doloria

The Switch Flight Style ability has 3 icons. (Click on the icon to see one after another):
Switch Flight Style	Select a flying speed. Click on the icon to pick a flying speed. Click again to pick another flying speed. Since any mount will automatically fly at the last speed selected, this icon is unnecessary.
Switch Flight Style	Regular flying speed. Icon: Drake flapping it's wings. Speed setting can be applied to any flying mount.
Switch Flight Style	High speed/dragonriding speed. Icon: downward angled torso of a drake. Hard to decipher the image. Could be animal ears or a plant...) Speed setting can be applied to any flying mount. If you see the Vigor bar with the blue egg shapes, you know you're in dragonriding mode. And your action bar will show the icons for dragonriding maneuvers. If you don't see the blue eggs, you're not in dragonriding mode.
Skyriding	Switch Flying Style is missing. If Switch Flight Style isn't on your character's action bar, open the Spellbook to the General tab. Skyriding is a flyout menu. The last icon is Switch Flight Style. Drag that to an action bar. (You won't find Switch Flight Style by clicking on the large white dragon icon on the mini-map and opening the Skyriding Skills & Unlocks page.) Where's the Spellbook now? Click on the Talents icon (red bullseye with a dagger). Spellbook is now one of 3 tabs at the bottom left of the screen.
It's great to be able to dragonride your own drakes, proto-drakes and winged mounts in the Dragon Isles. But it's out-of-character for some flying mounts and many earlier xpac zones.
Issues: 5-second cast The flying speed icon shows the current flying speed. This will be the speed for your next mount you summon -- until you change speeds. Can't assign flying speeds to individual mounts. Each mount flies at the speed selected for your last mount. Can't change speed mid-air. Must land.

Even worse are the unnecessary changes to quest icons:
All quest markers are now blue. Double arrows are used to mark any quest that isn't a daily or part of a storyline. Markers on the map no longer match quest markers and are diamonds within circles. Always liked the gold question marks. Mission achieved, grats.

Comment by GrooCT

I'm having a very weird behaviour while on steady flight mode and choosing a random favourite mount: it starts working fine as long as my random mount does NOT pick a ground one. After that, it keeps choosing only ground mounts so I have to change flight style completely if I want to fly.

Comment by SargerasWasRight

Why in gods name does this need a 5 second cast duration. Annoying and completely unnecessary. I used to be able to dragon ride with my random favorite mount button and do normal flying with druid flight form. So much for that.

Comment by aceaxe11

Already tired of being in the wrong flight mode for things I never had to think about.
Made a simple weakaura to show the current mode, which helps me out. Maybe it'll help someone else as well :)
TWW Flight Mode

Comment by Sheelal

As a druid, I’ve noticed if I'm in Moonkin form and mount up with the Skyriding flight form activated, then deactivate Moonkin form while still mounted, my flight style switches to steady on the next take off without needing to dismount and do the cast. This has to be done whilst landed as if I deactivate Moonkin form while already in the air, my mount temporarily becomes a ground mount and I plummet. It doesn’t work with druid flight form. This also happens with priests and Shadow form. If you mount up in Shadow form and then deactivate it while still mounted, the same thing happens. If you dismount and remount afterward, Skyriding returns.

Comment by astralAU

Perhaps this will help someone since I couldn't find one elsewhere - the below macro that combines summon favorite mount and switch flight style:

/cast Switch Flight Style
/run C_MountJournal.SummonByID(0)

Comment by BeenHereBefore

A subtle note about the circular spell icon.
This version of Switch Flight Style is only available prior to selecting a flight style for the character - after which it will alternate between Switch Flight Style (Steady) and Switch Flight Style (Skyriding).

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Switch Flight Style

Switch Flight Style
5 sec cast

[Steady Flight][Skyriding]
Switch between Skyriding and steady flight styles for flying mounts. Mounts that don't support Skyriding will be grounded if Skyriding is active.

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n/a

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Physical

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n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

5 seconds

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1 second

Effect

Dummy
PVP Multiplier: 1
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Is Ability
Not In Spellbook Until Learned
Newest Exclusive Complete

Switch Flight Style

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