World of Warcraft: Dragonflight’s dragonriding is (almost) too good - Polygon

World of Warcraft: Dragonflight is instantly striking, acknowledgment to the unfastened vistas of the Dragon Isles. It’s a precise unfastened expansion, and the subordinate gets a caller thrust with a acceptable of wings astir immediately, acknowledgment to the caller dragonriding feature. The subordinate has dragons to conscionable and primalists to defeat, and the Isles are a large place, truthful the subordinate is granted their precise ain dragon. It’s a fantastic feature; I’ve been having a blast soaring around, adjacent without pursuing each of the dragon glyphs and upgrading my dragon’s rima and saddle.

Flying has ever been a large portion of World of Warcraft since its instauration successful the Burning Crusade expansion, but it’s ever been held backmost from the subordinate until they tin prevention capable golden oregon grind capable favour with the estimation of the day. Dragonflight conscionable gives you the keys arsenic soon arsenic you measurement ft connected the Dragon Isles, and it’s a precise beardown constituent successful favour of the caller expansion. The Isles are designed specifically for flight, and determination are striking vertical cliffs and gorgeous drops past stunning scenery.

If anything, dragonriding mightiness beryllium too good. Going backmost to Azeroth and revisiting aged zones, similar Gilneas, feels similar slogging done molasses. It’s conscionable an nonsubjective downgrade, similar going from a car to a unicycle. I besides consciousness benignant of atrocious astatine the imaginable of taking each of the mounts successful my stables and locking them distant everlastingly successful favour of my new, amended dragon. I befriended a noble steed of the airy backmost successful Legion, a carnal truthful blessed with beatified intent that it could instrumentality to the skies ’pon hooves of axenic gold. But it feels similar ass to ride, truthful it tin spell to the glue mill for each I care.

While dragonriding is delightful, I besides find myself acrophobic astir however this diagnostic volition age. While it’s aboriginal days, successful the past we’ve seen amusive gameplay systems similar Legion’s Artifact Weapons look successful an expansion, person a mates of successive updates implicit the expansion’s spot cycle, and past vanish wholly successful clip for the adjacent caller revolutionary system.

For now, I’m taking my clip and smelling the roses connected the Dragon Isles. It’s besides amusive to tinker with the antithetic dragon customizations, choosing betwixt a weird small feline with comic horns oregon a much noble, respectable dragon to transportation maine astir to my important diplomatic duties. But successful bid for dragonriding to fulfill its existent potential, it’ll request to proceed to turn and evolve, either with our existent companions oregon with a revamp to the aged menagerie of mounts successful each player’s stable.