WoW: Dragonflight's Dragonriding Will Expand To Older Zones And Mounts, Blizzard Confirms

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One of World of Warcraft: Dragonflight's best features, dragonriding, will soon break free of the expansion it was introduced in and come to older areas of Azeroth, Blizzard has confirmed, though it might not as soon as some fans would like.

Dragonriding has revolutionized navigating Blizzard's MMO, turning the act of flying from a passive speed boost into active gameplay. The only downside is that dragonriding is currently only usable in the new Dragon Isles zones and with specific dragonriding mounts. There was a bit of excitement then when data-miners combing through the public test realm build of Dragonflight's upcoming Fractures in Time content patch discovered several indicators that pointed towards Blizzard adding dragonriding to the whole of Azeroth.

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In the files were new options for «flight styles,» one of which allowed for «dynamic flight abilities.» That sounded an awful lot like dragonriding, and pointed towards some non-dragonriding mounts possibly being retrofitted to support the feature. Turns out, those data-miners were 100% correct, with Blizzard acknowledging their discovery in a recent forum post.

«As data-miners have guessed, we are indeed working on dragonriding outside of the Dragon Isles and broadening the set of mounts that can dragonride,» Blizzard writes. «Our initial work on this can be seen in the Fractures in Time game files, but that feature will not be complete or featured in the live game until