A rather boring feature excites the alpha testers of World of Warcraft: Dragonflight. An endlessly long boat ride across many continents.
World of Warcraft Dragonflight focuses on more adrenaline. Dragon riding is fast and sometimes even twice as fast as the best riding currently available. More speed is always good – or? Apparently not, because while Blizzard introduces the fastest movement of all time in WoW, there is also the slowest.
We are talking about a boat trip that takes almost 50 minutes and drifts through the entire history at a snail’s pace.
What kind of boat ride is this? Unlike many other ship connections in World of Warcraft, the Tuskarr in Dragonflight seem to be taking it a bit easier. Instead of connecting any important nodes every 5 minutes, you can board a ship in Iskaara that leisurely sails along at its own pace.
The colleagues from wowhead have undertaken the entire journey and recorded how long the endeavor takes and where the trip goes:
- After 6 minutes you arrive in Northrend (WotLK), at the coast of Grizzly Hills. From there, the ship sails south.
- After 11 minutes, it goes to Azsuna (Legion). From there, the ship passes the Eye of Azshara and the Broken Shore.
- After 17 minutes, you arrive in Kul Tiras (Battle for Azeroth), between the island of Mechagon and Drustvar. After a short stop at the dock of Drustvar, it continues south.
- After 22 minutes, the ship stops in Vash’jir, where you can mainly observe the vast sea – or start a little dive.
- After 30 minutes, the ship reaches Zandalar (Battle for Azeroth) and the coast of the desert of Vol’dun.
- After 34 minutes, the ship arrives at the coast of Kun-Lai Summit (Mists of Pandaria), passing by the Shado-Pan Monastery and continuing to the Tonlong Steppes.
- After 43 minutes, it goes on to Kalimdor and Ahn’Qiraj, the fallen kingdom. From there you can see the enormous sword of Sargeras still stuck in Silithus (and a large cave that is great for roleplay).
After that, the ship sails back to the Dragon Isles.
The entire journey takes about 50 minutes.
Community reacts enthusiastically: The reactions to the boat ride are overwhelmingly positive. It is repeatedly praised that such details make the world seem more alive and provide something to “just let your soul dangle” in World of Warcraft. Some of the comments on this were:
- “LOL this is so cool!”
- “We need more things like this.”
- “I can’t wait to take this picturesque boat trip.”
- “I love this, this is so cool! They need to add more stuff like this for immersion. This is the stuff that is often devalued by flying.”
- “This is great! I love standing afk on the Northrend boats while they take their tour, this is even better! Plus, this will be really cool for RP servers.”
The overall mood is quite positive, and many are glad that such small highlights are not forgotten.
What do you think? Do you find such small details like this long boat ride cool? Or is it a waste of developer resources?
