09-28-2006, 08:54 PM
Quote:Yes, but now you'll have to buy a 900g riding skill first (riding 150) before you can upgrade to riding 225 (Netherdragon). Without that change, you could simply skip the expensive portion (buying the mount for 900g (= an item)), and continue to learn riding a Netherdragon, and then buy the dragon for some large amount of money. That would have saved you 900g for an elite ground mount that you didn't want.
Blizzard made the change intentionally. If the skill to ride a flying mount is going to require the skill to ride an epic ground mount as a prerequisite, then they are obviously well aware of this and will adjust the cost of the flying-mount-riding-skill appropriately.
Trust me, they are not going to accidentally overcharge people 900g to ride the flying mounts. Whatever price they want people to pay is what people will have to pay. They are not going to put an accidental and pointless roadblock between their masses of core customers and the ability to ride around on a pretty dragon. They may well put some quests and other silly tasks in the way to add more "content" for those core customers to pay to go through, but that is the nature of the beast.