Tome of Cold Weather Flight in 3.2

Flying in Northrend at level 68?

When you think about it, it makes a little bit of sense since they already lowered the prerequisite level to use flying mounts to level 60. Getting Cold Weather Flying at level 68 is just Blizzard being consistent. I’m talking about the new item found in the patch 3.2 PTR called Tome of Cold Weather Flight.

Cold Weather Flying

According to CM Zarhym, the Tome of Cold Weather Flight is an heirloom item level 80 players can buy their alts for 1,000 gold who are on the same server, faction and account to give them Cold Weather Fliyng. This is a one use thing so it’s really meant to facilitate the ability of players to fly in Northrend at such a relatively low level. Players normally can’t have access to the Cold Weather Flying trainer in either Dalaran or Sholazar Basin at that level.

This begs the question though. I understand allowing the use of flying mounts at an earlier level for the Outlands. The Burning Crusade is an old expansion whose content is pretty much just sped through to reach Northrend. But Wrath of the Lich King is still ongoing and I even remember one of the blue posters saying that it’s still a relatively young expansion. So why make Cold Weather Flying almost pointless so soon? Wasn’t it put there so that players won’t just fly over content? In TBC, even alts had to wait for level 70 to get a flying mount.