Pieper

No m8 it's not. It's the very same thing. Pretending you know what people like better than they do is annoying, whether it's coming from J Allen Brack or it's coming from you. Btw, my preferred mount was the Cenarion War Hippogryph - hardly a badass "big dragon." So you can stop projecting your former angsty teen self on the rest of the population. Thanks ever so. Flying was perfect in BC and WotLK. Flying mounts didn't do a thing to the social aspect of the game anymore than flight points or mage portals or ground mounts did in vanilla. Again: I love flying.

People shouldn't presume to tell others what they like and what they don't. Mainly because they're almost always wrong.

I disagree. The female night elves since WOD are hideous. Just hideous. My Draenei lost her waggle, has fish lips, and female gnomes look like they're in a perpetual state of "YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME?!? Huh? DO YA?? DO YA!?!" And I love flying. Getting my first flying mount in BC was one of the most memorable moments in WoW. i would play from here through WRATH if I could, just exactly the way it was. And then do it again. But you can keep the rest of the xpacs. And LFR and CRZ and the "new" models (ewww).

Stuck at authenticating while logging in on Darrowshire. Is anyone else experiencing this? If not is there a way I can fix it?

Can't log into Darrowshire - stuck on authenticating.