If you thought the Wrath of the Lich King expansion will bring faster normal flying mounts in Blizzard's World of Warcraft, you're out of luck. Blizzard poster Drysc dropped by a thread about mounts that fall short of epic, and said that there are no plans of making normal flying mounts move faster since it's already very useful as it stands.

As Drysc puts it, some players are taking the ability to fly for granted. The convenience alone of being able to travel around while airborne is supposed to be enough for your gold's worth. According to the blue post, normal flying mounts will most likely stay as is. Chances are epic flyers will be getting a speed reduction if the gap between epics and normal mounts prove to be too big.

Furthermore, it looks like Wrath of the Lich King will be mixing things up a bit when it comes to flying. Drysc defends normal flying mounts and predicts what may happen when the next WoW expansion goes live, saying:

If you have even one gathering profession you should know what flying affords you. If you've ever traveled through the world... you should know what it affords you. I think it's immediately taken for granted as it's expected, "yeah everyone can fly, so what, I want to go faster!"

It's going to be interesting to see Wrath come along, make everyone go back to ground mounts for a while, and see how badly everyone wishes they could fly again, even if it's just on a non-epic flyer.