When you're dragon riding how to you make it so you travel places without the crappy load screen of fast traveling. I'm ok with no free flying, but at least let me enoy the limited combat of the flight! So is that possible or is dragon riding just a novelty that will die quickly?

I'd say it a novelty that will be forgotten. As far as I can tell you can't command the dragon to anything but attack in that spot. It seems to fly how it wants and not let you control it. So far the only way I've traveled is through Fast Travel. Kinda svcks cause I'm gonna be making a Anicent Dragonborn Mage next time for my build using Miirak's Robe Set and wanted to fly dragons. Oh Well can't have our cake and eat too all the time.

If that's the case then why the hell did they waste the manpower making it how it is in the first place? I would've prefered a few more really good sets of armor learned and styled from herma moras realm

Not sure. It is one of the main complaints about the add-on besides the spears being made as arrows and not a actual weapon. My guess the Bend Will was just more meant for the story of the add-on then us using it. Even though there is a achievement for it.

Yeah. Ill probably stop using it when I get the achievment. svcks. I was looking forward to reducing my intake of useless damn dragon scales and bones

Go to the help menu. It tells you there what to do. Hope that helps. It did for me.

Yea that along with spears as arrows and not being able to become a werebear seem to be the biggest complaints. But they might add spears as weapons in a latter dlc and maybe werebear but I doubt it but ether way it is better than it not being there if they can change to where you actually control it then the dlc will be better received.