Gliding Mounts

https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Gliding_mounts

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I mean, I'm not quite sure what else needs to be said about them. They're mounts and they glide.

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I think that's the issue here. When I hear "gliding" I don't immediately go "but do they fly though?"

Gliding is gliding. You find an elevated location. You jump and glide. You land on the ground and then run.

Iirc we've heard Steven say that the flying mounts on the stream are pretty much just gliding mount models, but flying.

And considering that AA is one of the inspirations, I'm imagining smth like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoFGbi0RGXM

There's even a small "jump up" in the air on a cd.

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Pretty much. Just a glider that can also run on the ground (slower than a good ground mount). The quality would just determine speed of gliding and maybe the cd of the "jump", if they add it (I personally couldn't care either way).

I don't really care for flairs or air tricks or whatever. All I need from a gliding mount is to let me jump off a roof or a mountain and diagonally get down to the ground.

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Fairly sure the eggs are separate from the castle/metro stuff. It's just a way to get the non-royal people flying.

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Nope. I tried starting GW2, but barely got past the first quest Maybe I'll get further one of these days. I know that GW2 is supposed to have some cool flying mount mechanics. So cool that WoW even copied them. But outside of a gliding functionality I just wouldn't really care for them.

And I'd prefer if the game didn't have reupping winds or other mechanics that could make people effectively fly all over the place. GW2's world was built with that kind of feature in mind (at least I'd assume it was), while the whole point of super limited flying in Ashes is to keep the world feeling small. If all the people could just go gliding super fast across the lands, it'll go right against the design of the game.

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Listen to that fifth reference. Steven mentions castles and metros and then says "in addition to those, we'll have droppable eggs, so a few more players will have access to the flying mounts". So unless something changed in design, I'd assume that people will be able to use the metro's royal stables to use their flying mount.

Also, in the 7th reference Steven says there might be up to 20 players on the server with flying mounts and there'd only be 10 royal people. And that's from 2020, so I think that design hasn't really changed throughout the years.