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Are there Land mounts in Aion?
TheInferno17
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Obiviously one gains wings at level 10, but still only last for a few minutes or so. Which makes me wonder...are there land mounts like WOW? I have not read anything saying there are...does anyone have any clue?
~Matt~
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I'm not sure at all, and dont qoute me on this, but I don't think there are any. At least not yet.
"...these forums are like soap operas"-Nihce
No there are no mounts in Aion, they really are not needed
No mounts, and wings last longer later one when you get higher in level. there are also potions and buffs
If you watch The Karate Kid backwards it's about this karate champ that just kinda slowly becomes a pussy and ends up moving back to Jersey
Can you describe how long the wings last at certain levels? Do they increase your speed like flying mounts in wow?
Thanks,
~Matt~
There are more wings later on.. i guess some will make you faster at some point. It helps build alot of strategy later with pvp since you can fall and die
If you watch The Karate Kid backwards it's about this karate champ that just kinda slowly becomes a pussy and ends up moving back to Jersey
There are none. They really aren't needed since most of the mid to end game is in the Abyss.
Great thanks guys, questions are answered now
You have to remember this world is a planet and everything is inverse.. You are on the inside of the planet and most of the game takes place in the Abyss in the center of the planet where you need to fly so land mounts would be silly.
What would be cool is some giant flying creatures you could fly onto and ride. Maybe fight over the creature or add an instance where you get swallowed by the creature and fight your way through it.
Only if you're able to jump on your friends back as he starts to fly.
I just don't understand why the hell they didn't add land mounts , i mean th flying ability its cool and everything but come on this will be the 1st MMO that doesn't have land mounts?; i just think it was a very stupid idea
Wow, nerd rage much?
The guy was simply asking a question and I saw no QQ from his post thus yours was unnecessary.
(Quote the person you're raging at next time btw, as I assumed it was the OP.)
I think he was posting to the guy above him.
It's not the first MMO to not have land mounts...
Well, people have to learn to glide with their wings. While in Abyss, you can use portals to increase your in-flight time.
Between those two, I have not seen any need for a land mount so far.
"The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in."
There are no mounts.
However there are both speed (land and flight) upgrades and wing upgrades (ie. new look more flight time).
It looks like at the higher level part of Aion is not locking down speed to a flat constant the way many DIKU/WoW MMO do.
Also remember you can always glide even if you can't do flight.
Just to put a little more emphasis on the gliding, I'm going to add that you can pretty much glide great distances and for a good amount of time. To me, the gliding across the zones was faster than the mounts that WoW offered.
It took me some getting used to, but once I learned how to distance glide, it was well worth it. You really don't need land mounts if you glide right. And since you get flight at level 10, you get it earlier than most MMOs that I've played (I'm not sure what level you can get mounts in WoW now is at since it seems to change every other patch lately).
Wow! how you decided ?
Any mmo if released after eq2/wow, need land/flyingmounts and swimming + housing/good crafting....or it will fail !
Flying and glide make part of the strategy of combat in AION. Thats why we have limite flying time and we must manage well the glide to cover higher distances.
When i start playing CN-AION, my reaction was like a lot of ppl around, "wtf, limit time on flying??? not flying everywhere??? that sucks..." But then, playing and explore more the game, all make sense, even in Abyss. The way we use our fly time, when engage in combat, can make the diference between life or death
Maybe cause the game was build around this "ideia", land mounts seams not having place here.
Note: hope my "weak" english is enouph to ppl understand
I did alot of PvP in Morheim last beta and I liked not having mounts because I didn't have to worry about the enemy come at me out of no where because they can move at 100% increased speed. I think the not having ground mounts will just add more tactics to the PvP just like having a flight timer in areas where you can freely fly will as well. I was playing on my Ranger with my guild and I would sneek ahead a little and scout out where the enemy was and I had a blast. My PvP group had a Chanter with us so we got the 10% increased movement speed buff . It is easy enough to get around the areas that you can't freely fly anyways. There seem to be plenty of flight paths and you can buy Return scrolls that will return you to specific places (ex: Main city or main fortress for a zone) plus you have your "Return" aka Hearth that is on 20 min CD.
Wow! how you decided ?
Any mmo if released after eq2/wow, need land/flyingmounts and swimming + housing/good crafting....or it will fail !
Depends.
You have your flying mount attached to your character, why do you feel you need an extra one? I could see the appeal of a familiar pet, but not of an extra flying mount. Especially since you probably be in a disadvantage on top of it if confronted with the other side.
Swimming is needed when there is underwater content to be explored. If there isn't, what's the point?
For the record, I believe that WoW world feeling was hurt greatly by the implementation of the flying mounts. All these people looking for classic servers are probably looking for the attachment to the land that the non-flying transportation provided in the vanilla game. The land in the expansions could be flat and noone would care much, with all the people dive bombing directly to the quest objectives.
anyone else think it would look really really retarded to have an avatar with wings on it's back ride a horse?
MMO wish list:
-Changeable worlds
-Solid non level based game
-Sharks with lasers attached to their heads
Mounts in a world pvp game is foolish. Too easy for enemies to just run by and ignore you. Also it's not needed since the travel times in Non-flying zones is maybe 5 minutes at best. Also gliding down hills is fun!