Quote Originally Posted by Gilraen View Post
Walking is why we have mounts like chocobos and coeurls, to carry us faster than we can walk. Sprint would invalidate mounts, but Sprint only lasts for 20s on a 30s cooldown relegating it to 'gotta go fast' moments. Flying using personal wings, though, would invalidate flying mounts as why use them if I can do it myself with potentially none of the drawbacks of being on a mount (i.e. being able to attack and interact with the environment). Now if you had wings work LIKE a flying mount then maybe... but then you'd probably have those that would complain, "Why have wings if they're just like if I was using a flying mount?!" Which I would agree to an extent, why have them at all given that having them work as if walking would make them overpowered?
Flying with personal wings would move your character slower than flying with a mount, just like walking moves your character slower than riding a ground mount. The up side would allow your character to attack/gather/trade/etc like you could if you were on foot.